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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
The Same Ticket, CoIored Brethren.

To the Editor Of tho indianapolis journal:
Some of my colored brethren have been think
ing whether we should continue to vote the
Republican ticket, seeing that the Supreme
Court decided that the civilrights act was I'M
would give as my humble opinion: 1t is better
to trust horse that has been worked to advan-
tage for four and twenty years than to put con-
tidence in an old, tricky mule. The civil-rights
act may have done some good while it was con-
sidered a law, but there are hundreds of thou
sands of my race who do not know that a de-
cision has been rendered We want to Danish
the bulk of illiteracy. am interested in getting
up graded school at the home of my old master,
and could do moro effective work with a few
bank bills than with a thousand and one
civil-rights" bills Let us look back to 1860
John Brown had been hung less than year
when A. Lincoln was nominated and elected.
He showed great magnanimity; his offers were
not needed. He issued his Emancipation Pro
clamation declaring that slaverys curse should
no longer be known put down the rebellion
but did not live long to muse over the great
1t was found necessary to amend the Constitu-
ton of the United States at this time, aud let
the colored man, especially of Indiana, remem-
Der the action of the majority of ''the then
Legislature" when the time came for ratifca-
ton. We are told that the Republican party
has done many things for which it should be
turned out; but who can tell what the Demo
cratic party has done for which it should be
turned in? Ask the question all day, and the
echo viii return, "What27 Let the Democratic
party gain national aseendeney, and the colored
man may sing "Ephraim's got ths coon and
gone, and left me barking at the tree" And
we might bark. H. L. s.
GoLDSBoBo, n. c.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

DR.. Alabaster leaves to-day for Atlanta, Ga,
where he has number of lecture engagements.
Mr. IL G. Levi viii not be here to sing at the
ladies' matinee musicale, having left for the East
on a two weeks trip.
Saturday Herald: Major Ross is popular with
all classes in Marion county, and he is especially
popular with the young men of the city and
county That he will make a ene sheriff no one
questions He will make good race, and we
confidently expect that when Sheriff less retires
from Office he will hand over the keys to his sue
cessor, Major James R. Ross. He is an accom-
modating, honorable and courteous gentleman.
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Perennial Harrison.


From Interviews in Evansville Journal.
THAT is an extraordinary likeness, 1Ir. Har-
rison"
''Think sol Well that was taken eight years
ago."
'Impossiblel"
eyes, eight years ago."
"Why, you don't seem to have aged particle
| remember of reading in a letter from st. Louis
to an Eastern paper that when you commenced
at St Louis, you had aged wonderfully in the
last year"
'Ha! ha! hal I'm as young now as was ten
years ago.
81 have remarked the apparent suppleqess of
your knee joints, when you kneel for prayer in
the great congregation. and am astonished that
while many other preachers make only two SER
monte efforts each Sunday, and are then pros
trated all day Monday. that you go right through
weeks and weeks of your laborious efforts, and
seem fresh and vigorous all the time d M
"Well, they can not be blamed for their feeble
frames, and have only the greater reason for
thankfulness that my health is so wonderfully
preserved - 49,
But do you never wear outl 49, FL
80 yes, will be pretty well Frustrated before
get through with Evansville, But l will go
from here to Minneapolis, and that climate will
quickly put new vigor into my frame"
you've been there before, then2" 49,
80 yes, after Cincinnati, I went there utterly
prostrated-new man in three days"
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presents remarkable example of the limits
which keen intelligence, the most careful study
and some dramatic aptitude can reach without
touch of that magnetic power which distinguishes
great actors. Mr.. Barrett is beyond all question
most earnest student of his art, but he lacks,
and the want is most severely felt, that speek
which illumines and gives life to the interpreta
ton of character
The Pail Mall Gazette praises his method and
intelligence, but says he does not attain the
highest effects, neither does he painfully yet
vainly strive after them His is an inestmable
talent. combined with prepossessing personal
ity. He makes the best of his power and is con
scious of its limitations
The Athenaum says: Mr. Barrett comes
short of electricity but he acts with an earnest
ness approaching intensity. He is guilty of no
extravaganza or rant, and conveys the idea of an
intellectual man with no very remarkable
sources =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
The Pope's Residence.

Pail Mall Gazette.
The Pope is going to leave Rome, so says re
port. The Pope is going to do no such thing
We shall believe in this twenty times repeated
story when we see the Vatican vacated by the
pontiff and not before. Like Bismarck, who is
always resigning but always remains in Office,
the Pope is always going to fee from the Eternal
City but never limpet sticks more closely to its
rock than the Holy Father to the Vatican. These
rumors only mean that the Pope is uncomforta
bic. But just as men sigh for death but shrink
from suicide. so the Pope, when troubled by the
friction inseperable from his position, longs to
fly away from Rome and be at rest in Austria,
Malta, Spain, Belgium But he
never goes. and he never will go until a much
more serious screw has been applied than any
that is yet dreamed of. even by the most anti
clerical minister in Europe.
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Changes in the Chinese Council.

SHANGHAI, April 19-Great changes have
been made in the Council on Foreign Affairs.
Prince Koang, a partisan of Prince Chun, has
been made president and several new councillors
have been appointed The new members be-
long to the anti-foreign party. Such of the
provincial vieeroys as owed thoirplaces TO Prince
Kung have been dismissed, although several of
them belong to the antiforeign party. While
the Grand Council of the Empire strengthens
the anti-foreign policy, the public is awaiting
government action before judging atdir6etion
il will follow.
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Hotel Arrivals,

Englishs Hotel: j. R. Clemmer and N n Pick
ett Franklin; M. N. Tineher, Amo; N G. Plant,
Oakland, Me. Dan OLeary, Cincinnati; D. B.
Harlon, IrSington j. F, Burgon, Fort Wayne
Grand Hotel: James E. Blake, of Attleboro;
Prof. G. N. Scott, of st. Louis Col R. NJ. Lin
ton, of Johnstown Pa; A P. Clark, of Zanes-
vile; Otto A. Krouse. and DR., Hallaman, of
Logansport; w S. Martin, of Greensburg; and
w. c. Wilson, Of Michigan City.
Bates House; e. NJ Goblin, Terre Haute;
Rev. II. A. Goblin, Greeneastle; James K. Mag
agnos, Rochester; W. B. Mcdonald, New Angus
ia; Hugh Byron, San Antonio, Tex; S. D.
Woods Kansas City; j. W. Jones and A. L.
New, Greenfield; A. L. Lockridge, Greencastle;
Harry Williams, Louisville; f. p Frazier Pc
oria; ], P. K. Otis, Worcester, and James Mil
Ter, Lafayette.
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Ready and willing.

Indianapolis COIored " ord.
Mr. Edwin F. Horn, in a State convention of
As delegates, only two of whom were coiored-
backed by the Marion county delegation--was
made by reclamation the alternate to Senator
Ben. Harrison. The eolored voters will appre-
ciate this. for it is a high compliment. Mr. Horn
returns his sincere thanks to the convention, to
Rev J. l.. H. Sweres, who so eloquenty and
fearlessly put Mr. Horns name before the con-
vention as delegate at large, and to the Ma
rion county delegation. Indiana now has
two alternate delegates of color, Philander
Cooper from the first district and Edwin F. Horn
alternate at large. The World takes little
credit of this to itself We long ago urged the
party to take this expedent step and it was done
If greater effort had been made earlier by the
colored men in this matter we should have been
accorded higher place. But this the colored
people have is much. 1t is more than Illinois or
any Northern State has done. 1t shows that the
true Republican party is willing and ready to
grant any reasonable request
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"Plato Matter" in City Papers.


The presentation of plate matter is in the ma
ture of an insult to the intelligent reader, who
pays his money for fresh and sparkling news and
and is given instead the miscellaneous matter
that is presented to thousands of others in divers
localities. This matter, mind you not being
furnished, selected or written by the editor Of
the paper containing it, but culled by outsiders,
entirely unacquainted with the wants of the To-
cality in which plate matter publications circu-
late. OF course, there is no such thing as news
in this plate matter. 1t would become stale be-
fore it could get around. 1t generally consists
of old stories and miscellany that frequently
a century old
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
The New Minister.

How do you like him9" said they all,
''The pastor whom we mean to CALL"
And this the verdict all returned:
Our admiration he has earned;
"There's but one fault, but that is bad;
No minister we've ever had
Whose teeth so dark and homely stood
A pity!-for he's so good"
One lady saw way whereby
To save his credit: 81 will buy,
She said, ''some Sozodont" Twas sent.
He comprehended what was meant.
A wonder! His mustache beneath
Cleaned like white pearls the pastors teeth
And his success became complete
When they perceived his breath so sweet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
A Picturesque American.
BROOKLYN Union.

The election of Richard W. Thompson as one
Of Indianas delegates 7at-large to the Republican
of the most picturesque figures left in our poll
tics. 1t is a full half century since Mr. Thomp-
entered public life, and he was leading fig
ure in the famous canvas of "Tippeeanoe and
Tyler, too" back in 1840 Indeed. it was the
recollection of one of his speeches in that Wing
campaign which directed Mr.. Hayess attention
TO him when the Ohio man was making up his
Cabinet and brought him out of a retirement
which had lasted nearly thirty years to become
Secretary of the Navy. He is very old man,
his 10Th year closing the week after the Chicago
convention but he is still hale and hearty. and
his voice can yet arouse the enthusiasm of
convention
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
An Old Lady Succeeds in Taking Her
Life, but a Man Makes a Failure.
Boy MortaIly injured by Railway Train
A Contractor Badly Hurt by Falling
from Seaffold-MinOF Notes.
INDIANA.

An Old Lady Commits Suicide by Jumping
Into a Well.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, April 20.-Sarah Schuman aged
sixty years, wife of Martin Sehuman, highly
respected farmer residing six miles north of this
city, committed suicide last night by jumping
into we'll The act was caused by i'll health
and mental alteration.
Thomas P. Moore, barkeeper of this city,
attempted to jump into the river from a train
crossing the OHIO river bridge at Louisville last
night, but was prevented by men who held him.
He returned to this city, went to a saloon, and
cut his throat He will recover
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
POINTS FROM THE STATE PRESS.
The Value of the Primary in Good Govern
ment-A New Phase of License.
A Beer-Drinkers' Strike.

Teffe Haute Elk press.
An alarming feature has appeared in the high
license system in Chicago IN consequence of
the increased price of beer consumers threaten
to stop drinking it. Without saying that this
awful strike may really occur, this threatening
result is recommended to the careful CON
sideration of prohibitionists. When prohibition
is the law no drinkers ever threaten TO go dry,
but like cattle around a fenced-in straw pile
they want to drink-they will drink because
forbidden; but when beer is raised to fifteen
cents per quart they are mad enough to reform.
Many soul is carried in the pocket In the
meantime the Chicago licenses return 81, lis, 600
instead of $780, O00
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The Genial Boycotter.

Special to the indianapolis journal
QUINCY, April l9.-About o'clock this even
ing James McQuade, non-union molder who
recently came to Quincy from Chicago, was re-
turning to his boardnghous when he was
bounced upon by three unknown men and cut in
fearful manner. He has twelve severe cuts on
the head and two on the body. He managed af
ter being cut to draw and fire revolver fur
nished by his employers for protection His as
sailants fed before help came up McQuade
will probably die.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
MIR. Tilden and the Mummy.
Washington Letter.

Washington Letter.
81 want to tell you Tilden story, Mr.. Budd
continued. ''You haven't heard any before, |
don't suppose"
Don't deceive yourself, l."
We'll" said Budd quickly, to prevent in
terruption. this story is worth telling. l be-
lieve it gives a correct insight into Tilden's
exact condition. After the California Dem
ocratic delegation returned from its visit to
Tilden l took pains to pump them about Tldens
condition. Meeting Mr. Cassidy said; We'll,
how do you find the sage
Cassidy smiled mournfully and shook his
head.
% 1T seems to me you made a great mistake
going over to New York to see Tilden. / can
take you over to the Smithsonian where L can
show you mummies 5000 years older than
Tiden.'
=. 4 thought you were going to say 3, 900 years
Younger was Mr.. Cassdy's aconic reply"
Mr. Tilden must have aged wonderfully in the
last five or six hundred centuries
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
EDINBURG, April 20.-James d. Breeding,
senior member of the we'll known grocery firm of
Breeding & Bro, of this city, and president of
the school board. and one of the most prominent
workers in the Republican party of johnson
county, died at his residence, in this city, very
suddenly, on Saturday evening. His funeral
will take place on Monday, at o'clock p NJ,
under the charge of the Knights of Pythias and
the Grand Army of the Republic, of which orders
he was a member
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
A Fenian and a Suspected Infermer.

PARIS, April 20.-A duel with swords took
place to-day in the Bots De Boulogne, between
Joseph Casey Fenian, who was confined in
'lerkenwen prison, in 1867, at the time
# the attempted explosion there, and Captain
5cully, an Irish American. who was a soldier in
the Union army during the late civil war in
America, and who also fought in the Mexican
war Scully has been suspected of being an in
former. The duel resulted in Scully being
wounded slightly in the neck. His sword was
broken. The combatants were afterward recon
:lad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
The Best Citizens,


The Ledger takes very little stock, however, in
the can't about best citizens The best Ameri-
can citizen is the one who most intelligently
amt faithfully discharges his duties to the State.
There is no caste in this country. Birth, wealth
and all the rank and titles of the old world are
discarded here. But we have in this country a
large class of men who consider it beneath their
dignity to discharge some of the plainest duties
and political affairs Another class, ignorantIy
but honestly believing that the body polite is
corrupt that to toneh it brings contamination,
hold aloof and so fad and refuse to discharge
their dufv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
Republieanism and the workingman.

The workingmen are too intelligent to act
with the party that proposes to destroy the
manufacturing industries of the country by adj
hitting foreign products to come into competi-
ton with American manufactures, while at the
same time levyipg duty upon the poor mans
tea and coffee. 1t isa policy utterly subversive
of their true interests. They will spurn and
spit upon platform that robs them of employ
nent or reduces them to the level of the ignor-
ant degraded labor of free trade countries.
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Proposals for Pier Punches
for Postal Notes.
Mes. 20 and 81 w. Washington Street
PosToFFIoE DEPARTMENT.

WAsHINHION, d U -APIII N Icof
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this De.
partment until II o'clock noon, Saturday. the
Pier Punches for postal notes to be delivered this
Department or before the sixteenth day of Juue,
1884.
The punches to be furnished by the successful bid
der must conform in every respect to the sample
which may be seen and examined at the office of the
Office Department Washington, d. G.. or at the
Inoney.order Offices of New York n. Y, Philadelphia,
Pa Chicago ILL.,. aud Boston, Mass.
All proposals are to be made in accordance with the
printed forms and specifications which will be fur
nished application, by letter to the 'Superintend-
dent of the Money Order System Post Office Depart.
rnent Washington, ID. g." to whom bidders should
address their sealed proposals. marked the envel-
ope, Proposals for Punches"
A decision will be made the bids before the
twentieth day of May 1881 the right being reserved
W, @. GRESHAM
Postmaster general.
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Go to the Primary Meetings.

If you have any choice as to who shall occupy
the places of trust and prcst go to the primary
meeting of your party. If you wait to make
yourself felt through your ballot on election day
you may have to choose between two evils. See
to it that the right men are nominated The
man who is too busy to attends ward Aeeting,
and then complains that his party has Eliminated
an unworthy man shows no better sense, and
deserves no more sympathy than the one who
blames the cook for scanty dinner when he has
failed to nrovida
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
The Juryth Thing at Fault
New Albany Ledger.

The jury, the thing the people are most di-
reetly connected with and over which they have
the most power by the mere exercise of public
opinion, is where the reform in criminal practice
must first take effect With the right kind of
yers nor perjured witnesses can thwart the
ends of justice. The jury was responsible for
the Dukes verdict, that whole people con-
demned 1t was jury acquitted Phil Thomp-
son. The Jury gave Berner twenty years for
premeditated murder. The list could be
stretched out almost indefinitely, and points to
where reform is necessary
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
A Matter of General Regret.

IndianapOIs Saturday Herald.
1t is generally regretted here by all Republic
ans that Judge Gresham's friends should have
made any hostile demonstrations on Senator
Harrison. The foolish fight will only serve to
lamage General Gresham and to benefit Senator
Harrison 1t is not believed here that Judge
Gresham in any manner countenanced the hostile
demonstrations made against the Senator. Ger
tainly his friend Morris Mcdonald, took no
stock in them. He said decidedly that he had
no objections to Senator Harrison going as a
delegate to Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
Meeting of irish Nationalist.

DUBLIN, April 2O-A great Nationalist meet
ing was held at Malow on Sunday. Addresses
were made by OBrien and William Red
mond, members of Parliament Resolutions
were passed in favor of independence for Ire
land, peasant proprietary, justice to laborers,
encouragement of home manufacturers, and ex-
pressing admiration for the courage, eloquence
and devotion Of Parnell 20 the Irish party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
sherman and Thompson.

Terre Haute Courier.
We guess that if the Chicago convention should
say that William Tecumseh Sherman shall be
President and the 18th of June convention at
indianapolis shall say that Uncle Dick Thomp-
son shall be Governor, that the old boys would
hardly screw up the courage to ''veto" the 'acts'
of those two great conventions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21

Without showing the condition of our teeth.
Every laugh exposes them. In order not to be
ashamed Of them, let us use that standard denti-
frice, Sozodont which is sure TO keep them white
and spotless. No tartar can enerust them, no
canker affect the enamel, no species of decay in
fest the dental bone, if Sozodont is regularly
used. 1t is botonical preparation and its bene-
fetal effects on the teeth and gums are marvel
Gus, as it removes all diseoloratOns and renders
the gums hard and rosy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
Delegates and History.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

Mr.. Blaine-''Abigail please read me again
slowly-the list of delegates selected at Harris
burg to the Chicago convention"
Abigail reads, and Mr.. Blaine counts on his
fingers
Mr.. Blaine after pause (refectively) -''Abi
gail, l think we may go on with our history"
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High Wages in America.
Terre Haute Express.

:
To the excess of wages in this country over
those of the old world is due the prosperity, the
shares in building societies, the ubincumbered
homes and the luxuries enjoyed by the laboring
classes of this community. The tariff stands
like break-water between us and the low
prices of the old world Better the wall should
be too high than too low, for the first is at least
safety, but the last is destruction and bank
ruDtcY
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High License Better than Prohibition,
South Bend Tribune

High license is in force at Galesburg, ILL.,, and
works we'll A large number of doggeries were
eliminated by making the license 5000 This
week the license fee was increased to ST. 200, and
it is claimed this will largely reduce the number
of saloons and throw those which are left to do
business into responsible hands. High license
is doing more for the temperance cause than pro
hibltion ever can. One is as pratieal the other
is impractieable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21
ILLINOIS.

Prominent Bloomington Contractor Badly
Injured by n Fall.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, April 20.-Willam B. Packard,
prominent contractor of this city, was seriously
and possibly fatally injured last evening by fall
ing from a scaffolding to the ground fifteen feet
below He fell across trestle, breaking one rib
in two places, and was otherwise internally in
iured
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-21

An Orange orator announces that Mr. Glad
stones highest ambition is to be the first Presi-
dent of British republic.
1t is reported from Darmstadt that Queen
Victoria is suffering from lumbago. She is con-
fined to the palace, and receives daily visits
from physician.
A British parson has declared that the asso-
citation for legalizing marriage with the de-
ceased wifes sister is casting its deluded victims
body and soul. into hell.