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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

WHEN the Democratic convention of Ohio
met, Judge Hoadly defeated Gen. Durbin
Ward as candidate for Governor Gen.
Ward then and there announced himself a
candidate for United States Senator and
there was general feeling that so gallant a
Union soldier and faithful a party worker
should be chosen to the approaching vacancy
without much question, if the Legislature
should be Democratic. But In all the hurly
burly now raised over the successorship to
Mr.. Pendleton the name of Durbin Ward is
entirely forgotten, and none so poor as to do
him the reverence of mentioning him for the
Office. The attitude of Gen. Ward toward his
party in Ohio has become pathetic one. He
is the hero of many battles, political as we'll
as military. By all the canons of fairness he
is entitled to some recognition; but the years
roll on and on, and Gen. Ward asks in vain.
There has been no greater exhibition of in
gratitude in political history.
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easily to be obtained yet greatly to be de-
sired. The features of this system are not
reproduced as models for Indiana, but SIM
ply to show that the work of simplifying and
rendering more thorough the methods of jul
risprudence is engaging the attention of
other and older communities. Everywhere
appellate courts are crowded. 1t is the rule
that cases are fought clear through to the
court of last resort One practical way to
relieve appellate courts is to strengthen the
minor courts. That there is a necessity for
this in Indiana goes with the saying and
during the next year the subject may we'll
engross the attention of competent lawyers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

THE great band of robbers that so effectu-
ally terrorlzed Neuilly a suburb of Paris,
has dwindled, as did FalstafSs men in buck
RAM Instead of scores and hundreds of des'
perate men bent on plumber and murder,
band so formidable that the police and gems
darmes were afraid to face them, there now
appears to be but four all told. 1t hardly
looked reasonable that the Bots de Boulogne
could so perfectly conceal more than regi-
ment OF criminals
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as he misspels his name, still insists there is
perfect parallel between the killing of Mat
thews, in Copiah county, Mississippi, and
the killing of McCorkle as political crimes.
He says of the former: He was killed, MUIR
dered, as said before, to give peace and quiet
to the wabiding citizens of Copiah
county" If Asa is correct, then the killing
the law-abidng citizens of Shelby county,"
and instead of trying Kennedy for crime,
the voters of Shelbyville should elect him
marshal as political benefactor. That is
what was done with the man who killed
Matthews.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

THE latest scientific idea in regard to the
mysterious connection with certain spots on
the SUM- The sun-spots vanished from the
orb of day simultaneously with the appear
anee of the strange colors in the sky which
have caused so much wonder. Whether the
--- - nzies knocked the spots off the
sun, or whether the spots foated off into
space for Illuminating purposes, the scien-
lists do not explain; in fact, they have not
found out much yet, but will make further
discoveries known as soon as possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

WE most heartily indorse the following,
from the Hancock Democrat, simply re-
marking that the Democrats party is in
charge of the police force of Indianapolis,
and has the opportunity to demonstrate the
truth of what our esteemed contemporary
says:
ut is the duty of the police to enforce the
laws against all violators, whether it is for
theft, arson, or selling liquor contrary to
law. With all that they can do, crimes will
be committed but that is no reason why no
arrests should be made and violators pun
ished. When the saloon keeper takes out
his license ii is plainly stipulated in the
grant that he cannot sell on certain named
days, and between II P. NJ. and 5 A. NJ. The
police authorities have no right to favor any
violation of the law. Down here in Green
field the law is enforced to the letter. and
when violated punishment is almost sure to
follow. An indianapolis saloon-keeper is no
better than Greenfield saloon keeper. Let
the law be enforced and thousands of dollars
will be saved to the many poor women and
children of that CITY,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

ANOTHER business firm has gone down I'M
der the vice of gambling in futures. The
,offee and tea house of Wright Gillies &
Bro, of New York, has been closed by the
sheriff to satisfy judgments of $4,000. On
the first day of January last the statement
the firm showed assets of about 100000,
it'll net worth of $4,000 The brother
,fWright Gillies withdrew from the firm in
August upon learning that the latter was
specializing in cotton. The business has
been swallowed up by one years losses in
"fr1turesn
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that the present constitution of the State is
simply body of death hung about the
neck of the people, from which they cannot
free themselves by any act of sovereignty?
The proposition is not to amend the con-
stitution, but to make an absolutely new
one, We think there can be no question of
the power Of the people, through the Legis-
lature to call and arrange for a constitu-
tional convention, and to submit the result
ing work to a vote of the people. The
proposition for a new constitution has met
with very general favor throughout the State
press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

THERE is not British lion tai-twister in
Speaker Carlisle's commute on foreign re-
lations. Sad.-Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.
Is our own Lamb to be forever ignored?
Lamb was one of the delegation that waited
on the President with Cox and Finerty
and those other statesmen, who wanted Mr..
Arthur to telegraph directly to Mrs. Vatter:
BLANK diplomacy. We want O'Donnell or
blood" Let US not forget Lamb, the little
Lamb, who loves Voorhees, so, that every
where that Voorhees, went, the Lamb was
sure to go-even to Congress.
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No subject of greater practical importance
to the tax payers of the country is before Con-
gress than the constitutional amendment
authorizing the President to veto portions of
an appropriation bill. There can be no par
tisanship in question of this kind, and so
soon as the amendment can be prepared it
should be passed and at once submitted to
the State Legislatures which will be in ses-
sion next month. Nine Legislatures meet this
winter, and can pass upon the measure. One
Legislature meets next May, six meet next
fall. twenty-one meet in January, 1885, and
one meets in June, 1885, Let the PROPOSE
tion have fair chance with all.
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THE Indianapolis Journal in discussing
pressed the conviction that the temperance
law cannot be enforced in that city. That is
all stuff, and intended as a crumb of comfort
to the saloon keepers, the most of whom are
Republicans. Hancock Democrat
This must be a joke. Greenfield is
not so far from Indianapolis but that
the editor of the Democrat can readily run
over here and get census of the saloon
keepers and their politics. He will then
find out to which party ''the most of them
belong
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

THE Journal does not propose to try the
Aennedy -McCorkle case in its columns. 1t
Sentinel and Shelbyville Democrat. We un-
derstand that the jury trying the case is
thoroughly competent and intelligent, sat
isfactory to the court who has more than
once compiimented the attorneys on. both
sides for the manner in which they have
conducted the hearing. 1t is to the last de-
gree reprehensible that. efforts should be
made to take the case out of the jurisdiction
Of the court and lodge it with mob, and
the Journal will not use its columns to fur
fher that scheme.
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JUDICIAL REFORMS.

The necessity OF a reform in the justice
system of this State is imperative, and needs
no argument If some plan could be devised
whereby the Office of justice of the peace
could be filled by men who knew enough
law and have enough honesty and common
sense to do justice between man and man
in the smaller differences that arise in bust
ness and in social life, vast deal of litiga
ton in the higher courts would be avoided,
much money saved to the parties interested,
and great reduction in court expenses
made. 1t is saying no more than is patent
and conceded, that the Office of justice is not
is not, filled with competent and satisfactory
men, men whose ability to try causes and
whose wisdom in decision are such as to COM
mand the confidence of those who seek their
service in petty suits. In some cases, in the
larger towns and cities of the State-it has
been so in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are but bur
lesques poor photographs of Dogberry, and
some of them have conducted their offices in
manner little less than scandalous. A
commission in Connecticut has been engaged
for some time in the work of maturing a
scheme for the reorganization of the courts
of that State. A bill has been prepared
with three objects in view. The first is to
make the office of justice of the peace more
hon orable, desirable and useful and to this
end the bill provides for justice in every
town of 1000 inhabitants, two in towns
of from 1000 to 5000 people, three
in towns between 5000 and 5000
and four in larger towns and
that they shall receive 500 year and fees,
and have jurisdiction in civil actions involv-
ing less than $50. A court of common pleas
with eight judges competent to try equity or
jury cases, having jurisdiction up to $500
and control of all criminal cases but those of
the most serious nature is the second thing
to be provided. The bar in esch county is to
be asked to recommend candidates for these
judgeships, but the Legislature can elect
whomsover it chooses Third, a superior
court is to have jurisdiction in cases not
previously provided for, and power to grant
relief from decisions in inferior courts, ex-
cept in specified cases. By this system it is
hoped to secure prompt intelligent and final
disposition of minor cases-a thing now not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

BosToN's pet slugger, Mr.. Sullivan, finds much
difficulty when he gets out into the tude, tudcul
tured West, in finding a pace in which to
make scientific mince-meat of another man
without the interference of the authorities; but
there is no trouble about those entertainments
in the neghborhood of the Hub. AT Bridgeport
Conn, the other day, prize ght took place be-
tween "Giant Jim" and "Chubby Joe," both be-
ing armed with iron knuckles. The contestants
were stripped TO the waist on this interesting
occasion, and in two rounds, of three minutes
EACH their forms presented to the delighted
spectators the appearance of raw beef. Blood
flowed down in streams, and frOze at their belts
in long red iclcles Nc meddling police inter
fered with this matinee, and as soon as the rival
pugilsts get their eyes open it is expected that
they will try it again Verify, New England is
the center of civilization-Of a certain kind.
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ONE year and half ago Mr.. Henry Wat
terSon said of the Democratic party, cit is a
free-trade party or nothing" and on March
20, 1883, in an editorial wrote 1.-THE Demo
crat who is not free-trader should go else
where. He should join the Republicans.
The Democratic party will make free-trade
fight in 1884. Democrats who can't go it,
had better pack up and get out" Now Mr..
Watterson stands on the banks of the Ohio,
with both hands uplifted, and shrieks that
the Democratic party is not for free trade,
but is for revenue REFORM" with "inciden-
tai protection" In an article over his own
signature In Mr. Wakeman's Current
Mr.. Watterson says: "The Republicans
will not be able to saddle the Demo-
:rats with the revolutionary tendencies
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THOSE who may be hating between two
opinions as to which party is the more sin
cere touching civil-service reform, may have
their thought quckened by observing the
senatorial contest in Ohio. Mr. Pendleton is
q thorough Democrat. He was the party
candidate for the vice presidency in 1864,
and the enthusiastic candidate for the presi-
dency in 1868 Of many States, particularly
Ohio and Indiana Since then he has done
absolutely nothing to forfeit his standing
with the party other than to ally himself
with practical civil-service reform move
ment; but on that account, and that account
alone, his defeat for the Senate is now threat
ened, if it is not already as good as accom-
plished. The Philadelphia Record, an indie
pendent Democ ratio paper, says:
80 great and so rapid has been the decline
of the Senator's popularity because of his
connection with the civl-service act that his
defeat in the Democratic Legislature is con-
fidently predicted"
And this item the Cincinnati Enquirer
conspicuously reproduced under the head
ing, "Civil-service did it."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

THE Porter County Vidette discussing
the question OF calling constitutional con-
vention, says: 1--WE mach incline to think
the only constitutional proceeding for the
calling of such State convention must De
first a change of the provision for a consti-
tutional amendment to be made precisely in
the way therein provided" Is 1t possible
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

THE State of Indiana pays its United States
senators So, 600 per year to represent the peo-
pie of this State in the halls of national leg
islation." io atots aide ad hluo.
The State of Indiana does mot pay its
United States senators anything They are
paid $4,000 a year by the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

PERSONS interested in the Butler boom are
attempting to work up clubs among the
workingmen of Illinois. Thus far but little
success has attended their efforts. For the
present, Ben. Butler is an unknown and I'M
determinable quantity in American politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

THE report of the president of the Brooklyn
Bridge Company, for the first three months OF
it's operations, shows that during that time 81
1872, 800 persons crossed, the company receiving
as toll the amount of $96,615, and from vehicles
the sum of $4215 OF the passengers 1882
800 were carried by the cable cars. The total
receipts were SI38,773.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1883.
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RAND OPERA HOUSE-Chas Wyudham in Cosy
Couple and Butterfly Fever"
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DOCTORS WHO DISAGREE.

The New York World sounds the alarm.
We reproduce an article published on Satur-
day as the leader, under the head "Plain but
kind adylce:n
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-11-02
THE WORLDS FAIR.

The San Francisco CAL has just discov-
cred that the Worlds Fair is to be held at
New Orleans next year. It seems to be
unaware of the fact that it was long since
settled upon by New Orleans, that Con.
gress nearly year ago gave it its sanction,
and the President two months since issued
his proclamation of invitation. Sew
ersl months ago we urged our
State Board of Agriculture to take the ini.
tial steps in movement to secure com
plete representation of California at the
Fair, and more recently we suggested that
the commercial bodies and the State Board
unite in the matter and go to work speed
lily. There is not much time in which to
prepare, and it is of vital interest to this
State that California occupy an especially
prominent position at the New Orleans Elk.
position.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-11-02
MIsceiIaneous Items from Victoria.

VICTORIA, November 1st.-The Wellington mines
turning out $50 tons of coal daily The strikers
places are gradually being taken up.
W. H. Lamont OF New Westminster fined
sl01 for selling liquors without license.
The Dominion Government hss ceded to A. j.
Mcclellan large area between Gorge and Craig
flower Bridge for the propagation of oysters.
Thousands Of the young ones received from New
York have been bedded.
Chiuaman from Cariboo with $500 in gold
dust left it on shelf, and subsequently discovered
the bag at the footof the stairs ripped opened and
the dust gone. No clue
Dennis Gas er, shot at Harrisburg last summer,
has died OF his wounds.
1t is stated that the Northern Pacific Railroad has
been made a bonded route and goods from Canada
and Europe msy now pass over it in bond to British
Columbia. The C0tonist says thst the whole of the
goods from the Eastern States, Canada and Europe
received IL British Columbia viii pass over the
Northern Pacific Railroad. Less time in delivery
and the saving of the trip between San Fran
cisco and Victoria is the most important feature in
the abandonment Of the Central Pacific line by the
provincial merchants
Scores OF miners from Cassiar who are in town are
unable TO procure hotel or room accommodations Of
Gny kind
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-11-02
ARIZONA.
shooting Array at a EaII.

Tucson, November 1st. Last night, while party
OF musicians were attending ball in Barrio Libre,
others, being denied admittsnce, created a disturb.
ance outside. One of the musicians was sent to
the door to see what caused the noise. He pulled
the door open, when he received bIow across the
mouth. Another OF the n usicians then drew pis-
tol and fired toward the door. The bullet hit one
Of the rioters in the left breast, Just above the
heart. The wound is serious, but the m,n alive
to-day, although suffering so much that he is un-
started to run, pursued by the musicians and two
Of the dancers. Shortly afterwards the crowd again
got fred up, and general fight took place, in
which one man was shot in the ankle and another
in the left leg But for the appearance Of the po-
lice the affair would have been worse
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-11-02

by introducing some Of the fungus into the
stomach of the animal. The paper con-
cludes with this verdict, which we give
with unusual prominence, since we are con-
vinced that it is public duty to insist
upon the speedy abolition of the practice
of burying the dead whose taking off is the
result of diseases epidemic and of para
sitical nature:
"In vie,g Of such facts, the doctors ask
hoso it can now be said that the germs Of
yeAov tever disappear ,oith the burial of the
eorpses On the contrary, the cemeteries are
perennial focuses Of contamination, aboce all
as regards the epidemic diseases aohose
parasitical nature is accepted no0 IN
science.
Taking this to be true in conclusion,
and unanswerable as a question, what
must we expect when in the region of
MazatIan, Guaymas and Hermosillo the
warm weather of March opens the porous
soil where the victims of the yellow fever
of last month and the month before were
buried? Unless the entire ground is
burned over for weeks and even months,
and constantly, there will result next
spring plague in Mexico which will sur.
pass anything in the past there. That we
shall escape it in California is scarcely to
be expected. In self-protection, California
could well afford to extend to the suthori-
ties of the places named aid in killing off,
if it is possible, the germs of the disease
now multiplying in the graves of the hun
dreds of unfortunates who were recently
carried off by yellow fever.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-11-02
TEE EFFECT OF TIE REDUCED POSTAGE.

1t is probable that the general returns
for October will show, as they do here,
that the reduction of letter postage to two
cents bas increased the income of the pos
tai department. At the Sacramento Post
office, for instance, the increase Of sales OF
stamps and stamped envelopes for October
exceeded the average sales for the three
months Immediately preceding by 2l per
cent. plus. The comparison is thus
made:
July. S3,69S %
august. .............-.....'..'. DO 81
September. ........'.''.'...''.'..' sissy 20
Total for three months $40, al so
October Observation-Disclosures. 4,3g9 60
Average for the three months. $40 60
Gain for October over that average,
1929 O6, or, as at first stated, in excess of
q per cent. 1t was on the belief that re-
duction of postage to two cents would
rather increase than otherwise the income
for sale of stamps that the low postage
rate was adopted, as well as the considera-
tion of affording the people the lowest
rate possible. But we presume no one ex-
pected the result to be so great as the
above figures show. OF course no general
Judgment can be formed OF the sales of
stamps throughout the whole country
from the report of the Sacramento office,
but there is good reason to believe that
everywhere sales have advanced ma
terially. 1t is possible that the October
sales are deceitful in one respect, to wit,
that large consumers of these supplies laid
in stocks at the first of the month, having
economical previously in order to be found
with as few of the old, or three cent
stamps, on hand, as possible. But
if we make a liberal discount from
the foregoing statement on that account,
we still have an exceedingly large advance
in the sales as compared with those Of the
summer months, which are fairly repre-
sentative of the year. At this time no &C.
creased weight of the mails, resulting from
the lessened postage rate. 1t is safe to as
sumo that the correspondence of the coun-
try and the use Of the mails have been
greatly augmented by the experiment, and
that there will be greater mail tonnage and
greater labor in handling. In Sacramento
the carriers handled in September "a, $50
mail letters in October they handled 65,-
3S4 mail letters, and the office deposit in
crease was proportionately as great. This
| is, we doubt not, fair Indication of the
operation of the reduction in the country
generally. These facts will exert an infu-
ence upon the next mail contract lettings,
and in time, it is safe to assume, will call
for an increase in the clerical forces of the
greater postoffices of the country. Such
demand was anticipated by the friends of
reduction at the time the scheme of less
ened rates was advanced, but it was held,
and it would now appear with good rea-
son, that the increased cost of handling
will be very much more than met by the
increased income of the department.
General Gresham, it will be remembered,
holds to an opposite belief.