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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

lie peace winked at his offenses for price,
and that they exaeted that price unsparingly.
There are probably scores and hundreds of
others in the same fix. But they and he
placed themselves there Understandings, and
for the purpose of reaping harvest of money
from the prolific field of RIGHTEOUSNESS. 1t is
silly to blubber over such man. Give him a
lift if he asks it, and help him after he is up;
but wait awhile before GROWING him as a
saint, and giving him the head of the process
sion in the work of reform. There is too much
of this business. Everything goes with a
hu1Ta for awhile, and then as suddenly col
lapses. If Billy McGlory wishes to atone for
his past crimes, let him shuck off his dia-
monds lay aside his beaver coat, and go to
work as an honest man. 1t will be new ex-
perience. If he wants TO tackle the Olives
that are patterned after his own in Hester,
street, all right; let him go in and win if he
can But until he does something besides
snif1e, because he is under arrest, it is prema-
ture and disgusting to defy him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
THE HOUSE.
Discussion of the Bill to Prevent Disease
Among Cattle.


Among Cattle.
WASHINGTON Feb. 6.-NIr Lewis offered a
resolution referring to the Court of Claims for
investigation and report all claims for cotton
seized by the Union authorities during the civil
war Referred.
On motion of Mr. Matson resolution was
adopted calling upon the Secretary of the Inte-
rior for copies of all orders and correspondence
relating to irregular practices on the part of
attorneys practicing before the Pension Office,
together with copies of all official charges against
such attorneys and copies of circulars used by
them which are deemed descriptive in charac-
ter.
By Mr.. Curtin: For the establishment of a
branch home for disabled volunteers in one Of
the Western States.
Mr.. Gibson offered resolution directing the
committee expenditures in the Department Of
Justice to examine into the occasion for the un-
usual expenditures by the Department of Justice
in West Virginia Referred
Mr.. Belmont, from the committee on foreign
affairs, reported a resolution requesting the Pres
ident to transmit to the House complete copies
of all correspondence between this government
and Great Britain respecting the eXtradition of
alleged fugitiyes from justice, that has taken
place since the Presidents special message to
Congress on Dec. %, 1876, announcing that
suspended eXtradition under the treaty
of 1912 had been resumed, and that
the correspondence be accompanied by
projects of any new extraditi0iA tho stipuiatiOds
of which may have been Submitted by either
government to the others since the suspension in
1876 of operation under the tenth article of the
treaty of 1912. Adopted
Mr. Clement, from the same committee, re-
ported a resolution calling upon the Secretary
of State for information of how many and which
foreign ministers consuls or agents of the United
States to any foreign country have been absent
from their posts of duty since the LIST of January
1882, the length of such absence; also, whether
their salaries had been paid during that time.
Adopted.
The House went into committee of the whole,
Mr.. Cobb in the chair, on the pleuro-pneumonia
bill.
Mr.. Reagan opposed the bill.
Mr. Anderson spoke in support of the meas
ure. A terrible disease was threatening one Of
the greatest industries of the country, and Con-
gress, had power on the ground OF protecting the
general public and rights of property in the
State, and yet the proposition to do so met with
the DID, old argument-State sovereignty and
State rights
Mr. Rowell contended that the proposed legis-
lation was absolutely necessary to protect the
cattle interest, and it was NOT possible for the
States to do so without federal aid.
After further debate, and pending further ac-
ton, the committee rose and the House adj
journed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

THERE was no rule suppressing any portion
of the history prepared by an ex-cOnfederate
and which has nothing to say of John Brown
and of African slavery, and which devoted
more space to Stonewall jackson than to
Ulysses S. Grant in its story of the war of the
rebellion Possibly, the commissioners would
not regard this history as 'prejudicial" to the
minds of the pupils, while its dispassionate
character might meet the discriminating ap-
proval of Secretary of State Myers and Mr.
William Wesley Woollen, whose idea is that
history should not be taught in the same gem
Grafton, at least in which it occurs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
A DTsGRACEPUL EPISODE,

In the indianapolis Sentinel of yesterday
we find the following:
"By the courtesy of Hon. w. R. Myers,
Secretary of State we are permitted to give
the following correspondence deserved public
ity through the columns of the Sentinel:
NATIONAL PRISON ASSOCIATION OF THE1
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
"SEcRETARY's OFFICE, 65 BIBLE HOUSE,
New YORK, Jan. % 1884.
''Hon Rutherford B. Hayes President.
"Hon Theodore Roosevelt Treasurer.
civilian NJ. +. Round, Secretary.
ITO the Honorable Secretary of States
Dear Sir-Can you put me in the way of OBJ
tanning for this Office list of the prisons, peni-
tentiaries etc. in your State, with the officers
that govern them, and their boards of manage
mentl We are about holding conference on
prison matters. and desire to invite practical
prison men in all parts of the country. l am,
sir, yours truly, WILLIAM M. f. ROUND"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

Mr.. AUSTIN H. BROWN, the president of
the school board, seems to be disturbed in
his mind, and, with fine scorn, announces
that he has ''no desire to interfere with the
occupation of those now engaged in editing
press" Mr. Brown is not alone in his feelings
of contempt for those who F'edit"
public questions Sin the public press" The
public press" is quite accustomed to such
sneers as Mr.. Brown INDUCES in, and to the
present time, the public press has not been
driven from its Occupation" of editing"
public questions Mr.. Brown relieves
Prof. Mills and charges Prof. George
P. Brown with the responsibility
of the suppression of the rebellion history in
the schools but he says no member of the
committee on course of instruction or any
member of the school board had any knowl-
edge of the matter. Mr. Brown says he has
served as member of the committee on
course of instruction since 1871. If it be
true, as he would like to make it appear, that
he has not known about the suppression of a
vital part of the country's history during that
period does he not think it about time for
him to give way to a more ADLER mani
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

THERE could be nothing more cowardly
than the quibblings and evasons of the mem
be1s of the school board touching the re-
sponsibility for the suppression of history in
the public schools, except the cowardice of
attempting to shift the burden upon the
shoulders Of some one of their appontees
According to Mr.. Mills the history has been
suppressed for at least eleven years. The
committee ON text hooks and course of edu-
cation either never discovered the sup
preston or We're in harmony with it. No
member of the school board except those
who may have inaugurSted the practice, has
ever discovered the fact In view of this it
seems very ike pleading the baby act to en-
aeavor to throw the responsibility upon any
body much less upon Superintendent Tar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
Coffee OF SECRETARY OF STATE,
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. l, 1884.

"Hon. NJ F. Round, New York city:
''Dear Sir-Your- favor of the 22d inst. re
ceived. 1 have this day mailed you copy of
my report (see pages % and 28), which contains
Jhe names and postoffice address of the directors
of all our prisons. I will also add the names of
James Murdoch, warden Prison North, Michigan
City, Ind. Captain Charles Howard, warden
Prison South, Jacksonville, Ind
IF the name Rutherford B. Hayes, that
adorns the top of your letter, is the same indi-
vidual that lately figured as the continental
fraud in the White House in Washington, ID. e.,
there is certainly grim fitness in his being as
ISOLATED with gentlemen who are Interested IN
prison affairs. No criminal in this country has
been more fortunate in escaping the rigors of
prison life than he. The mere mention of a
prison should inspire him to sing psalms and
give thanks that he has thus far eluded justice
and is not to-day an occupant OF the most loath-
some cell in Sing Sing. If justice should over
take him on this side of Jordan, will vouch for
our prison officials giving him hearty welcome.
Very truly yours, w. X. MYERS,
Secretary of State"
Assuming this to be true, we should like to
ask any respectable Democrat in Indiana if he
is not ashamed of the degrading spectacle the
Secretary of State makes of himself. "By
the courtesy" of Mr.. Myers, indeed This
letter if he wrote it Or signed it, shows him
to be as devoid of anything like courtesy, or
of decent respect for the position he occu-
pies, as a chattering idiot in dime museum.
Mr.. Myers, as private citizen, and as a mem
Der of the Democratic party, is entitled to
entertain, and express on all proper occasions,
his opinion of ex-President Hayes or of any
other public man. The Journal certainly will
not be charged with holding any
lofty opinion of Mr.. Hayes's admins
tration as President; but the expressions
Mr. Myers uses in an official communication,
and which he signs as Secretary of State, "
are an insult and disgrace to the people Of
the State of Indiana, irrespective of party; and
that Mr.. Myers does not know them to be
such shows the same mental and moral OBJ
tuseness that troubled him on another occasion,
when he was so anxious to find out "what in
the hell Kilgore meant" Mr.. Myers's opinion
of Mr.. Hayes as an individual is worth no at
tention. The Journal has referred simply to
the unparalleled disgrace he has put upon
himself and the State in an official letter, Off
cially signed, and in which he was acting for
all the people of the State. We do not be-
lieve there is a respectable Democrat, any
where who will not feel indignant at the Sec
reta1y's brutal, and what he evidently sup
posed "smart," impertinence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
A REMARKABLE pHENoMrNoN.
Evidence that the Mississippi River Bot
tom is Shifting Bodily.

New Orleans Special.
A remarkable physical phenomenon has been
observed by Capt w. l.. Marshall, of the United
States Engineers stationed at Yicksburg and in
charge of river Improvement work at Lake
Providence, La, for the Mississippi River Com
mission Capt Marshall in a report just
made to NJ B. Harold, of the commission in this
city, communicated his discovery. The state
ment is as follows: "A few piles have washed
out of the five row dyke at Myersville chute.
There thick foot mat and a cubic yard of
stone pier running to the foot of the dyke. A
remarkable phenomenon is shown here A pile
five feet longer than the rest. marked TO Indicate
the front of the dyke at high water still remains
standing upright and firm two feet below the
lower row. The drift is arched across the open
ing and there is no pressure upon this pile 1t
has Travelled 81 feet down stream erect and firm
ly imbedded in the sand Such eases have been
reported heretofore but not credited by me.
This case | observed myself. 1t can only be ac-
counted for on the superstition of bodily move
ment of the sand foundation
would seem as if all the material in the trough
bed of the river was in motion like Alpine
glacier, which, although solid river of ice,
winding through the rocky ravines of the mount
aims, has an actual progressive motion. We
may suppose the mud and sand which make up
the deposit is undergoing bodily translation, like
a glacier. In no other way. as it appears, can
this pile. maintaining its solid hold in the mud
and sand and its perpendicular position, be &C
counted for This phenomenon while 1t Is not
unknown to science has not heretofore been OBJ
served in connection with the Mississippi River.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
As Big a Man as Grant.


well, Mr.. Sullivan, I find myself facing
the greatest man in the world
Il think. was the reply, that so far as my
profession is concerned, you are correct. Why,
there were fifty thousand people at the ferry, on
our arrival, and fifty policemen to preserve
order
Let RE see" said the reporter when Grant
arrived here he didn't have fifty policemen and d
thousand people to each policeman to meet him
at the ferry
well Grant is great man in his line--per-
haps as great as | am in mine"
You are not IL slogger, Them
by no manner Of means am n disciple of
muscular estheticisIn. preaching the gospel Of
now to put up your props.
Then your boxing, when you hit your man
is something on the principle of the stage kiss
Something that way: but don't you get boz
tween stage kiss, if you don't want to be
kissed, and don't get between Sladc and me when
VIC are sparling, if you don't want to get hurt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

THE card of Professor Mills is disingenuous.
He acknowledges that he knows the reasons
why the history of the rebellion was sup
pressed; that it was done during the superin-
tendency of George P. Brown, now president of
the State Normal School at Terre Haute, and
that he felt that the reasons had
weight at that time. But he does
not tell the public what those
reasons were, nor who was really responsible
for the suppression, though asserting that he
was not. He says he called Mr.. Tarbell's at
tentiOn to the question few days before the
opening of the present school year. but he does
not say what was said to him in reply. The
card evidently does not tell the whole truth,
and is of part with the evasions that have
characterized the members and officers of the
board from the first
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

THE reports from the flooded districts are
bad enough. Pittsburg, which last year suf-
fered the least, now bears the brunt of the
disaster. Lawrenceburg is absolutely cut
off from communication, either by rail or
telegraph OF telephone. Our Geographic col
nmns give the fullest details. The meteoro-
logical reports show the probability of decidedly
colder weather, which will check the foods
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

If the Sentinel is anxious to make the sup
preston of the history of the rebellion in the
public schools of indianapolis a party ques-
ton, it may possibly be accommodated. We
are quite certain the Republican party has
neither the desire nor the necessity to conceal
the part it took in the war. Can the Sentinel
say as much for the Democratic partyf Can
all the Democratic commissioners say as
m11ch7
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
THE STUDY OF HISTORY.
Comments of the Press Upon the Expur-
gated Style in Indianapolis.

Richmond Palladium
Prof. j. J. Mills who has just been elected
president of Earlham College, this city has been
assistant superintendent of the public schools at
indianapolis during the past eleven years. He
made the remarkable statement last week that
during all those eleven years the school commits
sioners of indianapolis have not allowed the
children to proceed any further in the study of
United States history than to the opening of the
great rebellion III 1861 Their excuse for so
doing is that they want TO ''keep politics out of
the schools and are afraid they will prejudice
the minds of the children" Inasmuch as this
country has made more real progress in the last
twenty-three years than in any forty previous
us that the indianapolis school commissioners
are a set of dummies
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

HUMAN footprints, said to be at least 50, 900
years old, have been discovered in Nicaragua.
Near them were found pieces of earthen drink
ing vessels. painted red and drawings of gar
ments resembling the dressing gowns of to-day.
These would seem to indicate that Adam and
Eve were not only modern sinners but that they
should not be held responsible for all the evils
which torment us
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

WHAT do Indianapolis legislators think of
the New York Suns declaration that $500
should be the minimum charge for liquor Ii
censes, running from that up to $4,000 for
bars in hotels like the Astor9 The Sun is
Democratic, too.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

she entertained them with marked intelligence and
culture When the guests departed Senator Cameron
said to his companions do you know that the lady
who has so charmingly entertained what they call
down here dam nigger? Teller and Krkwood
were astounded and with difficulty convinced
that such the fact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

Iowa ministers in association assembled at
Des Moines have adopted resolutions depre-
eating funerals at church, except when the
deceased is well known, and condemning the
custom of uncovering the remains to public
gaze. The stand taken is good one, as well
as that favoring less expensive funerals and a
great deal less eulogy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

THE Baptist ministers of New York city have
resolved that while Mr. Matthew Arnolds char
acter as a man, writer and thinker is excel
lent, not to say admirable, his influence on re-
ligious belief is bad. These ministers evidently
hold to the old opinion that, while people may
safely think about and carefully investigate
every other subject under the sun, religion is a
mental bolus which must be swallowed whole,
and with the eyes shut.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
THE INDIANA SOLDIERS MONUMENT.

An able member of the school board de-
sires to suggest to the Journal the propriety
Of an article upon the schools. We shall try
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
NO REASON FOR IGNORANCE.

Terre Haute Express.
The indianapolis News made public the fact
that the teaching of that part of the history of
the United States relating to the war pro
hibited in the public schools in that city, and
the information has created a great deal of in
dignation. The difficulty now seems to be to
place the blame for the rule or order by which it
has been done. When the State authorities in
seveveral Southern States indorse the use in the
public schools of histories of the war which are
outrageous in their biased accounts of that war,
and when it is remembered that the civilized
world has accepted it to be fact that the Union
cause was a righteous in that war, we don't
see why the indianapolis youth should be kept
in ignorance of the facts.
THE REAL REASON EXPLAINED
CHICAGO Inter Ocean
It is not desirable to inculcate party politics,
but patriotism should be kindled in every
young American breast, and the fuel of hstor-
ical information should be supplied in liberal
would not deal in the discussion of party ques
tons as such, nor use the terms peculiar to cam
pagn literature. To the extent that political
organization was unpatriotic in its record it
would be ashamed of itself, and that is the real
explanation of the course pursued by the Dem
ocratic Board of Education of Indianapolis The
policy followed is in fact d confession of guilt
NORTHERN DouGH-FAcEs.
Madison Courier
In the North there are dough faces so abiect as
to strike from the record of the times the fair
est and proudest page in the history of
Out upon such disgusting towards and syco-
plants. Drive them from Indiana's soil with
the scorn of every loyal man. Better were it
never to have fought the war than to so cover
ourselves with dishonor and infamy at its close
Truly 'the Southern Confederacy is again in
the saddle" and it is high time loyal men were
aroused from their shameful sluggishness and
inacton.
Columbus Repu blican.
We do not know how far this absurd rule is
followed in the other schools of the State, or
whether it is followed at all. For the credit OF
the teachers and good of the pupils it is to be
hoped that it is not, but if there is one public
school III the State where such course is pur
sued, there should be an immediate change of
methods or Of teachers.
FINE SARCASM OF THE SCHOOL BOARD.
indianapolis News.
What fine .Sarcasm there IS in the bullheaded
attempt of the scl1ooi commits >ioners to increase
debt and taxation to build hi-h school for Il
place to disseminate profound igno ~snce of the
country for the last quarter of a century,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

JAMES WALTERS, of st. Louis, is not one of
those men who would rather talk than eat
Finding it difficult to obtain employment, he
pretended to be deaf and dumb, and through
the pity thus excited in his behalf secured work
in bakery. During the three months in which
he remained there he betrayed no evidence that
he could hear or talk but was finally discharged
for whipping man whom he had overheard
charging him with theft.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

THE conduct of the heirs of the late Amasa
Stone, of Cleveland, is in such striking contrast
to the usual wrangling over dead mems money
that it attracts attention. Among the minor be
quests of Mr.. Stones will were several to distant
relatives. In settling up the estate members of
the immediate family discovered that three rela-
tives had evidently been overlooked by the de-
ceased millionaire. Sure that this was uninten-
tional they resolved to carry out what they I'M
derstood as the spirit of the will and have paid
s., 900 to each of the three persons omitted. The
estate is large, and the family will not miss the
amount they might have kept but as heirs more
commonly engage in legal contest for few
thousand dollars more than the testator gave
them, this action is in its way remarkable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

The best laid plans o mice and men do not
always terminate according to the intention
of the originator. Charles Godfrey, of Middle
town, N. Y, knows this, now, as well as any
body does Recently his wife engineered the
marriage of their thirteen year-old daughter
instead of accepting his fate resignedly. the old
man went off in huff, and his wife, daughter,
and son-in-law proceeded to live real happily at
the old stand. Godfrey was schemer, he
thought; so he hired two stalwart negroes to
go with him to the house, and stationed them at
the foot of the stairs with instructions to maui
his son-in-law as soon as he threw him down to
them. Instead Of meeting the young man, his
wife confronted him when he knocked and be-
fore he could negotiate new treaty she flung
him headlong down the stairway, where his
sable retainers, none the wiser, fell upon him
and beat him till he couldn't tell his name, and
then fed. Godfrey will hardly leave the hos
pital in time to repeat the experiment this
spring. -
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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING.

SH'S OPERA-HOUSE-H Horny Irving and
Terry in Louis XII and THE Bellies Strata
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