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, 1884-02-17
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM SOLVED

The desire for -stimulants is becom-
ing a monstrous evil. and how to over
come it is a serious question with re-
formers. Parker's Ginger Tonic fairly
solves the difficult problem. 1t invig-
CRATES body and mind without iutoxi-
eating, and has brought health and
happiness to many desolate homes
Enquirer. See other column.
, 1884-02-17
An Inland Sea.

Fulton, Ark, February 16.-The
river has risen a foot in twenty-four
hours and is still rising. The whole
country is a vast sea and hundreds are
fleeing from the raging waters. Dead
mules and cattle have been floating
down all day. Herds Of cattle may be
seen standing IN small islands waiting
their doom. @ ~
, 1884-02-17
Everlasting Good Wishes.

Mr.. Alfred Burnett, Americas IA
vorite comique, writes to express his
everlasting good wishes" and says
that he suffered the tortures OF the
damned with neuralgia pains in the
head, which were completely cured by
the use Of st. Jacobs Oil, the great pain
r%eliever. 1t was In such demand
among his friends, he says, ~ bad to
hide my last bottle"
, 1884-02-17

greement interferes with the transmits
sion of all news, and 1t is doubtful If
Geographic matter can be sent after
leaving here.
Katie Stockdale leaves ten tons of
freight here to be distributed by the
relief committee at this point for the
sufferers below. Business is entirely
suspended. The loss to Parkersburg is
81, zoo, 900.
, 1884-02-17
FOREIGN NOTES..
The Pope Comments on the
War in Europe,
The Progress of the Egyptian
War.
General Gordon Has Arrived
at Shendy.
Prince Bismarck'S Late Action
Denounced.
High License constitutional.

Chicago, February 16.-The supreme
court of Illinois has declared as con
stitutional the Harper high licease law,
which provides a minimum annual
license of $3.50 for saloons selling malt
liquors, and $500 for saloons selling
spirits or spirituous and malt liquops.
, 1884-02-17

McEwen's Oyster Ocean open da
and night.
, 1884-02-17

Legal blanks at the LEADER Office.
, 1884-02-17

The best smoking tobacco is Little
Joksr.p
, 1884-02-17

yes 8 Historical Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo,
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The winter carnival opened yesterday at Mont
real under the brightest auspices
AT Coshocton, o., yesterday, s. Wertheimer,
clothier, assigned. Assets, $500 liabilities
known.
j. p. Whitehead, aged ifty-seven. formerly a
minister of the United Brethren Church, com
mitted suicide by hanging yesterday near Cen
trail College, o.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has granted
a new trial to John Vanzant, colored, under
sentence of death for killing Porter Armstrong
at Independence.
John d. Harrington and Dr. Peacock, of Jer-
sey City, We're reamested yesterday upon a new
charge of conspring TO defraud the American
Legion of Honor.
Francis Vonderheide, manufacturer and
dealer in rope, etc. Cincinnati assigned TO Jos
Esman yesterday. Assets estimated at $25, 600;
liabilities, $4,000.
The Humane Society, of Massachusetts,, has
made awards of money and medals to all con-
cerned in saving life at the wreck of the steamer
City of Columbus.
Bermuda advices complain of incendiarism
The store of II. H. Pitts & Son. two steamers
and Trinity Church We're buraed. A large re
ward is offered. The penalty is death
The wife and little daughter of Morgan Mar
tin. farmer, near Gallipolis, were burned in
their dwelling ON Saturday. 1t is supposed the
wife's clothing caught fire and fired the building
j. S Matthews, alias John Leonard, charged
with the murder of his aged grandfather, in
Henry county, Tennessee, was jailed at Mcl<in
ney, Tex, yesterday, to await the action OF the
Tennessee authorities.
The common council of Brooklyn has appointed
a committee to arrange for the proper reception
of the remains of the victims of the Jeanette
arctic expedition. The Grand Army of the Re
public will also take action.
In a drunken row, during a dance at the house
of Bud Savage, u few miles from Unionville,
Mo- early Saturday morning, Sam Ewing
was shot through the head and heart by William
Steen and Isham Worthington, and instantly
killed.
Thomas Sheehan of Chicago, suspected of
numbering Amelia Olsen. the young seamstress
whose body was found on the prairie two weeks
ago, was released, yesterday, on habeas corpus.
No one is now in custody for the murder of the
girl
Smallpox has broken ont at Smithton Mo.
and so much anxiety prevails that the public
is not stated. The same disease also prevails at
the little town of St Peters, and a dozen or moro
deaths have occurred.
The names Of the members of the Masonic
fraternity injured by the fall of the floor at
Guiford n. Y, on Sunday, are +. Windsor,
Guiford; W. f.. Deforest, Unadilla: \. T. Brown.
Guford; c. II. Hyatt, Unadilla; Il. c. Beardsley,
Oxford and J. A. Powers.
The O. & NJ railroad has effected a settlement
with the Glee club, except Strong and Crehoe. so
badly injured, for damages resulting from tho
collision near Charleston, Ind, One thousand
two hundred dollars has been paid the club as an
losses. Bowen, who had his nose and arm
broken, gets $1,000, Cutten and Sandford,
bruised. receives 5000 apiece The suits against
the road have been withdrawn.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
Lynch Law.

RENpv1LLE, O., Feb. 4.-Peter Clifford a
young brakeman on the Ohio Central railroad,
was awakened late on Saturday night by two
men, who asked him to come to the door. He
went, and as soon as the door was opened one
of the men put pistol to his breast and fired.
Clifford fell into the arms of his wife saying,
1.-THE Hickerys have killed me-" and died in a
few minutes He was much esteemed among
the neighbors, and was recently married The
Hickerys, who bsr a hard name, were
arrested, four in number, including Joe
Reddy, brother-in-law of Richard
Hickory Last night mob of several
hundred men surrounded the jail and took
Richard Hickory and Reddy to grove near by,
where Hickory was hung, refusing to confess or
deny the murder. Reddy was also strung up,
but the rope broke, and he protested his inno-
sence and begged so hard that the crowd spared
him for trial.
COLUMBUS, Ca, Feb 4-The negro Jeff
Rogers, who outraged and brutally stabbed
Mrs. Striblin in the northern part of
Chambers county, Alabama, was forcibly
taken from the Lafayette Jail on Saturday night
and hanged to a tree. About fifty engaged in
the lynching. Bill Butler, another negro in the
same cell, was allowed to make his escape.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
A Measure Providing an Almost Uniform
Reduction of 20 Per Cent. on a Large
Number of Articles.
Mr. Converse Alarmed for the Safety of
His Bill on the Wool Duty.
Resignation of Second Assistant Postmaster
General Elmer, Who Is Succeeded by
Henry D. Lyman-General Notes.
HORIZONTAL REELECTION.
An Experts Opinion of the Bill introduced
by Mr.. Morrison.

An Experts Opinion of the Bill introduced
by Mr.. Morrison.
Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Representative Horr,
of Michigan, one of the tariff experts in the
House, has carefully looked over and di
gested Mr.. Morrson's horizontal tariff bill in
troduced in the House to-day Speaking of it
tonight, he said: 'As an unsolvable problem it
equals the fourteen-ffteen puzzle. In fact, it
may well be called Morrisons tariff puzzle, or
the great political what is it. l can make better
headway looking through q stone wall"
''Will it pass the Housel" the journal CORE
spondent inquired.
81 doubt it" replied Mr.. Horr. ut will be a
bone over which the Democrats can quarrel all
summer among themselves.
''Should itpass theIHouse, could it get through
the Senate by any hook or crookR" now asked
the reporter
ut will be an honor to any man who can see
through it. 1t is only good on paper, as you
saw it to-day"
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05

larity, and will be in much better favor than
now.
I asked him to-day if he thought it would
pass.
''Wen' he said, Il cannot tell just now. 1t
may pass and it may not. l know that strong
fight will be made upon it by the free-trade eX
tremists'
"The failure of its passage will affect great
many people, will it not!'
"A very great many responded Mr.. Con
verse. ''Unless the duty is put up on this
product foreign wool growers can sell wool in
this country for less than the cost of the pro
duction at home. The wool industry, especially
in the West, is growing to immense proportions,
and if we allow foreigners to come over here and
sell that article below the cost of production in
this country then our people who raise sheep
had better sharpen their knives and go to killing
them"
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.
A Bill Providing for the Election of a Presi-
dent and Three Presidents.

A Bill Providing for the Election of Presi-
dent and Three Vice-Presidents.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-Representative Ham
monds bill, introduced to amend the constitrl-
ton as to the Office and duties of President and
Vice president of the United States, provides
for the election of President and three Vice
presidents, each chosen for the same number of
years. The first Vice president shall be Presi-
dent of the Senate, and the second or third
Vice e-president shall occupy that position in
case of removal from Office of the President
of the United States. In case of the removal of
the President, the office is to be held by the
first, second, third Vice president in their
order, and when the only Vice president of the
United States shall exercise the Office Of Presi-
dent, the Senate shall elect a President pro
tempore, and Congress may, by law, provide for
a successor to the third Vice-president when re
moved from the presidential chair
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
An IsnbezzIer Captured.

CHICAGO, Feb Aeon Cronson charged
with the embezzlement of $50, 900 worth of dia-
monds from Goldsmith & Kuhn, in New York.
was captured here on last Wednesday, but the
arrest was kept quiet by the police Property
valued at ST. 900 has been recovered, and the de
tectives have hopes of securing the remainder
The prisoner has gone to New York in charge of
an officer.
A New York dispatch says Cronson has ar
rived there and made full confession, in which
he stated that he pawned $4,000 worth of gems
in the Office of Joseph Schwartz, at Kansas City
and receiver $400 of the $4,000 promised. He
placed the remaining jewels in the hands of a
friend in Chicago, named Julius Edwin, who,
instead of placing them in the Safe Deposit Com
pany, as directed by Cronson, sold some of them
and sent the others to his sisters in South Bend
Ind. The remainder were recovered in various
express offices, where they had been sent by Ed
win. Nearly all the stolen jewels have been re-
covered
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
RELIEF BILLS.

Measures Introduced Yesterday by Members
of the Indiana Delegation.
Special to the indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. AIN the House. to-day,
Mr.. Steele introduced bill to pay the Miami
Indians located in his district $73,2 235 improp-
erly paid out of the money due them under
the treaties of 1858; also, to pay the Miamis
who protected Ottowatomies in their rights to
certain properties guaranteed them under the
treaty.
Mr.. Peelle offered bills to pay J. o. Harding,
late sergeant and acting second lieutenant of
company c., Seventy ninth Illinois Infantry, in
the late war, pay and allowance of second
lieutenant from June %, 1868 to June II, 1865,
less pay of a sergeant and granting pensions to
James c. Wheat and Romulus A. Moss.
Bills We're also introduced:
By Mr.. Matson: To pension Leroy G, Rankin
By Mr.. Wood: To empower the Postmaster
general to rent or purchase postoffce rooms for
offices of third class.
By Mr.. Ward: To pay William Pike and Silas
Quickenbush, of Upton county $3.50, money paid
by them for substitutes during the late war.
By Mr. Lamb: To pension Thomas Froschauer
of Ashville, Clay county.
By MIR. Cobb: To re-rate the pension of Austin
p Cox at IS per month from his discharge from
the service.
In the Senate Mr.. Harrison submitted peti-
tions of soldiers of Indiana praying that a law
be enacted equalizing bounty and from the
Woman's National Indian Association encourag
ing the education of Indians
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
he indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb A postoffiee has been
established at Hazewood, Hendricks county,
and Wilson D. Barnes appointed postmaster,
and at Ceylon, Adams county VIM W Lyons,
postmaster.
Congressman Matson to-day appointed Henry
A. Peed, of South Bend, to clerkship of the
House committee on invalid pensions His place
will be occupied in few days by Captain Henry
B. Martin, of Greencaste.
S. c. Miles, of Wabash has been designated
by Mr.. Steele for appointment as railway mail
clerk on the Chicago & Atlantic railroad, vice
Cowan, of Decatur. who resigned
The House committee on elections voted, ia
the contested election case of Garrison VS.. Mayo,
of Virginia, to give the seat to Mayo ON prima
facie evidence.
The following nominations were made to-day:
Henry D. Lyman, Ohio, Second Assistant POST
master general VIM. H. Dickson, Utah. attoT.
ney for the United States for Utah; Peter B.
Stolberg, receiver of public moneys, Taylors
Falls, Mimi; John r. McFie Illinois, register Of
the land Office at Las Cruces, N. NJ.
General Shackelford, of Evansville, has been
here two three days. He has been accused
of wanting to be Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, but says he is not here on any political
business
Senator Shermans banking bill was offered to-
day in the Senate as a substitute for the McPher-
son bill.
Representative Robinson, of New York. says
in explanation of the joint resolution introduced
to-day, proposing an export tax on cotton, that
should the proposed amendment be adopted it
will be followed by proposition to fix tax of
one cent per pound, which he estimates will
bring an annual revenue to the government of
$13,000,0 coo.
The issue of standard silver dollars for the
week which ended Feb. 2 was $50, 99G; for the
corresponding period of last year, $l9s,00
Captain VIM A. kirkland, commander of the
receiving ship Colorado, of New York, has volun-
teered to command the proposed Greedy relief
expedition, and to be assigned to that duty
Secretary Chandler has received cable from
Lieutenant Harbor, in charge of the remains Of
DeLong and party at Hamburg, stating they will
sail for New York in the Frisla.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
THE DEAL IN PROVISIONS.
Pork and Lard the Leading Features
Of the Chicago Markets.
The Price of Pork Continues to Advance
Despite the Efforts of the Bears
Packers Holding the Product.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CHICAGO Feb. 4.-Provisions, for week,
have led everything else on Change in interest.
They continued to lead to-day. May pork,
which had stopped, last Saturday, at $16.97 IL,
began at an advance of % 1-2c barrel, and by
noon was going at $1Z35. When the quotation
was at $173O, Jones sold one lot of 50 900 barrels
to Baldwin at s1727 1-2, and then offered 10, 900
barrels more at the same figure. ''Tll take
it" said a bystander Jones's sales scared no
body. The price, after some fluctuations,
mounted to $17.47 IL at l o'clock The close
was at $l745. The recent rapid advance is due
mainly to the disclosures of the last delivery
day Pork lard, and ribs did not ''go round"
and from this it was concluded that the packers,
who have as is pretty generally known, the
property, do not propose to deliver it They
have not been sellers but have been buyers on
a gigantic scale. The brokers in cash stuff,
who have been declaring for a month that they
were compelled to telegraph to country packers
to fill orders, and who have been predicting an
advance, are now in better esteem. Further
more, those people who are near enough to the
bank officials to get little of their confidence,
declare now that Armour has been an enormous
borrower of time money" and shake their
heads at customers who express desire to go
''short" of pork. Armour is not borrowing
money to pay interest on it" they say, and this
proposition is so sensible that it finds general
assent
Trading on the call board was comparatively
quiet May pork stopped at $17 AZ 1-2 May
lard at 997c, May wheat at 80 1890 1-4c, May
20 . 0 Il
81 1-8a37 lac. Robert Warren was q very
large buyer taking 25O, 900 bushels at split"
and bidding for more. Jones led the market
for 1000 bushels of June oats without finding
taker. Among the buyers of wheat were
Brega, Wallace, and Lindblom. The latter bid
the market for 2OO, 900 bushels of May without
getting it. The close on everything was easy,
with prices fraction lower on the curb.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
WHEN INDICATIONS.
TUESDAY Partly cloudy weath-
er, preceded By rain.

comprising mans outfit do not as a rule, prove to
have equal staying powers" Thus believe, cloth
Ing experts in framing longevity tables estimate the
average life of pair of pants to be about onehaf of
the average life of a coat a vest Overcoats, as
rule are the longest lived in the whole catalogue of
male apparel The excessive mortality in the ranks of
trousers tells of excessive sedentary habits andthe
truth must come out-of reprehensible Incidence on
the part of of that indispensable garment We
not prepared just to state precisely the aver
age comparative durability of the other constituents
of mans vestiaran outfit, but all of their
unequal powers of resistance to the ravages of time
and service. This brings to say that whether you
chance to need a coat pair of pants vest, mid
dle.weight overeoat, etc.. the
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
MINOR MENTION.
Gentlemen :

GehtIemeh Who Aspire TO Represent the
District at the Chicago Convention.
Special to the Indiana polls Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. Although the people
of this city deprived of theelectve franchise,
two delegates from each of the two parties are
sent every four years to national conventions.
Next month a local convention will be held in
this city for the purpose of selecting two dele
gates to the Chicago convention. The candidates
leading ones are Frederick Douglass. Colonel
Robert Ingersoll, and ex-Governmept Printer
Clapp. Colonel IngersOl, if elected, will proba-
bly, be chosen to place Blaine in nomination be-
fore the convention. Mr.. Clapp is known to be
for Grant, and if elected will use his best efforts
for his nomination. Mr. Douglass has leaning
for Senator Logan
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
MIR. HARLAN AND EMANo1pArroN.
Reasons Which Compelled Justice Harlan to
Surrender His Army Commission.

Reasons Which Compelled Justice Harlan to
Surrender His Army Commission.
WASHINGTON Feb. 4.-The National Republic
an tomorrow will state that having made in
quiry of Justice Harlan, of the Supreme Court,
as to the truth or falsity of the statement re-
Gently published that he had resigned his com
mission in the army in 1868 because of hostility
to the emancipation proclamation, he referred
the reporter to the records of the War Depart
ment for his letter of resignation. The letter is
dated Lavergne, Tenn, March 2, 1868, and ad-
dressed to General Garfield, chief of staff 1t
says, in part: ''It is due to my supe-
riOr officers, to those with whom l
originally entered the service, and to the cause
in which we have alike labOred for nearly six
teen months that | should state explicitly the
reasons which induced to take this step.
The recent sudden death of my father devolved
on me duties of private nature which |
cannot with propriety neglect and which the
public service do not require l shall neglect.
Those duties relate to his unsettled business.
which demands my immediate personal attention
If l am permitted to retire from the army, beg
the commanding general to feel assured it is
from want of confidence either in the Justice
or ultimate triumph of the Union cause That
cause will always have the warmest sympathies
of my heart, for there are no conditions upon
which | will consent to a dissolution of the
Union, nor are there any conditions consistent
with the Republican form of government which
l am not prepared to make in order to maintain
and perpetuate that Union"
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
Propose d Constitution of Dakota.

WAsHINGToN, Feb 4-Senator Cameron's bill
to enable the people of Dakota to form consti-
tuition prescribes the manner of election of dele
gates The delegates are to meet at the capital
on the lst of December, 1884, and proceed to
form constitution, the proposed State to EN-
brace the whole or such portion of the Territory
as the convention may decide. The delegates
are to be apportoned as follows: Each county
organized prior to the election shall elect one
delegate and one additional delegate for every
800 votes cast at the last general election for
delegate to Congress-
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
Eires Dining JnnuarY.

New York, Feb. 4.-The Daily Commercial
Bulletin of Feb. gives the details of January
fires, showing an aggregate OF $l2, 1000 600 de-
stroyed during the month. OF this amount $IG,-
200 600 was burned up by 2S4 fires, on which the
reported loss was from 80, 800 upward. No such
fire waste in single month has occurred since
1872, as far as the records show, except in Janu-
ary 1879, and july 1877.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05

Special 70 tho Indianap0Ii5 journal.
WAsHINGToN, Feb 4-Gossips say that the
Presidents selection of Mr.. Lyman to succeed
General Elmer as Second Assistant Postmaster
general was for the purpose of conciliating as
nearly as possible, the disahected element in
Mr.. Garfeld's old district Lyman halls from
that district, and is bright, competent young
man.
Mr.. Elmer has resigned to 60 into business in
New York. His successor was Mr. Elmer's chief
clerk.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
The Coke Pool Broken.

PITTsBuRG, Feb. 4-The coke syndicate,
formed some time ago for the purpose of regulat
ing the output and prices, has fallen through on
account of the impossibility to procure unity of
action. Large operators favored the pool but
the smaller dealers looked upon it as scheme
to freeze them out and refused to enter the com
hination
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05

EWAsHlNGToN, Feb A bin to repeal tho see
ton of the Revised Statutes restricting the term
of certain offices to four years was introduced
by Representative Willis to-day. 1t is another
step toward civilservice reform. 1t was pre-
pared by the New York Civil service Reform As
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
MIR. coNvERsE,s WOOL ELL.
He Declines to Call 1t Up for Fear of Defeat
by Free-Traders.

by Efee-TraderS.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, eb4-It seems that Represent
ative Converse, of the Columbus O.. district, is
uneasy about his bill to restore the duty wool.
He had it first ON the calendar for consideration
under the suspension of the rules, but he feared
to call it up too day, lest it be defeated. He can
not get it up until the next suspension of
the rules day, which will be the first Monday in
March, He says it is gaining rapidly in popu-
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05

sociation, and provides that the Offices at present
limited to a term of four years shall be held at
the will! Of the appointing power, or during good
by the bill are those of the United States dis
hict attorneys, chief justices, and associate JUS
tees of Territories, presidential postmasters,
registers of land Offices, receivers of public mon
eys, surveyors general Of Territories, and col
lcctOrs of customs
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
Munitions of war Forfeited.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 4-The canons, guns,
and other munitions of war intended for the
Hayti insurgents, and seized on board the
schooner Dewitt have been forfeited to the
United States government
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
Rumored Dedication.

PITTsBURG, Feb. At was reported to-day
that a large shortage had been discovered in the
accounts Of late high Pittsburg & Western
railroad official General Manager King denies
that any defalcation exists
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-05
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