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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13
BETTER thnn Revolution.


Mr. P. j. Sheridan, the Irish revolutionist, is
about to remove to southern Colorado, and there,
upon tract of %, 900 acres, he intends to form
an Irish colony. A stock company is to be formed
to promote the colonization of the Irish people
on an extended scale 1t is good news
that Mr. Sheridan is going out to Colorado He
needed q change of air Now, let him get all
the Irish landlords to colonize with him in Col
orado, and show them the way in which a land
lord should act ireland will thus be delivered
from Mr. Sheridan and the Landlords, and Col
orado-well, Colorado is big, and can take care
of herself
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xviscoDsin Observation-Disclosures.

MILWAUKEE, May f12-The Anti-monopo-
lists of Wisconsin, elected seventeen delegates to
the national convention of their party in Chicago
on May II, and adopted resolution to the effect
that all monopolies, whether of land organs of
labor, or means of communication or transport
ation be abolished and the control placed in the
hands of the people, and that all public officers
as far as practicable be elected directly by the
npnDle
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Indiana Pharmacists.
Il TO the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, May 12.-The third annual
meeting of the Indiana Pharmaceutical Associa-
ton viii convene in this city tomorrow fore
noon. Some of the most prominent members of
the profession from all parts of the State are al
ready here. and many more will come to-mor-
row morning. The display of pharmaceutical
exhibits is very large and complete. The asso
CATION will be in session three days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13
THE SIEGE OF KHARTOUM.
Rumor that Gordon Has Made FruitIess
Attempt to Leave the City.

Attempt to Leave the City.
LoNDoN, May l2-Rumors have reached Cairo
that General Gordon left Khartoum, recently.
and returned in three days, finding escape impos-
sihle
The Mudir of Dongola telegraphs that the
situation is alarming The inhabitants are in a
panic and there are only four companies OF
Egyptian regulars and 200 BASH -bazouks in the
city. The wires beyond Korosko have been cut.
No more fugitives will be able to cross the
desert.
The report that Lord Wolseley would com
mand the expedition for the relief of Khartoum
is denied. Gen. Graham will command.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13
The Murder of j. p. Matthews.

HAzLEHURsr. May 12- in the Wheeler trial
to-day. Joseph Purser testified that he
is related to Wheeler by marriage. He
wrote a note warning Matthews not
to leave his house on election day Joe Scott,
for the defense said he heard Matthews say, in
the presence of others eight or ten days before
the election that if he lived to- vote he intended
to kill Wheeler. He added, Robert Scott my
SON. carried a gun to Wheeler"
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A BishoD Deposed.

New YORK, May l2-The Conference of At
rican Zion NJ Z. Church continued to-day the
trial of Bishop w. H. Hillary for unpastoral
behavior The Bishop handed in his resignation
and its reception, after two days had been spent
in the trial was objected to. BY vote the res
ignation was laid on the table, and a resolution
adopted to have the Bishop deposed from his
episcopal Office, and the trial of his character re-
ferred to the General Conference.
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ALyncLinr In Prospeot.

Fort WAYNE. May 13.-L45 A M-Throe
hundred masked men are reported at
the fair grounds, awaiting the arrival
of more of their number by train, when it is sup
posed they will proceedto lynch the murderers
Bockestoe at Berne Adams county.
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Citizens of Jacksonville are in high gee be-
cause of secret advices from Washington convey
ing the assurance that their $50, 900 levee will be
built.
Wesley Stevens, burglar, known as '1Iong
Hungry has beer given a two -years sentence
and is disfranchised for four years for job at
Dublin.
Hon. c. L. Jewett, Of New Albany. has been
elected by the Joint session Of the three liter
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Miilion-Do1lar Failure in Canada.

TORONTO, May I2-The British Cana
dian LAUNDERING & Timber Company
has assigned to a representative of
Scotch capitalists. The liabilities are placed
at 81, 900, 900; assets trihing. The fail
ure of the American Lumber Company
injured the other company, otherwise the assets
would have been much better Among the cred
itors are the Bank of Commerce, $35O,OOO Tor
onto banks, 100000; Qnebec banks $50, 900, all
na1.tlY secured.
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THE REFORMED CHURCH.
A Derelict SynOd-Discussion on the AdOp-
ton of a New Liturgy.

L1OII lNUfF
BALTIMORE, May l2.-Rev. DIR. Bumbarger
of the committee on district synods, reported
that the synod of Pitts5urg had failed to send to
the General Synod any proceedings of that body
for 1882, though the proceedings in 1882 and
1881 had been sent. He asked the General
Synod to take action.
Rev. Dr. Love, Of Pittsburg, said there was
nothing in the proceedings of the synod in 1852
which had any reference to the General Synod
On motion Of DR. Gerhart, the synod Of Pitts
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Singular Fact About Larceny.

New York World.
There is singular factconnected with larceny.
The man who steals because he is starving or be-
cause his children ara crying for bread is always
in his senses. The man who steals to crafty
his svices or to indu &c in stock gambling is in
varibly out of his senses
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svmnatby for General CraDt.

LoSboS May 12.-The Times alludes to the
great sympathy for Genera Grant in his recent
financial reverses. and says this feeling of sym
pathy will extend far beyond the immediate cir
Gle of General Grants friends, and even beyond
his Own countrymcn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13

PHILADELPHIA, May 12-The committee
on episcopaoy, of the Methodist Episco-
pal conference, by vote of yeas a.
nays 81. has agreed to recommend to the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
the election on Thursday next Of five bishops.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13
Free TRANSPORTATION for Grain.

MONTREAL, May y -There a number of
steamships in port, but there are grain freights
offering, aud steamship owners Offering
to carry grain free of charge as ballast. The
government will be asked to abolish the tolls on
the canals. Shippers are alarmed about the
situation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13
Oklahoma Boomors in Custody.

WICHITA, Kan, May l2-Unted States Mar
shal Williams and Captain Murray Myers, have
arrived here from Indian Territory. They have
in custody thirty additional Oklahoma boomers
arrested ut Fort Reno. These men will be ar
rasued before J. T. SAcarmau, commissioner Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13
Prohibition of Dynamite Murders.

LoNDoN, May 12.-James Stephens, the
former Fenian leader at the conclusion of the
forthcoming conference at Paris, Will issue a
manifesto prohibiting dynamite murders.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13

DURHAM, South Africa, May I2-Usutus at
tackled the Norwegian mission at Inhalabarki on
the 4th inst. Three persons were killed.
Though the missionaries spared the marauders.
they returned at night and killed all the Chris
tians thew could find
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13
Men of Weight.

Conference Report.
Speaking Of the West calls attention to the
fact that from this region come some very great
men. both mentally and physically. Several OF
the delegates touch the beam at nearly three
hundred pounds avoirdupois and Nebraska
sends one whose height is six feet seven inches
lie is looked up TO by the other delegates.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13
Steamship News,

LONDON. May 12-The steamer Celtic
at Liverpool reports that she spoke
in latitude 50 degrees, longitude 30 degrees,
the steamer, Brooklyn City Gem New York for
being disabled. The Brooklyn City reported all
we'll
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Varying Views as to Values.

DUBLIN, May l2.-At a meeting of Nationlsts
at Waterford, yesterday, Da'itt argued that five
years rent was the utmost that tenants should
he required TO pay for purchase of their holdings
Healy cOntended that one years rent was suff-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13
BurnettIs Cocoalne.

THE BEST OF ALL HAIR DRESSINGS.
It allays irritation, removes all tendency to
dandruff and invigorates the action of the capil-
laries iii the highest degree, thus promoting
vigorous and health growth of the hair, Its eff
feet upon the glossiness and richness of the hair
is such as can not be surpassed
R1rRNET1fs FIAvoRINe3 EXTRACTS are the best
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neat set of hangings intended for a bed room
in a Newport cottage is lined with shel-pink
silesia. darned work being set between insertion
an inch wide on olive macreme.
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1t still takes more than two hours to transfer
a few bags of mail from one depot to another in
Chicago A civil service reform cyclone is need
ed in the postofiee department
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the United States District Court IN this city.
These officers had also in custody the white man
who recently murdered the Indian chief Running
Buffalo.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENcAsf1.E. May 12.-George w Corwin
has failed. Liabilities $50, 900; assets about the
same.
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Poiannod Ghease

Cleans out all rats, mice reaches water bugs
bed bugs, ants verinin 1jc. Druggists Brown
ing j. Sloan, agents,
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Charles OConor at the Point of Death.
Boston. May 12.-Charles O'Conor is not ex-
pected to live more than day or two at mostI
Since Tuesday last he has taken no noursh-
ment, save sparing quantities of iced water
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-13
-Four Buildings Burned.

NEW ORLEANS. May I2.-Four buildings in
Magazine street burned today Loss, go, 0O0
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TEST YOUR BAKING POWDER TODAY!
Brands advertised as absolutely pure
CONTAIN AEENGoNTA-

Place can top down hot stove until heated, then
the and smell. A chemist will not be
quired to detect the presence of ammonia.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-01-04
WHAT THE DIVER SEES.

The first sensation in descending un 'or
water i'll suit of armor is the sudden
bursting roar in the ears, caused By the
air driven into the helmet from the Il T..
pump. The flexible air hose has to be
strong enough to bear pressure Of
twenty-five to fifty pounds to the square
inch. The drum of the ear yields to the
strong external pressure, the mouth opens
involuntarily, the air rushes into the
tube and strikes the drum, which strikes
back to its normal state with n sharp,
pistol-like crack. Peering through the
google eyes of glass in his helmet, the
diver sees the strange beauties about him
clearly, and i'll their own calm splendor.
Above him is q pure golden canopy.
while around him and beside him are
tints and shimmering hues, including all
colors, which are indescriblbly elegant.
The floor of the sea rises like golden
carpet, inclining gently to the surfuce
The change of familiar objects are Won
derful. The wreck of ship seems stud
ded with emeralds, glittering in lines of
gold ; piles of brick assume the appear
ance of crystal a ladder becomes silver,
every shadow gives the impression Of
bottomless depth.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-01-04
INCOMES OF GERMAN POETS.

Wieland had reached the middle point
Of long life before he received the ap-
pointment which made his fortune. He
had the honor of being chosen by the
Dowager Duchess Amalia to be the tutor
of the young Duke, then in his fifteenth
year. During the few years in which he
held this post he received the salary now
attainable by well qualified assistant
master in an English board d-school-about
ESQ year. And after his work had been
accomplished he was secured by pension
OF about e23 against bringing discredit
on his honors by destitution. But let us
not judge the microscopic glories of last
century's German courts by the standard
OF contemporary Belgravia Ninety
pounds was, if not affluence, at any rate
a handsome competency in the Weimar
of Karl August Schiller declared that
on an income equal to ECO family might
be maintained in responsibility and COM
fort. Poetic finance is not usually trust
worthy; but when we learn that for q
wage OF 1ss. quarter, in addition to
board and lodging, a servant might be
hired capable of doing secretary's work,
we may believe it more than possible that
Schiller's estimate was reality of sober
prose. At all events, when Wieland re-
ceived disappointment at theage of thirty
nine, he felt it quite god-send; and the
comfort it brought him, together with the
congenial society it gave him, did much,
no doubt, to prolong his life to eighty
years
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-01-04
THE ALASKAN VOLCANO.

A gentleman who is greatly interested
in science, and who has given considerable
attention to the subject of atmospheric
phenomena, states that the recent peculiar
sunsets are, without much doubt, due to
the late volcanic eruption in Alaska
Ashes from that eruption have been car
ried all over Japan and beyond, and SIM
liar coloring of the skies has been observed
there. During the eruption in Java sim
liar coloring was exhibited in different
parts of the world and as far east as Pan
anna. The beauty of many of the italian
sunsets are held to be due to ashes from
the desert. Our own sunsets, therefore,
are supposed to have been caused by the
particles of ashes coming from the Alaskan
volcano. These are carried in the upper
currents of the air, and form, as it were,
canopy. In the ordinary position the
sunlight passes through this stratum with
out producing visible effect but when
the light is below the stratum, as at sun
rise or sunset and the rays strike the
under surface of the ash-laden current,
the solid particles form an extended re-
fiecting surface, The sunlight is thus
thrown back upon the earth, and causes
the beautiful sunsets which have been so
much admired.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-01-04
r.N RESOURCES or MEXICO.

4 moc,ing wns held at Chickering Hall
rnccnily, at which Mr. Alfred r. Conk-
liry read paper on Mexico Her Phys
icll Geography and Resources" Having
had occasion 20 visit Mexico on business
during the early part of the current year,
the lecturer made very extensive tour
throughout the country devoting especial
attention to the mines The area of Mex
leo is 100000 square miles, or sixteen
times the size of the State of New York.
A prolongation of the Andes of South
America traverses the republic, and bears
the name of the Sierra Mndre. Four
peaks having unpronouncable Aztec
names, rise above $1,000 feet, and are
covered with eternal snow They 70.
the highest land in North America. The
lecturer described his ascent of the great
volcano of Popocatepelt, the lgfticat peak
IN The country. Owing to the ambition of
Coriez to de ,lop the mineral wealth of
How Spa vriculure did not receive
any GO llAr a. share of attention from
the Spauards. So brilliant has been
Moxicos record in the production of the
precious metals, that the public seems to
have underestimated, il not entirely over
looked, the vast vegetable resources of
that country In the low country bananas,
oranges, and many other fruits are easily
cultivated. Several of them thrive with
out tillage. Mexico ia capable of grow
ing sufficient coffee for the entire consump-
tion of the United States, which amounted
to 455,000,00 pounds in 1882 Sugar,
tobacco, cotton, vanilla, and cocoa are
also raised in large quantities.
Two crops OF wheat aud corn are grown
in many portions of the republic, and in
some States three crops of Indian corn are
cultivated in single year One-half of
the existing stock of silver in the entire
world has been extracted from Mexican
mines. Besides silver, iron, copper, lead,
tin, and other ores are siundant Petro-
lcum occurs extensively near the sea coast
The northern table-land is well adapted
to stock-raising. The natives are good
herdsmen, and the midness of the Winter
is favorable to cattle. The lecturer closed
his remarks by an elaborate description
of the new lines of railway, which, when
completed, will reach total of about
$4,000 miles. A series of stereopticon
views were then shown.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-01-04
THE AGE or OYSTERS.

The natural term of the oysters life is
not known, but there in reason to believe
that it may extend to twenty years or
moro. An excellent authority, Professor
Mobius, IL of opinion that most of the
adult Schleswig oysters are from seven TO
ton years old, and that, though oysters
over twenty years of age are rare he hai
met with occasional specimens which had
attained between twenty five and thirty
gears.
Oysters breed long before they are full
grown, very probably in the first year of
their age certainly in the second. Their
productivity appears to reach its maximum
at five or six years, and afterwards to de-
cline but much further observation ia
needed before any definite rules can be
laid down on this subject.
1 suppose that when the sapid and slip
perry morsel-which ia and is gone lii e n
flash of gustatory Summer lightning
glides along the palate, few people iina,y-
nc that they are swallowing a piece of
machinery (and going machinery, tool
greatly more complicated than q watch.
But so it is; the oyster possesses repre-
sentatives of all the most important organs
of the higher animals, and is endowed
with corresponding functions The "loves
of the oyster may be mythical, and we
may even be sceptical as to its parental
tenderness but no parent can take greater
care of its young. And though the oys-
ter seems the type of dull animal veg
citation in its adult condition, it passes
through vagabond, if not a stormy
youth, between the time in which it is
sheltered by the parental roof and that in
which it "ranges itself rs grave and
sedentary member of the oyster COM
munity.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-01-04
THE COLOR OF WATER.

Two theories are advanced to explain
the blue color of water when seen in large
masses, one, held by Professor Tyndall,
being that small solid particles suspended
in the water do not reflect the lower or
red rays of the spectrum. According to
the other theory, the color is due to the
absorbent action of the water itself on
the white light before and after reflection
by these parti.'i,,. The results of exper-
iments made by Mr.. John Aitkin, and
presented to the Royal Society, England,
show that the latter theory is probably
the more correct one. The greater the
number of white rejecting particles the
greener the water appears to be, and
hence the gradual deepening Of the green
to blue as the shore is left. The waters
Of Lake Como owe their darkness to the
absence Of rejecting particles, as Mr..
Aitken ingeniously proved by scattering
finely divided chalk in the centre of that
lake, thereby producing very brilliant
blue. The brilliancy depends on the
color of the particles, and is greatest with
white particles. Among coral reefs,
which are enorally strewn with white
sand, the water also takes very bril-
liant blue or green, The dull tinge
of English river waters is due to the
dingy character of the suspended silt /;
but springs have often bright color,
owing to the whiteness of the chalk sus
pended in them. r.
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NOvEL-READING MADE oDIoUs.

A bitter wag made angry by the ever
increasing output of novels, has devised q
new and malignant antidote for the appe-
tite for romance He declares that he
will write supplement to every modern
love story, to be sold at half price, setting
forth the matrimonial adventures and ex-
periences of the hero and heroine. The
sweet and pathetic maiden with the mild
blue eyes and the golden hair is to be de-
veloped into the fat and ruddy shrew with
tendency to quarrel with her husband
and row her servants. The gallant gen.
tleman with the long mustache and the
silver voice is, ON his part, to beruthlessly
pictured marching up and down his bed
room in airy attire, with squalling baby
in his arms, redolent of sour milk and
catnip. The will of the rich old uncle,
which brings wealth and happiness at the
end of the first volume, will be proved a
forgery in the second What with the
upsetting of every pretty conventionality
and the disclosure of the inevitable condi-
tions into which no well-bred novelist
ever follows his characters, this cynic
hopes to make novel-reading nauseous
and novel writing as Improbable as it ia
o lark industry.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-01-04

COMPANIONABLE PEOPLE.

In every society we find that the peo-
pie who are called companionable are
those who have a knack of making light
of their tribulations and vexations, and q
habit of putting them out of sight; who
do not entertain their acquaintance with
the recital of bad baking, leaky pipe,
the children's measles, the shortcomings
of the servants who know how to keep
their melancholy, if they have any, out
of the conversation whose nerves do
not furnish them with material for q
morning call who are not always on the
outlook for a draught, or a change of
weather, or slight; who do not lament
their poverty aloud, and make us feel re-
sponsible for it and uncomfortablea amidst
cur plenty. The companionable people
never seek to make us dissatisfied with
ourselves or our belongings they talk
about the thin ',N like to hear and are
silent upon the subjects on which We
disagree they do not differ from us for
the sake of differing, and do not an
nouuce their opinions as if there We're no
appeal therefrom.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-01-04
METALIZATION OF WOOD.

This process, which has lately been in.
vented in France, consists in soaking the
wood in caustic alkali for two or three
days at a temperature of from 1877 degrees
to 1914 degrees Fahrenheit At the expira-
ton of this time the wood is placed in
another bath, of hydro-sulphate of calcium,
to which is added, after twenty -foui
hours, a concentrated solution of sulphur.
In forty-eight hours the wood is immersed
IL third bath, Of acetate of lead, at 8
temperature of from 05 degrees to 1879 de,
grees Fahrenheit for thirty to fifty hours
When it is quite dry, it is capable of re
ceiving a wonderful polish, and looks like
metal mirror. Wood treated in this
way is practically indestructible and never
decays with damp