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The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
: Affairs of the Navy Department..

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-Secretary Whitney
has appointed board of officers composed of
Commander B. 81. McCalla, Lieutenant Com
mander Charles J. Train and Lieutenant B. II.
Buckingham, u S. N. to convene at the Navy
Department on the 9th inst, for the purpose of
considering and reporting upon the general sys-
tenn of the administration OF the business of the
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The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
Inefficiency in the Land Office.
ecial to the Indianapolis Journal.


WASHINGTON, Aug "A great deal of COM
plant is heard here now about the condition of
the work in the General Land Office 1t seems
that Sparks, the new commissioner, is not equal
to the demands of the Office, and things are get
ting all mixed up. A few years ago there were
only eight persons employed in the mineral di-
vision of the Office, and eighty patents were is
sued month, Later the force was increased,
and before McFarand retired two hundred
patents were issued every month. Today it is
said. there are four times as many clerks en-
ployed and only ten or fifteen patents issued
month.
Sparks displayed very mild order of ability
during his career in Congress, and is showing
a less degree of tiff possible-in the position
whee he is He is pompous, and not industri
Gus, and lacks that sagacty required to make a
good commissioner
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
The Michigan Strikers.

EAST SAGINAW, Mich. Aug 2.-The strike of
lumber mill employees still continues and no one
can tell anything about its termination. Some
of the savers and engineers stated that they
would accept reduction of per cent. in wages
of all earning more than ST. 30 per day, but there
is no probability that the mill owners will enter
tain the proposition moment, and the whole
matter has become question Of endurance
Some of the mills will in no event start before
Sept !.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
Steamship News.

PLYMOUTH, Aug. 2-Arrived: The Lessing,
from New York, for Hamburg.
FATHER POINT, Que, Aug. 2.-Arrived, Ore
gon and Lake Winnipeg, from Liverpool
NEW YORK, Aug. 2--Arrived: The Crescent
City from Aspinwall; Servia, from LIVERPOOL
Normandie. from Hayre.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug 2.-The Lord Cough,
from Philadelphia, arrived and sailed at noon for
Liverpool. Sailed: The Wyoming and Gallia,
for New York
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
Thinks She Can Fill the Bill.

washington Special.
Another funny application has come to the
Postmaster generals Office. 1t is that of q
Michigan widow for a small postofice in that
State. She candidly says that she is forty three
years Of age, and confesses that she has not the
usual requisite of female occupants of postoices.
She invites the Postmaster general to ask every
body in her town about her, from the three min
listers in the place, the saloonkeepers and all of
the other inhabitants down to the sexton of the
graveyard AS to her personal appearance, she
will not speak, modesty forbddrg but she
would be satisfied with the verdict of any one
VINO has seen her. In other words, she is of the
opinion that she is qualified to be postmaster.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
The Virginia Bourbons Preparing to
Sound 1t in the Coming Campaign.
A Talk with Major Stein About the Part
Taken by Indiana Soldiers in the
Battle of Gettysburg.
Commissioner Sparks Charged with a
Violation Of the Ciyil-Seryice Law.

Secretary Whitney Summons a Commission
of Naval Officers to Consult and Advise
About the Affairs of His Department.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
The Search for Offensive Partisans.


q WAsHINGT ON, Aug. 2-The Jefferson Club
here is making itself quite busy sending out cir
culars, asking Democratic county central COM
mittees and clubs of all descriptions in that party
to furnish proof of offensive partisanship"
against Republicans in Office. Several hundred
clerks in the departments are resting under
charges preferred by this organization, and
quite a number have already been removed on
charges preferred by the Jefferson Club.
Your correspondent was informed to-day by
the president of the Jefferson club that its work
had been indorsed by President Cleveland; also,
by all members of his Cabinet who have been
asked about it. The facts are furnished from
the neighborhood where officers lived, and come
in the form of atfidavits proving extreme Repub-
licanism. The club has not done much in
Indiana so far, having filed charges against only
two Republicans-A. W. baltimore and J. Smith.
Indiana is promised attention. however
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
Improvement of California Rivers.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-Captain 2. Payson, corps
of engineers. has submitted his annual report on
the improvement of rivers and harbors under
his charge in California. to General Newton,
Chief of Engineers. The work on the Sacramento
and Feather rivers during the past fiscal year
has consisted of snagging operations, and has
cost 500 525 ard 1920, 5l1 remains available. The
river has been greatly improved, but much
trouble is apprehended for the present fiscal
year account of lack of snow in the last
winter Forty thousand dollars is asked for
next fiscal year.
For the improvement of San Joaquin river
$50, 443 was expended during the past fiscal year;
1913 remains available and $2S, 900 is asked for
the next fiscal year.
For the improvement of Humboldt bay and
harbor, 81, 958 was expended; S., 541 remains
available, and S., 600 is required for next year.
For the improvement of Mokelunna river,
$4,958 was expended during the past fiscal
year, So, ,54l remains available, and $5, 900 is
asked for next year.
For the improvement of Colorado river, in
Nevada, California and Arizona, $15, TAG has been
expended during the past fiscal year, SO, 25S
remains available, and nothing is asked for the
next fiscal year.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
Commissioner SPARKS To BE Investigated.

Special to the indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-It is whispered about
the corridors of the Interior Department that
Commissioner Sparks, of the Land Office, is to
be the next man to be investigated by the Civil
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
WHEN
FINANCIAL.

% WALL STREET,
NEW YORK. July 25. 1885.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21
THE SWISS GUARD.
Description of the Soldiers Who Guard
the Vatican.


Description of the Soldiers Who Guard
the Vatican.
The Pope has his own soldiers, who
are not very many, and who generally
act as guards to the various parts of the
Vatican. Behind the bronze doors,
which are enormous barred gates, we
saw some of these soldiers, one of
whom will ask us for our YcrDoSSos or
permits. l am sure you never behold
military gentlemen like them before.
They are called the Swiss Guard, and
are dressed in a uniform of flowing
tunic and brcechCs formed of broad
perpendicular stripes of black, red and
yellow, long stockings striped in black
and yellow; and on state occasions they
wear brass helmets with heavy white
plumes, and carry haIberds, or pixies
with ax-heads at the ends. The officers
dress, of the same design. is of bright
silk, and they make a dazzling appear
ance. These men appear as if they be-
longed to the Middle Ages and had
nothing to do with our modern times;
and they very properly seem so, for
their uniform was designed by Michael
Angelo, not long after the discovery of
America, and their costume has never
been changed. 1t used to be the custom
of many of the pOtentates Of Europe to
have personal guards composed of
Swiss soldiers. rs they were cons dcred
more honest and Trustworthy than any
others. In Walter SCOTS "Quentin
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21
THE PATIENT OK.

80 Sammy fuckers" Experience with
Yoke of Steers-A Log Hauling Expedi-
tion Which Speaks for Itselt-Fun in the
Woods.
have never before written an article for
publication, but will attempt to give my
experience as briefly as possible. l have
lived on a farm all my life and have
worked all sorts of horses and mules, but
not long ago tried a yoke of cattle. Yes,
just tried them one day, and if | know
myself | will never try it again. A mule
can kick the life out of fellow in three
seconds, and Il bronco can buck you higher
than treetop and be half mile from the
spot when you come down; but that is a
quick, easy death beside being killed by
degrees. When mule or bronco takes a
notion to sIdy his victim he does it out
right But the OK will drag you through
the thick brush all day by one leg, or
knock you down and drag a siXteen-foOt
saw-log across both legs, and then stand
there three days and nights without food
and water, until he is sure his victim is
dead.
Some people may think l speak a little
hard of those faithful, Obedient animals, as
they are sometimes called, but / speak from
experience. Oh, how L hate them But
will now try to explain to you how l ever
attempted to work yoke of oxen.
You see Uncle Bill Loveheart, that is
who l live with, alers wants me to be at
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21
JAPANESE ETIQUETTE.


Why the Gentleman from the Orient
Paid Such a Protracted Visit.
The differences of national interpre-
tatiOn of etiquette are comically illus.
trated in little story told by a lady IN
Washington society. A japanese gen.
tleman called on her one day just before
luncheon. As it was a first and. pre-
sumably, ceremonious call, she naturally
expected it would be brief. TO her
surprise, he accepted her invitation to
lunch, and, that domestic rite over, he
still staid. The hours wore on, and he
did not 90. The lady was wearied be-
yOnd endurance. Dinner time came.
The lady's husband returned and still
the gentleman from Japan staid on.
He was, as matter of necessity, in
vited to dinner. Finally the gentleman
of the house relieved his wife for a time
in entertaining this apparently station
airy visitor, but, as the evening wore on,
be became so tired and sleepy that he
retired to his own apartment, and the
hostess again screwed her courage to
the sticking point and resumed the en-
tertainment of the guest. At last about
midnight, the japanese, with the most
elaborate and abject apologies to tho
lady for leaving her, took his departure.
But the comedy reached its denouement
the next day. when a friend, in whom
the extraordinary guest had coniided,
informed the hostess that he said he
never had such an ordeal before in his
life; that he was so tired and he thought
the lady would never let him 90, and
finally he was obliged to leave her with
out her permission. Then the hostess
learned that in japanese etiquette the
lady receiving a gentleman gives him
the signal for his departure, and it IS
very rude in their code to leave her till
she does this.-BoSion Traveller.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21

kind gossipers, what may we expect
from the electric cooker? Dyspepsia
will be thing of the past We will
have fewer hollow chests and Saratoga
franks Tor men will be honest. %. A
good healthy appetite will make the
lazy. work. The lawyer will retire
earlier from the bar when bitters are no
longer necessary. All men will laugh
and grow fat and the earth will smile
with plenty. This machine will open
oysters shell peanuts and frost cakes.
1t VIII poach an egg, stir up buckwheat
cakes and peel an orange. Large sizes
for schools and boarding-houses, two
hundred and fifty dollars. Small sizes
for families and old maids, one hundred
and nifty dollars. Full set of music
goes with each machine, and electricity
enough to last a month. Let me put
you down for one to be delivered within
three months and paid for in INSTALL
ments, The lecture is over and school
is out. " am bordering. Where will
science stop? There are some duties
Of hte which are pleasurable as well as
heslthful viii science supersede all?
Well, well.-ProteSSor GOuge, IN albany
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Recently we have been surprised
and shocked to see respectable ladies'
chewing gum in church. (Ga.J
Bulletin.
There are Is, 600 white and 90, 900
colored Baptists in Mississippi, and
about LOO pupils attending Baptist
schools and colleges.
The Eutaw Place Baptist Church,
of Baltimore. has standing resolution
that no person engaged in the manu-
facture or sale of intoxicating liquors,
Shall be eligible for or admitted into the
membership of their church. "-Balti-
more San.
The United States has eighty-seven
regular" medical schools. OF these,
thirty-nine have been opened within
fifteen years, and twenty-one within
five years. With them are associated
one thousand three hundred instructors
and over ten thousand students; they
turn ont abouJ three thousand new
doctors annually.-N Y. SIN.
The Southern Presbyterian is hard
on what it calls the popular preaching
of the day. 1t says that this is made
up largely of discussions of secular
themes, current events and topics of
general interest anything calculated
to amuse-and sometimes on a narrow
and almost imperceptible basis of Script
ure.-N Y. Times.
The trustees of Dakota University,
located at Mitchell, have resolved to
encourage the establishment and en-
dOWment of a memorial college or
cohna1 e Il -,
Grafton of the life of General Grant.
The new institution will be known as
the Grant Monumental College of
Science and Industrial Art.
Rev. T. Harwood Pattison, d. D.,
an eminent Baptist clergyman, who has
been taking notes in England, says that
the time has passed for ignoring the
Salvation Army. "For years it was
beng matured in quiet now it is cover
ing all England. if not all the world
with its machinery. 1t is certain that
the Army is power; it does reach the
hitherto unreached classes"
In Iceland women have votes as
well as voices in church affairs. The
custom has existed there for ages, and
is kept up by the Icelanders who have
| emigrated to this country and settled in
Dakota. There are in Dakota Mon
tana and Manitoba nearly dozen Ice
landic congregations These recently
met in convention at Mountain, d. T.,
and adopted synodical constitution
| CbicGgO Inter Ocedn
"A little Baptist church in Missouri
sets its bigger brothers an example in
missionary liberality. Though few in
numbers as to membership and by no
means distinguished for the wealth of
its members, this church has pledged
itself to support native preacher
among the Telugus in India. 1t has
services only on alternate Sundays. At
each service two collections are taken
up-one for its own pastor and one for
| the Telugu mann 7. Times.
The dictionary of the French
Academy, upon which that august body
expends its most serious energies has
been of slow growth-a matter of two
centuries, in fact. 1t first appeared in
1894 in two volumes, folio. Frequent
revisions have taken place, the earliest
of which was begun in 100 and pub
lished in 171S;S the seventh and latest is
now in -progress. the--irst- --.-.sr
| having seen the light in 1888.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21

l raised my head and looked to see where
we were going. The cattle was just reach
ing an opening in the woods, the opening
proved to be a clearing made by some one,
and now began to think how much easyer
it would be dragging over cleared ground
than through the thick Brush. But | soon
found out different The ground had been
lately cleared by some scamp, who had cut
every stub about three inches high. l had
not went more than half way across the
clearing when some one yelled out: "HeaT,
what is the matter over their?' and the
next instant an old man came running
across the woods making the brush crack.
After releazing my foot the old man tied
my bleeding remains up in an old table
cloth and carried me to his house where
medical aid was summoned l relate this
story as one of the narrowest risks of my
life. But the most singular thing about
this story is that the cattle has never been
seen since, and now old Bob white wants
me to work for him one year to pay for the
stearS. You see when that old man re-
leased my foot from the hantle he just left
the cattle 90 where they pleased. | told
the old man white where l thought they
were going. Sammy Tucker" IN Pcck5s
Sum-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21
THE EXPEDITIONS MULE.

work at something, he says idol hands finds
mischief. So the other morning he gave me
my choice to cut out fence corners, or haul
logs for the old man white, of corSe | chose
the latter as it would be much easyeT work
handling logs with yoke Of slow, lazy cat
tie than cutting out fence corners with a
big old dull heavy brush cythe while the
mercury was one hundred degrees above
zero. Old Bob White gave me Big yoke
of red cattle to work, and | don't believe
they was ever yOked up Before, or at any
rate they didn't act like it, The timber
from which l was to haul the logs was
situated about half a mile from the saw
mill and it took me a good three hours to
drive from the mill to the timber. L got
their at last though, and finding nice open
spot | left my wagon and proceeded
to snake the logs out of the
braish with the cattle l found small
cotton wood log and after some lively
whipping | managed to get close enough to
tie one end of large rope around the little
end of the log. had 70 chain and [ was
compelled to tie the rope in a running moose.
By this time the cattle was getting their
Blood up and so was l. The Mercury
stood at a hundred and / stood at one hun
dred and fifty. ! started them up and
they went Of the opposite direction from
where l had left my wagon. In trying
to turn them the rope slipped off, and
forgetting myself, | grabbed at the rope,
and in so doing | STEPPED my foot right in
the running moose. | had on pair of stiff,
StOgy Boots and the rope drew so tight
around my ANGLE that it almost stopped the
Blood from circulating. | was thrown fiat
on my Back quicker than one could count
three, and away they went overlogs, Brush,
StumDS and some of the worst RriprS that
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21
HE Fixed HIM.
How Shrewd Husband Removed a Tramp
from His Premises.

How a shrewd Husband Removed a Tramp
from His Premises.
"Who's that at the kitchen door?' asked
Mr.. Jollikin of his young wife, last Sunday,
just after breakfast.
w It's tramp, and I'm bothered to death
with Them" she replied, as she got up to 60
after the visitor.
"Wait a minute, my DEAR" said her hus-
band, 'Tu fix him so he won't trouble
you any more"
That's a darling husband" she said,
lovingly. "You are always ready to help
me and to say pleasant things to me"
He kissed her and went out and in five
minutes he returned.
Well" Queried his wife, did you fix
him@'
Eyes; l gave him something to eat"
'Why, you shouldn't have done that.
He'll be sure to come right back and worry
me more than ever" she said, petulantly.
"Oh, no he won't, love. L gave him a
pocketful of those biscuits you made for
breakfast. Merchant Traveller.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21
A BOSTON LYRIC.

When the winter morn is breaking over land
scapeS white with snow
And the cold has sent the mercury down to
ten or twelve below;
When the boarders, shivering, rise from bed
and quickly don their clothes
And hurry 10 the parlor stove to thaw their
freezing toes;
When people who must be Mt work by seven
o clock or so
With gloved hands shield their ears as through
the icy streets they go;
When the cans of milk are frozen that are
standing at the door,
And everybody says it never was so cold be-
fore
Then the fair and gentle maiden from her
slumbCr sound awukcs,
But no attempt to leave the couch-so snug
and warm-she makes.
She feels she 5 not quite rested. All day yes
terday She shOpped,
And skated at the rink last night until she
nearly dropped.
At I'll take another nap" she says the beauti-
ful young lady.
~ And meantime ma will light the fire and get
the breakfast ready"
Boston Courier
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21

Talk about your Kansas corn" said a
short-necked bull-dozer on Change the
other day; it's nothing to some my fathet
raised one time when was a little boy.
That was corn, and no mistake about it,
TEL us about it, said a man with q
sandy goatee, to whom the remark had ap,
parenty been addressed.
Where the Old man got the seed,
don't just know, but 1 remember he only
had few grains of it; enough for a hill OF
two He planted it in the garden, and
drove a stake in the ground alongside of the
hill, so he would know where to look for it.
Well sir, | never saw corn grow like that
did. 1t seemed to fairly jump along, and
never knew anything to yield like it before
or since. Every stalk had five big ears on
it, and there was three good-sized nubbins
on the stake, and it wasn't very good
season for corn either "-ChicagO Ledger
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.


Where all the children are perfect
little lambs" there is danger of there
heads"
You never saw my hands as dirty
as yours" said a mother to her little
girl. NO. but your ma didn was the
prompt reply,
There are twenty-five different
causes for headache, and late suppers
are twenty-one of them. The other
one is 4 big dinner.-DGnsrjHe Breeze.
Indication of the approach of sum-
mer: Rise of the thermometer Indi-
cation of the approach of winter Rise
in the price of coal. boston Courier.
Scientists claim that smoking in
jures the eye-sight. But this is not
true. The boy with stump in his
mouth can see his father ten streets
away..-N ]. Herald.
1t was always maintained that
Jumbo had more sense than any other
elephant, and the autopsy demonstrated
the fact. About sixty coppers were
found in his stomach.
A boy in KNOXVILLE, o., died of eat
ing six watermelons. When q boy is
weak and sckly, and has lost his APP
petite it is not safe to permit him to
associate with a crowd of watermelons.
-NOrriSiO1rR Hcrdld.
In some respects a man resembles
q silver coin. He can do more good by
being good than by appearing good
when he is not good. This thought was
engendered by receiving a leaden dime
in change. -HunLsrHe (Ala.) Mercury.
The English language consists of
about So 600 words. yet when a man is
putting on a tight boot or waiting for
his wife to dress for church he nearly
ALWAYS inVents few extra words to eX-
press his feelings. Phii0delphia CaH
--"Why are you making such fuss
over what the gossips are spreading
about you? l have heard you say a
hundred times that you didn't
care what people thought of you.'
True but | do care what they say
about me- 80. that's an entirely dif-
ferent thing u Boston transcript.
Here" said the farmer, as he
exhibited a broken jar to the manufact-
urer,' packed this jar full of butter,
and the jar split from top to bottom.
Perhaps you can explain the phe-
nomenon.' 80, yes, | can, was the
ready reply; 1.-THE butter was stronger
than the jar. ~ ). Lcdgcr.
MY love" said a wife tondly;
lam | not to have that beautiful DIRE s
pattern | spoke of ?' BE patient, my
lear" he replied; 81 will only say there
IS a surprise in store for YOU" in
l. tt4l.
where it will stay. \ real surprise
would be something for me at home
-Bingh41HioH Republican.
Pressing autumn leaves
"You are the autumn leaf said he,
"Aud my arms are the book, YOU know;
Now place iho leaf i'm the book, you see,
And trudcrly press it, so.'
The maid looked up with glance demure,
And bushes hCr fair checks wore,
As She softly whispered; THE l0af I'm
sure,
| Needs pressing a little more