The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01

out at once ne would be compelled to drive off
and leave him. In this way he annoyed
Slaughter exceedingly, but never saw man
enjoy practical joke as he did that one At
the end of the afternoon he collected his $40,
and with the remark that ne hoped the work
had beeG satisfactorily performed, left Slaughter
where he had taken him in"
'Mr. Moody's adhesion to the gospel is the
Catholic way of teaching said Bishop Chatard.
HE has in some way acquired some of the
simple, effective methods Of the Brethren of the
Sacred Heart" Another gentleman, a layman,
said Mr. Moody's stories from life, from his own
experience, and his earnest manner of telling
them, remind me of the old Washingtonians who
swept tho country many years ago"
This snow" said General Fred Knefler, the
other day, reminds me of another February
snow twenty years ago, at Fort Donelson.
was going over the field after the battle, when
came across o stalwart rebel lying upon his
back in the snow. He was two or three inches
above six feet in height, dressed in Davy
Crockett style, and had an old fashioned rife and
powder-horn He wore a coon-skin cap with
the tail of the coon attached and had fallen in
so graceful attitude that he seemed merely
resting and not dead. l went near to him. He
had been shot by one Of our sharp-shooters in the
wound was so small that it did not disfgure.
His eyes were wide open. 1 can never describe
that stare. 1t has often haunted me ever since.
Shut my eyes at any time, and | can bring up the
picture of that dead mountaineer with those
supernatural, never-winking eyes,"
''The Republicans are already casting about
for candidate for mayor" said a prominent To-
cal politician to the Odds and Ends man. al
though the election is several months off, there
are at least dozen gentlemen who want the
nomination and are laying wires for it, Among
the names mentioned in connection with it by
those who have Il desire to good man get it
are those of Gen. Geo +. McGinnis John Caven,
N. S. Byram, Brainard Ro1sou, H. B. Stout,
Mayor McMaster, Police Commissioner Nor
rison, W. w. Herod and Ed Dean.
r. o. Johnson, of the Institution for the Deaf
and Dumb, has kindly given the writer these in
teresting facts: In 1880 there were only 141 deaf
mutes in Indiana. In 1880 there were l, 764.
There are now about 1900. The rate of popula-
ton in Indiana since 1880 has increased annually
at the rate of 400. The deafmute popula-
ton has increased annually at the rate of 99100.
Up to 1860 majority of the deaf -mute cases
were congenital. Since that date two-thirds
OF the cases have been produced by
Sickness, cnleny cePeOrO-Splnal menln-
gifts and scarlet fever The increase
seems to follow in waves succeeding epdemics
of these diseases. There are now about 800 pu-
pills at the institution. There are in addition,
constantly on file at least $50 applications for
admission. The institution can only take,
each year, about the same number of pupils as
goes out This is deplorable state of affairs.
Additional room is needed badly, and has been
ever since 1878, at which time plans were drawn.
Seventy-fve thousand dollars would put up the
needed building, but nothing is expected of the
present legislature
For long tme ex-Sheriff Henry G. Adams
has carried policy for So. 600 in the New York
Life Insurance Company. For several weeks he
has been sick and confined to his house. He has
been wholly unable to attend to business, but on
last Monday, the last day on which payment
of the premium could be made, q
friend, John Leonard, custom house officer,
called to see Mr.. Adams who gave him
money, and requested him to call upon the agent
and make the payment. Mr.. Leonard called
upon Mr.. Dean on Tuesday, and that gentleman
refused to take payment saying Mr.. Adams's
policy had expired, and he would have to rein
sure. Mr.. Adams is aware that if he had been
in health, even if the time had been week or
two over, the payment would have been accepted