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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-18
LAwRENCEBURG AND AURORA.
The Relief Steamer Pil1e-People Disheartened
by the Rain.

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
LAwRENCEBURG, Feb. 1.-THE steamer Gen
eral Pike, heavily provisioned with government
SUPPLIES, left Cincinnati this morning to relieve
the distressed between that city and Madison.
Only FIVE landings were made--two in Ohio
and three in Kentucky-and all above this city
The boat is now landed a few miles above here,
and will come down at daylight; $500
rations were issued to $50 people, besides q
lot of clothing and shoes forwomen and children.
About twenty-five buildings have been washed
away in these five villages, and many people
were actually suffering for bread, and many were
almost without clothes. All yesterday and to-
day provisions have been coming in briskly, and
at present people are well enough supplied, but
more will have to come in day or two Rations
were issued to $500 people to-day, which includes
everybody in town. 1t is raining hard, and peo-
pie are fearful of another rise in the Big Miami.
The river is falling very slowly here, and
it s expected that the rains up the river Will
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-18
c1NC1NNATI AND VICINITY.
Cheerfulness Returning with the Falling of
the Water.

CINcINNATI, Feb 16.-To oday, with the waters
two feet higher than they were in the great rise
of last year, cheerfulness is returning. In fact
seriousness instead of gloom prevailed when
things looked darkest 1t was not till after the
food had mounted above last years high mark
that the spirit of jocularity and defiance deserted
men. Now that it seems the worst is over peo-
pie talk about this great rise as if they were
proud of it. There is one thing about it OF which
they may we'll be proud, and that is the exhibi-
ton it gave of how marvelously they had inn
proved by the lesson which the flood of last year
taught. This flood, too has its own separate
peculiar lessons which men are already coming.
Even now they are discussing the pros and cons
of the question of raising the lowland streets of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-18
Return of Archbishop Feeban.

CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-Archbishop Feehan re-
arriving in specia: train. He was welcomed
at the depot by Mayor Harrison
and special representatives of Catholic bodies and
was escorted to the Episcopal palace by pro
cession numbering %, 900, composed of Catholic
societies in regalia, Irish military and numerous
bands Notwithstanding the inclement weather
and exceedingly sloppy streets over one hun
dred thousand people congregated along the
three mile line of march to witness the parade.
With the exception of General Grants welcome,
todays Grafton exceeds anything of the kind
previously witnessed in Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-18
W HEN

For appareng the sterner according to their man
fold wants and tastes We like to have the adequacy
of our resources for fitting the numberess variations
of dimensions and proportions presented by the mas
culine human figure tested-by large men and small
men, corpulent men and spare men, longcrural men
and brevcrural men, etc. We make specially of
pleasing particular people. Furthermore, we excel in
suiting the financial views of of Clothing
and Gents Furnishing Goods; for prices are always
guaranteed be at least 10 to 25 per cent below all
competition; and, at this time in many lines, the
difference in favor of prices is much than
this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-18
WHEN INDICATIONS.
MoNDAY.-Locdl rains and
partly cloudy qUeather

The Partisan perruquer, whose capillary cephalic
garntures all proved to be too small to fit the massive
Uranium of the lustrious Frankinas the story goes
insisted with true Gallo vehemenee, that the fault
not with his goods but with Franl1ns head that
the former regular in their dimensions but
that the American sage's dome of thought was
preposterousy and inexeusaby large. The French
mans position was, of course wholly untenabe.
Clothes were made for man, not man for clothes.
Matchless are the resources of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-18
HOrsford's Acid Phosphate,


DR.. N. S. Read, Chicago, says: II think it is a
remedy of the highest value in many forms of
mental and nervous exhaustion, attended by
sick headache, dyspepsia, and diminished vital
itY."
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21
Lady Lobbyists.

The lady Iobhyists have nl,yed i'm.
portnnt narts in ibc social life of
washington. espccially since thc
buchanan administration. Some of
,hrm hnyc hccn thr widows of officers
nf tLc army ar thc navy. others have
hccn thc dnuphtcrs of concressmcn.
and others have driftcd here from
home localities where they had found
Themselves the subjects of scandalous
comments few of Them have becn
very brautirul. some had scorched
their vines ON ill.liobtcd torches. and
they have generally been very clever.
II has been their business to so ingrati-
ntc themselves with senator's and rep
rcscntatiycs AS 10 control their votes
an matters which they have bccn paid
lo ndyora,c or opposc. Failing in this.
they have sometimes managed 10 secure
thc absence of opponcntS of the bills
which they have been retained to advo-
cate by ingenious schemes. They
lacked nj every question before CONGRESS
from 4 business standpoint. and their
smi cs were for those who.c votes were
doubtful. To them the highest COM
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21
4 Greem Young Man.

Talking of grecnhOrnS, said an
old conductor to me, recently, Its in
the older states one sees the greencst
of them. Fifteen years ago | was run
ning passenger train down in Ken
lucky. One morning when the train
drew up at little station n chap in
coppcr-dycd brccchcs, blue jeans coat
and vest, and homemade wool hat
addressed me as stepped to the
ground.
- Is YOU the clerk of this kyar?'
60 I'm the conductor what do you
want?' answered him.
- | want to go to Louisville on this
kyNr.'
" We'll, get aboard, told him. He
climbed the steps and Knocked on the
door When he raped second time
some wag inside called out, Come in!
There were at least forty passengers
in the coach. lie began at the front
seat, shaking hands with everyone
clear to the back end, and asking each
How you doP' and then 'How's youi
folks?n Of course, it was Il regular
circus for the other passengers. lie
lived thirty miles back in the noun
tains, and had never bt en- on train
before. When he stepped off the car at
Louisville felt sorry for him.
"Well, left Kentucky soon aftci
that and came to Illinois. One day
four years o,whcn on visit to Lou
isville, Il wcll-dressed, well-to-do look
ing man stopped me on the street
He had to tell me where l had eyei
seen him before. Would you believe
it, that grecnhorn had developed into
one of the first merchants of Louisville
and is to-day reputed to be wortf
$780, 900. .-M Indianapolis Sentinel.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21
Danger in the Postal Note.

A wcll-know publisher is now lying
seriously i'll from the effects of arsen
ical poisoning caused by contact with
the new postal notes. The gentleman
has been in the habit, when in a though.
full mood, of rubbing his chin with his
forelingcr and thumb, and latterly he
noticed small, angry sore had formed
there. He paid little attention to it,
however, and continued the practice
until day or two ago, when he was
taken suddenly i'll with the most alarm
ing symptoms. His body swelled to
enormous proportions, and it was fear
cd for days that his malady would ter
inmate fatally. The physician in at
tendance, after consulting with the
patient, decided that the poisoning
was the result of his handling the pos
tai notes when his fingers were wet OF
moist. and thus rubbing off some OF the
the green coloring on the back. a
postofiicc official states that several
cases of the same nature have occur
red among the postal employees since
the notes have been in use, and num-
ber Of complaints have also been re-
ceived from the government regarding
! il, Detroit Post
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

The slang word of the moment i,
"elcgant." Everything is elegant
now, from cheap cigar to Il thunder.
storm. A business man came bustling
into II restaurant yesterday.
"IIow is the kidney stow to-day%'
he yelled TO II friend.
Elegant, elegant said his friend
enthusiastically.
People talk about an elegant sal
down the bay, and it is only u day OF
two ago that n dispatch from Boston,
in one of the New York papers, spoke
of the elegant baseball playing OF
the champion team. Such expressions
as "a perfectly elegant sail' to Coney
island, the "elegant music" at the
beach, and so on, are common. Sc
much has the word been abused that
"clegant" is no longer elegant, but
an adjective that has become thread.
bare and commonplace through un'
merited abuse.
TheTogular slang of the moment
bitches on the words, Whats the
matter with p" For instance, two
shabbily-dresscd young men, without
penny between them, decide to q
uptown. One of them drawls:
81 say, me boy, let's take n cab and
go uptown
whats the matter with walking"
"Nothin' "
And they walk
whats the natter means almost
anything nowadays. n is said that il
was started by Schoolcraft, t. the mir strel
who has scene with his partner, Cots,
in which they indulge in the "what''
the matter with" lingo to m oxtra
ordinary extent. Mr., Goes threatens
to throw Mr.. Schoolcraft out of tho
window, and the latter asks: What
the matter with the doorph In tn,
same way, when he threatens to stant
his companion on his head, the lattcl
wishes to know again what's the mat
ter with standing on his feet, and ST
on indefinitely. The expression hai
become very common now, but hai
not, and probably never will, reacl
| the point attained by probably thu
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21
Man or Woman?


one of the most remarkable hiStor.
iral MYSTERIES ON record, rivalling
that Of the identity of the man in the
iron mask. is of the sex of the Cheva.
licr d. Eon who was French Envoy to
England in l7Gl. He acted as private
agent to Louis XV. and lived in
London for fourteen wears. He was
a handsome man of rather cllcminatc
appcarancc, and was noticed to be
very shy of the ladies and to avoid
general society. While he was there
lhc story rot about that he was n
woman. and the scandal thus aroused
caused kim Loui, to recall his Am
bassador and order him to as umc
his proper dress, that of woman.
This She did and was always after.
wards known as Nine. d. Eon. A
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21
Forests and Climate.

The effect that the disappearance OF
forests has upon climate receives new
illustration every day, says the 1merT-
can Cultivator. In Italy the clearing OF
the Appenines is believed to have seri-
ously changed the climate of the Po
Valley, and now the African sirocco,
never known to the armies of the an
cient Rome, breathes its hot, blighting
breath over the right bank of the river
in the territory of Parma. The removal
of the pine forests near Ravenna IN
duced the samc desolating wind; and
the same destruction of the old forests
of the Vosges and Of the Cevcnncs has
had like deteriorating influences upon
the climate. In Egypt, where during
the French occupation of 1898, not
drop of rain fell for sixteen months,
and where from time immemorial the
country has been rainless bed Of
sand, Mohammed Ali, by planting his
millions of Zig trees, has seen his coun,
try blessed with an annual rainfall ol
several inches,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21
THE GRASSH0PPER.

lie jumps SO high in the sun and shade
stop to sec him pass
\ gymnast Of the glen and glade,
Whose circus is the grass
The sand is round him like a ring
He has no wish to halt
| see the supple fellow spring
To make Il SOmcr-ault!
Though he is volatile and fat,
Ills feet are slim m pegs,
How Can his reckless motion last
Upon such slender legs
Below him lazy beetles creep,
He gyratcs round and round
one moment vaulling In Il leap,
The next upon the ground!
He hops amid the fallen twigs
So agile in his glcc,
Tin sure he's danced hundred iigs
With no one near To see!
lie tumblCs up, he ttmblcs down!
Aud from his motley hue,
''TiS clear he is an insect clown
Beneath Il tent Of blue.
William H. Hlyn
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21
ASHES.

! saw the gardencr bring and strcw
Gray ashes where blush roses grew.
The fair still roses bent them low,
Their pink cheeks dimplcd all with dew,
And seemed 10 view with pitying air
The dim gray atoms lying there
All bOnny rose, all fragranCiCs,
Aud life and hope and quick desires,
What can You need or gain from these
Poor ghosts of lOng-forgottcn lrcs.,
The rose tree leans, the rose tree sigh,,
And watts this answer Subtly wise:
"All death, all life are mixed and blCnt,
Out Of dead lives fresh life is sent;
Sorrow 10 these is growth for me,
And who shall question Gods decree"
All, drcary life, whose gladsomG spark
No longer leaps in song and fire,
But lies in ashes gray and stark,
Defeated hopes and dead desire,
Useless and dull and all bcrcit--
Take courage, this one thing is left.
Some happier life may use thee so
Some flower bloom faircr ON its tree,
Some sweet or tender thing may grow
To stronger life because Of thee,
Content 10 play an humble part,
Give Of the ashes Of thy heart,
And haply God, whose dcardccrrcs
TakCth from those to give 10 these,
Who draws the snow-drop from the SHOWS,
May from those ashes find rose.
-S@dn Co0iidgc.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21
Haunts of thp Bpayer.

The skin of beaver, caught last
winter ON Terrible Creek, about -four
miles from Halifax Court-H House, was
recently sold in Baltimore for IS,
They are said to be numerous on that
creek, the ground along it having been
long left uncultivated. Four were
caught there, which weighed eacl
from so to 100 pounds. Sometimes
the beavers foot is found in the trap
and no beaver. They are also numer.
Gus on Difficult Creek and on Stauntor
River near its union with the Dan
Mr. p. l.. johnson, on Difficult Greek
has broken down several Of their dams
and has found it rather u tedious
business, the materials being artfully
woven together, plastered over witt
mud nearly two inches thick, and the
props below being made of sticks Of
wood as large as n mans leg and firm
ly fixed into the ground and the EN-
hankment. Near their quarters the
sweet-gum trees are often found bark
cd and dead. The otter is also fount
in some of the neglected parts of th,
Halifax River, Richmond Dispatch.
-.-.
One Of Ithaca's (N " important industrle
ls that Of candy manufacture Three tons o
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

most popular bit of slang since the
war-thc expression 81 should smile
with the various changes of "tittering,'
"gasping,' "gurgling,' and "snicker-
ing that are constantly rung on it
Nan York SIM
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

A EUROPEAN newspaper calculate,
that SiXty-scven persons die each min
ute, while seventy are born.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

PINK, white and blue water lilies
grow as large as dinner plates in
Queensland, Australia.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

EDISON promises to get out new
crop of inventions during the next
year in the electrical line.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

BISMARCK wears finely woven coat
of-mail which is bullet proof.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

TIE fastest bicycle time ever made
was mile in 2 minutes 81 2-5 seconds
Ten miles having been run IN less than
80 minutes, 20 miles in less than an
hour, and 100 miles in hours 80
minutes, which is three hours less
than the best time ever made by n
horse
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

Two thousand people are rustica-
ting in the Yellowstone National
Park.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

THE Puget Sound oysters are some
times two feet in diameter, and weigh,
inclusive of the shell, as much as sixty
pounds. Two of these gigantic mol
lusks were lately transported and
planted in the South Bay. Either the
trip or the now habitat disagreed
with them, as they both died Il few
J,yc nftnrworl
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

A MAGNIFICENTLY-CUT cameo pia,
set with rare pearls, that was formerly
the property of the Empress Eugcnic,
is worn by a lady at Long Branch.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

MEMPHIS claims Il more cquablc
temperature the year round than that
enjoyed by any other American city.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

TIE new divorce law in France,
which was announced TO go into effect
on the lst of August, forbids, in the
second article, the making of any
report of the proceedings, Il penalty
not exceeding S40O being imposed.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

The Chinese are rapidly learning
European ways, When an accident
lately befell the machinery of one of
their largest ironclads, the engine was
taken apart and put together solely
by native engineers and workmcn.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

TIE biggest salmon taken this sea-
son in Scottish waters weighed rcpcc-
lively sixty, lifty-thrcc, fifty and forty
thrcr mounds.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

New York is running short of
confidential clerks.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

PHYSICIANS and dealers in dycstulls
in London are trying TO drive anilinc
colors out of use and restore vegetable
dyes. They assert that anilinc dyes
produce painful and Dangerous crup-
lions of the skin.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

LlEuTENANT EMORY has brought
back TO this country number of Is
quimaux dogs. He will try and de-
monstratc that they can live in this
climate as well as in the arctic.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

In their next visit to this country
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry will be
accompanied by Chief Justice Cole
ridges son Stephen, who also will bring
his wife with him.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

The Tichbornc claimant says he
isn't crushed yet
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

A NEW geologic curiosity in Balti-
more is an Australian fish called the
goby. 1t is said to climb or jump out
of its aquarium and to crawl with
great ease for several hours upon
terra lirma.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

TnIs years tobacco crop will not be
very large.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

Az estimate within bounds is that
which sums up the cost of the music
for the ten weeks of the watcring-placc
season at Slj0,00O.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

The latest novelty in the show busi-
ness is an exhibition of noses, which
has recently been held in Austria.
Eighty persons competed for the prize
offered for the most extraordinary
nasal protubcrapcc in form, size and
color 1t was awarded toa competitor
from Vienna, who is the possessor of
what is said to be gigantic nose OF
deep violet blue.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

TIE tea plant has lately been III
troduccd near Soukgoum Kalch, on
the Black Sea, and the Russians are
confident that they will soon be able
to do without either Chinese or Indian
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

BURNT cork is the old reliable cure
for hog cholera.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

DAN RICE, the once popular clown,
once said that he was about as bank
rupo us usual. The times had moved
past him, he thought, and he saw no
good reason to believe that he would
ever catch up again. 81 have never
made money so steadily, pleasantly. or
heavily" he remarked, "as when l
ran my one-horse show. ] guess that
was rather before your day. had an
exceedingly clever trick horse and a
moderate sized tent. The beast and |
did our level best to make folks laugh,
and we succeeded. The admission
price was only 10 cents, with 10 more
for best seat; but the expenses wero
light, and nearly all we took in was
clear profit. 1t was in Dan Rice's one
horse show that l made my reputa-
tion as clown, and gained enough
capital to lose in big circus enterprises
wish to goodness I'd stuck 70. my
original line Of business :
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21

The correspondent of the Hartford
(Conn. Times on the summit of Mount
Washington, who is connected with
the Signal Service, says that nearly
twcnty-four inches of rain fell there
in July, it being the wettest month
since the establishment of the station.
The temperature was 80 degrees
below and the precipitation thirteen
inches above the July average.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-31
Masonic Notice.

w Los AxoELE LoDen No. ~. F&A
AA M.-Tho stated meetings Of this Lodge
~ \axe held on the first MONDAY OF each
month ct 730 ,. N. Members Of Pentalpha, No.
cordially invited.
By order Of the W.. NJ.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-31
"Airy Baby rets'

Boston Globe.
A little scene was enacted o
few days Stree on an afternoon
train on one Of the roads running
out Of Boston that put . bashful
Young man to rout and complete
-ly convulsed the spectators.
When the youAg man entered the
car in the depot the only vacant
seat was beside an old farmer,
who was evidently on his way up
country. The rustic was bluff.
hale and hearty, and to the ques-
ton ''Is this seat engsgedP'
loudly replied "No. Set daown,
set daown, and make yerself ter
hum" Now, the young man was
not in a specially talkative frame OF
mind, but the old man was, and,
as Q natural result. they talked.
In the course of the conversation
it came out that, in his younger
days, the young man bal gone TO
school to the old mans "darter.
After that, Of course, conversa-
ton did not flag, and the old
farmer Was soon in possession OF
the leading points in the young
mans life since he had left the
school, and among other things.
that he had been married some
10 or II months. In the midst
Of their talk the train drew up at
the station where the young man
was to alight, but 80 persistent
was the aged questioner that all
the other passengers who we're to
get of had left the car before the
young man started for the door.
He was making a good time down
the aisle in haste to get of before
the car started when he was
brought to standstill by ! vigor-
GUS shout from his inquisitive
friend: "Hello, young man.
Hellor He turned AMI was
greeted with the query from the
anxious but beaming old hrmer:
"Ssy, hev ye airy BABY yet?
Darter'll be sure to ask The
young man went.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-31
GRAPE CUTTINGS.
Grape Cuttings for sale.

BLAU ELBEN, ZINFANDEL, tIEsLING.
Berger, Muscat, Black hsivoisie, Isabella. chas-
sellas and othor varities..
Apply to W. II. WORKMAN,
No. 157 Boyle avenue. Boyle Heights,
Or by Telephone No. 76. dl4 I'm