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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

he wants nothing for himself, Senator Hilligass,
of Huntington, has a very pronounced attack OF
official itch. The worthy Senator has gazed
upon the government printing Office, and has
made up bis mind that he could eli Mr. Rounds's
place with case and grace Mr.. Hilligass will.
therefore, bring his guns to bear on the Presi-
dent in order that he may get it. But as the
President has about decided to allow Mr.. Rounds
to remain for while, it is not probable that the
mission of the Hoosicr senator will be successful.
An Indiana Democrat stepped into the Journal
bureau to night, and remarked: "Our boys
have been looking into the blue book to-day.
and some of em will be a cussed sight bluer
than that book by the end of next week.
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TROUBLESOME PosroFFICEs.

Baltimore, sId., and Augusta Me-, Likely to
Cause the President Some Annoyance.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 27.-The commissions of
large number Of presidential postmasters ex-
pire next month Prominent among these are
the Offices at Baltimore, Md, and Augusta, Me-
A strong effort will be made to retain Colonel
Adreon, the postmaster at Baltimore. The same
arguments will be used in his behalf that
were so successful in Mr. Pearsons case, and for
substantially the same reasons
The Office that will probably cause President
Cleveland the greatest trouble is that at Angus
ia Me- which.s now held by Mr.. Manley, who,
it will be remembered. accompanied Mr.. Blaine
in his tour through Ohio and the West. The
most important candidate for the place is Colonel
Morton, the gentleman who furnished Mr. Shoe
maker, of the Indianapolis Sentinel, the details
of the scandal concerning Mr.. Blaine. Mr..
Blaine has interested himself in the matter, and
whio he does not expect Manley to be retained,
he has made personal appeal that Morton be
not appointed The President. it is said, has
promised Mr. Blaine that bis request shall be
granted.
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AT the Boston Reform Club d

AT the Boston Reform Club dinner given
to Carl Schurz, last Friday Hon. Edward j.
Phelps, the new minister to England, made
the following allusion to Mr.. Lowell:
"You know and I know that ! can hardly
expect to make good the place to be vacated
by that distinguished citizen of Boston who
now fills it, and has filled it in such manner
that the post does not honor him, but he
honors the post. One of the chiefest elements
of his success was that he had been first, and
last, and all the time, an American
The vociferous applause which, according
to the reports, punctuated these remarks,
was not entirely complimentary to Mr.. Phelps,
indicating as it did, too willing assent
to his confessed unworthiness, and an admira-
ton for Americans as contrasted with Anglo
maniacs, to which order the new minister
belongs Even Boston mugwumps have pat
! riotic impulses
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tan, and at the same time commended the
efforts of two Of the police commissioners to
enforce a low-license law. This inconsis-
tency exists, and in showing it there was
neither unkindness nor sneer We regard it
as extremely unfortunate that 'Simv Coy
and the saloon-keepers find, not allies but
aiders, in their effort to prevent the enactment
of high license law, which, as
matters now are. is the only practical
bic thing that can be expected or realized,
and the effect Of which, wherever tried, has
been to reduce the number of saloons-the
only thing prohibition does, though, possibly,
in greater degree where it can be secured and
fairly enforced. A prohibitory law is not
necessary in order to have no open saloons in
certain localities; that is secured in some
places even under the present low license law
The number of such places would be increased
were Indiana to be given such a law as that in
vogue in Illinois.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28
JUDGE wYLIE.
How He Issued Writ of Habeas Corpus ON
the Petition of Mrs. Surratt.

How He Issued a Writ of Habeas Corpus ON
the Petition of Mrs. Surratt.
Washington Special.
Judge Andrew Wylie of the District of Column
bia Supreme Court, who sent to the President
to-day, the formal notice of his retirement, has
been on the bench since 1868. He is known to
fame as the man who had the nerve to issue q
Surratt She had been sentenced to death by
military court, and, with the other prisoners
was under the charge Of General Hancock
Mrs. Surratt's counsel waited on the Judge
at his house. after midnight and asked for
the writ It was furnished them, returnable
the next day, at 10 o'clock. The next day
the writ was returned without the body
of Mrs. Surratt The answer of Major general
Hancock was accompanied by an order
of President Andrew johnson suspending the
writ. Judge Wylie was shocked at the conduct
of the President in suspending the mandate OK
the court, and was not slow to denounce the ac<
ton in strong terms. In conversation with
some lawyers recently the Judge said that he re-
allied the position that he put himself in by is-
suing the writ. The next morning after his ac-
ton, before he had got out of bed, there was
a vigorous ringing Of his door bell, and his body
servant informed him that there was q sergeant
of the army and crowd of soldiers down stairs
who wanted to see him. He expected to be
dragged off to the Old Capitol Prison, but he
dressed and went down. They were not on the
errand he suspected, but simply wanted to get
comrade out Of Jail, as they were going to leave
this part of the country. The comrade was re-
leased. Judge Wylie also tried the late star
pouta cacaS KIT
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that it IS proclaimed that Russia
will not recede, is equivalent to challenge.
Whether England will dare take it up remains
to be seen. Meanwhile the Russian men-of-
war are escaping from their icy letters, and
every days delay puts the government OF the
Car in better fighting trim, with the evident
effect Of increasing Russian confidence. The
collision cannot much longer be delayed, un-
less Gladstones government is willing to con-
cede the advantage gained and claimed in be-
half of the invaders of Afghanistan.
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CHARLES |. BUTTS, of Cleveland, has gone
insane over financial losses. He married
lady with half million, but this did not sat
isfy him. He went into grain gambling and
lost all he had, his wife demonstrating in vain
and finally leaving him in order to save the
remnant of her fortune. The love of money
continues to be the root of good deal of
evil. Mr.. Butts as day laborer, content
with enough, would probably be entirely sane
and happy.
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And Why He Improves Every Opportunity
to Make Display Of His Bitter Re-
sentiment Toward the President.
Commissioner Sparks Issues an Order
Which Places Him in a Bad Light.
Mr.. Blaine and the Augusta Postofice-
Hoosiers Still Flocking to the Capital in
Pursuit of 0ffices-General Notes.
MIR. BECK,s HOSTILITY.
His Antag6nism of the President Not APP
proved by the Kentucky Democracy. n
Enacial IN he Tndiar. N nolia journal

His Antag6nism of the President Not APP
proved by the Kentucky Democracy. Is,
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WAsHINGToN April 27-The determined OPP
position of Senator Beck, of Kentucky, to Presia
dent Cleveland, has been matter of remark
among Democrats and Republicans alike since
the Inauguration. The reason for this has
never been fully explained, but Mr.. Beck has
allowed no opportunity to slip without showing
his resentment toward the President. and was
one of the bitterest opponents to the confrma
ton of Mr.. Pearson. A prominent Kentuckian,
in speaking of this matter said today: There
was combination in the State, before the
Democratic national convention was held which
had in view the nomination of Mcdonald Beck
and some others put their heads together, and
determined to give the State to Mcdonald if
possible and secure his nomination if they
could. They failed in this, and have been ILL
natured ever since. They fought Cleveland in
the convention, and when he was selected they
were ready to bolt. During the whole campaign
Mr.. Beck stubbornly refused to take the stump
for Cleveland in any of the doubtful States
The national committee urged him to make
some speeches, but he refused to do so, and the
only part he took in the campaign was to make
two or three speeches in Kentucky and they
were for Beck and not for Cleveland. The COM
binaton expected Cleveland to be defeated, and
when he was elected they tried to get the most
out of it, and used their best endeavors to get
Mcdonald into the Cabinet for their own private
reasons. Failing in this, they were greatly dis
appointed but they turned in with all their
might to get lot Of appointments made in their
interest Now. because Cleveland would not do
just as they wanted him to- they are very mad,
and are trying to make out that the Democrats
all over the country dissatisfied with the
administration. AS a matter of fact,
the people of Kentucky are well pleased
with Mr.. Cleveland's conservative course.
Mr. Beck has lost prestige by bis action. If he
doesn't change his attitude the prospects of his
reelection to the Senate, two years hence, are
not good. With the feeling as it now is, he
could not carry his own district His opposition
to Cleveland is the old fight that began before
the Chicago convention"
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IT is about time to give over the brutal pun
ming and cheap wit INDUCED in at the expense
of the doctors in attendance upon General
Grant Unless the profession of medicine is
charlatanry, it is reasonably certain that these
gentlemen have correctly diagnosticated the
case. and if they have, there can be but one
result, and that is the death of the General at
DO distant day. He has rallied a little, but he
is by no means on the road to recovery. He
is yet very sick man. The occasion is not
one for testing at any ones expense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

THE anniversary of the birth of General
Grant was very generally observed through
out the country, yesterday, and served to call
forth from the sick and probably dying
chieftain a brief bulletin of personal graft
tude for the numberless expressions
which reached him. In this city the meeting
was large and representative, the addresses
and the letter of sympathy reported by the
committee appropriately voicing the senti-
ments of the people of Indianapolis Yester-
day was unique day in the history of the
GATED States-as distinctive day as the
character it was made to honor is simply,
grandly and peculiarly great.
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GEN. BLACKS AMBITION.
His Desire to Serve His Country in the Senate
Mrs. Ficklin's Influence.

HIS DeSirA to Serve LIS country IN tic SoHsss0
Mrs. Ficxlin's Influence.
Washington Special to New York Tribune.
General Blacks ambition to serve his country
in the United States Senate has developed the
fact that he has two sets of Democratic friends
in Illinois, one set desired to get him out of the
country entirely and they tried to get the Italian
mission for him; the other set were satisfied to
get him out of Illinois, and they got him ap-
pointed Commissioner Of Pensions All wished
to Danish General Black from Illinois politics.
Those who knew him well knew that this could
be accomplished only by placing the broad ocean
between him and his ambition on this side
Those who did not know him as we'll thought to
put him at the head Of the Pension Office womb
settle matters in Illinois for him.
TO the latter party belongs Mrs. Ficklin' TO
Gently appointed postmistress Of Charleston ~
that State. Mr.. Ficklin was Republican "a
Congress before the war; He Is lawyer "ssF
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ENGLAND yesterday voted the credit of
$50, 100000 for war purposes asked by the
government. Mr.. Gladstone is reported to
have made one of the greatest speeches of his
life, and to have fired the Commons and the
country with the greatest enthusiasm. The
Gear has gone to Moscow, from which city, it
is said, he will issue his declaration of war.
The situation is very greatly complicated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

Mr.. ALVIN PLUMMER, Maine farmer, has
long head. While digging in his garden. the
other day, Mr.. Plummer found some bones He
took them to the local scientific society, and the
bones proceeded one and all to the aforesaid
garden and fell to digging with ardor-and
spades-while Mr.. Plummer sat on the fence.
After several hours hard labor they gave up the
job in disgust, having found no more relics but
Mr.. Plummer was happy because his garden
was well spaded without having cost him cent
of money or a single backache.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

AND so no one is privileged to enter the
competitive examination for postofice inspec-
torships but those who have been previously
recommended to the department. The Post
master general should have care. After the
grammar and geography tests are applied to
the number thus limited, he may not have
enough men to fill the vacancies The civil
service examinations NOW down more Demo
cratic hope than Mr.. Cleveland's policy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

EVERY step taken by Russia favors the the
DRY that campaign of conquest was deter
mined upon from the first The advance
into Afghanistan was taken at the earliest
possible day consistent with the early open
ing Of the Russian rivers in which the navy
of that country was locked by ice The
specious apology offered for the attack on and
capture of Penjdeh was not intended to de-
,ceive anybody, and has served its purpose
only in delaying the encounter that
seems imminent. Tho fact that every
rood Of territory acquired is held, and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

SOUTH CAROLINA murderer varied the
formula commonly INDUCED in by his kind when
about to pay the penalty for their crimes. In
stead of announcing that he was going straight
to heaven, this Carolina man stepped upon the
scaffold with the remark: ~ am not prepared to
die have felt no change of heart and have no
confession to make" With all his sins he had
at least the virtue of truthfulness, which will
undoubtedly be reckoned to his credit in the re-
cord;ng angels book
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

They Continue to Come, and They Will Ac-
cept Anything They Can Get.

They Continue to Come, and They Will Ac-
cept Anything They Can Get.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April 27.-Hoosiers arrive on
every train. The city is full of them. They are
in for every Office, from the Russian mission to
clerkships in the Agricultural Bureau. Dr. l.. D.
Glazebrook, representative of Stark county, and
J. b. Barr, of Huntington, are among the latest
arrivals DR.. Glazebrook is not after any par
ticular office, bat would accept fat consulate,
an Indian agency, or even berth as surgeon of
the Marine Hospital Service Barr has his eye
on position in the Agricultural Department.,
and, having been informed that thorough
knowledge of theoretical agriculture is essential
to success, has been engaged all day reading up
in the congressional library.
Is Is learned that In spite Of his assurance that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

THE Cincinnati detectives, when requested to
discover the person who had attempted to de-
stroy milliner in that city on Saturday night,
by firing oil paper and slipping it under her
door, made but brief delay before they went up
and arrested man. They probably looked over
the miliner's books and selected the man whose
wife had bought the highest priced bonnet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

HANOVER COLLEGE has been made the recipient
of 81 ,OOO which is to be added to the fund known
as the Holiday professorship The gift is made
by John 81, Holiday, editor and proprietor of
the Indianapolis News. The fund, now amount
ing to $4,000, was started by Mr.. Holidays
father, in whose honor it was named. The donor
is an alumnus of that institution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

THE New York Post pronounces Troup
one of the newly-appointed Massachusetts
collectors, blatherskite and perturbation.
more crushing and discouraging than to be
mentioned asa mere brawler or disturber; but
the epithet will have no effect on the powers
which appointed him. This is reform
admin isfration
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

MODIFIED Asiatic cholera" is what the
doctors call the disease raging at Jativa
Spain As the figures show that 80 out of
200 victims die, the oldfaskioned. unmodifed
variety would seem preferable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

No wonder Chicago is thrifty. The advertis-
ing patronage of one of that citys daily papers
on Sunday last amounted to $50 columns, equiv
alent to about twenty five pages of the Indian
apolis Journal The public is given to under
stand that the merchants of Chicago are in
business, and are anxious to secure customers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

WE have now a reform administration,
with all that the term implies. 1t has been a
long time since this Nation has been repre-
sented abroad by men who favored it's de-
st.uction. Mr. Phelps, who goes to England
professed a hearty contempt and hatred for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

Mr.. HENDRICKS says his object in urging 50
many appointments is to let the light of heav
en- into the departments. Was this the object
he had in view when he took Colonel"
Hughes East into the Vice presidents Officer
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Lincoln. Mr.. McLane, who goes to Paris,
urged that Maryland should forcibly prevent
the passage of Union troops to the front. Mr..
Kelley, who has been nominated for Italy, but
who may be transferred to Russia, still be-
lieves that the war for the Union was ga
gross and bloody violation of public rights
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

THE Boston Herald scornfully remarks of the
story that Oliver Wendell Holmes carries a
horse-chestnut in his pocket to ward off rheuma-
tism, that it is an ''old chestnut" But the Her
aid does not venture to interview DR.. Holmes
and settle the scandal by word of mouth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

THERE may be a foreign war this summer.
There is certain to be a cholera epidemic. No
nation likely to be visited should fail to take
every possible rrecaution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal.
Was the Sunday base ball bill passed. If SO,
when does it take effectl
RICHMOND Ind, April 26.
1t was passed and will 90 into effect with the
general laws, having no emergency clause
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

GLADSTONE may be taking into considera-
ton the probability of visitation of cholera
this summer. War and pestilence united
might humble the mistress of the seas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

THE item comes little late this spring. but
here it is: A Baltimore girl Of seventeen has
died from excessive rope jumping She skipped
$50 skips, and with the last one took her skip to
the ..other side"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28

THE Fort Worth Democrat thinks that
literary gentleman should be appointed collector
of the port Of Houston because it is ''fine loca-
ton in which to bnild a book" The Fort Worth
editor may be right but budding Hawthornes
who read the papers will be inclined to think
differently. Houston may be charming literary
field, but other points in Texas have their draw
backs. The Concho for instance. Mr. Scherm-
erhorn, of that place, an author, an editor. and,
of course Southern gentleman, sab, one even
ing last week dropped into saloon for little
liquid stimulus for his mental powers. After
partaking somewhat literally he sat down and
dropped into slumber. Some Texans present, I'M
appreciative of literature, and regardless Of the
respect with which writer of books and a news
paper man should be treated, perhaps moved
with mean envy of his genius, filled Mr.
Schermerhorn's boots with alcohol and set fire
to the liquid When the bartender, disturbed
after time by the fumes, looked after Mr.
Schermerhorn, he found the boots burned to &
crisp, and the skin from Mr. Schermerhorns
legs and feet adhering to the leather. At pres
ent the. unfortunate gentleman is not engaged in
intellectual labors, having hired hand to run
his paper until he recuperates. Clearly, there
are some places in Texas which offer no en-
couragement to the literary man.
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Telephone Calls.
Business Office 1888 Editorial Rooms. .242
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, has produced the unique
scoundrel of the year in the person of Charles
Foster. His claim to the title was established
through the revelations in a divorce suit between
Frank II. Whiting and his wife. Whiting him
self seems to be not exactly what he should be.
He sued for and obtained a divorce in order to
marry Miss Kenneth, a lady of means, which
he afterward did, The divorced woman there
upon proceeded to persecute the bride, and made
it unpleasant for her through the irregularity of
her marriage in the sight of the church to which
she belonged, which does not countenance an
alliance with divorced man without special
dispensation. At this crisis Foster established
his claim to scoundrelism by offering ten letters
written to him by Mrs. Whiting No. while she
was yet married. These letters he sold for "a
good round sum, though he claimed to have over
hundred in all. An addition to these letters,
Foster has photograph of Mrs. Fanny Whiting,
on the back of which is written marriage con-
tract, wherein Mrs: Fanny Whiting agrees to
marry him Foster) upon the event that she and
her husband, Frank Whiting, secure a divorce
This contract is signed by both Foster and Mrs.
Fanny Whiting Foster promised to sell this
photograph to Mr. Whiting for $25, bat has evil
IDENTIFY changed his mind. He has taken legal
advice on the question whether he has not case
against Mrs. Fanny Whiting for breach of prom
Use. Foster says he is ready to marry her, but
she will not consent. The entire four have
proved themselves anything but what they
should be, but of the four Foster is by all Odds
the meanest and most contemplate. He should
be prosecuted for black mail.
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