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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-06-23

NOTItE-TO BUILDEKS AND CON-
N TRACTORS.
Sealed proposals are invited for the building
of ~. Mary's Institute (thc Episcopal college
for girls mt Dallas, Texas. Plans and spccif-
cations can be seen at the Office Of Iarmour
4 McComb's, architects. Bids must be dcliv-
cred to Richard Morgan, jr., secretary, on or
before July LIST, 1881. Privilege Is reserved of
rejecting any or all bids.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-06-23

NrOTICE-LET 3ERS TESTAMENTARY
~ on the estate of Mrs l.. II. Goldthwaitc,
deceased, having been granted to me on the
9Th day OF May, 1881, persons having claims
against said estate must present the same
within the time prescribed by law. My Il. o.
address Is j0i Elm street, Dallas, Texas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-05
COY DEFEATS HARLAN.
The Democratic Committee Creates a Fac
tiOnal Split by Making Coy Chairman.

Sim Coy was elected chairman of the Demo
cratic county committee Saturday afternoon.
His opponent was L. P. Harlan, who was a can
didate for reelection, and his defeat was very
disgusting to his supporters, while the crushing
nature of it was simply exasperating to Mr..
Harlan. The struggle between them has
aroused q somewhat acrimonious feeling, and
the factions which supported them can not, in
the nature of things, easily be made to harmon
ize. One ballot was all that was necessary. 1t
resulted in Mr.. Coy receiving fifty
one votes and Mr.. Harlan twenty seven.
Immediately upon the announcement OF the
vote Harlan left the room, and made no effort
to conceal his disgust. w. W. Spencer was re
elected secretary of the committee, receiving
sixty votes to eighteen cast for John L. Payne.
Ross Clark offered a resolution providing TOR
the election of the executive committee, instead
of selection by the appointment of the chair
man, which was a strike at Coy, whose chief de
sire was to have the power of naming the com,
mittee. The resolution, after a rather heated
discussion, was laid on the table until the next
meeting.
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TIE CITY IN BRIEF.

Twenty-Five building permits were issued last
week, involving an expenditure of SIG, $50.
A purse containing 500, belonging to Miss Jen-
ME MCGUIRE, was stolen by a pickpocket Satur-
day afternoon.
On Saturday Judge Norton sentenced Martha
Bearls, the colored woman. to two years impris-
onment for attempted black-mail. She still pro
tests her innocence.
The spring festival entertainment which was
to have been given yesterday for the benefit of
the German Orphans Home has been postponed
until the first Sunday in next month.
A crowd of eight boys-newsboys and boot
blacks-were found playing ''oontz" on a rear
stairway in the Martindale Block yesterday af-
ternoon, and were all arrested by patrolmen
Brady and Rod Shea on the charge of gambling.
A mild mannered and well-disposed coyote,
which may once have been wild, escaped from
the tent show on Massachusetts, avenue, yester-
day afternoon, and created considerable excite
ment down near the market-houSe until a ST
berian bloodhound ended his wild career.
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Name of Road.
Net increase, 258 cars.
What Can BE Done with the scalperse

"How shall we handle the ticket s~calpers,"
said a railroad official, sis what is most troubling
us now. AS a class" he said, ! they are dis
honorable in their transactions, buying tickets
from conductors, passes from parties whom we
pass, who are so mean that they sell them to
scalpers, and really it is becoming quite a ques-
ton how our roads can protect themselves.
OF course" said he, there are honorable ex-
captions. One indianapolis scalper has twice
put us onto dishonest conductors who offered to
sell him tickets, and in several instances where
parties have offered to sell him passes. We
could get along with the scalpers, were they all
as honorable as he, but the most of them are
watching a chance to connive with conductors,
porters, baggage-men and local agents, to in
some manner defeat the roads out Of their
fares. Why said he, recently | found out that
an old conductor on our road in whom | had the
greatest confidence, had for two years past been
selling unpunched tickets to o scalper who was
located on another division of the road, and it
seems the scalper would purchase a ticket over
one division of the road and use the ticket he got
through our dishonest conductor to get him over
the other division, when the party was going
through to the Eastern terminus of the road.
Then investigation showed that some of the
agents were in cahoots with the conductors, and
through him with the scalpers, and really it is
difficult to tell how much we have been robbed
of. am not one of those who says passenger
conductors are all thieves; l believe that eight out
OF ten of our conductors are honest men and turn
In all their cash fares and would cut their right
hand off before they would operate with seal
pers But it is the weak, aYaricious conductors
or those who, when at their stopping terminus,
hang around saloons, bet on base ball games,
horse raccS, etc. drive fast horses and wear heavy
gold chains, that are usually the crooked ones.
However, we occasionally catch on to one of these
slippery sort of fellows that is up to these
tricks to defraud the road and working through
the ~scalpels, and inyaribly they stab us the
deepest, or at least it seems so, because we are
greatly surprised to discover their real character.
he did not look upon ticket %sealping if properly
carried on as being a heinous crime, but when
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Miscellaneous Notes.

The Central Pacific Company has renewed the
lease of the Southern Pacific Company, which
expires January |. 1885, for ten years. The
terms are not given, but they are understood to
be favorable to the Central Pacific.
Recently a special train run from Edge Hill
station, Liverpool, to London, a total distance of
I92 miles, in three hours and f~fty-four minutes.
This is just sixty miles an hour. The regular
time between termini is four hours and four
minutes.
The committee for the bondholders of the
Southern division of the Toledo, Cincinnati g.
St. Louis have extended the time for signatures
to the trust agreement TO May 10. About 81, 450,
900 out of So, 80, 900 of the bonds have signed
the agreement so far.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company under
stands its business so thoroughly that the West
Philadelphians naturally turn to the company
for relief from their present unsatisfactory
means for local travel, and are asking them 10
build a branch road and run suburban trains.
Freight handlers and yardmen at Buffalo are
demanding more wages. They were receiving
$l.25 per day, and asked for a raise to 81. 10.
Two weeks ago the employees of both roads
asked to have their wages raised to 81. 80 per
day. The Central raised to 81. 80. This was not
satisfactory, and some sixty men in the Central
and Lake Shore yards have already quit work.
Castiron wheels have been making a big mile
age record on the Louisville & Nashville road.
OF 652 wheels noted they have made a total
mileage of As, OF. 1916 miles; average per wheel.
73, 100 miles; amount refunded by the makers
for reclamation, 2,805, 598 miles; virtually in
creasing mileage to rs, 033 miles. Average cost,
$l2.5 50; average scrap value, s.; cost per ], 900
miles, s. cents.
The average time of the trips of the Cali
fornia fast freight line, which belongs to the
Western Trunk-line Association, from New York
to San Francisco was eighteen days. A ship
ment to Los Angeles went through in 4 twenty
one days. and one from Pittsburg to Sacramento
in fifteen days. The association will soon have
6, 900 cars in this service. This will render trans
fers unnecessary and result in quickertime.
The Philadelphia & Reading road is makiug
competitive trials of three kinds of switches and
signals at neighboring stations near the Phila-
delphia terminus. At Tabor station, where
there are 133 trains a day each way, the system
of the Pennsylvania Steel company is being
tested; at Wayne, where there are l40 trains
each way, that of the Union Switch and Signal
are 200 trains each way, the Wharton switch and
Halls signal system.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

7. H. Hunter, of Delphi, is at the Grand.
Judge S. L. Ellis, of Nashville, Tenn, is at
the Grand.
Mayor Schoonover and w. B. Reed, of Attica,
were in the city yesterday,
C. w. Bullen, cashier of the Continental Bank
at St Louis, is a guest at the Bates House.
c. c. Hall, a wholesale grocer of New Mexico,
is in the city and is stopping at the Bates House,
Mr.. John T. Dye will read a paper before the
Liteary Club, tonight, on Lincoln and Doug
lass 1t is ladies' night
Senator Ben Harrison returned home on Sat
urday night, and will be in the city for several
days attending to private business, He is at the
Denison House.
r. I. Gentry, of Sedalia, who is a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for Treasurer of
Missouri, and is very likely to be the nominee,
is in the city, stopping atthe Bates House.
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Pennsylvania Leading in Railroad Con-
gtructiOn.


The building Of new railroads in the West, for
the time being at least, is quite limited, and but
little will be done in this direction until the
country has reached such a point that the lines
already built become self-sustaining. Pennsyl-
wanna now heads the list of the States in which
railroad construction on an extreme scalei is being
carried on, the extensive coal deposits in the
State being the prize they are all seeking to OBJ
tain. The Southern States are also receiving a
good deal of attention from railway men, and for
the same reason. The coal and iron deposits of
the States through which the Allegheny and
Blue Ridge ranges extend are to be brought
within easy reach of the seaboard and of the
Northern manufacturing cities by these new
lines, while the iron industries of the South will
be infinitely extended by their construction.
If present indications are of any value as
pointing to the future tendency of the railway
development of the country, it may be taken for
granted that the grain and cattle trade of the
West will receive less attention for a few years
than the coal and iron of the East. Not that the
grain and cattle interests are of less Importance,
bnt because they have received more attention
in the past and are amply provided for in the
way of transportation for some time to come.
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wall, whence it falls to the floor. His inedepend
ence III religion recently induced him to withdraw
from the Congregational Church which he had
so long led, but it was because the church did
not keep pace with him III his religious evolu-
ton; when it catches up, if it ever does, he " i'll
probably again be of it. His independence in
politics has led him to reject one of the chief
articles of his party's creed, but has not led him
to accept all the principles of the other party.
He has not exactly quilted his party as he has
his church, but he is straying a good way from
the course it has selected.
The great charm of BeecherS oratory is the
manifest earnestness of the man. His flights of
eloquence are accompanied by gestures and vari-
ationS of tones which no art Of the elocutioniSt
could have ever taught, You see that the ideas
have instantly blazed up from long -smoldering
convictions, and that their fire is the true Pro
methean spark, and not stolen neither; you feel
that the grace of gesture is natural; the forci-
BILE and eloquent expression, however
quaint, is unstudied. You may listen
to his argument uneonvinced of it's truth; but
you can not observe and hear the man without
being satisfied that he firmly believes it is the
truth he is speaking. While the Congregations
council in 1876 was inquiring into charges
against Beecher growing out of the Elton scan
dial suit, he, protesting his innocence, called
down the vengence of heaven then and there if
he spoke falsely, in a speech so impassioned that
several of the ministers present vainly interrupt
ed him with appeals to stop, as if they really
feared an actual demonstration OF divine wrath.
Rev. Frank Russell, one Of those present, took
this speech down in short hand, and, subse-
quently reading it to me-, said the scene was one
of the most extraordinary he had ever witnessed.
| think it a pity that the regulations of this Sc
cret council prevented the publication of Beech
ers speech on that occasion, for it must have
been a fine example of his most eloquent style.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-05
Opening of the c., III. g. G.,

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, May 3,-To-day witnessed
the formal opening of the Columbus, Hope &
Greensburg railroad, a branch of the big Four
system, and it was also the opening of a new era
in the progress of Columbus, and has been a gala
day in the city. Two excursion trains were run
on the road, bringing large crowds, one of
them having on board President Ingalls, and
other officers, and about $50 of the
business men of Cincinnati. They were re-
ceived with a salute of artillery, and escorted
about the city in carriages, after which a
splendid banquet was spread and partaken ofby
several hundred invited guests. The greatest
enthusiasm prevailed. and Columbus feels that
she has what she has long needed, with all her
roads, real competition in the railroad business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-05
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Office of the Board of Commissioners for the
Erection of Additional Hospitals for the Insane, :
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May l, 1854.
Sealed proposals will be received by said Board of
Commissioners, at the office of the Governor, at lndi-
annapolis. ON THE Sd A OF JUNE, 1884, be-
tween the hours of 10 o'clock a. IN. and IL O'Clock Il.
M. for the erection and construction of a HOSPITAL
FOR THE INSANE, to be erected in CasS county.
lions and conditions agreed upon by said Board,
which, on and after the 9TH day of May, 1854, may
be examined at the office of L, IL. Ketcham, architect,
indianapolis, Ind.
NOTICE TO BIDDERS.
Separate bids will be required for each separate
building; each bid must be accompanied by a full,
itemized and accurate schedule of quantities and prices,
and each bidder must file with his bid or bids a bond.
double the amount of his bid or bids, as. required bv
law; and all such bids. schedules and bonds shall 10
made on printed forms supplied by said Board.
Bids viii be received for all the work in the several
buildings, separately. as above required, or for any
class of such work, the classification being set forth in
the specifications and schedule forms.
The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
Contractors will not be allowed 10 sublet any por-
ton of the work without the written approval of the
Board.
Payments will be made monthly. as the work pro
crosses, upon estimates to be made by the Superin
tendept of Construction. 10 per cent. of such est
mates to be withheld until the contract shall have
been fulfilled aud work accepted b. the Board.
The Board will be responsible for payments on esti-
mates only to the extent of appropriations made by
the Legislature for such purposes.
Proposals must be indorsed as follows: Proposals
for the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane"
and must be addressed: 80 the Commissioners for
the Erection of Additional Hospitals for the Insane,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Bidders are invited to be present at the opening of
the bids, which will take place at the Office OF tho
Governor on the Sd day of June next.
BY order of the Board of Commissioners.
A. G. PORTER,
Governor and President of the Board.
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Proposals for Plier Punches
for Postal Notes.
PosToFFICE DEPARTMENT,

N y ~ --PtH IT NJTI'T
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this De-
partment until IL o'clock noon. on Saturday, the
seventeenth day of May, 1884, for furnishing 800
Pier Punches for postal notes, to be delivered at this
Department on or before the sixteenth day of June,
1884.
The punches to be furnished by the successful bid
der must conform in every respect to the sample
which may be seen and examined at the office of the
Superintendent of the Money-Order System, Post
office Department, Washington, d. c., or at the
money-order Offices of New York, n. T., Philadelphia,
Pa, Chicago, ILL.,, and Boston, Mass.
All proposals are to be made in accordance with the
printed forms and specifications, which will be fur
nishsd on application, by letter, to the "Superintend-
emit of the Money Order System, Post Office Depart
ment, Washington, D. G." to Ewhom bidders should
address their sealed proposals, marked on the envel
ope, Proposals for Punches
A decision will be made on the bids on or before the
twentieth day of May, 1881 the right being reserved
to reject any or all of them.
w. @. GRESHAM,
Postmaster-generaL
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Assistant Quartermaster-general, U

Proposals for Wrapping Paper. Twlne,
Letter Balance and Marking and
Rating Stamps.
POsToFFIoE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 3, 1884. s
Sealed proposals will be received at this Department
for furnishing Wrapping Paper. Irvine, Letter Bal.
ances and Marking and Rating Stamps, for the use Of
the Postofices in the United States, for one year, from
the 1st day of July, 1884.
Blanks for proposals and specifications. stating tho
kind and estimated quantities required, and giving
full instructions as to manner of bidding and eondi-
tons to be observed by bidders, will be furnished on
application to the Division of Postofice Supplies,
Postofice Department, Washington, D, c."
The Postmaster general reserves the right to reject
any or all bids. W. G. GRESHAM,
Postmaster-g general.
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portunities improve their minds" The same to
be discussed by members of the society and their
friends. Music will be rendered by the Yoke
Fellows quartette. A good time is anticipated.
All young men, and especially strangers in
the city, are cordially invited. Admission
free. Come and bring your friends.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-05
A -saIoon-Keeper's Kick.

why do the police play favorites!' asked a
saloon-keeper of aJournal reporter last night.
To-day they allowed a majority of the saloon
keepers to stay open all day and made some of
them shut up. Those places which have no back
or side doors were compelled to stay shut, but
those which have convenient entrances off the
main street did a big business. am a kicking,
[ ann
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-05
The Yoke Fellows.

The Yoke Fellows Society, of the First Bap-
fist Church, will entertain their gentlemen
friends, socially and otherwise, in the lecture
room of the church, corner Pennsylvania and
New York streets, this evening, at 8 o'clock. A
pape" and other selections will be read on the
subject, How shall young men of limited OPP
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-05
Temperance Meetings.

Rev. W. Mayer, pastor of the Prospect-street
Methodist Church, will address a temperance
meeting at Occidental Hall, tonight
Mrs. Scott will deliver a lecture on temper
ance in Ames Methodist Church, on Madison
avenue, tonight. All are invited.
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Proposals for Fuel, Forage, Straw
Lumber and Hauling.
JEFFRSoNYILLE DEPOT OF THE !
QUARTERMAsTER's DEPARTMENT. !
JEFFERSoNVILIE Ind, April 80, 1884. }

JE~FFERsoNVIL1E Ind, April 30, 1881. J
Sealed proposals, in triplcste, subject to the usual
conditions, will be received at this office until IL
the 2Sth day of May, 1884, at which time and place
they will be opened in presence of bidders, for fur
nishing and delivering Coal, Oats, Hay, Straw and
Lumber at this Depot, and Coal at Louisville, Ky,
during the fiscal year commencing July /, 1884.
Also, at the same time and place, for the hauling to
and from this Depot, Wharves and Railroad Stations,
in Jacksonville, Ind, and Louisville, KY.
The government reserves the right to reject any or
all prop osals. Preference given to articles of domestic
production and manufacture, conditions of price and
quality being equal, and such preference given to arti-
eles of American production and manufacture pro-
duced on the Pacific coast to the extent of the con.
sumption required by the public service there.
Blanks and full information as to bidding, etc, will
be furnished on application to this Office.
Envelopes containing proposals should be plainly
Depot, Indiana addressed to the undersigned.
F SAXTON
Assistant Quartermaster general, u. S. A.
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of Marion county, Indiana. for the twentyfour hours
ending at 5 o'clock P. M. May 3, 1884, as fur.
nished by Elliott & Butler, abstracters of titles, room
No. 8 Hftna Building:
Honora Leary to John Leary, lots S and 6
inSimen Yandes's subdivision of part Of
outlot 129, in Indianapolis. 100000
5. Fletcher, administrator, to Rolin T.
White, lot 40 in Downey IL lrwin's sub
division of lots or blocks 6, Z, 8 and Id
in Hutchings & Darnells Brookside adj
dition TO Indianapolis 1850 o
Thomas NJ. Hoskins ct al. to Barclay Rat
lift, part of lots II and 13 in the town Of
William H. Morrison ard wife to f. D.
Moore. executor, lot 81 in Dunlap &
Tutewiler's subdivision in B. f. Morriss
addition to Indianapolis --...---...-. 10000
Hannah l.. Kennedy and husband to Mary
]. Porter, lot 80 in Hall Place subdivis-
ion of lots !. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,L7, 8, 8, 10,
IL, 10, IT, 10 and 10 in e.. A. Halls
subdivision of lots l, 2, IL and IL in
Samuel Henderson's addition to Indian
The Berkshire Life Insurance Company
to Allen A. Russell ct al, lot 81 in
Blake 5 subdivision of outlets 166 and
1877, in indianapolis. 650.00
Joseph L. Clark and wife to Mary A.
Mathers, lot in Jane and Nelson HOSES
subdivision of part of block 81 in John
sons heirs addition to the city of Indian
ooU'OO
Solomon Clsypool and wife to Aaron
Glenn, part of the east half of the south
west quarter of section SO, township 10
north, range 2 100000
John w. Heron to Elizabeth Nicholson
lot 80 in George b. Edwards's subdivis-
ion of block 10 in Johnson's heirs adj
dition to Indianapolis. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 100000
Joshua Eliason to William Z. Hynes, lot
40 in James A. Seaton's subdivision of
Indianapolis ',lD. l'-9 $4,000
William G. Griffith and wife to Frederick
G. Wiselogel, lot 10 in McCarty's heirs
Indianapolis $4,000
COnveyances, IL; consideration ........Sl3 $4,000
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Wards nrAam Of Chalk.

Perfectly harmless, contains no acid, pre-
serves the teeth, sweetens the breath. Price,
25c. Druggists. Browning & Sloan, agents.
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dishonorably carried on it leads to crime, and,
in this case, the innocent suffer with the guilty.
If a scalper bought a ticket from a party who
did not use it at a reduced rate, and was thus
able to resell at a reduced rate, the transaction
was legitimate enough, although Indiana
roads were obliged to redeem unused tickets;
but the trouble is that there is not enough of
such business in Indianapolis to pay the rent of
one of the s~calping offices, consequently we know
that there is some crooked work going on when
ever three or four scalpers prosper in a city like
indianapolis" and he could see but one way out
of it; that was to enforce the law of Indiana
against scalping, and, so doing, would at least
freeze out the low-grade ~Scalpers.