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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THE South is wide awake to the advantage
of having manufacturing interests established
there. AT Calera, Ala, company has been
organized with $l,5Oo,OOO capital to build an
iron furnace, car works and agricultural ma
chinery shops. AT Jacksonville, Fla, ST.
900, 900 is about to be invested in works to
build a motor power. A new cotton mill with
800, 900 to back it is being erected at Colum-
bia, Tenn, while at Trenton, in the same
State, movement to secure subscriptions for
a cotton mill resulted in securing more than
were needed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THE Miles City on. To- Journal of April
Is, has notice of the opening of the District
Court in that city, by Judge Coburn. 1t
says: f'The charge to the jury by Judge
Coburn was given in very effective and i'm
pressive manner, and was commented upon in
the highest terms by leading members of the
bar who were present. Judge Coburn, in this
charge to the jury, fully sustained his we'll
known reputation as a thorough and penetrat-
ing exponent of the law"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22
appeared.

THE assertion that Hon. R. W. Thompson
was delegate to the National Republican
convention in 1856 is not true. At that time
Mr.. Thompson was one of the leaders of the
American party. His connection with the
Republican party dates from the nomination of
Mr.. Lincoln, in 1860. He was a delegate-at-
large to the national convention held at Chi
mated, and drafted the platform which was
adopted by the party at that time. He was
again selected as a delegate-at-l large, in 1872,
to the convention at Philadelphia, but was
unable to attend.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22
REDUCING THE TARIFF,

When the last reduction was made IN the
tariff it was thought that the receipts from in
ternal revenue, customs ETC., would be less by
about $34, $780, 900 during the current year,
whereas the falling off, estimating the last
quarter by the first three, will be but $24, OOO,-
900. But there is more in these figures than
appears in the total The decline in customs
receipts for the first three quarters was.as fol-
lows: 800, 900, So, $50, 900 and SO, 900, 900,
respectively, showing a steady and marked de-
crease. That is, during the first three months
the receipts were 81, 500, 900 less than under
the old rates. During the second three
months the falling off was but $3.50,
600, while during the three months
last past the receipts came within
$1,00O,O00 monthly of the old receipts.
Hence it will not be long until the nation s
receipts will equal those before the reduction
in rates was made. Free traders argue from
this that taxation is still too high, and that
we shall dispose Of our public debt too rapidly.
The secret of this steady increase from Gus
toms is very simple, too simple to mystify
anybody. The government has reduced inn
port duties and tradesmen have been buying
more freely abroad That is all. Under the
operation of areduced tariff dealers have in
creased their orders to foreign firms, and to
that amount taken employment from American
men and mills, and given it to those in Eng
land, Germany and France. The tariff was
entirely removed from quinine, and, while
not materially reducing the price, has resulted
in the great firm of Powers & Weightman
transferring the manufacture of this drug
from Philadelphia to Mannheim, Germany. In
other words, the laborers Of Mannheim have
underbid American workmen, just as the mill
operatives of England would underbid us
were the tariff swept away Railroads and
other corporations, wholesale dealers and man
ufacturers, do not engage in business just for
fear. The day they are able to buy cheaper in
England or elsewhere than in the United States
they will buy there, to the evident disad-
vantage of American workingmen. Every
dollar sent to England for goods made by
English artisans is a dollar taken from indus
tries that employ American mechanics The
facts related above show that the reduction in
tariff rates has resulted in heavily increased
orders for imported goods. If this does not
mean more work for transatlantic mechanics
and corespondingly less for American work
ingnen, it means nothing. And meaning
that, the laboring men who eat American
bread and pay American taxes will hesitate
long before increasing the trouble by indoors
ing further reduction in tariff rates.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

lections, while Yictoria's relations with the
present Premier have never been cordial,
and she lavished her queenly good feeling
upon Beaconsfeld and the imperial policy he
represented. But it may well be doubted
whether the presence of a prince of the blood
will serve to allay the just discomfort of Ire,
land. Something more than that is required,
yet the incident is of interest as indicating
the good will, at least, of the Prince of Wales,
and can but hive its influence The cause
of Ireland is marching on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THAT healthier state of morals and a
higher sense of the demands of civilization
prevail in Kentucky is becoming more evil
dent. The Legislature of that State has been
passing some excellent bills, and wholesome
legislation seems to be the rule. Only short
time ago, Col Tom Buford shot and killed a
Judge, who had offended him. Last week.
an attorney named Corneilson assaulted Judge
Richard Reed because of a ruling unfavorable
to the former, employing in his attack cane
and cowhide whip Such an insult has hith-
erto been deemed mortal offense that could
be wiped out only by the life of the assailant.
The unwrtten code of morals
in Kentucky has insisted that
man so offended must either
kill or be killed, on penalty of lasting disgrace
on failure to fight In this instance Judge
Reed proved himself above the bloody work
expected of him, and took the high ground
that as an officer for the administration of jus
tice he had no right to defy the rules of law
and order ofthe State and society in which he
lived. Following this sensible decision, the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

IT is mildly exasperating to read that 31S
Mormon proselytes were landed at Castle Gar
den on Sunday, accompanied by the mission
aries who secured their conversion" If the
ulcer at Salt Lake cannot be cured, the source
of its supplies might at least be cut off. This
should be done promptly and effectually; not
alone in the interest of civilization and moral
ity outside of Utah, but in behalf of the de-
luded simple folk who have been overper-
suaded by the specious arguments of the sleek
procurers of Mormondom.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

Mr.. CHARLES STEWART PARNELL denies
the report that he contemplates resigning the
leadership of the Irish parliamentary party.
This will be good news to all the friends of
Ireland. Whatever of real substantial good
has come to Ireland, and whatever of promise
there is in the future are bound up in the
continuance of the policy of which Mr..
Parnell is the leader and the embodi-
ment. Within the law, using the
weapons legitimately to his hand, Mr. Parnell
has been able to command concessions, and to
pave the way for still further ameliorations of
English rule. Mr. Parnell must not vacate
his position until there is some one ready to
fill it better and with higher conceptions Of
the forces which make for the permanent adj
vancement of peoples than any who have yet
appeared.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

IT is announced that the son Of the Prince
Of Wales, when he attains his majority, will
assume the title of Duke of Dublin, will
Join the Irish Fusileers, and will reside in Ire
land. The interest in this bit of cable news
is in the foreshadowing of a possible change
in the royal policy toward Ireland, at least so
far as the heir apparent can affect it. 1t has
been one of the charges against Victoria that
she has never treated ireland as she
has other parts of the United Kingdom;
she has not visited it herself, nor have any of
her children paid the slightest attention to it,
nor cared in any way to identify themselves
with the people of that country. The annouce-
ment of Prince Victor's intention is indica
tive that the Prince of Wales does not share
his royal mothers opinion that Ireland is q
country to be avoided and isolated; and
it may be accepted as true that
were Albert Edward king he would treat Ire
land with much more liberality than has the
Queen. 1t is known that the Prince is warm
friend and admirer of Mr.. Gladstone, and is
looked upon as a Liberal in his political predi-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THE Iron Age of the 18th inst, has the
following paragraph of industrial interest and
value:
"a telegram from England last Saturday
stated that, owing to the depression in English
shipping, ten thousand laborers are outof work
in the Tyne ship-yards, and as many more in
the Sunderland ship-yards while business is
slack along the Clyde. A hundred steamers
are lying idle along the Tyne, and in Shields
there are 4, 900 seamen out of employment
suffering sailors This condition of affairs
shows how foolish is the belief that an entire
absence of duties will make trade steady. We
know in this country that, on the other hand,
high duties will st always keep our people
employed. The laws of supply and demand
are higher and broader than mere legislative
enactments. With no duties on ships, Brit
ish ship-yards have for several years past been
crowded with work, as though some powerful
stimulus was operating in addition to the mere
demand for ships for ordinary purposes
American manufactures have for few
years been so beautifully supplied
with orders that greater cause has
been sought for than the simple law of supply
and demand, and the tariff has been credited
with furnishing an unnatural stimulus which
led to the building of more manufactures
than were needed. No general principle of
political economy can be deduced from the
GIBBS and flows of the industrial tide which
sets legislative enactments at defiance. Yet
there are any number Of casuists who main
tain that the British hip-building industry is
depressed on account of free trade, while
others of the same school contend with equal
ardor that American industries are Frustrated
on account of too much protection"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

people of Mt. Sterling, the town in which the
offense was committed, crowded the court
house to express approval of Judge Reeds
course. Resolutions were adopted unquali
fedly condemning Corneilson, and indorsing
the Jugde's courageous stand against the long
established rule that he must commit murder
in order to regain his standing among his fell
low-citizens. Letters had been received from
other parts of the State congratulating Judge
Reed and, altogether, it is quite plain that a
revolution in favor of better order of things
is imminent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

CONES now the Australian farmer, who is
bidding for the European market, and declares
that he realizes eighty bushels Of wheat per
acre in good seasons and forty bushels in bad
seasons With the farmers of India raising
wheat at a profit at fifty cents bushel and
Australian farmers raising eighty bushels to
the acre. the world seems conspirine against
the American wheat grower
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THE latest faith-cure story comes from Clyde,
Ohio. Mrs. Painter, of that village, has worried
along with but one lung for some years, and that
one was no lung to speak of. 1t was not of much
account in any sort of speaking, the lady being
able to converse only in Tildenish whispers Be-
sides this disability of her breathing apparatus
Mrs. Painter had symptoms of all the ills which
any patent medicine advertisement can mention
and, of course, had been ''given up by the doc
tors" However she and few friends had faith,
and they prayed for her recovery with the result,
as is alleged that she arose from her bed on
Sunday and danced around the house shouting
'gloryl" with voice that could have been heard
seven squares away. Then she held reception
for her numerous friends and finished the day by
walking to the station to meet her husband, who
was coming home to visit her dying bed.
Whether the surprised man also shouted glory
is not related
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THE monastery of Dominican nuns which
was opened at Newark on Saturday is the only
one of the kind in the United States After
the dedication and conservation services are
ended, which will be to-day visitors will be
admitted to the clustered part of the institu-
ton for one hour, at the close Of which all
must withdraw, never to enter again. As soon
as every lay and clerical visitor is gone from
the cloister the door in the wall dividing the
clustered part from the public chapel and re
ception-room will be closed with two locks.
his representative, and the other by Mother
Mary Jesus, the superior, and no person can,
therefore, enter or depart from the cloister
unless the holder of each key is present to
open the door. All communication with the
nuns must then be held through double iron
gratings set eighteen inches apart in the solid
wall, and the wire MEETINGS over the CRATES
will not admit a lead pencil. Two nuns must
be present at every interview with an outsider.
The nuns wear white robes and black veils
This may strike some people as religion, but
it will appear to many more as very poor and
miserable kind. The world is not needing
monasteries and nunneries and solid stone walls
to hem religion in. 1t is needing religious
men and women with sweet souls and whole
some lives, mixing with the people in the
work and worry of everyday experience.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

Mr.. PREseRAvE, of Germantown, wanted to
get rid of big tree which grew on the line be-
tween his property and that of the widow Chap
pie, but the widow said the tree should stand.
Mr. Presgrave knew how to cut it down with a
Ratchet, and, without doubt, could have told a
lie about it, but he did neither. With ak and
saw he divided the tree, starting at the top and
severing such branches as were on his side, and
then hewing half the trunk away careful to
take no more than belonged to him. No light
ming stenographer being present, the widows
remarks are not recorded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

AMONG the musical instruments adapted
to the use Of serenading parties cannon
seems to be the least desirable. A party of
enthusiastic young people in Erie county, Penn
sylvania, started out the other evening to sere-
made newly married couple and took along the
town cannon The explosion of the gun,
it was found, had the desired eff
feet of arousing the recipients of the honor, but
also detached and scattered the legs and arms
of several of the serenaders over large section
of tarl.ifnrY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

BARNUM has succeeded in finding men who
have been able to concoct fluid that will man
ufacture white elephants to order the short
est notice 1t is claimed for the wash that it
will change the Africans skin without injury to
the health or comfort of the subject operated on.
STILL the information comes from Barnum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

In view of the many unhappy marriages, and
the much too many wretched Divorces the words
of Rev. Talmage are worth needing In his
Sunday sermon on EASY Divorces he said;
Let me say to those who are happily mated
avoid first ouarrels. Have no unexplained cor
respondence with former admirers Don't cul-
tivate suspicious. Don't, in a moment of temper
run out and tell your neighbors about your
wrongs. Don't let the gadabouts of society un
load in your house their baggage of CAB and
little -tattle. Don't stand too much your
rights. Learn how to apologize. Don't be too
stubborn, or too proud, or to devilish to make
up Almost all the great matrimonial disasters
started with little infelicities The whole pile of
ten railroad cars, telescoped and smashed at the
foot of an embankment hundred feet down,
came to that catastrophe by getting only two
inches off the track. The most scandalous and
understanding divorce cases have grown out of
little MISUNDERSTANDING that were allowed to
go on till home and responsibility and religion
and immortal soul went down in the crash"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THERE is often CHASTITY humor discernible in
the conduct of murderers sitting under the shad-
ow of the gallows, when all hope of life has
been given up Hoffman, the murderer who was
hanged on Friday at White Plains, N. Y, on the
day before his execution was quite facetious,
though the effort was painfully evident. A Jail
chum of his, occupying an adjoining CELL asked
him to sing sentimental song. The murderer
arose from his bed and placed his face against
the bars, and in low tone sang Come home
early to night, dear boy" For over ten minutes
the singing of the doomed man was the only
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

suspecting functicnary had, and there was no
more like it in the State, as these same wicked
Republicans had previously ascertained. Then
they had their tickets printed and judiciously
distributed over the parishes in unlimited guam
titles, while The enraged Democrats waited until
the right kind of paper for their was made
at the mills 1t was very naughty trick and
very old one too, by the way but had never been
played down there before, and the disgust is pro
portionatey great
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

MINISTER FOSTER has arrived in Washing
ton, and, strangely enough, declines to tell a
correspondent what he is here for. General
Foster is diplomat Among other arrivals
is General Badeau, from Cuba.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places
LONDON-American Exchange in Europe, 449
Strand.
PARIS-American Exchange in Paris, 80 Boulevard
DIES Capucines.
NEW YORK-St. Nicholas and Windsor hotels.
WASHINGTON D. C.-Brentaho's, j OBS Pennsyl
vania Avenue
CHICAGO-Pa House.
CINCINNATI-J. c. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine Street
LOUISvTLLE-C. T. bearing, northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot and
Southern Hotel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

If Mr. Matsada Sorakichi could be spared
long enough to "but" Mr.. Joseph Cook, it
would greatly relieve long suffering public.
Mr. Cook has had another war of words at
Centralia Illinois
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THE great Northwest regards it as an excep
tionally chilly day when it gets left in telling
stories. The latest comes from logging camp
at Otsego lake. on the head-waters of the Au
Sable river, to the effect that single team of
horses have hauled load of pine logs, weighing
not less than ninety tons, distance Of one and
quarter miles. This was accomplished by pre-
pairing road, as is now the custom, especially
to get out vast quantities of pine timber. IL is
done as follows:
''These roads, after snow foundation is
formed at the beginning of the season, are care
fully scraped with patent scraper. Then a
sprinkling cart, with an abundant flow of water,
is run over the road at night. This water freezes
and makes the roab-bed a mass of solid ice.
Each snowfall is carefully scraped off and the
flooding process continues until the ice driveway
is eighteen or twenty inches above the surface
of the adjacent land Thus built the road beds
are firm and not as susceptible to thaw as the
ordinary snow-packed roads. In laying out
these roads distance of two miles is often
traversed to make a point not more than one
quarter of mile distant. This is requisite in
making it perfectly level, or with slight in
cline toward the objective side of the loaded
sleds"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

POETS have been maligned in all times, but
they are not wholly bad, after ALL James Buck
ham, one of the guild of verse-writers, gives
forth the following comforting lines. If human
ity can only hold out little longer, there may
yet come time when life will be worth living.
He sings;
Sometimes the breath will fail to flute
Sometimes the rift will choke the lutte;
The sweetest harp is sometimes mute.
So poets cannot always sing,
Though themes divine within them spring
The heart hath many stubborn string!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THE fate of the Gladstone government is
wrapped up in the fate of General Gordon at
Khartoum
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

Mr.. SPEAKER BYNUM should provide him
self with a copy of the BREWER Reports.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THE st. Louis Globe Democrat has acablegram
from London conveying the startling informa-
ton that "a wealthy American gentleman"
drought down the house at Drury Lane
theater by wildly calling for the author of Lucia
di Lammermoor The Globe Democrat deserves
the thanks of the country for its enterprise
in securing this important bit of news at the
earliest possible moment, regardless of expense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

Two rabbis of the Jewish church have issued
the first of a series of volumes which are to com
prise the Old Testament, expurgated and other
wise reconstructed. When the evangelical breth-
ren who are also revising the Old Testament,
bring out their edition it will be interesting to
compare the two. At the same time it may be
as well for all persons having Bibles which have
not been tempered with to retain possession of
them lest, in the refining and correcting process,
the original Scriptures shall be lost.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

HERE is a chance for Greek scholar to make
little spending money, if he happen also, to
have enough consonants by him to supply the
exigencies of the Welsh language. The Marquis
of Butte has offered prize of $500 for the best
translation of one of the Greek plays into the
Welsh language, the competition to take place
at the forthcoming national esteddfodd, at Liv-
erpool. Charles Francis Adams says the study
of Greek does not pay, but this is convincing
proof that he is wrong.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THERE is really no necessity for carving man
up in order to get his false teeth out of his
stomach when he has been so unlucky as to
swallow them, as New York doctors did the
other day. New Jersey man swallowed his
teeth about the same time and neighbor fed
him cod-liver oil until the plate was dissolved.
There may be some who would prefer the cary
ing to the oil-it is merely q matter OF taste
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-22

THE new election law of Louisiana prescrites
that q particular style of paper shall be used in
the printing of tickets. After the Republicans
nominated their ticket they went to the Secrcta-
ny Of State and secured all the paper that UNI