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The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

vein talked without a break during the whole repast.
Toward the end of the dinner a guest was heard to
commence sentence but he instantly silenced by
the hostess After they had left the table however,
she at informed the extingushed individual that
as M. Renan had finished his conversation, she
would gladly hear what he had to say. The guest
modesty declined the hostess insisted Il certain
it was something of consequence" she said. "Alasl
madame, - he said ''it was indeed but it is now too
late should have liked little more of that ice pud-
ding"
LORD CoLERIDGE is dehghting his English friends
with stories of his American visit and among them
with this: He at Mt. Vernon with Mr.. Evarts
and talking about Washington said: ''I have heard
that he was very strong man physically, and that,
standing on the lawn here, he could throw dollar
right the river onto the other bank Mr.
Evarts paused moment to the breadth OF
the river with his eye. 1t seemed rather tall"
story but it for him to belitte the Father Of
the Country in the eyes of foreigner Don't you
believe tl" asked Lord Coleridge. Yes" Mr..
Evarts replied, Il think it's very likely to be true.
You know a dollar would go farther in those days
than it does now."
CELEBRITY of certain sort in Brussels, known
as La Manchotte, from her having but one hand, was
lately found-with her dog-dead from charcoal fumes
in her room, an incident which was the talk of the
town for twentyfour hours A romantic story was
previously circulated to the loss of her hand to the
effect that she psssonately loved young officer who
taking her beautiful hand in his earessed and admired
it. saying he wished he had such hand 'It is yours,
she is alleged to have said las indeed is everything
have and the next morning the hand sent to him.
Brussels paper, however says that in the interest
of truth feels bound say that La Manchotte lost
her hand by poisoning her finger with verdgrs while
cleaning copper saucepan when she kitchen
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

G.. S. SMITH, a colored citizen Of Blooming
ton, H., recently delivered lecture in Far
well Hall, Chicago before a large audience of
whites and blacks. The subject of his dis
course was Bullets VS.. Ballots" evidently
referring to the manner in which colored
voters have been bullied, whipped and shot in
in the South because they dared vote other
than the Democratic ticket. The speaker
laughed at the idea that the white people of
that section were SO organized that in event
of an uprising they could exterminate the
coored people in an hour. He said:
''While the white people would be able to pro
tect themselves in the towns and cities, the farm
els and planters whose homes in the country
were surrounded by those of the colored peo-
pie were unprotected and that if molested in
such serious forms suggested the blacks
could create more mourning than when the
angel of death had smitten the homes of Egypt
You don't want this; | don't want it, the
speaker said; and yet-and yet, he repeated
unless this government gives that protection
to these people which they demand, America
will witness funeral so great that it will take
the living to bury the dead"
There is more in these few words than may
be guessed by some. The millions of blacks
in the South, bent down under the oppression
of the party of their late masters, have been
marvelously patient, suffering every form of
indignity and outrage, without organized re
course to defense. This cannot always be.
The feeling of indignation, gathering for
years, will finally burst into a storm that will
not be easily stayed. There need be no cru
Iade preached by friends of the blacks; their
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cutting down the postofice appropriation.
Enterprising citizens, interested in the growth
and advancement of that region, fail to un-
derstand why the Southern congressman, of
all others, should vote for the reductions. as
the South will be the greatest sufferer. More
new postofices were established in the four
teen Southern States last year than in any
other section, and they are demanding new
mail facilities every day 1t is claimed that
unless sufficient appropriations are made the
growing industries will be handicapped by
limited postal accommodations. The congress-
men who have been posing as models of
economy and reform have cold day of
reckoning before them.
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enemies are diligently and daily forcing the
bitter lesson upon them. Sometime the
bended back will stand straight, and the
bowed head will be lifted up. The sons and
daughters of slaves are gradually becoming
emancpated from the chains of ignorance,
and intelligence never will patiently submit to
what has so long and so pitilessly been forced
upon that unhappy race. In the words of one
of the prophetic war-songs, 'The day of re-
tribution am a-cOming' The wrongs Of to-
day must be atoned for. 1t may not be to-
morrow, nor next year; but the day and the
hour will come. The North and the South
paid the awful penalty of our sins of omission
and commission. The country in all its parts
is repeatedly paying the sure penalty
for disregarded and dishonored law.
It will be so with those who
shoot and kill for opinions sake. The
fountains of vengeance will sometime burst,
and inevitable destruction will follow. The
people that have been in thraldom so long
will be all the more dangerous when once
fired with the uncomfortable spirit of revenge
for long-b borne atrocities. This is no threat.
1t is warning from past experience. 1t can
not be whistled down the wind nor beaten
from its sure fulfllment
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sent of the authorities. Another requirement
is that they must not sell on Sunday but our
compacent police allow them to sell on Sun
day from morning until midnight, the only
restriction being that the front doors must not
be opened. It is as much as saying: "You
must not steal unless you steal with one eye
closed or one hand behind your back The
liquor law is made farce, and it were alto
gether better for society were the law modi-
fed in accordance with the spirit of laissez
faire, that marks its administration. There
are enactments intended to close houses of ill
fame and of assignation. Both kinds are
notoriously open night after night to the in
finite harm of hundreds. Added to the crime
of prostitution are robbery and shameless
and notorious violation of the liquor law.
These are but two of the fragrant insults
offered to law-abiding citizens by offend
ers who do not respect the law made
for and by the people. The infection
of disrespect spreads in all directions-from
courts to people, and from venal and ignorant
iuries to the criminal classes which, embol-
dened by the latitude given them, go to still
greater excesses, until at last the righteous in
dignation of the better classes rises for re
dress. If the lesson of the Cincinnati riots is
read Alright, courts, juries, officers of the law,
and all the people, will be moved to more
decent and reasonable respect for the written
rules for the government of society, ordained
and sanctioned by the voice of the American
sovereign. If, through the vaccinations of
corrupt men, they do not accomplish their
purpose, let those who cripple them be
brought before the bar of public opinion and
be awarded the contempt their misdeeds de-
serve AT any rate, let us not build up laws
that read well, but were never intended to be
enforced. Let us descend to the hard pan of
common sense, where law means exactly what
it says; and if there is any doubt in its inter
probation, let construction be placed upon it
in every instance in accordance with common
sense, and always on the side of justice, in
preference to criminal leniency. If we are to
respect law, it must not say more than it
means, and it must mean precisely what it
says. Justice, the foundation of all whole
some law, must be given every advantage, in
stead of, as now being itself put on trial in
almost every instance, instead of the man who
has outraged it to the hurt of public safety
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

AUSTIN KEEN, sentenced to the New Jersey
penitentiary for ten years, for perjury, had no
wife to plead for him with the authorities. There
was young swoman, however who should
have been his wife, and under the pretense of
doing great favor to her he was allowed to
send for and marry her. Then Mrs. Keen
proceeded to her task of importuning the
Governor for her husbands release in order
shat he might take care of her This was
soon accomplished, and the Keen family are
now united and happy. A convict without a
wife owes it to himself to supply the want
forthwith. Thus is law made a mockery of
by socalled officials
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

THE good citizens of all parties in Cincin-
natl have concluded that the recent terrible
events there more than ever demand sew
erance of party politics and municipal admin
istraton, and therefore they have put non
party ticket in the field for next Mondays
election. After the Chicago fire the citizens
of that city were driven to similar step.
Municipal government is the great problem of
the day. What is the best is hard to say; but
these efforts to better the condition of things
are commendable, and if they are kept up
with vigor and intelligence, the right outcome
will.be reached 1t must be that there is viz
tue and intelligence enough in the American
people to solve the important question.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02
VALUATION AND AppRAIsBMBNT LAWS.

Whatever necessity there may have been
fifty years ago for requiring goods taken on
execution to be first appraised, and then sold
for half or two-thirds of that appraisement,
no longer exists, and the law should be stricken
from the statute book with the laws long age
repealed which made this law humane. Fifty
years ago the creditor might strip the debtor
of everything but a Bible, a hoe, an ak, one
wheel and one reel, one bed and its bedding,
one cow and one calf, $40 worth of furniture,
and necessary wearing apparel, provided the
whole did not exceed $50, and then imprison
him until the debt was paid, and that law re
quired the officer to sell the goods for what
ever they would bring in cash Fifty years ago
not one commercial transaction in hundred
was for cash, or even for cash payments. The
merchant sold goods to be paid for in produce
or trade of some kind, and produce was sold
to be paid for in goods or in trade; hence, when
a debt thus created was to be reduced by a law
suit to a cash basis, the creditor was entitled
to such protection as the appraisement law af-
forded, After short experience with the ap-
praisement law it was provided that by a
special contract, its benefit might be waived,
and soon all notes and written contracts
waived it, and now, forfor+y years or more, the
appraisement law has been practically dead,
except in the very cases in which it should
never exist. With an exemption law of 5000
there is no longer any occasion for this law as
protection for the poor man, and, as a mat
ter of fact, it has hardly been resorted to by a
poor man for twenty-five years, but always by
some Shylock who intended to beat his credit
OF out of an honest debt which he was fully
able to pay, OF late it has been chiefly used
against laboring men in suits for work for cor
porations or capitalists. Notably have rail
roads resorted to it when sued for damages for
killing stock. In all cases of judgment against
them, there is first an appeal to the Supreme
Court to worry out the poor man if possible, and
then some old box-car, OF other article that
has no commercial value is turned out to the
officer year after year until the claimant is
literally worried out. We can not think of a
single instance under our present laws in
which it is resorted to as a protection for a
poor man. 1t must be a rare case in which,
after exhausting the exemption, an honest
man must resort to valuation or appraisement.
Let the law be stricken from the statutes. 1t
serves only to enable a heartless debtor to an
nov an honest creditor. 1t is an engine of
torture in the hands of railroads and other
powerful corporations.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

THERE can be no better reading just now
than the comments of the press upon the Gin
einnati riots, which the Journal is printing
with great profusion and impartiality. We
have no theory to bolster up by means of
these selections; yet the significant thing is
that without exception, they point all in one
direction We commend them to the careful
consideration of all classes of readers
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

. THE Philadelphia Times paper which
prides itself on its independence and freedom
from party bias, is not pleased with the
unanimity with which Democratic organs
arise and welcome it into the fold as one of
themselves The Times must have noticed
and should remember that your true 'inde
pendent" paper is seldom able to retain per
pendcular position, and invariably leans to
the Democratic side
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

MARK this prediction: In less than ten days
Cincinnati will be appealing for aid On account
of the riot. A Cincinnati man can't break his
leg that he doesn't beseech the rest of the
country to come to his rescue with a fund.
Chicago News.
There was a time when Chicago called for
aid and got it. That was all right; a generous
public was quick to respond and glad to be
able to offer help to the distressed. 1t looks
ill to see Chicago papers continually harping
on the fact that on occasions of general dis
tress other localities are compelled to ask help.
Chicago is not obliged to contribute. Cincin-
natl will hardly ask for aid in this instance.
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Rivaling the Amazon of the Plains.

Philadelphia Record.
A woman strolled into Tuckahoe the other day
with rifle slung over her shoulder, and created
a sensation among the town loungers by shoot
ing the ashes from cigar held in a mans hand.
She wanted the same party to give her a shot by
holding it in his mouth, but he declined.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

A WASHINGTON TERRITORY sheriff reports that
the women who have been summoned as jurors
for the May tern of court object vigorously, and
many of them will pay fines rather than attend.
When they hear from Cincinnati about the way
Jurors are treated who refuse to hang man
they may be more nervous yet over the new
privileges of their sex.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02
why Are Not These Warriors in the 'FRONT.'

Chicago NeWs.
1t surprises us that that great military genius,
S. Romeo Reed, has not rushed to the front of
those Cincinnati rioters and saved the beautiful
home of music and drama from lasting disgrace.
And where, too, is Murat Halstead, the man who
field marshall
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

PROFESSOR EATON, of Louisville, is author
ity for the statement that electricity is 'many
million times thinner than air, but very elias
tic" The Democratic free trade idea must
he electricitv
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

A BosToN journalist is quoted apprOvingly by
a prominent actor as saying there is nothing in
theatrical criticism Young men covet the post
of dramatic editor for the entree it gives them
to the theaters and to the society of stage peo.
pie" Can it be possible that this is the real
secret of our local mise en- scenel
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

THE Cincinnatians seem to have thrown
their whole soul into it. There was no dog
show nor alleged dramatic festival to divide
the honors of the occasion. -
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

THE body Of man who was notorious for his
drunken habits has just been dug upnear Philadel-
phia after two years interment, and is found to
be thoroughly petrifed the effect it is supposed,
of the whisky imbibed by the deceased in his
life time. If this conjecture be true any man
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

THE Savannah Ga, agent of London insur-
ance company has received from an unknown
correspondent 1900 as restitution for losses paid
sy the company, some years ago, and for which
the conscience stricken sender feels himself
responsible When money is voluntarily re-
turned to an insurance company the millennium
must be drawing nigh.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02
Private DaIzelI,s Rival.


Atlanta Constitution.
We are not in favor of reading editor Waiter
son out of the Democratic party No. bless youl
The Republican party has its Private Dalzell,
and we want the Democratic party to be SINH
larly provided
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

SOMEBODY has invented dentists elegant
portable chair. Dentists, elegant and otherwise,
being themselves also portable, nothing is to
prevent the luxurously-inclined citizen from
having his teeth carpentered in the privacy of
his own apartment
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

A CHICAGO writer processes surprise because
that city, with large German population, sup
ports a drug store for every 1,5O0 inhabitants,
while Berlin has one drug store to every 16, 266
and Cologne one to every 11,OOO Possibly the
explanation may lie in the fact that Berlin and
Cologne druggists attend to their legitimate bust
ness of selling drugs, and leave liquid refresh
ments not of medicinal nature to other cater
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

IF "a Republican and regular reader of the
Journal will pay attentive heed to what is
said in these columns, he will not be misled as
to his duty as citizen.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Please name the Governors of Texas Kansas
and Colorado and their address.
SPENCER, Ind.
Texas, John Ireland Austin; Kansas, George
W. Click, Topeka; Colorado, James B. Grant,
Denver
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

THE illustrations of the Enquirer convince
the beholder that the horrors of the riots have
not been adequately realized.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02
A Comforting Suggestion,

Pittsburg ChroncleTelegraph.
When you feel pains along the small of your
back or iii your legs or arms don't be frightened.
1t is not rheumatism. 1t is simply trichine, and
if you will wait eight or nine days the little
worms will become encysted and cease to annoy
you.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02
A CreeIit to one JournaIism of One Nation.

Indianap0lis Herald.
The Journals new type has become smoothed
down and the paper now is as pretty and plump
as full moon. The journal is a credit to the
daily journalism of the nation, and will compare
favorably along with the best of the metropoli-
tan newspapers.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

WHAT this country needs is less writing of
laws and better enforcement of those already
enacted.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

JOHN HANDS, of Greenvile, N c., gave a
mortgage on himself to secure a note, giving the
holder of the note right to his work, and to
sell him if the debt remained unpaid at a speci-
fed time. The debt did remain unpaid when
the mortgage expired, and after being duly ad-
vertised Hands was put up for sale at auction
Attracted probably by happy days that are no
more, large crowd of ex-slaveholders and their
former chattels gathered at the sale. Much to
their disappointment however, an injunction
was taken out at the instigation, it was sus-
pected of the sly Hands himself, and the sale
aid not take place.
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who desires to make statue or, at any rate,
stone image of himself may do so, and he need
not be an artist, either.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

SOME London society ladies lately gave a series
of tableaux, presenting, among other pictures
Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women" with
themselves figuring, of course, as the fair
women Much to their disgust Tennyson, who
was himself present. slept sweetly on back
bench during the performance. Perhaps this
was because he is so old that women are no
longer fair to him; but, more probably, he pre-
ferred the dream to the painful reality.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

TENNYsoNs nurse of ninety years was not
the first woman to find baby useful in an emer-
gency nor yet the last. The wife of Joseph
Billingham, of Trenton, N. j., found her infant
capable of filling want which she had probably
not anticipated. Joseph, who was a rolling mill
employee went on a strike, but regretting his
action, resumed work at reduced wages. His
fellow-strikers were indignant over his conduct,
but their wives were especially exasperated, and
held an indignation meeting. AS in another and
larger indignation meeting their wrath overcame
them, and they resolved upon war. A dozen
women with fire in their eyes and clubs in their
hands, resolved themselves into vigilance com
mittee and visited Billingham. That terrified
man saw their threatening weapons, and looked
at his wife helplessly. She could not fight, and
knew her husband had no chance to force his
way against such odds, so she placed her baby in
his arms, folded her hands and looked at the as
sailants. 1t was a successful plan. Twelve
women dropped their weapons instantly, and,
suspending hostilities, talked matters over in a
friendly way, and finally went home in great
glee-all on account of baby
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

THE Henry Bill Publishing Company, of Nor
wich, Conn, is publishing Mr.. Blaines new
hoe
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

THERE will be no possible escape from the
book agent of the immediate future if the exam
pie of one Massachusetts publisher is followed
by his competitors. This man. with no remnant
of compassion for the victims, encourages his
agents to renewed and sleepless vigilance in their
efforts by Offering, in addition to the usual com
missions, valuable prizes to those who take the
greatest number of orders. One woman who
disposed of over 1000 volumes in brief period
rejoices in a prize of $500.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

THE best impulses clot and sour in the
thunderstorm of passion. Cincinnati News
Journal.
If you knew this, why didn't you say so last
waak9
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

THE presence of a bride is a secondary matter
at a German wedding. Mr.. Lang, of Wood
haven, L. L. set his house in order laid in a lib
eral supply of refreshments, and invited His
friends to see him married to Miss Lizzie Hines,
one evening last week. The friends assembled
but Miss Lizzie did not, and on sending to her
house it was found that she had disappeared to
parts unknown. Mr.. Lang remarked good ma
turedly that 'dot settles dot, and upon guest
suggesting dot so long ash de peer vas bought
it vas better dot we drink it und not waste it, .
the company ate and drank with great enjoy
ment and finally left the bridegroom that was
to have been in a frame of mind which could not
have been more merry mad the full programme
been carried out.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

A LOUD wall is coming up from the South
over the action of the Democratic House III
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

If you want to live long in the land you must
become a statesman it having been demon
strated that there is less wear and tear of mind
and body in that calling than any other. DR.
Miller who made the examination Of Guiteaus
brain, has been devoting considerable attention
to the effect of different professions longevi-
tv. His conclusion is that the average life of
business men is 80 years in this country and 60
in England, statesmen 70 in England to 70 here
English Chief-justices 68, American 60. The
Americans, in his opinion, are too active, and
not regular enough in their habits.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02

Mr.. CHARLES ZEowLIowIEz Polish gentle
man of Brooklyn has sued Joseph Churieoewski
for $50, that amount being claimed as due for
services rendered in efforts to secure wife for
his fellow w-countryman Zeowliowiez brought
five maidens in succession before the critical
Churieoewski, but none of them pleasing his
fastidious taste he went off, found girl to suit
himself and married her. He denies owing
anything to the marriage broker under these
circumstances. The five rejected maidens have
sent in no claim.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02
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