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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
a FORGED DEMOCRATIC DOCUMENT
West Virginia Learns that There Was No
Contract to Import Negro Noters.
JOHN ALABASTER,
Minister and Citizen.

West Virginia Learns that There Was No
Contract to import Negro Voters.
WHEELING, w. Va, Oct. 16.-A characteristic
trick of the Democrats employed in the eastern
counties of this State has come to light On
Monday last the Baltimore Day published
statement that James D. Butt, of Harper's Fer
ry had contracted with Williams. politician of
Baltimore, to pay him 50 per head for negro
voters imported into this State and that Butt
had signed Il memorandum to this effect, copy
of which was purported to be given, together
with a copy of a draft on W J. Cowden for $50,
in Williamss favor. which was marked lex
cepted" across the face and signed. wv j. c."
This forgery was very bunghng one. Cowden
is chairman of the Republican State committee,
but his initials are w J. W. and he would
never misspell accepted
But the forgery served a purpose, and the
Days article was reprinted on hand bills, and
thousands of them were circulated in the border
counties. At Harper's Ferry it nearly made
riot. Yesterday Butt went to Baltimore and
visited the editor of the Day who, when he
saw Butts's aud Cowden's signatures, at once
pronounced the others forgeres and promised to
make amends for the wrong he had unwittingly
done
A special from HarperS Ferry. this evening,
says Williams is in jail there, and that the Mary
land State committee is helping Butt to push the
case against him,
A special from Harpers Ferry to the Intelli-
gencer says: Every day brings out new facts,
showing that Williams is backed by the Mary
land Democratic politicians, working under the
auspices of the national committee If his
case reaches a hearing, facts more damning
than the Morey letter forgery will be brought
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
VOTING AND PRAYING.
How Ministers viii Cast Their Votes in the
Coming Election.

HOW Ministers VIII Cast Their Votes in the
Coming Election.
Rev. John Alabaster, D. D., pastor of the Ne
ridian- street NJ. E. Church, of this city, has
written the following letter for publication;
During the past few weeks have been the re-
clpient of numerous communications IN writing
and otherwise, evinciug geat interest in the sue
cess Of the Prohibition party at the coming pres
idential election.
These communications are chiefly from nom
Republican sources They urge that temper
ance people, and especially ministers, shall vote
as they pray-for prohibition"
AS it is not practicable to reply to all of these
persons, and especially since some are anony-
nous, l answer thus, publicly
Yes. we intend to vote as we pray. That is
settled win we vote for prohibition the
presidential ticket} No. That is settled.
Why" Because there are other things we
pray for besides prohibition; and these things
we deem very important just now.
During the years of the rebellion we prayed
for the Union We have done it ever since.
We will vote as We pray. We will not throw
away our vote on prohibition, and help give the
Union into the hands of its enemies. We
prayed for the liberation of the slave. God
heard our prayers. We will vote as we pray.
We will help that party through which the slave
gained his freedom, and through which his
rights as a freeman are now secured. We have
prayed for the death of the power. We
will vote as we pray We will help keep out of
power the party whose traditions most allied
with the whisky influence. We would like pro
hibition. We see no good prospect of securing
it except outside of party politics. But we will
not foolishly throw away what friends we have
and fall squarely into the hands of our
enemies. We remember the story Of the
lad who thrust his hand into the jar of filbelts
and filled it so full that he could not get it out
No, we will take. a few this time. and watch for
a safer method by which to get the handful.
We have been praying THY kingdom come"
That kingdom is not prohibition alone. 1t is
the purity of morals, the sancity of home, the
promotion of Christianity We will vote as we
pray. And since so many things that we pray
for are represented by one of the great political
cast a vote for prohibition would in effect be to
defeat the former and aid the latter, we must
vote as we pray. We will cast our ballot for the
Republican presidential candidate.
JOHN ALABAsTER
Minister and Citizen.
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A Bad wreck on the MOBILE 8 Ohio.

MEMPHIS, Oct 1S-The Appeals Tupelo, Miss /,
special says: "One of the worst wrecks that
eyer occurred on the Mobile & Ohio railroad
happened few miles north of this place last
night Every coach of the passenger train due
here at 1:3O A NJ was thrown from the track and
badly damaged. The rails had been taken up
by unknown persons, with view to wreeking
the train. There were about fifteen passengers
on the train, all of whom were more or less in
jured but none killed The following FIVE were
seriously injured: Rev j. B. Innan, Hender-
son, Tenn; Mrs. Warner Fort Henry, N. ";
Paul Krause, St. Louis; Leo Graf, Springfield
none of these are fatally injured. They are be-
ing well cared for at hotel here"
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Jealousy and Possible Murder,

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal,
Mitchell, Oct ia cutting affair took
,laee, two miles east of town on Wednesday
vening, which will result in the death of VIM.
Iompton, lime-burn and a man of family.
he cutting was done by George Hostutler, a
mall farmer and the husband of a rather
brightly, black haired and keen black eyed
'oman. Hostutler had reason to suspect an
ndue intimacy between Compton, and his wife
nd as he was coming to town to attend the
ylifcation on Wednesday evening he met
bmpton going out. His suspicious were
,ached home first. When Compton arrived he
card racket going on between Hostutler and
Is wife, and being gallant Virginia man, he
ient in to take the part of the woman against
er husband cooked revolver in hand. But in
lead of shooting the husband he took him by
ae collar, pulled him out of the house, and pro-
seded to pummel him over the head with the
cad with the pistol Hostutler drew from his
reeches pocket his trusty jack-knife and cooled
10 ardor of the illicit lover by cutting his
roat, severing the wind-pipe, and cutting his
dy nearly half in two; beginning over the
leen, cutting into that organ and leaving it
ptruding through the gaping wound; then,
pping over the lower ribs he cut into the base
tthe left lang. G ompton was tailored" up
d taken to his home, but cannot recover. This
from Hostutlers story. Compton refuses to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
WHEN INDICATIONS.
SUNDAY.---Fad'' sUeather, higher
temperature, lower barometer.

Reliable statistics are highly instructive exceed
ingly useful in many ways and withal interesting to
properly constituted minds. Statistics however,
ike humorous literature, to be relished, must not be
presented to the mind in very large doses at any one
tie The whole number of kinds and styles that are
comprised in our vast assortment of Mems, Youths,
Boys and Chidren's Clothing, and Gentlemens Fur
nishing Goods in each of these Departments of the
WHEN CLOTHING STORE, would doubtless be
very interesting piece of statistical intelligence to the
readers hereof the totals would be an as
tonishng revelation many people But since we are
keptuchtoo busy serving the wants of great army
of patrons to make such enumeration at all posi-
ble it is sufficient for all practical purposes to re-
mark here that all the appropriate and desirable fab
rics of both hemispheres, in all the prevailing styles
and shapes are represented in exhaustive variety in
our different departments. And at every price we
touch our standing guaranty-prices 10 to 70 per
cent below any competition or the money refunded in
full upon return of the goods unsoiled-is always
good.
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CARLYLE's BIOGRAPHY.
FrOude's Third and Last Volume-Stinging
Criticism of Gladstone.

Criticism of Gladstone
LONDON, Oct 1S.-The third and concluding
volume OF Mr.. James A. Froude's Biography of
Thomas Carlyle" has just been published, and is
likely to prove the literary sensation of the
present season. 1t embraces the period from
1884 to the death of Carlyle in February, 1881,
and is accompanied by preface, in which Mr.
Froude elaborately vndcates his conduct as
Caryles literary executor The volume is
crammod with hitherto unpublished criticisms of
public men, many of whom are still living.
The Tories are gloating over Carlyle's descrip-
ton of Gladstone as zone of the contemptiblest
men, he ever saw HE is' said Carlyle, "but
poor ritualist He is almost spectral-a kind of
phantasm of a man. There is nothing in him
but forms and ceremonies and outside wrap
pings"
On the other hand, the Liberals say that Mr..
Froudes work presents the character of his
revered master in an even less enviable light
than before, and that Mr.. Froude should be
called hereafter not Mr.. Carlyles literary ex-
ecutor, but his literary eXecutioner.
In the preface of this volume Froude defends
the revelations of the inner life of Carlyle con
tanned therein, and says that reticence upon
that subject would have implied that there was
something to hide from the public. Mr. Froude
says: Taking Carlyle altogether, there never
man whose conduct throughout his life
could better bear the fiercest hight He had no
sins of youth to apologize for, and in the grave
matters pertaining to the law he walked for
eighty-fve years unblemished by single spot,
never deviating from the strictest line of in
tegrity Although more than once he was
within sight of starvation, he did less than
the best He never wrote an idle word nor
sentence that he did not believe was true. He
had frailities and impatiences, but he had no
dishonest or impure thoughts. He lived life
of single minded effort to do right"
The diary Of Carlyle, which is printed with
this volume, narrates an interview he had with
Queen Victoria, saying that the Queen was very
gracious, pretty in her demeanor throughout,
rose greatly in his esteem, and she did not fail
in any point
At the end of his memoirs there is letter
from Disraeli, in which the latter offers to Car
lyle baronetcy and the Grand Cross of Bath,
and mentions that Tennyson had been offered
baronetcy. Carlyle refused both of the honors
in a courteous reply.
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WHEN
CLOTHING STORE.
AN INFAMOUS DEED.
4 MonOn Train Thrown from the Track by
Wreckers and the Cars Burned.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
GREENcAsTLE, Ind, Oct 1S-The Louisville
express going south, the Monon route, was
thrown from the track this morning. about half
past o'clock, the train rolling down a seven
foot embankment, the engine and all the cars
but the rear trucks of the sleeper leaving the
track The baggage car turned over once, and
two coaches were thrown on their sides. The
baggage car took fire at once, and in half an
hour the entire train, including the engine was
burned The loss is $685. 900. The express
messenger, Charles N. Cutler, saved most all
the money and valuable packages, but lost all
way bills. Had it not been for Cutler-al-
though his right arm is badly burned-it is
probable the baggageman would have been
burned to DEATH Cutler rescuing him from
under pile of trunks. Nearly all
the bedding and cushions belonging to the
coaches and the sleeper were saved.
Engineer James Church has three ribs broken;
the baggage master is badly bruised; conductor
Frazer and the brakeman are injured. There
were one hundred passengers on board, many of
whom were badly bruised and scratched, but
none seriously injured. The passengers were
brought here at o'clock this morning. The
wreck was cleared about noon.
!, The accident was caused by bolt being taken
from switch target by some miscreant for the
purpose of wrecking the train. The bolt was
found alongside the track with the nut screwed
back upon it, showing that it had been taken out
I Intentionally
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
The Wreck ON the Boston & ALBANY.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Oct 18.-Particulars of
the accident on the Boston & Albany railway,
near Kinderhook, last night show that it was
caused by train n-wreckers, who placed pile of
rails and sleepers on the track, carefully wedged
in position. The locomotive turned completely
over, the express car jumped over it, and the
baggage and smoking cars were piled on top.
The sleeper remaired on the track Engineer
Davie was found under the wreck, terribly
sealded, and 2ied at 8 A. NJ. Fireman Stickneys
recovery is doubtful. Conductor c. Fl. Gould
had leg injured, and baggage-master George
Fairbanks was scalded. A wrecking tram from
ALBANY cleared the track The Boston & Alba
nv officials have offered 81, 900 reward for the
discovery of the miscreants who wrecked the
traiD
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Organization of Manufacturing jewelers.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Oct. 1s.-A meeting of
manufacturing jewelers., of this city and Attic
boro, for the purpose of considering the recent
failures in the trade and protecting manufact-
urers and jobbers and taking steps toward the
formation of the New England Board of Trade,
that in the last three months the number of
honest failures was thirteen. with liabilities of
$745,0e0; doubtful failures eleven, with labili-
ties of 500. 600: dishonest failures six with abil
tiles of $270, 000 All these failures were in the
wholesale jewery trade The total number of
failures was thirty with total liabilities of
81 O45, GOO The largest percentage offered for
compromise was 33 Is and the smallest 10 per
cent. 1t was voted to form an organization for
protection
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
A Princely Gift from Vanderbilt.

New YORK, Oct. 18.-At meeting of the
trustees of the College of Physicians and Sur
gueons, this evening announcement was Off
cially made that VIM. H. Vanderbilt had given
to that institution $500, 600 as a building fund
site, including twenty nine city lots between
Sixty-eighth and Sixty ninth streets, on Tenth
avenue, has been purchased, and it is under
stood building operations will be begun at an
early day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
A Noble Lords Assault on an Editor.

LONDON, Oct. Is The assault made by Lord
Marcus Beresford on Thomas Gibson Bowles, of
Vanity Fair, arose from an article in that paper
attacking Lord Beresford's trusteeshp of the
property of Miss Trevelyan, who was recently
sent to prison for theft Lord Marcus Beresford
waited near the door of the office of the paper,
and when Bowies appeared attacked him, strik-
ing him on the nose and eyes with his fist.
Mr. Bowles made no defense and was knocked
down. Members of the staff of the paper rushed
to the editors assistance and Beresford made,
off
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
The Garfield Monument.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 18-In view of the lateness
of the season, and of the fact that no special ad-
vantage is gained by commencing the work on
the Garfield monument until next spring the ex-
ecutive committee has decided to make no CON
tract at present for the erection OF the moRu-
ment. George Keller, the architect of the ac-
cepted design, with view of making the monu
ment in every way worthy of its object, has de-
cided in the meantime to make a trip to Europe
for the purpose of making a special study of the
best monuments of the old world. Work on the
monument will be begun in the spring.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
THE LATEST CAMPAIGN sLANDER.

MIR. Blaine Not Only Catholic but a Jesuit,
the Democrats Now Say.
WASHINGTON, Oct 1S.--For months the DEM
ocratic newspapers and campaign speakers have
been trying to convince the foreign-born voters
shat Blaine is a Know nothing. 1t has just been
discovered that an effort is now making to prove
that he is not only i'll secret aililiaton with the
Roman Catholic Church, but that he is a Jesuis.
A. NJ. Clapp Of Washington, has written let
ter to Chairman Jones, Of the Republican ma
tiona committee, in which he says:
The latest plot discovered in this city in connection
with the 9ndlns presidential cau sn As eisi.'ecTe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19

Wilhelm I, Duke of Brunswick, died yester-
day
A melancholy incident is connected with the
outbreak of fire on board the steamship Nevada
One steerage passenger an Irish woman. was
thoroughly panic stricken and died of fright.
The Russian government has decided to for
tify Vladivostock and construct harbors and
docks in the bay at Okhotsk. 1t has decided,
also, to strengthen the Russian feet in the Pa
ciic.
A dispatch from Teheran Persia, announces
the arrival there of the new German minister,
Great preparations were made for his reception.
The Shah has assigned royal palace for his
residence.
The Russian government has projected an ex-
pertinent to ascertain whether naphtha residuum
can be advantageously used as fuel for steam
engines If the experiment is successful the
adoption of this substance as fuel for the Russian
feet instead of coal, is contemplated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
Governor Hoadlx,s Clemenox.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 18-Governor Hoadly has
respited John B. Hoffman, who was to have been
hanged on Friday, Oct. "a, to Dec. 16. Hoffman
lay in wait for his son all night, in doorway
and as he was issuing from the door in the
morning killed him. This is the third murderer
in this city who has been respited since Sept 26
and one of them has been commuted to life i'm
prisonment AS yet there have been no special
manifestations of dissatisfaction owing to exec
utive clemeDcv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
THE RESULT IN OHIO.
Robinson Runs About 6,00O Votes Behind
His Ticket.


COLUMBUS Oct 1S.-Returns by counties
complete do not change the pluralities given
last night Unexpectedly the Prohibition and
Greenback Butler votes increase proportiOnately
with those of the Democrats and Republicans.
The Prohibition vote last year was s, 1862, and
this year Is 9,5l0; the Greenback last year was
1887, and this year 3, 700, showing no coalition,
but that party lines were closely followed. The
total Prohibition and Greeuback vote is 12 Az,
or ll26 more than Robinson's plurality. The
rest of the Republican State ticket has aver
age majority over all of over 5000 The total
vote is 7S0 373; last year it was 7lS, l6S. In Oc
tobor. 1880, it was 7l6, 1856; in November 1880 it
was 724 967. There is 10 change in congress
men, except an increase of 150 in Romeis's
iority over Hurd.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19

MACON, Ga, Oct 1S-Solomon Fielder, of
Houston county loved the fifteen year old
daughter of his brother-in law and procured a
license for the purpose of wedding her. When
the girls father heard of it he closed his doors
upon Solomon, who thereupon went to a drug
store and piled himself with morphine, and is
now at the point of death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19

WASHINGTON, Oct 18.-The Treasury Depart
ment has just decided interesting question
arising out of the Chinese restriction act The
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions shipped
at Canton, two Chinese women, with the object
of installing them as teachers in the home mis-
sion at San Francisco. Upon their arrivalsit was
found they were not provided with the certit-
Gates required by law, and the department was
applied to for instruction The collector of
customs has been notified not to permit them to
land, and to see that they are returned to China
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
The Bennett-Maokey Cable.

CoNEY ISLAND, N Y, Oct. 18.-The Bennett
Mackey cable was landed two hundred yards
east of the Oriental Hotel at 1915 this afternoon,
and at o'clock the end was placed in the cable
station, the cable being carried through the
trench on the shoulders of twenty men,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
Closed by the sherifF.

ST Louis, Mo, Oct. 1s Geo. White & Co.
wholesale dealers in jeans clothing, were closed
by the sheriff, this afternoon, on a confessed
judgment of 81, 600 The liabilities are estimated
at $25 600; assets unknown.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS.
Democratic Action Which May Cause
Serious Trouble on Election Day.
Rev. DR.. John Aabaster Tells How the Min
listers Will Yote-DemOcratic Forgery to
Influence the West Virginia Vote
DEMOCRATIC TACTICS.
Organization of an Illegal and self-Appointe6
Vigilance Committee.

Urganlzatlon OF an Illegal and seIf-AppOintet
Vigilance Committee.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1S.-In commenting upon the
supervision of the polls in this city on election
day, and the appointing of deputy United States
marshals and deputy sheriffs, the Times this
morning prints the following:
"The Democrats, that is to say 100 of them,
organized yesterday what they are pleased to
style vigilance committee 1t is composed of
determined men, who are resolved that no intim-
idation violence shall rule at the Chicago polls;
at least that there shall be none done by Repub-
licans, and their orders are to provoke no fight
themselves, nor to indulge in any as long as the
contest is merely wordy, but if any buldozing
IS attempted by negro or other deputy marshals,
to resist it, and if any Democrat is shot, to see
to it that the shooter at once suffers the same
fate. So the matter stands. and if feeling keeps
growing in intensity there will be serious troubls
in Chicago on election day"
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Boston, Oct. 18.--James Wormly, the cele-
brated hotel proprietor of Washington d. c.,
died at the Massachusetts General Hospital this
afternoon of calculus. He had been i'll some
time, and yesterday an operation was performed
since when he sank rapidly.
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rn Honor Of Sin Moses Monteflore.

Few YORK Oct 18.-The centenary of Sir
lses Montefore was celebrated tonight in the
a9e Points House of Industry by the emgrant
Csses Of the Young Mems Hebrew Association
z hall was crowded, Many of those present
II been enabled to come to America through
Nphilanthropy of Sir Moses,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
Russian Army Officers Put to Death for Po-
Itical Offenses.

ST. PETERSBURG Oct. 1S.-The six officers of
the army who were sentenced to death, early in
the week. for political offenses, were executed
to-day at the St Petersburg citadel. Besides
these there were two women who paid the death
penalty-ono Madame Wolkensten the other
Mary Fiquer, the daughter of priest The
only persons who witnessed the execution were
the Minister of Justice and the Interior and the
nrisOn officials
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detection Among the Mahdi,s Allies.

LONDON, Oct 1S-An Arab from the Mahdis
camp has arrived at Dongola He reports much
sickness among the Mahds forces, and that de-
fection among the tribes at the Mahdis rear sill
continues,
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is paralyzed. Forty ocean steamers are lying
idle in the docks at Sunderland, and most of the
ship. yards closed. Public subscriptions are
making for laborers out of employment