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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-20

lIoutVllto Now Argus.
Dropping In on Colonel Lamont the other
day, ne he WAS opening the mail, he re-
marked:
lent IL funny what queer ideas some peo.
pie have about directing their letters 10 the
PRECEDENT. Most people think they must
elaborate the address TO the President. Look
az these. for instance:"
Governor Grover Cleveland. hret Dsmo.
cratic President.
To bis Excellency Mr.. Cleveland.
Hon. Grover Cleveland, Eco.
To his Honor q. Cleveland Presi lent OF
tho United States.
Colonel G. Cleveland, President.
TO his Hiahness the II )noiaSle President
OF those United States.
Hon. MIR. Cleveland, Esq, at Presidents
White House.
Governor Cleveland, President OF the
United States.
TO the President.
Mr. Grover Cleveland. White House.
His Excellency the Honorable Pfesid snt
Ct the United States.
g. Cleveland. Esq, President.
Mr.. Grover Cleveland, President nited
S ates.
His Honor Judge Cleveland, the President,
strictly confidential (evidently an applica.
ton for postoffice).
To our President Governor Cleveland
General Cleveland, The President. (Pn-
yate.
Right Hon. Grover Cleveland, the Presi.
dent at White House.
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WHAT is there il the character of William
II. Vanderbilt to make his incomings and
outgoings matter CT such concern that news
OF them must be autographed to and printed
by all the newspapers OF the Nationp His
sailing for Europe last Saturday Was made q
press sensation with display headlines. We
were told where he was going and when to
return, and some OF the dispatches went SO
far as to tell of how he was clad In long.
black frock with n low.cut, black vest. and
a narrow black tie combining hls high collar"
With the pusilianimous toadying of the
news-gatherers to this accident of fortune Il
Is wonder they did not tell the cut OF his
brooches, style OF his underwear, color OF his
half-hose, etc. But we have never observed
any service he has done the country, any
benefit no has been to the people, any bsnet-
ioence exercised proportionats TO his wealth,
emitting him to such newspaper notice.
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DIRECTOR GENERAL BURKE's
LOSSES.

1t is announced that financial embsrrass.
ment, growing out of his zeal to make the
Worlds Exposition at New Orleans sue
Gees, is the cause of Msjor Burke having re-
signed the position OF Director General. Il
appears that sometime in January work on
the Exposition buildings was about to be
suspended OH account Of shortage of money
IN the hands of the corporate management
for paying contractors. To secure the con.
tinuance of the work some security had to
be given for the payment of claims amount
ing in round figures to $4,000. Major
Burke made himself personally responsible
for this large sum. OF course he expected
The management to relieve him from having
to pay the Endorsement. Even if the gate
moneys failed to cover his liability,
Congress had appropriated $365,Oo0 to-
ward the expenses of the Exposition.
The gate moneys have scarcely met current
expenses, and the Attorney General of the
United States has recently decided that no
part OF the appropriation made by Congress
could be used for the payment OF Louisiana
creditors. Thus has Major Burke been pre-.
cipitated into financial disaster. OF the Con-
gresaional appropriation over 100000 re-
mains unexpended, but the Attorney GEN.
eral rules that this can not go to liquidate
the obligations of Major Burke, without
which the Exposition must have proven o
failure. 1t is understood that he has sur
rendered both his own and his wifes prop
erty to satisfy these obligations.
II Major Burke Is allowed to lose $4,000
in such way, the Worlds Exposition will
be badly stained with something closely akin
to dishonor. The poverty stricken city OF
New Orleans should make his losses whole
IL Louisiana does not, and II Louisiana can
not, then the next Congress will not be doing
an unmagnanimous thing to order that the
necessary part OF its unexpended appropris-
ton be used for the payment of that part
OF the expenses of the Exposition for which
the Director General became personally re-
sponsible for payment. New Orleans, the
State OF louisiana, and the General Govern
ment will be compromised II the Worlds
Exposition is permitted to bankrupt the
most patriotic protector and promoter OF 1t.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Mr.. Phelps, upon being introduced to the
Qeen yesterday, presented his credentials as
United States Minister 10 the Court Of st.
james.
Extensive forest fires are raging at Har..
vey's Lake, Pa. Thousands OF dollars worth
OF valuable lumber has been destroyed since
Sunday.
james Roberts. an employe of the Louis
vile and Nashville Short Line. was run over
and killed at Anchorage, KY, yesterday az
ternoon.
large force OF bricklayers employed by
ex.RepresentatIve H. G. Frey, struck yester.
day on account Of his refusal to discharge
nonunion men.
The bark Arscan. from Rotterdam, reports
that on May 2. in latitude 45 Is, longitude
4s. she sighted over 100 large icebergs and
had to steer due south all day to keep clear
OF them.
new play by Robert Buchanan and Har-
riet Jay. the noveliAts. entitled, "Alons in
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PERSONALS.

SEcRETARy ENDtcoTr 10 voracious novel
reader.
A YOUNG lady ofsLyrchburg, Va, hsssent
the President four.lsayed clover, for luck
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG 10 singing In con.
cert with Esther Jacobs, the contralto, in the
interior OF New York.
Mn. CHARLES LopER Englsnd's largest per.
sonal taxpayer, Is assessed on property OF
that description at SIC, GOO, 600.
HARRY GARFIELD, q son OF the late Presi.
dent, has accepted n position as teacher In
81. Paul's school. Concord, N. II.
Rosa BoNuruR Is over sixty and otill
paints. Tho vanity OF some women IL never
overcome by age. Rosa paints animals,
however, and not OF herself.
THOMAS GARFIELD. n brother OF the late
President, 10 enjoying life on Michigan
farm. He has not appeared Ia public aimee
lhe late Presidents funeral.
Efn john A. MCDONALD likes to visit sec.
ond.hand stores and purchase antiquities II
was doubtless feeling OF that kind that In.
duoed him TO marry widow.
JOAQUIN MILLER boasts that the "latch.
ttrng Is always OUT ut his log cabin, just
outside OF Washington. but, though he DOES
not tell II, he sometimes locks his outer gate,
90 that visitors vcan not get beyond that TO
pull open his cabin door by the lstoh.slrIng.
Mrs FREDERICK DouoLls. who Is quito
white, while Frederick Is only approaohab
10, has considerable literary culture, and
will accompany her husband abroad, note
book In hand, 10 record their mutual I'M
pressiors with a view TO future book OF
travels.
By queer coincidence the wife OF ex Sec
rotary Chandler 10 the daughter OF the former
Senator Hale, while the wife OF the present.
Senator Hale Is daughter OF the former
Secretary Chandler, and one family now has
a son named Chandler Hsle, and yet the two
families are in no way related.
FLORENCE MARYAr came before the curtain
at the Unien Square Tneater In New York
one night last week between the second and
third acts Of my Sweetheart" wearing q red
satin dress, bound round the waist with q
red satin girdle. She also wore gown aud
mortar. board OF the same material II was
her appearance az 1.-THE Woman Of 1885,"
She recited a monologue on the men of 1895.
In the nineteenth century, she said, men
were little or no better than animals.
Rev. SYDNEY SMITH was once asked by Q
friend for a reserved seat in st. Pauls. This
was the witty csnon's reply: ITO 60 T. st.
Paurs is certain death. The thermometer is
several degrees belowzero. Ny sentences
are frozen ss they come out Of my mouth,
and are thawed In the course Of the summer,
making strange noises and unexpected a.
sertions In various parts OF the church; but.
| II you are tired OF world which 10 not tired
Of you. and you are determined TO 20 to st.
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pisastrous Flood In Kansas.

Elk CRY, Kan, May 19.-Ths food of
Friday night caused great damage in this
vicinity. Communication by telegraph has
been cut Of since the storm until to-day. No
trsins have arrived here on account of the
washouts between Independence and No.
line. SevsRty-fva families here were driven
from their homes by the. food. The names
OF those drowned, as far as lesrued, are:
Mrs. Woods and child, DR.. Mccoy, JOIN
Rice and child named Van Dusen. Sew
eral other persons are reported missing.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-20

London" was produced for the FIRST time
last night at the Park Theatsr. New York.
1t YVES well received.
At the second meeting OF the creditors of
James Z. Osgood Co, the Boston publish
ers. their liabilities were placed by the fl rm
at Sic, 600 and the assets IN round numbers
at 500 COO. The firm intimated q desirs to
discontinue business.
At Ottawa. Ont, Sir John Macdonald
stated in the House of Commons yesterday
that certain irregularities had bsen discov-
cred on the part OF 8 clerk in the Department
OF the Interior. A strict investigation is be.
ing made.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-20

THE Bourbon Republican organs have been
eDdeavoring to shake the peoples confidence
in the new administration IN every imagina.
bic way. The inrosds that have evidently
been made upon the Republican party by
the conservative policy of Mr.. Cleveland has
terrihed them, snd now they are giving the
impression that all this Is to be changed. No
longer will that policy be conservative. Rad
ical changes. they say, in the matter of
appointments are soon to be made, A
Bourbon Republican paper of Chicago refers
to the matter in the following language: "The
administration is evidently preparing for a
general change in the Offices throughout the
country in all branches OF the public service
at the beginning of the new fiscal year.
Postmaster General Villas letter concerning
fourth class postoiices is regarded as one of
many indications that civil service reform
rules will no longer be strictly adhered to,
and that the aid OF Congressman and
the political machine is desired by the
administration. Combinations among the
politicians III the various States are already
being formed TO control the Government
patronage. The President will probably Sc
lect few men in each State whose advice
will be accepted regarding appointments.
Secretaries Manning and Whitney and AS
sistant Secretary Fairchild will probably
control the New York patronage. Appoint
ments to fill Offices in the District of Column
bis are to be left until the last. 1t has been
expected for some time past that within q
few weeks all persons holding minor posi-
tions In the Treasury Department would be
removed. The ak has already begun to fall.
Yesterday three ex soldiers OF the Union
srm, were discharged from their positions
as watchmen."
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Better Tnan &c citing an Office.

One man who came for an office has sue.
ceeded SO much better than he expected I'd at
his case is worth recording in the Sun. He
came from Georgia, and relates his expert
eDce thus: "Beipg a Democrat aud not
having much luck at getting ahead at hons,
thought would get an office at Washing.
ton If l could. Letting no one but my wife
and friend know what / was up TO,
started. After landing here / saw Just IS
plain as day that the water was too deep for
me; besides, hundreds OF others great deal
smarter st the business were ahead of nae.
bad not much money, and SO, instead of
paying much attention 10 the Office, began
TO look around for work or something to-
make living while / stayed. To tell you
the truth / had not been much away from
home, and never IN go large n place before
Somehow kinder felt could make il 60 II
onlo got a chanca; and after had looked
around some and clapped my eye over things
thought l saw chances, IL only they were
worked right | haye fancy l have a
natural gift for knowing a chance a.
soon as / see It, / got this idea nil
At once when saw so many ways and things:
so many persons selling everything and go
many buying. had about SIS, aud with it
concluded TO start. l had looked around
the market, where more money was spent in
day than in my town in a whole year.
Why can't l have some OF IL? thought I.
Well, launched out 81 for Florida oranges
aud 90 cents Tor basket That day / sold
half the oranges and had my money back
How did work. though-went every where,
into the houses and stores, aud
somehow people bought willingly. Maybe
1t WAS because / was so earnest about IL. The
third dav had all the oranges sold with
nearly 50 profit in my pockets. Be,ter'n
Office, began TO think. While / was look.
ing around for another chance the dealer
from whom l had bought offered me 40
other boxes, the last OF a lot, for So 90; nice
oranges, too. i knew ne once what could
do with them. The next morning sold them
for 81 q box, - 80 profit without breaking
bulk. bad never before made money 80
fast In all my life. / kept on for two weeks.
and / couldn't be hired to take the ofiic
was after. began 10 think how well could
fix myself right here in Washington. with
my little wife aud baby aud the
boy, who by rights ought to he going
to school. You don't want to hear IL
all. It's but two months and two days since
i came, and / have got $50 and everything
paid up. What's better. there are n couple
OF dealers In the market who say they will
bsck me for any thing in reason / want to
do. I'm thinking I'll keep on the line I've
been going for the present. l zee so many
chances that sometimes don't know which
10 take. | wonder anybody that can work
wants an office here. Some OF the Georgia
follows hanging aiound here have come 10
roe for money, but / tell IN 10 20 % work
for there's heap more money In IL than In
any office know Of"
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Republicans ana rrohis,tiopists.



In their soicitudss over the i'm mine a rup-
ture Of the Democratic party the Repan'l-
cans are likely 10 overlook their owo impend-
ing circus with The Pfohbitionists. Ine
Temperance men ere everywhere organ lzlng
for active work In the State eiespons this
fall, and are adopting the sound policy Of In
d. pendent pomir q ionI the only policy for
q party which pretends TO iDcsrnate vital
principle. In New York the PfohibitIo lists
a-e notably ztalous, and have @
very heavy account 10 settle with
the Republicans, who have revied
them as the authors OF Blaine's defeat, aud
are Furnishing them by passing al excise
bill framed by the liquor dealers, and by
voting for license at the spring elections.
Men who have withsiood the pressure OF last
years csmpein will only be confirmed in
their opposition by tuch tactics, ard as the
Presidency Is not nomsnsily at stake, they
will be reinforced by voters who could not
bring their minds to boiling the ticket last
year. The prospect 10 not o promising one
for the Republicans OF the En- pire State and
no one will feel very sorry for them.
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TIE Cincinnati Com mcrcial Gazette IL flying a
lurid flag from tho whinetrces OF its mizzeu mast.
but I'm the smoke of baltic which now nvslops
the Republican party OF Ohio We are unable TO
determine whether the oriilamme IN John Shor.
mans conventional bloody shirt or n bolt OF Char
ley Fosters historic cslico.-Chicago News.
Shot, Catch the O. G. fooling away any
time on common calico. II lies the genuine
bloody shirt goods-all wool and Q yard
wide. There 10 no excuse for mistaking 1t
for anything else.
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The employees who acknowledge

bers. The employees who acknowledged
their participation in the practices were put
under oath by prominent member of the
board, at the conclusion Of their testimony,
never to reveal to any one outside what they
had confessed" The details OF such matters
are always demoralizing when they appear
In print, and we are glad that they have not
been made public. The evidence is clear
enough, however. that rottenness is prsva-
lent In this Board OF CHARITY" etc.
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GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND says no does not want
TO own newspaper aud never will.-1tom.
George, or Gath" a. he Is called, has no
need Of newspaper. He awnings the En.
quirer for oil that he wants. and then. too,
the Republican party always need him dur.
Ing campaigns that they may reach Demo
Gratis through his Enquirer letters. Oh, no.
"Gaih" don't want q newspaper rs long AZ
no has 30 soft thing on tho Enquirer,
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-20

WILLIAM +. CHANDLER, called by many
"Bill Chandler" the recent Secretary OF the
Navy under Arthur. Is perhaps one OF the
most gigantic political frauds that the coun.
try ever produced. He Is out of job OF pres.
ens, and is looking around for something to
do. He IA really citizen OF the District OF
Columbia. having lived in Washington for
the past eileen years; bat having had sum-
mer residence In New Hampshire he now
has the monumental cheek to put In his
claims for scat n the United States Senate
represented by that State. The New York
Worlds Washington correspondent has been
puncturing the Chandler bubble, and says
that New Hampshire people never regarded
Chandler as . resident OF that State. He
owns little newspaper there. which backs
up bis claim for the Senate. Chandler put
. good deal OF extra work into the yard ct
Portsmouth when he was Secretary of the
Navy, and by the use OF the department 70.
SOURCES succeeded In giving himself Q stand.
inx In New Hampshire which he had never
been able to acquire before. II IL to be pre-
sumed that he 10 pressing his claims for the
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Fatally Beaten.
Special to the Sentinel.

MT. CARMEL. Ill, May 19.-Sunday while
John Long fourteen year old boy, was
scufiliDg with another Of his age in the out
skirts of the town, Victor Grandclair, aged
nineteen, a bystander. struck Long upon the
temple with piece of board and then
jumped upon him with his full force. Long
clair was arrested and is now in Jail. The
CoroneI's verdict was as abavs.
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SUICIDE AND INSURANCE.

The epidemic Of suicides has not failed TO
attract the attention Of leading life insur.
ance companies. Many of them have
dropped the suicide clause altogether, and
those retaining it provide that IL shall be
good only for limited period-that Is, II an
insurer commits suicide more than three
years, cay, after taking out his policy the
company does not resist payment. The in
surers act OF course on the theory that self
destruction Is the evidence and result OF dis.
ease. The Buffalo Courier has the statement
from officers OF q prominent company that
they had put no suicide clause" into their
POLICIES since 1851. II they had reason TO be-
lieve that policy wos taken out with the
intention OF deliberate fraud they contested
payment on the ground OF fraud. They did
not think as result OF thirty years expert
ence that the omission of the clause had any
perceptible effect upon the rate OF suicides
among their policy holders. This number
could be calculated In advance with about
tho same accuracy as the number OF deaths
which would occur from any other disease
1t was about twenty-four annually. This
statement OF the insurers Is In exact accord
with Buckles theory that the number of sui
cdes each year Is fixed by natural laws.
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WE'LL. 1t lie about time for bloody shirt
organ to yell "butternut" or ''copper.head"
again. Tbs silence grows oppressive and
embarrassing. "Spiell"
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----
THERE has been batch OF shocking i'm
morality disclosed receatly In the "laud OF
steady habits"--the very fountain.head OF
the 'moraliiy" Of tho ''g. o. p" The eoau.
DIAL comes from the Massachusetts, Board OF
Health, Lunacy and Charity. Serious
charges are made ia the Boston Globe
against the officers OF the board. Tao story 4,
as told. runs that a few weeks ago one OF the
sub.oiiicers OF the Board OF Health, Lunacy
aud Charity was complained OF for having
grossly abuFed his trust. AT u meeting OF
the board, about three weeks ago, he was
called before that body aud found to have
laid himeelf liable TO suspension. Incident.
ally In connection with this examination
facts were slicltod from other employees
which show that shockingly immoral prao.
tices have obtained Ia tho Department OF the
Board of Health. Lunasy ana Charity, and
moro than justify the worBt suspicious enter.
tanned by varions members of the board.
A gentleman who knows all about the rev.
Citations made ut The board meeting says: II
do not care to tell and no paper can publish
the testimony given ut the last meeting OF
the board. Only those who were present and
listened TO the confessions of officers en-
ployed by the beard could believe that such
inhuman practices could have gone on in
any civilized community. The board had
been engaged in investigating another mat.
ter, and at the suggestion OF one OF the men,
bers certain members were called in to give
testimony concerning that matter. Alter
the chairman had examined the first witness
q member began to question him concerning
certain rumors which had from time to time
been brought to the ears OF the Commission
ers q
ITO make long story short. the witness
confessed, duplicating not only himself, bat
one Of the most prominent officers who has
been in the employ Of the State, in practices
Of the most shocking character. Two other
witnesses, also employees OF the board, were
called In, and after some questioning Ike.
wise confessed to having been guilty Of the
same practices. l believe the Chairman,
Charles +. Donnelly, will admit that have
stated what occurred a. mildly and charita
bly, a. possible. / believe Mr.. Fallou, Of
Lawrence; DR.. II. p. wolcott, Of Cambridge
and DR.. Dean, Of Brockton, were present q
that meeting also. and. perhaps. other mem
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Our sweet singers.

The last philosophical remark OF Father
Ryan, the poet-priest is as follows: I'm the
intellectua, orders minofities always have
ruled and always will rule. One hundred
men do mort OF the thinking for IN age, six
men the singing ten men the theology. And
90 in oil the branches of thought" This
may be true enough; bat II Ia shame not 10
provide in this classification for the O 00o. 900
men who think they do the singing.
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Just what Is meant TO be described by the ney
word 'drugwump'' appears 10 be a tribe mixed
" hIskv Papers apply Il 10 prohibitoniss. an!
think IL Is word that hasn't come to stay.
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TnE Boston Journal tells OF case where
the Postoillce Department appears TO have
been rather neatly taken In. Some time ago
. Mr.. Maxwell, OF Roundout, n. ", who had
three years TO serve, resigned tho Pos.ofice
on the ground that II should be held by u
man In haimeny with the party In power.
II now turns out that ex Representative Rus.
sell, who has store TO Let for the PostoiiIce.
went TO Washington with Maxwelrs reslgna-
ton In his pocket ard tho application OF Mr..
6uderly. Being an ex.Reprssentativ le
secured the change and thus le. his store. II
now turns ont that Maxwell got $1,000 for
resignine; that suderly agreed to take the
store and make Maxwelrs son his clerk. All
the changes were made before the people
fully realized II, and tho Democrats are an
cry. suderly has been a Gresnbacker for
some time. A combination In all peace and
smity OF politicians OF different brands Is q
wicked but frequently efficscious thing.I