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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-18
Notes and Personalities.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON Feb. 17-Judge Riley, of In
diana, is spoken of as the probable successor of
Mr.. Lyman, as chief clerk in the office of the
Second Assistant Postmaster general. Judge
Riley is now chief of division in the Postoffice
Department
]. G. Shanklin. ex-Secretary of Indiana has
been the guest of his brother-in-law, Judge Har
Ian, during the past week.
In addition to the wife of Speaker Carlisle,
Kentucky now has several other ladies, natives
of her soil. whose husbands hold high official
positions in Washington. One of these is the
wife of Justice Field, of the United States Su-
preme Court and another is the wife of Post
master general Gresham.
William S. Holman was a passenger on the
House elevator, yesterday, with number of
others. The elevator moved very slowly. Mr..
Holman objected, and asked: Isn't this a slow
coachp Eyes" said the conductor; but it
moves quicker than the appropriations commit
tee
Ex-Congressman Franklin of Missouri, says
that, from what he and learn Judge
Brewer. of Kansas, has brought the strongest
influences to bear on the President for the
judgeship of the Eighth United States judicial
district
After the argument was finished in the case of
the Western Union Telegraph Company VS. the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, in which
the control and use of the telegraph along the
line of tho Baltimore 81 Ohio railroad is at is
sue, Chief justice Waite remarked that he could
not say that decision would be made at the
present recess
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The Iron-Ore Interests.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16-There was strong
array Of the representatives of the steel and
iron, and iron-ore interests in the room of the
committee on ways and means to-day, to remon-
strate against proposed changes in the tariff law
Among those present were b. F. Jones, chair
man of the delegation from Pittsburg, himself
interested in bar-iron igiron and iron ore; j.
d. Weeks, Pittsburg, secretary of the Western
Iron Association; Mr. Vandyke, Milwaukee, in
terested in irOn-ore T. H. Wells, Youngstown,
O., interested in hoop and g-iron Joseph Whar
ton, Philadelphia, interested in iron and STEEL
Wayne MacVeagh of the Pennsylvania Steel
Company; John Roach, New York. ship builder
John Jarrett, representing the Tin plate Associa-
ton, and William Weiht and William Martin
representing the iron-workers
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extended its facilities, to the larger villages, at
ASTOUNDING STATISTICS.
Illiteracy Holding the Balance of Power in
Majority of States.

Illiteracy Holding the Balance of Power in a
Majority of States.
WASHINGTON, Feb 7.-Representative Willis
has prepared most interesting table to accom-
pany his bill for federal aid to education, which
shows that illteracy holds the balance of power
in fourteen Northern and all of the Southern
States. In thirty five States there are 1873 217
illiterate voters. Only one voter in five can
write his name in the Southern States. The
illiterate in South Carolina number more than
one-half; in Alabama, Florida Mississippi, Geor-
gia, North Carolina and Virginia, only one in
two; while Missouri, with one in nine presents
the best record. In the Presidential election
in 1876 New York, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Indiana, Cali
fornia, Nevada, Ohio Oregon, Wiscon-
sin, Illinois, Rhode Island, Michigan,
and Pennsylvania were ranged on the side of
illiteracy In the last presidential contest thirty
States in the Onion, with 298 electoral votes,
were again within the domination of sovereigns
who could not read the very charter Of their lib
critics. The majorities which they gave could
have been overthrowu by the combined vote of
their illiterate voters even if those maiorities
had been five times as great as they were. In
1876 sixty out of seventy six senator's three fths
of the whole, and 259 out of 1872 representatives
were in the grasp of illiteracy. In 1880, fifty
eight out of seventy-six senator's and 292 out of
1926 representatives were from States and dis
tricts where iliterate voters held the balance of
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MCDONALD AT WORK.
An Offensive and Defensive Alliance with
Senator Bayard.

An OnenSlVe and Defensive Alliance Win
Senator Bayard.
Washington Special
Senator Bayard has had number of consulta
tions with Ex-senator Mcdonald during his visit
in this city Bayard is friendly to Mcdonald,
and, while the substance of their consultation is
not generally known it is thought they have
formed an offensive and defensive alliance. Bay
ard will support Mcdonald as against any other
Western candidate, and the latter will support
Bayard as against any other Eastern candidate.
Ex-senator Henry E. Davis of West Virginia,
has spent the day here. He is one of the main
projectors of the Mcdonald boom He worked
up the Mcdonald movement at Saratoga last
summer where he met number of capitalists
of his way of thinking. Mcdonald left here this
evening for New York, we'll satisfied with the
result of his visit. He captured the majority of
the Southern senator's and has advised such
notifications of the Morrison tariff programme
that. if accepted it will leave him in very good
position as a candidate
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Burglars broke into Johnston. Irwin & Co. 5 on
South Meridian street. yesterday afternoon. by
prying off rear shutter, but we, evidently
frightened away before they got anything of
value
Early yesterday morning Hurleys saloon on
South Illinois street, was entered and $500 in
cash, several boxes of cigars and bottles of
whisky were taken.
The prisoners in the coop" at the county Jail
sawed hole through the ceiling and through
the wall yesterday morning, but none escaped
Jesse Hubbard Charles Merrick Perry
Owens and Charles Brady were locked up yes
terday for indiscriminate revolver practice on
the Wabash tracks near Ohio street
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INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
A General Strike of the Pennsylvania Coal
Miners Probable.

PITTsBURG, Feb. 16-A general strike of the
railroad coal miners against reduction of half
cent is looked for shortly. The ruling rate is
three and one-half cents, but in number of
instances, the operators have refused to pay
more than three cents, and claim to be unable to
run the pits at profit and pay the former rate.
A half-cent reduction was ordered in the Scott
Dale yesterday, and President Costello of the
Miners Association left for there this morning
to endeavor to settle the trouble. The producers
offer to sign yearly contract to pay three cents.
but the men refuse to entertain the proposition,
and a strike seems Inevitable. At Shaners sta
ton none of the pits in operation to day, the
men who went in at a reduction going out again.
The Buena Vista miners also refuse to return to
work at less than the arbitration award.
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POSTAL MATTERS.
Probability of Further Extension of the
Free Delivery System.


Free Delivery System.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WAsHINGToN Feb. III think, said Repre-
sentative Skinner, 'that there is a prospect that
the bill establishing the free delivery service at
postofices in towns of 10000 inhabitants will
pass the House. At least, there is a disposition
on the part of the postoffice committee to report
the bill favorably, and there are many members
on both sides that / know favor the proposition.
In the South it will receive more favor than
plans of this kind usually do among Southern
members, because few of the Southern cities are
entitled to free delivery of mail matter I'M
der the law whereas if towns of TO- 900 inkab-
itants are admitted the whole country will be
benefited Of course, it will be urged by some
that this is an innovation, but everything of the
kind is really an innovation The railroad mail
service was an Innovation yet it has proved
magnificent success. The free delivery service
was an innovation, yet it already earns a sur
plus of upward of million dollars for the gov
eminent OF course, this country cannot be
compared with England because this country is
SO much greater in extent than that island But
there letters are delivered by carriers all over
the land, and it is about time the United States
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PERSONAL MENTION.

A. Reiter, of Greenshurg, is at the Grand
A B. Fitch. ofTerre Haute is at the Grand.
w. Frank Rea, Of Madison, is at the Grand.
T. J. Dean, of Bloomington, is at the Grand.
VIII Z. English returned from the East last
night.
Jos. F. futile, of Charlottesville, is at the
Grand.
Colonel J. B. Stafford, of Columbus, is at the
Grand.
D. E Corneau, wife and child, of Chicago, are
at the Bates.
G L Bond and wife and H C. Mclean, of
Washington, D. c., are at the Bates
Hon. John L. Rupe. j. J. Finney Thomas
Yeager, of Richmond were at the Bates yester-
day.
P. H. Malloy, w F. Spalding, A S Flick, Miss
Flick, G. A. Ayers, of New York are at the
Denison.
1. N. Pierce, Terre Haute; R. B. Fountain,
Marion; A. NJ. Baker, Lebanon; George Daily,
Michigan CITY; H. J. Hayward Richmond, are
at the Bates House.
In the last number of the Critic, Oliver Ditson
& Co. say they have paid w. H. Clarke, formerly
of this city, $4,000 percentage on the sales of
his New Method for Reed Organs"
III. L. W. muilildll ClOSeu d seven weeks
meeting at st. Joseph, NO. on the 18th. There
were more than seven hundred professions of
conversion. He began a meeting yesterday at
Lincoln. III.
Mr.. Enos B. Reed editor of the People, who
has been very sick for some weeks, is again at
work. He says in his last issue that among other
things he learned during his illness was that the
Journal continued to be the best newspaper pub
lished in the city.
Charlottesville journal: Rev. Myron w. Reed
of Indianapolis, has received a call to the First
Congregational Church, in Denver 1t is one of
the largest churches in that city, and is said to
be in prosperous condition Mr.. Reed goes to
Denver next week to inform himself in regard to
the new field, before giving decisive answer
He entered upon the eighth year of his pastorate
in indianapolis last Sunday night, delivering
fine address upon Wendell Phillips. He has
built up the church over which he has presided,
and has done great work among the poor. His
influence over young men has been wide and
beneficial He is progressive and liberal man,
and his loss to indianapolis would be an irrepar-
able one. 1t is to be hoped that he will decide to
remain in Indiana.
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Reimbursement of Postmasters, salaries.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Attorney-gen-
eral has rendered an opinion in regard to the
construction of the act of March 3, 1883, relative
to the readjustment of postmasters' salaries.
He holds that in all cases in which it
appears from the biennial readjustment
of salaries of postmasters of the third fourth or
fifth class, that they received 10 per cent or
more less than they would have received in com
missions under the act of 1854, thew
are entitled, under the act of March
3, 1883. to the difference between what
was paid them and what they would
have received as commissions under the act of
1854. He also holds that it was not the intention
of Congress. by the acts of 1864 and 1866, to
dispense with biennial readiustments.
1t follows that claimant under
the act of March g. 1888 must show
that the acts subsequent to 1854 deprived him of
10 per cent or more of what he would have re-
ceived if those statutes had not been enacted
and he had been compensated on basis of the
act of 1865. This opinion of the Attorney gen
eral is in harmony with the construction given
these statutes by the department.
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Wei De Never.

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solutely cure catarrh-fresh or chronic 1T has
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Ind wife and daughter receiving wonderful
benefit from the cure. J. N. Edwards, New
Rev. c. H. Taylor, 14O Noble street, Brooklyn"
&c, &c. Thousands of testimonials are received
from all parts of the world. Delivered, ST. Dr.
Wei De Meyers illustrated Treatise" with
statements by the cured, mailed free D. B.
Dewey & Co, 1S2 Fulton street. New York
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Advice to Mothers,

be used when children are cutting teeth 1t re-
lieves the little sufferer at once; it produces
natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from
pain, and the little cherub awakes as bright as
a button" 1t is very pleasant to taste 1t soothes
the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, re-
lieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best
known remedy for diarrhea, whether arising
from teething or other causes. Twenty-Five
cents bottle
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ADJUSTMENTS.
OPERA-HOUSE.
H GRAND CARNIVAL
OF THE
CaLIAn
NAIlNIN TlROIIVN,
TUESDAY Fob Dc 1873 [

Tuesday, Feb 26 1891.
The M9nnerchor beg to announce that this Carni-
val will eclipse all former similar entertainments of
the society. The costumes for the Tahleaux Grand
March and Polonase all and furnished by Mr..
Buck & Sons, of Cincinnati. The stage setting,
scenery etc will be the grandest yet presented The
arrangements for dressing and toilet rooms that
English hotel is elegantly furnished and running
under the able management of H. II. Jackson will be
of the most desirable and elaborate character One
Military Band and One Orchestra
Admission-lnvited guest, one gentleman and lady,
and lady $3.50 each additional lady, rs cents.
For the general public-Family Circle, rs cents and
81; gallery, 50 cents.
The sale of all tickets begins Friday, Feb % 1884,
at 10 o'clock a. m. Those for members and invited
guests at Paul II. Krausss No. 26 North Pennsyl
vania street and those for the Family Circle and
Gallery at English's Opera house.
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MINOR MENTION.

The Presidential Outlook in WiscOnsin-Di-
vision Among Republicans.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-Representatiye Guen-
Their of Wisconsin. says that Il his State the
Republicans are divided as to the best man for
the Republican candidate for President Mr..
Arthur has an extensive following General Lo-
gan will receive some support as will General
Sherman, Mr.. Blaine and Edmunds. Mr.. Guen-
Their does not think there is a possibility that the
delegation will be united upon any one candi-
date, unless they conclude to support Wiscon-
sin candidate, in which event he thinks Fair
child would be Wisconsin's choice
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RiotOus LabOrers.

BALTIMORE, Feb. l6.-Several weeks ago Alex.
Harrgan, sub-contractor on the Philadelphia
branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, alb
seconded, leaving so ne sixty Italian laborers I'M
paid. Yesterday afternoon the Italians caught
Parliament, the 'ntractor, and refused to release
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Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the Ma
tional Women's Christian Temperance Union,
will he one of the speakers at the Grand Opera,
house on Wednesday evening, Feb 20.
Mrs. Mary Woodbridge, of Ohio, who is Il
member of the executive committee of the Ma
tional Women's Christian Temperance Union, will
be one of the speakers at theOpera house meeting
under the auspices of the indianapolis Women's
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A PER1LoUs EXPERIMENT. To leave

A PER1LoUs EXPERIMENT.. To leave cough
that it will get worse. Meet it promptly with
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar The rem
edy is palatable, and prevents all danger A few
doses and the cure is complete. Sold by all
druggists.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in minute.
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The Young Peoples Christian Temperance
Union will meet this evening in the Albeit
Block, at 73O A full attendance is especially
desired as important business will come before
the meeting. .-r o.. d. , t.-.t
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Feb 20.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster is expected at the Grand
Opera-house on Feb. 90 at tho meeting of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
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him until they were paid. Several unsuccess-
full attempts were made to rescue Parliament
The Italians becoming riotous, force of twenty
men were sent against them and they were all
captured
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CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED.

IN . H. DNltENNk.
Dear Sir r:-About sixteen wears AGO. while
living in Canada, my health became very
poor. My disease came on gradually. begin
ming with loss of appetite and afterwards
great weakness, which brought on night
sweats and dry, hacking cough. My chest
anu back were very weak, and so sore that
could not bear my weight against the back of
chair. At different times | raised consider
able blood, which my physician said came
from the lungs | employed several doctors,
but they all told me the same thng-that my
lungs were badly affected; aud the last one
that L had also said that could live but q
short time, and that had better 90 to my
mothers home in Winstead Ct, rs soon as 1
could, that with careful nursing might live
for some time. When | got to my mothers
was very low indeed so that my mother sent
Tor her doctor. lie pronounced me beyond all
help. lie, however, left me some medicine
which he said would relieve my worst symp-
toms. After this my mother employed an
other doctor, who said that one Of my lungs
was nearly gone. ] ate scarcely anything for
several months, and never expected to get
well. One day friend, who lives in Collins
vile, Ct, gave my father one of your PAM
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and told me to look it over and see if any of
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The Duke Of WeIIIngton,. E.perlment.


In ground floor room in one of the large
public buildings of London a man sat writing
at a table covered with papers. He was a
short, strongly built figure, with prominent
nose, and a face hard and massive as a granite
statue wearing the set look peculiar TO men
who have surmounted great difficulties and
confronted great peris. Few, indeed, had
had more practice in both than this man, for
he was no other than the Duke of Wellington,
and his crowning victory at Waterloo was still
but few years old.
There was the tinkle of bell outside and
then a murmur of voices in the anteroom
but the Duke never raised his head from his
writing, even when his secretary entered and
said,
"If it pleese your Grace, that man with the
bullet proof bresstplate has called again, and
wishes very much to see your Grace for
moment"
The Dukes face darkened, as well it might,
for the man in question was the most pertina-
cious bore whom he had ever encountered.
The bulletproof cuirass was his own inven-
ton, and he never lost chance of declaring
that the safety of the whole British army de-
pended upon its instant adoption of this ''un-
PARALLEL discovery" which he carried about
with him, and exhibited at all times and in all
places.
Had this been all he would soon have been
QlbpObou Out, uuluChly, Hb uhu COulTlNoN
to interest in his invention one or two of the
Dukes personal friends, and to get from them
letters of recommendation which even Vel
lngton could not easily disregard. Something
must clearly be done, however; for although
the fellow had hitherto been kept at bay, he
was evidently determined to give the Duke no
peace till the matter had been fully gone into.
For moment Wellington looked SO grim
that the secretary began to hope for the order
which he would gladly have obeyed viz, to
kick the inventor into the street forthwith.
But the next instant the iron face cleared
again, and over it played the very ghost of a
smile, like CLEAN of winter sunshine upon
precipiee.
"Show him in, =" said he, briefly
The observant secretary noted both the tone
and the smile that accompanied it and he in-
wardly decided that it would have been better
for that inventor if he had not insisted on
seeing the Duke.
| In came the great disooverer-a tall, slouoh-
ing shabby, slightly rednosed man, with
would-be jaunty air, which gave way little,
however, before the Iron Dukes penetrat-
ing glance.
II am glad to think that your Grace appre-
ciates the merits of my invention, said he
in patronizing tone. They are, indeed,