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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-03-03
TIE BALLOON KEEpRR's sroRy.

.uo pa1tJ oonlo Ah' Auout O'CLOCK ne came
down into the saloon and found Cool.
Combs, Dick and Boettner in the second
room back OF the bar.room playinp cards Ia
asked his wife II she had consenied to their
playing and she replied that she had. that
they wanted to play for the drinks, He Maid
no more attention to the party until. SONS
time after 4 O'Clock, when be heard them
fuss!ng or quarreling. He went hack ami
told them to leave the house. The carda
were gone and he could not find them. Cook
and two parties went away at this time. and
Boettner, Dick, Britt and Combs sal down IN
drink beer. About 7 o'clock they asked for
cards to play two games OF euchra for ina
drinks. He told them he had no more cards.
His brother.in.law pulled a deck ont of his
pocket and gave 1t TO them.
THE eUARRxLISa RENEWED.
About 10 minutes after the drinks for the
first game had been served another row took
place. He went in, took the cards. and or.
dered them all to leave. Boettuer followed
Miller to. the bar room and ordered drinks.
Miller replied he would not give him a drink
for q dollar. Dick then came out into the
front,room. Boettner made some remark IN
him Dick and Dick started toward him.
Millerweut from behind the bar, and seeinp
that Boettner had a revolver In his hand
showed Dick to one side aud then put Boeti.
ner out the front door. In showing DIck
away, Dick fell 10 the floor ; did not lee him
rise and 70 ont, but had not gotten behind
the bar before he heard q ahot, and Soma one
said !" Dick iskilled.n Had be known Boat
nsr had & revolver he would have nut him ont
hours before. He heard no qusrreling be-.
tween the men excerpts few words just before
he put them out. THET-GnT-
MI. Miller was the last witness to be ex.
amined, All were put under the!r " reo.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06

The Globe fast-freight line is under another
cloud.
The Baltimore & Ohio road is said to be nego-
tiating for the Harrisburg & Potomac road.
Four of the trunk lines cross some part of
Pennsylvania, and all have entered a protest
upon tine valuation and taxation of their, prop
erty within the boundaries of that State.
The foreign bondhofders of Denver are making
arrangements to push the foreclosure proceed
ings as rapidly as possible, aud President Love
joys resignation will be accepted as soon as his
successor can be decided upon. All interests
will be recognized.
The third survey Of the extension of the Lake
Erie & Western road, from Bloomington to
Peoria, has been completed. 1t is said by those
in position to know that the road will be com
meneed in a short time, and will be built to
Peoria in the spring, probably entering the city
over the p, D.& i.
An impression is abroad that the Commercial
Express is an Erie line. Il is really a Grand
Trunk line, and runs only from Buffalo to New
York over the Erie road, and it has been arranged
for it to continue so to do. There is the best of
authority for saying that H G. Villas. who is
highly esteemed as a freight man by both the
Grand Trunk and Erie people, is to be retained
as general manager.
The statement of the receiver of the New
York a. New England road shows, in brief, that
the company will need 81, 800, 600 Jan. l., 1885,
to meet outstanding obligations. This includes
$3.50, 600 interest on the first mortgage bonds, of
which $3.50. 900 was due in July, 1884, and $l55,
900 second mortgage interest, of which So, 900
was due in August last. Had not the past-due
coupons been bought, and were they not in
friendly hands, the danger of q foreclosure
would seem imminent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
THE CITY IN BRIEF.

The State-house contractors were paid $32,-
3S9, 10 yesterday.
The Shoals Saving aud Loan Association was
incorporated yesterday, The capital stock is
$10e. 600.
The county commissioners yesterday took five
ballots for bridge superintendent, but did not
make a choice.
brought suit against William n. Wolfe on an
overdrat amounting to 81, 250.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday TO
Washington b. Lloyd and Rhoda NJ. johnson,
Frank Baker aud Lena Ritter.
The current expenses of the Blind Asylum
during November were s., 4l6; of the Insane
Hospital, $500 and or the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum, 1888.
A suit has been filed in the federal court by
William A. Brown and others, of New York,
against James T. Ford ct al, of Madison county,
asking judgment for 81, 800.
The commissioners engaged in the recount had
finished all the wards yesterday, and begun on
Center township. They will probably finish
their work about next Tuesday.
Judge Norton yesterday sent William L.
Hill and James Miller, both eOlored, to the
States prison for eighteen months, on the plea
of guilty to the charge of petit larceny.
The will of Richard Carter has been admitted
to probate, bequeathiEg his propertyto his legal
heirs, with the exception of Elisha Ensaly, q
son-inlaw, who is cut off without anything.
Emily J. Power has begun suit against
JesseT. Power and William c. Langdon Power
& Lanedon) to collect s.. 900, the amount of
twelve notes given by the defendants to various
parties.
A. A. Helfer has taken out o permit for the
erection of q $1,000 frame dwelling on Seventh
street. near Tennessee, and James Bogert for a
1000 frame building, at No. 3G4 North Missis
sippi street.
The application of Jacob Crone for a license
to sell liquor at Broad Ripple has been renewed
in the Commissioners Court, and there is a Wig
orous remonstrance Thu case will come up for
hearing to-day.
Martha L. Duffy has applied for a divorce
from Alfred II. Duffy, to whom she was married
in 1859, alleging failure TO provide, cruel treat
ment aud adultery. She AXIS for the custody OF
their three minor children, and $1,000 alimOny.
Clement A. Westhoelter has brought suit for
$1,000 damages against Moritz and Emil Kauf-
man who keep meat market on South Della
ware street, on account of injuries sustained by
the defendants vicious dog on the 18th of No
vember.
Mayhower Church ladies will give a mid
festival on Tuesday evening next. 1t will take
place at their annual forefathers' gathering.
The usual New England supper will be spread.
Some Christmas presents will be offered for sale,
while song and music will be bountifully inter
larded. No charge at the door. All are invited.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
southern Opinion OF Cen. Sherman.

Shreveport tLa) Times.
OF all the men, North or South, who partici-
pated in the war between the States. Rssuredly
William Tecurseh Sherman is, by long odds,
the most brutal, the most egotistical and the
most vile. The miserable hound left his posi-
ton as professor in the Louisiana State Univer-
sity, then located near Alexandria, with honeyed
words of friendship for the Southern people on
his lips, and yet when he rose to the rank of
general, there was no greater brute
in the entire Federal army. How any
man was willing to expose to the world
his own utter heartlessness and
overweening egotism as he did in his memoirs,
we were always at a loss to understand. And
since the war he has never manisted one spark
of magnanimity to Il fallen foe. He never per
mits an opportunity to pass of saying something
mean and lIbelous of the people he did SO much
to injure, The chlmneys of burned dwelling
houses in Georgia remain to this day
of his vandalism. And this swash -buckler has
shown a hatred of eY President Davis worthy Of
a mercenary who hired himself to kill his fellow
man for nay and natural love of atrocity; except,
it may well be doubted if he has the courage of
the character whom we have degraded by a
comparison with him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
THE COURT RECORD.
Superior Court.

Room No. 1-Hon. Napoleon d. Taylor Judge.
John Wocher, jr, OF al. VS.. Luise Twiname;
suit on account. Verdict for $242.26.
William johnson VS.. Maximillina Strausner
ct al; suit for foreclosure. Judgment for ST.,
Ola. so.
Thomas j. Morse VS.. Enos Hege; suit on con
tract and damages. On trial by jury.
George w. Wiseman VS.. Sidney q. Wiseman;
divorce suit. Taken under adSisement.
Room No. 2-Hon. D. W. Howe Judge.
Frederick Rand, receiver, VS.. Lewis Jordan;
suit on note. Judgment for plaintiff for $l26.
John c. New, executor, ETC., VS.. Charles II.
Meet ct al. Finding for foreclosure and for 81. 400.
John G. New, executor, ct al, VS.. John Chill
ers ct al. Judgment against JOIN Childers
for $494. 80, and foreclosure and sale.
Charles Abel VS.. Beer Brewers Association;
suit for benefits. On trial by jury,
Room No. 3-Hon. l.. &. Walker, Judge.
Jno. C. New, executor, VS.. William A Myers
ct al. foreclosure. Judgment for 1851. 30.
Jno. G. New, executor, VS.. Nick Suley; fore
closure. Judgment for 1872. 60.
Byron Hutchinson VS.. John c.. S. Harrison ct
al; suit on account. Judgment for So. $50.
John Johnson VS.. Jesse johnson; suit on note.
On trial bV Jury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
SHERMAN n DAVIS.
The Coming Conflict Between the Genera,
and the EX-Rebel Chief.

ahW tAAC LA SAlC
st. Louis Special.
The Epublication a few days ago of the JEFF
Davis letter, in which e, 0eral Sherman is called
a base slanderers by the former head of the
confederacy, will in short time bring forth an
answer that promises to create a genuine sensa-
ton. The purport of General Sherman's Ian
guage at the house-warlning of the Blair Post,
October %. was that, while actively engaged in
the field, he had seen a letter from jeff Davis to
a Confederate, who is now in the United States
tor limited that a Southern dictator
ship would meet his appreciation. pro
viding, of course, that jeff Davis should
be made dictator. A strong Southern plutocraey
should be the character OF the new government.
and if any of the States resisted, Lees army
should be turned on them. In a subsequent in
terview he said Davis was a eonspirator, not q
secessionist, and ought to have been shot. This
evoked the rancorous letter from Davis, and now
General Sherman is busy looking up the letter.
He captured it during his march to the sea, 50
and with other confseated rebel records, it was
turned over to the War Department. The letter
was addressed to a prominent Southern gen
eral, now a member Of the United States Senate.
The letter was captured before it was
delivered, and all its contents have not
yet been made puOic. An intimate friend of
General Sherman said today; Not only will the
contents Of the letter eorroborate all that General
Sherman said, but will give to the public an out
line of a plot more damnable than anything that
has yetcome to the surface Regarding the Con
federacy. This plot was suspected by the lead
ers in 1861, but the suspicion wac never verified
until the capture of the missive. A special mes
senger has been detailed by the General to look
up the letter in the archives at Washington.
Once obtained, it will be copied and incorporated
in General Shermau's answer to Davis"
How soon will this beF' Only a short time.
Dilisent hands aae now searching for the miss
i've. In case it has been destroyed or stolen by
ex- Cenfederates now about the Capitol, General
Sherman will probably make affidavit incorpo-
rating the language he used. He doesn't intend
to be sat down on in that kind of manner, and
Davis will soon find it out"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
Cost of the switching Service.

The trends of the new scheme for doing the
switching service at this point claim that the
work now done bysixty switching engines can be
done under the new management as promptly
and as satisfactorily with forty switching en-
gines; or, in other words, the service which
now costs 500 per day can be done at 500.
These figures are based upon what it actually
costs the c., H. & l. people per engine per day
to do their switching, and their cost of doing the
work probably will average with other roads.
The c., H. & l has three switching engines in
service. 1t costs per day to operate each engine
as follows: engineer, $2.50 fireman, $l50; crew,
S.. 70; coal, 81; oil and waste, twenty-five
cents; sundries, seventy-fve cents. The ques-
ton hangs on the promptness with which the
work could be done. No doubt there would be a
saving in expense to the companies. The general
impression is, however, that while it may be a
wise move so far as doing the switching service
on the Union tracks and to private switches, TO
undertake to do it, as well, in the several freight
yards would be oVerreaching.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
The Erie Fast-Freight Lines.

So much interest is attached to the movements
regarding the Erie fast-freight lines, so extended
is the territory they cover, that the programme
of President King, as it develops, is watched
closely. His motto is retrenchment. All super
fuous agencies are to be cut off, and, while the
lines will carry the same mark as now, they will
be operated as one line, At points like Chicago,
st. Louis, Pana, indianapolis, and Cincinnati,
one agent and one set of clerks will be expected
to do what two or three have heretofore. Only
where there is competition, in fact, will there be
an independent agency maintained, it being
the idea of President King, the new general
manager says, to operate the lines on the lowest
possible expense that it can be done without i'm
pairing their business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
AFTER DIR. oOLLETTS OFFICE.
Willing Souls Who Aspire to Conduct the At
fairs of the biologists Office.

The Democrats not only want all the offices in
sight now but they all want them, and there
are a half dozen or more candidates for every
available position. Although there are many
persons, both Democrats and Republicans,
who would prefer the adjustment of the Office of
State Geologist to the removal of DIR. Co,lett
from the position, it seems quite likely, Judging
from the "howl of the hungry horde that he
will be forced to retire from the office which he
has filed with such distinguished credit to the
State. During the four years that he has been
State Geologist he has attracted worldwide at
tention to the wonderful resources of Indiana,
and his published reports have taken high rank
among the scientific publications. The work has
been a pride to him and he has privately
spent nearly the whole of his official salary for
public benefit. His removal would be an meal
2ulable loss to the State, for there is probably
no geologist in the West of such widely recog
nized ability. The office of State Geologist has
not been regarded as political, but there are sew
eral who have already announced themselves as
candidates for the position, and among those
who are seeking the appointment are George
X. Greene, who was employed for q time as an
Albany; Prof. E. I. Cox, of New Harmony, and
Maurice Thompson, of Crawfordsville Prof.
Cox was Geologist prior to the appointment Of
DR.. Collett, and doubtless possesses higher quail
i%fications for the position than any Of the others
named. Mr.. Thompson, whose literary work has
attracted wide attention, is not an avowed candi-
date, but his name has been suggested as a pos
sible successor to DIR. Collett, and it is said that
he would accept the position.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
The Canal-Bauk To Be Utilized.

The L., N. A. & G. people are seriously con
sideriag the abandoning of their right-of4way be-
tween Broad Ripple and their junction with the
Wabash track, over which they reach the Unien
tracks, indianapolis, and utilizing the eanal+bank
from Broad Ripple to this city. The terminus
of the L., N. A. & G.. tracks is now three and
one hall miles from Indianapolis. Were they to
use the canal bank they could come over their
own track into the heart of the city and within
three squares of the Union Depot, as they
would como to Ohio street on the canal
bank. One of the directors states
that it will cost a much larger sum to secure the
right of way from their present terminus to the
Union tracks than it would to take I'D the;r
track south from Broad Ripple and relay it ON
The canal bank. TIE matter has gone so far
chat an option on the canal bank has been Sc
cured, and it is stated that should the directors
decide to raise further money for improvements
to the property, which they doubtless will, the
improvement above spoken of will be under
Eahen an the early spring.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
Did Not Pan Out We'll.

competitor of the Baltimore s. Ohio road
entered acomplaint that the Continental line cut
the rate on ten carloads of flour shipped by
Evans & Richardson to Liverpool via Balti-
more, and on this Commissioner Doherty or
dered c. S. Sawyer, general manager of the
continental, onto the green carpet. Mr.. Saw
9rr making his appearance yesterday. Investi
cation showed that the flour was carried at DO
ernts per 100 pounds. The Continental line rot
us fun tariff on the property from indianapolis
to Baltimore, 20 cents per 100 pounds, and the
water carriers got the same amount per 100
pounds, and if there was any cutting done it was
by The water carriers. Mr.. Sawyer backed his
btatement by kilograms Of proper date.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
MIR. BEECHER's HOPES.
A Talk on Moulton-He Wants Prosperity
for the South.

for the South.
New York Special.
When asked if he had anything to say in re
gard to Frank Moulton's death, the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher said: II could say many good
things of Mr.. Moulton, but some things not com
plimen.ary. Then, why say anything3 His
hand was raised against me, but he could not
help it. He was compelled to take the stand,
and he did. The real truth of the conspiracy
against me has never been given to the public.
Mr.. Moulton held many documents that were
not produced, | may tell what l know some
day"
'What do you think of the election and its re-
sultsl' said the reporter.
THE country has been like muddy water
stirred up. Let it alone and it will settle. The
next administration must be one of progress, or
in 1883 a new party viii come into power. | am
not a Democrat, and people won't let me call
myself a Republican, so l suppose l am neither.
| am an evolutionist, and / believe in the TN
folding of great principles and great issues. 1
AN not for the names of parties. / look back
only when doing so helps to steer forward
How do you think Cleveland will act as
President
Il don't know. His past record has been good.
But a man may be a good colonel and not a. good
general 1t is a matter of speculation. l hope
Mr.. Cleveland will give nothing to the independ-
ents. We went in for right, and as soon as the
disinterestednes is taken away down goes our
independence. The principal thing l hope to see
is a revival of business in the South
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06

both have been so unthinking. or blind, or pre-
JUDGED as not to see that the railroad monopoly
that once existed has long since been broken,
while a closer and more extortionate monopoly
in transportation than the railroads ever were,
still exists in the express companies, which con
tinue to charge the public the same rates they
did years ago when they were compelled to pay
the railroads double what they do now for haul
ing freight. While the prices of everything else
have come down an average of one-half in the
last fifteen years, and the rates Of transportation
of ordinary freight three-quarters these express
freight companies have the hardihood to charge
as much as ever and pay their employees less
wages in proportion to the responsibility assumed
than does any other business interest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
A Debt of $4,000 COntracted-COnditiOn of
the Respective Funds.

The regular meeting of the school board was
held last night. The report of the superintend
ent of the public schools indicated an average
daily attendance of lO,389 pupils during Novem-
Der, while during the same month last year the
average attendance was IL ,032. There were 315
aceessions to the school last month, and the
losses, not by transfer, numbered l ,341. There
were thirty-one suspensions for absence, and
sixteen for misconduct, while there were ninety
four cases of corporal punishment The re-
port of the secretary showed expen-
ditures from the special fund to the
amount of $50, $50. 80; from the library
fund. 1870. 81; tuition fund, $13,432. Il, making a
grand tota! of $35, 1880. The committee on
finance and auditing reported the allowance Of
bills since the last meeting Of the board to
the amount of So, $50. %. The treasurer reported
n balance to the credit of the special fund of
$40, 237. 08, to the library fund, $40, 900. 80, and of
an overdraft of SAG, 463 SO; on the tuition fund
there was a balance of $685.. 80. The librarian
reported a circulation of 1871 during Novem-
Der, The average increase in circulation in the
delivery department was !, 1854, and in the read
ing-room 2, OPS. The finance committee, acting
on the authority of the board, reported that
they had arranged for a temporary loan of $780,
900 from the National Hide and Leather Bank. of
Boston, at 6 per cent. discount, ana one. half
of l per cent, commission. The designations of
Mrs. l. J. Ferguson rs teacher OIL A grade in
school No. 26, and Miss Mary A. Hyland of 2 A
grade, No. II, were reported and Were accepted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
Tennyson,s --latest Poem.

st. Louis GlObe-Denocrat.
1t is a mighty good thing for Lord Tenuyson
that his latest poem didn't come to us without
mis- name. If it had come from one who had
taken the Globe.Democrat for many years, and
now for the first time asked a short space in
your valuable sheet, Il it would have been denied
the benefit of our large and respectable eircula-
ton. We print the poem solely on account OF
Lord Tennyson: we do not know of anybody else
to whom we would grant the favor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
Fastern and western Air-Line.

directors and stockholders of the Eastern &
Western Airline Railroad Company, to-day, a
consolidation of the five companies bearing this
title was effected. Its route extends from
a point in western Pennsylvania to
Council Bluffs, Ia. 1t will cross the Mississippi
river at Aledo, Mercer county. 1t is asserted
that neither the bonds nor the stocks of the
company will be placed on the market until the
completion of the road. Thecapital stock is
$50 600 600