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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
Disreputable Opium Dealers.

Extract from Indiana Letter in Western Druggist
''Let US examine this opium and morphine
supplying business. The miserable victim to
the habit is certainly travelling at constantly &C
celebrating speed down the road to hell. The
constant taking of the drug has at last habitu-
ated him to its influence, and now morbid appe-
tite Graves it beyond all things else. He has be-
come liar, a thief; plunged into moral obliqui-
ty under the influence. He will sacrifice his
home, wife. children. all, 10 obtain the cursed
stuff, and dealers in drugs practitioners of the
noble art of pharmacy. supply this agent that
wrecks, ruins both body and soul. The
pecuniary gain for accomplishing this most igno-
bic. damnable ruin is very small indeed, and
even were it thousands, still no thoughtful man
of honest purpose would do it. Who among US
would furnish man poison who was avowedly
intent on suicide? Furnishing morphine and
opium to the opium eater is many times worse
Furnishing the means for immediate suicide, as
a rule, is simply wronging the individual, be-
sides being accomplice with murder; but sup
plying opium to the habitual user is all this and
more too. The vender is an enemy to the home,
10 society he Injuries the rights of communities
and demoralizes himself. These are facts. They
cannot be denied"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
Some Newport Real Estate.

GeUport, X. L., Spe cial.
Mr.. Pierre Lorillard of New York. has ceased
TO be a cottage-owner in Newport, having yes
serday sold his beautiful estate known as 1.-The
Breakers to Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York
for $780, 000 Mr. Lorillard became the owner
Of the largest portion of this property in 1878,
when he gave William Beach Lawrence, since
deceased, some 500, 600 for about eleven acres of
his ochre paint farm. Mr. Lorillard allowed
90, 900 of this to remain on mortgage, and this
has never been paid off, Lorillard at once began
the erection of beautiful house adapted for a
summer abode. After the first purchase Mr.
Lorillard acquired two other lots, including the
tract of about an acre which Richard NJ Stage
had purchased from Lawrence more than twenty
years previously, and over which there was a
legal fight during the entire interim. These lots
form one estate of about thirteen acres. 1.-THE
Breakers commands grand panoramic view of
she Atlantic ocean. the beaches Seacoret and
Middleton being in the distance Mrs j. G.
Aver, of New York. made an offer for 1.-The
Breakers" but it did not come up to Mr.. Loril-
lard's idea The sale was made through Charles
McRae, of New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
The Latest Lunacy.
New York Commercial Advertiser.

Cat parties are the latest entertainments Re-
Gently young GIRL the happy possessor of fine
Maltese cat invited a number of her friends to
bring their pet cats to 5o'clock tea, each cat to
have a ribbon about its neck corresponding to
that worn by its mistress. At the appointed
hour the cats made their appearance, in charge
of their respective owners. After the feline in
Productions had taken place. some of which were
the reverse of friendly games were introduced,
ard soft balls, toy mice and other objects dear
to pussy's heart were provided These pastimes
however, grieve to say, were sometimes marred
by vigorous slap when two stran gers came in
collision. and once the beigerent pussies had to be
separated by friends. When tea was announced
a table. with saucers of milk and small cakes,
and with cushioned stools was disclosed. The
floral decorations consisted of catnip lavender,
grasses and bright flowers. The cats, placed on
their respective stools and attended by their mis-
tresses partook of the good cheer set before
them Their behavior was quite correct. With
their forepaws on the table, they Tapped the milk
with becoming propriety. When all were salts
fed, there was comcal sight. Each pussy be-
gan making her toilet and the ce-washing was
decorous in the extreme. After leaving the ia
BILE, sprig of catnp was given each kitty, and
the feline happiness was complete. These sprigs
were tossed in the air, caught and lovingly ca
ressed. AS each kitty departed, it was presented
with its ball or toy mouse as memento of the
party,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
TELEGRAPH[C BREVITIES.

Thomas B. Farrell was stabbed to death with
carving knife, in Brooklyn, N. Y, last night,
by Charles Sheridan. The cause was jealousy.
At Edgefeld S. G., the coroner's jury found
that o. T. C1lbraith, who was lynched, came to
his death at the hands of William Parkman,
and that Wyatt Holmes and other parties I'M
known were accessories thereto. Many arrests
will be made
A young mulatto woman named frankie
Mitchell was found dead in her room at No. sci
South Clark street, Chicago, yesterday, with a
bullet wound in the back of her head. She had
evidently been murdered, but no trace of her
assailant has been discovered.
An accommodation train on the CHARTERS
branch of the Panhandle railroad ran into coal
train on siding near Mansfield, yesterday
morning, wrecking the engine and baggage car
and slightly injuring engineer Conway, fireman
McQuay and conductor Ward. None of the pas
sengers were hurt
The freshman class which entered Yale Col
lege on Thursday il the largest on record, 100
entering the academic and ninety the scientific
departments. This is a great surprise, as it was
thought that Harvard by dropping Greek as a
required study, would profit at the expense of
Yale which retains it.
The Supreme Court Of Ohio yesterday refused
to grant the motion for leave to file petition in
error in the case of Patrick Hartnett, wife
murderer, who is sentenced to be hanged, at the
Ohio penitentary, on next Wednesday morning.
The Governor also refused to commute the SEN
tence to imprisonment for life.
The public school children of Allegheny CITY,
to the number of nearly IL, 600, Joined in me-
mortal service in honor of General Grant yester-
day afternoon The services were generally held
In the respective school buildings, but special
feature was the services under the linden tree in
Allegheny Park, which was planted by the la
mented Grant while he was guest of the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
How Stanton Capped" the Telegraph.
Washington star.

washington star.
Major johnson, of Washington, who was Sec
reary Stanton's confidential clerk, said the
other day: about one of the first acts of great
Importance which Stanton did was to establish
the headquarters of the telegraph of the United
States in the War Department This meant
that all the Geographic communications with
relation to the war should pass directly into the
hands of this amazing Secretary. He had
passed through much treason in Buchanans
Cabinet, and had seen SO much in the army that
he dared to trust one. At his orders made
record of every telegram from and to the
President, from and to ali the Secretaries from
all the generals in the field, to any and every
body. A record was kept of all the
dispatches sent by Generalin-chef Halleck, by
General Grant, and all the commanders of the
Army of the Potomac, and by General Sherman,
and all the generals Of the army of the West
The dispatches of the Secretary of the Navy and
all the movements of his gunboats were put on
record, and all clip her dispatches received at the
War Department, deciphered By General Eekert.
and placed on record by me- Every wire in the
country was tapped and its contents run into the
War Department and made a matter of record if
it in any way related to the war or was in
cipher. The telegraph operators of the departs
ment, under this censorship, became the most
expert probably in the world, and they now hold
high positions in their profession They were
Bates, Tinker and Chandler Some of the dis
patches in cipher intercepted were from corps
commanders in the field relating to gold specu-
lations in New York"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
The English Clergyman.
He
Progress.

The English clergyman has not his counterpart
with us. He is oftentimes a jolly good fellow.
and when he is he does not care to hide it. Near
Birmingham there is a vicar who farms his own
land and when man who usually takes around
his milk to his customers is i'll. he delivers it
himself At Stratford- n-Avon the local clergy,
after celebrating the festival of ST. James with
various religious ceremonies. adjourned 10 the
fields and played a game of cricket with the choir
and the congregation. A number of prizes were al
so offered among them being one for the heaviest
baby under two years of age baptized at St.
James Church. There were five entries for
this event. for which prize of five shilings and
a second Of two shillings were offered. A pair
of steelyards, to which clothes basket was
attached, were used, and, after the weighing
process was gone through, the prize was
awarded to child of twelve months, named
Deacon, which scaled the very respectable
weight of thirty and one-half pounds. A prize
of five shillings was offered for the mar who
could make the ugiest grimace. A borse-coIlar
was affixed between two upright posts and sur
rounded by sheet, and the competitors were
required to thrust their heacs through the col
lar and then dstort to their utmost facial ex
pressions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
WHY DEMOCRATS ARE DISSATISFIED.
Moderate Statement by Southern Journal
of Influence and Standing.


Moderate Statement by Southern journal
of Influence and Standing.
Knoxville fTenn.) Journal.
The editorial which appeared in the Journal
yesterday, taken from the New York World,
would indicate that in the opinion of that able
Democratic paper the administration has been
Tin the woods If some Republican journals
had intimated that the President has been polit-
ically in the woods, the intimation would not
have been received kindly. 1t would have been
set down as misrepresentation, a perversion Of
facts, Republican lie. But as the suggestion
comes from paper that never scratches its
tickets, but swallows whatever is presented in
the name of Democracy, there must be some
thing of it.
The trouble complained of is that George
William Curtis, the New York Evening Post
and other Miss Nancys in the political world.
have been running the administration according
to their peculiar theories, and that practical pol
itics have been lost sight of. The men who have
stood in the front ranks and borne the brunt of
the battle have been the poor relations of the ad
minstration, while the latter-day saints have
sat down at the frs. table and carry off the
spoils. 1t is no wonder that there is complaint
and the World voices the sentiment of the work
ingmen of the party when it calls halt and asks
Grover Cleveland to stop and consider.
1t must be confessed that the straight Democ-
racy have had some reason for complaint. Very
few of the representative men of the party have
been remembered Such men as Thurman and
Mcdonald, and others who fought the battles of
Democracy, when they knew they were Engaged
in leading forlorn hope, out in the cod
while Phelps, and Tree Lothrop are getting fat
on the spoils It. is in this respect that Cleve-
land has been in the political woods and the
World is calling upon him in adouble-leaded edi-
torial to get out If he should heed it's voice all
will be right; but should he continue to founder
in the political woods he will hear some music
about his ears.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
The Senator Never Talks at Fairs.

Chicago Tribune.
Il never speak at fairs now" said Senator Gull
lom, last evening. "a man with a speech has
no show against horse race a fat cow The
last time tried to make speech at fair was
at Llncolu-right down near me, you know
There were two rings near the stand One was
for cattle and the other for the horses before the
races / had got fairly started when some fell
low led couple of horses into the ring. The
crowd began to leave me. and in five minutes
every soul in the crowd except the man who pre-
sided had left me. He looked as if he wanted to
go. too, so we followed the crowd over to the
ring. The remainder of that speech is still un-
delivered. No. Governor, senator, or even a
President. is out of place making speech at q
fair. They are much better appreciated If they
tie on the blue ribbons, and that is what have
been doing at the State fair When I hear of
friends who have not learned this great lesson
always pity them for / know the fate of their
oratorical efforts, however brilliant they may be-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
JOHN j. SAFELY.
Extraordinary Career Of One of New York's
Successful Business Men.

Successful Business Men.
New York Tribune.
Major 10 In J. Safely is getting to be well
known in New York as a successful promoter of
Southwestern and mine schemes. He is a
medium sized. heavily built man, broad about
the body, chest and shoulders, with heavy
black beard and active, nervous ways. He is a
native of New York, but calls Indiana his
home. He was staff officer under General W.
W. Belknap during the war. Recently, the
General said to me: Safely began bis life as a
poor boy. He is probably worth over million
to day. He walked all the way from
Dubuque to Des Moines, Ia, to
seek an appointment as page in
the Legislature. l was serving in the Legisla-
ture and got him the place. When the war broke
a non-commissioned officer and then turned up
on the brigade staff At the battle of Atlanta.
he was about the only staff officer who persisted
in going to the front. where things were hot.
Safely was as brave as men are made. He was
on horseback in his shirt sleeves at the earliest
break of day, and off down to the front to see if
the picket line had been disturbed. When the
fight came on he was carrying ammunition down
to the boys whenever he had nothing else to do.
When the war closed he was as poor as the pro-
verbal church mouse, but he had sterling
reputation, and there isn't man who ever knew
him who isn't glad that he has struck it rich. !"
was sitting the other day with Major Safely.
when he told me OF two incidents in his army
career that throw some light on army discipline.
Safely was enlisted in the regiment of Colonel
Croker, of Iowa, who afterward commanded
Crockers Brigade When he reported for duty.
he told the Colonel he would like to be assigned
to company G. 1t was the color company. Safe
ly quantity says: II thought could rally round
the flag better in the color company than any
other" He was ordered to go and report to
Captain Davis. He hunted the camp over for
the captain without success, but finally found
him in Colonel Crocker's tent. He walked
in unceremoniously, and began to talk to Davis.
Il thought told you to report 70 Captain Da-
Wis, said Croker who was nettled at what he
regarded an intrusion. That's what arm do
ing" said the young soldier, while the Captain
appeared to be in alarm. Croker made some
harsh reply, and Safely rejoined: I'm not talk
ing to You. sir; am reporting to Captain Davis"
Looking back at the scene, Safely says the
wonder is that he was rot bucked and gagged
He was ordered out of the tent, and for over two
years packed musket" In all that time.
though he often stood guard at Crocker's tent,
he never got word from him. Finally, he be-
gan to rise in the ranks and at length got a
commission. when Croker deigned to notice
him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
Mr. Cleveland and the Silver Ouestion

Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
From the inner circle there are rumors that
Mr.. Cleveland's message will be a surprise to
many Democrats on the silver question l hear
he will not yield one iota from the views ex-
pressed in his letter to General Warner last
winter. In this letter he said plainly that the
continuance of the compulsory coinage of the
Bland dollar would in time bring on a financial
crisis. There is evidence going to show that he
is just as firmly in favor of the repeal of the law
now as then. 1t is limited, too, that the Presi-
dent will uneqaivocally favor revision of the
tariff Those who ought to know aver that he
will favor free raw material and faithful revis-
ion of the existing tariff to materially reduce
duties which were imposed growing out of the
necessities Of the war. He is said, also, to have
been studying the statistics of our shipping with
view to making important Recommendations
looking to a revival of theship-building interest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
Wonderful nations.
Galveston (Tex. } News.

N6WB.
Forty years ago Gen. Sam Houston made the
reputed transformations of vegetables and ami
mails in Texas part of a humorous speech. 1t
had been stated in little book on Texas that
after being planted the second year Irish pota-
toes would turn to sweet, and other equally queer
transformations were alleged. The presiding
officer of the Senate addressed by Houston had
had quarrel with a neghbor about the owner
ship of hog. After recounting many of these
alleged transformations, Houston, looking the
presiding officer full in the face, wound up by
saying: But none of these changes, Mr. Presi-
dent are equal to that by which IS little
spotted pig became IS big spotted barrow!
aud thereby hangs tale Mr.. President-there-
by hangs tale" wagging his finger at the pre-
siding officer at the same time, and assuming a
queer though grave expression. The presiding
officer fdgeted in his seat. and replied Its a
ie," but Houston paid no attention to the re,
tort
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
An Appetite for Literature.
Arkansaw Traveller.

ATKuHBHW ITdVGItr.
A gentleman from northwestern Arkansas
tells the following joke on Congressman Peel:
Peel, it is we'll known, is not man of very
high literary attanments, but, to appear well
read, he processes to have gloated over every
piece OF literature that comes under discussion
Judge Pittman, who is highly intellectual and
well-read man, takes keen delight in talking
literature to Peel. Some time ago, while q
party of gentlemen were sitting around listening
to some of Peel's experiences in Congress, Judge
Pittman asked:
Peel, you have read Tennyson. haven't your
"'Oh, yes, yes. and like it very much
"'Do you like Goldsmith
"Dote on HIM
What do you think of that poem, "Gold-
smiths Maidg"'
"'By George, sir. it's the best thing he ever
wrote. l tell you what, Pittman, going to Con-
gress whets a mans appetite for literature"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
Mr.. Cleyeland,s Recent Letter.

AS PaFaphrased in Pfttsburg Chronicle.
''You will agree with me, think, when say
that am no SLOUGH myself as a reformer I
point with pride to my numerous appointments
which prove this. Look at Higgins. Is it pos
sibe. in all this broad land, to find a man more
devoted to the Democratic idea of reform than
Higgins2 Then size up Manning. q reformer of
the first water. But why multiply namesl To
be sure some of my appointment is have not been
received with the applause which they
deserved, and have even had to
recall them and appoint others, but is not
that In itself reform2 In some quarters there
has been slight disaffection because have ap-
pointed ex-convicts and such-lke gentry to Office;
bat those who objected lost sight entirely of the
fact that my rigid adherence to reform prompted
the action. If it is not reform TO take man
from the penitentiary and make United States
official of him, what is reforma
Well. as said before, TO keep MP appearances,
yen can hold your present situation until Noy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
Very Romantic.

The story of President Cleveland's first oil
portrait, which he is soon to receive, is bit of
romance for predetermined a man The
picture comes from Rome, and was painted by
an Italian who never saw the original T.. NJ
Montgomery, an American newspaper man in
Rome. wrote life Of President Cleveland soon
after his election, and to impress upon the Ital-
ians the rapid rise of public men in this country,
he contrasted President Clevelands career with
that OF the Italian Prime Minister, man al
ready venerable. The story touched the popu-
lar fancy of the Italians. who compared the
President to their hero Garibaldi. Molinari. a
Roman artist, applied to Montgomery to obtain
him permission to paint the Presidents portrait
The request was forwarded. and in due time q
photograph and polite note of thanks were re
ceived from Secretary Lamont Now Molinari
is coming over to present his picture as the free
will Offering of an Italian democrat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
THE POET LAUREArEs WAYS.
His Unromantic Fondness for His Pipe am
Glass.

Glass.
London Letter.
The poet now eschews London almost entirely
now, and will never, as he himself avows, visi,
it again except on compulsion-and lives com
pletely in little world of his own. Not,
indeed, that he is inspired by any mis-
the contrary, he delights in discr:m-
mating hospitality. He frequently receives Wis
itors beneath his roof from Saturday to Monday.
and among this class of guests none is more fire.
quent or welcome than Henry Irving.
Lord Tennyson is as fond now of glass of
sound port as when in ''Will Waterproofs Mono
logue" he babe the plump head-waiter at The
Cock bring pint of the vintage which had felt
the glow Of Lusitanian summers Upon one
occasion he pressed Mr. irving to take a glass
OF the precious liquid. Mr.. Irving did as he was
desired, but, not being a port-wine drinker,
slipped it very slowly Before he had finished it
the decanter from which the bard had been au-
tomatically replenishing his goblet was empty
Lord Tennyson babe theb1tler bring fresh sup
ply, and, turning round to his guest, said, dryly:
do you always drink a bottle of port, Mr.
Irving, after dinner2" The Laureate, however,
though endowed with an appreciation OF wine,
has always partaken sparingly of it. He has not
practiced, aud does not practice now similar
smokes perpetually; pipe always and
by preference long pipe of the kind
known as "churchwarden," and at each Of
his houses he possesses a divan specially con-
ceded to himself, in upper story. whittier he
sometimes invites friend to smoke and hear
him read. No mans habits could vary less
After an early breakfast he devotes an hour to
his correspondence with his eldest son. Then
he smokes, meditates writes and occasionally
strolls in his garden till lunch. He seldom miss
es taking this meal en- famille, but he very rare
~ talks while 1t IS IN progress. Should happy
inspiration have seized him after the mornings
musings, he returns silently to his study and
commits to paper the thought