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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL.

The issue of the Sunday Journal to morrow will
be of general as well as special interest. 1t will
contain comprehensive account of the cere-
monies attendant upon the dedication of the
Washington monument embracing special and
regular reports. and something of the orations
OF Robert G. Winthrop and Major John W.
Daniel The general news of the day from all
parts of the world will be fully presented, with
Washington, New York, and other special dis
patches; number of extracts from Mark
Twan's new book, 1.-THE Adventures of Huckle-
berry FINN a collection of the best things
in the March magazines; a number of
special local features-one article on
the Kinks of the city; and the usual
weekly society, music, art and dramatic
reviews. The Sunday Journal is growing in
popularity. It's editions have lately been ex-
haisted at an early hour, and the demand stead
lily increases as the merits of the paper become
known. Every line of matter printed in the
Journal is fresh and new. No pilates" are
palmed off upon the public, and we expend more
money for news and miscellany for its columns
than is expended on all the other papers Of the
State combined. As the spring trade will soon
open. advertisers will find the columns of the
Sunday Journal the best method to reach the
buying public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21
THE MORMON CANCER.

Readers of Miss Kate Fields articles on
Mormonism, the last of which appears in to-
day issue of the Journal cannot have failed
to receive new impressions of this West
ern evil, however strongly they may have
been convinced of its enormity before. It is
not. indeed, that any sentiment exists outside
of Utah and the minds of a few scheming
politicians at all favorable to perpetuation
of the iniquty, very few citizens being will
ing to tolerate the doctrines Of the Saints
The trouble so far as the public is concerned,
is an apathy and Indifference, growing partly
out of ignorance and misrepresentation of the
extent and direction of the Mormon power
and influence. 1t is the belief of many that,
aside from their polygamous practices, the
followers of Brigham Young are upon the
same footing as any other religious Sect and
should be interfered with only SO far as this
offensive and immoral article of faith is con-
csrned. Compel them to give up polygamy
and then let them alone, is the conclusion
commonly arrived at, as if nothing were SO
simple and easy as to carry out this decidedly
comprehensive programme. 1t is altogether
probable that Mormonism would exist but a
brief time after the elimination of po-
lygamy; but in the maintenance Of
this so-called sacred right every power
and nerve of the church is exerted to
their utmost. until much more is involved than
the enforcement of single law. 1t is to the
setting forth Of the methods Of the church
ether than the distinctive one of plural mar
riages that Miss Field calls attention. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21
OTHER ACCIDENTS.
Five Trainmen Killed. and Large Quantity
of Mail Burned.


of Mail Burned.
To the Western Associated Press.
WAsHINGToS, Feb 90 The latest report from
the scene of the railroad accident at Four mile
makes it certain that five men were killed, all
train hands, All the passengers. seventy in
number, escaped serious injury. The safe of the
express car had been opened shortly before the
accident and the flames made such Roadway
that the express agent could not close it, and it's
contents were burned On account of the acct
dent the way-bills having been burned, it can
not be told just how much money was In the
safe. but the amount is variousy estimated all
the way from $4,000 to- $3.50, 900. About a
bushel of silver dollars were taken out of the
wreck, badly burned and many more were
melted into a solid chunk The loss to the rail-
road company is estimated at $50, 00O
Postal officials say the collision has caused the
largest loss Of mail matter of which there is any
record in the department. The fire which re-
suited from the collision destroyed thirteen
through registered mail pouches, coming from
New Orleans, Mobile, and other points in the
South, and destined for Washington, New York,
and other Eastern cities. These pouches are
known to have contained money and valuables,
The fire also destroyed 100 sacks of ordinary
mail matter, heavy miscellaneous mail, and $50
registered letters, taken up for delivery along
the line, and not inclosed in pouches. The or
binary mail lost is supposed to have come from
Louisiana Texas Mississippi, and other
Southern States 1t is impossible. as yet. to tell
where the blame for the disaster rests, as all
who could throw any light upon the matter are
dead, or so badly injured that the facts cannot
ha ascartainAd
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

MRS YsEULT DUDLEY's surprise over what
she regards as the excessive amount OF bail
required in her case-''as much" she says 'as
If | had shot reputable citizen"-is proof
that she does not grasp the great American le
gal truth that one man is as good as another.
If not better, so long as he keeps out of Jail
she gets out to engage room opposite his
Office, so she can keep an eye on him, he will
probably petition that the bail DO made $780,,
O0Q, instead of So. 000
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

facilities were limited. and To Keep his appointments
The fame of his craftsmanship spread over the district
and won him many votes from the hardy mountain
GERS.
IT is related Of Danvilles Ky.) late poet, William
Marvin that he used to say to his patient longsuer
ing wife: Charlotte. am going out. shall proba
bly, be absent two hours shall be drunk when re-
turn and if find you in the house shall fog you.
1t is probably in appreciation of this timely warning
that the ladies of his native town interesting
themselves in making up money to buy monument
to put over his grave. Few men are SO thoughtful
and considerable
1T was hoped that he papers of Wendell Phillips
would be left i'll such condition that valuable memoirs
of his life and times could he published but this is
doubtfu and there little prospect of any full
edition of Phillpss speeches and letters. The life of
Garrison, which his preparing is understood
to be so far advanced that portions of it will APP
pear in of the magazines. 1t will be an extensive
work, giving much of the antislavery history which
Mr. Garrison helped to make but did not live to write
out
OF Mr. Conant its missing editor, Harper's Weekly
says: "We cannot abandon the hope of further intel
Ggence. nor believe that shall see him no more.
Speculation is useless. There nothing in his do
nestle relations which of peffect confidence and
tenderness nor in his connection with this Office,
which was most agreeable and satisfactory, nor in
the blameIess conduct of his life which could ex-
plain the mental bewderment which has befalen
him and under which he has wandered away. We
can only watch and wait and hope.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

THE infamous robbery Of political rights
from majority of the people of the State
should not be permitted, if the exhaustion of
every possible means short of revolution will
prevent it. The reapportionment schemes
have been denounced by the fair-minded and
honorable members Of the Democratic party
as outrageous and indecent. What oblga-
ton, therefore, is there upon the Republican
members to quietly acquiesceR If red
shirted night riders were at work
before election, and guns and clubs were
in the hands of Democrats on the day of
election to suppress the Republican vote in
Indiana, there is no man anywhere, not a cow
ard by nature and poltroon by conduct who
would doubt or question the propriety of
bloodshed if necessary to meet such crime
against political equality. Under the forms
of law an INSCRIPTIONS majority which seeks
to compass the same result by means equally
as certain, the only difference being that the
process is more cowardly and less dangerous,
should be met with the sternest determine
ton, and by every fair means which parlia-
mentary practice and an indignant and
aroused manhood can suggest This
is not childs play. 1t is bold
and insolent attempt to introduce the
Mississippi plan into Indiana. 1t is as bastard
as anything the secession Legislature Of 1868
attempted-is as destructive Of political equal
ity and political right as anything then sug-
gested whereby Indiana could be made the
tail of the "soid South" The purpose is the
same now, and it is being engineered by the
representatives Of the same political hckspit-
ties. The Republicans of the Legislature are
not responsible for the State government or
the State administration. If the Democrats
insist that this fool job shall be completed be-
fore the necessities of the State are provided
for, the Republicans ought to fatty tell
them-we will unite with you In the per-
fecting and passing of all needed and proper
measures for the administration of the State
act of ours; but these measures must be passed
before your cowardly and infamous political
steals, and the responsibility for the possible
failure of important and indispensable meas
ures which you willfully imperil for purely
partisan reasons, must rest with you. We
believe tight and justice demand the utmost
firmness on the part of the Republicans, and
the people of the State will sustain them in
any means, less than revolution, to vindicate
their political rights aud equality.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21
Attempted wife Murder and suicide.

Boston. Feb. 20-George Oliver, aged thirty.
probably fatally stabbed his wife this morning
and then cut his own throat A young woman
living in the lower part Of the house, on Winter
street, hearing shrieks ran to divers apart
ments There she saw Oliver holding his wife
to the floor by the hair OF her head and savagely
plunging jack knife into her neck He then
went to the rear kitchen door and cut his own
throat from ear to ear. He fell down
an entire flight of stairs to the woodshed below,
where he was found by the officers Mrs. Oliver
was removed TO the hospital. She may recover.
Oliver has been out of employment for six
man, but given more or less to drink. He was
sober today when he committed tho doubis
crime The couple had been married twelve
years and had two sons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

THIS is said to be Gordons last message to
Wolseley: Il can hold on at Khartoum for
years, was preceded by the question: "What
are you coming fors / have not asked for
you" If this be true it is only another evil
dence of the fatuous misconception and under
estimate of the work they attempted in Egypt
by all the English, from the Prime Minister
down. including him who knew more of the
Soudan than any other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

ENGLAND at last must realize the magni-
tude of its undertaking to subdue the rebels
in the Soudan. At present it appears that the
fall of Khartoum is likely to be soon supple
mented by the defeat of General Butler with
what disastrous results may be imagined Nor
is it plain that Wolseley himself is out of dan
ger of being overwhelmed by the immense
body Of rebels now swarming down the Nile
from the region about Khartoum. The stu
alton is startlingly critical, and the most ener-
getic work is necessary to save the scattered
British forces from being annihilated, to say
nothing of the still more serious business.
There can, of course be but ono result
Of this war. in event England persists In its
prosecution. as it is to be presumed viii be
tho case; the sons of the desert viii have to
give way. But it is no child's play to over
come even barbarians; nor is it enough to send
Eainst them an unarmed or inadequateiy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

The New Jersey Legislature having heard
that preacher Talmage had. in one of his lect-
ures. charged that one of its members was q
profane swearer, grew highly indignant They
resolved and whereased, and considered the
propriety of proceeding against the Brooklyn
preacher in a SANDER suit, but suddenly subsidized
on learning that the lecture was delivered year
ago. Aside from the difficulty of discovering
who was slandered, no name having been men,
toned, it was the unanimous conclusion that
neither year old oath nor sermon would count
in court
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

REFERRING to two eminent Catholics, Fat..er
Bessonies and Bishop Chatard it 1.-THE Journal
fippantly dubs them ''Gus" Rc3sonies and
isle" Chatard.-Sentinel.
No, it was not done ''fippantly." At tho time
we used these niokna,nes, we apologized for
the necessity which compelled US to adopt for
the moment, the dissraceful pot-house style
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

ate will not allow the children of the public
schools to be taught the evil effects of stimu-
lants and narcotics in the human system
This is most pitiable and abject surrender of
all manhood and selfrespect to the liquor
league. 1t emphasizes how completely the
Dem ocratic party of Indiana is in the control
of the whisky power.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

AT last there is a prospect that New York will
secure Niagara Falls and the surrounding lands
and islands for State park. A commission
appointed last year has examined and appraised
the property and presented its report Claims
from individual owners of the territory amounted
to $4,000 900; the awards made, however, reach
ing only 81 400 000 1t remains now to convince
the Legislature of the material, moral and es-
thetic value of the proposed reservation, and to
persuade that body to make the desired appro
priation. AS the New York Legislature is more
amenable to reason than the Indiana Assembly,
it is thought that the end will be attained.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

REPRESENTATIVE B. WILSON SMITH shows
up tlse iniqnities Of the legislative reapportion-
meNs bill in few figures elsewhere given.
Mr.. Sayre, of Wabash, also gave the bill
vigorous thrust, in few words explaining his
vote. No such shameless and infamous
measure was ever known in Indiana politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

AN Albany dispatch says that Daniel Man
ming has accepted the definite tender of the
Treasury Department from Mr. Cleveland
The Eastern illustrated papers print portraits
of Mr.. Manning as Secretary of the Treasury.
which is suggestive of the public acceptance
of the ettssent rufnoY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

GUIzoT the great French historian. wrote:
Washington did the two greatest things
which, in politics, man can have the privi-
sege of attempting. He maintained, by peace,
that independence of his country which he
had acquired by war. He founded free gov
eminent, in the name of the principles Of
order, and by re-establishing their sway
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

NYM CRINKLE, next to Willie Winter the
greatest of dude dramatic critics, thus speaks of
the new play, Impulses" '"rhe tableaux move
in the wainscoted English hall with a dreamy
and voluptuous inevitabllity." 1t may also be
remarked that a ninety day note moves with a
dreamy and voluptuous inevitabilty that is very
discouraging to the indorser.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21
1.aborers Killed by a Train.

CHICAGO, Feb 2O.-At the stockyards, this
evening, gang of laborers on the Burlington
track stepped aside to avoid an incoming engine
The smoke, noise and darkness prevented them
seeing an outgoing Northwestern train Michael
Toomey and JAS Fleming were killed, and
Frank Smith, John Salick, Daniel ODay and an
unknown man badly injured
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

WHAT is said to be the largest frieze In the
world is now making in Boston, and will adorn
the Army and Navy Hall in Hartford, Conn. 1t
is to be eighty seven and a half feet in length,
and six feet nine inches in height. That's big
frieze but won't begin to compare with biz
Yard
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

THE New York Legislature has standing
committee on grievances" 1t was addressed
by the advocates of woman suffrage one day this
week, and is now supposed to have been resolved
into a committee Of grief.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

JAMES GORDON BENNETT has provided his
yacht with an expensive machine, capable of
producing u thousand pounds of ice in day
Almost any citizen in this latitude would have
sold him for trifing sum kitchen pump
warranted to produce nothing but ice-in some
seasons
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21
Fatal Accident ON the Wabash.

KEoKUK, Feb. 20-An accident occurred on
the Wabash railway, at Ashton, Mo-, last night
and sleeper and a coach left the track, falling
over bridge. Jas. Mclaughlin, Of Centerville.
Ia, was fatally injured. Several others were
hurt, but not seriously
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

AN Ohio young woman has eloped with an
eighteen-year- old law student to the great con-
sternation of her parents The old folks are
we'll aware that with coachman or a skating
rink professor" the case would not be so hope
less; such gentlemen are more or less qualified
to provide for their wives, but law student
has no visible means of support until after
many years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

BECKY JONES is still winning on the admira
ton of the public She refuses to go to the
skating rink She is somewhat of scoffer, if
one may judge OF her utterances. Speaking of
call made her by four Sunday school teachers,
she says: "They looked at me with long faces.
l told them if they came to preach they might
as well take themselves off. could see them
bunch each other Religion is right enough in
its place, but some kinds of religion don't take
stock in. don't want any preaching or praying
in my room. can do all L want myself" Miss
Jones is evidently lady of resources
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journals
To settle a dispute, please inform us what the
salary of Vice president of the United States is
as also, salary of United States senatorsa
ARCADIA, Ind. A.E.
Vice-president, $8, 900; senators, S., 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21
Explosion off a Locomotive.

LTTTLE Rock. Feb 20.-At 5:3O this after
noon, fifteen miles below Poplar Bluffs. NO., on
the ST. Louis 8 Iron Mountain railroad, while
south bound train was running at full speed the
engine exploded. killing the engineer, John
Pitkin, and fatally injuring the fireman, Fred
Smith
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21

Of the Sentinel, in order to show moro clearly
the pitiful pettifogging of the Democratic
State organ.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-30

The number of acres required to fill grants
represent the number of acres TO be decided
to entirely close them out. From the numbe
Of acres selected large proportion has been
decided, so that while the selections appear
in excess of the amount required to fill the
grants, rs matter of fact they are not, al
lowing for acreage decided.
ALASD OFFICE TRADITION.
It has been tradition Of this office that
priority Of grant carried with it priority of
right to make selections. This question,
however, has not been auth1riatively settled.
Assuming this principle to be correct, it will
be observed that those grants bearing date
prior to those for state institutions are gettin Q
well out Of the way. The grants for the ag-
ricultural college and the Madelia and Sioux
Falls wagon road are filed, while that Of the
Chicago & St. Paul Railway company only
lacks about forty acres of a final adjustment.
The Lake Superior q Mississippi company,
St. Paul IL Duluth and the Taylors Fails u
Lake Superior company are nearly filled.
Two grants were made to the Minneapolis
d st. Cloud company (Hirckley branch),
four sections per mile in 1865, and
six additional sections in 1866. The
lands already decided to this company nearly
reach the limit Of the 1865 grant. The grant
10 state institutions embrace only even num-
bered sections, while the grants to the st.
Paul & Duluth, the Taylor Falls & Lake
Superior, and the Minneapolis & st. Cloud
(Hickley branch) companies cover both odd
and even sections.
ONLY TWO CONFLICTING GRANTS.
It will thus be seen that the only compa-
MES having rights that conflict with those Of
the state in making selections at this time,
are those Of the st. Paul & Duluth and Tay-
lors Falls companies.
or the grants that were made subsequent
to those for state institutions, the Southern
Minnesota, the Cannon River Manufacturers
association, and the Minnesota Central cover
odd mum bered sections; only those OF Min
nesota Northern and the Little Falls 81 Da-
kota cover both odd and even numbers. The
grant to Duluth & Iron Range is a grant in
place, the lands are TO be selected within ten
miles Of the road on either side. Should
there not be a sufficient amount in this
twentv mile limit. the remaining portion
must be selected In the counties
of St. Louis, Lake and Cook.
The following table furnishes the informa-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-30
No News From COnant.

New YORK, Jan. 29.-An assistant editor
of HuTer's Weekly said to-day that no addi-
tioual light had yet been thrown on the mys-
terious disappearance Of s. s. Conant, man
aging editor Of that periodical. Pinkertou's
detectives are working upon the case, but up
10 noon had made no report 1t is under
stood they are working on the clue that
Conant has gone south. L. II. Sinclair,
associated with Conant in the management
Of the paper, said this morning he was sure
there was no truth in the report that Mrs.
Conant had received a letter from her hus-
band saving he will be home Friday. The
search for Conant has been carried on by his
son and the detectives. az am utterly at
loss to account for Commits disappearance"
said Sinclair, except on the theory that he
wandered away while suffering from tempo
rary insanity On the day he disappeared he
was at the Office attending to his work as
usual. aud there was no evidence that he was
not all right. He left the Office saying he
would be back early Monday morning, rs be
intended 10 go 10 Albany With his son Satur-
day He carried very little money aud had
no massive jewelry. Conaut was accustomed
TO walk from the Office to bis home in Brook
lyu, crossing the Fulton ferry. II any mis-
hap had befsllen him on the way home We
should have received some word ere this, for
he carried cards aud papers which would st
once lead to an Identification, unless, indeed,
be was assaulted and his body thrown into
the river. But this theory do not consider
tenabe, because such an assault could
scarcely have been committed in the street
through which he was accustomed to pass on
his way home"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-30
FOR RENT.
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HOUSES TO RENT in all parts Of the city
IL. from $40 to $40 per month. o. NJ. Met
calf 16 East Third street 313-3m
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-30

I ENOR aRENT-First-class dwelling. IS rooms,
A. No. ia Summit avenue, formerly occupied
| by Reuben Warner. Enquire Of owner, Il. D.
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