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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07
THE oLoTHBS.PIN SUPPLY.

The latest campaign lie is to the effect that
the American republic gets away with 3,OOO,-
100000 clothes-pins annually. Now, it is
evident that sixty. clothes-pins per head per
annum is certainly very liberal estimate.
Take family of ten persons-their allowance
in the regular way would be 600 pins year,
1t is a well-known fact that there are certain
classes of people, aggregating thousands, that
have no use for clothes-pins Take bachelor.
The only possible employment he can devise
for such a thing is to fasten his suspenders to
his trousers. But a dozen pins per year
would be a very generous allowance
for him. Then there are babies. Babies
don't use clothes-pins excessively, and perhaps
on an average ordinary baby doesn't swal-
and most of them are recovered by anxious
mothers unwilling to encourage such expens-
i've habits of diet. Business men use clothes
pins very sparingly, while the majority of
preachers could not tell clothes-pin from
meat skewer We are then driven to the
hired girl, upon whom depends the response
bility of accounting for six hundred clothes
pins a year. That she does not
use them for fuel is plain enough,
since nobody ever saw a clothes-pin
that weighed less than pound and half on
account of the water it has assimilated, and
by no possible process could. it be made to
burn. The secret of this mystery-as great
as the one concerning the disappearance of or
binary pins-is that the girl must swallow
them. Scientists have long observed that
hired girls are often seen with clothes-pins in
their mouths; but did anybody ever see
hired girl take one away from her mouths
Probably not one in 273 is ever removed after
being so disposed of. This theory has many
friends, and is growing in popularity, espe-
cially since the post-mortem on an unknown
woman at Chicago revealed that she was
hired girl, the presence of some sixty-fve
clothes-pins in her stomach rendering the con
clusion beyond controversy, This also ex-
plains another physical phenomenon. Hired
girls have never been known to throw up
anything. The pins prevent it. There are
other points that might be developed in this
connection but this is sufficient for the pres
emit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

THE Northwestern Christian Advocate, pub
lished at Chicago, is religious newspaper,
but it is edited by man who believes that re-
hgion has to do with current events In the
early days of the war, and preceding, tie Ad
vocate was one of the strongest reliances of
the administration. Its ringiHg blows for the
of freedom, gave it national reputation and
influence. In an article full of the old fire
the Advocate discusses the Southern question
in its poitico-religious bearings, taking for its
text the recent utterances of Bishop Pierce, of
the Methodist Church South, to which the
journal has already called attention, and some
articles in the New Orleans Advocate, in
which the Northern Methodist Church is de-
nounced as an interloper and robber because
it has established itself in the Southern States.
The Advocate says:
"This is republic, and its citizens ought
to be free in every part of it. Free they are
not, even at the end of the first quarter-cen-
fury after the tree of exclusiveness bore its
WOGSb Ifu1U. AS IndU OOuUUerl
Church was goo mother to civil war, so she is
now in widows weeds. As she taught unre-
pubicanism, so must our church teach loyal
ty in every hamlet in the land This will be
called Republican presidential-year talk So
be it, since our plain speech is made necessary by
Southern presidential-year instigation to Sc
cure control Of the government which the
South could not get by force. Be deceived at
your peril"
With respect to the outrages practiced to
kill free suffrage the Advocate further says:
eff citizens who have legal right to vote
are driven away from the polls; if stuffed or
tissue ballots permit one person a combina-
ton of persons to carry an election flaudu-
lently, a long step is taken toward anarchy,
military usurpation, or an autocracy. When
men shall have generally become convinced
that the votes of law-abiding citizens, lovers of
their country, may be counterbalanced, offset
revolvers or tissue ballots, and when such a
belief is concurred in by the people, the re-
public will have become thing of the past.
When the voice Of the people ceases to be the
voice of God, and is merely the voice Of con-
spirators, God will rule us with rod of iron.
Are our Southern brethren conscious that
when the time comes, if it comes, wherein
bona-fde ballots in the North shall be over
balanced by stuffed ballots at the South in a
national election, while the colored voter is
driven to the swamps and woods, it will be the
duty of the honest voters, if Necessary, by force
to vindcate the principles on which the repub-
lie is basedW
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

THIS weeks Life has an effective cartoon on
the slow processes of courts against murder.
ers In a series of illustrations the following
sentiments are made plain: 'FWhen murder
is committed in the Eastern States, we do
everything decently and in order. In the
course of six months or so the murderer is
locked up, and his portrait is published in the
official organ of the police This brings him
to the notice of the society for the encourage
ment of discouraged brutes." (The murderer
represented in his cell receiving cakes and
bouquets from two ladies that have called. }
ga year OF two later he is brought to trial be-
fore a jury of Observation-Disclosures but owing to
the eloquence of his counsel escapes with a
verdict of involuntary manslaughter in the
third degree, with a recommendation
to mercy. The murderer has scarcely
arrived at the States prison when the society
for the encouragement Of discouraged brutes
proceed to make the Governors life burden
with petitions for his release All these
ideas are effectively portrayed, and the "inis'
shows the accused, smiling and crowned with
a plug hat, leaving the prison to resume his
old place in society. The lower half of the
cartoon, in contrast with she above, shows the
Western method, with the sentiment; "But
in the brutal West it is different, and some
what more effective" In the foreground the
murderer is hanged to tree, while Judge
Lynch's court may be seen riding away, well
satisfied with the swift and sure processes of
his never-erring Judgment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

THE Washington Post, Democratic organ,
takes General Browne severely to task because
of his opposition to the Mexican pension bill
for the reason that it pensioned rebel soldiers.
The Post dwells upon the beautiful charity
shown by Southern congressman in voting
pensions to the men who "overcame them in
the conflict of arms" (meaning the war of the
rebelion) the fair inference being that Union
soldiers like General Browne should welcome
the opportunity to vote for pensions to these
sweet-spirited, magnanimous ex-confederates.
Without stopping to argue the question, the
journal states again that we are fastening to
the time when the war of the rebellion will
either be forgotten, or when to have been on
the confederate side will be as honorable as TO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

A CURIOUS story is given currency that
Mrs. Della Parnell of Bordentown, N j., the
aged mother of Charles Stewart Parnell, the
Irish agitator, has long been made the victim
of petty outrages, committed at irregular in
tervals by some unknown person or persons.
The offenses are so pitifully mean as to pro-
woke the wonder who could be childish enough
to be guilty of such pueraity. The plan
seems to be to annoy the old lady by killing
her chickens, poisoning her dogs, and other of
lenses of like nature. The offender should be
properly dealt with if discovered and made to
feel the disgrace of his deeds. These petty
annoyanees are not of the American style.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

100000; by W. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania,
$40, 900; by Henry B. Payne, of Ohio, $40 900;
by Oliver H, Payne. of Ohio, $3l, 900. These
little entries seem to explain several things.
They explain the strength of your Uncle
Samuel in the Democratic party, and also how
it was that Mr.. Payne became United States
senator from Ohio. The contributions from
the Payne family, it will be seen, precisely
equaled that from Mr. Tilden. Is SOL, 900 the
regular price for office in the Democratic
party2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

A WHITE desperate at Allapapa, Ga. was
wrested from the authorities by his friends,
and the mob, drunken on whisky and inflated
by its success, assumed rotous indications.
The mayor of the place, unable to enforce the
law, called on a neighboring town for assist
ance. A militia company was organized there,
and the call was responded to with alaclity, a
ruse having been resorted to, it being given
out that there was negro uprising The
effect was apparent, and in ten minutes the
company was in line, fully uniformed, and
ready for marching orders. There was a
delay, however, owing to lack of ammuni-
ton The delay made the mayor weaken,
and he compromised with the mob, allowing
the accused to go on his own recognizance, to
appear for trial on the 18th. Let it be given
out that 'niggers" need killing and that is
enough anywhere in the South.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07
SLEEPING-CAR PRIVACY.
the price.

THE order requiring train conductors on one
spection of sleeping passengers in their berths
on Pullman cars is an outrage to which the
travelling public should refuse to submit. The
traveller who is compelled to journey by night
provides himself with sleeping-car berth for
the purpose of securing privacy and rest. The
privacy which is afforded by swinging cur
tains is more imaginary than real, and the
rest which is attained depends upon the indi-
vidual's state of exhaustion or lack of nerves
which will enable him to sleep under dis
couraging circumstances; but for the priv
leges such as they are, he pays the highest
upholstery do not necessarily constitute luxu-
ry, and, as a matter Of fact, the accommoda-
tons afforded by the high priced sleeping cars
are very inferior. That they are patronized
at all is only because they offer a choice of
evils, and that to some it seems better to
crawl into a musty, ill-ventilated bunk, and
try to forget to wonder with what disease
the last occupant infected the
blankets, rather than to endure the
differing miseries of the common car. The
traveller cannot lie down to pleasant dreams,
but hitherto he has, for two dollars a night for
a single berth, been permitted to draw the
draperies of his couch about him without be-
ing molested. Now, that this privilege has
been withdrawn and the conductor is to raise
the curtains and flash his lantern into his
eyes whenever it may suit his convenience,
what does the passenger get for his money!
Not privacy, certainly, nor rest To women,
in particular, travelling will be invested with
an added horror. At best, sleeping cars so
much lauded as the perfection of comfort and
luxury, are, through the patent arrangements
and accomplishments, little less than places Of
torture to sensitive and modest women. If
the special conductors whose business it is to
stand between the passengers and the train
men, and thus secure them the retirement
which they have right to expect, are dishon-
est, travellers should not be made to suffer for
it. Railroad managers should find some other
means of regulating their employees, and re-
scind their brutal rule and permit travellers
all the rights which they may reasonably
claim eta
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

IT was in evidence before the French inves-
igating commission yesterday that the Bee
inc connection with the Vandalia was missed
twenty times during the month of January, and
ixteen times during the month of February.
This is beautiful showing for railway mail
service in which the business men of the
country are interested. 1t is to be remem-
Oered that this missed mail is held over until
the next day, but we are informed that it is
really saving of time to so delay it. If this
is true the wonder arises why it would not be
better to have the connection missed every
lay, instead of only two-thirds of the time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

THE American hog invites the closest scrri-
tiny. He is the peer of any porcine animal
of the civilized world and incompalably SUI
perior to the great body of the genus sus.
The German or French authorities may make
examination if they see fit, and we feel quite
safe in the belief that they will discover moth
ing not common to pork the world over.
Americans have eaten pork in quantities, and
never with i'll effect unless eaten raw, and
then, in rare instances, trichiniasis has re-
suited. The same has been common in Ger
many and other countries among people who
are coarse enough to eat the flesh of swine
uncooked. In view of the fact that no coun-
try has finer or healthier hogs than America,
the idea of prohibiting its importation is alb
surd, and would not be thought of on its own
merits
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

A PAPER published in Germany objects to
Minister Sargent because he is merely poll
ician. What this country really needs is a
soetical and scholarly representative in Ger
many who could meet the refined and spiritual
Bismarck upon equal terms over his pretzels
md beer With this sort of minister, some
satisfactory settlement of the hog and
richin@ and Ochiltree business might be
aoped for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

THE Richmond Palladium, in an article based
upon the reasons given by Rev. Mr.. Reed for the
resignation of his pulpit-that he wanted to go
where he could see things become-says:
''There is a lesson here for every young man,
no matter what profession he desires to enter
1t is a great mistake to conclude that personal
ease is the object of life. Many professional and
business men who seem to the outside world to
have reached the point where they might rest on
their oars don't do it, because it would result in
stagnation, and take away their enjoyment of
life. The man who has nothing to do but rest,
generally has hard time of it, unless he is natu
rally lazy. The happiest men are those who have
all they can do The young men who are think
ing of entering the ministry would better let
ali thoughts of lucrative positions CO. and make
up their minds to follow duty, though it lead
directly away from the big city and the fine pull
nit "
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

IF anybody is honest in the belief that the
tariff is of no direct benefit to the American
farmer, he should take time to study the off
.ial report of dutiable articles annually i'm
ported and enlighten himself. During the
year 1888, according to the official report just
issued by the Treasury Department, we i'm
ported farm products to the value of $147,-
221, 31s, upon which customs duty was col
lected to the amount of $40, 900, 900 in round
numbers. This does not include $4 1853, 04S
worth of foreign live stock imported duty free
for breeding purposes, though it does include
B3, 500, 900 worth of live stock imported for
consumption. Among the items is 81, O0O,OO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

INDIANAPOLIS should arise out of its sack
cloth and ashes. In Wisconsin it is discov
cred that American history has been mutt
lated, and that the young Badgers are being
fed upon the rebel book which gives four
pages to Stonewall jackson and only one to
Abraham Lincoln.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

AND still the Journal is not able to see what
difference it makes to John Smith, who has
been i'll treated by Superintendent French,
that Jones, Brown and Robinson have not
BEEN This is one of the mysteries of investi-
CATION by commission.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

SUPERINTENDENT WAKEFIELD, of the ST.
Louis division Of the railway mail service, ac-
,ording to the News, testified yesterday that
''he was much more severe on his men than
French was on his in the matter of recon-
nending reduction of salaries If this be
rue, Mr. WarGeld must be tried at once by
commission Of at least six first-class postmas-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

ACCORDING to the Second Adventists ths
world will positively make its last appearance
on any stage on the 4th of next November,
which is election day. This being the case,
it is hardly worth while to go to the trouble
and expense of nominating presidential can
lidates. The returns cannot get in until a
Law after the fair ~ r 5
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

have been for the government, if not more So
The project ofpensioning the rebel survivors is
openly talked of now, and in the sweet by and
by we may all see the blue and the gray so
completely blended that the admixture will be
mostly gray.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

JUDGE BIRDsALL a wealthy and prominent
citizen, of Hartford called upon Governor
Waller, one day this week, to demonstrate
with that official upon some of his political
appointments, and was forcibly elected from
the executive chambers. Does this act come
under the head of civil-service reform9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

THE ''disgruptled" postal clerks will reap
this advantage from the French investigation:
When they are kicked hereafter they will
know it is done by gentleman. For a hun
bred clerks who have not been kicked have
said IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

MISS KATE GREENAwAY has, it is announced,
purchased piece of land Hampstead,
England, where she intends to build herself
characteristic dwelling" A characteristic"
dwelling for Kate Greenaway must inevitably
be short-waisted and of a dull green color, with
red and yellow trimmings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

THE Indianapolis base ball managers have
seen fit, in arranging their schedule, to fix
games at this place to be played on ten Sun
days this season. The boys will ALLEVIATE a
good many friends by this course and bring
the sport into questionable repute. If base
ball. why not a circus on Sunday
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

Mrs, CRoLY, woman suffrage advocate, is
ingenious enough to admit that ''home is
woman's sphere" But she is ironcai enough to
continue, after inserting comma. Just as the
beer and billiard saloon is the sphere of man"
The woman of to-day seems to be reading up on
current politics
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

IT is shown by the books of the national
Democratic committee that the following sums
were subscribed and paid during the campaign
of 1880: BY Samuel j. Tilden, of New York,
SOL, 0OG by W. II. Barnum, of Connecticut
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

Boston is going to have high toned barber
shop manned" by women. To protect the lat
ter from the wiles of fascinating mon. each Gus
toner is presented with card advising him that
he is under no social obligation to converse with
the ''lady artists" and that whispering is abso-
lutely forbidden. No protection is assured to the
customer as there is no rule to prevent the
''artists" from talking if they choose-and, of
course, being at once BARRIERS and women, they.
will so choose
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

THE National Freethinkers' Association will
hold their annual convention at Cassadoga Lake,
n. Y, next September Freethinkers are so
called from their willingness to fay alive any
man who does not feel free to think just as they
do
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07
And then on this:

SINGULARLY enough, the demoralzing effect
upon boys of the dime novel and of blood
thunder theatricals is more noticeable in regions
remote from the alleged place of such occur
rences. 1t is the Western boy who goes to New
York, beguiled by the tales of adventure whose
scenes are located in that great metropolis. 1t
is the Eastern youth who wants to fight Indians
or to be robher on the plains. A band com
posed of the sons of the best citizens has been
discovered in Quincy, Mass, whose object was
robbery. They called themselves the Jesse
James Gang" and were beginning their raids in
mild way by robbing schoolhouses when they
were detected and arrested. In Philadelphia a
boy greatly addicted to dime novels armed him
self with a revolver, preparatory to becom-
ing bandit, and first found occasion to use the
weapon by shooting at his father, who at
tempting to punish him for misdemeanor. The
father received flesh wound, out thrashed his
boy before he left him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

Miss LILLE DEvEREUX BLAKE, one of the
leading advocates of equal suffrage has embo-
died her notions in novel in which the heroine
proposes to a man and marries him. 1t is this
dark shadow of impending fate which causes so
many free born male citizens to refuse to cham
pion the otherwise unobiectionable cause
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

TWENTY-FIVE different kinds of pie were on
the table at recent festival held at Atlanta,
Ga. This is the biggest bid for immigration
ever made by Southern State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

NEWPORT dudes are very funny when they
try Recently, Mr.. Talboys, an editor connected
with the New York Graphic, had occasion to visit
Newport. Some young men at club thought it
would be rare fun to put joke on him, so they
caused to be Inserted in local paper that Mr..
Talboys was there for the purpose of leasing a
cottage for the summer. Then several members
of the club, who were real estate agents, for
warded letters to Talboys offering their services,
and it is said that one of them sent carriage to
take the visitor for drive to inspect mansions
fit for millionaires The point to the joke is that
they knew that, financially speaking, he would
be unable to hire such cottage for a week, let
alone for a whole season." The account con-
cludes: 1.-THE affair is the talk of the club, and
society is roaring at Talboys expense" If New
port is endeavoring to initiate the stupidity of
British humor, it has succeeded marvelously
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

A BELLED buzzard-i e., buzzard with a
sleigh bell fastened to its leg-is terrorizing
Georgia The natives imagine that his coming
portends another cyclone, and wherever his tin
tinabulations are heard there Immediately ensues
an impromptu but fervent revival of religion.
The need of somethingof the kind has long been
felt in Kpntuckv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

A CINCINNATI paper is negotiating for river
editor from Denver His name is Skiff, and he is
now connected with the Denver Tribune The
Venice OF Americais the place for him
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07

THE Boston society for the prevention of
cruelty to children is considering the propriety
of requiring young school girls to wear longer
dresses, it being alleged that there is much suf-
fering among them on account of short skirts.
A pathetic picture is presented of the Intellectual