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The Cattle Disease in Kansas.

Usage, Kan, March 10.-The cattle men of
this county, at a meeting here, tonight, adopted
a resolution requesting the Governor to call a
special session of the Legislature to take action
regardingt the mouth and hoof disease now affict-
ing cattle in some localities in this State; also,
providing for a mass meeting of stock men to be
held here next Saturday to perfect Il thorough
county organization. There are no cases of the
disease in this county yet, and the cattle men
propose to prevent its introduction.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, March 1O.-Topeka adj
vices state that Major Sims returned, yesterday,
from the district infected by the foot and mouth
disease. The district is thirty-five miles in area.
and is now rigidly quarantined, and every effort
will be made to stamp out the disease. DR.. Hol-
comb visited Chase county upon a report that
the disease had appeared there, and after care
full examination pronounces the herd in question
free from the disease. A public meeting will be
held at Neosho Falls, tomorrow, when system
attic inspection will at once be inaugurated. 1t
is proposed to purchase all infected cattle, kill
them, and burn the bodies. The railroads of the
district have given assurance of their co opera
ton in the work of preventing the spread of the
disease. Reports from the northern, western
and southern parts of the State indicate that the
cattle and sheep are in good condition, having
passed unusually well through the winter sea
son.
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THE HOUSE.


Constitutional Amendments for Securing a
Stable Currency.
WASHINGTON, March 10.-NIr. Keifer, from
the committee on appropriations, reported back
the military academy appropriation bill, with the
Senate amendments, recommending concurrence
in the anne ndnIent providing that any cadet
dismissed for 1Iazinc shall not be eligible to re-
appointment, and non-concurrence in the other
amendments and recommendations. Agreed to.
= Mr.. Potter introduced the following c%onstitu-
tiOual amendment:
The legislative powers granted Congress by the
Constitution shall not be construed to include tbe
power to pass any law making anything but gold and
silver com tender in payment of debts, except after a
declaration war, when the public safety may require
Mr. Hewitt. of New York, introduced the fol
low constitutional amendment:
congress shall not have power to make anything but
gold and silver coin tender in payment of debts.
Mr.. Rosecrans introduced a bill to incorporate
the Yellowstone Park Railroad Company.
Mr.. Tucker introduced 10y requestl a bill
granting copyright to newspapers. This is iden-
teal with the bill introduced in the Senate by
Senator Sherman. and limits the time of copy
right to eight hours.
Mr.. G. d. Wise introduced a bill authorizing
the establishment of export tobacco manufac-
tories.
Mr.. DeIster introduced 4 resolution reciting
that the United States minister to Germany has
been assailed by semi-official newspapers at Ber-
lin, and calling on the Secretary of State for
copies of any communications or official CORE
spondence which he may have on the subject.
Mr.. Payson introduced Il resolution calling on
the Secretary of the Interior for information as
20 excess of lands alleged to have been certified
to the Burlington & Missouri River railroad.
The Speaker stated that the Postofice De
partment had asked leave to withdraw from the
files of the House the reports of the special
agents to investigate the star-route cases, as the
papers sent were original papers. Leave was
granted.
The House then proceeded to consider meas
ures relating to the District of Columbia, and
the Senate bill establishing standard time in the
District was passed.
Mr.. Cassidy, from the committee on Pacific
railroads, reported a bill to incorporate the Spo-
kane Falls & C9ur dAlene Railroad Company.
Placed on the House calendar. Adjourned.
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LETTERS FR0N THE PEOPLE.
That Prohibition Party.

To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
The journal is eminently correct in saying
that Democrats are laboring to organize a tenn
perance party in Indiana. ! am in a position to
know rs much about this matter as any man in
the State, and I speak advisedly when I say that
hardly a dozen Republicans are seeking such an
organization, while it is the purpose of every
Democratic organizer to accomplish it if posi-
bic. From the tone of the resolutions adopted
at the Democratic township convention the other
day. as well as from the record Of the Demo
cratic party for thirty years, 1t is not difficult to
forcsee what will be that party's position on the
liquor question this wear, with a hope that the
Republicans will so nearly take the same posi-
ton that there viii be no inducement for tenn
perance Democrat to leave h1s party. They
have the liquor league. and all that it con
trolls, beyond doubt on dispute. Now,
if they can organize a temperance
party, so as to take off u few thousand
from the Republican party, they feel safe.
Blu the Democrats arc pOweEless in this matter.
The organization Of Il temperance party depends
more on ourselves than on them. 1t was Demo
cratic management and Democratic money that
turned the temperance question i'll favor Of Hen
bricks, in 1872, but we had put ourselves in Il po-
sition to make their strategy effective. Wecould
not well parry their blows.
Nhlle there are very few RepubIlcanS VINO de
sire a temperance political organization, there
is already a call signed by more than five thou
sand voters. more than half Of whom are Repub-
Hcans, for a convention to nominate a State
ticket and put an electoral ticket in the field,
soon after the adjournment of the Democratic
State convention, provided that neither Of the
parties squarely antagonize the liquor league
ana the tipplinS-hOuse and agree to an amend
ment to the constitution on the question of pro
hibition, and put candidates in the field in sym
pathy with this sentiment. and it will
be increased to ten thousand or more.
Seven hundred names came in yesterday.
As Republicans. it is our duty to see that we are
not put in a defenseless condition by the charac-
ter Of our nominees, or the tenor of our plat
form. There are at least 10, 900 voters of Indi-
ana pledged to vote for 40 man who is opposed
to prohibition. Perhaps half of these viii prove
recreant under the drill and excitement of a
presidential campaign, but there will be enough
left to constitute a formidable party, unless they
can find their wants in some degree met by some
existing party. | repeat that the only politicians
who are anXiously desiring a temperance party
are the Democrats, and if they can induce us to
bid for the liquor vote and ignore the temper
ance vote, they are sure of accomplishing their
end. 1t is a question of moment, whether for the
sake of the liquor men not already gone to the
Democratic party we can afford to barter off the
temperance men Of Indiana Let us thwart this
Democratic hope by u wise platform and a good
ticket. n A. GOODWIN.
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Divorced at EIGHTY.

P~ITTsBURG, March 10.-On Saturday, John
Methers and his wife, Catharine, of Snowdon
township, signed an agreement of separation for
life. Mothers is an old man of eighty years, and
is the result of a suit brought a few DAYS ago
before Alderman Hartman by Mrs. Methers, who
charged her husband with assault and battery.
1t appears that there has been trouble in the
family for the last ten years, and that it has
who claims that Methers pays too much atten-
ton to other ladies. Rev. Brandt, of Snowdon
township, endeavored TO reconcile the parties,
but the old lady said she would have nothing
further to do with her alleged wayward spouse.
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JEFF pavis,s PRECIOUS Privilege.

JACKSON, Miss, March 10.-Jefferson Davis,
who had been invited by the Legislature to de
appeared in the House to-day and made
a short speech. He regretted he
could not deliver an address on account
of physical inability. He touchingly referred to
his past history, and that of the State, and
said that though deprived of many rights
as a citizen of the United States,
he yet claimed the privilege of being
a Mississippian. Though living in retirement,
he watched with deep interest the progress of
the State and the South, which he believed des-
tined to great achievements All the State
officers, Supreme Court judges and many citi-
zens and ladies were present.
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singular Conflict of Evidence.

PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, March 10.-In the trial
of Michael Harrington, for gross assault
upon Martha t. Benjamin, q school teacher,
there was complete Identification of the
prisoner, who, at the same time,
made out a perfect alibi. M. A. Fowler, for the
prosecution, charged that there was not a man
who ever attended the Catholic Church
at Sylvan Lake who was not present to
swear and howl for Harrington Kisses
followed this statement, and Judge Barnard said:
THAT is a little outside of the case, Mr.. Fowler,
nothing being said about the Catholic Church. I"
The judge was cheered. Fowler, facing the peo-
pie, exclaimed, ut is a mob" and resumed his
argument,
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GIOve-Ficht at Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, March 1O.-The contest tonight
between Mervine Thompson, of Cleveland, and
G. A. c. Smith, a colored pugilist from Saginaw,
Mich, was more like a rough-and-tumble fight
than a sparring match under Queensbury rules.
Smith manifested a disposition to strike with
one hand and then with the other, and then run
in with his head down and clinch. The referees
frequently had trouble to make the men break
away and much time was thus consumed and a
greater number of rounds necessitated than
otherwise. Thompson's weight was 30, Smiths
2O4. IA H. Gilman, of Detroit, acted as referee.
Jack Stewart, champion of Canada, seconded
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To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Has it occurred to the management of the In
dianapolis baseball club that the racket incident
to a game will not be calculated to add to the
Sunday afternoon pleasure and comfort of some
of our best citizens living in the vicinity of the
parkl And would it be likely TO add to the pop
ularity of the club to be indicted for maintaining
u nuisance! J.
lrhe Sunday games are not to be played on
the regular grounds, but west of the city. -ED.
JOURNAL.
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TOPEKA, Kan, March :, 1884.


The Newspaper in Schools and Colleges.
To the Editor of the indianapolis journal:
The journal has occasionally spoken of the use
of the newspaper in the school. You may be in
terested in an experiment which l have several
times tried in the Indiana University, with the
senior class, in the last three or four years. The
daily newspaper is a cross-section of the worlds
history. and shows us the state of affairs, at u
given date, throughout human society. To
change the figure, it is a picture of the world
each day by instantaneous photography. But
to give the highest benefit the newspaper should
be read intelligently. The telegram from Eng
land or Egypt, from Germany or Mexico, giving a
political or military fact, an item of biography, or
literature, or trade, or art. or discovery often
needs explanation by reference to the social or
political condition of the country, OF to some an
teeedent fact or history. 1t is well worth
While, therefore, that our students should be
taught how to read the newspapers, or to under
stand the full significance of what they read.
What is thus true Of the daily journals isequally
or more strikingly true of the special literary
and professional periodicals..
My custom has been, during one or more terms
of the senior year, to divide the class into sew
eral committees-on home politics, foreign poll
tics, political economy, education, science, liter
allure, art. The recitation of one day in each
week, perhaps Monday, is given up to the re-
ports of these committees. The facts thus
brought together from the weeks reading are
commented upon briefly, and their special sig
niicance and bearing pointed out. Perhaps a
student has fallen in with an elaborate discussion
that has interested him-Some essay, or address.
or leading editorial on some prominent and i'm
p~ortant topic. He will give a summary of this.
and show its agreement or disagreement with
what he has already been taught.
This exercise is very interesting and very
NpAGfa11n \ Ynnlyoc fIa ct,lon4 ,n+A,oa+nl i,
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Ex-senator McDonaId,s Prospects.

Interview in Chicago Inter Ocean.
"Ees, the Indiana Democratic delegation will
come to Chicago uninstructed. but it will come
solid for Mcdonald" So said the Hon. Austin
H.. Brown, the Indiana member of the national
Democratic committee, to the Inter Ocean re-
porter, last evening. Mr.. Brown was at the
Palmer House, whittier he had come to engage
accommodations for the Indiana delegation.
These will be secured at this house and the
Grand Pacific Hotel, the two providing for the
fifty men of the delegation, and the State head
quarters being at the Palmer. Mr.. Brown grants
no significant Tilden sentiment to exist in Indi-
ana. Perhaps Mr.. Hendricks would like the
presidency, but he and his friends see that it is
impossible. If the nominee of the party should
be Mcdonald there was a man in the East, who.
it is thought by Indiana,s congressional delega-
ton, would make a good man for second piece on
the tieket-General Slocum, of New York. Nc
Donald has approved of Morrison's action on the
tariff as being a step in the right direction. Lit
tie was said in Indiana of Payne, although the
Cincinnati Enquirer circulated largely in that
State. 1t was not certain that Payne could
carry even all of Ohio; the friends of Durbin
Ward might have something to say. There
would likely be, in Indiana, four tickets in the
field-the Democratic, Republican, Prohibition
list and Greenback. Gray and Manson were
Democratic gubernatorial candidates up to the
fore. In Indiana the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie was a political machine. Calkins, one of the
foremost Republican candidates, had been
shelved by this organization because he had
uttered some anti-prohibition sentiments, and
Dudley, another prominent Republican candidate
for Governor, had been put to the front. The
Democrats, in their platform, would denounce
prohibition as they had done before.
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Mr.. George William Curtis Prefers Edmunds.
Answer to the Elmira Tidings' Circular.

Whoever the candidate of the Republican
party may be, l have every confidence in his tri-
umphant election, for 1 do not believe that the
convention which meets in Chicago on June 3.
1884, will nominate an unworthy man. OF the
candidates mentioned l prefer Mr.. Edmunds, the
able senator from Vermont.
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BUFFALO, March 10.-Bishop Ireland Gath
o!ic), of st. Paul, MIMI in response to an in
%vitation from the Law and Order Society, of this
city, and the clergy of all denominations, lee
tured tonight on 'IntempeFance and Law
Bishop Ryan presided. Music Hall, seating
1000, was packed, and fully 200 were unable
to obtain seats. The discourse lasted two hours.
Rev. DR.. Van Bakelin (Episcopalian) seconded
the resolution of thanks to the Bishop at the
close of his lecture.
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Thompson, and Charles Hadley seconded Smith.
Twenty-iv hundred people were gathered in
the armoTy. Eightounce gloves were used.
Thompson was evidently Disconnected by Smiths
tactics in elinching. but succeeded in knocking
him out i'll twenty minutes.
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A. B. GATES & co.
SOCIETY NOTICES.

NJ ASONIC-CAPTTAL CITY LODGE NO 12. F..
M and A. NJ; meets this Tuesday evening, at $50
o'clock, for work in first degree.
J. II. HEANIN. W. NJ.
4. L. SToNER, Secretary.
NASONIC-ArTENTION. 81 KNIGHTS! r
Va per Com1nandery No. l. X. +. Stated conclave
in Masonic Temple this Cruesday) evening, at $50
o'clock.
p. WOOLLEN, Z. c.
WILLIAM II. SNYTHE, Recorder.
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AN experienced traveller says: ''The most
troublesome companion a person can have, while
being away from home, is a cough, and would
advise everybody to procure a bottle Of Dr..
Bulls Cough Syrup before starting"
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Fatal Fight Between Sisters.

MONTGOMERY, March 10.-Ina dispute re-
garding property, Miss Harwen stabbed fatally
her sister, Mrs. Hughes, Both live IN Coffee
county, Alabama.
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The couple have been married forty-nine years,
and are very well connected in the township in
which they reside.
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Officer Durham and Rande.

To the Editor If the indianapolis Journal:
/ see the following in the indianapolis News
of the 4th inst: ''The journal tries to destroy
one of the moss back records of the police by
asserting that it was a fellow-oficer and not
Frank Rande who shot Lieutenant Tom Dur
ham" 1 nave not seen the article in your
paper, nor do l think it any more honor to be
shot by that notorious villain than any one else;
but as L prefer facts to misrepresentation, l
make the following statement: had the fight
with Rande on the indianapolis, Cincinnati &
Lafayette railroad, near what was known as the
Old Hop-light Shanties. Rande first cut at me
with Il bowie-knife; the only injury from that
was a slight cut on the ear. While he was at
that I gave him two blows on the head with all
my force. In the rebound of the second lick
my mace flew out of my hand and fell some
twenty-five feet from me. At that instant
Rande jerked loose from my grasp. sprincing
back. drew a revolver and fired, the shot cutting
the side of my forehead In an instant | threw
my revolver down on him. but the cylinder was
caught and would not revolve. | could not cock
it. | Immediately sprang at him. He leaped
back, at the same time wheeling from me. and
ran north. Ierowded him SO close he could not
wheel to shoot, but shot back over his shoulder,
some four or five times. When we reached
Sixth street [ slackened up. intending to run
a few steps down Sixth to my house and get my
navy, as my pocket revolver would not work.
As l Stacked my speed at Sixth street, when
about fifteen feet ahead of me, Rand whirled
round, threw the barrel of his navy on his left
arm, and fired, the ball striking my shin, chip
ping the bone and passed out through the lower
part of the calf of my leg. The ball was a forty
five caliber. No officer in the city
carried q revolver of that caliber.
person at the time; we were both facing each
other, and both looking down the barrel of his
navy at the same time. He was at one end, l
about fifteen feet from the other. | saw the
flash, heard the report and felt the effect all at
the same time. There were no other shots fred
at the time, and no other officer in sight when
[ was shot. These are the facts.
Tom w. DURHAM.
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DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.
Indications.
WAR DEPARTMENT. ]
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WASHINGTON. March IL. l A. NJ.
For Tennessee and the Ohio .Valley-Warmer,
threatening, rainy weather, increasing south
easterly, veering to southwesterly winds, severe
local storms, lower pressure.
For the Upper Lake Region-Warmer, threat
ening, rainy weather, with snow in the northern
part, increasing southeast winds, severe local
rains, diminishing pressure, followed during
the night by colder northwesterly winds and IN
creasing pressure.
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NNOUNCEMENT

DOTTOM PRICES AT Il LILO SHOE STORE.
ID % East Washington street. r. NJ. COSBY.
HNHE ANNUAL MEETING OF n INCORPOR-
i ators of the Asylum for Friendless Colored Chill
drcn win be held ON the 18th inst, at Friends meeting
house, corner Delaware and st. Clair streets. at 1880
o'clock p. ~, for the purpose Of electing officers for
the ensuing year. VIM. HADIEY, President of Board.
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FINANCIAL.

NTONEY TO LOAN AT LOWEST RATE OF IN
MI terest. L. b. MARTINDALE & SONS.
MONEY AT THE LOWEST RATES OF INTER
M est. j. W. WILLIAMS & Co, ) and L Ninton
Block.
M TO LOAN ON FIRST MORTGAGE OF
M city and farm property in Indiana and Ohio.
Low interest. jos A. MOORE, 81 East Market
street.
WE WILL FURNISH MONEY on FARM SECU-
w rity, promptly, at the lowest rates for long or
short time. THOS. Z. "A y CO., ~ East Market
street.
AUCTION SALES.
HUNT MCCURDY, REAL ESTATE \ len
IL eJal Auctioneers. IS East Washington street,
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POLITICAL.
Sheriff.

- Sheriff of Marion comfy, subject to the Iecision
of the Republican nominating convention.
DOBERT n. HARDING IS A CANDIDATE o
IL Sheriff of Marion county. subject to the decision
Of the Republican county convention, April -, 1884.
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ness. None need answer unless prepared with cash
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WANTED.
FOR SALE.

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