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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.

THE WEEKLY JOURNAL win be enlarged for the
future to tv elve pages making it the largest weekly
paper circulating in this territory The weekly edition
is complete compendium of the news of the week.
with special features of late and trustworthy market
reports and department of industrial and agrieut-
ulal intelligence, carefully prepared by an editor of
long experience and is printed and mailed the morn
ing of the day on which ii is dated In these respects
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL is superior to any agri.
cultural paper for the field it is infinitely moro
extensive than that which be occupied by the
special press. The of DR.. Talmage win APP
pear in THE WEEKLY JOURNAL each week. The sub
scription price of THE WEEKLY JOURNAL is only
ONE DOLLAR YEAR, postage prepaid. Special
terms are made to clubs, and fine list of premiums
is offered TO accompany subscriptions to the weekly
edition. Sample copies will be furnished on applea.
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address JNO. c. NEW s. SON, Publishers.
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A NEW RAILWAY SNOW-PLOW
How Canadian Invented q Plow Warranted
to Defy Any Snow-Storm.

new YORK World
Railroad men and travellers will feel skeptical
at first when informed that machine has been
invented which will practically put an end to
snow blockades Those who have been snow
bound along the lines of Western railroads. and
have been detained for weeks at time waiting
for the snow-plows to clear the tracks, may we'll
have felt discouraged when they learned from
the officials of the road that some 1000 patents
have been issued for snow plows and that the
best fail to raise q big blockade. About eight
years ago a Canadian began inventing snow
plows. Finally, he found that model he had
constructed would not only clear away the snow
rapidly and we'll, but would throw it almost any
place he desired to send it,
The machinery consists of a tremendous knife
Wheel ten feet in diameter, making from two to
three hundred revolutions per minute, cutting
twelve inches Oft the snow bank with each of the
four knives at every revolution, or four feet at
every turn. She snow thus cat is delivered on
twelve shovels revolving in the opposite direc-
ton at the same rate and hurting it Thy centrif
ugal force) out of the shoot at the top The cut
ting and shovel wheels are made to revolve by
system of four gear wheels, the two side ones be-
ing supplied with crankS to which are attached
powerful 1000 horse power engines
With one locomotive to hold the knives up to
their work the machine cuts the snow and hurls
1t far enough away to make it of no further
trouble. At the exhibition in March the snow
was cast to great distance, being hard and
mixed with sand, having lain on the track from
Dec. i until March %. The monster went right
through tho compact mass and delivered the
hard frozen snow 295 feet from the track over
ten other tracks and above trestle work thirty
two feet high
The best steel is used in the construction of
the knives, and shove.s and all important parts
of the machine. Its gross weight is forty six
tons; its working capacity tw 20 ten miles an
hour according to the drift e. oe removed. 1t
is reversible and throws the sa0w to either side
of the track at the will of the engineer This
excavator is entirely different from the plows
now in use, and will revolutionize the methods
heretofore used by railroads in raising snow
blockades Last winter the amount of damage
done by the blockades was enormous. Thou
sands of heads of cattle and hogs were frozen,
tons of mail and freight were delayed, and many
passengers suffered. According to figures print
ed last March, two millions of dollars were ex-
pended by the Western roads during the month
of February simply for shoveling snow.
The name of the inventor Of the new machine
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public whether there wore too many men in the
workshops and not enough engaged in agricult-
ural pursuits. Why should We not, then take
the true state of affairs may be made known,
and instead Of taking comparatively useless
inventory every ten years, at an expense of mill
ions of dollars, establish permanent depart
ment of commerce and industries, through the
medium of which information bearing upon all
business matters affecting capital and labor may
be secured from all parts of the United States
and reported upon, say once month. thus en-
abling both labor and capital to reap immediate
benefit The people have the right to demand
that their desire in this matter shall be COM
piled WITH or. at least, that it shall no longer go
unheeded by our representatives IA Congress
The ever varying changes produced by new
inventions and other causes are affecting the
business of the country to greater or less de-
gree, year by year. But it is hard for the people
to understand that revolution is going on in
business and business methods. Yet such is the
case, though 1t is almost unperceived, SO silent
is its operation. By and by depression comes,
and both capital and labor are in a measure dis
tressed thereby. We ask the cause, but no def
mite or satisfactory answer is given. The pro-
posed department. if properly organized and
effectively conducted, could, by noting the con-
slant changes taking place, do much for the
country, and save us in great measure from
future depression, distress and disaster, and
thus. in the end might settle, aid in settling,
In righteousness and justice, the much-agi-
tated and ever present question of capital and
labor.
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is Orange JUL. He lives near a curve on a rail
road In western Canada, where trains are always
blockaded when the snow falls to any great
depth. Being awakened night after night by
the screechlng of the engines, he made up his
mind to invent an excavator, and be rid of the
nuisance or to quit the neighborhood. At the
start he learned of the many inventions that had
been tried ana proved useless, all Of which were
based OF the principle that snow should be
pushed out of the way He at once came to the
conclusion to seek some different method. His
idea was to do by steam what men did by hand,
to cut the snow and throw it out of the way, and
on this basis he worked. After patenting all
the points of value in his invention,
Mr. JUL sold the right for its use in
the United States to fellow-Canadian,
who brought the model and patent papers to
New York and formed company to develop the
new steam shovel. The machine was brought to
the notice of Mr. S. c. Donaldson, city buyer of
large dry goods establishment who became
convinced of its merits, became enthusiastic
about it, and invested what ready cash he had in
the stock of the new company of which he was
made director
Mr.. Donaldson, together with Mr. George Fl.
Hobart and Mr. George Ramsay, two other active
members OF the company raised money to order
the first machine. The Cooke locomotive works,
of Paterson n. j., threw their shops open night
and day. and the monster was built under the
superintendent of Mr.. Edward Leslie aided by
a competent engineer, and was shipped to Buffalo
in the latter part of March. The first tests gave
splendid results. The machine was then sent to
Chicago, to the Chicago & Atlantic round house,
and stored 1t is now waiting for big, blockad-
Ing snow-storm.
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Gladstone and Greeley.
New York Commercial Advertiser.

New York commercial Advertiser.
A London correspondent who. though New
Yorker has spent many years in England, writes
that there are various points of resemblance be-
tween Gladstone and the late Horace Greeley,
wholly unlike, as they are, in the main. The
principal points are simplicity and Ingenious
ness, understanding of human nature in the
mass, and lack of understanding of the indivld-
ual. They have the same harmless vanity, the
same passion for work, the same love of popu-
larity, and the same tendency to make terrible
blunders, and the same inability to comprehend
that they are in any sense blunders. Gladstone
is nearly as much imposed upon as Greeley was,
and seldom learns anything by experience His
friends feel called upon to be eternally vigilant
to prevent his becoming prey to charlatans.
knaves. and adventures generally. Despite
their vigilance, he is often placed in compromis-
ing situations. of which the public has no knowl-
edge. He is, like Greeley, so honest himself
that he never suspects anybody else of dishon-
eStY.
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SENATOR JOHN f. MILLER.
He Is Slowly Recovering His Health-The
Causes of His Illness.


San Francisco Bulletin.
FL. Clay Miller, brother of Senator Miller, this
afternoon said: General Miller is getting bet
ter, and expects to start in few days for Wash
ington, going by the Southern route and stop
ping in New Mexico and elsewhere route at
watering places for the additional betterment
of his health He thinks that very little bust
ness will be transacted in Congress until after
the holidays and that it therefore unnecessary
to go there Immediately. He has in the mean
time paired with Senator Fair. There was
report that his old wounds received IN the civil
war had reopened, and that his sickness
was due to this cause in part General Miller
was wounded twice during the war. One bullet
ruined the sight of one eye. He fell from his
horse unconscious. 1t was uncertain whether
the bullet was in his head. The wound began to
heal. When he went north to Chicago the
wound continued to heal, and the physicians
hesitated to perform an operation. About ten
years ago. at the Grand Hotel, he decided to have
New York ocullst operate, as he had been told
in Paris that if he did not take some precaution-
airy measure he would lose the sight of his other
eye, the optic nerve being affected sympathetic
cally. An Enfield rifle bullet, weighing an
ounce which had been broken was extracted.
That operation stopped the neuralgia pains
with which he had formerly suffered. The
wound which destroyed his eye was the most Sc
rious. The other Was in the neck. He is not
suffering from the effects of either of these
wounds now His trouble proceeds from mala-
ago. and afterward from the marshes at Wash
ington. Not long ago he had three surgeons ex-
anime his condition critically, calling in the
United States surgeons, and passing through
such an examination as would be preliminary to
admission to the army or navy. The surgeons
all concurred in saying that he had no symptoms
of organic disease. and this, of course, gave him
much courage. He has had a severe maarial
attack, and his blood has been rather impover-
ished Recently he has greatly improved under
treatment recommended by Alvinza Hayward,
with whom he is stopping. This consists of
moderately cold bath, after which he wraps him
self in sheets and then closely mufies himself in
blankets. This sweating process, instead of de-
bitating, has seemed to invigorate him. He re-
Gently had an attack Of the asthma, but that was
considered troublesome rather than dangerous,
and within the past ten days or two weeks it has
disappeared. The treatment has been mainly
attempt to overcome the malaria. He lost flesh
in his trip to Alaska, but has lost during
the past thirty days, and the color of his com
pleXion is improving. He has made his plans to
go on to Washington and resume business, but
until it ~ necessary to start be has thought it
better for his health to remain here. He thinks
that stopping at the springs en- route will do him
good. He is now in San Mateo. He seems now
fair way to recuperate."
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Why the Boss Felt Good.
It'd Bits.

First office oy-Where did you get that ERE
quarters
Second office boy-Boss guy it to me- Boss is
feeling fly dis mornin'
First Office -boy-Wot's the cause Nv it, Wife
gone outer town.
Second Office boy-Naw His stylergraphic
pen worked for the fust time in two years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS.
Postmaster Jones May Smile, Too.

Kicflmond Palladium.
1t is only regarding a few matters, however
that the Presidents opinions are of general in
terest. OF these. the foremost is probably civil
seyvice reform. Some of the things that he has
to say regarding this read, in view of recent ia
miliar events. very like jokes For example, he
ventures to hope that we shall never again be
RENTED to the system which distributes public
positions purely rewards for partisan service
AS if we had yet got far away from that system
A rogujsh smile will come into the new postmas-
ter MIR. Elders face as he reads this passage
The President says, also, that the civil-service
law, while not preventing "the discharge of the
indolent or incompetent clerk" does prevent
supplying his place with the unfit party worker. :"
We all know that the civil-serv law might be
made to do this, but that it actually does is
news
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
Simeon Is Ready to Raise a Row.

Sim Coy was asked last night about the per.
sonality of the forthcoming city attorney: II
don't know anything about him." he replied.
II understand you are engineering Al Becks
candidacy"
II am engineering no one. will vote for a
Democrat as long as he has chance"
''And if a Democrat has no chance you will
vote for Republican,"
IL might. if there is any opportunity to raise
o row in that party"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
Ignorance of Doctors Wives.


''Who should you say would be the most likely
to be ignorant of medcines97 asked an apothe-
cary of experience. "lll tell you. Doctors
wives and daughters. They hear medicine talk,
and they see medical papers, now and then, and
they think themselves learned in medicine.
Some of them have trick of writing ont the in,
gradients of prescriptions the labels of bottles
containing them and Bromide of potash and
Solution of Fowl are the least of their mistakes
A little ignorance is a mighty dangerous thing. /"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
Itinerant Peddlers Should Pay.

SeyMOur kepuDI1Can.
The Indianapolis Journal is doing the proper
thing by declaring that itinerant peddlers should
pay for the privilege of competing with resident,
tax-psying dealers of its city. This is but the
carrying out of the Republican theory of pro-
lection, and its advantages and business are ad-
mitted by all save the festive pedGler and his
. natural friend the average Democratic council
man. We're shrieking for the same reform
here
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL.

In order to meet the demands of its country pat
arrangements have been made whereby the Sun
day edition of The JOURNAL is circulated to all posi-
BILE points reached by railway early the day of it's
publication. The special features of The SUNDAY
JOURNAL are well known. They will be increased
during next year. The circulation of THE SUNDAY
JOURNAL is the largest and best of any Sunday paper
published in Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14

Atlanta Constitution.
Yesterday two men were standing near the ar
tesian well watching the gurgling stream As il
flowed over the belgian blocks to sewerage.
Said the first citizen-So the town went dry
Second citizen-Yes
First citizen-Nothing to drink
Second citiZen-Nothing.
First citizenDo you like waterq
Second citizen-I can learn to love it.
First citizen-Weve got it.
Second citizen-Yes, the Lord provides
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
Now for the County Commissioners.


Now that township trustees have been over
hauled and the rascally ones driven out of the
country, it is high time that county commission
ers, who let contracts to favored concerns that
bid higher than more conscientious establish
ments, should be exposed. The 'lump-bid" sys-
tenn is also wrong. 1t is device of designing
officials to enable them to stand in" with ras-
caly contractors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
The Indianapolis Hish-School Idea.

= Richmond independent
The Indianapolis High-school has organized a
new programme, which is a capital idea. It is in
devoting one hour each week to the teaching of
oratory, declamations and anything in the way
of recitation. The latent talent of many pupil
will be developed. We should be glad to hear of
a similar arrangement in our high schools
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14

Tom l.. johnson. Of the Cleveland and Indian
apolis Streetrailway Companies while hunting
in Mississippi, last week. was shot in the left
hand by the accidental discharge of gun in
the hands of companion. Fourteen shot pene-
trated the member, but it is hoped that no seri
GUS injury will result
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
Admitting the Truth.

Senator Hoar says that everything President
Cleveland has recommended the Republicans
have tried to do for the last ten years, but the
Democrats have prevented them. There is o
great deal of truth in this remark, but we hope
Senator Hoar will not abate his efforts to
accomplish proper legislation because his poht-
zeal opponents favor it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
Senator Voorhees, Must Catch Step.

Evansville Courier (Dem.)
The tone of the Presidents message on the
subject of civilservlce reform is of ia nature
TO encourage Senator Voorhees, in his announced
purpose to make 'the greatest effort of his life"
against the civil-service law The best thing the
Senator do for himself and the party in
Indiana, is to get into line behind the President
ana catch step with the reform procession.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
Gen. Lew Wailace's Mission

A friend of Gen. Lew Wallace says that his
recent trip to Constantinople. the purpose of
which was concealed from the public, was really
in the interest of an American company engaged
in the manufacture of war munitions, and that
the mission was successful. He received for his
services it is said, the sum of $50, 600.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14

Yesterday was communion Sunday in the Tab
ernacle Church, and the results of the series of
meetings that has been held there this month
were made manifest in the reception of class
of thirty-two persons into mem bershp Or these
ten came IN on profession of their faith aud
twenty-five by letters from other churches
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
Sim Coy or Hatchet Holt.

bloomfield News.
The Democrats of Indiana are casting about for
suitable person for the mantle of the late Vice
president as the leader of the party to fall back
upon. We would suggest Sim Coy of Indian
apolis as the most suitable person for the distn-
guishe1 honor. Or in case technical objections
should be raised to him, Ratchet Holt might be
substituted. The services rendered the party in
the late municipal election show them to be
born leaders, and they should be rewarded in this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
Troy Times.
Some Day, Some Day.

When robbers will not rob
And jobbers cease to job.
And aldermen know such thing as Doodle,
Then honesty will hum
And the millennium
VIII brood upon the land of Yankee Doodle.
New York Journal
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Judge Norton's Bad Precedent

Martinsyille Republican.
Holt, the Indianapolis balot-box smasher is to
go scot free, Judge Norton deciding that the box
broken was not ballot box, but box used for
storage. The Judge has set bad precedent by
such decision and hereafter Ratchet will be
one of the necessary adjuncts to a satisfactory
Democratic count.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14

Whereby it appeared that George Washing
ton. Esq., was elected President, and John
Adams, Esq, vice president of the United States
of America" The States of New York, North
Carolina and Rhode Island had not yet given
their consent to the adoption of the Consttu-
ton of the United States. and had no voice in
the first presidential election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
Cruelty to Woman.

Boston Transcript.
1t is all right that men should TOLL but it is
positively cruel to compel a woman to get her
living by the sweat of her brow. Perspiration
of the forehead is death to crimps and no
lady, as is lady, can be expected TO endanger
her cr9mps.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
American JingOiSm.

We don't want to fight the Mormons;
But, by jimmy, if we must,
Wen make the saints obey the laws
Wen lick them WELL or bust.
Troy Times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
He Described the Dress.
Boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript.
'She had on suit Of stair carpet, said a man
who was trying to inform his wife which of her
friends he had met in the street, aud, upon the
whole, did he not describe the effect of some of
the coarse variegated wooden stuffs fairly well2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
French Wit.

A woman is accused of attempting to poison
her husband, who, however, received prompt
medical assistance and was able to be present at
the trial. What have you to say in your de-
fensel" inquired the judge addressing the pris-
oner. II am innocent l insist on q post
mortem"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
The Charity of Silence.

tVanBYlIIe Journal,
The Republican papers have been considerable
and generous toward Mr.. Hendricks. While ac-
cording him all due honor as citizen and
church member, they have charitably passed
-over his political record in silence No man had
one more vulnerable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
An Overwhelming Contrast.

HATtIoru ClIy IIHleB
The scramble" for Vice president Hendricks's
place was not spirited some Democrats
were led to suppose. Indeed, the contrast he
tween the action of the Republican senators and
themselves, under like circumstances, must have
been overwhelming
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14

The regular meeting of the Nightingale Asso-
citation Of Professional Nurses will be held at
Plymouth Church this afternoon at 3 O'clock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
For the Four Hundredth Time.

Columbus Republican.
1t is announced for the four hundredth time
that work will soon be commenced on the new
Union Depot at Indianapolis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
Judge Norton's Able Decision.

Judge Norton. of indianapolis, will find thai
people can decide that judge is not judge
easier than they can decide that ballot-box is
not ballot-boy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14

class of Democratic Office brokers. pretend
ing to exercise political influence for which they
are willing to accept fees is said to be growing
up at Washington, and should be exterminated
PROMPTLY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-14
SOCIETY MEETINGS.

THE severest chemical tests show the purity
and efficacy of Red Star Cough Cure