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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-02

THE MOST GORGEOUS SCENIC PICTURES
EVER PRESENTED ON THE STAGE. 'Nym
Crinkle" in the New York World, writes
THE extraordinary beauty and veracity of thestags
pictures in the Comedy of Errors have been the
theme of admiration. Fever has Shakspearean COM
edy received such faithful treatment from the cos
tuner and the archaeological painter. Messrs.
Robson & Crane deserve especial praise for their work
in this comedy They have presented such equable
combination of drama, history and pictorial beauty
that the mind and the eye equally enchained.
Prices-Boxes sofa chairs and parquette. LIS;
parquette circle 81; dress circle reserved 10 CENTS
dress circle, so cents gallery, Is cents
Sale of seats now in progress at the boxofice
beautiful Souvenir Programme of the COMEDY OK
Errors will be presented to each lady in attendance
TONIGHT.
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Would Girdle the Earth.
Chicago News


What Vice-president Hendricks doesn't know
about the johnson Grant case would, if cut into
strips and pinned together, reach twice around
the earth and tie in double bow-knoI
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-02

WINTERS Death Warrants are neglected
coughs and colds. Thousands die at this season
simply because they permit these ailments to
take their fatal course instead Of curing them
promptly, as they always might do, with Hae's
Honey of Horehound and Tar. Sold by ali
druggists.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-02
No Farted Calf.

New Hork Star.
Carl Schurz's attitudinizing as ''the Prodigal
Son wasn't success. The Republican party
didn't melt bit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-30
DUPLICATED Names In Congress.

In the present Congress the pairs of
names are John J. Adams, of New York,
and George E. Adams, of Chicago.
There is a Brown from Ohio, Democrat;
Brown from Pennsylvania, Republican,
and General Browne, from Indiana, also
a Republican. Mr.. Anderson, of Kansas,
Republican, can pair with Mr.. Anderson,
of Ohio, Democrat, on all political ques-
tons, and, for that matter, so can John
and George Adams. In the last Congress
the Jones family was the most numerous,
there bcingfour Democrats of that name.
The Campbells and Taylors have that
honor in the Forty-ninth Congress.
There is Felix Campbell, from Brooklyn,
and Tim Campbell, from New York; J.
E. Campbell, from Ohio, all Democrats,
and J. NJ. Campbell, from Pennsylvania,
Republican. Ohio and Tennessee furnish
four Taylors, three of whom are Rcpub'
licans. Florida and Alabama each fur.
nish Il democratic Davidson, and Arkan-
sas and kentucky keep alive the memory
of John C. Brcckinridge with sous of the
Vice President from those States. Mary
land and West Virginia send two mem
bers of the Gibson family, Illinois and
Ohio each a Republican Henderson.
while North Carolina sends a Democrat
of that name. The Jones family is limited
to one from Alabama and one from Texas.
There is q st. Martin from Louisiana and
a Mr.. Martin from Alabama. Mr.. John
son. of New York, Republican, will have
Mr.. johnson, of Indiana, and MIR. john
son, of North Carolina, for companions
on the roll. The House will have two
democratic Wards-one from Illinois.
the other from Indiana. Mr.. Stone, of
Massachusetts; Mr.. Stone, of Kentucky,
and MIR. Stone, of Missouri, the last two
Democrats, have the hardest name of any
of the members of the Forty ninth Con-
gress. $3.50.
MIR. Warner, of Ohio, comes with his
silver bill, and a democratic Warner he
is against Mr.. Warner, O new member
from Missouri, who does not agree with
his Ohio namesake in politics or on the
silver question. Mr.. Green, of Moth
Carolina, has a companion from New
Jer.ey of that name, and Mr.. Reed, of
Maine, will not want his name and vote
COMPOUNDED with that of the Democrat
from North Carolina, who spells his
name Reid. Mr.. O'Neill, from Philadel-
phia, Isl Republican. The other O'Neill
is from St. Louis and a Democrat. Be.
tween Mr.. Thomas Of Illinois and Mr..
Thomas of Wisconsin there need be no
doubt as to their political views, for both
are republicans. MIR. Willard of New
York and MI. Miller of Texas, are of OPP
posite politics, the latter q Democrat.
Iowa and Nebraska furnisht two Weavcrs.
Of the 315 members only one will be
Heard in the present Congress, and that
is John T., from Missouri.-Ne~ York
Herald.
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Colonel Mapleson, the famous operate
manager, closed the Italian opera season
here this year several weeks before it
was supposed he would. The colonel
has been in this business for thirty-tive
years, and has managed all the principal
singers during that time at one time or
another, and has had perhaps as many
rows with divine prima donnas from
Patti down, as any one man is entitled
to. The German opera at the Metro
politan opera house has left Italian opera
in the shade this season, however, and
consequently the colonel bids farewell to
New York this time with sadness and no
great expectations for the future unless
the %millionaires again take an interest in
the revival of this style of opera. If bus
mess gets so dull that Colonel Mapleson
has nothing else to do, he might write a
book descriptive of operate life behind
the scenes, as experienced by himself.
Written with reference to facts, such a
book would find a ready sale among
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for the past ten years, together with Mr..
Morosini and George Gould, Jay Gould's
Son. It is claimed that Gould put in
$3.50, 900, Conner and Morosini $lC0, 600
each, and that George Gould was admitted
in 1881 without paying a cent. Giovanni
Morosini, it is also stated, will retire from
Tire firm upon the expiration of the pres.
ent partnership. Nobody knows def
nately how much Jay Gould will retire
with, but his wealth is placed at from
forty to sixty millions. Everybody
thought Gould was close to the
wall during the few days following
the Grant 4 Ward failure, and his ruin
was predicted by many on the street.
He was in fact badly pinchcd, and
brought out security after security from
safe deposit vaults to help him out.
The bears smote him heavily on the
right cheek then, but just as they thought
he intended turning the left check also
and taking his loss calmly, he sprung a
mine in Missouri Pacific IN the ovcrsold
market, rushed it up from s%ixty-fve
cents to par, ruined several operators
who had been working for his fall, and
squeezed others numerically, coming
out of the whole deal ahead instead Of
ruin. Nearly every broker will rejoice
to see him leave the street, since most of
them have discovered by experience that
the old colored man had him specially in
mind when he said that the ''white man
was mighty unsartln." Gould has been
on Wall street since 1863. and has been
such a conundrum during the last twenty.
two years that all who tried to solve him
gave it up in disgust. At various times
almost every operator OF the street has
had a tilt with him, and sooner or later
reached the inevitable conclusion
that he was too sharp for them,
and the ones who reached this
soonest, lost the least money. The only
thing which Gould went into that he
failed to get out OF at par was the daily
newspaper business. After putting
several hundred thousand dollars into it,
buying several new presses, and sinking
considerable money in editorial talent,
he was very glad to get out of it alive,
it is said, and stick to railroads and
Western Union.
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of 5000. 900 in government bonds some
eighteen months ago. Although TO date
no will has come to light, it is claimed
that one was written by a lawyer of this
CITY giving the bulk of her property to
the reverend gentleman, although this is
not believed by the heirs, as the will
has not been produced. The property
has dwindled so materially that q pretty
FIGHT is looked for to account for the
missing millions, since it appears that
even if her investments in paintings, etc.,
are accepted at the value paid Tor them,
there still remain some two or three
millions u~naccountcd for. The clergy
man refuses to state anything about the
matter for the benefit of the public, and
lives in ease and contentment within
his elegant home, letting the heirs ana
attorneys do all the worrying. With two
sets of lawyers hammering away at the
great estate, one trying to prove that
Mr.. Morgan was unduly influenced, ana
the other ~cndcavoring to show that Mrs.
Morgan also labored under this exclu-
sively wealthy peoples complaint, the
end of a large fortune cannot be deli
nitely forcscen as reaching the heirs to
anv extent. Some think that Mrs:
Morgan was carrying out an idea OF
avoiding lawsuits among the heirs after
her death by disposing of most OF the
property as she pleased while living: and
leaving but little to fight over. AS it IS,
here seems to be about three millions
left of her estate, taking her investments
in art, china, etc., at the amounts pald
for them. AS much of it is not worth
half what it cost, however, it is difficult
to say what will really be realized from
it, and the sale Of the paintings it IS
hoped will bring a much better proper
Tomato sum than did the sale Of the or
chids, some Of the paintings costing as
high as $4,000 each. The complete
failure of Mr.. Morgan's idea of avoiding
lawsuits over his wealth is only one more
evidence that some way ought to be
provided whereby wealthy people can
die happy in the consciousnessth that what
they leave will reach those to whom
they leave it without a struggle at law:
Once again it is definitely reported
that Jay Gould is about to retire from
Wall street, at the expiration of bis part
nership with the firm of w. E. Conner u
Co. The report is sustained by MIR.
Connor, who has been Gould's partner
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Help Upwards.

shall never forget the feelings I
had once when climbing n Of the
pyramids of Egypt. When half way
up, my strength falling, l feared /
should never be able to reach the sum-
nit or get back again. 1 we'll remem-
Der the help given, by Arab hands,
drawing me on farther; and the step
could not quite make myself, because
too great for my wearied frame, the
little help given me-sometimes more
and sometimes less-enabled me to 20
up, step by step, step by step, until at
last l reached the top, and breathed
the pure air, and had Il grand lookout
from that lofty height. And SO, in
life's journey, we are climbing. We
are feeble. Every one of US, now and
then, needs a little help; and, if we
have risen a step higher than some
other, let us reach down for our BROTH
er's hand, and help him to stand be-
side us. And thus, joined hand in
hand, we shall 60 on conquering, step
by step, until the glorious eminence
shall be gained. All! how many need
help in this world-poor afflicted ones;
poor sorrowing ones; poor tempted
ones, who have been overcome, who
have been struggling, not quite able to
get up the step; trying, fall
ing; trying, failing; trying, de-
spending; trying, almost despair
ing! Oh, give such a n hs!p, a little
kindly aid, and the step may be taken,
and another step may then be taken;
and, instead Of dying in w~retchedness
at the base, he may, by a brothers
hand, be raised to safety, and finally
to glory! Your mission is to he Christ
to such, to take such by the hand;
"for, to you, to live is Christ" Bishop
Simpson.
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Temperance Notes.

According to the British Medical Jour-
nal, the king Of the Belgians is a "ne-
phalist," or te%etotaler.
Chinese firemen are now employed, it
is stated, on all the Glen line of steamers
trading between London and China. The
engineers, it is added, were averse to
employing Asiatics, but were compelled
to do so on account of the unreliability,
through drink, of the British fremen.
The late General Mcclellan gave his
testimony of total abstinence, from a
military standpoint, as follows: "Would
all the officers unite in setting the SOL
diers an example of total abstinence
from intoxicating drinks, it would be
equal to an addition of $4,000 lien to
the armies of the United States"
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Among other things which it is said
she gave away may be mentioned a
regular gift of $50, 900 per year to her
business agent, beside his ordinary COM
missions. Becoming a patron OF re-
markably high art, she invested 81, 1885,.
900 in paintings, also $500, 900 in etch-
,ings, and over $500, 900 in decorated
pilates, paving as much as $1,000 for a
dozen dinner plates. Then she
bought over q quarter of q mil
Elion of dollars worth of orchids, which
lwere recently sold at about ten per cent.
iof their cost, to people who hadn't as
Imuch idea of these plants as Mrs.
Morgan. She paid SIS, 900 for decorat-
ling her second floor front room. SILL
900 for frescoing her parlor, and SAL
1000 for the wood paneling OF her hall
way. Then she spent over a million
land a half with a single jewelers. firm ! IN
lsix years for trinkets, and how much
more went in various ways is not known
ITO date. But the most remarkable thing,
and one which the heirs are raising
trouble over, is the way in
(which they claim a certain min
lister of this city proited by his &C.
acquaintance with the widow, ami her gen.
erosity. This gentleman at one time was
the pastor of a small church in this city,
and although not of the same faith as
Mrs. Morgan, he being a Presbyterian
and she an E%piscopalian, he had the good
fortune to preach the funeral m of
her husband, and then became acauaint-
led with Mrs. NJ. The attorneys for the
administrator claim that by his subse-
Equent acquaintance he proited very ma
tteriatly, giving much spiritual advice in
Exchange therefor. They say that his
Epresent abode on Thirty.fourth street
was presented to him by Mrs. Morgan at
"a cost of s97, OOO-s52, 600 for the prop
erty and s45, 900 for the furniture-that
she supplied him with the money
ito live upon in this elegant home,
and that she at various times gave him
gifts of money, the largest being a gift
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When Mr.. Morgan died he called his
relatives around his bedside and gave
&hem sum ranging from $500, 600 to
5000, 600 each in cash, trusting that this
method would prevent any s%quahble over
his millions after death, of which be had
q great dread, and then, leaving a will
which simply prescribed that all his
property should be divided among his
heirs-at-law according to the laws OF
New York, he passed quietly away,
trusting that the usual fight would be
avoided, and that he had outwitted the
legal fraternity for once and thus pre-.
vented a fair divide with the lawyers OF
his hard-earncd money.
But he reckoned without his host, and
had scarcely time for a safe passage
across the stormy Styx before the bat
teries of the law were brought to bear
against the bulwarks of his wealth, and
the law came in for it's inevitable share
of the inheritance. Several Of the heirs
who hadn't been present when the gifts
were being distributed, sued for a rever-
sion Of them back to the estate, claiming
that undue Influences were at work or
Mr.. Morgan would not have adopted this
extraordinary course of leave-taking and
,gift-making, and the matter has been in
court ever Since, and there isn't much
probability that it will ever get cut in
this generation unless the estate gives
out. His widow, Mrs. Mary Jane Nor
gan, raised fund of over a million, about
81, 200, 600, from the fortunate ones who
received the cash gifts, which was to he
used in fighting the unfortunate ones
who didn't get any, and then, if the at
.torneys for another set of suits arising
from her death are to be believed, she
herself became the special subject for
undue influences, and proceeded to give
away a fortune of several millions with
as little conjunction as ordinary mortals
give pennies to poor beggers.
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From Beer to Whi.ry.

Switzerland has been ''encour aging"
the drinking of light wines and beer
among her people until it has begot a
thirst and created an appetite which
will not be quenched, and as a natural
and inevitable consequence all kinds Of
liquors are drank and drunkenness
everywhere abounds. The federal coun
Gil have felt called. upon to frame more
stringent laws against ''whisky," but
still leaving beer and wine to kindle the
fires and keep them burning. 100000
people consume so, 600, 900 gallons Of
wine and 100, 600, 900 quarts of beer,
and in addition to this a large and in
creasing amount of whisky. Beer is the
most dangerous beverage, for it leads
the innocent and nnsuspecting on to
danger and destruction. -Nationa! Tenn
perance Aar0eate.
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those of his devoted wife, are not. Mrs.
Hendricks travelled with her husband
through all the holly contested
campaign of last year which
elected him to the vice. presidency, and
she is reported as having the politics OF
the country at her finger ends through
her intercourse with various politicians
at Washington and elsewhere. Between
herself and her husband the warmest at
tachment is said to have existed, but all
who knew them both personally: and
she made his home life so thoroughly
en- ;oyable that he was 10th to leave it for
the gaities of Washington during his
residence there in his various official
capacities. 1t is said that he was so de-
voted TO her that on the last visit they
made 20 Chicago, a short time before his
death, he accompanied her upon her
shopping expeditions to the various
stores.
The celebrated dynamite gun, with its
sixty-foot barrclhas just been tried at Fort
Lafayette, in New York harbor, and
threw a dynamite shell containing 100
pounds of this explosive two miles down
the bay. When it struck the water it
exploded, and a column of spray rose
$50 feet high, while dead fish rose to
the surface all around within a radius of
100 feet from where the shell struck.
One shell containing fifty pounds of dy-
Mantle exploded at the bottom of the
bay, eighty feet below the surface, few
bubbles announcing the fact, while
another containing the same amount
failed to explode, and will be hunted for
by some daring diver who is willing to
risk handling it at the bottom of the bay.
Altogether the gun is considered sue
cess, and representatives of Turkey,
China, and other people who went to see
it, are reported as convinced that dynam-
ite will become a powerful agency IN
naval warfare of the future.
There yet remains about ten thousand
dollars to be raised for the completion
of the model of the Bartholdi statue of
liberty, which is to be presented to the
CITY of Paris by Americans, in return for
the statue of liberty sent here. 1t will
cost about twenty thousand dollars, and
half of it has already been raised. 1t is
proposed to raise the rest by popular
subscription in this country.
1t is said that Jay Gould's income
when he leaves Wall street will be two
million dollars per annum. His most
intimate friends think this will keep the
wolf from the door, without getting up
any charity fairs in his behalf.
SPIRTO GENTIL.
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The Apostles Rule.

An honest Christian reserves his
strictest judgment for himself. Self
love will suggest excuses, and even
tempt a man to ignore his own faults,
or at all events to change their names;
but a supreme love of righteousness,
such as ought to possess the Christian
mind, keeps conscience at work. and
e%njoins self Judgment and self-cor-
rection.
Then, as to the comparative serious
ness of faults, there is a strong ten.
dency to regard ones own misconduct
with leniency, though melting out a
hard censure to similar delinquency
in others. Ours is the mote or
chip and our neighbours is the
beam. But when the Spirit
of Christ enters into is all this is
changed. Ours is the beam; u ini-
guilty is great; u fault is heinous.
We know what checks and warnings
we have had to keep us from it, what
remonstrances of conscience, and what
impulses and examples to counterfeit
the evil temptation. And yet We are
at fault. Nay, we have persisted in
what we know to be wrong till it has
acquired the force of a habit, neutral
izing good, and uniting us to
exert a healthy moral and re-.
ligious influence on others. The beam
is in OR own eye. 1t is u neigh
Dor who has the mote or chip. So
at least it should appear to us in the
judgment OF charity. By this it is not
at all meant that we are to make light
Of evil, or out Of good nature to affect
not to see what is censurable. 1t is
not charity, but a morbid feebleness of
the moral nature, which cannot bear
to condemn anything but strictness,
and glibly excuses or lightly tolerates
conduct that is vicious or dishonest.
Nothing in our Lords teachings may
or can be construed into a sanction Of
that species Of leniency which makes
all its allowance on the dangerous
side. On the contrary, it is required
by our loyalty to Him and to the best
interests Of society that we endeavor
to maintain ourselves and pro.
mote in others a moral tone that is
brisk and vigorous, honoring the
virtues Of truth, justice and purity,
and re%probating the opposite. But
there is no reason why this tone Of
rigorous discrimination between good
and evil should not be combined with
a gentle and charitable judgment Of
the character and motives of our
~neighbors and fellow Christians.
"IIave fervent charity among your
selves, for charity covereth a multi
tude of SINS" Such was the rule OF
the early Christians, and it is as much
in force as ever.-Rev. Dr. Donald
Fraser, London.
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lovers of music who hope to reach tho
attitudes of high opera-there are about
5000 in this city-and also among u
curious public who would like to know
if opera singers really do drink sweet oil
to give their voices m%ellowness. eat moth
ing for four hours before the performance
begins, stuff cotton in their mouths to
keep the cold out when going to their
carriages, and hate each otheras cordially
as it is generally reported they do to the
outside world.
The features of the late Thomas A..
Hendricks, Nicc-P President of the nation,
are we'll known to the country, but
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Whisky Chained the Picture

The other day We noticed him as he
came across the bridge, with his wagon
full Of cotton, and chickens, and eggs.
He found a ready market tor his pro-
duce, and we thought how happy his
little ones would be when he returned
home in the evening with toys, and
dresses, and shoes, and food for the
morrow, and some clear money in his
purse. We thought we could see his
wife standing in the doorway to give
him a cordial greeting on his return, so
desirous were we that he should make one
contented and happy. We could almost
see his cheerful face as he returned to
his family after u days absence. So we
thought and returned to our work. + Is
But eventide came, and he passed by our
window again. He had nothing that
we thought he would have. The bed of
his wagon was bare. No little shoes,
nor TOYS. nor dresses, nor food for the
morrow, nor money in his purse, we dare
say. The poor man was drunk. He had
changed, or whisky had changed him.
This changed our thoughts of his home.
We could see the children shrinking
from his approach, and the wife so care.
worn and sorrowful. She could not
meet him with the pleasant smile with
which she had hoped to greet him. He
was breaking her heart and preparing to
make paupers of his children. -Alabama
R1Dtist.