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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

POsTMAsTER-G GENERAL Villas is trying to
hedge against the approaching session of the
Senate when his contemplate infamous,
sneaking policy will be overhauled. An
instance of it is in the Martinsville postoffce.
Mr.. James G. Balm, editor of the Republican,
one of the cleanest and most creditable papers
in the State, was removed as an Offensive
partisan" and Mr.. Calls, editor of the Demo
cratic paper, one of the most violent and
abusive papers published anywhere, appointed
in his stead. 1t is this sort of business which
the Senate will be apt to ventilate next
winter, and against the likelihood of which
the petty Postmaster-general is now seeking
to shield himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

of both postoffice employees and patrons. As it
is now, two officials seldom agree in regard to
the proper application of certain distinctions
and classifcations in the remarkable system
Of rules, and, as for the man who is not an
expert, hemust submit blindly to the authority
Of the stamp clerk, since life is too short to
warrant an investigation into the intricacies
of the subject. Now that the new postage
law in reference to first class mail is in force,
revision of the rules must be made, and if
the department has man at command who
can handle the English language he should be
detailed to reduce the regulations to COM
prehensive form.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

THE Democratic organs are not pleased with
Senator Logan's claim that civil-service re-
form is Republican child put out to nurse
with stranger. They also profess dissatis-
faction with Congressman Hills assertion that
the majority of Democrats oppose the law.
The truth is that having rashly adopted the
infant into the family, the Democratic step
mother does not know what to do whit. To
cherish it as her own would be to destroy the
prospects of dearer children, and to strangle
the alien is unfortunately inexpedient The
predicament is distressing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

THE law says that saloons shall not sell
liquor on the 4th of July. Yet it is an
nounced that "the proclamation issued by the
mayor and Police Commissioner Murphy
ordering the saloons to be closed on Saturday,
was great surprise to people who believe in
a free celebration of the national holiday, and
the action of the two officials has caused a
good deal Of unfavorable comment, it being
characterized as fanatical and illiberal." In
deed! We venture that the Surprised" peo-
pie, and those who are "unfavorably com
menting," are the men who figure in the po-
lice court as the transgressors of all the other
provisions of the liquor law. There can be "a
free celebration Of the national holiday with
out free violation of the law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

The decision Of the Supreme Court of Cali
fornia i'll the case of Althea Hill against Mr.
Sharon, over which the Pacifc-coast papers
particularly are facilitating themselves so
much, is not in the interests of public morai-
ty and private virtue, whatever the technical
tiles of the law may be. On the contrary, the
influence of the decision of Judge Sullivan
mulcting the ex-senator heavily for his rela-
tons with the fair plaintiff was in all respects
salutary. If rich men could be made to paw
dearly for their dishonor of the marriage rela-
ton, using it, as so many of them do. merely
as a cloak for their lust, society would be ben
Gifted and the sanctity of marriage enhanced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

OF course there will be fair wheat crop.
After the croakers have filled the land with
their dismalisms the fields are whitening for
the harvest with unexpected promise. There
will be respectable crop of wheat; plenty OF
it, but not so much that farmers will
not get a better price for it than they
have been getting for year. With full
corn crop, which means good hog crop,
and with only wheat enough to cause higher
price, times will be better, everybody will
have enough to eat, and the farmers produce
will be sold at better prices Stop the ever
lasting grumbling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

THE Philadelphia encampment is failure
There are many reasons for this, but one is
enough. It was killed by the contemplate
surliness of those who assumed to represent
the people of the Quaker City. 1t was opposed
on no respectable ground, though there were
good grounds for opposition; but was kicked
to death by envious and smal-souled jack
asses. The Philadelphia Inquirer woke up,
when too late, and said:
complaints have been made both loud and
deep that soldiers coming here from long dis
tances have found no one to meet them, no
preparations to receive, no notice taken of
their arrival, and have been left to shift for
themselves and find their way out to the camp
or seek accommodation elsewhere as best they
could. This is all wrong and ought never to
have been allowed. The city that sustained
the Cooper Shop during the war, the COM
munity that entertained five millions Of Wis
itors during the centennial should not permit
the citizen soldiers of other States to be invited
here only to be neglected and affronted It
may be too late now to remedy the laches, but
we can at best offer regretful apology and
there ought to be no chance left for mistake
as to what the sentiments of our people are
with regard to the matter"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

THE women of Richmond Va, who have
taken upon themselves the task Of getting law
which shall provide for the punishment of wife
heaters with the lash, are working in a good
cause, but they should carefully consider their
course. Unless the law shall provide that the
wife's testimony is not essential to the securing
of the brutal husbands punishment, the wretch
will escape nine times in ten. Such is the
inconsistency of the feminine nature that even
the Richmond women who are working for the
law would refuse to appear against their hus-
bands il put to the test. Police officers and
magistrates universally testify that wife heaters,
rule, escape merited punishment through
the foolish weakness of wives who will not ap
pear against them.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

CHARLESTON S. c. is to perpetuate the memory of
John G. Calhoun by monument sixty feet high the
fund for which has been accommodating since period
previous to the war;
LORD SUDELEY is lordn- waiting to Queen Vic.
tora, but he is more respected and indeed revered in
the nurseries throughout the United Kingdom as the
manufacturer of Sudeleys celebrated Jam.
koCHs comma bacillus of cholera" is having
hard time of it with the scientists who have demon
strated that it isn't comma shaped, nor bacillus
and that it has nothing to do with cholera nor cholera
with it.
THIS little cot is from Mr.. w. D. Howellss new
novel, Indian Summer" Mrs. Bowen had no more
scruple than another woman i'll stopping travel and
traffic in public street for her convenience. She
now entered into brisk parting conversation with
Colville such ladies love- blocking the narrow side
walk with herself her daughter and her open carriage
door, and making the passers by walk around her cab
in the road, which they did meekly enough; and she
said dozen important things that seemed to have
just come into her head"
PRETTY girl in Lewiston Me-. Joined the Saliva.
ton Army, and so imbued with the spirit Of sac
rice and humility that she gave away all her
property, including her jewery and all her clothing
but the cheapest. She has come to her senses
but she cannot get her goods back.
GEORGE F. HOAR, of Worcester, Mass. who has
just been made Doctor of Laws by Yale has pre-.
yousiy been similarly honored by William and Mary
and by Amherst, but he is even more remarkable as
the man who prevented the Harvard corporation from
giving the same degree ro Ben Butler. il 1853.
Mrs. MEAGHER, who lives in the Poe COTTAGE at
Fordharu, makes game of the many visitors TO the
shrine of departed genius, we fear Would Won
Like to go down to Kingsbridge and sec the house
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

COLONEL ROCKWELL, brother-in- law of
President Garfield, in the course Of a lecture
delivered in New York upon the career of
his distinguished relative, opens up the old
question as to the actual cause of his death.
Colonel Rockwell expresses the opinion that
the death did not result from Guiteau's bullet,
but from the mistaken treatment of the phy-
sicians, and further AYERS that from first
to last Mrs. Garfield disapproved of DR..
Bliss's connection with the case. Whatever
may be the truth in the matter-and it is a
subject which was fully discussed at the time,
and on which medical men failed to agree
it must be said that public
reference to il by member of
the family is in decidedly bad taste.
If, as the lecturer says, Mrs. Garfield was dis
satisfied with the physician in charge, her
authority was certainly sufficient to have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

KoCH's comma bacillus is having hard
time of it among the experts. First, Dr.
Klein showed his contempt for it by eating it,
culture fluids and all, and now DR.. Lancaster
denies that it is bacillus, or that it is comma
shaped. He also says that it does not occur
in the intestines of cholera patients, and that
incubation with it does not produce cholera.
Cholera will probably be successfully fought
on the line of cleanliness, good air. water and
food and if these sanitary matters are neg
lected the disease will relentlessly claim its
thousands of victims, as heretofore. Thera-
peutic progress has not kept pace with
the germ theory. If cholera, typhoid,
scarlatina, consumption and yellow fever are
produced by different species of vegetable
ferments, the practical question is, what will
destroy the ferments which consume the
blood and tissues in the progress of their life
processes. The suffering world still waits the
discoverer that will do for these diseases what
Jenner did for smallpox. Some of the most
eminent chemists and biologists, as Pasteur,
Tyndall Koch and Sternberg are assured of
the correctness Of the germ theory. Mr.. AL
bert Carnegie, who gave $4,000 for the
erection and equipment Of laboratory at
Bellevue Medical College, made special provis
ion for the study of the cholera bacillus, with
vaccination as preventive.
1t is mark of progress that medicine is be-
coming an experimental rather than an en-
pirical study, and that scientists, aided by
capitalists, are bringing the advances of mod
ern chemistry and biology to bear on the
study Of disease.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

CARL ScHURz declines to express any opin-
ion concerning Mr.. Hedden's appointment to
the New York relationship, on the ground
that he does not know the gentleman. Mr..
Schurz is not truly loyal. Other mugwumps,
including Mr.. Curtis, do not hesitate to speak
with enthusiastic approval of the new APP
pointee, although they never heard of him be-
fore. Their confident belief that the
'king," otherwise known as Mr.. Cleveland.
can do no wrong, is quite childlike and
touching
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

THERE are all sorts of reasons being given
why Austria does not want Kelley. One
reason is enough: he is fool, whose appoint
ment to anything after his Richmond speech.
was an insult to every man of common
sense and common decency in this country.
Austria doesn't want him, end that's enough
Austria doesn't have to assign any reas
son, nor does it have to apologize to the
United States for exercising its unquestioned
right not to receive as minister an objection
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

Now that summer is upon us, look out for
numerous highly colored accounts of romantic
Opponents and haunted houses. Statistics
would probably show that as many runaway
marriages take place in winter as summer, and
there seems no good reason why ghosts should
not walk as we'll in January as July; but for
some reason the runaways and the spooks have
the heated term for their own in the newspapers.
Possibly it is because the narration Of their ex
PLOTS is easy writing for the tired journalist,
who is resting his brain at summer resorts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

THE retention in Office of Marshal Nc
Michael had already aroused Democratic ire
but it is understood that his high-handed
proceeding in dismissing an Extensively parti-
san ex-confederate subordinate has excited
them to fever heat. It's poor rule that
doesn't work both ways; but the working of
this one on Republican basis seems to have
taken the inventors right on the top of the
had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

AFTER the fulsome eulogies on Lowell in
the Boston Literary World, Senator Hears
quiet remark that certainly it is not the
diplomacy of the United States which Mr.
Lowell has been representing" must come
like dash of cold water Mr.. Lowell's name
does not appear in the list of distinguished
Republicans at the Logan reception; but if
he reads any but London newspapers Mr.
Hears opinion will probably reach him in
time
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touching.

If the Postof6ce Department ever gets time
for anything but the distribution of spoils, it
should give its attention to the postal rules.
The long and complicated directions and spec
ifcations in regard to rates of postage and
classes of mail matter are due in some degree
of course, to the variety and incompeteness
of the legislation on the subject; but it would
seem that the regulations in force might be so
simriifed as te be within the comprehension
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

PUCK, the pictorial mugwump, seems to
have paltry spite against Secretary 'Ainde-
COO" who is, of all men, the mugwumpest
man in the Cabinet. The last two or three
cartoons, in which the President and his Cabi-
net are pictured as the only great heroes of
"Reform," conspicuously omit the honorable
Secretary of War. Possibly, Mr.. Aindecoo
will not pay regular advertising rates.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

WHATEVER may be- the statements and
counter statements as to the condition of Gen.
Grant, the fact remains that he is surely and
greatest living American is likely to be an
nounced at any hour There will be all man
ner of rumors and reports, but it is beyond
question that the days of the sick man are
numharad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

effected a change. That she allowed her
Judgment to be overruled may be a matter of
regret to herself and others, but the fact that
she did permit the original course of treat
ment to be continued should, at least, prevent
the public utterance Of charges against the
physicians, who would not have waited upon
the sufferer had she forbidden it. Colonel
Rockwell should be called in and suppressed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

TRENTON N j., has what it is pleased to call
romance" in the case of a thirty year old man
who has been married four times, and has lost
only one wife by death. The others he lost by
running away and forgetting where to find
them. Freeport, ILL.,, is enjoying similar
romance" a nineteen-year-old girl of that place
having also been married four times the first
and fourth husbands. however, being one and
the same. This it should be remembered, is
the romantic" time Of year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

LET us have great Fourth of July in In
dianapolis. The capital Of the State of |Indi-
ana can get up big, roaring celebration of
the national anniversary on its own account.
selves and to the world the sort of stuff we are
made of. Open the throttle valve to-day, and
fill the air with gunpowderi and rockets, and
fire-crackers, and fling the star-spangled to the
breeze on every hand, so that by tomorrow
the whole town will be painted led,
white and blue, and the air be
like that sulphurous canopy which
hung over Hohenlinden. Indianap-
oils has been in the dumps
long enough. It will do everything and
everybody good to let the eagle scream for
day, or two days for that matter. Let jollity
be unconfned except restricted to such limits
as will not contravene the public peace and
public safety and order. To secure this the
order of the mayor and Of the president Of the
Board of Police to close the saloons, as the
law directs, is wise and proper, and we hope
to see the law strictly obeyed and relentlessly
enforced. We want no drunkenness and
disorder, but we do want day of unalloyed
hilarity and enjoyment for everybody.
The committee on arrangements have pre-
pared programme at the Exposition grounds
that promises splendid entertainment Let
the railroads from all directions bring the peo-
Pile of the State to the capital. We should
like to see fifty thousand visitors in the city
tomorrow. There will be attraction enough
to warrant them in coming. Cant we boom"
the Fourth Of July? Let each individual do
his share, and we will have big day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

THE resignation of Mr.. Hay First Assistant
Postmaster general, is only a question of
time; indeed it is only such a question when
death will make vacancy in the Office, if not
sooner caused by voluntary withdrawal. Mr.
Stevenson, of Illinois, is in Washington at the
request of the President, ready to assume the
Mace
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

able person. The talk of his rejection because
of the religious faith of his wife is twaddle.
AS we said, Kelley is simply and plainly an
ass, and the apology for his appointment is
due from the administration to the people of
this country who are vastly more outraged by
it than the court of Vienna possibly can be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

THERE is nothing new under the sun, not
even artificial teeth, for these have recently
been found in Etruscan tombs, dating five
centuries before the Christian era. But they
were of ivory. secured to their fellows
by bands of gold There is no evidence
to show that the ancents enjoyed the modern
luxury of complete double set of porcelain
teeth with rubber backs, at four dollars set.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

THE New York Sun says: 'The naval
office should be put out of existence; and if it
is necessary to take care of Mr.. Silas ". Burt,
on the ground that he is a reforming Republic
an, let him be provided for in some public
EMPLOYMENT that is not cumbrous sinecure.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

REMARKS concerning Senator Logans illit-
eracy are now in order in the Boston mug
wump press None have yet appeared, but
cutting criticisms will be Forthcoming, with
out doubt. Rather than miss the opportunity,
cultured editors will sit up nights and parse
his Parker House speech, in order to find a
grammatical error
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mentals, the high-schools of this and other
cities may add to the great usefulness they
have already attained.


THE constitutional convention Of 1850-51
has drifted so far into the past that it is no
discredit to anybody to be indifferently in
formed as to the mass Of the members COM
posing il. Some who were not generally
known then have become nationally known
since as Mr.. Colfax, Mr.. Hendricks, Judge
Biddle, Professor Read, Judge Borden, Gen.
Hovey, Judge-advocate Dunn, VIM. S. Hol-
man. Robert Dale Owen was the best known
man in the body at the time, and next to him,
John Petit. Others pretty we'll known then
have disappeared wholly from contemporaries
Gus memory since, though in some cases still
living. Still more were little known then,
and have remained so, living or dead. Those
who had not the luck to see the body, or read
the daily verbatim reports of its proceedings
in the Daily Journal-that was the beginning
of the Journals permanent course rs daily
know little of it, and those who have grown
up since Of course know less. But, with am
pie excuse for any one who has had no oppor-
tunity to see, and no motive to learn anything,
there is none at all for the pretentious gentle
men who assume to 'know it ALL" and know
no moro than others. The Washing
ton correspondent of city paper,
whose plagiarized blunder about the
Argentine Republic was noticed the other
day, has more recently said of the convention:
''The number of lawyers was scarcely
sufficient to supply the Judiciary committee
with members" A slight touch Of the pom
point will empty this bubble In the first
place there was no Judiciary committee" in
the convention. Four standing committees
divided the subjects usually referred to
legislative judiciary committee: ''On the or
ganization Of courts Of justice" one member
from each of the thirteen Judicial circuits all
lawyers; con matters pertaining to criminal
law" seven members, all lawyers, and all
different from the other thirteen; con the
practice Of law and law REFORM" one member
from each circuit all lawyers, and all differ
ent from the other thirteen and seven; con
special and local legislation and uniformity of
laws" seven members, all lawyers, and but
one, the late Hon John S. Newman, on any
of the other committees, and he only on
the preceding one. Here are thirty-nine
different lawyers on four committees covering
the province of the usual Judiciary committee,
and rather more; and there were several other
lawyers who were not on either of the com
mittees, az Mr. Hendricks, David Kilgore,
General Hovey. Joseph Robinson, NJ. G.
Bright, John B. Niles. and others. In point
of fact there were about sixty lawyers in the
constitutional convention-more than one
third of the whole body. This is the estimate
Of very close attendant on the sessions of
the body after it removed to Masonic Hall,
and the appointment Of committees supports
it. 1t is not matter Of much Importance;
still it is as we'll that the present generation
should have an idea of the professions and
pursuits Of the men to whom the preceding
generation trusted such important duties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

GENERAL BLACK has concluded that dis
erection is the better part of valor. He will
not "tackle" Miss Ada Sweet again, either by
letter or telegraph. And, besides, the
election for senator from Illinois is now over
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

WHEN Mr. Ruskin says that because be does
not know classic tongues and history (''to call
knowing els unfortunately not gentleman but
a clown, he says what he does not believe. And
to prove him prevaricator let any man
stand before the apostle of art and ethics and
call him clown and no gentleman and observe
the consequences.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-03

THE New York World demands the inn
mediate dismissal of Marshal McMchael for
having dared to remove Democratic sub
ordinate for offensive partsanship."