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a position so she could look into his face, and
sat there looking at him. He never noticed her,
but seemed gazing away into futurity. The gen
eral expression of all the faces in the courtroom
was one of pity for the poor woman, who shows
her love for her husband y ct in everything she
does.
OF the noble six hundred who made the
famous charge at Balaklava twenty-nine years
ago, one is in Jail at Toronto. Another of the
survivors died of exposure and hunger in Eng
land few years ago. Another is an old rheu-
matte clerk in the Postofice Department. at
Washington. He still wears the medal placed
about his neck by the Queen.
THE Duke of Connaught's headquarters in Iu-
dia Is denominated a fever trap by patriotic
Brtlshers. Even Figaro says: sit may be the
destiny of the Duke of Connaught to perish on
the field of battle it is the duty of the War Office
to see that he is not allowed to take up his resi-
dencein ma malarious atmosphere, with death
probability and sickness certainty.
GENERAL ROBERT TooMBs was baptized and
admitted as a member of Methodist church in
Washington, Ga, recently. His brother Gabriel
was Instrumental in bringing about the Cen
erals conversion, and the local paper states that
the sight of the pleasure on his face as he stood
by his brother during the ceremonies is well
worth ones memory for years to come
1T Is said to be fact that all the socalled
English beauties and all the American girls
who are considered beauties in London have
high cheek bones and very pointed chns. Mrs.
Langtry. Mrs, CORVALLIS West. Miss Chamber
lyme and Miss Lorlng are all of this type. Tho
Prince of Wales ought to some of the
Sioux and Cheyenne bellies if that is his 'little
racket"
TITS said that brisk demand for books upon
the subject Of slavery has sprung up in some
parts of the South during the last two or three
years, and that volumes which formerly cunl-
bered booksellers shelves and would have been
gladly sold for song, are fetching large prices.
dealer in secondhand books has thus disposed
OF 200 copies of defense of slavery by a prom
inent Southern clergyman, which he bought for
five cents apiece.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

A CLOSE inspection of the Iowa election re-
turns will not encourage belief in the value
of prohibition in partisan contests at pres
ent. The Republicans carried their State
ticket by a plurality of about $4,000 and a
majority of 1000 over all. On the vote for
senatorial andidates-elections being held
in a little over half of the districts, others
holding over-the Republican candidates
had majority of 1865. But in the vote for
representatives the combined vote of the OPP
position was 9,319 in excess of that polled by
the Republican candidates 1t will be seen
from this that, had the opposition combined
throughout the State on this issue the Re-
publican State ticket would have bsen de-
fcated by 10000,
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AN opposition majority of 9,319 in the
popular vote for members of the Legislature
in Iowa, the body which must pass all laws
necessary to enforce prohibition, does not,
we again take occasion to say, impress us as
an overw helming argument in favor of the
strength OF prohibition as a Republican
battle-cry i'll State like India a.
where, at best the Republicans have only a
Fighting chance" Ii Iowa. with so 600 ma
jority for Garfield in $780, casts 10, 900 major
ity.agaust prohibition in 1882, where would
Indiana Republicansm be likely to appear
with this strengthening plaster on its back?
1t is no answer to say that Republicans did
not heartily support prohibition in Iowa.
Men cannot be made Prohibitionists by reso-
luton. The power OF prohibition to convert
men is precisely the point involved.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

IT savors of Satan rebuking sin, but the
New York Chamber OF Commerce has voted
unanimously in condemnation of the recent
stock watering by the Manhattan Elevated
Railway Company to the amount of $13, 000,
600. That body declares that such action
constitutes grave offense against the COM
munity, and should be made misdemeanor
by law. This systematic and INSCRIPTIONS
watering of stocks is inimical to the best in
terests of society and of legitimate
tions have been guilty of it, and some of
them to a degree hurtful to every line of
trade. Take for example, the Western
Union Telegraph Company. Its dividends
are made on basis of $50, OOO 900 OF stock,
whereas its stock should be at the outermost
but $16,00OO00, or $2O,000,0OO. Stock
watering is an evil that cuts in two
ways. 1t freezes OUT the smaller holders
and creates an enormous false basis upon
which to calculate interest and dividends.
quarterly dividend of two per cent. on the
present volume of Western Union stock is
equivalent really to eight or ten per cent.
This is a question of gravest importance, and it
is time that some kind of effective legislation
be had against it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

No man with brains above an oyster can
or does doubt the object of the Danville riot.
1t was to terrorize the colored vote, and pre-
vent the success of the coalition against the
Bourbon Democracy, or, as the telegraph
terms them, 1.-THE citizens of the proud Old
Dominion. The Danville rios is the opening
gun in the presidential campaign off1S84
and the Republican party will be compelled
to stand again for equal rights and equal
protection.
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AN alleged earnest, but puzzled" CORE
spondent of the Journal asked this question,
on Saturday last;
docs Mr.. Beecher, as reported in the Jour-
regulating the liquor traffic by reducing
the number of drinking places will cure the
evils of intemperanceP'
No, we presume not and, moreover,
we do not see how any candid man could
read Mr.. Beecher's argument and ask
such a question. The truth is not to
be reached by such quibbling. While the
evils of intemperance will not be "cured"
by reducing the number of drinking places,
no intelligent man will doubt that they can
be restricted and reduced by reducing the
number of drinking places. And this is all
that Mr. Beecher claimed People who live
in cities and large towns, and have to pay
heavy taxes for criminal and pauper ex-
penses, are greatly interested in reducing
the number of drinking places, !" and in put
ting what are left under better police sur
veillance and regulation than the larger num-
Der are when there is an era of practically
free traffic in liquor, either under absolute
removal of all license restriction or so-called
prohibition" as there has been in Ohio for
thirty years.
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HERE is little paragraph from the Chi
cago Tribune, which may be of interest and
value to the balloonatics who. possibly taking
counsel of their own experience, seem to
think that the only prosperity" is in rum
ming heavily into debt:
"The great trouble with this country is,
that it is not satisfied to be in state of
financial health. 1t wants to be perpetually
intoxicated with the stimulus of booms and
speculations. A very large part of the talk
that is now heard about dull times and I'M
satisfactory markets comes from a feverish
class who are never happy unless they are
involved in the dizzy whirl of mad specula-
ton. Legitimate business in the West has
few grounds for fault-fnding"
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10 the Editor oi the Indianapolis Journal
VIII you please explain TO the comprehen-
sion of the average reader the plan and details
of STANDARD time as proposed to be adopted
by railroad authorities. You have already
made some mention OF the matter hut find no
one who fully understands IL. AN OLD READER.
KNIGHTSTOwN, Ind.
STANDARD time" is the opposite of the varia-
BILE time have now. For instance: Certain
lines of railway run by Chicago time, or by
Cincinnati time, or by Columbus time, or by st.
Louis time, each of which differs from the
others, being fast slow the case may be.
Standard time proposes to divide the country
arbitrarily into four divisions, and the time
within each of these divisions, from one limit
to the other is TO be the same, a change of a
full hour being made at the beginning of the
second division and main tained throughout until
the next division is reached in order, and so on.
The 18th meridian embraces the eastern section
of the country. Say it is 8 O'Clock within that
meridian; within the Goth meridian, in which
Indiana ls situated, it will be o'clock; within the
105th meridian tDenver) it is 7 o'clock, and
within the 10th, for the Pacific coast, it will
be O'Clock. 1t will be observed that this is ar
btrary, and pays attention to the differ
ences in sidereal time. 8 O'Clock Boston is 6
O'Clock at San Francisco, railway or standard
time. The advantages of the system in the
running of railway trains obvious.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

THE following poem, with local application
and a name, we find in the last number of Tag
CARTS Philadelphia Sunday Times, written by G.
Walter Barr:
aULTUM IN PARvIN.
"How many queer things they nave in the West,
And where do they get them, we wonder.
II there's any one thing more queer than The
rest
It's the Latin they have way out yonder.
Now parvus is small
And II they would call
Him little, the Parvin they've sent us,
We'd like-wouldn't yOu2-
To have them conStrue
The meaning of maXimG mentes.
che has big heart, for that's plain to be seen,
Forit's love overfows the arena,
And he's kind as that model-GOd bless him!-
the Dean;
In short, we never have seen
Man kindlier appearing,
Nor acts more endearing,
Nor man who could tell stories better;
And this great gift from you,
Exceeding much our due,
Indiana, has made us your debtor.
ellis head-who shall reckon the breadth of the
Which can quote Greek Latin or Hebrew,
80 that Homer or Moses, returning, would ma
That they knew no better than he knew
The tricks of their speech,
And he's well versed in each
Or the writer's since them who in either
Tongues, living or dead,
Have anything said
On woman, in flowers to 1nwreathe her.
"Then hail we the equal of all of the rest!
Thrice hail TO TheOphilus Parvln!
Who'll tell all about the fair ones of the West,
For knowledge of whom we are starvin'.
We greet you with cheers,
We'll leave you with tears,
And till your life's lecture is ended
Wen keep You surrounded
With good will unbounded,
In which love and respect are close
blended.
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THE Republicans feel very we'll, thank
you, this morning. The November breezes
are much more bracing and health-giving
than were the October winds New York
Republican, Massachusetts with 10000 ma
jority against Butlerism, Pennsylvania &c, 900,
Connecticut staunchly Republican, and so
on for quantity, will make pleasant reading
for Republican breakfast tables
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

THE first echo of the Danville Democratic
Bourbon riot came in the shape OF a dispatch,
yesterday afternoon, to the effect that "the
negroes were not voting in Virginia" The
Danville massacre was planned and executed
to the end that none but citizens" should
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The Indianapolis Journal is the leading
paper of the State of Indiana and should be
supported by the Republicans OF this State
in preference to any other Whatever may
be said of other dailies which visit this Sec
ton, the Journal is prominently the paper
for Indiana people. No paper is newsier or
more ably edited and better deserving our
support than this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

THE youth Of Chicago seem to literally run
q gauntlet of saloons while passing to and
from school. One school on Harrison street
has, within radius of block and half,
not less than sixty-four saloons. Another
has forty-six, and a third twenty-eight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

AN important opinion has been rendered
by Judge McCrary, OF the United States
Circuit Court, at Denver, A suit was
brought involving the titles to 6, 900 acres of
coal and iron lands. The titles had been
acquired through sixtyone pre-emptions
The evidence showed that in 1878 w. S. Jack
son obtained patents to these lands as agri-
sultural lands, and to do this was obliged to
use fictitious names in the various pre-
emptions, except one or two. One A. c.
Hunt acted as custodian of the certificates
and Jackson assumed the role of
trustee. The land was finally
transferred to the Colorado Coal
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APPEARANCES are deceitful, or the police OF
New York city are more dangerous to the
lives of citizens than are the hoodlums. An
other of the force has wantonly added vic
tim to list already too long.
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Ohio Will Come to Ii Next.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
Indiana had a great deal of trouble to get
away from the October terror, but now that
the difficulty has been overcome, her states
men with Presidential inclinations ara
hannV
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reports favor the ''citizens"-the Bourbon
Democrats-but when the back counties are
heard from the look of things may be differ
emit 1t is not certain that the Danville riot
has not got in its perfect work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07
Good CounciIinen.

indianapolis Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer.
A friend at my elbow suggests that The
good die young. l cannot recall the name
OF a single councilman who has died here III
many year-while in Office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

Voting is public duty. 1t is the safety
Of free government as long as intelligent and
upright men exercise the franchise. If party
is right vote the party ticket if party is
wrong or its candidates unworthy, vote for
what is right and for the candidates who are
worthy
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notes. constituting the greater part of the ele-
CANT quartO, are illustrated by several l1tho-
graphic plates by drawings after Robert Ridg-
way, and will he a welcome addition to the Ii
brary of every working ornithologist, certainly
to the writer, who knew him intimately as
student and rare observer.
One mourns the hard lot of these young men,
Drawing the elements in The interests of science,
Scared, broken in health, or, as with young Nc
Kay, losing life in a needless jump for some bird
or fish-only his gun lying on the ice TO mark the
place of his disappearance into the cold waters of
the Arctic sea. What we know of Alaska and her
people is mainly due TO the naturaists, who.
under government employ, have found time and
opportunity to make research, The best history
OF Alaska and her people yet written is Execu-
tive Document No. 40, on the population and re-
sources of Alaska, by Ivan Petrotf, special agent
of the census. In a letter of eighty octave pages
to the Superintendent of the Census, and which
was ordered published by the Forty sixth Con-
gress, on recommendation by Secretary Schurz,
is a suoclnct account of all that is essential as
to the population industry and resources of
Alaska. 1t is succinct novel and full of interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

NEWSPAPER correspondent who has lately
seen CetewayO reports that the King has recov-
cred from his wounds, but that he is in very
gloomy frame of mind He has no army. and
his adherents number only about sixty men and
women. The correspondent referred to and an
Englisbman, Mr.. Grant, are the only white men
Cetewayo has seen since the battle, or rather
massacre, in which he lost his two favorite
wives and TWO children, and where nearly ali
the Zulu chiefs were killed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

Col. WILL CUMBAcK has time now to devote to
his lectures, and he has invitations from ali
parts of the country. In December he has a
route through Illinois. Iowa, Minnesota and
Wisconsin. In January he has route through
Ohio New York, Pennsylvania, New England,
Virginia and North Carolina. He goes to Ober-
lin, o.; Syracuse, Utica, Middleton, N Y; Paw
tucket and Newport, r. l.. Middetown. Conn.,.
Petersburg and Norfolk. Va, and Raleigh N. c.,
and many other points will be added.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

THE latest cost of the Brooklyn bridge il
500, 0O0 900, or about twice that of the capito
at Washington.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

THERE was also an election in the Fourth
ward of the city of Indianapolis yesterday.
A tie vote in October turns into Repub-
lican majority of 191 in November.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

In our dense Western ignorance Of metropoli-
tan affairs we do not know whether Lady Man
deville keeps glove and hosiery shop or not,
but at all events she has lost some glOves-all
the New York papers say so, and are distressed
about it, Thirteen dozen pairs of gloves belong
ing to Lady Vaudeville have disappeared, but
whether they are eight-button kid or No. 8 cot
ton we are unable to decide by preponderance of
reportorial testimony. If the latter, somebody
must have borrowed them to fit out a funeral
procession.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

THE Republican party is waking up like a
giant refreshed with new wine.
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TO the Editor OF the Indianapolis JOURNAL:
Please answer VINO would be President should
President Arthur be killed. q. NJ CAwAD.
WAVELAND, Ind.
Senator George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, pres
ident pro TEN. of the Senate.
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THE Louisville papers are arguing for con-
duit for the accommodation of telegraph wires.
The company conduit, but refuses on account Of
the expense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

THE Democratic rooster has lost its tail
feathers this morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

Mr.. W. G. WARNoCK, of New York city, is a
very hard man to please About to sail from
England recently, he was in such poor health
that he thought a coffin would be good thing to
have along So he bought one that he thought
would fit him, and had it put on board, ready for
use. 1t is not stated whether he utilized it as
berth, but the probability is that he did not
Instead of dying, Mr. Warnock got much better.
and when he reached New York he felt that lie
was coffin ahead. He probably began to spec
ulate on the possibility of changing it into
medicine-ehest or cabinet for articles of vertu,
when his dreams were rudely shattered by the
custom-house officials, who bucked onto
the easket and demanded duties. Warnock
demurred, though on what ground is not made
plain. 1t can scarcely be entered as wearing
apparel nor tools of his profession, since he
has neither worn it, nor has any intention of
doing SO, nor can he use it in the prosecution of
any trade. 1t will be money in his pocket to
pay the duty and keep it handy. If he doesn't
find use for it himself, he might rattle it off, or
make somebody handsome Christmas present
II is to be hoped that the importation of caskets
will not become popular among tourists from
furrln' parts.
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distance of twelve feet, receiving injuries for
which she now institutes damage suit against
the company to large amount.
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RAILWAY companies do trespass on individual
rights sometimes in a reprehensible manner, but
if they are 10 be held responsible for their pas
sengers' lack of sense they may as well tear up
their tracks, A train on the Union Pacific road
happening to stop some distance outside of Den
yer, woman, who thought the depot had been
reached, got off and had TO ''count the ties" into
town. On the way she fell through a bridge, a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

DIR. LOvETT, of Erie, Pa, has set up an opposi-
ton to Kelly in the matter of secrets. Lovetts
secret has nothing to do with motors or locomo-
ton of any sort-far from it. He says he has
discovered process whereby mans body may
be preserved in perfect form after his soul has
been marching on for a thousand years or more.
Some Erie capitalists have formed stock COM
pany for the purpose of applying the secret for
the preservation OF the dead in every city in the
United States. The capital stock is fixed at
S250,OO0. But one man of the company is to be
intrusted with the secret in Theoretically
sealed casket. This member is to be placed I'M
der 100000 bonds to preserve the casket in
tact. He is TO be elected by the stockholders,
and is only TO open the box and read the secret
for the benefit of the stockholders in the event
of DIR. Lovett dying suddenly without making
provisions for carrying on the business of the
corporation. Any one who wishes either to buy
stock make arrangements for having himself
embalmed call at the Doctors office, where
a sample is kept on hand. The Doctor only dis
covered the secret little over year ago, and
consequently can exhibit no very aged ere
MAINS" but this is a matter that will mend with
time. The corpse now on exhbition-zhas been
preserved for a year, and is described by the adj
miring public "beautiful."
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Our flag is still there.
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THE president of Middlebury College, Yer
mont, has inaugurated a new thing in connec-
ton with the college boarding hail. He has
put in pair of scales, and will weigh the board
ers at the beginning and end of each term-"be-
will be kept, so that the nutritive value Of the
various foods shall be established. If he makes
out his board bills on such basis it may reveal
curious paradox In some instances, and the ex-
perimentng president will find himself debtor
to some of the students at the end of the term.
Suppose very thin consOmme is made the usual
drink with baked beans as the piece de resistance.
Or suppose that the time-honored dish called
hash is served with scrupulOus regularity.
great number would soon be-
come tired of the monotony, and would
pie and macaroons. The scales would show
perceptible diminution in the average weight
Would this prove that pie and macaroons were
more nourishing and altogether more filling than
the palmer dishes2 And would not the plan
impel the boys to play it on the old man in the
manner so obvious2 Suppose they should strike
hands to "bear" hash and TO "bulP pie, would
not the scales complete the conspiracy9 1t is
not risking much to say that the scale plan will
fail; and friends of the president should prevail
upon him to devise some other scheme. TheO-
rlsts are apt TO take hold of whatever seems
plausible, only to realize in bankruptcy what
was but plain enough TO men who make a study
of these things. 1t would be the easiest thing In
the world for students so disposed to realize
from $500 to 1913 per year on this thing.
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TURN the rascals out.
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THE following poem, with local application
and name, we find in the last number Of Tag
CARTS Philadelphia Sunday Times, written by G.