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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

wondering constituents, to say nothing
of publishing speeches that were never deliv-
cred, though made to appear so by the inter
polation of words of applause, CHEERS ETC.,
as is sometimes done. The Congressional
Record is an expensive luxury that might well
be reduced in size. A good many thousand
dollars have been paid for matter in it that
could as well, or even better, been consigned
to the waste basket. That abuse of the priv
ilege of printing undelivered speeches should
follow is one of the most natural things in
the world, and, doubtless, will be frequently
repeated so long as the opportunity is offered.
Let us have Congressional Record that is
trustworthy-One that will show the proceed
ings--no more and no less.
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ready raises the alarm, and while urging unity
of purpose in securing white domination,
points out the danger of some Democratic fac
ton eventually appealing for colored support,
in which event the ex-slave will be protected
in his right to vote and Bourbon Democracy
will have committed suicide The solid South
has now ridden into power. The fight
has been won no matter how, and
the division of spols begins soon. In that di-
vision somebody, and many Southern some
bodies, are going to be disappointed. 1t can
not be otherwise The grip of foreordained
justice is upon those fellows who for years
have beaten, and murdered and shot in order
to Democratic triumph. The triumph has
at last come, and the assassin will demand his
pay. The solid South will break because the
means are at hand for disappointed Southern
Democrats to break it. A political revolution
is imminent there, and no hand can
stay it, The Republican party put the ballot
into the hand Of the man it drew up out of
slavery, and it will yet be his salvation. AL
ready the danger is quite apparent, and the
Democratic cry is for white men to stand to-
gether 1t will be as impotent to stay the
tide of politics as would be the hiss of a
goose to turn back tornado. When South
ern murderers fall out-as fall out they will
the black man will get his dues.
|
The dawn is breaking; not because of a
Democratic victory, but for the reason that
results will follow that the Democratic party
never contemplated or contemplating, hoped
to avoid. The Cyrus of old delivered
the captives from Babylon. He had no such
intention; was bent solely on conquest and
spoils, but he delivered them because the hand
of God was shaping the affairs of men. The
Journal is not prophet nor the son of a
prophet, but it errs if the signs of the times
be not that the South is about to be saved
from herself once more and to afterward rise
| to higher plane.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

BoTH the President and the Secretary of
the Treasury, particularly the late Secretary
Folger, in their arguments for the retirement
Of the trade dollar, asserted that at no time
was that coin issued as legal tender Such
is the impression generally prevailing, but it
is erroneous. The trade dollar by the terms
of the law, was legal tender at one time to
the amount of five dollars. Section 3513 of
the Revised Statutes reads as follows
"The silver coins of the United States shall
be trade dollar, half dollar, or ffty-cent
piece, a quarter dollar, or twenty-fve-cent
piece; and the weight of the trade dollar shall
be four hundred and twenty grains troy, etc,
etc.
Section 1886 of the Statutes reads as fol-
lows:
"The silver coins of the United States shall
be legal tender at their nominal value for
any amount not exceeding five dollars in any
one payment"
This would seem to settle the question that
the trade dollar once had legal-tender value.
1t was afterwards taken away by an act which
made new specification of the silver coins of
the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15
A Modest Kentucky Demand.

Washington Special in Philadelphia Press
Of course when I met Kentucky congress
man the natural inquiry which rose to my lips
as to whether there would be any attempt
this session looking to extension of the bonded
period for whisky. OF this he was very doubt
full. Kentucky was no less convinced that legis-
lation on this subject was needed than she had
been last session, but the hope that any proper
action would be taken was a very forlorn one
whisky" was a subject which would receive
consideration from the next Congress, and soma
plan might be conceived which would meet tho
approval of the Senate.
l asked the Kentuckian what Cabinet position
would be accorded to the Bluegrass State. He
replied that she possessed brains capable of fill
ing aeceptably any all of them; but he
thought she would accept any one that was
offered He did not think, however that Ken
lucky would press forward any of her favorite
sons as an adviser to President Cleveland. She
would be content to let her more Sg.ssti1eF5
sisters be the recipients OF any portfolios which
the President might fit to assign to that sec
tion of the country. But there was one position
Kentucky wanted and that he thought She not
only ought to but would be accorded. In Phil
Thompson she possessed man who would make
a magnificent Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. He was we'll grounded on all the questions
which would be presented to him for his official
action, and he came from State which more
than any other State in the Union, was vitality
interested in the regulation of the system of in
ternal taxation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

Wabash Plain Dealer.
The season has arrived when reading people
look about for newspapers for the coming year,
aud we take pleasure in recommending to our
readers that stanch and able Republican paper,
tho indianapolis Journal 1t has won for itself
the very first place in the hearts of Indiana Ro-
pubHcans for its able and conscientious advocacy
of Republican principles, aud appeals to them
for liberal and hearty support Next to the
indispensable home paper the Journal should
receive the heartiest support of Indiana readers,
for whom it is especially prepared and in whose
interests it so intelligentiy labors. The Journal
has rendered valiant service to tho Republican
party in the past. and it's standard will not be
lowered liz the future Important matters will
soon transpire ut the State capital; the Legsa-
ture will be in session. and the Journal will be
the best Medium of information to those who
want to be informed as to what is going on in
the State 1t is undoubtedly tho best paper in
all respects at the State capital, and we hope it
may receive the appreciation it deserves.
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teel comedy which will not be misunderstood-w
regarded n meaus to enable the actors to retire
from the boards by request.-Brookyn Eagle.
IT is safe to predict that the temperance people, in
appealing to the Legislatures which meet this winter,
Will find much less willingness to grant their requests.
Inns may be wrong; we not iustifying it; good
cause ought not to suffer from the folly of misguided
zelots; but dealing with facts as find them.
For this revolution in public sentiment the Prohi-
btonists have themselves only to blame and it is not
probable that they will for some years to come the
last of the results of their want of patience and dscre
ton in the national campaign of 18S4.-Phladelpha
Press.
NEITHER certificates for the past nor pledges for
the future should be exacted 1t should be requisite
for membership that voter expresses his present
purpose to support and cooperate with the Republic
an party. Iron-cad oathS and special tests can do
much conceivable harm. Having voted for Blaine in
1854 cannot be made a test of RepublicansIn for
ever and the criticism might well be abandoned
now as next year. This exclusive spirit wrought par
" disaster IN more than municipal election in the
Last last week Let not fight the old battles over
again and again in wordy controversies but let be
recruiting and drilling for the CT the future.
Minneapolis Tribune.
FREE trade will have able and earnest theorists;
they will deluge the country with exhaustive works oe
pamphleteers, and they will spend much money to
teach impossible things and the protection league viii
have wide and important field in which to combat
the enemies of industry. Protection will probably 10
advocated free trade is advocated from an extreme
interest of the few at the cost of the many But with
the extreme festrade and protective leagues clash
ing, the country will learn the truth and the true
standard of protection and enduring prosperity be at
tanned. Let have the Protection League; it will DO
good-Philadelpha Times.
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Mcdonald Not to Go in the Cabinet.
q shinptnn SnnciaI in PhiIadalnhin prasa


The Indiana statesmen have materially sub
sided in their ardor since their conference and
very plain understanding as to their programme.
1t is now very effectually settled that eX-Sena-
tor Mcdonald will not get into the Cabinet Ii
has been brought to the attention of President
elect Cleveland that he is being pressed by the
agents and representatives of the land grant
railroad companies which have interests in
Congress and with the government This dis
coyery has been one of the influences against
him. The other is the hostility of Mrs. Hem
bricks towards Mrs Mcdonald 1t is somewhat
amusing, but nevertheless a fact that when
these questions were discussed by the Democrat
ic leaders of Indiana politics, and the distribu-
ton of the share of that State in the higher
Offices was under consideration, the enves,
iealousies, rivalres and antagonisms of these
high-spirited women had paramount weight It
was conceded that with Hendricks in the chair
of President of the Senate and Mcdonald in the
Cabinet the confines of the District of Columbia,
though they do enveop sixty-five square miles,
would not present room enough for these an
tagonstic official and social forces. Hence
Judge Holman, the famous Indiana collector"
has been booked for the the Secretaryship of the
Interior, and ex-senator Mcdonald viii be ro-
tired on the dignities of a United States Judge
ship somewhere beyond the range of the feni-
nine wing of the vice presidential Office
Senator Voorhees, in the meantime will come
back to the Senate by acclamation far as his
own party is concerned, and will be the power
behind the Indiana throne.
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John wos1ey,s Chapel.

Philadelphia Press. '''
The chapel in which John W<ssey used to
preach-Wesley the father of that Aethodism
whose centenary in America is now being cele-
'brated in Baltimore-is on the south side Of
City road, in the old part OF London. Ites an
unpretentious brick structure, without a stesple
About four years ago Sunday school room was
added on the east, but the main auditorium Is
as it was when John and Charles Wesley
preached their famous sermons there. The pull
pit is at the south end six feet Whereabouts in
height and is disconnected from the chapel wall
The Bible which the Wesleys used is preserved,
and is now in Baltimore having been tempor-
arly loaned from the chapel. John Wesley is
inferred Immediately in the rear Of the chancei
and within thirty feet of the pulpit in which he
won his fame His grave is surmounted with
small marble monument that is now moss
grown and weather stained, and surrounded by
a low wooden fence, some of the pckets of which
are gone. Charles Wesley's grave, within a
dozen feet of his brothers. is marked only by a
modest slab. and Susannah Wesley, the mother
is inferred Immediately across the street in his
toric Bunhll Fields and none of her immediate
family lie near her John Bunyan and Isaac
Watt however, are inferred in the same ceme-
terry, so she is in good Methodist company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

HEIDELBERG Castle is in danger of destruction
from railway that has been tunneed out beneath it.
CARDINAL MANSINGs niece Miss Vera Manning
carries to the convent where she is to take the veil
pretty fortune of $300000.
Mr. W. W. STORY, the American sculptor now liv-
ing in Rome, received commission from Cornell
University for bronze statue of Ezra Cornell
THE author of do They Miss Me at Home?" is
Mrs. Caroline A. Mason, of Ftchburg Mass. She is
sixty years DID, and wrote the song forty years
ago
MADAME BACHMArfEFF, formerly Miss Beale, of
Washington, and now wife of the Russian charge
daffaires in Greece, has become a convert to the
Greek Church.
THERE is a large factory in Liverpool which turns
out nothing but relics of the battle of Waterloo.
similar factory in Zurich Switzerland, makes ''old
postage stamps
PHILADELPHIA Call: Mamma-"Yes my child, we
shall all know each other in heaven" Edith-"But,
mamma, we can make believe we're out when some of
them call, can't wei"
TRUST fund of SIS 900 has been created by the
will of Frenchman, who recently died, the money to
be expended for the relief of soldiers wounded in the
Dext war with Germany"
Robert BRowNING's blot on the Scutcheon, u
which is to be played by Lawrence Barrett this win.
ter, was originally produced with Macready and
Helen Fauct in the leading parts.
ARAB PAsHA is of lofty stature and imposing
bearing he has thin lips good brow and long black
beard; he converses like cultivated gentleman and
lives in Ceyon in luxurious captivity.
DR. BAIRD's History Of the Huguenot Emigration to
America, which was announced by Dodd, Mead g. Co.
for publication before the holidays will necessarily be
delayed until the early part of next year.
SITTING BULL is now so far advanced in aesthetics
that he is brought to believe the napkin to be the
basis of civilization and when he to the dinner
table he carefully spreads his napkin his chair and
soemnly sits down on it.
THE famous 'woolsack" on which the Speaker of
the House of Lords sits is about the size and exactly
the shape of wellflled straw bed. 1t is covered
with scarlet velvet and has the top upholstered
block eighteen inches long and foot high for rest
for my Lord Chancellor's back The straw bed-that
is to say the woolsack-is placed Immediately in front
of the railing which surrounds the throne and half
way between tho west end of the peers benches.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

IT is understood that no one of the justices
of the peace considers himself affected by the
recent decision of the Supreme Court in the
Feibleman case, and that all of them will soon
be found doing business at the old stands in
Dogberry row. The law limiting the number
of justices, and compelling them to reside at
certain places where they would be easy of
access to the people who might be in need of
their judicial services has been stricken down
and there is nothing in the way of having all
the justices who can be elected, and of them
all doing business in the city, where the com
petition will again become SO close as to bring
about the disgraceful proceedings which
tended to degrade all justices alike. The
Justices court is the poor mans court; it
should be all in dignity and fairness of pro-
cedure that any court is The restrictive law
was an effort to assist justices to maintain a
high standing, and to relieve themselves of
evils and annoyances which developed from
causes the law was intended to cure. The
next Legislature should re-enact it, in such
manner as will stand the scrutiny of the Su-
preme Court, and in such terms as will really
restrict their number and apportion the To-
cality of their authority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

Now that the question is once more before
Congress, it were well that the Congressional
Record be made what it was intended to be
a faithful record of the proceedings of Con-
gress and nothing more. The abuse of the
Record by members too lazy TO do their work
as described, OF of not sufficient force to com
mand the attention of their fellow mem beers,
has grown to proportions that ought to be
curtailed at once. According to a showing
made on Friday last it appears that during the
three terms of Congress last past, no less than
500 speeches" were printed in the Record as
delivered in Congress that were not delivered
at all, except in manuscript to the Public
Printer, In addition to this there were /, 1873
speeches delivered in Congress that were after
ward amended and altered before being given
to the printer This ought to be stopped.
The average congressman talks altogether
too much anyhow, and should not be encour.
aged to talk more by having his speeches put
in shape to send TO his admiring and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15
The Negro Exodus.


Springfield Republican,
South Carolina reports another exodus and
one with a hopeful degree of method in it
Something over three hundred negroes. men,
women and children, have left the central part
of the State in the last few days for Arkansas.
and it is reported that work is already provided
for them. and that in fact Zeb Ward, the
largest planter and richest man in Arkansas. is
at the bottom of the movement Emigration
agents get the people TO start, and advance
money for travelling expenses. 1t is also re-
ported that four hundred negroes will start from
Columbia in few days for southern California,
and that land owners out toward the golden
gate expect to get 900 blacks from the South
in the course of the winter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

DEMOCRATS who spoke approvingly of Con
gresham Holman as the Watch dog of the
Treasury, during Republican administration
are by no means so complacent when he snarls
at them for approaching too near the ''sur-
plus" The Washington Post reviles Mr.
Holman for favoring the location of the pro
posed national library building on a certain
piece of ground, merely because it will cost
the government nothing, being offered by
some patriotic citizen as gift Says the Post;
f'This is almost as bad as the other propo-
sition with which Mr. Holman was cred
tied year ago-of selecting ten thousand
books out of the half million or more com
posing the library and burning or giving
away the rest. We shouldn't be at all sur
prised to see Mr. Holman bring in bill, be-
fore the session is out, to lease out the Capitol
grounds as hog pasture. That done, Pres-
dent Cleveland would be reduced to a proper
degree of personal abasement after tying his
horse to one of the fence rails and picking his
way among the grunting swine to the place
where the oath of office would be administered
to him."
Evidently the Office Of Watchdog is not to
be nice, easy position under the new regime
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

THE suspicion is beginning to gain ground
that for city of over 1000, 600 sturdy people,
London is very easily alarmed. There are
probably a score of "conspirators" in that city
all told. Let one of them drop '"squib" off
London bridge, the municipality is convulsed,
and the news of terrible explosion is duly
conveyed to al Christendom
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

Our special from Greencastle reports that
Prof. J, C. Ridpath, of DePauw, has under
consideration the acceptance of the presidency
of the State University. The board of
trustees of the latter institution meet to-mor-
row for the purpose Of making an election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

A REVISION of the mayoraty vote in Bos-
ton, at Tuesdays election, develops the re-
markable coincidence that Mr.. OBrien re-
ceives precisely the same number of votes
that elected Mayor Martin one year ago
81 IoA
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

II pays to advertise The two-square ''ad7 of
the Long Island girl-the girl with bonds, oxen,
land, etc.-was Immediately productive of prac-
teal results, for over 400 young men filed appli-
cations After examining the plans and spec-
fcations she chose a Kansas man. with $40 900,
as most any sensible advertising girl would.
They will get married as soon as they get little
better acquainted. Indiana girls are respectfully
referred to the Journal countng-room for rates,
etc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

THE New York Evening Post is grieved and
shocked at the dcmoraizing romances and sensa-
tons which appear in the news columns of its
contemporaries with some frequency of late If
the readers of the Post did not form such small
and inappreciable part of the community, it
might be thought that the abandoned characters
who figure in these sensational stories had de-
rived their low ideas of decency and morality
from such teachings as that papers celebrated
dissertation on chastity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

TT is understood that the Tennessee shoe
maker who is building pair of boots for Mr.
Cleveland will make them of substantial ma
teral, with so;es an inch thick. Thus constructed
they will be useful in case the wearer should
decide to adopt the old-fashioned simplicity he
so much loves and walk to the Capitol, or they
will be of equal utility after the Inauguration
in warding off the Office hunters. The shoe
maker seems to have u grasp of the situation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15
sbou,d Paste in His Scrap Book.

Lagrange standard.
Our next Vice president having induced club
of forty Democratic ex sodies to visit him, told
them what throbbing burning patriot he was
during the rebellion The indianapolis Journal
now favors him with very full history Of his
comprehend dallianres. which Thomas should
paste in his scrap, book, for future reference,
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successor.

IT win surprise many to be informed that
the canals of New York transported to tide
water, during the past season, 5000 900 more
bushels of grain than the six trunk-line rail
roads running to New York city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

THE suspicion is gaining ground that some
body has injected drop of hydrOchlorate of
cocoaine in Mr. Hendricks jaw,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

"ONLY ten weeks until Inauguration day, and
nothing done yet towards making arrangements
for the ball, is the plaintive cry of Democratic
Washington citizens who hope to shine in great
effulgence on that happy occasion. Ten weeks
ought to be long enough in which to arrange for
the simple ceremonies which Mr.. Cleveland so
much desires; but the patriots who do not love
simplicity know that only work by night and
day will insure the magnifcence which they
deem proper surrounding to the lately un.
known ex-sheriff. If they had a really great
and celebrated man to install in Office the cere-
monies would probably have to be postponed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

TIE remark dropped by Nh Cleveland that
he thought of placing Tammany under control
of the War Department led to the error that
John Kelly was going to become Lincolns
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

ELIZABETH N j., has found more expedi-
tious way of circumventing the citizen who tries
to evade the tax gatherers than the old and slow
method of levying on and selling his property.
When the owner of blocks and tenements neg
lects to pay his taxes promptly, the occupants
of his buildings are required to pay rents to the
city instead of to their landlord until the orig
inal debt with added costs is squared up. This
law has lately gone into operation, and as a con
sequence the revenues of Elizabeth are largely
augmented although the complaints of men
accustomed to be delinquent are loud and not
choice in phraseology.