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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
BELLS TELEPHONE RIGHTS.
An Expert Patent Examiner on tie PhiIa-
deiPhia Decision.

Electrical Review.
Recently the Press correspondent met Mr..
Zenas F. Wilbur, for many years an expert pat
ent examiner in the Interior Department. As the
original Bell telephone patent had been granted
on his official recommendation. he was asked
what the effect Of the Overland Company's Phila-
delphia victory overthe Bell TelephoneC Company
would be. He said:
Fol the time being a natural depression will
follow. l haven't a dollars worth of stock in
any telephone, but if you wish, I can give you
some points in this problem not understood. So
far as the Patent Office is concerned. the tele-
phone principle might have been discovered by
Adam, but if they neglected to get a patent be
fore Mr.. Bell their rights are merely those of
equity. not law. Mr.. Bell had been possessed of
his patent for two years before Mr.. Drawbaugh
appeared on the scene, and then, of course.
so far as the department was concerned, all
rights Of Drawbaugh had been ~precluded.
But that, after all, taking matters as they
are to-day, is Of no small consequence. The
Overland company, or any number OF companies,
may get decisions in their favor as against the
Bell telephone monopoly, and ] don't care how
many of them do. but when all that is done. they
are simply confronted with two strong facts,
which they will have to dismantle bcfoge they
can enter IN and enjoy the open field of competi-
What are these?7
''Well, in the first place, the simple telephone
patent granted to Bell on the merits of Il new
principle in physics. is only n fraction Of his
NAHNL Sldlto' 1 litSu4llt 1T HdS MY ilOIt. elll
of them covering the various methods by which
the principle itself is made available
and perfect in its practical application
to a vast variety of details, OF these
the Blake patent is the most important. But all
are of value to a complete telephone system.
These patents will all have to be combated and
overthrow before the anti-monopolists can get
standing room in the business. You can calcu-
late how much time all this will be likely to con
sumo.
But the other obstacle is more seriOusthan
this. For the past few years Mr.. Theodore Vale,
superintendent of the Bell company, has made it
his business to travel ali over the country, OBJ
tanning a eontrollinginteres in the telephone ex-
changes in every direction With these he
has made what he calls perpetual con
tracts, the terms of which bind the
various companies to the use Of the
Bell patents in royalty for a term of years; IT,
respective, mind you, Of any and all action of
the courts as to the value Of these patents them
selves. For instance, they have such a royalty
contract with the Lowell syndicate covering the
New England States, for which they receive a
quarter of a million annually, and so it is every
where.
Hence these natural queries: What good
will any number of injunctions do if you can't
command the apparatus to make their value,
and what good would the apparatus do if the
business you want to reach is blocked by prior
contracts extending for a number of years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
Utah Affairs.

SALT LAKE CRY, Feb. 2G.-The University of
Deseret is supported by public school funds and
has always been controlled by the Mormon
Church. The Legislature makes the appropria-
tons. The board of regents created a debt of
nearly $50, 600, and the Legislature has passed a
it has not yet been approved by the Governor.
The law makes it the duty of the
Governor to- appoint regents to
be confirmed by the Legislature.
The Governor sent in the names for
chancellor and twelve regents, three Of whom
are now Mormons. This is classed by the church
organs as usurption of power, and they viii, if
possible, refuse to confirm, because the uni
versity is "eally a Mormon school, claiming to be
unsectarian simply to draw public money.
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WAITING FOR THEIR GIRLS.
An E~very-Night Scene at 6 O'Clock in Tempt
Place.

An Every-Night Scene at 6 O'Clock in Temple
Place.
Boston Globe.
did you ask if those men were waiting for
carsF said the conductor as Temple Place was
passed. "If you watch a little closer you viii
know as much about it as l do. There, now,
look at that"
The passenger looked. A cash-girl tripped
lightly on her homeward way, for 6 o'clock had
sounded and the clerks were homeward bound.
An umbrella, with a man attached, emerged
from a doorway in which it had been concealed,
and an instant later the cash-girl, the man and
the umbrella. linked in triple union, had van
ished amid the hurrying crowd.
do they make a business of thatl" asked the
passenger.
Il should say so; but only those who have mas
tered the business operate as that man dd. The
yCdng fellow who is new at the work waits for
his girl in some place where every one sees him,
and knows what he is up to. When she gets in
sight he advances, lifts his hat and makes the
whole affair a free show for the crowd. He gets
over that after he finds himself spotted and
gets into the idea of hiding in doorways and
overtaking his girl, as if by chance. Some of
these fellows appear to be always waiting for
some one who never comes. Let me give you a
point said the conductor, so earnestly that he
forgot to punch a cash fare fora man who jumped
off in a hurry, don't you wait about Temple
Place at 6 o'clock unless you want to be spotted
in the same way"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
A Reign of Terror.

Hoe SPRINGS, Ark, Feb. 26.-There has been
intenss excitement here throughout the day.
The citizens committee met last night, and this
morning ordered Hugh Dehan, Jos. Tehan and
Doc Nagle, friends and witnesses Of Frank
Flynn, to leave the city. They declined to go,
but were forced by a detachment of police and
militia to take the train and leave. This after
noon the committee held another meeting, and
ordered Il number of other men, principally friends
and witnesses of Flynn, to leave the city. The
sheriff telegraphed to the governor for military,
but that official declined to interfere as he has
already one military company here. As it
is acting in conjunction with the police force
and Independent of orders Of the sheriff. that
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The Shadow of the Old Ticket.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Democratic informa-
ton from Washington tells of remarkably strong
preferences in favor of the Presidential ticket of
1876. A Democrat, who has just returned, says
that a majority of the national committee be-
lieve Tilden should be nominated again, as he is
the only Democrat that can carry New York,
while Mr.. Hendricks nomination would remove
Indiana from the list of doubtful States.
Members of the committee are not yet dis
posed to advocate Mr.. Tilden openly, but think
that events will soon justify such advocacy.
This visitor says the selection of Chicago is
commonly construed at Washington as in Til
denis interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
THE HOUSE.
Debat on the Second Section of the Pleuro-
Pneumonia Bill.

Debate on the Second Section of the Pleuro-
Pneumonia Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-After the transaction
of routine matters the House went into commit
tee of the whole, Mr.. Cox, of New York, in the
chair, on the pleuro-p pneumonia bin.
Mr.. Hopkins offered an amendment providing
that the appointment of examiners shall be with
the consent of the State Legislature.
Mr.. Eaton opposed the amendment, because
the bill could not be amended so as to make it
decent, 1t was unconstitutional, from head to
heel. He regretted the gentleman from Mis-
souri, (Mr. Batch) had said that New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut were barnacles. New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut, in 1876,
elected S. J. Tilden President of the United
States [ApplauseT and would elect the next Demo
cratic President. If New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut are barnacles. the barnacles
were bigger than the ship.
Dir. Hatch said the gentleman had misappre-
hended his remarks if he understood him to say
that New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
were barnacles. He had spoken Of individuals,
not States.
Mr.. KassOn urged the necessity of a federal in
spectiOn law of some sort that would furnish to
foreign nations prima facie evidence of the
safety of the meat product. Expectations from
the United States, a million dollars a week, hung
upon the consideration of this bill, for the
United States was subjected to something APP
preaching prohibition in regard to some of the
most important of its agricultural productions.
Mr.. Weller thought there We're provisions in
the bill in the interest of the cattle ring now be-
ing formed to control the cattle trade of the
great Northwest.
Mr.. Randall advocated a resolution, which he
proposed to offer at the proper time, recon-
hitting the bill with instructions to the com
mittee on agriculture to report back a bill
which shall embrace a more thorough system
of inspection, to the end that no dressed
animals shall be exported; and, further, to report
a bill to organize a more strict quarantine
against the importation of diseased animals, and
make such recommendation as will secure, by
States, such legislation as will eradicate the dis
ease known as pleuro- pneumonia.
Mr.. Kefer supported the bill.
The committee rose informally to receive n
message from the Senate, and Mr.. Cox, of New
York, asked unanimous consent for the imme-
date passage of the Senate joint resolution eX-
pressing the appreciation of Congress and the
people of the United States for the generous act
of her Britannia Majesty's government in pre-
senting to the United States the arctic steamship
Alert.
Mr.. Robinson, of New York. was on hand, how
ever, to interpose an objection.
The committee of the whole resumed its ses-
sion.
The amendment offered by Mr.. Hopkins was
lost-9l to i91.
Having concluded tine consideration of the sec
ond section, the committee rose and the House
adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
OBITUARY.
William II. Hunt, Minister PlenipOtentiary
of the United States to Russia.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 26.-United States
Minister Hunt is &C dying.

William II. Hunt, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States
to Russia, was a native of South Carolina, who
settled in Louisiana in early life. He was edu-
Gated at Yale College, studied and p~raeticed law
in New Orleans, gaining a brilliant position at
the Louisiana bar, and, like his brothers, Randall
and DR.. Thomas Hunt, and all his family, was
uncompromising in his loyalty to the Union
cause. He gained Il large practice in commercial
maritime and admiralty law. He was a thor
oughly trained criminal lawyer, an able solicitor
in chancery, and for some years professor OF
commercial and criminal law and the law Of evil
dence in the New Orleans Law School. He was
visor to Generals Butler and Banks in Louisiana,
Democrat for several subsequent years, but
ultimately joined the Republican party and was
elected A~ttorney-genera in 1876 on the Packard
ticket. In 1877 he settled in Washington as a
lawyer. In 1878 he was urged for the post of
collector at New Orleans, but was given instead
a judgeship in the Court of Claims. He was
recommended by the bar of Louisiana, without
distinction Of party, for a seat on the Supreme
Bench in place of Justice Strong, but the prize
was awarded to Judge Woods. On President
Garfieldis accession to power he was made Sec
rotary of the Navy. After the Presidents
death, and upon the accession of General Arthur,
he was appointed Minister to Russia, which posi-
tion he held up to the time of his death. He
was related by marriage to the Livingston fam
lily of Louisiana, originally from New York,
and has a summer residence in that State, on the
banks of the Hudson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
The Indian Outbreak.

%W1NNIPEG, Feb. 26.-Broadview advices to
the Sun say that Yellow Calf and the ring lead
mounted police. All is quiet at the agency. No
fighting is anticipated. A stormy scene ensued
on the arrest of Yellow Calf. Rifles were drawn
on the police, with threats to shoot. One buck
was just in the act of shooting Major Heckner,
and but for the interference of one of the men
he would have killed HIM, and a general massa-
ere would have followed The first challenge TO
surrender was disregarded, and followed by a
pa1ley in which the Indians agreed to surrender,
which they did. The settlers are still excited,
but the Indians are quiet.
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General DeWimpffen.
PARIS, Feb. 26.-General Dewimpfen is dead

DeWimpffen during the Franco rdssian war
rec eived an order, on Aug. %, appointing him
Commander-in-chief in case Marshal Mcmahon
should be disabled. On Sept. l, during the bat
tie of Sedan, hearing that Mcmahon was wound
ed, he produced his commission and assumed
the chief command. He at once reversed orders
for the capitulation already given, still hoping
for victory, The order directing retreat came
from the Emperor and not from him. General
that they should try and save themselves bYy en-
deavoIing 10 cut their way through to Carig-
nan. The Emperor would not consent. The
general offered his resignation and the emperor
would not accept it. All that was left for him to
do was to conclude and sign the capitulation of
the great army under his command.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
The Evidence in Detail.
-estern Associated Press.

10 the western Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. ~26.-Stephen Long (col-
ored) testified before the Danville committee to-
day. He was in a hardware store the day be-
fore the fight, and saw two white men loading
about 125 double barreled guns. He went to
another hardwa re store, and there found white
men loading douhle-barreled guns.
Rufus Hatchett (colored) heard a white man
say at the postofice, The white folks are going
to rule this town if we have to kill all the mig
gers"
John Holderness, colored, described the riot
and the events which preceded it. He was
driver for Basil Graves's grocery store. He went
to the back door of the store in the course of his
business and found it locked. A clerk let him
in. He asked why the door was locked, and the
clerk said h was to pay and in a short time
he would see more dead niggers than he had
ever ''seed" before. There We're two hundred
loaded pistols lying on the counter. Just after
the firing eight or ten colored men rushed into
the store. Burch and another white man came
in with empty pistols and exchanged them for
the hoaded ones. Burch got behind the colored
men and ordered them out. He said they (the
niggers) had raised this thing and they must not
harbor there.
Warrick Reed Ia mulatto) was called. He
keeps a private boarding house in Danville. He
was asked with respect to the proceedings of the
Democratic committee, fifteen or sixteen men of
which he had overheard. He asked the commit
tee to excuse him from answering. He said he
was a resident of Danville and must go back
there. His bread depended upon his patronage
in D~anville, and to testify would be to risk his
living. He represented considerable real prop
erty, and his interests were considerable.
Finally, he related what he had overheard. 1t
was to the effect that the election must be carried
by fair means or foul. Adjourned.
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official this afternoon organized a spe-
eial posse of his own. Both forces
paraded the streets this afternoon, heavily
armed, and gave matters quite a military ap-
pearance. Robert Pruitt and J. Lucius gave
bond in $4,000 each to-day and were released.
Doran, Dave Pruitt, Harry Lanning and John
Allison will be taken to the penitentiary to-mor-
row for safe-keeping.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
SOME STARTLINGTESTIMONY
Witnesses Who Saw the Whites Prepar-
ing for the Danyille Massacre.
Hundreds of Guns Loaded and Placed Where
the BOurbOns Could Procure Them
at 2 Moments Notice.
THE DANvILLE RIOT.

Startling Testimony of Three COIered Men
Before the sherman Committee.
Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
WAsHINGTeS, Feb, 26.-This was another
iield-day for the Readjusters and Republicans
in the Danvilie investigation. The testimony Of
Stephen Long was almost startling in the dis
closures it made. Longis an innocent, harmless
looking negro, of medium size, and twenty-five
years of age. He seemed not to comprehend the
magnitude of his utterances. There was a still
ness that was almost painful in the room as he
related his experiences at the hardware store
prior to the riot, where he saw two white Bour-
bons loading a stack of shotguns, numbering
upward of one hundred, and where he overheard
talk among white men that the guns were to be
used in killing negroes.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina, who repre-
sents the Bourbons on the committee, and who
is usually so caustic and shrewd in his cross-eX-
aminations, was unable to pursue the testimony
given or twist the language of the witness. He
was nonplussed and hung his head, as did other
Bourbons present during all of Longs talk. They
seemed to be relieved when he had quit speak
ing
Rufus Hatchett, who followed Long in his tes-
N0NCDs VIM WV OhNAA ANAAAo &C WI 49, " 49,
hardware store at the same time, before the riot,
is a middle-aged man, black as a kettle bottom,
has ali honest look, and the straightforward man
ner in which he related what he saw and heard,
convincing him that preparations were making
to kill negroes or rule Danvtle, had an impress
sion upon the committee and those who heard
him that must carry a weight with the testi-
mony that will last as long as life is with them.
1t convinced everyone of them that there is no
such thing as a colored man being an elector in
Virginia, and that Bourbon shotguns rule where
intelligence fails.
The witness who refused to testify because he
feared to do so, saying, Il have to return to
Danville, and 1 cannot do so if 1 testify, was
hocted at by the Bourbons present, but it was
observed that they did not succeed in breaking
him down on the stand he had taken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27

is the highest since 1S49, and is still rising.
Steamers are bringing in stock and people from
submerged plantations. For 100 miles above
and below the whole country is reported to be
under water. Great damage is being done.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27

He talked as if he had a frog in his throat"
but he was only hoarse; a single bottle of DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup relieved the trouble at once.
twenty-five cents.
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Horsford,s Acid Phosnhate,

IN NIGHT swEATs AND PRosTRATINON
DR.. r. Studhalter, st. Louis, Mo, says: Il
have used it in dyspepsia, nervous prostration,
and in night sweats, with very good results"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27

PARIS, Feb. 26.-GeneraI Schramm is dead.
General Schramm entered the French army in
1893, when only ten years of age, and before
completing his twenty-fourth year of age was
a brigadier- general.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27

The appointments by Governor Murray gives
another chance for the personal abuse and dis
play of Mormon hatred To the government.
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NOR SALE-1OO BY 1874 FEET SOUTHEAST
/ corner of Tennessee and Georgia streets; $l5,-
600 cash in hand, balance on time. T. \. GOODWIN,
20 Thorpe Block.
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FOR SALE.

NOR SALE-ONLY n DOLLAR PER YEAR,
L the Weekly Indiana State journal. Send for il.
NOR SALE-FARMS, CHEAP, ION LONG
L credit. Send for circular. Blue grass pasture
for rent, cheap. FRANCIS lit
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NOR S~ALE-SPECIAL BARGAINS IN SECOND
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1I707-- -
FINANCIAL.

TO LOAN ON FIRST MORTGAGE OF
nj city and farm property in Indiana and Ohio.
Low interest. JOS \. MOORE, 81 East Market
street.
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Delicious chocolate drops are made by melt
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FOE RENT.

NOR RENT-FIRST-CLASS BRICK YARD, NEAR
Il Centerton, Indiana. Brick machines, took. sheds
and everything complete. necessary to run % trstclass
yard. Party taking yard can MAZE arraueemenfs
with us for 1~l,n0o,0O TO ID. 900, 900 brick Tor
State-house. For further information call at oi2e.
State-house grounds. HOWARD * DENIG, by Z. y.
Gobcl, agent, Contractors Indiana State-house.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-04-11
Kind Words from John Bright.

Providence, r.. l., March 28.--John
Bright was informed of the intention to
place o marble bust of him In the
Friends boarding school here. In a
letter Of acknowledgment Of the COM
pliment, Bright writes:
You say ! was a friend to your country
n days OF need. I did what | could to
prevent discord between tia two English
nations, and to teach our people the
nature Of the great issne which, twenty
years ago, your people were engaged.
[ lamented the conflict, but ! wished
England should offer her sympathy on
the side of freedom to the slave, and In
favor of the perpetual union of your
great republic. When / look back on
The past / look with unalloyed satisfac-
lion and would Withdraw no word ] ut
tered in connection with a contest on
which Englnad and the civilized world
looked with profound interest. The
question of peace to which YOU refer
claims the sympathy of all Christai,l
nations. On your continent We may
hope your growing millions may hence
forth know nothing of war. None
assail you, and you are anxious to alb
stain from mingling in the quarrels Of
other nations. Europe, unhappily, is
4 great camp. Allits nationsare armed
as il each expected an invasion from its
neighbor, unconscious, apparently,
that great armies tempt to war the mo-
ment any cause Of dispute arises. The
potentates and governments Of Europe,
I doubt not dread war. They seek to
guard themselves against it. We, in
England, are not free from blame, but
with us lore of peace IS increasing, and
no government can engage in war With
out risking and ever losing the support
Of our people. W. are SO involved
with territory and populations over
half the globe, that difficulties are al
most constantly arising, and our danger
Of war is greater than that of any other
nation. I am however, confident that
our feeling against war is sensibly in
| creasing and ! trust and believe that the