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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE BARRIERS will publish weekly organ called the
BARRIERS Gazette First number on Nays.
SCANDALIZED husbands, indignant wives and irate
papas have burned down six roller Kinks in Iowa
within four weeks
UNITED STATES MINISTER LOWELL will unvef the
bust of Samuel Taylor Colerldge in Westminster
Abbey on the 7th of May
THE strangely intimate relations" existing between
Mr.. Gladstone and Lord Randolph Churchill are Just
now exciting much comment in England.
THE rumor that the King of Saxony desired to sell
Raphaers Sistine Madonna is denied by the Dresden
journal The picture is the property of the state,
not the king.
W. H. SMITH, the lord of the admiralty of sisters
cousins aunts and Pnafore' fame, and Sir Stafford
Northcote are. it is reported about to be raised to
the British peerage
THE widow of the late Commodore Vanderbilt is
lying very i'll at her home in New York A cold re-
Gently contracted has developed into pneumonia, and
there are apprehensions that she will not withstand
the attack.
CHAPTER of calamties is reported to have hap
pened to colored man in Abbeville county, S. c. one
day last week. and the local paper states them in the
following orders 1.-TWO Of his dogs, his wife and his
horse all fell dead"
PAUL III. HAYNE, the Southern poet now fifty.ive
years DID, is slender footer with delicate features
and dark dreamy eyes, who has been an invalid almost
from his boyhood and his health now is almost as poor
some Of his poetry.
GEORGE BANCROFT the historian, has an amusing
way of always speaking of his friend w. w. Corcoran,
the banker poor old Mr.. Corcoran whereas he is
the richest man in Washington, and is two or three
years younger than Bancroft.
THE Van Zandt breeze has entirely blown over or
blown out in Paris and the prima donna living in
retirement till she goes TO London to fulfill her engage
ment Since the scandaous scenes at the Opera
Comique, Mile. Van Zandt has been overwhelmed with
letters of sympathy and bouquets
PORTLAND Ore, dispatch says sealions are get.
ting very bad in the mouth Of the Columbia" and
tells of one that attacked two men who were fishing
for salmon yesterday, nearly upsettng the boat The
men fought desperately and narrowly escaped with
their lives The wicked seaons are little ahead Of
the season.
A STANDARD rose. said to have been planted by
Charlcmagre, is Of the great euricsities Of the
ancient city Of Hildesheim. In Hanover. This rose
bush is gnarled and rugged. becomes It's extreme
age, and in places the principal stem is thick
IS mans body. II grows at the eastern side of the
Sc Of the cathedral and this year the venerable and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04
founded on a gross and bloody outrage upon
public rights" TIE appointment of this man
to federal Office, after his speech at Rich
mond, is an infamous shame and outrage.

PRESIDENT JOHNSON was holly opposed to
the fourteenth amendment, and at the time
of its adoption was on the worst possible
terms with the Republican party. If he had
conceived the doctrine now advanced by Mr..
Garland, that his pardon overrode the amend
ment, he would, perhaps, before its formal
PRONUNCIATION, have pardoned every rebel in
the land; but at that time no such doctrine
was dreamed of by any one. Reverdy 10 hn-
son, Thomas A. Hendricks, James Guthrie,
Edgar Cowan and Doolittle, of Wisconsin,
were all in the Senate-all able lawyers
all voted against the amendment but not one
OF them suggested doubt of its full force and
effect.-New York Tribune.
The Tribune's argument is sound, but its
facts are awry. Mr.. Johnson's proclamation
of amnesty was issued July 4, 1868, and the
fourteenth amendment was proclaimed July
20, 1868; so, as matter of fact, Mr.. johnson
had pardoned every man in the Rebellion ex-
cept Jefferson Davis before the amendment
became operative. No man ever dreamed
that that pardon obviated the necessity for
congressional removal of disabilities before
any man of the interdicted class could hold
Office. The opinion of Attorney general Gar
land stultifes his senatorial career, and it is
the veriest and trashiest sophistry. It is re-
pudiated in the South.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

venerated object has put forth several and thrifty
shoots Fears have been entertained for long time
past that after its life Of thousand years the plant
was losing its vitality. But now it is taking new
lease of life and there is JOY in Hidesheim The gar
dener in charge is strictly forbidden to give away
cutting and its flowers the very sweetest Of their
kind, are jealousy guarded from vandal hands.
DURING Mr.. Surgeons late visit to San Reno,
crossing the italian frontier he was ordered by the
douaniers to give up choice fruit which he was
| carrying. Not wishing to do this he retraced his
steps half dozen PAGES into French territory and
seating himself by the waysde ate the fruit and then
crossed the frontier untaxed
AT a recent party in Florence, given by well-known
and popular people, lady, when leaving said to q
friend as they went down stairs: Never was more
bored in my life" The host who CHANGED to be just
behind chiu ed in with: Sorry hear that. Count
ess, but" looking at his watch sit is 12:45, so that
you might easily have gone at least hour ago."
New YORK Tribune A member of church not a
thousand miles from this city was talking with his
pastor the other day about excellent but somewhat
aggressive lady of the parish After descanting at
length on her virtues, he concluded by saying I'm
fact she may be called the salt Of the earth. Yes
responded the clergyman. quickly, land the pepper,
too"
CAPTAIN EPHRAIM d. ELLSWORTH and his WIFE, the
parents of Colonel E. E. Ellsworth, who lost his life
in that famous staircase at Alexandria, at the out
break of the war; are living at Mechanicsville In a
comfortable little cottage adorned with numerous
mementoes sacred to the memory Of their gallant son.
whose monument can be seen from of the win
dows.
GENERAL MIDDLETON, who at last accounts, was
pursuing the Indians in the Northwest with q small
body of mounted men, is English officer of consid
cradle experience, having served in New Zealand
against the Maoris in 1S45 and 1916 and also in
the Indian mutiny. In the latter he took active
part in the siege of Lucknow, and was recommended
for the Victoria Cross.
TRAVELLERS in Dalmata years ago noticed
large tracts of land covered by wild flower near
which not sign of insect life visible The bloom
was the pyrethrum whose odor deals death to the
lower forms of fe and whose powdered leaves forms
the basis of insect powders The seed of this flow
er has been distributed in the United States, and a
Dalmatian has been growing it with great in
Stockton Cal.
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clothing, and the city that would escape wide
spread contagion must expend money and
labor to znake cleanliness possible. The stingy
policy is the dangerous policy. The plague of
cholera would have no inception but for the
filth and wretchedness among the people
where it is incubated, and it would find no
lodgment but for filth and poverty Of the
cities in its march. The lesson is to be clean
in your person and your surroundings, and to
eat well and sleep we'll. Life will be worth
living under such conditions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

The New York Graphic gives full page
picture of Carl Schurz, with wings on his
shoulders, and beer, pretzels and bologna in
the foreground. Beneath is the following
legend:
0?-"Gentlemen of the Reform Club,
let us keep our eyes firmly fixed upon high
objects, and then 60 resolutely ahead. From
Carl Schurz's Speech at Boston.
According to the way Schurz was estimated
early in the campaign by his Democratic allies,
5000 might well have been considered cheap.
They took him at his own price, and if they
have since discovered that they did not get
the worth of their money, both policy and
decency would suggest silence as the better
part.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

A sALooN1sT communicates the probable
fact to the Journal that there are in the city
eighty drug stores, seventy of which violate
the law by selling intoxicating drinks without
paying State, county or city license. Why do
not the good temperance people devote some
Of their spare time to these law defying drug
gists-a list of whose names we should very
much like to publish.-The People.
The names of these offending druggists are
not easily obtained. There is no register Of
them, as there is of saloon-keepers, who have
to procure license. The saloon men claim
to know them. Let them proceed against
them with the law, and they will have the
Journals earnest support. Or, let them give
us the names, with the proof, and we will
gladly publish them. The druggist who sells
liquor as beverage should be known, prose-
cuted and punished He is worse than q
saloon keeper.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

The epidemic at Plymouth, Pa, is still
raging. AT the close of last week there were
over 600 cases, 100 new cases being reported
on Friday. That town is paying fearful
penalty for failure to properly drain the place
1t costs money to take care of cities, and it is
in no sense economy to fail to make needed
improvements. The man who would get good
service out Of beast feeds him we'll the man
who would be vigorous and healthy must
treat himself well in the matter Of food and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

A LARGE number Of the pulpits Of New
York city were yesterday given up to a
discussion of 'the aggressions of Jesuitical
Romanism upon civil and religious liberty, and
its efforts to destroy our unsectarian institu-
tions," in compliance with call from the
Evangelical Alliance of the United States
The subject was suggested by the passage Of
the 'freedom-of- worship" bill by the New
York Senate, and its timeliness is not alto
gether lost in the defeat of the bill by the As
eembly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04
OUR SHORT STORY SERIES.

The series of short stories by American
authors, now printing in the Saturday edition Of
the Journal, is, in all respects, the most no
presented to American readers. It is far in ad.
vance of what any of the monthles attempt, and
really is more than all of the three leading
magszines-the Atlantic, the Century and Har-
pers-print To show the extent, variety and
character of the series, we give below schedule
Of the stories arranged for May, June and July,
and invite the attention of the public to it:
RICHARD MALCOLM JoHNsToN-May 10-17-
''The Townses.' A Middle Georgia Story,
by Richard Malcolm Johnston author OF the
famous "Dukesborough Tales" This snakes
the twentiethc CT these tales. Nine appeared
in the old Southern Magazine, seven in
Harper's and three in The Century, the last
two appearing in The Century for September
tive of Georgia. The "Dukesborough" of
his tales is Powelton. the village nearest
which he was born. His stories are full of
humor, pathos, dialect customs ideas and
life Of the old settlers of Middle Georgia.
MARY E. WILKINs-May PA Wayfaring
E. Wilkins. Miss wilkins has contributed
for years to Harpers and the Wide-Awake
Her themes are invariably found among the
common lives of CHARACTERISTIC New England
trayed so tenderly and truthfully the hopes,
aspirations, sufferings and struggles, the
pathos, tragedy and humor of New England
village life. Her recent contributions are
Gatherer of Simples," and "a Souvenir" in
Harper's for October. 1884, and March, 1885,
respectively. She has contributed -Four
True Early New England Stories to the
current numbers of Wide Awake.
MARY HARTwELL CArHERwooD-June IA
l1v1 to-
Story by Mary Hartwell Catherwood. From
her home in the West Mrs. Catherwood has
written stories of Western life and charac-
ter that have found acceptance in Harper's,
Lippineott's, Wide-Awake and The Wheel,
man. Her work has a distinct, individual
flavor. both of style and subject, that is
delicious Her story is rather exciting, but,
at the same tiIne pure and elevated.
HLLEN Hunt JACKSON - June 8.-"Dandy
Steve" A Story of she .Adirondacks, by
reputed author of the "s,axe Holm stories,
Ramona" ETC., ETC., will surely be well
come
ALEX. DUKE BAILIE-June 15.-"Nora" A Tale
of the Pennsylvania Coal Mines, by Alex.
Duke Baille. Colonel Bailie is more diStin
guished as fighter than as writer, but
his story will prove one of the most power
full refined and tragic of the series. 1t was
secured through the kindness of Brander
Matthews. 1t is by literary bohemian,
whose name is new to the literary world,
: and it is, perhaps, the best story of the
year. 1t is told in the Scotch dialect
CHARLES EGBERr CRADDoCK-July and 13-
"a Story of the Tennessee Mountains" by
Charles Egbert Craddock. Miss Murfree is
undoubtedly the great literary card of the
season. Her two serials now running in
the Atlantic and Wide Awake show her
acknowledged power.
The dates June % and 90 will be taken up by
stories from Julian Hawthorne and Harry
w. FRENCH.
These stories will be printed in the SATUR-
DAY EDITION OF THE JOURNAL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

BAyLEss w. HANNA, minister to Persia
has shown his contempt for civil-service rules
by working for the ousting of the postmaster
at Charlottesville to make room for man to
whom he is personally indebted for past
favors. 1t is said Of Mr.. Robinson, the pres
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

HENRY norman, of Chicago, deserves a place
high on the honor roll. In 1874 he failed in bus
mess for $4,000 and compromised with
his creditors at fifty cents on the dol
lar. He Immediately set to work re-
building his fortune, and recently started
East to pay off the old claims, which he was not
obliged to liquidate. His son, speaking of the
trip of his father, says
81 have not heard much from father since he
went away. He writes however, that he never
had such pleasant trip in his life. Everywhere
he has met with an enthusiastic reception, and
the men whom he has paid have not been able to
do enough for him. A statement was made in one
of the evening papers that he was going to pay
up half of the old debts That is an injustice,
as he has paid them in full far, and intends to
find out every claim against him and pay every
cent of it at once. One incident in Boston
where he now is, he says more than compensates
him for the whole $38, 900. creditor whose
name forget who at the time of the settlement
was disposed to be very easy with him, has since
died and left alarge family in rather destitute
circumstances. Father did not know of this I'M
til he reached Boston and hunted them up. The
meeting between them when he gave the poor
widow his check for the amount due, which
believe was about $4,000, you can imagine bet
ter than l can describe. 1t will be the happiest
day of his life when he gets back to Chicago
and has the satisfaction of feeling that he owes
NO man dollar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

THE New York Evening Post says that
Richmond, Va, is the proper place for Mr..
Kelley; but Grover Cleveland and Mr.. Bayard
think that the capital Of Austria is the proper
place to send man as an official representa-
tive Of a government which, he says, is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

THOMAS F. BAYARD will go into history as
scriptive and altogether contemplate Secre-
tary of State the country ever had. 1t is one
of the remarkable things how soon the lions
skin he has been wearing so long was stripped
from him after he assumed place in which
he was not longer able to masquerade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

IT is stated that the principal reason tend
ing TO the appointment of Judge Merrick to
Judge Wylie's place on the District SUI
preme bench was, he had been legislated
out of Office because of his disloyalty He
was such an intense and bitter rebel that he
would not administer the oath OF Office to
Treasurer Spinner Yet, this is reform
administration
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

ent incumbent, that he is an excellent official,
and that no fault lies against him. 1t is GER
tain, however, that he win have to go, though
his term does not expire for two years yet
Democratic reform requires that Democrats
be rewarded for what would be odious partisan
ship in Republicans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

GEN; JNo' c. New, who will be taken as good
Republican authority, said few days ago to a
gentleman in Indianapolis '"rhe Republican
official who does not resign in the present cir
cumstances is disgrace to his party and ought
to be kicked out, as of course he will be sooner
or later. New Albany Ledger.
We have no idea where the Ledger got its in
formation. Mr.. New not only never said any
thing of the kind, but never dreamed of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

MARK the prediction: The saloon keepers
of indianapolis will see the day when they
would be glad to pay license of 800 and
agree to close at the hour now fixed by law.
That day is being fastened by the concerted
saloon opposition to bearing its just burden
of taxation, and the repeated and defiant VIC
lation OF law
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

IF the Senate of the United States does not
promptly and peremptorily reject the nomina-
ton of Anthony M. Kelley to be minister to
Austria, then the power of that body to adj
wise and consent to presidential appointments
should be done away with for very decencys
sake
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

The man who so confidently predicted that
winter would suddenly drop into summer
without the Intervention of spring, was badly
mistaken. Indications are that winter will
last all summer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04

THE sermon of Rev. DR.. Talmage, preached
yesterday, and printed this morning is on the
subject of Good and Bad Amusements." It
is particularly timely, and will attract wide at
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-01
Grover Cleveland.

Grover Cleveland as candidate for
the presidency, according to American
usage, was fitting subject of ridicule,
and it was perfectly proper to use him
as target tor abuse. The same might
be said of Mr.. Blaine, St John or Ben
Butler. To have treated q candidate
for the presidency otherwise would
have been decidedly un-American if
not unpatriotic. But the situation is
changed, and Mr.. Cleveland is now the
President elect of the United States,
and, after the 4th of March next, will
be the lawful head of this government;
and a proper regard for decency de-
mands that ridicule and abuse on the
part of those who were opposed to his
election should now cease, and we have
no respect for those journals that con-
tinue to make sighting illusions to him.
As President elect he is entitled to the
respect of all good citizens, irrespective
of party, and the illusions to his private
record and the coarse jokes that were
perhaps not improper before the Ameri-
can people had passed upon that gen.
tleman as u candidate, now that the
people have elevated him to the chief
magistracy of the Republic, are un-
patriotic. Should Grover Cleveland
prove himself q wise and patriotic
President, as every good citizen should
hope he may, the people may well be
satisfied to leave Mariah Halpin and
her boy out of the administration, and
eonsign them to oblivion rs far as poll
ties are concerned. AS humiIiating as
the facts in regard to that unfortunate
scandal were to Mr.. Cleveland, let it be
remembered to his credit that he was
possessed of too much manhood to deny
them, as hypocrite would have done
under similar circumstances. More
than one half of the reading people in
the United States believe that Henry
Ward Beecher was not possessed of any
such masliness when he was once placed
in similarly trying situation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-01
Jacks Plum.
HE NEW VERSION AND THE OIL,


Chicago Herald:-Liliputian jackson
Horner occupied position in one of
the angularities Of the domicile. The
position was neither rccumbent nor
standing. 1t was one of the numerous
holidays which occur, and on this occa-
sion the adolescent was gratifying the
desire Of his appetite by commanding
a combination of flour, butter. eggs,
soda and the necessary concomitants
which the captain of the culinary de-
partment finds it necessary to arrange
in order to make what is known to
connoisseurs as pastry, but among the
vulgar as pie. BY some dexterous man.
ipulation of the muscles of one of his
arms, young Homer contrved to bring
in obedience to his mental command a
peculiar movement of one Of the digital
attachments Of his anatomy. This he
inserted in the aperture created by an
expansion. Secreted somewhere in the
recesses of this the heir apparent of the
Horner estate was one of the horticul-
tnral variety known as the damson OF
plum. Young Horner removed the
fruit and calculated as he did SO that in
his estimation he was wiser than the
children of light, and that his reputation
for virtue, truth and veracity was one
OF the most eminent type.
Or, if you prefer the old style
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner eating Christ
mas pie;
He put in his thumb and pnled out plum
And said: What good boy am y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-01
TreaSOn HOnnred.

Areputed quotation from Mr.. Blaine's
book entitled Twenty Years in Con-
gress," is going the rounds of the
Democratic press, in which the author
is made to say of Thomas A. Hendricks,
that che was in favor of vigorous
prosecution of the war, and had the
friendship and confidence of the la
mented Lincoln.n For the sake of Mr..
Blaine's honor and reputation for
patriotism and truthfulness, we are
glad that his book does not contain any
such statement. or any words that
could possibly be construed as express
ing any such falsehood. In the face
of the facts of Hendricks well-known
disloyalty during the war, had Mr..
Blaine made any such statement he
would have deserved and secured the
contempt of every patriotic citizen OF
the land. Hendricks disloyalty during
the war, alone, gave him that promi.
hence which resulted in his final eleva-
ton to the Vice Presidency, by the
votes of every disloyal state in the
Union.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-01
Stages of Architecture.

America is to-day in the second
stage of national architecture. In this
stage the general idea is in the fineness
of the materials used. The nation still
wants big things, but they must be
made of the finest marbles and the
most highly polished woods. The third
stage in which fineness of material and
grandeur of size are combined in har-
monious artistic beauty America has
not yet reached. All of our public
buildings are like the works of pauper
who has suddenly become a millionaire.
Money is thrown around profusely and
extrayagantly. more for the sake of
showing that the man has money than
for the accomplishment of any beauti-
full end. Look at our public buildings
both here and in other great cities!
They are big and costly, and the glitter
of marble and the gilt of varnish and
veneer runs through them all. There
is little artistic conception in them and
their interiors are as a rule comfortless,
cherries and i'll adapted to the pur-
poses for which they were designed.
CIcUelGnd Leader.