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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-20
Miscellaneous Notes.

The stockholders of the Boston 6 Maine road
have s.n4od the directors to consider the matter
of abolishing Sunday trains, not the putting on
of additional trains.
Conductors on the Union Pacific, in collecting
fare, add twenty five cents to rates quoted from
all stations, and issue a drawback check for
every cash fare collected, reporting same as per
instructions.
A new monthly is announced to appear in
January, 1855, devoted to express interests. 1t
will be published at Cincinnati. by the same
parties who issued a weekly during 1888 and a
bI-monthly during 1884.
President King, OF he Erie system, has made
his first monthly report, which shows a net de-
crease in October, including New York, Penn
sylvania 81 Ohio, of $2I5, 525. November will be
more favorable, as the results of his retrench-
ment policy will be partially felt.
The Baltimore g. Ohio Express Company has
withdrawn Temporarily from express business
out of Philadelphia. The express service be-
tween Baltimore and Philadelphia is now per-
formed by the Adams Express Company, whose
rate is sixty cents per hundred pounds between
those cities.
A year ago the earnings of the Chicago, Mil
waukee 81 st. Paul Company averaged from $40
to $50 per mile per week less than those OF the
Chicago & Northwestern. During the last
month, however, the earnings per mile on the
st. Paul road have been very little below those
Of the Northwestern
~Narrow-gauge roads arelosing caste in Texas,
the champion State for narrow-gauge roads. 1t
is stated on authority that the St. Louis g. Texas
narrow-gaugei is to he soon changed to a satand-
ard-gauge road, and that the company is now
distributing a quarter of a million cross ties
along the track for that purpose. This will give
Texas three standard-gauge lines to the North
west.
The Pittsburg Locomotive Works on Thurs
day completed their exhibit for the New Orleans
exposition, and will ship it in a day or two. The
exhibit will comprise three locomotives; one a
saddle-tank switch en9ne, weighing $1,000
pounds; another is a passenger engine for the
Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West railroad,
weighing Y, 1000 pounds, and the third is a heavy
passenger engine. weighing 90, 900 pounds.
The Boston Herald says that the Chicago Trib-
une is daily printing tables showing the largo
proportion of the price received by farmers for
wheat and corn taken by the railroads for
freights to Chicago. This is calculated TO arouse
the farming interests to a sense of their mis-
fortunes, and to lead to agitation against the
roads. The course pursued is so pronounced as
to suggestits origin with people short of granger
stocks.
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Grand Hotel; Major j. J. Finney, Richmond;
j. r. Wilson, Boonville; Albert J. Kelly. Terre
Haute; Thomas F. Davidson. Covington; J. S.
Crump and wife, Miss Corda Crump, Miss Mollie
Crump, Miss Ella Weber, Columbus; NJ. S. BIsh,
Seymour; Isaac Jenkinson, Richmond; D. c.
Bayre, New York, +. j. Davis, Boston; George
B. Morris, Lewisvllle; c. W. Robinson, Detroit;
W. r. Ford, Chicago; W. H. H.. Wilcox, Gin
cinnati.
Bates House: w. v. Tompson, Greenville;
Thos. Sullivan, Troy, O.; s.. P. Wells, Wells
town, o.; w. Fl. Clemens, Upton; Thos. D.
Evans, Linton; E.. P. Bishop, Decatur Il. J.
Deal, Bucyrus, o.; Will c. Wilson, Edinburgj
G. NJ. Girard, Greencastle; Jno. w. Ragsdale
and wife, Mrs. H. J. Wheat, Franklin; Theo. P.
Davis, Noblesvile, Charles Northrup, Mime
apolis; Dell Harding, Upton; B. S. Gray, Port
land.
Denison: L. D. Apsly, H. W, bennington,
Chicago; Miss Tiggatt, Richmond; G.: {. Stock,
Cleveland; W. G. Lyon, Chicago; A. E. Crockett,
Richmond; H. W. Chase, Lafayette; John Gour-
lay and wife, Louis Harrison and wife, Robert
Goardly, Miss Lille Brust, New York. S. H.
Harrington, Columbus, o.; A. Burt, S. L Os-
born, Cincinnati.
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PERSONAL MENTION.


Col. f. H Wolfe, Of Nashville, is at the Grand
Hotel
R. D. Marshall, of Dayton, is at the Bates
House.
Judge C F. MoNutt, of Torre Hauto, is at the
Bates House.
Col. JEFF. K. Scott, of MartinsvilIc, is at the
Bates House.
Col. Eb Henderson, of Martinsville, is at the
Bates House.
Hon. Charles L. Jewott, of New Albany, is at
the Bates House.
Major G. H. Blackburn, of Cincinnati, is at
the Bates House.
J. H. Beadle, of the Rockville Tribune, is az
the Grand Hotel.
Hon. James r. Johnston, congressman-elect
from the Eighth district, is at the Grand Hotel.
John L. Grifiths has gone to Now York, and
will not return to the city until after the holi-
days.
Edward Ivers, formerly a partner in the New
York dry goods store, of this city, died recently
at his home in Jersey City.
Miss Elsie Meder, of Cincinnati, who has been
the guest of Miss Jessie Apologize, No. % Cen
trail avenue, returned homo yesterday.
Rev. A. Marine will dedicate a new Methodist
church in Bourbon, Ind, tomorrow. His pull
pit, at Central avenue, will be occupied in the
morning by Rev William Jordan, of the Detroit
Conference, and at night by Mr.. Mcconnell, of
Roberts Park Church.
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BECAUSE it happens you and your friends have
failed to find health and strength by dosing your
self with bitters, iron and other mineral medi-
%cines, pretended cures for kidney diseases, so,
called discoveries, etc, you should not despair.
Shun all such nostrums and use a remedy free
from alchoholic and mineral poiSons, and other
hurtful ingredients, yes, use that old remedy
known as DR.. Guysotts Yellow Dock and Sarsa-
parilla. The only perfect blood purifier and
complete regulator and strengthened of the urin-
a thorough knowledge of herb medicines and
their effect. 1t will remove from the system ALI
flesh and blood diseases, all feelings of languof
and distress.
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THE
MI. Hewitt Makes a Vigorous Attack on MI
Reagan's Railway Bill.

8Er. Hewitt Makes a Vigorous Attack on MIR.
Reagan's Railway Bill.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ia bill was passed
authorizing construction of a bridge across the
Mississippi river at Rock Island.
The Speaker laid before the House a memorial
from j. G. Thompson, ex-Sergeant at Arms of
the House, asking Congress to make appropria-
ton to pay a Judgment rendered against him by
the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
In the suit of I3allett Kilbourne, to reimburse
him (Thompson) for expenses incurred by him,
and to pay him reasonable compensation for his
time and trouble. Referred to tho Judiciary
committee; with authority to report at any time.
Mr.. Hancock, from the committee on appro-
p%riations, reported back the invalid pension an
preparation bill Referred to the committee Of
the whole.
Tine ipterstate bill was taken up.
Mr.. ONeill moved 70 strike out the second
section of the Reagan bill, and insert the third
section of the bill originally reported from the
commtteo on These sections have
reference to rebates and drawbacks.
The motion was loSt-yeas, "A; nays, 129.
Mr.. Everhardt, of Pennsylvania, offered an
amendment prohibiting the issuing of free pass
os. Lost.
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York, moved to strike.
out that portion of the third section which pro
hibits pooling. Mr.. Hewitt said that while pool
ing might be an evil there were many evils which
were remedies for other greater evils. The
evils which pooling were intended to remedy and
which had. become intolerable, were the, evils of
unlimited competition. Large business houses
lad been compelled to employ clerks whose sole
business was to go from railroad Office to railroad
g ice and make bargains. More than that, the
e. mpanies themselves, which were intended to
b. common carriers. found themselves reduced
t. the condition of petty hucksters who were
compelled to have an army of clerks to regulate
the freight on every invoice of freight shipped
OVrr their lines. This evil was so enormous
that 1t led to the only practicable remedy, which
was pooling. Pooling, if honestly conducted,
gave! stability in rates of freight.
equal terms to every customer, and
carried out the. great principles OF
equal rights to all men. How should the evils
"f the pooling arrangement DO overcomef The
gentleman from Texas MIR. Reaganl said by the
abolition, of pooling, That would. consign. the
country to the chaos from which pooling had ex-
i"'"ated it. Let it be regulated by the appoint
&enG Of a commission. A commission would be
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THE COURT RECORD.
Supreme Court Decisions.

{. Samuel G. Junk ct al VS.. Minerva j. Barnard.
Cass c. c.. Affirmed. Bicknell, G. G.
Benjamin Smith VS.. Kit Mexican, administra-
tor ETC., ct al. Elkhart c. G. Affirmed. Black,
Martha Smith ct al. vs.. Matilda Clifford. Ham
ilton, c. @. Affirmed. Franklin, c.
Jesse e. Hendricks ct al. VS.. D.. NJ. Osborne &
Co. Warren G. c.. Affirmed. Elliott, J.
Hamlin Smith VS.. Henly L. Uhler. Jackson
G. c.. Affirmed. Colerick, G.
Wabash. st. Louis & Pacific Railroad Com
pany VS.. William Nice. Miami G. G. Reversed.
Bicknell, C. c..
Andrew J. Smith ct al. VS.. John B. Mosby ct
al. Decatur c.. C. Petition for rehearing over
ruled.
Calvin Hunt, administrator, etc, VS.. Calvin
Hunt, administrator, etc. Dismissed
Vashti Elwood VS.. Catharine Bymer ct al
Grant c. Q. Rehearing granted.
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A Large Reward for Bible Victims-Woman
and the Scriptures.

Lecture at Louisville.
Mr.. Ingersoll says the Bible is an impure book.
He reads a passage, affects to blush and says:
81 can't read more in the presence of this re
fined audience" and puts the book away. There
is much in medical books that can't be read in
public; then put those books away When the
Bible deals with the putrefaction Of sin. we arc
to see its harm and not love it. The Bible way
of showing sin makes you hate it; tho Byronlc
way makes you love it. Mr.. Iugersoll says the
Bible is 4 cruel book. Is itl A cruel book pro
duces cruelty. Where the Scriptures are not
p%racticed the people beat each other. There arc
100000, 900 Bibles in circulation. Show mo
1000 victims, show me 600, or 500, or 400, or 200:
show mo 100, or 60, or 40, or 20, or 5; yes, show
2, show l. offer 81, 900 for one victim. Zap
plause
Mr.. Ingersoll says the Bible is romans tyrant.
Is it} Come into the worlds picture gallery.
Look at Eve, perfect woman; sec Deborah,
mighty for good; see Abigail, i'll her beauty and
power, stop the armed host-a hurricane stopped
at sight of u water-lily, a dewdrop dashing back
Niagara. Applause. Here is Yashti defying
a debauched kings crew; here is Esther saving
her nation; here is the woman, the perfume of
whose ointmeuthas como over tho ages; horo is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-20
Where Railroads Need P~rotect:on.

Within the last twelve months seven persons
have been killed in this State when trespassing
upon railway companies grounds, that is, walk
ing upon their tracks, and it would seem highly
proper that State Legislatures should protect
the. companies in this matter, as the heirs of five
of the persons killed while trespass
ing on the companies rights have
brought suits for damages. In this particular
there is a radical difference between English
laws and the statutes in force in most, if not all.
the States Of this Union. In England a man
who walks upon railway tracks at places which
are not grade crossings may be arrested and
fined for such proceedings. An interesting and
emphatic decision was made by the Supreme
Court of Iowa, recently, in a case relating to
the liability of railway companies for injuries
inflicted on trespasserS on their tracks. The
plaintiff was very seriously injured bw a train
run by the, Burlington s. Northwestern Railway
Company. He was on the tracks it was using
at the time of the accident, and the
place where the injury occurred was not a
crossing nor any other part of the line that
foot-travelers were obliged to use. In the lower
court he recovered damages, and the judges who
presided over it refused to instruct the Jury to
return a verdict for the railway company. This
refusal formed the principal ground of the APP
peal to a higher tribunal, which was asked to
decide that there was no evidence authorizing a
verdict for the plaintiff. The Supreme Court
made its rulings plain by this cogent reasoning:
"a person who from pleasure or from curiosity
enterS a manufaetOry, and walks among the
machinery, and exposes himself to danger, is
not u treSpasSer in a legal sense. But if he does
not keep out of the way of the machinery, and
is injured, he cannot recover, because he puts
himself in a place he had no business to be, and
his very presenceis contributory negligence. So.
where an adult person, in full possession of mind
band. senses. for his own convenience walks upon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-20
The Foundation OF the Troubles.

General Manager Haines. of the Savannah,
Florida 81 Western railroad, has published a
pamphlet discussing the evils of stock-watering.
He holds that if the railroads of the United
States were capitalized for the money actually
invested in them-wisely or unwisely-and the
managers left to make their own rates, the peo-
pie would have lower rates and better accommo-
paid than they are now. Also. that the watering
of stock has been the foundation of all the
trouble in railway finance, and that if it had
been prevented by law, there would have been
little need for other railroad LEGISLATION.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-20
This Years RaiIroad CONSTRUCTION.

It is quite evident that railway construction
will reach scarcely 1000 miles this year, but
good authorities say that an increase in c~onstruc-
ton will surely take place next year. The price
of railway construction has declined about 40
per cent. Money is abundant, but hepossessors
of it strangely hold on to it with steel rails at
1928, locomotives and cars. and railway appliances
at 40 per cent. less than two years aso, and all
year or two hence, when prices have advanced
10 to 80 per cent this idle capital will rush into
market and beg for bonds to build roads and
prosecute engineering enterprises, and to find
employment in a score or more ways which en-
ploy large blocks. of capital in times Of great
prosperity. Railway builders would push con
struction now, if they had their way, and would
willingly wait a year or two for the c~ountry's re-
q%uirements to overtake their work. But invest
ers seem to think otherwise.
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a New Line from Chicago to MlnneapolI.

MADISON, Wis, Dec. ia mortgage was
filed in the Secretary of States office, to-day, by
". O. Wright, Of Freeport, TO the American
Loan and Trust Company, of New York, to Sc
cure $40, 900, coo forty-year 6-pereent. gold
bonds issued by the Chicago, Freeport Sc st.
Paul Railway company, of which he is presi-
dent, to be used on account of construction and
equipment of that road. The proposed road
extends from Chicago to Minneapolis, via Free
port, Dodgeville, Sparta, Durand and st. Paul,
q distalce of 400 miles. One hundred mics are
also to be built from a point Of junction in
Green county, to Portage. President Wright
asserts that the line is to be built as an indie
pendent enterprise, and will be completed from
Chicago to Minneapolis during tho coming year,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-20
A Heavier Freight Tramc in Prospect.

The opinion prevails among freight men and
shippers that January will bring a heavy east
bound traffic; that there will be a large move
ment of grain especially, and also of live stock
They base this belief on the fact that the
interior markets are lightly supplied with corn
and oats. There is an increasing export de-
mand for corn and -four, and prices in Eastern
and export markets, moro especially of corn,
are likely to adjust themselves to the
rail rates, fulfilling the prediction Of some of the
best posted freight men that if the roads would
restore and strictly live up to the east-bound
tariff, in twenty to thirty days the roads would
have all the business they can we'll han
die, and derive some revenue fer car
rying it. An improvement in business with
the railroads invariably means an Improvement
in business generally, as it not only gives work
to clerks, idle trainmen and switchmena at central
railroad points, but as well at smaller stations,
where the grain is loaded, and, best of all, it
puts money in circulation in the country, en-
ables the producer to pay his grocer, the latter
in turn to pay the wholesale man, and really
sets all the wheels of commerce in motion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-20

Hon. Pierce Norton, Judge.
Duvall Campbell; grand larceny. Case dis
missed by State.
William Young; petit larceny. Tried by
court and sent up for two years.
Michael Dunn; malicious trespass. Fined 81
and sent to Jail for one day.
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Not GentlemanlY.


milwaukee, SoniinoI.
A young lady of Maryland has written Cleve-
land a letter marked private, in which she offers
indecency of allowing it to be published with her
full name. 1t is to be feared that the ex- sheriff
of Eric county is not a gentleman
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q railroad track, away from a crossing, he Is in
a place where he is not invited, and he has no
right to demand that the persons operating trains
shall be on the lookout to save him from injury
Smyrna times., 1884-11-05
A Milk Diet.

A scientific writer says that milk
should enter largely into the diet of
children. 1t contains caseine, or flesh
forming materials, cream and sugar,
which are heat producers mineral
salts, for the bony structure, and water
as a solvent for all the other materials
necessary in nutrition. 1t should be
used with discretion, however; not
drunk immOderately, but taken slowly
as food, after the pattern given by
nature.
Milk as taken is a fluid, but as soon
as it meets the acid of the gastric juice
it is changed to a soft, curdy, cheese
like substance, and then must be di-
gested, and the stomach is overtasked
if too much be taken at once. A large
glass of milk swallowed suddenly will
form in the stomach a lump of dense,
cheesy curd, which may even prove
fatal to a weak stomach.
Under the action of the stomach this
cheesy mass will turn over and over like
a heavy weight, and as the gastric
juice can only attack its surface, it di-
gests very slowly. But this milk,
taken slowly or with dry toast, light
rolls or soft, dry porridge, forms a por-
Gus lump, through which the gastric
juice can easily pass, and which breaks
up every time the stomach turns it
over. Milk should be slightly salted
and eaten with breadstuffs or slipped
by the spoonful. Cows milk produces
less heat than human milk a child
would grow thin upon it unless little
sugar were added. Wheat flour has
such an excess of heat-producing ma
terial as would fatten child unduly,
and should have cows milk added to
it to reduce its fattening power.
Smyrna times., 1884-11-05

BANGLES ON DANDY WRIsTs.-The
number of men who wear bangles on
their wrists is slowly increasing in
New York. The fashion has not spread
with unusual rapidity, but is surely
and slowly gaining ground, and the
noticeable part of it Is that the affection
is more prominent among Americans
than among foreigners. The same
thing is true of the single eye-glass.
In Delmonico's at all times one may
see anywhere from five to a dozen men
attempting to eat soup and hold their
glasses on their eyes at the same time,
and it is a rare night that does not
witness one or two accidents from this
affectatiOn.
When a man is opening his mouth in
the vicinity of the soup spoon the mus
cles of his face naturally relax and the
eye-glass drops from hiseye. OfcOursei it
drops on the edge of the soup plate,
and that is the end of the soup, the
eye-glass and the dude for that partic-
ular evening.
Smyrna times., 1884-11-05

THREE BREAKFAST DIsHEs.-An eX-
cellent dish for breakfast is made of
six eggs and three tablespoonsfulls
of ham chopped very fine; beat the
eggs, and after melting q lump of but
ter in the frying pan, drop the eggs
into it and stir the ham in the ham
has of course been cooked, either fried
or boiled season with pepper. This
is good way to use up pieces of meat
that are left from dinner.
Graham puffs for breakfast are richer
and great deal nicer than the plain
gem; take one pint of sweet milk, one
pint of graham flour, half teaspoon
full of salt and one egg, beat the egg,
then add the milk, and then the flour
gradually, beat it very briskly for four
or five minutes, then pour into buttered
gem pans; bake in a hot oven.
To make a nice breakfast dish of
sweet potatoes, parbOil them the day
before, then in the morning slice them
and fry them until brown, in butter,
sprinkle pepper and salt over them :;
cut them lengthwise, so that they will
keep their shape.
Smyrna times., 1884-11-05

my friend, after a silence, with his
eyes fixed on the dancing flame,
" Farming, too, is the safest occupation.
A farm can't burn up. One can't be
robbed Of it; and its products are
always growing and increasing even
while its owner idles or sleeps. And
then, tOO," he added little tenderly,
"a farm gives the children a home
stead. ."-CaIhOun, IN the Ne,U York
Observer.
Smyrna times., 1884-11-05

GREENvILE, CALIFoRNIA.-Mr. Har-
ry Williams certifes under his nOtarial
seal, that Mrs. A. Williams was suffer-
ing with pains in the back, so severe
she was unable to turn and was delir-
iOus. When then the case assumed an
alarming stage, one application of St.
Jacobs Oil was made, externally, after
several remedies had been tried and
failed. The patient slept sOundly
until morning and got up entirely
cured
Smyrna times., 1884-11-05

OUR PRETTY GIRLs.-Without Phar-
isaism it may justly be said that our
neighboring city, Baltimore, girls have
for years been famed for their beauty
over their sisters of less favored cities.
A Kentucky letter-writer who him
self halls from State one of whose
counties boasts of the finest women,
horses and whiskey in the world,
claims to have found the secret of this
far-famed beauty. tits, he says, because
they lace less and walk more than
other girls.
This is true in a measure, but the
real secret is found in the sound mind
thatis cultivated together with thebody.
The Boston girl cultivates her mind at
the expense of her body. The New
Yorker thinks of nothing but her looks.
The Chicago thinks of nothing at ALL
But our own girls know what is good
all round, and they leave nothing
undOne to attain the golden mean.
Above all they do not trouble them
selves with the vain lOngings of most
American girls. They are contented
and contentment is the best beautifer.
Philadelphia Daily Nel0s.
Smyrna times., 1884-11-05

Old Mother Hubbard
Went to her cupboard
For dress to cover her bones;
When she got there
The cupboard was bare,
So She cried loudly with grOans.
But she had so much wit
She said 1T won't fit,
But I'll wear my pretty night-gOwns. "
So she took one and wore il.
But the men they all swOre Il
should never be seen in the towns,