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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

TIE election of Blackburn will undoubtedly be ex-
tremey gratifying to the solid South and TO the Bour
bons everywhere 1t win be received with much
rejoicing as the Virginia victory which was achieved
by the use of the shotgun. But the Democrats are
mistaken if they think that these outcroppings of the
df their desrooted sectionalism and preiudi.
ces viii pass unnoticed. The fact that the smallest
prospect of brings out the old confederate
feeling strong is fair indication of what may be
expected if the entire control of the government
shall pass into the hands of party which chooses
men Ike Blackburn as its leaders.--Chicago Tribune
THE real danger to the Republican national conven-
ton iuperiling its integrity the true exponent of
the desires of the Republican party of the country
is the weight given to the Southern delegations These
delegates come from States which for the most
part hopelesslv under Democratic control. They are
composed of men either in political office. expelled
from Office, or expecting office There some very
sayig that half of the Southern delegates consttut
ING perhaps the balance of power of the convention
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

THE Charleston Is. c. News and Courier
gives, in late issue, very comprehensive
exhibit of the industrial life of that State.
The condition of manufacturing, agricultural,
and mining interests is set out in detail,
county by county, with a summary at the
close which affords to all who are interested in
the progress of the South an insight into the
situation that could be nowhere else obtained.
The report makes good showing for the
State, the actual figures indicating
the increased prosperity being rather
surprising, it seems, even to thecitizens them
selves. Since 1880, manufactured products
have increased from an annual value of six
teen millions to thirty-three millions cotton
spinning has more than doubled, and the
agricultural outlook is, on the whole, encour-
aging. Farms owned and worked by whites
are returned, almost without exception, as be-
ing in good condition, while those worked by
colored men are reported in bad condition,
though it is admitted that the latter are much
more successful as land-owne than as ten
ants. The liquor law, which is form of local
option, is practically prohibitory in nearly all
successfully out of the slough of despond,
needs most is stated plainly in one report,
'Our greatest want it says, 'is live, progress
i've men of experience, pluck, and energy,
with money" A Northern man having these
desirable possessions and wish to try his
mettle may feel that this is the place
for him, but will be discouraged on reading
a little further Another compiler of statistics,
while acknowledging the need of capital, and
Northern capital at that, says ingenuously:
Gin no known instance has anything but
disastrous failure attended the efforts and out
lay of capital by Northern capitalists in farm
ing Some of these people became purchasers
of fine estates at nominal prices during and
after the war. IneXperience with the labor,
an utter want of knowledge of the character
istics Of the colored people, an entire ignorance
OF the peculiar cultivation they took in hand,
and of the soil and climate in which they
staked their money, may in part account for
the millions they have paid for what they
know of the South, fits sunny land, the
blooming cotton plant, and the colored man
and brother"
Notwithstanding this and other indications
of desire to be let alone, no one of those thus
''horned Off but will wish the State to ad-
vance in prosperity, and that the next report
may show the net revenues to be 100 instead
of 80 per cent. greater than those of 1860.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
GENERAL GRANTS INJURY.
He Still Uses Clutches, but Is Progressing
Slowly Toward Recovery.
New York Special.

New York Special.
u S. Grant, ir., said to-day, in an interview:
81 am glad to say that my father is in anything
but the hopeless state some people would have
you believe he is His health is steadily inn
proving-that is, the bruised limb is getting less
painful. Of course, he does not move about the
house very much, and when he does he has to
use his crutches This sedentary life has the
effect of rendering sleep more tickle and less
easily to be wooed. But the General eats and
sleeps fairly well, Every day l go up to his
room and chat with him over a cigar He still
clings to the perncious weed. He seems
always to be in good spirits. Core
spondents of newspapers are always try
ing to interview him, but the General will not
see them. certain Western journal, that has
a habit of reporting interviews that never take
place sent IA representative the other day. My
father is looking out eagerly to see what the en-
terprsing journalist, who got no further than
the door step, will say. 1t may be confidently
expected that General Grant will be able to 90
out driving in a months time Before this acct
dent he never had known what it was to be sick,
but since it he has had several little scknesses.
rheumatism troubled him somewhat but an at
tack of pleurisy, which he suffered short time
ago, was almost dangerous. Still, he is getting
along well now; and though the political world
will certainly never see him again; / think
General Grant will be visible to such as care to
see him in every day life very soon"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

RELIGION is at low ebb in some of the col
leges of the country, if report at the Union
Theological Seminary in New York, may be
believed. At Yale the students, as q whole,
are described as being Indifferent to religious
matters, not through skepticism but because
they prefer to enjoy life on the principle,
"while we live let us live" Out of 900 stu
dents at Harvard only fifty-seven can be in
duced to attend prayer-meetings At Column
bia religious activity is represented as having
long since suffered strangulation At this col
lege praying band which was once organized
developed or, to speak more properly, perhaps,
degenerated into boating club of muscular
Christians. In none of the colleges is the pro
portion of students DESTROYS of entering the
ministry so great as formerly. 1t is regarded
as a hopeful sign of the future, however, by
the brethren making the reports, that large
number of Christian young men are turning
their attention not only to law and medicine
but to chat new profession-journalism."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

probably as much or even more territory
will be covered by the rising water, the loss
will not be so great as last year, as the ex-
perience then taught those in danger to move
quickly When the river began to rise this
time and it became apparent that another
food was imminent, merchants and others
in the low districts at once fell to work re
moving perishahle property to places of safety.
But the inevitable loss, even under this
better. condition, will be very large Nearly
all the river towns between Pittsburg and
Cairo will suffer to greater or less extent,
and it is highly probable relief will be needed
at more points than one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
Kid Wade Lynched.

OMAHA, Neb. Feb 7-Alr Phnney conduc.
tor on the east bound freight, reported that a
man found hanging to the whistlng post,
one half mile east of Basset, Brown county, this
morning. The man is supposed to be kid"
Wade, the notorious horse thief Kid was
taken from the vigiantes last night by the sher-
if who to take the train this morning for
O'Ne but was again taken from the sheriff and
lynched.
A Sioux City telegram says reliable gentle
man, who has just returned from Nebraska re-
ports that Wade was not hanged but was COM
PEELED to reveal the names of his confederates
who were forced to leave the country. The man
found hanging named Murphy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

THE beauties of our jury systematic pal
ladium of our iberties--have been newly re-
vealed, this time at Memphis. Pat Haley was
once convicted of murder in the first degree
and was granted new trial on legal tech
nicality, the second jury aequitting him. The
surprised and indignant judge caused the
jury's names to be entered of record, with in
structions that they never again be summoned
as jurors in his court. That judge should be
emulated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

AT meeting of baseball magnates in this
city, yesterday, it was decided to play on Sun
days during the coming season. and to enlarge
the seating capacity of the present grand
stand. Possibly there will be room enough as
it is if the favor of those who oppose Sunday
playing is lost. There is a strong sentiment
in indianapolis against Sunday playing, and
many who think it would result in evil, and
evil only, have been patrons of the club in
the past The Sunday games may succeed in
attracting a big rabble, but the weekday
games will suffer lack of patronage from
many hundreds who were the reliance of the
club last season. There is not Sunday rabble
enough in indianapolis to maintain an entire
season of base ball on the basis adopted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

AMERICANS careless of future possibilities
can cOniplacently contemplate dynamite plots
and panics in other countries, without reflect
ing that under the same conditions the very
same engines of barbaric vengeance may be
turned upon our own country. The danger of
such thing is all the more palpable when it
is remembered that even in America there are
men who believe in such guel1illaism-rnen
who not only believe in it theoretically, but
openly urge it upon others, and knowingly as
sert fore-knowledge of all the outrages that
are practiced from time to time. What is to
prevent such miscreants from encouraging as
sassination in America should their dis
pleasure be incured2 No honorable
man can countenance the desperate
and disreputable means employed to right the
wrongs of the people of ireland and Russia
If it is right there it is equally right here,
proposition that will find few indolsers. MID,
night assassination is anarchy masked; it
makes no end to argument. nor does it intro
duce justice 1t simply adds the crime of
boodshed to that of oppression and wrong.
1t never did do any good, and never will. The
idea is vicious and infamous, and no man who
would resort to it or counteuance it can safely
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

THE waters at Pittsburg have wrought as
much discontinue and damage as though the
city had been bombarded and then occupied
by hostile army. Between 5, 900 and 6, 900
houses have been inundated, driving out 25,-
600 people, 10000 of whom have no other
homes available and must be provided for tom
polarily. The consequent loss in every shape
will aggregate million or more dollars, and
little or no conception Of the situation can be
had by people who have never seen such a
sight The report from Wheeling is equally
as bad, and really shows worse state of af-
Saiis, proportionately. At Cincinnati, while
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
An INDIGNANT Judge.

MEMPHIS, Feb. THE jury in the case of Pat
Haley, the young Irishman charged with killing
Alex Dunlap, an aged negro. last summer, by
cutting his throat with a butcher knife returned
verdict at noon to-day of not guilty. This was
the second trial, he having been convicted of
murder in the first degree, but new trial was
granted on law technieality. When the jury
announced the verdict to-day Judge Greer re
marked that the same was quite a surprise to
the court and a disgrace and an insult to any
civilized community. He had the jury polled
and their names spread upon the minutes, with
instructions never to again be summoned as
Jurors in his court
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

ONE of the school commissioners coolly in
forms the public that the parents are really to
blame for the suppression of the history of the
rebellion in the public schools He is reported
to say of the fact that the members of the
board knew nothing of the matter:
cit is strange but not half so astonishing as
the fact that the parents of these thousands
of children did not discover the fact for them
selves l insist that parents have
no grounds for complaint, unless they begin
with most emphasis on themselves
This certainly is refreshing. The Journal
has frequently alluded to the dangerous ap-
athy of the public toward the public schools
as evinced in the small number of votes cast
at the elections for commissioners; but for a
commissioner to come out and say, after
he has asked for an election and accepted the
office, that thereafter he has not even so
much responsibility for the conduct of the
schools as have the parents who elected him
to take care of that interest, shows, at least,
a very queer conception of his functions What
does he think he is a school commissioner forg
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

PROFESSOR TARBELL states the that while
Professor Mills has been nominally assistant
superintendent, the duties devolved upon him
have been entirely distinct, and in their dis
pendent, not only by himself, but by the
board. One of these duties was the conduct
ing of the study of history in the schools.
The rule adopted by Professor George P.
Brown limiting the study to the close Of Buch-
anans administration, based upon the fact
that the history then in use was regarded by
him as inadequate has never been changed,
although the textbook has been; and so far
as it appears, there has been no effort made to
see whether the newly-adopted book gave the
history of the war in satisfactory manner.
Indeed, so far as this Chinese puzzle unwinds
itself, it seems that the reason is that nobody
about the schools, members of the board or
officers, knew anything about it OF
troubled themselves about it. The course
of instruction was mapped out
according to an old custom, the chart was
accepted mem. con-, and the venerable pre-
cedent continued in force long after the occa-
sion which called it into existence had passed
away. Possibly Mr. Commissioner Merritt
has the most practicable idea, and that is for
everybody connected with the administration
of the schools to acknowledge the fault, and
see to it that the history is properly taught
hereafter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
Taxation on Bank stock.

CINoINNATi, Feb.7.-The United States Court,
in the case of the Exchange National Bank
against the Treasurer of Hamilton county, an
action to enjoin the collection of taxes on the
ground that the shares of a national bank were
taxed at a higher valuation than other property,
found from the evidence that the shares
were not taxed higher than
other personal property and held that the shares
of incorporated banks are taxable under the
constitution and laws of Ohio; that they are
property and that in determining their true
value all assets, including government bonds,
which the shares represent should be taken into
consideration
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

PAYMAsTER WATSON, confined in the peni-
tertiary at Leavenworth for robbing the gov
ernment will be released on Sunday next by
order of the President He proposes to test
the validity of the court martial which SEN
fenced him. All he has to do is to keep at it,
and sooner or later he will find jury who will
not only pronounce the jury irregular but
who will recommend that the members of the
eourt-martial be hanged. Atpresent the gem
eral opinion is that he got what he deserved
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

PITTsBuRG will lose a million or more by
the present food and yet the loss will not be
mentioned year hence. Cincinnati will lose
as much, probably, but business will go right
on. New York city, five times as large as
Cincinnati and vastly wealthier, is paralyzed
by the proposition to raise 1925, 900 more to
complete the pedestal for Frances great gift
to THAI city. The West, with all its floods
land fires and cyclones, will have to come to
the rescue vet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

A CARD from Professor George P. Brown
published elsewhere, is emphatic in saying
that the study of the history of the rebellion
in the public schools was stopped at his OPP
ton, while superintendent because the text
book then in use was deemed by him to be too
frivolous. Since then Professor Browns ipse
dixit has not been disturbed by anybody. A
hasty glance over Anderson's history-the
book which met Professor Browns disapproval
seemed to show that the chapter devoted to
the history of the war of the rebellion was pre-
pared upon the same scale and plan
as those devoted to the war Of
the revolution, the second war
with England, and the Mexican war. These
chapters were taught without question. 1t is
rather remarkable that up to the year 1878,
when Prof. Brown left the schools, eighteen
years after the rebellion really broke out, there
had been no school history prepared that
would meet the somewhat fastidious demands
of the school authorities. And the wonder
grows that up to the year 1884, twenty -four
years afterward, no satisfactory book has been
found. Who will prepare history of the
country since 1860 fit to be taught in the In
dianapolis schools2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

THE bill to amend the Scott law passed the
Ohio House last Tuesday under the gag of the
previous question. It strikes out the so-called
local option of the Scott law and makes the
tax payable in semi-annual installments, and
that is all the liquor sellers get for their fdel-
ity to the Democratic party last October AS
the local option clause had been virtually neu-
tIalized by judicial decision, there is moth
ing gained by the amendment exceptthe semi
annual payment of the tax, which is by no
means satisfactory to the party of the second
part in this transaction. The probability is that
the curses of the liquor sellers, which are both
loud and deep, may arrest this fraud upon
them in the Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

THERE is no need of waiting until the com
mittee from the G. A. R. put the machinery in
motion for the State soldiers monument. All
money subscribed before that time will facilitate
the completion of the enterprise and make the
work of collection just that much easier. The
manifest wish to hurry things is healthy in
dication of popular sentiment. Let all sub
Jcriptions be promptly and cheerfully made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

THE foods bad enough at Lawrenceburg,
but dispatch from Mayor Roberts, in answer
to one sent by Mayor McMaster, indicates
that the plucky citizens of that sorely-stricken
place feel able 20 take care of themselves with
out outside assistance. But Indianapolis
must hold itself in readiness to aid, should the
demand come from there, or from any other
oua,.tar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

DALLAS. Feb IT c. Wells, of Lockport N.
Y, guest of the st. George Hotel, committed
suicide by morphine, last night The deceased
was aged sixty five He was prominent mer-
chant of Lockport, but failed. and came to Texas
to retrieve his fortunes. He was unable to find
employment, and was in such straitened citcum-
stances that he subsisted the past week CT one
meal a day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
Am onlcial Charged wlth Embezzlcment.

RAY, N. Y, Feb 7--Chamberlain Church is
missing An unfinished examination of his books
shows $4,000 of the funds are gone. When
Church was reappointed in 1882, his bonds were
not renewed and the city loses all. The defal-
cations were made since that date. There is
creased by the uncertainty of the sums stolen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
THE INDIANA SOLDIERS MONUMENT.

EVANSVILLE people will be filed with wrath
when they learn that the Cleveland Leader
has announced that their city has been sub
merged by the flood. When the Leader in
vestigates the topography of the Ohio river it
will find that Evansville is the highest and
driest city of any Importance between Pitts
huro and Cairo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
Stove Manufacturers in Convention.

CLEVELAND. Feb. THE National Associa-
ton of Stove Manufacturers to day discussed the
All increase of manufactures of about per
cent; decrease in sales somewhat greater, and an
increase III stock of 4 3 per cent. The session
was entirely devoted to discussing matters con
nected with the manufacturers. The question
of labor will not be reached until the next an
nual meeting, at Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
Two brothers Drowned.

CosHoCToN, Feb. This afternoon, while
Frank and James Henderson and James Muir
ply crossing the Tuscarawas river, near
Lafayette, this county, the boat was crushed by
floating logs, and the two Hendersons drowned.
Murphy was taken out of the water three hours
later He saved himself by clinging to floating
tree The Hendersons were married men and
leave large families
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
The CITY of Columbus Disaster.

Boston, Feb. THE government inquiry
into the loss of the steamer City of Columbus
was continued to-day. The testimony was main
ly but reiteration of the old story Pursei
Spaulding said he awakened the passengers until
he had to save himself. He lost the passenger
list. but could state from memory that the boat
carried eighty-one paying passengers and five OF
six children under four years of age.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
A oolored Editor Elected from a rrain.

WACO Tex, Feb. Hon Richard Nelson.
colored, proprietor of the Galveston Spectator,
says that while en- route from Corsicana OF
Waco on Tuesday, in the rear coach of the
Texas < St Louis passenger train, in company
with the sick wife of a friend, he was ordered by
the brakeman to go forward into the smoker,
and. refusing, was elected from the car. While
on the platform Nelson asked to have the train
stop, which was done. He got off and walked
back to Corsicana He will sue for damages, in
the State courts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

the baby's new tooth or the children's measles.
Kansas City being leisurely sort of town, with
nobody in any particular hurry, the rest of the
passengers enjoy these little incidents of travel
with never treacherous sign to the driver to
move ON suddenly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
Mr.. blackburn BanHueted.

LEXINGTON, Ky. Fob IA banquet was
given tonight at the Phoenix Hotel, in honor of
the newly-elected senator, Hon J. C. S Black
burn Members of the Legislature, and num-
her Of invited guests from Louisville and other
places were in attendance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

FALL RIVER. Feb THE back boys at the
Merchants Mill struck this morning. The weav-
ers at Borden City Mills, where spinners were
strike, quit work because the knobsticks
were employed The weavers are organizing
unior
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08

be trusted America wants none of it for
herself and should be careful not to tender
any to other countries.