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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

If indications may be trusted the conven-
ton at Chicago will not be long in reaching
conclusion after the balloting begins. At this
distance, the situation, last night, appeared
again decidedly in favor of Blaine, the prestige
he had lost in the defeat of General Clayton
having evidently been regained His friends
rallied yesterday in unbroken line, and
with unabated energy and conf
dence, and up to the closing
scenes, last night, were the most ag-
gressive in the convention and elsewhere.
Some slight symptoms of breaks in his favor
were visible, and any trivial incident may
make him the nominee with all the rush and
whirl that put Garfield in the lead four years
ago. The desire to be on the winning side is
a strong one, and the very moment it seems
apparent that some certain man will win,
more than enough votes will come to him to
give him the nomination. At present writing
the prospect is that a very few votes will set
tie the matter, and it may be that the conven-
ton of 1884 will be ready to adjourn by to-
night. Still, the aspect of affairs may change
to day, though it hardly seems possible, since
the field" apparently, is unable and unwill-
ing to combine on any dark horse candidate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05
THE GEORGIA PHENOMENON.
Miss Hurst Exhibits Her Extraordinary
Powers in Columbia.

Columbia Is c. Register.
The Columbia public have heard and read Of
the wonderful power at the command of the now
famous Miss Lulu Hurst. of Georgia. This
young lady, who is apparently sweet sixteen"
has very pleasant face and is of admirable con-
tour, but displays no muscular power superior
to others of her sex, and as she appeared upon
the stage at the opera-house last night no one
would have dreamed that she could push and
twir stalwart men at her pleasure.
A number of prominent citizens were invited
TO the stage to witness the performance and yet
others to take part therein. Age and youth,
strength and grip, weight and endurance, skep-
tlclsm and, we had almost said credulty, were
represented on the stage. The assortment Of
mind and muscle was as wonderful as the phe-
nomenon.
Miss Hurst placed her hand upon billiard cue
while gentleman held it with vice-like grip,
and in moment he would be dancing about
the floor. while Miss Hurst, with apparent
effort, would drive him all over the stage. She
held the cue and several gem
tlemen made futile efforts to force one end
of it to the floor. She held an open umbrella in
her hand while a gentleman held the handle
with both hands. and in a few moments Miss
Hurst would have him cavorting over the stage,
and finally forced him behind the wings. This
she repeated with several gentlemen. Miss
Hurst held chair with one hand and gave a
number of gentlemen repeated trials to force it
to the floor, in which they invariably failed, but
when one, two, and three gentlemen would hold
the chair Miss Hurst would, with one hand, and
no exerton, gently press it to the ioor
One stout citizen went upon the stage
with an air of confidence which made
the audience feel that Miss. Hurst
had met he match, but she twirled him over and
off the stage with marvellous ease, and apparent
ly with the idea of making more sport of him
than of much smaller men.
Miss Hurst by simply placing the palms of her
hands against the main uprights, moved chair
and the gentleman occupying it back and forth
on the stage. Many attempts to put the chair to
a.. l. Il
failures but the most wonderful feature of the
entertainment was the final act Miss Hurst
held chair with one hand, and two gentlemen
could not force it to the floor three, four six,
eight and ten gentlemen, reminding, one of the
crate" all crowded on the chair, but made a
complete failure in their combined efforts to
press it to the stage. The entire performance
was a wonderful exhibition of an unaceountable
power, and the immense audience were delighted
and amazed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05
General Sherman on the Dead.

Decoration Day Address at st. Louis.
To-day is the festival of our dead. We unite
to honor the memoryof our dead and our beloved;
to enrich and enuoble our lives by recalling pub
lie heroism, and private worth that are immor-
tai; to encourage by our solemn services q more
Jealous and stalwart patriotism Festival of
our dead! Yes, though many eyes are cloude&
with tears; though many hearts are heavy with
regrets; though many lives are still desolate for
the father or brother, the husband or lover,
who did not come back; though every grave
which tender reverence, or love adorns with
flowers is the shrine of sorrows whose influence
is still potent, though their first keen pognancy
is over; in spite of all, to-day is festival
"a festival of our dead. No less
festival because it is full Of
sOlemnity. And now, in the silent camping
ground of our dead, as with soderly tenderness
and love we garland these passionless wounds,
recall those who made their breasts the barricade
between our country and its foes, let us recall
their tolls, their suferngs, their heroism, their
supreme fidelity in camp, in prison-pen, on the
battle field and in the hospital; that the flag UNI
der which they fought, and from the shadow Of
whose folds they were promoted may never be
dishonored; that the country, for whose union
and supremacy they surrendered life, may have
the fervent and enthusiastic devotion of every
CITIZEN that, as stand by every grave, as be-
fore an altar, we may pledge our manhood that,
so help us God the memory of our dead shah
encourage and strengthen in us all more Loyal
patriotism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

temporizing until the storm blows over it
means absolutely nothing. 1t reads
Resolved, When shall have gotten all the nee
essary facts, meeting of the association shall be
called to consider what action shall be taken with
gard to running trains Sunday
What possible good can come from delaying
action on this point9 The injunction, IRE
member the Sabbath day, to keep it holy
is just as binding to-day as it will be next
week, next month or next year. Either it is
or is not wrong to run rabble trains on Sun
day. The Journal believes it altogether
wrong, destructive of the sanctity of the day,
and inimical to the best interests of society,
and that view, we think must obtain among
all people who would save one day in seven
from the worry and rush, 1.-THE frivolity and
sin of a world sadly in need of moral salt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

THE meeting of the board of trustees Of
the Acton camp meeting can hardly be re-
garded as productive of good to themselves
OF to the cause of the church of which they
are members. In the resolutions passed and
published in the journal of yesterday they
go out of the way to attack the character
and conduct of parties connected with the
editorial management of this paper, matter
wholly irrelevant to the question at issue.
The proprietors and editors of the journal
may be saints OF sinners so far
saints or sinners, they have I'M
hesitatingly and consistently opposed popular
desecration of Sunday. The Journal opposes
base ball on Sunday not on account of the
harm there may be in throwing catching and
knocking a ball about, but that the gathering
of boisterous crowds is harmful on that day.
Camp meetings are all right when properly
conducted; no fault can be found with the
preaching, praying and exhorting; but when
the rabble are attracted, not to worship, bnt
to do evil, camp meetings are as baneful as
any orderly secular gathering could be.
The managers of the Acton camp meeting
were charged with having declined proposition
on the part of the c., l., st. L. g. G. Railway
Company to discontinue the running of ex-
cursion trains on Sunday A tardy denial
now comes forth; denial however, simply
Of the statement that the railway company
had made any such offer. The truth of this
denial may be granted, but if any ordinary
and reasonable Interpretation of the English
language is fair the reading public must con
elude, after perusing these resolutions that,
while the trustees would not refuse to accede
to proposition that might be made on the
part of the railway company to withdraw
Sunday trains, they do not hesitate to
convey the idea that they do not invite
such proposition. In other words the trus-
tees are not willing to take the initiatory step.
That we do not misrepresent them, the para
graph on this point is herewith reproduced:
Resolved, That the board of trustees will gladly
and unanimously accept any proposition of the c.. l.,
St L. & c. Railroad Company to stop all Sunday
trains to the Acton camp meeting"
Plainly and pitfully enough, the burden of
reform is placed wholly on the shoulders of a
"soulless and Goddess corporation" while the
church is made to stand by and declare that it
will second any movement looking toward
decent observance of the Sabbath,
but can not undertake to insist
upon it. To show that the board
has no disposition to discountenance the run
ming of Sunday trains, 1t is necessary only to
qtsOro supplementary resolution, adroitly
slipped in after the others have been disposed
of. If it does not mean that the board is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

and slums Of the city for stealing small sums,
let us not neglect the guilty in high places,
who steal large sums and are amenable to law
Popular sentiment all over the land will in
dorse these declarations. The law and its adj
ministrators should be impartial enough to
proceed against thieves and rogues in high
places, and strong enough to bring them to
justice. The welfare of the people requires
that men of intelligence and standing before
the world be held to strict accountability.
They enjoy the protection of law; let them
be compelled to honor it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

farmers or too few engaged in manufactur-
ing and other industrial occupations. All the
fine-spun theories of doctrnaires cannot alter
the fact that the United States produces
greatly in excess of consumption. Nor does
it dispose of the more serious fact that com
petitors have come up who are in position to
sell more cheaply than the American farmers
can afford to. Reverting to the figures rep
resenting the numbers engaged in the re-
spective occupations in the United States, and
dividing each by one hundred thousand in
order to simplify the problem, we find that
while seventy-six are engaged in farming, but
thirty-eight, or exactly one-half are employed
in manufactures, and but eighteen, OF less
than ne-quarter, are in trade and
transportation. The seventy-six farmers
grow great deal too much grain
for domestic consumption. The conditions
have changed so that it can no longer be dis
posed of at profit abroad. Manifestly, the
only thing to be done is to have less farmers
VI lHOro mechanics. we 10 noI WdnO FEWER
of the farmers so much as a greater number
of factory employees, rolling mill hands, and
men in all branches of mechanical industry.
As our labor problem now stands, million
men can leave the reaper and pillow and go to
work building better houses, weaving better
carpets, making better roads, increasing ship
ping facilities, and multiplying the wealth of
the country in every direction, at the same
time being well fed, comfortably housed and
clothed, and the country would still have
surplus of wheat, but not large enough to
unsettle business and impoverish the farmer
result would be accomplished by addition to
our manufacturing and laboring classes, while
the farming class stood still. The territory
of the United States, embracing as it does,
all climates favorable to the production of
nearly every food product in the world,
guarantees our utter and absolute independ-
ence. The 55,OOO,OOO people now living in
the United States, by a wise division of labor
could afford to build a Chinese wall around it
and still be the most prosperous and wealth.
est people in history More mechanical labor
here means more wealth, a greater demand for
products of the field, and consequently en-
HANGED prices for them. This is the object and
natural outcome of wisely adjusted protective
tariff. Free trade, on the contrary, while not
lettering the foreign markets for our field
products, would simply increase the present
difficulty by driving still more men from
forge to field. Reduced to the smallest COM
pass, the problem is this American farmers
can sell abroad only by underselling all com
petitors; they are obliged to sell abroad be-
cause there are not enough non-pIeducers Of
grain at home to consume the quantities
grown; the situation will be improved oy in
creasing domestic manufacturing industries
increasing the home demand, and as an inev-
liable consequence enhancing the market
value Of every farm product.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

INTELLIGENCE received from Australia is
that fearful drought prevails, no rain having
fallen in certain districts during the past
eighteen months 1t is estimated that 8, 900, 900
sheep have persisted, the losses of individual
run-holders," OF ranchmen, being in some
cases as high as So 900 to 100, 900 head. The
air in the drouthy districts is described as
being foul with the faint of putrefying car
cases, as fully so per cent. of the stock has
na,iShad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05
MIR. Blaine Reads the Papers While He Travelsl

AT this moment newsboy came along crying
the New York evening papers. Mr. Blaine
hailed him, and the boy named the different
papers 1t was interesting to note the selection
made. 1t was the New York Evening Post the
paper that has been first and foremost in making
bitter attacks on the great statesman. Turning
one side, Mr.. Blaine hastily scanned the head
opening the paper so as to bring the general
news of the day to the top, said to the reporter
Il have formed no judgment about the result at
Chicago. l am absolutely content to wait and to
abide by the conventions action" With this
Mr.. Blaine re-entered the car and, seating him
self in the midst Of his family, proceeded TO
chat as gaily and unconcernedly as though the
honorable ambition of many years was not to
be decided in few hours by his party's repre-
SentatiYes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

JUDGE GILDERsLEEvE, of New York city, is
fully impressed with the needs of the times
After congratulating the grand jury over the
efficiency of the police in restraining danger
Gus characters that threaten physical harm to
Eae lives Of citizens, he declares that it is
clearly manifest that Offenses against property
of most aggravated and appalling character
are on the increase; that spirit of lawless-
ness, bred of extravaganza or greed of riches,
and taking root in the numerous channels of
speculation to be found in that city, has been
spreading through the community "This
spirit he says, developed class of criminals
from walks in life where we might expect to find
those who respect our laws, and have some re-
gard for legal obligations and the rights of
others" Rising to the occasion, he con
tinued:
Gentlemen, the growth of this evil is
alarming. Confidence in our corporations and
great commercial houses, so essential in the
conduct of business, is impaired; values are
greatly deprecated, and the credit of the ma
ton is threatened. One thief of this class
does more harm than one hundred ordinary
thieves or burglars.
"Whle, in obedience to the law we are
furnishing the low thieves from the sloughs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

PhIadephin Times.
An intimate personal friend of Mr. Blaine
from Augusta, Me-, said yesterday: 81 see that
Mr. Blaine has started for home know THAI
his wife has been indisposed for some time and
is now quite sick have reason to know that
he has been so many times beaten that Mr..
Blaine has become we'll schooled, ard no man
more thoroughly recognizes the uncertainties of
political conventions. L doubt if there is any
candidate named who is as impressive as Mr..
Blaine is today If he is not nominated he will
not be disappointed If he is nominated in the
face of the coalition against him he will be sur
prised
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

representation in future conventions should engage
the attention of the convention at Chicago is by
no means so difficult aprobem have chosen
to represent it, provided it is approached with sim
cere purpose to effect solution.-Boston journal.
WI have had too much of this tolerance of the
cess of thievery Let not the law give its sanction to
any such monstrous immortality. If bank officers have
no right to for their private purposes the funds
that are trust in their hands the fact that they have
done 1t with profit to themselves is not mitigation of
thelr guilt but rather aggravaon of it. Such mis-
deeds leeds should be absolutely forbidden by the laws.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

THE Gilbert bill, forbidding the sale to
minors of indecent newspapers and news
papers devoted to the chronicling of crime, is
now a law in New York. The law should
go further than this and suppress and
exterminate these baneful publications. 1t
should be made criminal offense to print
or sell them. Their influence is poisonous
and destructive of every virtue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05
Painful Conclusion Reached by General Haw-
ley's Paper.

When special dispatches to one newspaper re-
port only one candidate as having any sort Of
chance, and discord in every other camp, and
when the next paper you take up has direct
news" dispatch showing that it is somebody
else who is the only candidate and that discord
really prevails in what the other report says is
the seat of all order, you finally come to the
conclusion that the only way to avoid being
mixed is to take but one paper and not believe
that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

A POET in the New York Sun, anent the
hold ticket boom, has written thirteen stanzas
ON "set EN- up again" Set EN- up again
always was popular Democratic rallying cry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05
Kindness of Democratic brethren.


One of the charming features of this presiden-
tial contest is the fatherly manner in which the
Democratic papers advise the Republicans as to
what they should do. Arthur cannot carry New
York and Blaine can. Ergo, the Republicans
should nominate Blaine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05
Cabinet Speenlations.

General Felix Angus, of the Baltimore American.
Have you formed any idea of a Blaine
CabinetW
well no: | think William Walter Phelps
would be a likely Secresary of State and Logan
might get the war portfolio. l am perfectly
sure. however, that Blaine is the last man to
make bargains
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

A CINCINNATI clerk has been arrested for
embezzling only $1.75. 1t is believed that
this case is unprecedented The omen is a
happy one to very much discouraged people
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

EMMA ABBOTT, just before sailing for Europe,
the other day. said to an interviewer that besides
securing new operas and new costumes while
there, she expected to bring back with her ga
new ballet troupe Emma always was little
dear. Her popularity is now firmly established.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

BUSINESS at Cincinnati, little slack since
the riot, is picking up trife. On Tues
day four bodies were fshed out of the river
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

COLORADO is represented among the assist
ant secretaries by A. L. Enough. 1t is wise
State that knows when it has Enough.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

IT is so fashionable in Boston for girls to
learn to play upon the violin that young women
who never drew bow-please take note of spell
ing-are suspected of carrying violin cases upon
the street merely to appear in style. This sus-
picion doubtless arises on account of the we'll
known propensity of Boston people for carrying
about books which they never read
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

IT IL now proposed to provide the Brooklyn
bridge with awnings. The big bridge is very
like man: puts on more style than ever af-
ter suspension.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

GENERAL H. V. BoYNToN is in attendance
exported as being on the ground.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

If any leading candidate should be strangled
In the house of his friends he will at once be-
come the dark corse of the convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

BE patient yet little longer. The win
ming man will soon be named.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

GENERAL SITUATION seems to be quite
prominent at Chicago. At least his name APP
pears quite frequently in the press reports.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

IT is little late in the season to say but there
is comfort in the intelligence that despite the
frosts of last week in the Delaware peach
region the crop will he bigger than for nine
years past" In every town of the peach belt
basket factories are going up, and in week the
basket industry, which is always contingent
upon good crop, will be fairly under way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

In the impressive oath administered to new
members of the New York Sorosis each sister Is
soemnly pledged to defend all fellowmembers
from calumny. Unless the Sorosis is more par
tcular about the character of its membership
than are the exclusive masculine clubs of New
York, the ladies can have little time left from
mutual selfdefense to devote to other pursuits,
including that of women who do not belong to
their society,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

Isn't it about time long suffering and patient
exchange editors should enter protest against
the further appearance in public, as piece Of
news, of that ancient piece of information about
Miss Rosster, of Philadelphia, who is alleged to
be at the head Of the women silk culturists of
the country, and to be only seventeen years old'
The paragraph began its travels many years ago,
and Miss Rossiter was seventeen years old then.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05
Sizing 1t Up.


brooklyn Fagie
Would Blaine get the Irish votel Yes-all Of
1t that was not Democratic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05

Small Fayors Thankfully Received.
New York Sun.
If a Republican President is elected this year,
he will be elected by Democratic votes