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

subsequently the friendly grocer took the tramp
into his employ, and, finding him qualified for
such work, made him book keeper This situa
ton he held for some time, every day increasing
the bonds of friendship between himself and his
employer. Suddenly he disappeared, and was
heard Of no more until last week Mr. Keppler,
who is not now proprietor of grocery, but, pos
sibly owing to his habit of resting himself
in a saloon, simply clerk on a sal
airy of $50 month, received a letter
from an attorney in ireland, informing him
that he had fallen heir to an estate valued at
f2, 900, 000 1t was disclosed that the supposed
tramp was the son of a wealthy Irish gentleman;
that he had quarreled with his father, but subse-
quently was forgiven, inherited the family
wealth, and in turn bequeathed it to the Oil City
man. whom he regarded as his friend and bene-
factor. If this story is true, tramps will be
treated to the fat Of the land the best that oil
can buy, in that part of the country. Owing to
the depression in the oil business, there is a
possibility, however, that constituencies and
idle spectators have kept their imaginations in
practice by inventing this story. A circumstance
that gives color to this suspicion is the fact that
Keppler has not given up his thirty dollar clerk
ship. Nevertheless, it is good story, with
moral
! A KENTUCKY girl hardly feels as if she was
| properly married unless she runs away and
is pursued by somebody intent on
| thwarting her designs The daughter of
Georgetown banker eloped from friends
house with one of her fathers clerks,
the other day, and the friend, a lady, and one
with no authority in the premises. but simply
/ inspired by Kentucky instinct, reused the neigh
bors, and, in company with two or three young
men, started in pursuit. They caught up with
the runaways, and a rapid interchange Of pistol
shots occurred during lively half-hour. At the
end Of that time, no one having received a
scratch, the pursuing party returned home; the
others went on to the next town and were mar
ried, and everybody connected with the affair is
apparently satisfied and happy. There are PEG
pie who prefer less exciting wedding journeys.
j but there is no accounting for Kentucky tastes.
The School Board did worthy and proper
thing last night in the unanimous election of
/ Prof Louis Jones to the yacantsuperinten of
the city schools. 1t is to Mr. Joness credit that
he has so steadily and faithfully pursued the
tenor of his way in the position he has hitherto
/
than to those who are identified with the work
Of education But with all these he stands very
high as to qualification for any trust connected
with the schools, and the journal can heartily
indorse him as gentleman meriting the fullest
confidence and support This, we make no doubt,
will be accorded him both by the board and the
public.
/ THE autocrat's empire is again threatened
this time, it appears, by a bevy Of tolu-chewing
schoolgirls. They are charged with having en-
tered into conspiracy and with having met in
rooms and having accomplices among the teach
ers. This is simply awful, and not to be toler-
ated. The Gar should order their supply Of
gum cut off at once. In this way only can their
fierce and warlike spirits be subdued 1t is not
stated how the gang was broken up, but it is
A thought that some vassal Of the government
shouted mouse through the keyhole.
AWArERFoRD Me-, correspondent relates an
! anecdote of Artemus Ward, which he thinks has
never been in print. Mr.. Abbey, manager of
! the opera house in San Francisco, at one time
telegraphed to him as follows A. Ward What
/ will you take for twelve nights in San Francis
i COT" Ward received the telegram while lying on
/ a sofa Without rising he turned it over and
wrote on the back Mr. Abbey-Brandy and
/ water. A. ward
That is as old and has been printed as often
as any of the stock A. Ward anecdotes. But it
is good nevertheless.
4 ALEXANDER JEFFERSON, colored, hanged at
New York city yesterday, made as his last re-
quest that his body be not mutilated, but that
an examination of his brain might be made, He
afforded aid to the doctors by informing them
that his brain lay in his head and not in his
body With equal righteousness he added:
Suppose they find out that was insane at the
time / committed the deed what good will that
do met should be Dead and beyond the power
of human aid The conundrum was unan
i swered at the time Of his taking off.
4 A MILWAUKEE merchant ordered clerk to
throw an offending customer out of doors.
The clerk sized up the customer, and declined to
obey, whereupon the offender withdrew from the
i dispute with the last word, and the clerk was
promptly discharged. The proprietor afterward
reinstated him on the condition that he would
give up one weeks wages Milwaukee clerks,
now that they understand their duties, should
join baseball club or other athletic society.
DIR. HAMMOND, Of New York, who has lately
published novel, gives it as his opinion that
clergymen and novelists ought to be at least
fifty years old before beginning their work. They
have each a-lesson to teach, he says, and that
lesson they cannot have mastered until they
reach ripe age. The doctor does not apply this
theory to the medical profession perhaps for the
reason that medicine is yariablesc which
cannot be learned in life-time
! THE standard Of pious hellishness in Harrison
county is very high. If the sheriff and courts
of that county cannot or will not restrain the
brutalities of the mob which has undertaken
the work of moral reform there, it would be well
for the Governor Of the State to take a hand, at