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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-16

AMONG ell the conflicting reports which have
come to the public ear during the past season in
regard to the marriage of Hon. David Davis, one
statement has been firmly maintained by all.
Whether Uncle David was fortunate enough to
marry her or nor, the lady in question was a
treasure. While not strictly beautiful, perhaps,
she was charming through her simplicity; she
was shy, modest and not fond Of society,
having spent the most of her life in country Sc
clusion, not from necessity, but because she was
home-oying. Any one of a thousand descrlp-
tions OF her would stand for a picture of the alto
gether lovely woman whom the Rev. Morgan
Dix mourns as an almost extinct species. Simple
in her manner, plain but attractive in appear
ance, not strong-minded, but just
intelligent enough, but, above all,
home-clinging and domestic in her
tastes was this paragon among women.
1t is not often that the world has a chance TO
view one SO universally admitted to be free
from faults, and though Rev. Dix declares that
printing a woman's name in full brushes the
bloom of modesty from her cheek, it is only
right that other women less highly favored with
virtues should have a glimpse at the simplicity
which all men admire. 1t is with respectful
awe then that they contemplate the array OF
dresses from Worth's-ffteen of them. With
their crude and mistaken ideis of suitable attire
for a domestic woman" most of the sisters had
pictured n few print and wool costumes, with a
silk dress or so for extra occasions. None Of
these appear in the trousseau. Rose-cOlored
silk, old-gold satin, green velvet and ostrich
tips, plum color, terra-cotta, pink, white, tea
color and black III velvet, silk aud satin are the
robes in which Mrs. Davis Is to move about and
order the ways Of her household. Which of these
are to be worn when occupied with her various
domestic duties the reporters fail to specify.
Whether she will dust the parlors in her
Spanishlace gown or put the finishing
touches to the dinner-tabie in her blue brocade
does not appear. Which one of the costumes
she will find most comfortable to wear in the
sewing-rOom, or when she sits by Davld's side
with her m~ending basket, we are left to sur
mise. Any one of them would be good enough.
The husbands socks will have good attention,
no doubt. because with q supply of twelve dozen
hand embroidered pairs of stockings of her own
her time will not be divided.
The touching picture Of retired home life
which these costumes convey to the mind must
bring tears to the eyes of those frivolous women
vino care for nothing but society and dress, or
those st~rong-minded ones who go into public and
get their names in the papers in a way subver-
sive of all domestic comfort. The women of the
lesson, showing what simplicity and a retired
life really mean, and will be, one and all, eager
to follow Mrs. Davis's example.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-16
Benjamin's Prodicament.


Philadelphia Record.
Ii Ben Butler is obliged to keep one eye
fixed on the White House and the other on
Beacon Hill it will aggravate his strabismus
and possibly sour his sweet temper.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-16
In order to bring
the Governor to a proper
sense Of his position, the
Democratic majority de-
teTmined to withhold the
appropriation bills" So
DAILY SENTINEL. March S.

SLEEPING RABBIT, the recently-captured
Indian, tried to make q hare-breadth escape,
but a bullet laid him low.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-16

PROFESSOR e. H. HOLDEN, of Madison, Wis;
DR.. c. 5. Hastings, of Baltimore; Mr.. c. W. Rock
well, of Tarrytown; Winslow Upton and E. d.
Preston, of the United States Coast Survey, and
Lieutenant Blown, of the Naval Observatory at
Washington, have sailed from New York en- route
to Caroline island, to view the coming solar
eclipse. After crossing the Isthmus of Panama
the party will proceed to Callao, expecting TO ar
rive there about March %. A government YES
line island, which belongs to a group Known as
the Marquesas, which lie lnear the middle OF the
Pacific, ana are inhabited only by a few natives.
The party will probably reach Caroline island
about April 20, which will leave over a fortnight
in which to get the Instruments in readiness for
use. The party Is well supplied with Instruments.
At the Isthmus the members hope TO meet some
English scientific gentlemen who have been sent
out by the Royal Society of England. A French
party will probably observe the eclipse in the
same neIsh5orhood. Professor Holden and his
associates hope to observe some indications of
the planets which are said to exist between Mer-
curry and the sun. One or two new theories in
surrounds the dark body of the moon during a
total eclipse of the sun will be tested. They ex-
pect also to inu reasons for making corrections
IN the lunar tables; to discover something more
about the rule which governs the motion of the
moon, and to obtain other valuable information,
The American party Will return by way of Hon
olulu, and will reach home sometime next June.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-16

Mr.. PARENT, OF Philadelphia, who is not, how
ever. a parent but a philanthrOpist, is in hard
luck. He has just been sent, at his own request,
to the house of correction for habitual drunken
ness. and explains that his sad state was brought
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-16

THE parish priest OF Oshkosh publishes a card
in which he declares the Tabor marriage at
Washington to be null and void under the laws
OF the church, which do not recognize divorce.
He states that Miss MoCourt was married by
himself, in 1877, to MI. Doe, who Is yet living,
and, the bond of matrimOny being indissoluble,
the second marriage could only be a farce in the
Catholic church. All members of the brides FAM
lily, it is understood, are practically excommuni-
Gated for their completely in deceiving the priest
who performed the ceremony and, having hith-
erto been loyal Catholics, now feel themselves
in a predicament. Mr.. Tabor himself, who is not
und erstood to be a devout man, will probably
not 10 much disturbed at this little incident in
his career, but the bride risks her chances of
heaven, unless, ike the priest who married
them, she returns her "fees," and leaves the
millionaire TO make his wedding journey alone.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11
NO RED TAP8 ABOUT IT.

There has just been made manifest a
remarkable and noteworthy avoidance of
the methods of red tape, which are usu-
ally so tortious and slow as to lose most
of desired effectiveness in official matters
where promptuess is the essence of the
action. August 25th the great eruptions
took place in Java by which the Straits
OF Sunda were so changed as to make
their navigation extremely dangerous, all
the usual soundings being deranged, and
the channels completely changed in many
places. Within forty. eight hours the
news was well authenticated in this coun.
try. But no official dispatches were at
hand, and, for the matter of that beyond
semi. official announcement by the Meth.
erlands Government of the dangers of
navigation in the straits, no official dis
patches have as yet reached Washington.
But in these days of journalistic enter
prise the naval authorities could not es.
cape notice of the fact that great disas.
ter had overtaken the island of Java
For once in the history of governments
red tape called for no pause. Relying upon
the information given to the public, Com.
modore English, Acting Secretary of the
Navy, on the 3lst of August ordered by
cable telegram the officers of the United
States ships Juniata and Enterprise, then
at Singapore, distant from the Straits of
Sunds some GOO miles of navigation.
though less than 500 in a direct line, to
proceed at once to the scene of the dis
aster, examine into the condition of af.
fairs, and to take all necessary steps to
warn merchant vessels about entering
the straits, and to render all possible aid
and information to merchant sLipsundertak.
i1g the dangers of the passage of the straits.
The commanders of the two ships received
the orders September I'd, and were en-
route for Java within five hours thereafter
If they met with no misfortune, they
should have reached the Straits ard have
taken position by the evening of the 9th
instant. This is certainly one of the most
expeditions official movements in time of
peace of which we have record. There
are at this time en- route to the East Indies
and TO pass through the Straits large
number OF richly y-freighted American mer.
chantmen. The first knowledge they will
have, in all probability, OF the danger upon
which they are sailing. will be the warn
ing they will receive from the Enterprise
on tbs one side and the Juniata on the
other. Without this warning the proba-
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11

necessity does not invite, and art cannot
construct proper one if all the money in
the national strong-box is poured into the
muddy waters OF the little estuary that tie
politicians are attempting to magnify into
the importance of harbor for commerce.
What is needed is some action by the peo.
pie of this city and the State to convince
the Washington Government that it owes
duty toward this people and that it is
bound in honor to discharge it. 1t has
permitted, by its neglect, noble stream
to be debased, and it is bound to restore it.,
as nearly as may be. to it's original useful
ness. This is quite possible. The river
should be dredged out and its channel kept
clear, its bars reduced and its alignment
corrected. Not cent should be expended
with view of protecting the lands of any
one, or OF reclaiming single acre but a
great sum should be laid out to save the
chief highway Of the State from being
closed completely to commerce. Our
Boards of Trade, cur official bodies in
towns and cities, our navigators and en-.
gineers, our farmers and merchants, the
people generally, should move in this mat
ter, and now, and make such firm, united
and forcible representations to Congress at
the next sitting, that there can be no slight.
ing of our claims.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11
HAzmG Ar ANNAPOLIS.

Hazing has not ceased at Annapolis. 1t
appears that the severe lesson given the
cadets last spring did not inspire them
with sufficient respect for the laws of the
Academy, to prevent them from engaging
this summer in that unmanly and detesta.
BILE practice, hazing A recent court-mar.
tial has been inquiring into the matter,
and some OF the cadets stood trial before
it, while others pleaded guilty. Strange as
it may seem, the fourth. class men who
were hazed most villainously and humiliat-
ingly by the third-clsss men, generally
sought to protect their prosecutors, aud
have refused thus far to testify in way
to fix individual guilt. The Government
will turn out very poor quality of naval
material if it is unable to discipline the ca
diets of Annapolis.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11
seEoMA's EXAMPLE.

There is no exhibit in the Pavilion at
the present State fair more striking and
suggestive than that made by Pomona
Grange in behalf of Sonoma county. In a
small space there is shown by samples all
the products of that fertile and prosperous
county, from corn to millet, from wool to
wheat, from fruits to woods, from roots to
raisins, from nuts to oranges. Each sam.
pie is labeled with the product yield per
acre, the name of the locality in which
grown, the name Of the producer, etc.
Let US suppose that the ffty-one other
counties of the State had made each an
exhibit by sample of their products, what
splendid exposition of the resources of
California the State fair would be. The
example Of Sonoma should be followed
next year by all the counties, and it may
be easily done. The matter is one full of
suggestion and profit.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11

biIities are that the merchant ships would
ride on to destruction, relying upon their
old charts and ignorant of the changes
made by the great convulsion. The En-.
terprise, happily, is fully equipped for
deep sea sounding, having full compli-
ment of all the best apparatus for that
purpose. She will, therefore, at once be.
gin to outline the new channels, if any re.
main, and to determine their character.
But that will be work of slow processes,
and its difficulties cannot now be even es-
timated. The Importance of the Straits of
Sunda to commerce has been illustrated by
naval officer, who says that if one can
imagine all the harbor channels to the port
of New York TO be suddenly deranged, or
even closed, it would not begin to compare
with the loss to which the trade of the
world will be subjected if the great Ugh
way through the Straits of Sunda is closed.
Let it never be said again that our navy is
Of no service to mankind
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11
MR. BgEcHRR,s WE'VE.

| Mr.. Beecher's lecture on Evolution in
San Francisco the other night must have
startled some of the sectarians. 1t proves
that Beecher is more of free lance in his
old age than in mis- youth. He appears to
be very careless as to what the church
thinks or says of his utterances, which run
| counter to some of its most cherished
! dogmas. But it is to be noted that large
portion of the church has advanced into
broader field of view than that occupied
by the fathers, and Mr.. Beeoher gives but
little ofense to the enlightened pui.
pits. How the strict constructionists.
however, will receive such remarks as
these on the part of the great preacher Of
Brooklyn it is not difficult to conceive
Evolution is the discovery of the Divine
method of creation y "It opposes the doc
trine of instantaneity in creation; ;" "When
God wrote on the tablets of stone it was
not the first time he had written on stone :"
"God had plenty of time, and to spare,
and he created slowly by evolution :"
He never saw,a great forest spring up
from the rocks at once" He then went
on to say that he believes in the theory of
the evolution OF man, but he does not be.
leve that we came from the monkey, but
II we aid, while some have tarried on the
way, he'd as leave come from the monkey
as anything else, for all that concerns him
Is, have we come far enough, and where
are we going? He'd rather come from
respectable monkey than from dust.heap
Evolution, he held, may destroy "the
barbaric theory" of literal inspiration of
the Scriptures. 1t is an absurd theory
to suppose that when men wrote that God
spoke to them, He spoke to them literally
that he called them up and told them all
about the knots and tassels. the manner in
which the tabernacle is to be, the colors of
the badgers skins to be worn, and all that
fnical stuff. do not believe, he added,
Sin the verbal literal inspiration of the
Bible Belief in it is the high road to
infidelity. Take the doctrine of verbal in
spiration out of Mr.. Ingersolis way and
he will not have a shot left in his locker"
said Mr.. Beecher. In these remarks
the world will recognize allegations
of force. Regarding sects the lecturer
held that they are the children of explo-
sions begotten of intolerance in the church,
but they are now as so many households
organized to do Christian service, and they
must continue because of the demands of
human nature. The lecture appears to
have been as thoroughly original and inde.
pendent in its scope of view and its tilt
against old dogmas as some that Ingersoll
has delivered, although with a wholly |
different end in view, and arriving at
wholly different conclusions. Certainly
had an unbeliever made the statements
credited to Mr.. Beecher he would have
been denounced by believers without
mercy
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11
"a HINT TO NEW YORK -

Commenting upon the Statement that
some California railroad men have pur.
chased nearly a mile square of land on the
water front of Galveston, the New York
Herald calls attention of New Workers to
the fact that the city they inhabit has no
mortgage on the commerce of the world.
and that the metropolis is not the only pos
sible outlet for American raw products des.
tined for Europe. While it has no fear
of the rivalry of Galveston, still, it SAYS,
in reducing the Importance of a great sea.
port every little helps Thereupon it gives
New York gentle hint, to the effect that
to maintain its commercial supremacy it
must ''better and increase its wharf facil.
titles, lessen the port charges, improve the
Ere canal, maintain a good channel at
Sandy Hook, finish the projected improve
ments at He'll Gate and hasten the com.
pletion of the Harlem ship canal" It
forestalls the reply that ships going to
other ports must make their expenses
solely out OF what csrGoes they can carry
away, by saying that it is useless to urge
that, so long as there is possibility of
ships that come to New York being COM
PEELED, through increased exports from
other cities, to depend alone on what they
can bring. In other words, the Herald
gives the good commercial advice that
market for ships, like one for merchandise,
must afford carriage both ways, in order to
be perfect market. There are some mar
ket places nearer by than New York to
which this hint of the metropolitan news
paper may be of value.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11
THIS moas1se'a news.

In New York Government bonds are quoted al
119s ior Is Of 1907. 112l for AS, lOl for 8ls
sterling, g s21a4 s6 1854 for 8s 1ol for 5s silver
bars, 1923
Silver in London, 5Osd; consols, 100 5-16d {
per cent. United States bonds, extended, IOj; 4s
1921; As, II5I-
S7lqss cents.
Yesterday being legal holiday, the San Francisco
Exchanges and Stock Boards were not in session.
C. P. Huntington emphatically denies Dorsey's
statement that he and Gould bought Stanley Mat
thsws his seat on the Supreme Bench.
Further reports OF the work of Jack Frost in the
East and West continue to arrive.
Judge Thomas Lespeyre, once member of the
California Legislature, died Sunday at Butte, Mont
The California Pioneers in New York celebrated
Admission Day by banquet
Andres Williams aged %, shot and killed his sis
ter, aged Is, in Scranton, Pa, yesterday.
Colonel Bryant, recently tried by Court-martal at
San Francisco, has been acquitted.
1t is now pretty evident that Russia is at the bot.
tom OF the trouble in Bulgaria.
demonstration, under the auspices of the Irish
National League, took place at Waterford, Ireland,
Sunday, and was attended by 1000 persons.
The death Of Right Hon. Hugh Law, Lord Chan
ceilor Of Ireland, is announced.
During August the Pacific Mail steamships landed
IN New York 6s,O40 gallons of California wines,
against IL, ,492 gallons in August of last year.
Several ersons were injured in an accident in a
New York the2ter yesterday.
Edward .. CGwan city editor of the Leadyiile
CCol) Herald was yesterday brutally and fatally
assaulted in that city by Alderman JOY.
Admission Day was celebrated with much enthu
siasm at several points in the State
DR.. Robert Gunn of St. Joseph, No died sud
denly at Tucson, 4. T., yesterday.
The boundary line between the United States and
Mexico Is 10 be surveyed Immediately, work having
already commenced at Yuma; A T
The American Consul at Guaymas, Mex. an.
nounces that there is no yellow fever at that point
A three-year-old boy was run over by a wagon in
Marysville, yesterday and killed
Fire At woodland; loss, $1,000.
At Cherryvie, Pa, William Rumey accidentally
shot his wife, inflictng fatal wound
at Clifton A. T., yesterday, William Delaney
shot and killed Henry Sawyer.
Forty houses were burned August 10Th at San
Fernando, Trinidad
Another earthquake shock was felt at Lima, Peru.
yesterday
French aerouaut yesterday crossed the Eng
lish channel from France to England in balloon.
The Worlds Industrial Cotton Centennial Exbi.
hition viii open at New Orleans on the frat Mon
day in December, 1854, and continue until the 31st
of May, 1885
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11

NORWEGIAN epicure has convinced canning
company that parts of the flesh of the whale are su-
perior food. We are now to have canned whale on
the market. And why not 1t is clean, warm.
blooded ANIMAL and old sailors speak in high terms
OF whale steak. But then it must be confessed that
when they ate whale flesh they were very hungry
and could procure no other meat. Appetite has a
wonderful deal to do with the taste
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11

THs New York Tribune has with much wit. and
many pleasantly, kept to the fore the name of
Samuel S. Cox for Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives. The enjoyment the Tribune gets out
OF this sport is something wonderful. 1t does not
pail upon it, but each successive issue of that Jour
nal proves how keenly the relish is and how much
it grows upon it. There has been many merry
jest made sober truth, and the Tribune will be
speechless u--h horror if it happens that Cox is
chosen
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11
PROGRAMME 6

No -TROTTIHG-Two,ye year olds Stake for foals
OF 1881. $50 entrance, OF which SIS must accom-
plny nomination; the remaining S25 to be paid
August Z 1888. So to be ad led by the Society.
VIM. Beach names ch {. Dawn, by Nutwood, dam
Countess
Palo Alto Stock Farm rames br f. Carrie c., by
Electioneer, dam Maid of Clay.
D. +. Knight names ch. I. Nighthawk, by Brgadier,
dam Nellie.
j. E. Durham names ch. C Oscar steinway, by Stein.
way, dam Frankly Eaton.
F. L. Smith names b. I. Cora, by Buccaneer, dam
Pearl
C. W. Trahern names b. g Voucher. by Nephew.
dam Vernon Patchen.
No. 7-TR RDTTING-Purse, 81, 900. For four-y year
ods and under Mile heats, three in five.
W. F. Smith names b. G. Adalr, BY Electio. eer, dam
Addie Lee.
E. Downer names blk. m. Kitty Almont, by TiltoR
Almont, dam unknown
J. B. Mcdonald names b. I. Hazel Kirke, by Briga-
der, dam Fanny.
Pao Alto Stock Farm names b. m. Bonnie, by Cen
eral Benton, dam America.
H. w. Meek rames b. Dr. T. Bonnie Wood, by
Nutwood dam Lady Belle.
j. NJ. learned names b. h. Adrian by Reliance, dam
Adriana.
Charles David names b. T. Sister, by Admiral, dam
Black Flora.
VIM johnson names br M oIvette, by Whipples
Hambletonian, dam unknown.
L. J. Rose names blk. 9. LeGrange, by Sultan, dam
Georgiapa.
John Wilkins naIles br. m. Lueillia, by Nephew,
dam Lucinda.
j. r. Mcintosh names b. g Telegraph, by Tilton
Almont, dam unknown
j. C. Sim son names b. c. Anteeo, by Electioneer,
dam Columbia
No. S.-TROTrING-2.30 Glass. Purse, 81 900
Mile heats, in ..
John Mcintyre names ch. g. Edwin Forrest, by
Blackbird, dam unknown
P. Farrell names b. h. Barney B., by Budd Doble,
dam unknown.
P J. Williams names b. g Bay Frank, by Tornado,
dam by State of Maine.
E. NJ Fry names b. h. Arab by Electioneer, dam
Lady Hamilton.
J. W. Donathon names g. g. Allen Roy, by Patchen
Vernon, dam unknown.
John W. Gordon names b. m. Big Lie, pedigree
unknown.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11

WHEN Judge Hoadly was nominated in Ohio, it
was on the condition that Hon. JOAN c. Thompson,
an old time and unsurpassed leader and political
manager in that State, should be cast overheard,
and it was done. Now the Democracy has become
so sadly demoralized, that a cry has gone up for
Thompson to resume the reins, and save tine party
from ruin. The State Central Committee, being
unable to resist the pressure, has consented to
practically turn sommersault, and restore the old
order of things
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11

TIE Oakland Times puts about the right esti
mate on the Examiner when it says that that
paper "cares nothing for cheap fares and freights
In its finest antimonopoly frenzy it never gets be-
yond cursing the Central and Southern Pacific
roads. Its real director is attorney for the other
California roads, and its relation to Fargo
and the Western Union Telegraph Company make
it the active servant OF every monopoly in Caifor-
pia bu+ ono
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-11

SAYS the New York Post wittly " In any free
and untrammeled American newspaper we meet
with accounts of events in which Lawyer Brown,
Bartender Smith, Sleeping-car Conductor Jones OF
Ticket Scalper Thompson takes part. What is this
but an instance of the process OF creating titles
which the race has been engaged in from the dawn
of history ,"