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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17
1IisoeIlaaeous Notes.

The Boston q Albany received from the New
York Central, at Albany, 1888 freight cars last
month, and 10,74l cars were dispatched from
Boston during the same month.
While Germany he's q 865, England Is, 6S5 and
France Is, $50 miles of railway, Turkey has only
LOIS miles, though her population is almost as
numerous as that of these three countries.
The New York & New England railroad has
issued orders to its employees that all men whose
work requires them to couple cars must use q
eoupling-stiek, and that the company will not be
liable for any accident when The stick is not
used. The order and . stick are given to each
employe, for both of which he is made to sign a
receipt
Mr. F. G.. Dexter, of Boston, one Of the d.
reetors of the Union Pacific, who is now in
speeting the road with Mr.. Adams and Mr. Cal
laway, was compelled by Conductor Kies to pay
fare across the bridge at Omaha last week. be-
cause he had left his pass at the hotel and was
unable to convince the conductor that ne was en-
titled to ride free. Mr.. Galloway laughed and
did not interfere It will not be surprising il that
conductor is promoted some day.
The freight cars Of the A.. T. & S. F. railroad
are having the Westinghouse air brake put on
them at the rate Of tweRty-fv day. "A brick
building at the Topeka shops fs used for the
storage of the brake fixtures, and adjoining this
building trestle track has been built long
enough to hold thirty cars. The cars are run
upon this trestle while the work is done. At
one end of the track are placed boiler air
pump and the other apparatus for testing the
brakes when fitted to the cars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17
The Freight Men in Better Humor.

The freight men are in excellent spirits over the
outlook for business. w. G. Hobbs, assistant
general freight agent of the c., L, St L. & c.,
states that yesterday orders came in for some
300 ears from points on the Big -Four system, and
from this on he looked for business for all the
ears they could command. H. F Stiles, agent
of the G., II. & L, reports orders for cars
increasing at points on this division.
Thirty one cars were loaded yesterday for Toledo
Robert Geiger, general freight agent of the j.,
M. q l., is at this end of the line hunting up
cars to move the grain on that road Superin-
tendent Turner reports for the I & v. orders
for cars coming in briskly, and the stone, coal
and grain traffic of this road for few months
to come is doubtless to be the heayi-
est in its history. J. H. Steiner,
Western superintendent of the White line, re-
ports matters Frightening up with them nicely.
Shippers beginning to call for cars to load for
interior points and with export business
Agents Of other fast-freight lines are talking
very, encouraglngly over the situation, and the
opinion prevails that, while there is to be no
great boom in freight business, there is to be a
healthy movement, and that rates are to be
maintained.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17
Trials Of ! Passenger conduetor.

In the matter Of turning in cash fares railway
managers are in danger of being too severe in
their criticisms A conductor, if he chooses so
to do, might make some astounding revelations
regarding the difficulties in his way. A hint to
some of these annoyances is found in the reports
sometimes accompanying collections. While
such excuses as charity 'all could get, s:all
he had, !" broke sick and broke, may not be
valid, when looked at from standpoint of cool
criticism, they at least show that the conductor
is honest, and give clue to some Of the diff
culties in his way. Conductors are human and
have the souls which corporations are said to
lack, and we know of at least one old conductor
who has often and often, during his twenty years
Of service, put his hand into his pocket and re-
ported cash fares which he never received.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17
dislike to Haul Special Cars.

In commenting on an article which appeared
recently in the Journal, regarding the hauling
of special cars, the Boston Advertiser says there
is growing dislike to hauling special cars. "a
few years ago the late I. W. Park became di-
rector in bankrupt road hoping that he could
help it out. He was taken i'll one day, while
visiting the headquarters, and when he became
convalescent the president proposed that he
return to New York on the directors car. oh,
no, thank you, said Mr.. Park I can go very
comfortably in the drawing-room car But
prefer to send our car said the president, with
servants to look after your wants. MY wants
will be few, and if / cannot wait upon myself
there will be enough to help me- returned the
millionaire. But this will neither look right,
nor sound right, nor be right, persisted the pres
ident, when it is known that we have ear, and
it for ourselves and friends on all special oe
casions; now, why not take itf Because re-
piled Mr.. Park, with emphasis, do not wish to.
am but one man. That car will carry twenty.
I. too, am afraid of the sound and the looks.
am afraid should hear some conductor on the
lower roads shout to his engineer Back up
We've got to hitch on to King Bankruptcy, trav-
cling in state,'' It is needless to say that Mr..
Park returned like solvent and private gentle
man. It may be added that not many years
afterward that same car was distrained for
taxes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17
A New Interest Awakened as to the Future OF
the Wabash.

The fact that aman Of the ability of A. A.
Talmage has taken the general managership Of
the Wabash system has awakened increased in
terest in the results, as general reorganization
of the working forceand plans of operating the
lines will doubtless follow. John g. Gault late
general manager Of the road says that while the
company owns large amount Of valuable prop
erty. including the Chicago 8 Paducah. through
Strawn and bingham counties, 243 miles of
track and the Council Bluffs division, traversing
splendid agricultural country in southern
Iowa, and northern Missouri, the earnings Of
these productive sections are absorbed BY the
worthless branches. In the reconstruction the
good lines win probably be separated, and the
property west of the Mississippi will either be se
cured by some other company or become 3 dis
tinct system, as they cannot be united to adyant-
age with the eastern division
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17

met his views. The Sun says: 1.-THE practice
of building railroads with bonds is the cause of
most of the existing swindles. The roads ought
to be built exclusively by and for the stockhold-
ers If, in the construction or upon its COM
pletion, the proprietors wish to make improve
ments and choose to mortgage their property
in preference to paying an assessment, they
must be at liberty to do so, but the bonds so
issued should never be otherwise than income
bonds with an amply provided for sinking fund.
The very word dividend means a division of net
profits which is quite different thing from in
terest But, strange as it may seem,
the majority of people do not appear to
understand this difference. Strictly speaking,
no dividend should ever be paid to stockholders
as long as debt was upon the property, No
honest merchant manufacturer Will ever
think of dividing the profits with his partners
when the concern is in debt But, of course, as
bonds have to be issued for a certain length of
the debtor, there may be circumstances under
be embarrassed by the surplus Of accommodations
In its treasury. But that could easily be averted
by the system of issuing bonds subject to calls
similar to that in force with the government
AS things stand at the present. the bondholders
have all the power and the stockholders none.
Any man who goes into Wall street to-day pays
Just as good money, whether he buys stocks or
whether he buys bonds. Yet the buyer of bonds
can at any day make beggar of the buyer Of
the stock by adroitly working the directors and
foreclosing the mortgage The President then
referred to the building of the Terre Haute g
Indianapolis road, which was built with the
money Of the stockholders, and which has been
the model road of the West in every respect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17
conveyances III consideration. -. SIS, $3.50

VERY strong point in the thousands Of testi-
monials that have come unsolicited to the manu-
facturers of Athlophoros is the high character
and well known prudence of the persons who
furnish them. The following from Rev.
Frederick Strong, wellknown clergyman, of
Perry. Mich. is a specimen of hundreds from
every part of the country; 81 gave one bottle
Of your rheumatism and neuralgia cure to one of
the members of my churca who was suffering
with rheumatism in his hands and arms so that
it was with the greatest difficulty he could attend
to his business The other day he told me the
pain was nearly all gone and he entertains the
hope of complete cure
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17

William Z. Steele and wife to Sarah @.
Brown lots 8, TO- IL, IL and Ii, in
John B. Kelly's subdivision of block 20,
in Hanway & Hannas Oak Hill addition
to Indianapolis. Observation-Disclosures 10000
John T, Allison and wife to Benjamin A.
Allison, parts of lots I6 and IL, in out
lot TT, in indianapolis --....-..-..-. 100000
Martha j. Faulkner to John S. Parsons
and wife, lot 8 in Van Blaricum's subdi-
vision of part of outlot 2, west Of White
river, in Indianapolis. 125.0O
Samuel w. Elliott to William j. Elliott,
lots / and 2, in Elliott's subdivision of
block -27, in Hendersons addition to
indianapolis. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 100000
Angelo Q. Goodwin and wife TO Mary E.
subdivision and addition to Irvington $500
Francis M. Wilkinson and wife to Ellen
G. Wright, part of lot 5, in Harrs's
subdivision of square 3, in outlot l57,
in Indianapolis. ----S..-. 6OO.OU
John Buckley and wife to Joshua E.
Florea lot n in the indianapolis & Gin,
o 81 oatq %5 81 IN b haP 100000
Amos d. Krewson and wife to Catherine
A. Hancock lot p in Wesley NJ Adams's
subdivision of lots IL and 10, in Browns
oils s ..Dl e ..-.s..se..,s 2,55ooo
Edward 7. Pedlow to Chandler q Taylor,
outiot Isl, Il 1ndianapoIis. par. 10000
William "A. Bodne and wife to John Jay
Curtis lot IS in George B. Edwards's
subdivision of block 10. in Johnson's
heirss addition to indianapolis 725.0O
conveyances, IL; consideration. SIS, $500
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17
Time 70 Return to the Old Methods of Build
ing Railways.

An old fogy exlrailr0ad president yesterday
remarked that he would like to see roads here
after built as in theearly days Of the railroads ip
this country by the stockholders, not on money
borrowed on bonds placed before the grading Of
a road had commenced He then referred to
the following article which appeared last week
% the New York Sun, which he said exactly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17

IRON POINTS REYOND
In Worse shape than Our wabash.

The receiveres Of the Philadelphia& Reading
road will in day or two make their report to
the court. They have found floating debt Of
nearly $220000O0 1t would be difficult to ac-
count for such heavy increase of the floating
debt were it not known that the company has
lost six or seven millions in its speculation in
Jersey Central in its attempt to bolster up the
junior securities, in its general business and
spent large sums of money in the acquisition of
coal-lands during the last year. The Philadel-
phia Press says: There can be no doubt about
the utter bankruptcy of the company. It would
in June had it not been for the assistance offered
it at a late moment, and on the general
mortgages, had not the same parties come to the
rescue. Should the statement prove true that
Che Reading, great relief will be felt by the
various creditors-that is If the terms are such
that they can be provided for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17
RaaI Estata Tranafers.

Instruments fled for recordin the Recorders Office
Of Marion county Indiana for the twsny -four hours
ending at o'clock P NJ, Judy l6 1881. as fur.
nished by elliott Butler abstracters Of tides roor,
No. 3 Etna Building:
William 4 Steele and wife to Isaac S.
Brown ct al, lot 8 IN John Kelley's sub
division Of block 20. in Hanway's Oak
Hill addition to Indianapolis ........ $4,000
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17
PROPOSALS FOR COAL.

Sealed proposals viii be received BY the Board Of
Metropolitan Police Commissioners until noon Of
Friday, July 25 1884 for furnishing Anthracite and
Block Coal The Coal must be Of the best Quality.
and the bids must state the price per ton delivered as
wanted at the Stationhouse The Board reserves the
right to reject all bids Proposals must be indorsed
Proposals for Furnishing Coal"
Byorderof the Board. d. +. SNYDER, Secretary.
indianapolis. July 16. 1884
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-17
East-Bonnd Pool Statistios.

Below is given the tonnage and the per cents.
of each road in the newly organized east bound
pool carried the first two weeks the pool has
been in operation.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10
MATRIMONY IN CHINA.

Col Tseng, the Chinese attache at
Paris, during a recent visit to London,
took occasion to condemn unsparingly
the English custom Of long matrimonial
engagements and the free opportuui ties
there for acquaintance before marriage
They are emphatically affairs of the
family, and should be settled by the
families concerned The idea that two
young people are qualified to decide
upon their future destinies on the
strength of brief acquaintance formed
in their green and April days seems to
the good Oriental unspeakably absurd.
In China, where the parents choo3e the
bride, every one marries; celibacy is
regarded as an anti-social vice, and old
bachelors and old maids are rare phe-
nomenons. All good Cinnamon marry
young. Bridegrooms of sixteen marry
ladies woyears younger then themselves
and Chinese grandmother at the age of
thirty is a more familiar sight than
spinster. The popularity of marriage in
France springs, he thinks, in a great
measure from the decay of ceremonial at
weddings Every one is in such hurr y
to catch the train or the steamer Every
thing is rushed through, and the happy
pair vanish by express the moment they
are married. THAT Is why marriage
has lost its charm
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10
EAST SPEAKERS.

The present average of speaking in the
United States Senate is about one hun
dred and fifty words per minute, though
there are several speakers who utter over
two hundred Among the fastest speak
ers at present are Senator's Beck, Haw-
ley, Plumb and Morgan Beck leads
the list Senator George, of Mississippi
is perhaps the slowest Daniel Web
ster was very slow talker, and he would
not average over one hundred words a
minute Henry Clay spoke much faster,
rolling out about one hundred and fifty
words to q minute
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10
- . - .
SLEEP.

Men who are fastest asleep when they
are asleep are the widest awake when they
are awake.
Great workers must be great rosters.
Every man who has clerks in his employ
ought to know what their sleeping habits
are. The young man who is up till ) and
o'clock in the morning, and must put in
his appearance at the bank or store at 8 or
10 o'clock and work all the day. cannot
repeat the process many days without a
certain siiakiness coming into the system,
which he will endeavor to steady by some
delusive stimulus. 1t IS in this way that
many a young man begins his course to
ruin He need not necessarily have been
in bad company He has lost his sleep.
and losing sleep is losing strength and
graec.-MUs Jouimol Of IfealH.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

Dried leaves of the bitter-orange tree
IRE much used by the inhabitants OF
South America as household remedy.
IN infusion of the leaves is regarded in
Brazil as q specific for sick headache,
fatuleuce, indigestion, hysteria, spasms,
recent colds, and chills and fever. Its
free use is considered to promote per-
spiFation
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

Mr.. A. T. Walmisley thus sums mp in
general terms the essentials of the ven
tilation Of buildings: /. Any scheme OF
ventilation to be popular must be simple
2 The more natural and the less artifi-
cial the system may be the better g.
When mechanical applications are re
sorted to they should be self-acting to as
great an extent as possible a. Where
machinery is absolutely necessary to
work the system adopted it should be in
duplicate in case Of accident or repair
The control of all the arrangements must
be under skilled hands.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

Only the Goulard- Gibbs system for
transmitting electrical energy to great
distance from the generating source was
entered for the prize OF 10000 lire offered
l.. the Italian Government In connection
itli the exhibition held at Turin. Too
Lille was proffered for the magnitude OF
tbs performance demanded
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

For several years past says Engineering,
DIR. Hand Smith has been engaged in
studying the movement of colored
particles within marble, ivory, and other
dense substances and the result is a
process Of developing paintings and
designs below the surface of marble,
thereby combining the two arts of paint
ing and sculpture Through the use of
metallic oxides, worked in special
treatment, designs i'll every shade and
tint are produced within the stone. 1t is
Il peculiarly Of the method that every
hue penetrates at right angles to the sur
face without spreading laterally This
process will be applicable to statuary,
pottery, and mural tablets of all kinds,
as well as architectural decoration.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

IN electric railroad viii soon probably
be finisledI uniting the Hotel des Alpes,
at Territet Chillon, and the Hotel de
Mont Fleury, which is situated on the
steep mountain side Immediately above
Chillon. 1t is intended to use turbine
10 drive the dynamo electric machines, as
the supply OF available water is abund-
cut
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

4 man during a fe.time OF 80 years,
according to a paper recently read before
the Academy Of Sciences, Paris. sleeps
away an aggregate Of 5000 days, works
away the same period, eats away 1000
days. walks away 800 days is i'll during
800 days, and anuses himself with the
remainder Of his half-century on earth.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

Wales" exclaimes a correspondent
sis being shipped away wholesale "
Certainly the sum total OF the minera,
exported annually from that portion of
Great Britain is prodigious. OF coal
alone, one week recently, there went to
foreign and British ports from Cardiff,
Newport, and Swansea not less than
27S, 37s tons
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

An improvement has been made on the
Aurora, the well-known fog-signaling
instrument The aurora is pump-like
apparatus, the bottom of which is held
by stirrup under the foot, while the
person working it congresses the piston.
Mr.. Bryceson, the organ builder, has
arranged the mechanism so that by turn
ing crank long or short blasts can
easily be produced at will Using a code
based on the Morse system, vessels at
sea, and considerable distance apart
may now readily exchange communica-
tons at night or in thick fog by means
Of the improved aurora.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

When ethylene is mixed with carbonic
anhydride, nitrogen, aqueous vapor, or
air. it has, Mr. P. F. FARMLAND finds, a
lower Illuminating power than when 1t Is
pure Ethylene mixed with oxygen has
= higher Illuminating power than pure
ethyIene
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

Cherry stain for fine wood is thus pre-
pared: Boil until dissolved four ounces
of annatta in three quarts of water in q
copper kettle; put in piece Of potash OF
the size Of walnut keep the whole on
the fire half an hour longer, and then the
stain is ready for use.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

Inventors are invited by the German
Minister of War to engage in prize
competition for the best models of the
new pattern helmet knapsack, water
bottle, marching boots and other cam
paigning articles of equipment Particu-
lars may be obtained on application to
the authorities at Berlin or to the repre-
sentatives Of the German Government in
Washington.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

Reflect upon your present blessings, Of
which every man has many; not on your
past misfortunes, of which all men have
some.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10
Scientific.

Glass vessels, brass tubes and other
articles have been coated by Mr.. :.
Emerson Reynolds with nitrous ga
lenoid deposit through the decompoaI-
ton OF al alkaline solution OF lead tart
rate with sulphur urea
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

Regarding the electric conductor, DE-
r. NJ Ferguson says that while quallta-
lively it was founded on scientific princi-
Piles, quantitatively its construction was
guided by experience, aud, TO some ex-
tent, even by guess-work-
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

1t is not cowardly to yield to necessity,
nor courageous to stand out against it,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

From which to make their purchases. We
aim to conduct our business on strict bust
ness principles, belonging to no rings,
cliques, syndicates or combinations neith-
er do we urge people to deal with us
through charity, whether to their advant-
age or not, but rely entirely upon our abil-
ity to please and the old maxim of
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10

Iudrd eofo
having
Imlm pedal
i'll TIL
Exhibition
the Catalogues with
N. r. SMITH, AGENT, WOODSTOWN, N. j.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-10
HIGHEST GRADE.
BEST TO DRILL.

The largest
crops in New Jer-
sey have, for
Y e "a RS, b c e II
grown by this
Phosphate. We
are also prepared
to meet the de
III "a n d of I h C
times for Fertili-
Zers of Real VAL
ne, at exceeding
" low prices,
from 5000 to FL
90 per ton.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-22
An Extraordinary Razor

uAs BEEN INVENTED BY THE QUEENS
Ii OWN 90. of England. The edge and
body is so THIN and FLEXIBLE A6 NEVER
TO REQUIRE GRINDING, and hardly ever
setting II glides over the face like piece OF
velvet. making shaving quite luxury. 1t is
creating A GREAT EXCITEMENT in Europe
among the experts, who pronounce 1t PER
FICTION. Two dollars in buffalo handle; IS
in ivory. Every razor. TO be genuine, must
bear on the reverse side the name OF Ma
THAN JOSEPH, 64l Clay street, San Fran
cisco, the only place in the United States
where they are obtained. Trade supplied
sent by mail 100 extra or O. o. d.
The Queens own Company having
enlarged their factory, are now making PEARL
and IVORY CARVING KNIVES, TABLE and
POCKET KNIVES, HUNTING KNIVES and
SCISSORS, Of the same quality as their mar
velously wonderful Razor. seS-lyd&w
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-22

The finest selections OF clocks ever
shown on the Coast, at half price, can bs
found % Ed. Wilhslm's,