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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13
THE DEAF AND DUMB.
Some Facts About the Recent Changes Made
Among Its Officers by the Board
of Trustees

Recent and prospective changes in the work
ing force of the Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb will place that State charity even in a
more deporable condition, so far as the welfare
OF the unfortunates who are dependent upon 1t
for instruction and care is concerned, than the
Blind Asylum. OF the thirteen recently-dis-
charged employees all were familiar with the sign
language, and had no difficulty in conversing
WITH the pupils These are renlaoed bv a new
patch, only four of w.,om ran use the sign Ian.
gnage at all. C,ar,es Rowland. tia steward.
~ .scnarge will take effect Oct. l, has been
q. rne institution for twelve years, and is thor
oushy proficient in the sign language. His
duties are divided, and two men will hereafter
be required to do what he did. One of these is
Richard o. johnson, who will figure as a book
keeper and the other is named Hough, who
will be called steward, nei5ner of whom Will be
able to communicate with the mutes,
as they are absolutely ignorant
Of their mode of expression. DR..
Glenn, the superintendent, after five years
service is hardly beyond the alphabet, and it i5
with the greatest difficulty that he can commu-
nicate with the pupils. With the old employees
replaced by persons unable to repair the super
intendents deficiencies or to aid him in any
way, the crippled condition OF the institution is
evident. gentleman familiar with affairs there
says that for some time all the employ ments
there have been lnefficienty managed, and with
the recent changes it is altogether probable that
things will go from bad to worse and the institu-
ton will run down hill at hand gallop. The
reporter talked to DR.. j. NJ. Kitchen yesterday,
who said, 81 was connected with the Deaf and
Dumb Institution for twenty years as trustee
and physician. could not express myself to
the pupils there or understand them except
through an interpreter, and appreciated then
as do now the necessity Of
having superintendent. matron
and attendants familiar with the sign language
An officer who has learned it is invaluable, and
certainly should not be removed except for
cause. There should be less politics in that in
stitution than in any of the State charities No
political whim or question of expediency, moth
ing but the fitness of officer emplOye should
be taken into account. Imagine French school
where the principal can not speak French
that's DR.. Glenn's position. 1t is sufficiently
ridiculous, without taking into account his more
complete isolation under what is now said to be
true of the institution, where none, or but few,
of his assistants are Detter able to communicate
with the teachers and pupils than he is"
1t is said that eminent philolOgist AID politi
clan, Mr.. Ferriter, is to take charge of the furn
ture shop. Young ravens must have food.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13
THE STATES VOTERS.
The Increase of White and Colored Voters
Since the Enumeration of 1877.

The statistics gathered by the Auditor of State,
in compliance with the law requiring emu
meration of the voting population every six
years, to be used as basis for the redistricting
of the State, shows that there has been an in
crease since 1877 of AZ, 6O7 voters in Indiana,
and that the voting population now numbers
499, 1923, of whom 1O,298 are colored men. The
increase of white voters during the six years ag-
gregates 46,565, which is at the rate of over 10
per cent. The increase in the number of colored
voters during the same period has been 2,O42,
about rs per cent. The following is a COM
parative statement of the enumeration in 1877,
and of the one just completed by the Auditor,
given by congressional districts:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13
Sweet Girls from Texas.

party Of thirty-seyen young ladies, of inter-
estlng ages passed through the city last even
ing, over the Vandalia and j., NJ. & I. lines, On
route from their homes along the line of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas road, TO Columbia, Tenn,
where they will enter the female seminary.
They spent two hours at the depot and their
car was surrounded by small army of Indianap-
oils young men, who went mashed on the Texan
bellies, among them being the railroad reporter
of the Journal. If such parties could be guar
anteed as everyday attractions at the depot, the
places of amusement in the city would stand no
show whatever for custom
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13
DIR. Parvin's Removal.

DR.. Theophilus Parvin, who has lived in this
city over quarter of century as a medical
practitioner left last evening, accompanied by
his family, for Philadelphia. whittier he goes to
take the chair of obstetrics and diseases of
women in the Jefferson Medical College, the
most eminent institution of medical learning In
the United States DIR. Parvin has long stood at
the head of his profession, and is not only known
all over this country, but in Europe, as writer
and authority on the subjects he has gone to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13
Mr., Patterson's Dose.

The jury in the case of Charles H. Patterson,
who has been on trialin the Criminal Court for
shooting Dave Pearson, at the Occidental Hotel,
last spring, after being out two hours returned
verdict of guilty and sentenced the prisoner
TO six months Imprisonment in the county Jail
and a fine of 81 900. 1t will take him nearly
three years to "board OUT this fine, if it is not
paid. II is understood that nine of the jurors
favored two years in the pententiary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13
The Condition of the County Iail.

The following order was made by Judge Nor
ton, of the Criminal Court, yesterday:
at is ordered by the court that the clerk of the
court transmit without delay TO the board of
county commissioners, certified copy, under the
seal of the court of that part of the report of the
grand jury wherein the condition of the Jail of
Marion county is mentioned and commented
upon by said jury"
The county commissioners say that this is the
first intimation they have had from the grand
jury that the Jail is not in good crndition. and
that the matter will be promptly attended to.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13

Philadelphia to teach. The chair that he takes
Is highly important one, and has been filled
by number of the greatest medical lights in
the United States, among whom the most recent
are DR.. Charles D. Meigs and DIR. E. Wallace
The position gives between $1,000 and So 900
year in fees. besides leaving its occupant suffi-
Client leisure to attend to a private practice
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13
indianapolis Presbxtery.

The Indianapolis Presbytery met yesterday at
Greenwood, the opening sermon being preached
by Rev. W. A. Patten from Acts xviii, 6, "And
when they opposed themselves and blasphemed,
He shook His raiment and said, Your blood be
upon your own heads. am clean.'" Rev. G. c.
HerriotT was chosen moderator and John G.
Blake and William A. Patten temporary clerks.
An unusually large number of ministers are in
attendance, and an interesting programme has
beer arranged
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13
Another Suit Against wachstetter

Chas. H. Daley, of Whitestown, Boone county,
$4,000 damages. He claims that he was drug
ged in Wachstetter's place by poisoned wine,
and has since suffered great bodily pain and in
convenience. This is the outgrowJh of the pro-
ceedngs recently instituted against Wachstetuer
by Daley for attempted robbery, there being no
conviction at that time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13
In a Deplorable Condition.

A. commission consisting of Drs, Barnes and
Bryan, and Justices Feibleman and Thompson
have adjudged Mary A. Barnes to be insane.
She is both blind and deaf, and has been SO for
years. Within the past two weeks she has be-
come very dangerous, biting and scratching
people with whom she came in contact and
being violent in various other ways. Her unfor-
tunate condition is the result of brain disease
when but year old. She is but fifteen years
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13

The firm of H. A Russell & Co. which propose
TO manufacture agricultural implements, was
Incorporated under State laws yesterday. The
business will be conducted in this city. The
capital stc ok is $4,000, and the directors are
g. H. SPOTS, a. A. Russell. H. A Russell, A. F.
Lidow and r. L. ParroUt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13
A BAD Runaway.

couple of men from ThOrntOwn, while here
yesterday, hired horse and buggy and went
out for ride, and while North Meridian
street. near Fall creek, the horse WAS scared by
a gun fired near by, and turning very short he
upset the buggy throwing the men out into the
ditch, where one OF them said as he picked him.
Halter, or might have been badly damaged.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13

NoBBY hats, all colors, at "Seaton's Hat Store
% North Pennsylvania street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13

A DoGsKIN glove of beautiful texture in the
new tan shades just in at Parkers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13
Fall Hunting.

We are prepared TO show the trade and hunt
ers a very fine selection of Sporting Goods
Breech and Muzzle Loading Shot Guns, single
and double barrel, Ammunition, Equipments,
&c. Call and examine our stock before pur-
chasing. HILDERAND & FVGATE,
80 South Meridian street.
Agents Howe Scale Co,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13

Mesdames PHELPS &
AVER will open their rooms
for the Fall and Winter Sea-
sons on Saturday, September
IS, having been in New York
for several weeks. They vii,
be prepared to furnish the
very latest styles at reasonable
prices.
L. S. AYRES & CO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13

KINe & ELDER have an elegant line of new
chamber suites
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-13

Agents Howe Sea
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-13
Screens.

Among the many beautiful novelties presented
to purchasers in this city for holiday and other
gifts, there is nothing that compares to the ele-
CANT stock of screens, which Joh-- Mataeis
shows at No. II East Third street,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-13

Bacon & Stone, Real Estate agents, have re-
moved to room Davidson block.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-13
EVENING SESSION.

The regular order being called for the
chairman stated that the pending question
was on Frye's resolution, against which
Mr.. Hicks raised point of order, the
grounds being that the proposition had
been in the principal discussion voted on
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27
RgDUcrIoE OF Fes1GHr CHARGES.

The Oakland Times, leading Demo-
cratic paper, has the following to say in
reference to the action of the Railroad
Commissioners in making the recent
marked reduction in charges for carrying of
freight
The Railroad Commission has, by a
unanimous vote, passed Mr.. Carpenters
freight order, and another long and i'm
portant step toward adjustment has there
fore been taken. All parts of the State
have dividend in the benefits secured by
the order, and not the least of the good
things it accomplishes is the harmonizng
of the Board, which presents a united
front. No single act of Railroad Com.
mission in any State has ever been SO full
of important effects as this order. 1t
harmonizes the party, it vindicstes the
Commissions policy of investigation, it
cleanses the Commission of the last taint
of suspicion touching its honor, so freely
impugned by carping critics, and at last
arraigned by many impatient people.
We have not space to present the elab.
crate tabulations which demonstrate the
reductions effected blythe order, but suf.
flee it to say they are startlingly large and
certain to be satisfactory.
The following will show how great they
are upon the green fruits which are now
reaching market. 1t will be seen that
Alameda county gets share of the benefit,
though the old rate here was not regarded
as very oppressive
REDUCTION OF GREEN FRUIT IN CENTS FER 1000
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27
FEES OF OFFICIAL REPORTER.

EDS. RECORD UNION: Since the rendition
of the recent decision by the Suoreme Court
in relation to official reporters of the Superior
Courts, there have been statements pub
lished in relation to the fees received by those
eff GERS which msy have tendency to mis-
lead The maximum amount that is allowed
to be charged by an official reporter is so
for each day when he is actually at work in
Court, and 20 cents for each folio he writes
out. ! have observed a statement in the
papers that in San Francisco some reporters
have made $4,000 a year. If man worked
every day of the year and evenings be could
not come anywheres near making that amount
of money, and little figuring will demon
strste that the statement is absurd. The fol-
lowing is an accurate statement from my
books, showing the compensation | have re-
ceived as fficial reporter of this county for
one year from October l, 1882 Total fees
received for per diem and trsnscribing in civil
cases in Superior Courts, 81 SIG 70; total
fees received for per diem and transCribing in
criminal cases in Superior Courts, SSl6 10.
Total. 81, 6S2 50. During the same period
my cost for necessary help was S507 25
which being deducted leaves 81, 125 60 as the
actual sum received by me. The fees in
civil cases are paid by the parties to the suits,
and only the SS16 10 came from the county.
The decision referred to only affects the fees
in criminal cases. and the point at issue was
whether the Supervisors had the power to cut
those fees down one.half. The Supreme Court
held that the regulation of the fees was COM
mitted exclusively to the Superior Courts.
The figures above do not of course include
any moneys which l have earned by report
ing speeches, Investigations, depositions, and
other matters where the employment was
private and entirely disconnected from my
official duties. W. J. DAVIS,
Official Reporter
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27

in the second, to the failure to destroy or
thoroughly disinfect the excreta of typhoid
patients. Instances are recorded by Dr.
Day of that city, where the evidences
we're indisputable of this fact-as, where
the excreta was left some hours In the
house, and as a result many other members
of the family were taken down with the
fever. So important has this matter been
deemed that the Board of Health of New
York has asked the authorities to give 1t
their attention at once, with view OF pre-
venting neglect of ordinary precautions,
and the chief of which is the instant de-
struction of the excreta of the patient, and
the disnfection of all soiled bedclothing at
once. This is done by plunging it, says
the Sanitarian, into boiling water, or into
disinfecting solutions until such time as it
can be boiled and washed-and the sooner
the better, it adds. But the vice of the
cesspool and filth-pit nuisance, and with
which Sacramento has to deal with vigor
or take the certain consequences, was
never made more strongly apparent than
in this matter of typhoid fever, for the
same authority adds that it is certain now
that the adding of disinfecting mixture
to the coutents of vault, the walls of which
are saturated with filth and hold the seed of
disease in reserve for new recruits, or
propitious season or the pouring of such
mixture into disjointed or broken soil
pipe-are procedures that trife with health
and the lives of the people. 1t would
seem from these facts and statements that
cities will be forced at an early day to
make it an offsnse punishable with ex-
treme severity to deposit disease breeding
matter from fever, cholera and other pa
tients in pits or drains or stagnant ponds.
That this will become a grave necessity is
the opinion of the best sanitarians of the
day. The purifying agents, fire and heat,
or deep burial, must be brought into uee in
all cases where the refuse of the sick-room
is of character to spread the disease.
The right of ga" to be protected from the
neglect of =" B, whose lot adjoins that of
GA" is becoming daily more apparent As
it now is, "B" utterly ignores CAS-" right
to go imprisoned. The hope for sanitary
progress and reform, however, becomes
each day brighter, for men are everywhere
learning by bitter experience, just as they
are now being taught in New York, that
with all our boasted civilization in the
matter of guarding against the spread of
filth diseases, we have absolutely retro
graded, and cannot boast the precautions
which the ancients took, at least in one
and most material direction.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27
CONVICT LABOR.

New York ia to vote on the 9th OF No
vember on the proposition to abolish con-
vict labor in the State Prisons. Unfortu.
nately, the matter has not been discussed
there fully, and the attention of the people
is not called to it so as to awaken any de-
gree of interest in the subject, notwith.
standing its Importance. To keep the State
convicts idle is monstrous proposition,
and partakes of absolute cruelty. The idea
that free labor needs protection against
convict labor rests on false assumptions.
No convict labor ever has, or ever can fully
compete with free labor. To keep convicts
in idleness is to increase the expense of
prison maintenance and consequently to
tax the free working and all other tax.
paying classes to support the idle and
vicious The physical demands of the
convict require that he should be en-
ployed. The contract system is what is
aimed at in New York unquestionably, but
the vote will not SO express it. The effect
of an affirmative ballot on the question in
New York would be broad, and extend to
other States, and hence we desire to see the
proposition defeated.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27
THE RIGHT WAY TO MANAGE.

The New York Post referring to the
nominations by the citizens organizations
there, remarks that it was mistake not to
have consulted with the political commit
tees as to nominations. Their indorsement
of all these movements is desirable. They
represent large and influential bodies of
citizens. The compliment should be paid
them OF asking their Endorsement of the
work of reform. The Post says that ex.
perience has shown, for instance that in
that city the Republican managers are not
likely to receive the work of citizens
organizations with enthusiasm. We in
cline to the same belief. The enforcement
of municipal affairs from politics should be
accomplished. But the political parties are
made up of interested citizens, and the work
of citizens organization is not to sense
lessly antagonize these parties, but
to win their sympathies. All that
is wanted of political pas.ies is
to aid the non-partisan movement in
cities by Endorsement and quiesencs with.
out impairing their organizations in the
State and national political fields. Citi-
zens' organizations do not propose, or
should not propose, to go beyond those
municipal affairs in which politics are nom
essentials. 1t is not political parties rep
resenting principles and politics as to the
government of the State and the nation
that citizens organizations assault, but the
ring bosses and managers who control the
machinery of party to operate it for selfish
and unworthy ends, and make municipal
offices the rewards for their slavish follow.
ers and servants. These men by their
management of municipal affairs bring re-
proach upon party, and drive many good
men from it. 1t needs no reference to
ancient history in this city for instance,
to show how both the Democratic and Re-
publican parties took harm in this neigh
borhood by reason of manipulations,
and WIRE pulling, and log.rolling and pri-
mary stu ino
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27
REDUCTION OF GREEN FRUIT IN CENTS FER 1000

The Examiner of course is not happy.
It attacked this order before it had seen
the demonstrated results of its adoption,
and is determined now to concede nothing
to it. The Times long ago predicted that
soon or late the Examiner and its crowd
would attack Mr.. Foote'S action, and our
prediction is verified in its assault upon
this order, for which MIR. Foote has voted,
of which it says "The order of Mr.. Car
penter only vitalizes this scheme of Chi
canery into lawful pillage. 1t possesses all
the instinct of the footpad, without the
bold effrontery Of the freebooter. Besides,
the whole thing is probably without the
sanction of law. The corporations may
waive their own rights, but neither they
nor the Commission have the power to
waive the rights of the people"
All Of which is the merest mouthing.
1.-The rights of the people" require reduc-
tion of too high rates. The Examiner has
never reduced any rates. All its plans,
theories and professions have miserably
aborted, and it has done what it could to
destroy the usefulness of the Commission.
The Commissioners, in their actions so far,
have more than met all reasonable expecta.
tions and demands of the people expressed
in last falls campaign.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27
DR.. HAMMOND REPLIED TO.

Recently, in the North american Recieeo,
x.Surgeon-General Hammond took the
position that woman is by nature untitled
for entering the intellectual field with man.
and that physically she is handicapped so
as to exclude her from most vocations in
which men may engage. But the point
and pith of his article was, that for these
and other reasons it is not proper that
woman should be admitted to full political
privileges with man. She would not wisely
nor well serve on the bench, nor fairly ad-
judicate between contestants, nor is she
suited for medicine or the law, nor should
she be called on to hold office. At that
time, we felt called upon to take issue with
the distinguished physician, and to speak
very plainly our opinion on the whole ques.
tion of women in politics" In the same
journal in which the doctor made his
assault, there come to the defense of
woman three of her sex, and one of them is
a physician. DR.. Lozier, for instance,
shows that DIR. Hammond's brain measure
ments and comparisons do not prove that
woman's brain is less bulky, or less finely
formed than mans, and certainly estsb.
fishes, what most people believe at this
day. that the size of the brain is no sure
index OF any intellectual quality, except
there is abnormal development or dwarfng.
She shows very conclusively that physi.
oIogy can never decide moral questions nor
political rights. One of the witty defenses
made by this lady is that wherein she
momentarily admits that woman's brain Is
the lesser in size and quality, whereupon
she exclaims that for that reason man
should not represent her because he can
not do SO rightly, not being of her intel
lectual and physical quality she should
therefore be represented in political life
by those Of her own sex, in sympathy
with her own intellectually. That wo.
man is an emotional being she finds to be
no reason for depriving her of political
rights, but rather good ground for admit.
ting her to them, because her nervous TEN.
permanent in counsel with mans slower and
less sensitive disposition will secure to leg
islation better results than are now at