The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-10

two or three times in an evening TO carry scraps of
fresh news or to furnish any new arguments which
had occurred to his ever active mind.
THE late General James Kennedy Moorhead Of
Pittsburg, was popularity called o. Slackwater." on
account of the energy andabfity with which he planned
and constructed the great system Of dams, locks. etc,
on the Monougahela river. After his retirement from
public life in 1868 he devoted his time to f~urthering
various charitable undertakings.
IN a recent speech at Calcutta, Prof. Monier Will
Jams pointed out that some of the Inscriptions at the
Exhibition there were liable to be misunderstood, as,
for instance. that under an image of Bali. This god
is accounted The prince of darkness. the despot of the
Internal regions, and the Indian cataloguer has named
him ''The King of the Netherlands"
GENERAL GRANT appears to be subject to fractures
of limbs. He fell, or rather was thrown, from a horse
in New Orleans, during the summer of 1868, and
went about Nashville and Chattanooga on crutches
during the whole of September and the most of No
vember of that year. An orderly carried his crutches
the memorable days of the battle of Chattanooga.
THERE is a good old fairy story of a girl who re-
ceived from the good people the marvellous property
OF dropping pearls and diamonds from her lips when
ever she spoke. This fairy gift has found a rival in a
present to the Pope of a fish, made of solid gold,
studded with rubies, which, whenever it opens it's
mouth, pours coins of virgin gold into the hands Of
its fortunate owner, but fortunately it has not the
gift of durability, and the Pope must be sparing Of
his tests.
WHEN Julius Benedict came to New York in 1850
with Jenny Lind, he was in the prime of life, just
~forty-six. He is eighty now, and poor. He is poor old
Sir julius, for he was knighted, not baroneted, in
1871, and his friends are getting up a benefit for him
which is to be a testimonial fund. Lord This and
That with many wellknown commoners are subscrib-
ing sums ranging from $40 to 600, and the old
mans few remaining years will be smoothed and soft
ened for him.
A GOOD deal of surprise has been caused by the an
nouncement that Queen Victoria's drawing-room, fixed
for March 13, has been postponed till the next day.
The Queen was intensely annoyed that, owing to tho
carelessness of those whose business it is to remem-
Der all such matters, she suffered aAdrawingroom to
be fixed for the anniversary of the assassination Of
the late Gar. an inadvertence which is regarded by
court and diplomatic people ESPECIALLY in Germany
as a betise of the grossest character.
THE fact that Mr.. John Morley once wrote a book
in which he spelled God throughout with a small g is
literally true, and it moreover cost him his nomination
for Parliament at Nottingham in 1880. But it is due
to Mr.. Morley to give his explanation of the matter, as
it appears in a letter to a friend of his, which is here
for the first time made public. LAS to the popularity, "
says Mr.. Morley, of the PRINTING! of the name to which
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my books L did adopt it. I did so for reasons of a
speculative kind, which 1 need not now explain. But
what happened l soon found that [ had thus hurt
the religious sentiment of good men and women, and
as this is the last thing that 1 have ever desired to go
out of my way to do, 1 took the first opportunity of
correcting my error of judgment. In the second edi-
ton of the book the popularity in question was re.
moved"
MEXICO has no political conventions. The newspa-
pers do the nominating. The papers begin a dis
cussion of candidates about a year previous to the
presidential election. Next they "postulate' or NOM
mate certain candidates. At the head of the paper
will appear, 1--WE ~postulate" so and so, naming the
journals choice. Then, on election day, the voters
assemble at the polling places, and each deposits a
written ballot for electors, who are to constitute the
electoral board of the State. The law stipulates that
the ballot must be written, and a table, with paper
and writing utensils, is provided beside the b~allot-box,
and the ballot must be written and Immediately de-
posted under the inspection of the supervisor. Some
times the voters of the different parties will meet
few hours previous and agree upon some candidate,
but usually each voter has made a choice of candidates
without any pressure from party machinery.