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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

EXPERIMENTS at certain school centres of London
have proved that penny is sufficient to pay all
expenses for substantial and nutritious dinner for
school children.
ALBERT VICTOR son of the Prince of Wales, who
soon to visit this country will celebrate his twenty
first birthday on Jan, g. the anniversary of General
Jackson's capture of New Orleans.
GENERAL ALBERT PIKE, though seventy five years
old has just made an extended tour through Texas,
and was everywhere heartily received. The old man
still persists in always appearing in confederate
THE two young who went all the way from
Youngstown o., to New Orleans to buy exclusive
beer privilege at the exposition for 81 900 told
they could have 1t for 100000. They concluded
not to buy.
Mrs KATE CHASE tSprague) has suddenly retired
from the Paris American colony, of which she was
one of the conspicuously brilliant members and has
gone to more economical housekeeping at Fontaine-
bleau to devote herself the education of her chill
dren.
Mr.. BLAINE is going to Europe time next year
He will first write a history of the war of 1872 and
give sketch of the politics of that period He will
remain In Europe for year two for recreation and
rest His friends say he will himself enter poll
tics again.
OWING TO his wealth. business interests influence
freedom from political entangements and above all
to his valuable services in the late campaign Mr..
Singerley, of the Philadelphia Record, is said to be
likely to stand closer to Mr.. Cleveland during his ad
minstration than any other Pennsylvania.
Now that the cold weather is approaching, or with
u.s. it ought be remembered that covering of felt
nicely put pipes prevents the water from freezing
in them and all she train Of evil consequences which
frozen water pipes entail unless the cold is
ally tho spell of frost unusually protracted.
~ URUETA, in recent paper about snakes, relates
that In Colombia their chief destroyers two
species of brds-the calabrero and guacabo-and the
cats and hogs. The latter supposed to be protec
ted from the sting account of their layers of
adiuose tissue. Cats receive bad from the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12

THE Brand Leman election fraud at Chi
cage will yet be unraveled, those in position
to assist in the swindle having begun to
''squeal" on each other Arthur Gleason,
chief deputy in County Clerk Ryans Office,
charges Henry Biehl, one of the employees of
the office. with having distracted the envel-
ope. 1t is not plain, however, that Gleason
is altogether blameless. His haste to accuse
others will probably result in the entire plot
being laid bare. 1t is apparent that some one
in the Office is guilty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12

win come when tho people will demand that their
representatives shall have voice in the making of
treaties; when these important pacts shall DO sub
mitted not to the Senate only but to Congress- for
ratification. st. Louis Republican.
WITH Congo politics and Congo administration we
have business to NEEDLE. These matters must ever
remain under the egis of those political systems rad
icaly different from our own, that prevail in the
European hemisphere. By discussing them we have
ventured on ground where have much to lose and
nothing to gain. Thanks to the diplomacy of our
State Department the doctrines of the Berlin confer
longer limited to any continent to any
hemisphere. Some fine morning we shall wake up to
find Berlin, London Paris Madrid conference.-the
which may may not be invited as one among
ffteen-sitting in solemn conclave and settling the
internal affairs and local administration of Mexico
Panama, or Nicaragua-New York Herald.
WE want an extension of trade, but the place
to look for business is in markets where business is
done. There is to suspect that good deal of
this reciprocity legislation is inspired by the desire of
special interests in this country to get materials
cheaper not for the purpose Of selling them cheaper
but to increase the margin of their profits. The
monopoly built up in California by the Hawaiian
reciprocity treaty would only need treaties
like that proposed by Spain to be able to extend itself
over the entire country The United States had bet
ter reduce its tighten taxation, and stimulate
business by general and well-considered movement
of tariff reform, and not by pecemeal process of
treaty patchwork for the benefit of few pushing syn
dicates.-Chicago Tribune.
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Eleotrioity's Deadly Work.

Mexico Two hepuDllc5.
shocking tragedy occurred on Sunday night
in the Zocalo where the beautiful concert pavil-
ion has been erected for the festival of All Saints
and All Souls Days. One life was lost and three
men were so seriously injured that life in their
case was despaired of. 1t was a case of peculiar
interest. A man known as Pantaeon Estrada,
a worker in guitars. tying a stone to the end of
an ordinary wire threw it over the electric wire.
Estrada Immediately fell dead in his tracks.
The contact of the two wires killed him. A po-
liceman standing by and street-car conductor
had much of their clothing burned off, and were
themselves so seriously injured that their lives
trembe in the balance The electric current
affected others also more or less The
scene succeeding the tragedy was demon
alizing. For a moment the dumb terror of
seeing strong men totter and fall as if struck by
some invisible hand, held the crowd spellbound.
Succeeding the terrorized apathy came wild
rush for life. Fortunately, exits w-re plentiful,
and to that was due the fact that many were
not stamped to death.
John Herbert, of the eectric-light company,
mounted ladder with silk handkerchief in
hand, to remove the wire thrown by the unfor-
tunate Estrada The rain was falling heavily at
the time, but he did not notice that the handker-
ceief was becoming damp He applied it to the
wire to remove it, and received himself a severe
shock that threw him from the ladder. Falling
to the stone pavement. his head was cut open.
He will recover, however. The police believe
that Estrada represents gang of pickpockets
and thieves and that his object in throwing the
wire was TO extingush the electric lights and
give his pals chance to operate. Whether that
was so not is not known, for he who could
have told has had his lips burned to silence
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why Cleveland Returned the Pup.


The fact that President Cleveland returned a
puppy with which he had been presented has
been treated solely as question of propriety in
the matter of accepting gifts. But there are
reasons for believing that Mr.. Cleveland's act
has been altogether misinterpreted by his POI
litieal friends, and that it at the same time
both hint and an appeal for proper and timely
assistance. Think of It'll In the name of uni
versal Democracy, of what earthly use would q
puppy be at the door of the White House when
the Huns and Cloths begin to swarm up from the
South and down from the North Tor oficel Let
two or three Siberian bloodhounds and adult
tiger or two be sent in. Mr.. Cleveland would
never return such useful presents as these, and
the refusal of the puppy was doubtless delicate
way of conveying a hint to his party that in the
hard times now falling on him useful things
alone can be tolerated. If there be any Demo-
Gratis who really believe in civil-service reform,
and desire to protect the new President from the
human swarms who will come to overthrow it,
let them make his Christmas merry one by
sending some full-grown Siberian protectors and
tigers that have never been taught reverence foe
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vetoing the General Grant Bill.
IndIanapolls News.


We should like to see our accidental, button
hole-bouquet, clubhouse president veto bill re-
firing Grant to the Office and pay he once held.
What picture it would bel On the one hand,
the man who twenty years ago was needed worse
in the life of his Nation than any man in it, ex-
cepting the martyred Lincoln, now broken ia
health and fortune, gray and crippled old war
rior, simple private citizen; on the
other the sleek and well-fed General who
served his country on the CORY field Of
Manhattan island in the quartermasterS de-
partruent A Democratic Congress places
the old warrior on the retired list. "Gonerel'
Arthur, now President, vetoes the act because
of some fine sense of alleged negahty. We
should like to see that thing. President Arthur
has already insulted General Grant by trying to
make him a civil pensioner of the government
Think of this Nation making civil pensioner Of
its greatest general along with Mrs Garfield
Mrs. Polk ana Mrs Tyler! Grant has strength.
ened himself by peremptorily refusing to be put
In such position. We should like now to see
him retired as general and see Mr. Arthur wres-
tie with the result. If he should refuse to sane
tion it he would have an accession of large and
valuable amount of information.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12

Ruhomah's Washington Letter.


Church circles are already excited over Gov
ernor Cleyeland's religious views, and the New
York avenue Presbyterian Church, which he
will attend, is on this account receiving an in
fux of the multitude. Pews and sittings can
not be had now, and the pastor will nave to give
up his own family pew to the new President
Some of the good blue Presbysterians of the con-
gregation deprecate the coming of the admins
tration INTO their midst and others reioice. DR.
Bartlett, the pastor, is an old friend of Governor
Cleveland, and the coming of the President just
offsets a split that about to take
place in lis congregation. The discon-
tented element was led by Justice Stanley
Matthews, and that wing of the congregation
had about decided to withdraw and go off by
themselves and build church in the northwest
ern end of the city Their secession would have
drawn from the revenues of the church seriously.
but with President in the congregation, Or.
Bartletts party have no financial fears. The
crowds that blocked every door of St Johns
Church during the hrst years that President
Arthur attended there are already falling away,
and it is still remembered how the hundreds
that suddenly thronged the Campbellite Church
after Garfeld's Inauguration have suddenly
disappeared The New York avenue Church
has been the court church here. and is best iden-
titled the place where President Lincoln wor-
shiDed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12

AS the eminent Democratic statesmen of
the country CO. one by one, to call upon Mr..
Cleveland, they report with great unanimity
that they are much pleased with him, and the
organs publish these opinions triumrhantly as
proofs that the President-elect is considerable
of man after all It is not the unsophsti-
Gated reader who reflects that these able and
artful statesmen are not likely to 60 about
proclaiming that their President elect and
their only hope is poor stick, even if they
think so
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12
AN INSANE INVENTOR.
PiHable Condition of the Inventor of the
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine,

Pitiable Condition of the Inventor of the
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine.
Waterbury Comm Special.
The name of A. B. Wilson is known the whole
world over that of the inventor of the Wheeler
d Wilson sewing-machine. 1t was some forty
years ago that, while poor mechanic this man
made the invention which should place him in
the foremost rank of scientific men in this coun-
try. He is to-day little more than dwelling
idiot For some time his stumbling figure. clad
IN uncouth garments. shod with turnover low
shoes and crowned with slouched hat has at
tracted much attention on the streets here.
His magnificent cast of features was
expressionless and the marks of dissipation werg
completed by the neck of the bottle protruding
from his pocket as he came regularly after his
daily allowance of bitters. With wife and
daughter two most noble women, he has lived
in a grand house surrounded by extensive lands,
but the property is all in his wifes name and he
has been unable to take care of it for himself
since the time that Nathaniel Wheeler got sole
possession of the patent and established this
mammoth factory in Bridgeport, where thou-
sands Of the machines are turned out weekly.
AT the moment of the highest success the great
man fell Removal from business did not seem
to help him, and he has continued to go down
until to day, when his long suffering, but pa
tient wife and daughter had him taken to the
Insane Asylum in Hartford.
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Advice to IngersOll-Ha

Atlanta Cor BtltutlOn.
In an Indiana town, the other night, while
Bob Ingersoll was assailing Christianity prom
inent citizen rose in his seat and protested
against the lecturers blasphemy. In reply In
gersoll simply said: well, why don't you go|
Another pertinent question will suggest itself
The prominent citizen must have known in add
vance the tenor of lngersolPs discourse Why
did he 90 to hear hml If a man cannot stand
blasphemy he has no business at one of Inger-
soils lectures 1t will not excuse him in the
slightest degree to sit through half of the lecture
and then make dramatic protest against it. He
has already done all the mischief of which he is
capable by contributing his dollar to the motor
ious infidel and by making one of his audience.
There is only one way to stop an infdel speaker,
and that is to keep away from him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12

THE Kansas City Times Democratic. reit-
crates this stale innuendo: "Corkling's hair
has a beautiful curl, but there is no crooked
ness in his politics" The Times knows, as
does everybody, that had Conkling been nom
mated by the Republicans the Times, nor
any other Democratic organ would have al
lowed his honesty, but would have been quick
to charge him with some political trickery-.
no matter what--only so that it be adhered to-
With all that was attempted to be proved
against Blaine, it was never shown that he
Profted one cent through his political action
Or influence on legislation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12

GEN. SHERMAN is right in taking his own
time to reply to Jeff. Davis's denial of his
treachery to the Confederacy, as charged by
Sherman. Davis is beneath the notice of any
selfrespecting Union man, and his indigna-
ton over what he pleases to regard a reflection
on his honor o would be amusing in any one
less contemplate than Davis. General Sher-
mans criticism, spoken without any idea Of
the Importance that might be attached to it,
needs no vindcation. With loyal, Union
loving men it will pass without ques-
ton, however unqualifedly Davis may
deny it. A man like Jeff Davis, with enough
of treachery in his nature to carry him into
rebellion, and puer'o enough to never accept
the results of the war, is not and was not above
treachery and treason to his fellow-conspira-
tors, or felow-rebes, if you please. The man
disloyal enough to attempt the ruin Of coun-
belonged could not continue to rule would
not be above betraying any engaged with him
in his reasonable undertaking. Not
much faith can be placed in
Benedict Arnold. Few care whether
General Sherman has documentary
evidence sufficient to convict Davis of lying
in this instance. OF what possible advantage
would it be 10 prove that burglar had conceived
the idea of defrauding his ''pals' of their
share of the plunder9 1t could not intensity
the contempt already felt for Jeff Davis to
prove beyond doubt that he would have sacri-
feed his friends. Jefferson Davis's opinion
of General Sherman, of himself, or of any
body else is not of the slightest interest to
anybody. Buried in his own infamy, both
during and since the war, let him remain
there.
The ex- President of the Confederacy is one
of the very few men who have not accepted
the results of the war. His co-conspirators, for
the most part, are contented with the Union
"as it is" and soothe their outraged feelings
by numbering their way back into Office.
Davis, probably because not restored to the
rights ana privileges OF cluzenSnlp, is noC sat
isfed that the "lost cause" is really lost. He
persists in nursing and coddling it, and his
od-time admirers tickle him in his dotage by
listening to and applauding his disloyal
utterances. General Sherman is wise in not
STOPPING to help Jeff. Davis out of the mire of
his we'll earned obscurity and contempt. The
bestowal of even abuse is an honor he does
not deserve. Let his physical death be pre-
coded by social and moral death, from which
there can be no resurrection. For quarter
Of century, in the heat of war and in the
calm of peace, this galrulous old man has per-
sisted in perpetuating his moral and political
infamy He has written his own record. Let
it stand a warning for oncoming gener-
atoms
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12

THE convention agreed upon with England
by Reverdy johnson and Earl Clarendon was
rejected by the unanimous vote of the
Senate, we believe, with the exception of Nc
Creery, of Kentucky. By vote of the Sen
ate the injunction Of secrecy was removed,
and the proceedings made public. AS it now
appears, the Spanish treaty is very likely to
meet with similar fate. So far as we have
observed, it is almost unanimously condemned
by the press Of the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12

THE conviction of lawyer Corneilson, at Mt.
Sterling, KY, and the sentence of three years
in Jail, is the first step in the right direction
but only the first He will doubtless move
for new trial, and take advantage of every
legal technieality to escape his deserts The
people shoHld see to it that the prosecution is
sustained to the end Corneilson is the brute
who attacked Judge Reid with a whip, be-
cause of some offense given, the Judges hui
initiation being so great that he committed
suicide
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years. In what manner the present gathering
differs from previous ones Of similar charac
ter they are unable to understand, but are
slowly coming to the belief that to Methodists
a one-hundredth anniversary means jubilee
lasting one hundred years. Just to help along
the confusion we will state that the real actual,
simon pure, Jacob Townsend centennial
ure of relief might add that all ''centennials"
are barred after 1885,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12

THE Methodist "centenniaP' celebration.
now being held in Baltimore, is causing great
confusion in the minds not only of the average
unregenerate citizen who reads of it, bat also Of
Presbyterian, Baptist and other brethren who
plod patiently along and never have a chance
TO join in such festivities in their own
churches They are entirely unable to keep up
VIII the Methodist procession insisting with
some frrnness that Wesley's followers in this
country have been celebrating "centennials"
at intervals for the past fifteen Or sixteen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-12
MISS MAoKAY's ENGAGEMENT.
Minister Noyes's Recoilections of the
Family in Paris.

Famlly IN IarlSs
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The renort of Miss Mackavs engagement to be
married to Ferdinand de Colonna Prince of
Galatro, it is announced, was confirmed by a
cabegram from Mrs Mackay herself to friend
in New York. Still there are those who doubt the
veracity of this statement Yesterday after
noon a reporter called upon Ex-Governor Noyes,
late Minister to France, who during his official
sojourn In PARIS and subsequently became init
mately acquainted with the Bonanza Kings
family. He was shown by the reporter an
article from the St Louis Globe Democrat, viii n
gave some particulars in regard to the proposed
alliance and the parties interested.
After perusinS the same, the General said:
This article is full of errors, and | regret to
see many misstatements in the newspapers
in regard to the Mackay family In the first
place, do not believe word about this sup
posed engagement with an Italian prince, and
it would be difficult for me to realize that Mrs.
Mackay has sent cablegram confirming the
truth of the same. | know from Mrs. Mackay
herself that she is opposed to such alliances. /
saw her in Paris in July last had many pleas
ant conversation with her, and | am sure she
would have spoken to me about this engagement
if it had been made However since that time
Miss Mackay may have made her choice. One
thing is certain, Miss Mackay is far from being
that fragile form which she is represented to
be in this newspaper article. She is not
stout girl, but she is we'll developed and of a
lovely type of beauty. Neither is her mother
"a strong, aggressive type of woman. She is
model of affabity. kindness and goodness of
heart Her charities are large and frequent, but
given without any ostentation whatever. l have
never been able to find reason for the many
misrepresentation which are from time to time
published in regard to the Mackay family.
"Miss Mackay has been IN society about three
years, and, suppose. is nineteen years of age,
l have seen her at balls and parties and fashion
able occasions. and she is most attractive. Then
it is not true that Mrs. Mackay already has a
daughter married TO a titled Frenchman. but it
is her sister, Miss Ada Hungerford who was
married to the Count Telfeuor Miss Mackay
has not been an invalid since the time of her
childhood, as alleged, but to my knowledge has
enjoyed good health. Mrs Mackay's first hus
band may have been druggist, but he was
known as DR. Bryant, and was the nephew of
William Cullen Bryant. the poet l have no
knowledge of or acquaintance with Ferdinand
de Coonna, to whom she is supposed to be en-
gagged, but l know of the family as one of the
best and noblest in Italy"
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Miss Terry's Visitors.


fhlladel phla FresS
''Mr Irving" asked a reporter Of the great
English actor yesterday afternoon. "can you tell
me if it is true, as reported in the papers, that
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Coleridge are coming over
here to visit Miss Ellen TerryP
Coleridge is a son of Lord Chief justice Coler-
idge, and they both very dear friends of hers.
They to sail from England on the 1lth and
hope they will reach here before VIC leave Phila-
deRnia linen tney VIII us, stay month WITH I'm her
Philadelph ia"
"As actors, yes; but as friends, no. Our du-
ties at the Lyceum Thcater. of which, as you
know, am manager, and hope to be for many
years more, will prevent US from coming over
again, for, as 1 am to have the Lyceun in charge,
hope that Miss Terry will be one of US
For you take my house when you do take the
prop that doth sustain my house.
whenever we may have holiday We may
run over here visitors and friends but not to
appear on the stage"