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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

found themselves encircled by a girdle Of fame
to prevent escape from which the ''Tiger' and
his tribe with leveled lances stood sentry, until
the Prince and his whole force were roasted
alive in revenge for the insult and Shendy was
thus made a historic spot. Mehemet Ali, to
avenge the reprisal, sent up his son-ln-laW the
savage Deftardar who RACED the town, but the
'"Tiger" escaped into the interior, and was never
captured or punished.
Forty miles beyond Shendy commences the
sixth cataract, which, however, does not inter
rupt the traffic, and steamers of light draught
can always freely pass from Berber to hhartoum.
One more striking bit of scenery presents Itself
to the voyager where the river forces its way
through the bold range of hills called Gebel Ger
ri, but this too, soon tames down into another
stretch Of fiat and mon0tOnous country, till
broken at last by the palms and minarets of
Khartoum standing out against the clear sky.
AS one approaches it the White Nile spreads its
broad shadows like some vast lake before the
nugga's path, while a sudden turn carries the
boat into the Blue Nile, on the left bank OF
which stands, some two miles further up hhar-
toum, the capital of the SOudan, and the goal of
Gordon's journey. The names of these two riv-
ers, by the way, are not very happy, the White
Nile being of pale, Opaque azure, while the
eastern tributary is dyed a deep red with the
earth that it brings down from the highlands OF
Abyssinia.
Khartoum's commercial Importance is too well
known and acknowledged to need any descrip-
ton Dusty and dirty in its major portion, like
the poorer quarter of some Egyptian town. IL yet
wears rather an imposing aspect with its larger
whitewashed houses, relieved here and there by
minaret and mosque, and graceful palms and
gardens 1t streets, or rather lanes, winding
among the closely packed huts, are dingy look
ing and so poorly drained that the pools left by
the heavy annual rains often generate the most
deadly fevers. The population is of motley
description, including Turks, Greeks, Jews,
Egyptians, Nubians and many kinds of ne
groes, the European element being chiefly
engaged in the sale of liquors and canned
stores, while the Dongolowee element is re-
cruited for soldiers or ivory hunters for the
interior of Africa by the ivory merchants, who
arm, equip and furnish them with the means for
purchasing the tusks from the natives. Stu
ated as the town is. its commercial Importance
must always be assured: virtually it is the gate
way through which all communication between
the south and north must pass.
Constant caravans laden with strange-shaped
bales of ostrich feathers, hides, drugs, copper,
ivory and ebony pass through for the great Nu-
ban Desert to Suakim and the Red sea, and its
barterings of grain and gums for European
goods and busy life bespeak a prosperity that
might be largely increased. To leave it to the
tender mercies of Mahdi would be to make
barbarism too lavish gift, and would set the
slave trade rampant again all over Central AT
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
HOW UNCLE SAM Is ROBBED.
The Scheme for Weighing Mails Whereby
the Government Is Defrauded.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.


Three or four railroad men were sitting
around a stove in Fourth-street Office yes
terday discussing the tripartite agreement when
a Globe Democrat reporter entered
Those railroad pools are great things to
make the boys hustle for business" one of them
was saying. There's more solid work done
during the thirty days set apart of determining
the share of each road in the pool than in all the
rest of the year
want to make a good showing, ehl" said
Just so. You see the road that can do the
biggist business during the month gets the big
gest slice of the pie. The traffic of that thirty
days is made the basis for the adjustment of
the percentages for the year, and the boys are
bound to hustle. They have to do it fair, though.
There is no chance for smooth work like there is
when they're working for the Railway Mail
Service!
What do you mean by that" put in the
reporter
''Why you know every four years the Post
Office Department notifies the railroads. say
on the lst of April, that their mail business
for the next thirty days will constitute a basis
for estimating their rate of compensation for
carrying the mails. The amount of mail mat
ter is estimated in pounds, and you bet there's
a lively time for month working up schemes
to increase the weight The last time the road
got one of these notifications / was stationed
up in Illinois. One of the roads that passed
through there had a man in Washington and
man in Chicago, and the Washington fellow
got about two wagon-loads of Congressional
RecOrds-you know what they are, big books,
weigh about a wagon-load to the ton-and
every day of that month one wagon-load left
Washington for Chicago, and one left Chicago
for Washington. You may not believe me,
but tell you that road got credit for carrying
over fifty tons month-more mail than their
ordinary load amounted to-and got their pay
for it too; and they're getting it yet"
Was that the only scheme they worked"
asked the reporter
''Well, I should say not, There were dozen
of Them but that was one of the best Another
was to get on the right side of the mail agents
and have the heavy mails sent over their lines
instead of competing road
Can you name any particular railroads which
tried these schemesN
''Name any, Yes but l won't. You ask any
railroad man in position to know, though if
what I've told you isn't true, and you won't find
any of them will deny it."
The reporter did as advised, and found that
while there were many who knew nothing about
it, there were not few who had heard of
the Congressional Record dodge, and laughed
over the way Uncle Sam was bamboozled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
The Newspaper Copyright.

Critic and Good Literature.
| met Mr.. Henry Watterson the other even-
ing, just before he started for Washington, ;'nd
he showed me copy of the newspaper news
copyright law The length of time for which
buyers of news want to be protected from re-
publication ia another paper is six hours. Mr.
Wattersen says three hours even will quite cover
the point, which is to prevent simultaneous pub
LEGATION. For instance said he "a big daily
published for two or three cents is out at or 3
o'clock in the morning A penny paper can
leave space open and for the mere cost of type
setting can put into its columns the news it has
cost the paper it robs hundreds of dollars to get
1t is to prevent this that our bill-not mine; 1
am not its father-is Intended That there is
need of such protection this bill is designed
to afford there is not IA shadow of doubt. News
stealing is regarded altogether too leniently now
adayS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

National Republican.

During the unusual ceremony of administer
ing the Lords supper to a condemned murderer
several strange incidents occurred. In the midst
of Il solemn prayer the loud squealing of a rat
echoed through the building, and the next
instant one of those uncanny animals dashed
out into the rotunda from the direction of the
cell formerly occupied by Guiteau. After a
through the congregation. and upon reaching
Miner, who with bowed head was listening to
the prayer, proceeded to climb up the leg of his
trousers. The murderer was strongly affected
by the event, and after he had struck the ami
NAL and driven it off he trembled visibly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

Republican members of the Copiah committee
say that at one of the balls given in New Orleans
at the Mardi Gras, jefferson Davis, with his
daughter, the daughter of General Lee, General
Longstreet, and some other noted confederate
generals sat in d box which was draped with con
federate flags; that floral sword. decorated with
the confederate colors and addressed simply ITO
the President" was presented to this noted
confederate party III the box, and was accepted.
'And said one of these committeeman, Il did
not think that that looked very much like recon
struction. In a good many other countries in
the civilized world it would be called treason"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
THE COST OF DETECTING.
How the Country Would Save Money by Keep
ing Holman Out of Congress.

National Republican.
II didn't think he would ever be able to get
through with it," said the man in the gallery, as
the Chaplain of the House finished his recital of
the Lords Prayer "He certainly said, Give us
this day our daily bread and | was looking
straight at Holncn, but he never opened his
mouth
What did you expect Holman to do"
expect him to dol Why, object to the pres
emit consideration of the petition, of course
and move to refer it to the committee on
ways and means Does Holman ever do any
thing else but object9 Holman poses before
the country as great economizer-a sort of
watch dog Of the Treasury, as it were-and
probably that's the reason why Bedford takes
every occasion to rap him. It's all mistake
In his small way Holman is helping Bedford to
unlock the Treasury vaults. There's no one man
in Congress who Is responsible for so much waste
of good time as Holman. Whenever there is an
opportunity he objects. Let the plainest posi-
BILE proposition come up with every man in the
House, except Holman, willing to pass it right
along up jumps Holman, with his everlasting
L objectP Then it has to go the longest way
round, through several committees, only to be
passed at last. after hours spent in use
less discussion and lot of useless
printing and red tape l have known him to
cause So, 600 worth of time to be wasted in OBJ
jecting to the appointment of a ST. POO clerk
when he and everybody else knew that the
clerk was necessary and would be appointed in
the,end. If anybody is fooled into thinking that
Holman is saving money to the government, let
him remember, whenever he learns that Holman
has brought on a dreary discussion and caused a
long delay by his objection, that it costs about
81, 800 an hour to run the great American Con
gress. Figure him up that basis, and you
will see that the government would have saved
money by giving Holman $50, 900 year to stay
in Indiana"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
EngIand's Mistake.

Logansp0rt Journal,
If England imagnes that America is going to
shadow every Irish citizen in theland. and inter
fere with her citizens by abridgng their rights
for the protection of another country against its
own subjects, she is not acquainted with the laws
and principles of the United States government
England's remedy lies in the adjustment of her
own laws But the declarations ofthe Times is
another assurance that ''it makes all the differ
ence in the world whose OK is gored.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
POINTS FROM THE STATE PRESS.
Scope Of the Common Scho0l-The Republic
an Party Not for Free Trade,


Richmond Palladium.
We insist that the States first duty is to the
children who are studying the eight primary
branches, These must be attended to in prefer
ence to all others The public school is prattt;;
cally the only place where the child, especially
cation Young people who desire to advance
further can find other places than the high-schooL
Hence we say that our common schools are in
dispensable, and must be maintained at all haz-
ards; and that our high-sch are very conve-
nient and very useful but not so indispensable
as the common schools. They are second in i'm
portance to the common schools, for the reasons
we have stated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

WE call attention to the advertisement of the
Hydraulic Press Brick Company, in this morn
ings issue This is Il new departure in adver
Using, it being the general impression that such
lCwprced heavy articles as brick will not bear
transportation great distances, hence are not
usually advertised outside of the places where
they made. We learn however, to our sur
prise, that the Hydraulic Press Brick Company
of st. Louis, have sent their fine front bricks as
far north as Winnepeg. as far south as San An
tonic, and are only limited in the east and west
by Boston and Salt Lake City.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
A Question stin Undecided.

Lafayette Journal.
This is a government of majorities, and where
the shotgun rules instead of the people there
liberties are endangered and anarchy is immi-
nent. 1t is a sad thing that there are those in
this prosperous and happy country who Justify
instruction, the disregard of law and scout
constitutional obligations. But they are in the
Shall the South, made and kept solid by the
shotgun, hold the power it is thus attempting to
uSulnl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
Does Not Believe in Free Trade.

The Republican party does not believe in free
trade 1t believes thoroughly and emphatically
that the protective system is right, and should
be preserved 1t does not object to lowering or
raising tariff rates. as the necessities of the
times demand, but always preserving the pro
tect1ve principle Morrison and his crowd are
simply trying to balance themselves between
the Republican stool of protection and the Dem
ocratc stool of free trade. They believe in free
trade. but are too cowardly to say so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
PensiOning Ex-Rebels.

AS things stand now, no eXrebel can draw
pension from the government. In this way sew
eral Mexican soldiers who were traitors in 1868
are debarred from drawing pensions for their
services in the Mexican war The bill which is
now pending, entitled the Mexican pension bill,
is sly scheme to get certain rebel soldiers pen
stoned 1t should be defeated, if possible. No
ex-rebel soldier should ever receive cent of pen
sion money, no matter what his services may
have been in the Mexican war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
DistressfuI History.
LAFAYETTE Courier

By and by the history of tine United States
will be so amended by the Fitz John Porterites
that it may be safely taught in the public schools
of Indiana. 1t is very narrowing for young
Democrats to read about the Sons of Liberty and
the death sentence of Bowles. Milligan d Co.
1t is scarcely less distressing to read of the ex-
pulsion of a United States Senator from Indiana,
and until all this is expunged from the record in
a revised edition. Democrats ought not to have
their feelings wounded by "any reference to allu-
Gil
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
Aduina tn Mnthnrs.

Mrs. Winsow's Soothing Syrup should always
be used when children are cutting teeth. 1t re-
leves the little sufferer at once; it produces
natural. quiet sleep, by relieving the child from
pain. and the little cherub awaSes as bright as
IA button 1t is very pleasant to taste. 1t soothcs
the child, softens the gums. aays all pain, re
leves wind, regulates the bowels and is the best
known remedy for dianh@a, whether arising
from teething or ether causes. Twenty five
cents IA bottle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

Queen Victoria, when in the Highlands, took
drink of whisky out of bottle from which
her dearest Albert drank in 1917. If the good
old lady were to take a drink from all the bot
ties her dearest son Albert Edward has uncorked
what fine time there would be to pay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS

Are fast taking the place of all Others in Factories
foundries, machine shops and mills. Parties having
their power can procure Electric Generator
and obtain much more light at much less cost than by
any other mode The incandescent and storage sys-
TEN has been perfected making small lights for houses
and stores hung wherever needed a1d lighted at will
day night Parties desiring Generators to form
companies for lighting cities and towns send to
the Brush Electric Co, Cleveland o. TO the under
sigued at indianapolis. j. CAVEN.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

''MY Cough Shakes me to Pieces" gasps the
victim of that distressing visitation Shake it off.
then, with Hale's Honey of Horohound and Tar.
Any cough can be put to flight with that wonder
full pectoral Elixir Sold by all Druggists
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one minute
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
An Official snob and Lackex.

Michigan City Dispatch (Dem.)
If the Republican party don't bounce G. Jay
French the dude superintendent of the mail
service, on trial at indianapolis, the Republican
party of Indiana will be bounced to the music Of
D, 900 majority next November. He is an official
snob and ackey that no party can conscientious
ly defend or continue in Office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
America and the Dynamiters.


Our government should do something in the
matter, and do it quickly. AS the matter stands
we are charged with harboring and protecting
m9lrderous towards. and the charge is true
almost without doubt. Let the United States
government wash its hands of the blood that is
charged toFits account.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
a Favorable Augury for Success.

Petersburg Press.
We take it as a most favorable indication for
Republican success in Indiana that we have so
many candidates for the State Offices Repub
hcans, as a general thing. are very backward
about such things unless there is bright pros
pect for success
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
Senator Harrison and the Soldiers.

Some men who play the demagogue for friend
ship to the soldier may make louder professions
than Senator Harrison. but when the truth is
known it will be found that Ben Harrison is one
of the truest and best friends the soldier has i'll
the United States Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

DURKEE's Salad Dressing ga ready-nade, rich
and delicious dressing for all salads of meat,
fish or vegetables. Cheaper and infinitely better
than home made. Unrvaled as u sauce.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
An Honest Confession.

DenNtf TrIDUnt
To most people opera is wearsome enigma
and the alleged taste for it "a mere protense. We
are jumping from brass bands to the masters too
suddenly in this country for the masses
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
AND STILL THEY COME.
The State Press Not Done with Secretary
Myers aud His Letter.
COARSE AND uNJUsr1T1ABLE INSULT.

Rensselaer, Republican
If Secretary of State Myers, the man who
National Prison Association, is capable of any
feeling of shame, he must be the sckest man in
Indiana, to-day. In addition to the almost uni
versal storm of indignation which his act has
called down upon him, from the press the Dem
ocratic party of his own county has refused to
give him its Endorsement, and the secretary of
the National Prison Association, VIM. n. F.
Round, has written and published most sting
ing and unanswerable response to the contempt
insult.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
Crazy Quilts Not Wanted.


The Republican party needs no crazy-quil6
resolutions this year. A free ballot, an honest
count civil-service reform and protection for our
home industries is good enough.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

Cutcnra Soap an exquisite Skin Bcautiier and
Toilet Requisite prepared from Cutcura is indispen
sable in treating Skin Diseases, Baby Humors, Skin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05
Why Not Daily Copyright?


Madison courier
Weekly papers, such as Harper's, are now
copyrighted, and there is no good reason why
this privilege should not be extended to the daily
press
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

Cutcura Remedies are absolutely pure and the onl,
real Blood Purifiers and Skin Eeautifers, free from
mercury, arsenic, lead zinc or any other mineral O
vegetable poison whatsoever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

A TIMLEx use of Hop Bitters will keep whole
family in robust health a year, Fact, try it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

description of the cures performed by the Cuticura
Resolvent internally, and Cuticura and Cutcura Soap
externally.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

Eczema of the palms of the hands and of the ends
Of the fingers, very difficult TO treat and usually
considered ncurable small patches Of letter and salt
rheum the ears, nose and sides Of the face.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

Scald Heads with loss Of hair without number,
heads covered with danru and scaly eruptions espe-
cially of children and infants many Of which, since
birth, had been mass of scabs;
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

Charlottesville Journal.


A most scathing letter has been printed from
the secretary of the Prison Reform Association,
to whom w. r. Myers, the iackasscal Secretary
of State, sent his insulting epistle 1t informs
Myers that the association is composed of both
Democrats and Republicans, and that ex Presi
dent Hayes was the unanimous choice of all for
its presiding officer. His letter. therefore, was
regarded as an insult to the association. If My
ers has any sense Of manhood left he will apollo
gize, but this is not expected from a swellhead.
THE GREATEST MISTAKE OF HIS LIFE
Mishawala Enterprise.
Our short sighted Secretary of State, w r.
MYERS has heard from his insulting letter writ
ten to the National Prison Association in the
shape of singing reply from Mr.. Round, the
secretary of the association Myers has also
heard from the press of the State without re-
gard to party, IN a way which must certainly
take of his life, For the credit of the State it is
to be hoped that he may profit by the rebuke.
A JUST REBUKE.
indianapolis Republican.
The secretary of the American Prison Reform
Association fifty rebukes our rough edged Secre
tary of State for his brutal discoulteSy A few
more such boorish epistles US that written by
Myers might well make distant people think In
diana was a province in the Fiji Islands We
feel, however. like apologizing to the FIJI saw
ages for the comparison
HIS USEFULNESS GONE.
Warren Republican.
Who is Mr.. Myers trying to injure with his
spite than himselH A man in his position, dis
criudng his Office aud even insulting the better
portion of his own party by STOPPING to such
language against man like expresident Hayes,
we think cannot succeed in the nomination for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

Itching. burning and scaly fortunes. that baffed
$ if by magic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-05

Psoriasis, leprosy and other frghtfu forms of skin
diseases, scrofuous ulcers old and dscharging
wounds, each and all of which have been speedily,
permanently and economically cured by the Cuticura
Remedies.
Sold everywhere. Price: Cuticura. 50 cents; Re-
solvent. 81 Soap, % cents. POTTER DRUG AND
CHEMICAL Co. Boston. Mass.
Send for How to Cure Skin Diseases"
ETHEIR ONLY FAULT.-"THEY ARE TOO
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