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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

THE Journal makes very funny break this
morning In stating that the success Of Jewett
is rebuke to the revolutionary, reeking crowd
of bummers who. under the leadership of By
mum and Moody, defeated the appropriation
bill, etc. Mr.. Jewetts most earnest champion
was Bynum, and Moody joined the procession
in time to shout over his triumph. News.
Possibly you may not know all. It may be
true that Bynum was an advocate of Jewetts
election now. If he was, it shows the versatil
ity of the man. But two years ago Mr..
Jewett was the leader of those few
Democrats who tried to head off the
party majority in their revolutionary proceed
ings against the appropriation bill~ and the
language he used openly in reference to
the course of the Speaker and the feather head
Moody, during the exciting hours Of the last
Saturday night session, was at once vigorous
and uncomplimentary. Possibly, if the
words uttered not in debate were made public,
Mr.. Jewett's election would not be regarded
rs vindication of Bynum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09
"Detsy and / Are Out"
washington Post.

Since Ex-Governor Crosby, of Montana, has
been appointed First Assistant Postmaster gen.
eral, there has been considerable suppressed
amusement and gossip in tho Postoffice Depart
ment His idiosyncrasies among them an over
drawn fondness for the title of Governor.
have been such as not only to attract the atten-
ton of the clerks and officials, but have been
made the subjects of paragraphs by CORE
spondents who did not have the fear of the First
Assistant Postmaster-ge and Ex-Governor
before their eyes This has led to trouble. He
suspects that Chief Clerk Walker has caused
these publications, and the two gentlemen have
therefore ceased official intercourse This Is
greatly to the detriment of the smooth transao-
ton of business before the Postofice Depart.
mont
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

THE New York World, paper that on Tues
day was careful to say There are said to be-
1,189 chapters in the Bible" on Wednesday
speaks up like an orator on a topic with which
it evidently is more familiar. 1t informs A. W.
that ga man who opens Jackpot on less than
jacks cannot win it under any circumstances
He must put into the pot fine equal at least to
twice the ante" To another correspondent 1t
vouchsafes the information that 1T costs twice
the ante to come in if there is blind, twice
that and no more; if there is a straddle, twice
that and no more. When the end comes every
player must have up the same amount" This
jargon is all Greek to simple minded Western
people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

a YOUNG man of twenty-five, in Pennsylvania,
has been disinherited by his wealthy uncle,
whose only heir he was, simply for the reason
that he has been married three times in two
years When the first wife died he married her
sister, and she, also, soon departing this life, he
persuaded their widowed young step-mother to
console him by becoming number three The
elderly uncle might it is supposed, have forgiven
the third marriage had he not become enraged
in trying to figure out what was the relationship
10y marriage between himself and his nephew's
wife and step-mother-inlaw.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09
GRANTS GALENA HOUSE.
Fears that 1t, Too, Must Be Placed In the
Hopper of the Mills of the Gods.

Galena Letter in New York Telegram.
Considerable anxiety is felt here lest General
Grants residence in this city, presented to him
by his Galena friends, be swallowed up in the
mselstrom into which his property is likely to be
cast for the benefit of his creditors. The house,
while not the finest in the city, is, however
pretty one, built of brick and stands upon the
most slightly and beautiful spot in town It
overlooks the entire country for miles around
and can be seen. when the leaves are off thu
trees, from almost every point of observa
ton. The residence, furnished handsomely
from top to bottom, was given to
Grant when he was general of the
army. 1t was occupied from time to time by the
illustrious owner during his periodical sojourns
in Galena and was last vacated by him when ne
removed TO New York 1t is now the home of
Rev. Ambrose G. Smith. pastor of South Pres
byterian Church of Galena. a warm friend of
the General, who has it rent free Much of the
original furniture remains in the house, also
many articles of brc-a-bric and curio, which
were presented to the General and Mrs. Grant
before and during their trip around the world.
The principal things of value, however, were
forwarded to New York at their request.
The residence is great object of inter est to
tourists, hundreds from all parts of the world
visiting and inspecting it annually. In this re-
spect it divides honors equally with the more
unpretending little brick house on the west side
of the river, which was the Generals first homo
in Galena when he was clerkng in his fathers
leather store at $40 month
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

THE contested election case from the Fourth
Alabama district was settled yesterday, by
BUSTING the Democrat, Shelley and giving
the seat to the Republican contestant. This
is the case so fully explained in the Washing
ton special of the, Journal recently, where
more than ten thousand Republican votes
were coolly thrown out. The out
rageous feature of the affair is that the
Democrat has been holding his seat, voting
and misrepresenting his district for the entire
term, with the exception Of paltry thirty
days at the end of the last session The Of
tense of such crimes as this against the suf-
frageis rank and smells to heaven 1t is folly
to think that the country will not have to
make full expiration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

WHY can we not have the game laws en-
forced in Indiana as they are in New York;
Two young men went out from the metropo-
lis, last Sunday, and succeeded in killing the
only wild duck they could get sight of. For
this they were arrested, and fined $25 each.
Worse still, the duck was confscated. The
game and fish laws of this State want to be
enforced. At present they are as dead as the
statutes for the regulation of the whisky bust
uaes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

The Reagan interstate commerce bill passed
the House, yesterday, by such a decisive ma
jority as indicates that the time has come
when the law-making power of the country
proposes to take hold of the monopoly ques-
ton with grip that means something. This
particular bill may be very faulty, and we
think it is; but there must be an end to the
exactions, the extortions, the determinations,
the favoritisms, the abuses, the outrages, the
crimes of the great railway corporations. The
power of Congress must and will be exerted
in some corrective way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09
RUMoRs are rife that the New Orleans ex-

RUMoRs are rife that the New Orleans ex-
position is likely to become a financial failure,
the expenses of running it exceeding receipts
by 81, 900 day. 1t is a little early yet to de-
termine what the patronage will be. The
country has known that the great exhibit is
as yet incomplete, and not all in position.
This has retarded visitors. Then, too, the
unfavorable weather usually experienced in De-
cember and January kas caused many to
delay going until later. The managers may
expect large increase Of business during the
four months succeeding January. 1t is to be
hoped the exposition will prove the financial
success it deserves to be. 1t Is probably one
Of the greatest exhibitions Of the kind in the
worlds history, and will repay all the expense
Of going to see it, The city, the country
adjacent, the great river a sail on the gulf,
the great display of the worlds products and
the delightful trip through the sunny South
combine to present numberless aIluring
pleasures to the Northern visitor, and will
leave pleasing reoollections that years will not
obliterate. We are anxious that the expo
sition shall be success in every particular.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

The Pope's reply to the address of the
Young Mems Catholic Societies." presented
by delegation ON Tuesday, urges them to be
Oh their guard, and to put the people on their
guard against ins;dious doctrines of social
ISM" The unyielding conservatism of the
rapacy and of the Catholic Church, how
ever it may obstruct healthy progress in some
directions, is unquestionably the strongest
and surest reliance of the rational world
sgsinst the prevalence of the wild libertinism
and destructive tendencies of such fanatics
as the Communists and dynamite revolutions
ists. While the authority of the church is recog-
.nized, there Is no danger of sincere Catholics
going of into any Of these speculative tan
trums. And it is among those of the social
,cendit;en Of the great body of the Catholics
ia this country that such dangerous sallacies
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

THE absolute worthessness Of spools" in
the railway business is understood by most
people who know their history, and acknowl
edged by all except those who are interested
in keeping up the agreements. pools" do
not maintain rates, nor do they prevent
favoritism and discrimination. When B. D.
Brown, the grain dealer, failed a little
while ago, 1t was discovered that he
had due him about $4,000 in
rebates" and within day or two
a suit has been entered by a leading shipping
firm for S., 900 rebate claimed to be due on
contract with an agent. 1t is no secret that
special terms are given to special shippers,
the pool rates to the contrary notwith-
standing Another thing: whenever it
is proposed in Congress or in Legis-
lature to enact any law for the
control of railways, every railroad man in the
country is up in arms against the idea Of at
tempting to legislate against the great laws of
business which control and must forever con-
troll transportation. Yet all pools" are just
such arbitrary and artificial interferences
with those natural laws. Every effort
to form tpool," or to enter into an iron-clad
agreement, is in the teeth of the protestations
made against the action of the State and Ma
ton. The railway corporations of the coun-
try will have to make up their minds to the
fact that the law is to take hold of them in
some way or other, in the interests of the
people, from whom they derive their rights
and to serve whom they exist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

A New JERSEY court was suddenly adj
journed yesterday, after charge made by the
counsel in certain important case that the
jury had been tempered with by the judge on
the bench. Whether duel or commitment
to Jail for contempt will be the result is not
known, but the public would like to inquire,
meanwhile, if this Judge is the celebrated
Jersey Justice" we hear SO much about.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

ONE game after another has been ruled by the
Harvard faculty from the list of sports in which
intercollegiate participation is allowed, until
now, with the prohibition of football, the hopes
and ambitions of the students are blasted. They
may still play any of the athletic games among
themselves, but henceforth there can be no con-
tests with students of rival institutions in any
sport, except it be marbles, which recreation has
somehow been overlooked. The disappointed
Harvard boys now expect nothing else than the
speedy decay of their college.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

put in circulation in the hope that it would
tend to swell the box receipts, whereas the
lady in question is happy in the possession OF
an unblemished reputation. The shame of
such ruse ought to be more upon the public
than the stage. The attempt is evidently
suggested by a thorough study of the theater-
going public. more's tie shame What has
society come to, that it has to be baited with a
scandal, and lured to the play house as buzz
zard to its disgusting feast2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

AND so Sergeant Hotnorth, who tempered
with Lieutenant Greely's private papers, has
been dismissed from the service Served him
right The discipline is little severe, per-
haps, but his example viii serve as a warning
to other ill-regulated persons who have never
realized the saeredness of private correspond
enco. aud undertake the role of detective or
seek to crafty petty curiosity at the expense
of gentlemanly honor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

THE American public will take cum grano
the statement that English detectives have
discovered dynamite society in Pennsylva-
MIA, whose sworn purpose is to furnish large
quantities of that explosive to blow UP Lon
don. When English detectives shall have
succeeded in capturing one Of the men who
are engaged in terrorizing Londoners, and
who stand infinitely greater chance of detec-
ton than would any Organization" in Penn
sylvania, we may then consent to
accept the story that they have run down a
coterie of conspirators OH this side the Allan
tic. Truth compels the assertion that the
average British detective is even more stupid
than his American brother, else the Scotland
Yard men would long since have had more
tangible evidence of the perpetrators of the
outrages in London than the evidence of some
Tom, Dick or Harry, who saw "a man"
with an american bag" or found
the wheels of an 'infernal machine
evidently of american make" the latter al
ways turning out to be nothing more formid-
able than the running part of clock or the
mounting of fshing-reel. There is no need
of coming to America until Paris and Brus-
sells have been searched. and no occasion to
proceed even that far before sitting London.
There are ten ''conspirators" in Paris to where
there is one in America. fact to which our
pride ascribes the small amount of damage
done An American. we are prone to believe,
would have accomplished something by this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

GOVERNOR PATTlsoN, of Pennsylvania in.
ficted a message ten columns long upon his
helpless Legislature, on Friday. A large por-
ton Of it, according to an irreverent cor
respondent was made up of sass to the
Legislature Of last year for their shortcomings,
and as most CT the offending members of that
session had not been returned by their eons;it
uents, the reprirnau5s fell somewhat fat, Tie
duty of your true reforlner is to blow and
blogiate at the beginning. instead Of the close
Of his official career. BY neglectiag to Oh
serye this great rule. Goysrnor Iallison has
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

TIE proposition to reward Rev. O. III. P. Alb
bott for having been consistently and promi-
nently out Of harmony with the loyal sentiment
of the people of Indiana, failed in the Senate
yesterday. His great prayer before the Demo
with cheers by. the very hungry and very
thirsty mob. still remains uncompensated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

One OF the members of the State Board of
Agriculture is reported to have said, touching
the Governors failure to appoint one of the
mummies commissioner to New Orleans: eff
the board stands SO low as not to be fit to be
called upon at a time like that it would be
better to wipe it out of existence To this
sentiment there viii be a general chorus of
assent from all over the State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

The Legislature organized. yesterday, in
accordance with the results of the Democratic
were introduced but the work of legislation
will not be fairly begun until after the inaug
uration of the Governor and Lieutenant-gov-
ernor on Monday next. The message of
Governor Porter will be read to the General
Assembly in the House of Representatives
this morning at half-rast 10 o'clock
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

IT is claimed for Hon. w NJ. Evarts that
he has ffty-four votes pledged to him of the
Republican members of the New York Legis-
islature. The contest seems to have mar
rowed down to Mr. Evarts and Mr. Levi P.
Morton Mr.. Evarts says he is in the race to
beat or be beaten, and that no compromise
man can come in and carry off the honor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

IT would be peculiarly graceful and fitting
that Mr. Blaine he invited to deliver the ad-
dress at the dedicatory services of the Wash
ington monument. He ispre- eminently fitted
for it in every particular, and it is safe to pre-
dict that his address would be memorable
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

are most prevalent and dangerous. The we'll
to do citizen, whatever his theories of govern
ment and political economy and Rousseau's
'Contrat Sociale' may be- is very unlikely to be
found among those who are disposed to upset
things and destroy The tenures of property by
violence. We think the sternest Protestant
must concede the good service of the old
church and it's hierarchy in this regard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

We should like to see Congress with some
sens1bility as we'll as sense. If that body can
not comprehend the spectacle it is making of
this Nation in the eyes Of the world by leaving
the great General and victor of the war for
its salvation unnamed and unhonored by the
military role Of the Republic while he in the
meantime burdened with debt, broken in
health, and crippled in body, hobbies about on
crutches if, we say, our representatives have
10 realization of this situation the impulse OF
sense in the common people ought to find an
expression that will result in realization
News.
The difficulty is that the House is Demo
cratic-the majority made up of men who
We're whipped in the rebellion, and of Northern
sympathizers with them. Neither of these
classes admires General Grant. The House Of
Representatives is eager and ready to pass a
army who Abraham Lincoln said should
have been shot for his misconduct;
but for General Grant whose prowess
saved the government, they have neither care,
sympathy nor votes. The Republican Senate
has passed bill to put Gen. Grant on the re-
tired list, but it was passed over Democratic
opposition. Congress is not to blame; it is the
Democratic House of Representatives., domi-
mated by confederate brigadiers and Northern
opponents Of the war. 1t is these and these
only who are belittling the Nation In the
eyes of the world, and making a spectacle of
their own pusllanimity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

TIE friends of Mr. Beecher. and notably his
new-found friends among mugwumps and
Democrats are overanxious to make it ap-
pear that the detection from his church, on
account of his remarkable departure in in
dorsing Mr. Clevelands published offense, is
mot much of shower after ALL. (" They rushed
forward to make test Of the matter, and ad
vertised that the pew-letting would be the in
dex of his popularity. The plan was shrewd
one to put the adherents Of the Plymouth
pastor on their pride, and to incite them to
that effort necessary to keep the receipts from
showing any marked decline. This being ac-
complshed, they could point to that fact as
an evidence that there was no detection worth
consideration The result shows that with all
the drumming up and extra effort to main
tain the record, the total receipts fell short OF
those of 1884 by nearly $1,000, being the
lowest for eleven years past. Ex-Alderman
Griswold, speaking Of the falling off of re-
ceipts, says:
'The falling off of more than 81, 900 in the
revenue Is very significant. 1t can only be
interpreted as a rebuke to Mr.. Beecher for his
course in the last election. He is an old man,
and cannot regain his influence. Many of the
old members have dropped out, and others,
like myself, bid low or not at all. l will re-
main here because l have nowhere else to 60"
Mr.. Griswold is right. Hard times ordi
narily would have somewhat to do with the
falling off, but this effect must have been
more than discounted by the extra effort put
forth by Beechers friends to bolster his fall
ing fortunes That is but for the urgency
of the occasion, the receipts would have been
very markedly less, for the reason that by
stringency of the times many bidders would
have felt unable to give as much as in former
years, The difference then between the re-
ceipts this year and last must be taken as
some measure Of the detection from the
church and the loss of popularity on the part
of it's pastor
But the true test of Mr.. Beechers lost
prestige must be looked for outside Plymouth
Church and beyond his personal influence,
which in former times was strong enough to
hold to him men who, little further re-
moved, would have been quick to fly from
him. In the eyes of the religious world, in
the respect and confidence of the millions of
moral men and women, Mr.. Beecher has done
himself irreparable harm His offense was not
in going to the aid Of the Democratic party
but as a minister of the gospel voluntarily
aligning himself with confessed
adulterer, and becoming not an apologst
but advocate more on account of his offense
than anything else. The pastor of Plymouth
attempted to put the badge of responsibility
upon fornication and adultery. His action is
without parallel and it is to be hoped, in the
interest Of virtuous women and honorable
men, that no other preacher will ever so far
forget himself and prove so recreant to his
holy mission as to repeat the offense. To say
that Mr.. Beecher has not suffered in the es-
TEEN of the great body Of church men and
women is to libel modern society and make
farce of the teachings of the Bible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09
Only Goes So Far.

st. Louis Globe. Democrat.
The Globe Democrat is accused of calling Me-
John p. st. John traitor to the Republican
party. We have not made any such accusation
against Mr.. st. John. We have said Of him, ia
substance, that he is a mercenary wretch, and o
conscienceless liar. Beyond this we have not
yet gone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

MR. THoMANs speech TO the Democrats
OF Ohio is worth reading He is member of
the Civil-service Commission, and he an
nouuces that there is nothing in the law to
prevent the removal of all the Office holders in
the country in ore day. Mr.. Thoman is
Civil-service Commissioner after Mr.. Hen
drickss own heart
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09
Hard Times for the Female Preachers.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Female preachers seem to be having rough
time of it just now, both here and in England.
People obviously think that such discourses shut
out any call for galantry. Or perhaps they
agree with DR.. johnson, who said that q woman
preaching reminded him of dog walking on it's
hind legs II was not we'll done, but you were
surprised that il should be done at all
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09

THE prosecution of General Swain begins
to assume the appearance of persecution on
Che part Of his enemies. Fearing that he may
BE- acquitted of the charge now trying, they
have raked up another to the effect that he
he keeps but two. This is getting the bust
ness down to contemplate proportions.