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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03
GERMAN TEACHERS.
Papers Read Before the Association, and
Action Taken.

CHICAGO, Aug. AT the opening of the
third days session of the German-American
Teachers Association this morning Prof A.
J. Esch, of Cleveland, read an interesting pa
per on German Instruction for English
speaking People," His central point was that
the present methods of teaching German were
unsatisfactory, because they failed to reach
the object aimed at-ability to speak the lam
guage-because it was largely confined to
teaching German. A Rattermann, of Gin
cnnati, read paper, Guide for Instruction
in German American History" Such study
he held, would do much toward eradicating
race prejudice and developing patriotism and
advocating the publication of textbooks COW
ering such historical matters in the German
language. The convention decided in favor
of the publication. In the afternoon. papers
were read by Prof. William Mueller of Louis
vile, on PLASTIC Drawing" and by Hermann
Schuricht of Chicago, on ethical Instruc-
ton irr Public Schools"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

GREENcAsTLE and Putnam county, the seat
OF Asbury University, did nobly in the mat
ter of raising their quota of the amount nee
essayy to secure the DePauw donation. Of
the $50, 900 apportioned to the citizens ofthat
county, $57, 500 was raised in time, and there
is no doubt but that the remaining $25 800
would have been forthcoming had the State
at large done its share. The Methodists of
Indiana and friends of education generally
will hardly allow this magnificent opportu-
nifty to pass unimproved. The sum asked is
comparatively Insignificant, and there ought
to be no trouble in securing it during the
additional two months granted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

Mr.. NJ. WHELAN, Kansas City scientist
has been travelling over the Staked Plains of
Texas, and declares that just below the sur
face of that arid region is water in abun-
dance for the stock-raisers. He claims that
great underground river, having its source
in New Mexico and in the Panhandle north
west of the Wichita mountains, permeates
this barren district of Texas; at the headwa-
tiers the stream is five feet below the surface
and 300 PAGES in width He says this river
has three or more outlets-the first at Big
Springs, the second near Fort McKarrett,
and others near San Antonio. Mr.. Whelan
also says that what has been supposed, in
that region, to be white sand is really white
mari
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

State law-was a violation of the principles of
the reform, will Mr.. Curtis be kind enough
to say what the removal of a collector of the
port of New York in the middle OF his term
was, when that removal was confessedly
and openly made in order to make a place
for a man who had learned" recognition by
his work at the Chicago convention? Such
small minded criticism as Mr.. Curtis
couples with his tardy and half
hearted commentator can but pro-
woke remembrance Of an occurrence
which violated every principle of civil-service
reform, but which received the approval of
all such professional reformers as Mr.. Curtis.
President Arthur's sincere and earnest eff
forts in civl-service reform have been such
as to entitle him to fair judgment and sup
port. If the spirit of Mr. Curtis is to be the
spirit in which administrative support is to
be received, the reform will not progress as
it should. Churts and chur ishness do not
effect much except to retard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03
THE CIvIL-sERvICE LAW.
Hon. W. S. Groesbeck Gives 1t His Unquali-
fed Approval.

CINcINNATI, Aug. 2.-Hon. w. S, Groes-
beck addressed a large audience here to-
night. His address was devoted entirely to
the civil-service reform law, and concluded
as follows;
''Three national Democratic conventions
and three Ohio Democratic conventions have
declared for this reform. So also have like con-
ventions in New Hampshire, Michigan, Massa-
chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Missouri, South Carolina and California, and
it may be in other States. These decara-
tons will never be recalled, nor will this law
be repealed unless to give place to better
one We have already gone too far to turn
back Nor will we stand still. The reform
is inaugurated and it will go on from
strength to strength until it shall take
charge of and regulate all the offices within
its appropriate jurisdiction, and in due time
it will be adopted by the States, and especial
ly by the large and expensive municipalities.
It is a business necessity, and it is right.
Nor is this ALL 1t is democratic, and hope
it may be the privilege of the Democracy to
take it into their own keeping at the earliest
opportunity, and administer it with impair
TALLY and success"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

ONE of the most noted men of the country
is Captain John Ericsson, the builder of the
iron-clad Monitor that sank the Merrimack
in Hampton Roads. He is again called to
mind by the celebration of his eighteth
birthday, which occurred on Tuesday last.
He is still vigorous, mentally and physical
ly, and is intent on new inventions, one of
his latest, torpedo boat, being now just
ready for trial. His life has been one of
moment. He was born ina little mining
camp in the middle of Sweden in 1903, a
granite monument now marking the spot
At the age of thirteen he joined a corps of
engineers who were surveying a ship
canal, and he was placed in charge
of section of the canal.
In 1926 he went to England, where he COM
peted with George Stephenson in the pro-
duction of locomotive engine. Stephen
sons "Rocket" was declared the winner but
Ericsson maintains that his machine was
better Becoming dissatisfied with his treat
ment in England. he. in 1885, came to this
country. ne SOON began oulluihg war Ships
and was brought into prominence before the
world when he built the Monitor. He still
resides in Beech street, New York city where
he devotes his time to inventing new devices
in the way of war ships. He is still in per-
feet health and finds nothing but enjoyment
in life. He is of medium height, of robust
figure, with pleasant features. The gray is
just becoming perceptible in his side whis
kers. His hair is only slightly tinged with
gray. When he shakes hands it is with
strong grasp. In word he is the remarka-
BILE picture OF hale, hearty and strong old
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

THE complimentary reference to President
Arthur by George William Curtis, president
of the Civil-service Reform Association, is
praise from Sir Hubert Stanley; but it is not
complimentary to Mr.. Curtis that the truth
he was forced to utter as to the Presidents
interest in practical reform was coupled
with ungenerous and unnecessary and EVIL
IDENTIFY ill-tempered illusions. If the re-
moval of Silas w, Burt, naval officer of New
York, in order to put him at the head of
the civil-service board as chief examiner
position by the way, he now holds
in the State of New York under
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03
BUSINESS DIFFICULTIES.
Another Failure in Boston, Caused by the
Shaw Bros. Suspension.

Another Failure in Boston, Caused by the
Shaw & Bros. Suspension.
Boston, Aug. 2-The Journals Bangor
special says: The creditors of Shaw & Brother
are rapidly placing attachments on the prop
erty of that firm, in the hope that Maine
creditors will be given the preference over
creditors from other States, as regards the
property of the firm in Maine. In that
county the attachments aggregate $4,000,
the firm in other parts OF the State aggregate
100000
There is considerable apprehension in re-
gard to the St. Stephens n. b., bank though
it is believed no suspension will be forced.
Creditors from Calais where the indebted
ness is about 800 600. are inclined to favor
the firm in every possible way.
The Journal says |. l.. u j. ID. Phinney,
boot and shoe counter manufacturers, nave
suspended. with liabilities of something over
$500, 900. The are on Shaw q Brothers paper
to the amount of $500, 900
Banks Involved Through Shaw & Pros.
BANGOR, Me-. Aug. 2.-It is stated that the
Nova Scotia Bank OF Woodstock, a branch of
the Nova Scotia Bank, of Montreal, has been
heavily involved by the failure OF Shaw Il
Brothers The Bank of St Stephen is also
@ heavy loser. 1t is said the above banks held
the paper Of Shaw & Brothers TO the extent of
$500, 900 each. In the northern part Of the
State there is a feeling of uneasiness. In
some cases men who have taken contracts for
peeling bark have endorsed Shaw & Broth
ers paper to raise money to carry out their
contracts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

statements given out that it is handling its
business readily and promptly and that the
service is improving day by day are absolute
ly false Its service is in state of chaos.
Dispatches are delayed abomin2bly and
transmitted in such bad shape as to be often
misleading or useless Its alacrity in spread
ing reports of interference with its wires is
malicious. the fact being that there is not
single authenticated case of Interference by
the strikers, who are under strict in functions
from the power that guides them to avoid all
such mischief which would only harm their
cause. These misrepresentation are merely
part of the tactics of the company In its des-
perate game OF bluff, which is too transpar-
emf IN win -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

The telegraphers strike seems to be sadly
mudlled. When the operators OF the Rapid
their executive committee, it was announced
unofticially that an advance of 10 per cent.
in salaries would be granted and the execu-
tive committee stated that satisfactory
terms had been made. The men went to
work and the company saddled the alleged
advance in wages on its customers. The
operators were paid on Wednesday, and re-
ceived no more than was given before the
strike. For a new company, the Rapid is
progressing finely in the art OF gouging the
public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03
TIE WAR LEGISLATION.

Inc dRlldIlOn Oh lne OO1lSuerate UOnu
question, however futile in itself, has been
instrumental in calling out an open express
sion in the late rebellious States in favor of
the validity of the reconstruction measures
and of the war amendments to the national
constitution. The validity OF these measures
carries with it the nullity of the Confederate
bonds, and now, for the first time since their
adoption, they are voluntarily recognized as
binding parts of the legislation OF the ooun-
try. Whether this yielding comes from sell
fish or patriotic motives, it is gratifying as an
indication on the part of the Southern people
to let the lost cause take care of ITSELF
and that the material welfare of that section
will be enhanced by the abandonment OF all
organized opposition to the workings of the
new order of things. This sensible step
would have been taken years ago. had not
the more reckless minority of the South re-
ceived encouragement from the Northern
doughfaces to continue the fight by the bal
lot which had failed in contest with the
bullet. In fact, the first national campaign
after the war was made by the Democracy
upon the proposition that the reconstruction
measures, including the amendments, were
revolutionary and void, and from that time
to the present the mischief of that assump
ton has run and accomplished its evil work.
The seeds of discomfort were sown in the
South, and for fifteen years
the harvest has been one of
bitterness and violence. No one who min
gled with Lees army after the surrender at
Appomattox will be convinced that the sub
sequent spirit of lsrespect and insubordina-
ton toward the federal authority was the
voluntary exhibition of the temper of the
vanquished Confederate soldiery. The truth
is that the close of the war and the magnan-
imous terms of General Grant in his dealings
with the beaten foe sent them home under
the conviction that the Confederacy was
dead, and that henceforth they should and
would render loyal obedience TO the au
thority of the United States. But the SER
pent came in the form of Democratic poll
tician from the North, and enticed these
men TO eat the forbidden fruit. They did
so, and the evil that followed is not yet en-
tirely gone.
But it is going, and the bourbonism of
the past is going with it. Amid the mass of
sin that can be properly laid at the door of
Northern Democracy there is none so
wicked and so full of wretched results as
this inveigling the South to resume OPP
position to the government after they had
surrendered and the war had closed If
there be an objectionable political sin this
must be the one, and those who were the
authors of it should never be trusted with
the control of the public affairs of the coun-
try so long as there are safer and more
worthy servants to be found outside the
camp of those too cowardly to go to war,
but not too mean to aid in perpetuating the
strife after the war was over.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

JUDGE JEREMIAH S. BLACK positively re-
fuses to take any stock in the report that an
English syndicate has been formed for the
purpose of bulldozing the Southern States
into paying the Confederate bonds. To an
interviewer who sought his opinion the
Judge said:
ut is subject not entitled to any con-
sideration. When the question was present
ed to the French Academy why can you
put fish into bucket of water without
raising the water or increasing the weight of
the whole contents? several members I'M
dertook to explain it, some one way and
some another. When it came DR.. Frank
Inns turn he simplysaid, 1 deny the fact
and that ended the discussion. l do not be-
lieve that any such scheme exists. The En-
glish people, and especially syndicate of En-
gish money dealers, are entitled to some
credit for common sense. They must know
that the political corporation which made
those bonds is extinct. The States which
composed the Confederacy are now parts of
the federal government, under constitution
which specially prohibits the payment by
them of these very debts. Who are the par
ties from whom this syndicate expects to
collect the money or with whom they pro-
pose to compromise the claim? Nobody ever
was bound in honor or in law to pay them,
except In contingency Wnlcn mas not &C.
Cured and never will occur. Upon what
individual citizen of the South will they
make the claim? Who, among all the
Southern men, would be intimidated by
threat of the London capitalists OF not lend
ing money to the railroad companies This
whole enterprise, as described, is so absurd
that l do not believe in its existence"
In vain did the interviewer detail the cir
cumstantlal accounts of the organization of
the syndicate. The Judge declined to modi-
fly his statement, saying he had known of
more probable stories which had not only
world wide circulation at the time OF their
origin, but we're to-day recorded in standard
encyclopedias as historical truth, and yet
were known to be the work of the widest
imagination and had been explicitly denied
by the highest authority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

THE Internal Revenue Department is doing
good work in looking after the manufactur-
ers of alcoholic bitters, and compelling them
to pay the required tax on spirits. If the
business could be broken up it would be we'll,
for as rule these bitters are compounded of
the vilest spirits and cheapest and nastiest
drugs, wholly unfit to swallow, and of no pos
sible good to anybody.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

PROF. PALMIERI whose duty 1t has been for
some years to study the terrestrial disturbances
of Southern Italy, is of the opinion that the
calamity at Casamicciola was not owing to an
earthquake but to sudden subsidence of the
earths crust. This may be interesting as a sci
entifio fact, hut to the thousands who subsidized
at the same time it makes little difference
whether the crust rose or fell-the result was
equally sad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

OF the reduction Hamilton county shows
116 and Montgomery 1873 The total revenue
from these seventy counties is 81, 494, 200. 1t
will be hard to whistle these figures out of
the heads OF taxpayers, while even profess
sional temperance men may see some good
to society i'll the extinction Of over one thou
sand drinking places.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

The service given the public by the Western
Union Telegraph Company is very far from
satisfactory, and there is no use in lying
about it, or misstating the facts. 1t is not
possible for ten thousand skilled operators
to stop work and yet the company serve
their patrons as well as when these men were
of THAR 1avs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

A TRAVELLING dress is not necessarily a part of
a Utah brides outfit. Bishop Farr, of the Nor
mon Church. was lately married to No. 8, and
Immediately started on an eastern trip, but in
stead of taking the young woman along he took
his first wife and one of her children. Whether
not No. is as happy on the eighth wedding
Journey on the first she has the exquisite salts
faction of knowing that seven awfully mad
women are left behind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

ONE of Captain Webb's most wonderful ex-
ploits a diver and swimmer was diving head
long from a stand seventy feet high into water
four feet deep. At the instant of striking the
water he would curve his body so as to shoot
out horizontally under the surface instead of
going down to the bottom. The feat seems an
extraordinary one, but it was actually per-
formed at the beaches near New York score of
times,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

THE New Hampshire senatorial contest has
at last ended in the election of Hon. Austin
+. Pike to be the successor of Senator Roll
Inns, whose term expires in March, 1884
Mr., Pike has served in the Lower House of
Congress and he is regarded as man of
good ability and high character.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

AT Acton Park Assembly, to-day Rev. DIR.
Sims, chancellor of Syracuse University, and
Prof. David Swing, of Chicago, will make ad-
dresses, the former at 1870 A NJ and the lat
ter at P. NJ. DR.. Sims will not commence
speaking until after the arrival of the train
which leaves indianapolis at II o'clock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03
Dry, Hot Weather in British Columbia.

VICTORIA, B. G, Aug. 1.-THE dry, hot
weather continues here, there having bee4
ing everywhere, and the air is filled witk
smoke. Yesterday afternoon the heat from
the forest fires ignited the powder in Onder-
donk's MILL near Yale, which blew up.
Every pane OF glass in the town of Yale was
broken. No one killed. but several badly
hurt Three hundred and sixty cases OF
giant powder and ten cases of black powder
exploded
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

If Ex-senator Tabor has the sum OF $40 O0O,-
900 about his clothes heiwoud better be getting
it out. Suit has been brought against him and
several co-defendants for that amount The suit
was brought in the Superior Court Of New
York, and the allegations made are that the
Chrysote mine was sold to the plaintiff, Harry
t, Cutter, of New York, by the defendants, who
made fraudulent Representations as to its value
The mine is located at Leadviiie, and was sold
for ST. o. 600 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

YoYNG married man in Philadelphia took a
fatal dose of laudanum Gust to scare his WIFE,"
He scared her. but not go badly but what she
will marry some other Teller within a year or
two Her second husband will not attempt to
scare the timid creature in that way,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

of drunken relative bearing the same name.
II the Brooklyn man has invented a cognomen
which is not borne by any bibulous person he
had better patent it. nose with almost any
name is just as red.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

THERE is a fearful rumor that the close and
intimate friendship hitherto existing between
Judge Hoadly and the "Jayhawker" has been
severed. 1t is said they alls do not speak
now when they alls pass by. 1t is very sad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

A TABULATED statement of the operations
of the Scott law by counties in Ohio shows
that in seventy out of the lightweight coun-
ties 8, All saloons existed under the old sys.
tenn, while now there are 6,530 of the
$500 class, and 1882 OF the 800 class, a reduc-
ton in the total number Of saloons OF 1,Ol9.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

If Mr.. Campbell, the chief of the Tele-
graphers' Brotherhood, is not playing into
the hands of the Rapid Telegraph Company,
at the expense of the Brotherhood and the
Western Union. appearances are deceptive.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

THE telegraph strikers have had time to re-
fleet, and by this time they must begin to
think their cause has been wretchedly
botched by somebody There are a number
of facts just coming to light which show very
badly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

THE distinguished author of the poem appearing
at the head of this column on Wednesday morn
ing, on getting "a copy of the paper containing
it,, Immediately left for Damanhour, Egypt. It
is always perilous for writer of original poetry
time of great excitement.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
Poets not infrequently have to steal a daman.
hour away, for the benefit of the proof reader.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

JEFF. DAVIS Joins the New York Sun in the
cry that the Republican party must go.
That do settle it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

MAN in Florida, accused OF the murder of q
red-haired citizen, has been found guilty, the
browning bit of evidence 10 the eyes Of the jury
being the discovery of a red hair on the prison
er's handkerchief. They could conceive of no
reason for the presence of red hairs except
through murder most foul. That they should be
unable TO acknowledge any sentimental reason
is not surprising, but can it be that a kind provi
dence has permitted twelve good and true
Americans to grow to maturity with no acquaint-
ance with boarding-house hasn't
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

THE Courer-Journal is booming Louisville
as "a watering place" AT first blush this
looks preposterous, but it is reliably reported
chat some few Kentuckians actually do take
uvatar NTH II
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

THE tomahawk of the Jayhawker is fear
full and wonderful weapon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03

"a WESTERN editor" is quoted as saying that
it is possible to have one million dollars and he
utterly wretched OF course it is. Any million
aire editor in existence who has been caught In
the rain at the base ball grounds, four miles
from town. without his umbrella, will testify to
the assertion.