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National Republican., 1883-04-23
THE MAN ON TIE AVENUE.
smnn Talk About Men and Measures.


The attaches Of the revenue marine bureau
of the department of the Treasury charge the
officers of the navy, as class with beat
ing" the government by an adroit system of
smuggling and say they have been engaged
in the business ever since the government had
q navy, q charge which is characterized by
naval officers as infamously and maliciously
false. Strange as II may seem, representatives
Of both parties or factions or whatever name
the clashing elements may be called, point to
the same case to provo the truth of their con-
comes from one side:
Whom the revenue cutter Nipsic put into
New York, not long since, after long cruise,
the revenue officer reported certain goods as
dutiable, upon which the collector of the port
assessed the customs as required by law. The
sworn manifests showed that everything
dutiable on board tho vessel had been as
sessed. The revenue marine officers were on
tho abort, however, and certain officers of the
Nipsic subsequently fled amended declara-
tions of dutiable goods in their possession,
upon which duty was paid amount
ing to SAB. The statement is
hibuS Juhb luo ToVonue Objects nHu ulbCONeleu
these goods in storehouse after their re-
moval from the cutter, and that the amended
declaration was made to prevent their seizure,
the officers being permitted to put their own
valuation on the property, taking very good
care not TO assess any article for more than it
might be actually worth.
The other side is that there was nothing
irregular in the transaction, and that in this
special instance the officers of the Nipsic went
to extraordinary pains to enumerate every
article in their possession upon which customs
duty might bo levied paying TO the govern
ment every dollar TO which IL was entitled
They deny that there was any talk about
seizing these goods, and say that there could
not possibly have been the faintest shadow of
an excuse for such action.
Thus good people will differ to the end of
the world.
This is the story impaired hy gentleman
of varied information
"The busiest of Uncle Sans workshops is
the government printing office. The amount
of printed matter delivered from that office,
consisting of full bound blank books, printed
books and pamphlets, bound documents, de-
partment blanks circulars, letter heads, cards,
envelopes, &C., for the six days ending on the
seventeenth instant is believed to bo the
heaviest ever delivered from any printing
Office in the world for the same length of time.
Tho nun, hnr fnr aach doxy .yoe as colIou,,.
National Republican., 1883-04-23

THE good money for redeeming ragged
money has been nearly all used up for this
year, so parents will have to be careful about
letting their children slide down cellar
doors with bills in their hip pockets, and it
National Republican., 1883-04-23
LONDON AND PARIS.

TEE REPUBLICAN, will be found on hle at the
American Exchange in Europe, No. 40 Strand,
London; the American Exchange In Paris, No. 30
Boulevard des Capucines.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
NEW YORK OFFICE.

Tho New York once OF The REPUBLICAN IS at
Room e5, Tribune building, where ffes OF The RE-
PUBLICAN and all necessary information relating
70 Advertisements can be obtained.
National Republican., 1883-04-23

HANLAN and Ross will row at ogdensburg,
. N. Y, and that enterprising town puts up
$1,000. Washington don't gamble--good,
happy, nice Washington!
National Republican., 1883-04-23

CORRESPONDENTS should be more moderate.
There are newspaper readers who go so far as
to discredit the story that Tom Tigertail was
barelegged.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
mnin cnnins sent on nnnllon,ion.

FhmnIo copies HbnI OH HIlTTIChIIOH.
Remittanoes may be made at our risk, either by
draft express. post-oiice order. registered let
ter Money sent in any other way is At the risk Of
the person sending II. Address.
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
Washington, d, o,
National Republican., 1883-04-23

The British lion will probably roar quito
gently this week. The Irish patriots will be
in session several days in Philadelphia.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
FISH grow very large in Florida waters
ADJUSTMENTS.
THE NATIONAL rHEATER.

THE NATIONAL THEATER.
At the National theater tonight Hermann,
the magician, will commence an engagement.
He is said to have acquired several new tricks
Of legerdemain since his last visit here, which
he will display with all that doftness for
which he is famous. He will be assisted by a
novelty company which will include Mile.
Addie, who is we'll remembered here; Miss
Hilda Thomas, vocalist; Prince Awatu
Katsuoshin, q japanese juggler, and Till's
Royal Marionettes.
FoRD's OPERA HOUSE.
Carncross's minstrels an organization which
is said to be the largest Of its kind now be-
fore the public, will commence an engage
ment at Ford's opera house tonight. Mr..
Carncross himself is we'll remembered for
his exquisite ballad singing, and the vocal
department of the troupe is said to be excep-
tonally strong. Among the specialties which
will be presented that are original with this
company may be mentioned: "Thc Letter
Carriers" "Dockstaders Misfts," "The
African Rivals" "Sights Behind the Scenes !;
or Black Lily's Debut" and Hazel Kirke ;
or, the Man with tho Iron viii and Jaw"
A good minstrel troupe always draws we'll
in this city, and successful weeks business
may be predicted.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
The short OF Il.
Nei0 TEdUen Post,

Butler has put it in writing" that he Il
nota candidate for the presidency; which signl.
fes " Let the office seek tho man; let the man be
BuLlern
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
The Author of the Texas Meteor.

Nntluual hepuDllCdh
Telegraphic contradictions of the Texas
meteor story are coming in from all quarters
OF the Lone Star State, and a dispatch in the
Herald yesterday morning intmates that the
hoax was perpetrated by a Commercial tour
list" who is much given to that sort of thing.
Joel Mulhattan is the party's name" said a
Western gentleman who had read the dis
patch in question, "IIe makes his headquar-
tiers at Louisville or st. Louis, l think, and
travels through the Southwest. He is full of
stories of marvellous discoveries and won
ders of nature, and enjoys reputation as
romancer that Jules Verne, Eli Perkins and
other phenomenal liars would envy. Joel
discovers wonderful cave or something
every trip he makes. Two years ago he
startled the country by a story of cave in
the limestone region of Kentucky compared
to which Mammoth cave is a very small post
hole. He frequently runs across the paths of
devastating tornadoes, sees enormous rep
tiles, witnesses stellar wonders, and encoun-
tiers strange men and beasts i'll out of the way
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
The Georgia Gold Mines.
Louisville Courier-Journal.


Mr.. W. n Webster, of Carroll county,
Georgia. is in this city getting up a stock com
pany to work gold mine that he owns in
Carroll county. Mr.. Webster says his mine
is POI acres in extent, and that the ore on it
will mill $40 ton. He tells some things
about gold fields in Georgia that will be news
to most people in this part of the country.
THE gold pelt in Georgia" said Mr.. Web
ster, "exteGds from Virginia and North Caro-
lima to Florida and Alabama. 1t is from 100
to 140 miles wide. You have no idea of
what an industry it is. Thousands of peo-
pile are making their living working in the
mines In one place alone in Lumpkin coun-
ty, you can see twenty-six stamp mills, each
of which employs from five to fifty men.
Some of these gold mines have been worked
for years, and in places the earth is dug
away sixty feet. Some OF it is very rich in
ore. Four hundred acres were sold some
time ago for S., 100000 to English capitalists.
All the mining is done by wealthy capitalists
and there are few poor men IN the belt. 1t
is busy place. Good wages are paid ard
the men are industrious and sober. People
are hocking there from the far West and even
from Australia and Mexico"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
The Wheat Crop Looking Up.

The past ten days have done wonders for
the W heat crop, and as usual those who saw
nothing but total failure for that cereal must
back down from a too previous position. In
.quiry to-day develops the fact that the brown,
bare looking fields of week ago were not
dead, but only waiting for a chance. Some
of the fields having the richest soil present
the worst prospect, as that soil sent up the
grain more rapidly than did the less fertile
fields. They who have been through the
country say the grain is springing up so rap
idly they can almost see it grow. They esti-
mate the crop in central Indiana at IS per
cent. of an average at least. In the southern
section the fields look still better
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
The Duty of Labor Associations.


There is a legitimate mode of operation,
more powerful in the end than any plan OF
violence or fanatcsm, and to operate by
peaceable and conservative means should be
the governing policy of all such organiza-
tons. Intimidation and coercion, nor the
demand of exorbitant wages which EN-
poyers cannot pay, is no part of the pur-
pose of such organization when properly
conducted. They are designed to maintain
the just and equitable rights of men by
legitimate means, and while that purpose is
kept in view they may accomplish good re-
sults-anything further than this will i'm
pair their influence for the desired good.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
Why pefalcations Occur.

The reasons for these losses-discovered
only by finding some one with too much
money in his possession, or by failure-rest
with those who permit the losses; they GER
tainly pay heavy penalty in the end for their
carelessness or overcontidence. The bust
ness man, by neglecting ordinary approved
systems of checking his cash and goods, offers
from the start strong temptation to weak
souls who have not yet reached 1.-THE stick
ing point of courage and honesty; the very
impunity precpitates fall that might have
been arrested
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20

places. A year orso ago he started story on
the rounds about a cave in the Rockies in
which was found a full-rgged ship that
crumbled to dust the moment a current of
outside air struck it. He killed a whole
family in western Indiana four or five years
ago with an imaginary meteor, and an elabor-
ate publication of the catastrophe caused
great excitement among the scientists and
Others, Kentucky is his favorite stamping
ground, but he turns upin unexpected places
at unexpected times"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
Laws Against Dynamite Business.
New A IhanY Iedner Dam l

All nations should follow the example of
England in this matter-pass stringent laws
and see that they rigidly enforced in re-
gard to the manufacture, sale or use of dyn-
amite and kindred explosives. The lawless
classes should not have it in their power to
terrorize whole cities and States. Much is
due the liberty of the citizen, but much is
also due the liberty and safety of commu-
nifty and the good order of society. If any
irresponsible character has it in his power
10 cause wholesale death and destruction,
such character has too much power and it
should be taken from him, even at the risk
of curtaiing his liberty. The largest liberty
consistent with good order is the proper
motto. But when liberty degenerates into
license it is time for society, represented by
law, to step in and say thus far shalt thou go
and no farther
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
Free Trade in England.


Mr.. Brght's free-trade speech at Glasgow,
recently, is being severely criticised by other
prominent English statesmen who do not be-
lieve free trade has redeemed the promises
made in its name at the time of its adoption.
Mr.. Bright's attention is called to the fact
that free trade has ruined agriculture in that
country, and that the people are now more
than half fed from abroad. And the perth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20

nent question is asked, what would be the
condition of that country should it become
involved in war with some maritime ma
ton? The food supply would OF course, be
cut Oft and the people would be put upon
half rations or permitted to starve. This is,
in truth, an ever constant fear of British
statesmen and people, and causes many Of
them to doubt the policy of free trade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
The state-House LEGISLATION.


We specifically charge that this action and
refusal [of the appropriation bill by the
worst Legislature that ever disgraced the
State were dishonest and corrupt, and for the
special purpose of enabling a Democratic
State Treasurer to loan out the fund levied
and collected for said work-and appropriate
the interest thereon to his own use and the
use of the party perpetrating the crime. Let
this be posted up, taxpayers so that it may
be verified by future DEVELOPMENTS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
No Juries for Civil Cases.

New Albany ledger.
Civil cases should be tried by men paid for
their services and trained for their work. A
juror is paid small wages, and if the employ
ment was permanent some men could afford
to accept the place. but such professionals are
not wanted. What is needed is for a trial
before a court composed of one or more
judges, without the intervention OF Jury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
The Greatest Feat of the Legislature.


The greatest feat the late Democratic Leg
stature accomplished, and the one that will
be longer remembered than any other act
was loading the party with more odium than
they can carry to oppose the forward march
of solid Repu blican front
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
stand by the Record.



Republicans should stand by their party
record. 1t is one to be proud of and one that
will do to fight by. That record is neither
prohibitionlst nor nti-prohbitionist And
it does not warrant slapping prohibitionists
in the face any more than it does the liquor
league.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
A Party that Comes Too Late.
nrt Wovna ca,o+to

The Anti-monopoly party has started too
late to save the public lands, to interfere
with the banks, or even to undo the consol-
ldation of the corporations 1t is like lock-
ing the stable after the horse is stolen. 1t is
safe to say there will not be a great anti-mo-
nopoly party in this country as such.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
Two Kinds of Tariff.
WRrsaw Hera

warsaw Herald.
Tariff for the protection of labor and an in
creased tariff for the enrichment of the cap
italists are two entirely different things. We
are ia favor of the first, and unalterably OPP
posed to the second.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20

the Democratic leaders in the House, and his
name can be furnished if it should become
necessary. Unfortunately for the suspect"
he is in no condition at present to furnish an
explanation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
Where the Diamonds Have Gone.

Atlahth ShustltutlOn
Some of the paste and borax diamonds
used at the Vanderbilt ball have already
been transferred to Barnums horse-blankets
Counterfeit diamonds look as well as the
genuine at a masked ball or in circus pro-
cessiOn, and they are far more convenient.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
The Deadlook Continues.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 19.-The deadlock
in the Legislature continues. Rock voted
on the preliminary notions but remained
silent when his name was called on the vote
to seat Bradwell in the contest with Nc
Nally
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
A Question that May Mix Things Up.
Michigan City Enterprise.

Should the tariff question really become
the leading issue, and two parties be formed,
one advocating tariff for revenue only, which
is little less than free trade, and the other
party advocating protective tariff there are
many politicians who have been antagonizing
each other for years that would be found
working shoulder to shoulder. The only
way the tariff question can ever be settled is
to elect men to Congress who are thoroughly
acquainted with the question as it effects the
commercial interests of the country, and will
provide a law Just and equitable to both the
laborer and capitalist. To make it purely
party question would be to make as many
parties as there are conflicting commercial in
terests in this country. If the question
creates confusion now, there would be
supreme chaos then
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20

READ the weekly death list of consumption
and learn how many die OF neglected coughs anC
colds that Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tai
would have cured.
Pixies toothaohe drops cure in one minute.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
IF you want the besJ sewing slIk use COrticelr

1T is the manifest destiny of Glenn's Sulphur
Soap to supersede the oily Onguents, which, I'M
I'll its Introduction were quite extensively, and
1t may also be said, enormously used for cuta-
neous erruptiOns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20

DURKEE's Salad Dressing, a ready-made, rich
and delicious dressing for all salads of meat,
fish or vegetables. Cheaper and Infinitely
better than homemade. No sauce equal to it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20

CROUCH ON Rats Clears out rats, mice, flies
reaches, bedbugs, ants, vermin chipmunks. 15c.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
Familiar Sight,
Lowell Citizen

Lowell Cltizen.
A strange combination of a prayerful atti-
tude and a curseful mind may be found in
the man taking up carpets for the spring
cleaning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20

DIR. e. L. NOEL. Blackfords Block, Indianap-
oils, says; Browns iron Bitters cured me of
dyspepsia and bilIousness."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
STATE EXCHANGE TABLE.
The Topics Which Enlist the Atten-
ton of the Press of the State.
The Questions of the Tariff and Dynamite
Reform Considered-Distant Echos of
the Late UnIamented Les :sIature.



The average American citizen is not happy
unless he has some kind of boom" on
hand. He dotes on booms. No sooner does
the Hon. John Jones achieve decided vic
tory over his opponent for mayor of Podunk
than some excited partisan rushes to the
front with the name of the illustrious
Jones coupled with the presidency, or
the governorship at least The Hon.
William Brown, of Yelltown, from his
place in the Senate. splits the ears OF the
groundlings with tremendous speech in
favor of the old flag and an appropriation,
ard the next day the distinguished gentle
mans home organ, the Yelltown Screecher,
nails the name of Brown to its masthead
and in double-leads extols the virtues of its
hero, enlarging with splendid enthusiasm
upon his eminent fitness for the presidential
office and his manifest superiority to all OPP
position. This sort of thing is quite COM
mon. We have done some of it ourself. The
Voorhees, boom for President in 1878 was an
inspiration of this deponent and other
booms of more or less successful character
may be traced to the same humble source.
Our own indulgence in the dissipation, how
ever, has not blinded US to its folly. A little
OF it is exciting, but daily indulgence pro-
duces disgust
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
What Can Be Done with AgitatOrs.


The question of how far government is
permitted to protect political refugees in its
borders, who are plotting against the peace
of another and friendly government, is being
examined with much care by the LAWYERS of
this country and Great Britain 1t is with
the view of ascertaining the duty OF the
American government in regard to the dy-
Mantle conspirators who are supposed to be
sending agents and money to England to de-
stroy the lives and property of the people of
that country. 1t is not a new question,
though it is one not yet settled. Some years
ago DR.. Woolsey said, in speaking of the
rights of political refugees: 'They may not,
consistently with the obligations of friend
ship between states, be allowed to plot
against the person or the sovereign Or
against the institutions of their native coun-
try. Such acts are crimes, for the punish
ment of which the laws of the land ought to
provide, but do not require that the accused
be remanded for trial to his native country"
Morris tribune., 1883-11-03
Grant Comfy Eank.

Herman Herald: Amongst the
many substantial buildings erected
this season, the foremost is the Grant
County Bank building erected in this
village, and will probably occupy for
many years the foremost rank in the
business structures of Herman.
The building, which with its fix
lures has been erected at a cost OF
about $4,000, is n feet on the alley in
block "a, running parallel with At
lantic avenue, and two stories high.
The walls, which are built of cream
colored brick with red pressed brick
trimmings about the windows, arches
and pilasters, are laid upon concrete
foundation four feet wide and two
thick, surmounteA 10y two thicknesses
of two inch plank, laid at right angles
and cemented. commencing on tins
foundation, the walls are laid solid
80 inches thick and drawn III to 20 in
ches at the second floor; thence they
are laid hollow, Is inches thick, to
the roof, as preventative from frost;
thence II inches, hollow, to top Of
fire walls.
Morris tribune., 1883-11-03

Duluth Tribune: 1t is a great mis-
take to believe that Mr.. Biermann is
making Roadway among Scandi-
navians solely on the ground that he
comes of Norwegian birth. So far as
reports from Scandinavian districts
go to show he is, as matter of fact,
making very little impression. Sean
dinavians, as class, are wide-awake
and fair-minded people, and most of
them believe that to forswear friends,
party and all and support Biermann
simply because he is a Norwegian,
not caring for principle or honor,
would be to stulify themselves and to
jeopardize their political opportunities
hereafter. This view of the case is the
true one. Were the Scandinavians to
adopt such weak but dangerous
policy at this time, the same policy
would be adopted against them in the
future solely upon the ground of ex-
ample set by themselves. They cam
not afford to bring themselves down
to such low plane of political clan
nishness as that, nor do we believe
they will do so.
Morris tribune., 1883-11-03

Chatfield Democrat: "The Demo-
cratic papers are stutfing the Nor
wegians on a nice little mess Of taffy,
namely, that it is a great honor to
their race for their party to put Mr..
Biermann at the head of its ticket.
Just so. Let's see. Last year Mr..
Biermann was given the congressional
nomination after Judge Wilson could
not be prevailed on to take it. This
year the Observation-Disclosures
was taken after Mr.. McNair's pos
tive declination. If it is honors for
the Norwegians the Democrats are
after, why did they not nominate him
to begin with"