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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-25

DORSEY is very bitter over the removal of
Judge Vincent. He said that it was effected
by "a crank named McManuS," who was
angry because Vincent had decided cases
against him. He charges that our own
"Pink' Fishback wrote to Sparks that Vim
cent was "about to allow citizens of New
Mexico to steal their own property Lamar
rushed to the President with the letter. and
Vincent was guillotined within thirty min
utes. Dorsey talks as if he were mad, but
then he must certainly admire celebrity of
movement. We remember when he told
Conner, Republican Committeeman of New
ton County, Indiana, how to give Porter, in
1870, just double the amount of majority that
the county usually gave. 1t was on the Hi
nois State line, and lacked only few days
of the Governors election of that year.
Conner ask ed him how it was to be done.
Dorsey replied: $50 0rer into Illinois and
net fbe rOfeSn
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terms Of Office for any class of public SER
wants is based, at least. upon distrust of the
people. 1t is only another way OF saying
that the masses of mankind are unworthy
and incapable of self government. Granting
that the appointing power may be abused,
that political patronage does not always
light upon the most worthy; the remedy
is to be found in the removal. change aud
expul ion of the appointing power, not in
either limiting or destroying the right of the
majority to say and name who shall serve
them in every capacity.
Reform implies reformation a renewal
or renovation of public functionaries, not a
perpetuity of old ones. A reformation of
the civil service, for the purposes of dis
coyery, integrity and safety will be best pro-
NOTED by complete change Of civil SER
wants. A reform Of the civil service will be
partial and imperfect which stops short of
tliis-it will be perfect, impartial and
thorough only when This is accomplished. q
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VALUE OF OATHS.

Some of the jurors in the trial OF the swim
dler Ward said that 'if Ward had been put
on the stand to testify in his own behalf,
they would have regarded his statements as
neutralizing those of Fish, and would have
failed to convict him. Having no contra
diction of Fish's assertions, they did con-
vict." To our way of thinking there is
nothing creditable to a jurors integrity or
sincerity in such an avowal as this. 1t says
in effect, whether we believed Ward or
not, we would have set his statement against
Fish's, though we may have had good reason
to believe Fish In other words, it counts
every oath of equal value, let
the witness be whom or what he may. 1t is
true that Fish was implicated in Wards
frauds, but it is also true, as was made plain
enough, that the initiative of these frauds,
the plan of them and the process of execut-
ing them, were all Wards He was the
active scoundrel of the set, and by as much
as be was the more Jealous and persistent in
villainy, he was the less entitled to credit
no matter who the contradicting witness
was. But the objection to the view of
jurors duty implied or suggested in the
statement we have quoted, is not affected by
the comparative villainy of opposing
witnesses A Juror is not bound to
under oath at its full dictionary
value, nor to accept one as.equal to another
when they conflict. 1t is his duty to reach
the truth, if he can, and if he sees cause in
the action, the tone, the look of a man, to
think him honest, he may fairly accept that
mans testimony against that of another
equally positive and equally well situated to
know the truth, if in the latter he sees sus-
picious indications. A choice will be made
by any intelligent juror, when the conflict
OF testimony can not be reconciled, and it
ought to be. The community should not be
put to the expense of a second trial. or SUBJ
jecteted to the peril of scoundrel Embossed,
where any fair Interpretation of language
and demeanor, such as every man
will accept in making decisions in
his own affairs, allows a reasonable
belief of evidence. The idea that
one oath is as good, or bad, as another, and
if they conflict neither is to be believed; and
a criminal however notorious, must be ac-
quilted, is monstrous. Oaths in conflict
may be, and frequently are, of equal force or
weakness, and then jury may be honestly
puzzled, but this is a different case from that
made by the New York Juror, who seems to
consider that oaths are necessarily equal,
under the law, whatever they may be under
the construction of common sense. The
long prevalent leinty of legal procedure to
criminals, shown in distractions of con-
viction at every step by presumptions and
advantages allowed the defense, both in the
trial and after it, in arrests of judgment,
new trials, appeals and reversals on technical
points in no way affecting the guilt or in
nocence of the convict, is changing to a
rational SYSTEM of using law and courts to
protect community instead of criminals,
and with this change will disappear such
mischievous notions as that We have been
considering
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BAKER, HonD HrsDrrcks Attorneys for plaintiff.

SBERIFFs sALE-By virtue of certified copy
- of decree TO me directed from the Clerk OF
the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in
a cause wherein The Equitable Trust Company,
etc. is plaintiff, and William II. Hamlin ct al. are
defendants Case No. $685. requiring me to make
the sum OF one thousand eight hundred and one
dollars and thirty three cents 81 sol So With in
terest said decree and costs, Will expose at
public sale, TO the highest bidder, ON
SATURDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF DECEMBER A.
ID. 1885,
between the hours of 10 O'Clock a. m and O'Clock
D. m. of said day, at the door of the Courthouse
OF Marion County, Indiana, the rents and prohts
for Q term not exceeding seven years, OF the FOL
lowing real estate situate in the County OF Marion
and State of Indiana, to-wit:
Lot number twenty-five (72l in So are number
three Isl of Hubbard, Martindale and McCarty
southeast addition to the city OF Indianapolis,
Indiana
If such rents and profits will not sell for sufi-
cient satisfy said decree interest and costs,
will at the same time and place, expose to public
sale the fee simple of said real estate or so much
thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said
decree, interest and costs. Said sale viii be made
without any relief whatever from valuation or
appraisement laws.
GEORGE Fl. CARTER.
Sheriff OF Marion County.
November o. A. d. 1885.
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RAND & WINTERS, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

CHERIFF'S SALE-By virtue of execution to
- me directed from the Clerk OF the Superior
Court of Marion County, Indiana, / will expose
at public sale, TO the highest bidder, on
SATURDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF DECEMBER, A
ID. 1885,
between the hours of 10 O'Clock a. m. and o'clock
p. m. of said day at the door of the Courthouse
of Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits
for a term not exceeding seven years, of the fol-
lowing real estate. in Marion County, Indiana TO-.
wit:
Commencing at the northwest corner of lot
twelve Q2). in square number three 81 of the
original squares of the City of indianapolis;
running thence east one hundred and hfty-five
1851 feet: thence south SiNtv-Seven and ne-half
(67IS feet to the south line OF said lot; thence
west along the south line OF said lot sixty-fve
(65l feet: theI &c north thirty go feet; thence
west ninety five (l5) feet; thence north thirty
seven and one half $40 feet TO the place OF be-
ginni ig.
And on failure to realize the full amount Of
Judgment. interest and costs. | WILL at the same
time and place, expose at public sale the fee SIM
pie of said real estate.
Taken as the property OF Marketable Adams, at
the suit OF : tougnton ). Fletcher ct al.
from valuation or appraisement laws. Cease No.
4,1l7) -
GEORGE H. CARTER,
Sheriff OF Marion County.
November &c, A. D. 1856.
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was necessarily under the domineering in
fuence of Stanton. Its information on
milisary subjects was obtained principally
through his Office, and was deeply colored
by his prejudices. Hence facts favorable to
Mcclellan seldom appeared. while every
thing rejecting upon him his military
character was Published, distorted and
exaggerated to suit the temper of
his great enemy. He lost the Peninsular
campaign by depletion of his forces by or
ders from Washington. And he was finally
peremptorily ordered to withdraw his army
and to retreat on Washington, after his arms
had been crowned by the victory of Malvern
Hill. Similarly, almost Immediately upon
the close of the battle of ADtietam, when,
by one of the most brilliant victories of the
war, he had expelled the invading rebel ar
mics from Maryland and Pennsylvania, and
driven them south of the Potomac
he was deposed from all command, and
forced into retirement which dignity and
self-respect compelled him to spurn by
resignation from the service.
But his brilliant West Virginia campaign
and the two crowning victories of Malvern
Hill and Antietam do not constitute his
only or his greatest military achievements.
Early in the war he was appointed Com
mander-inC hiei of all the Union forces in
the appalling emergency precipitated by the
terrible defeat at the battle of Bull Run.
Upon assuming command his disposition
of his forces was effected with such
celebrity and judgment that the rebel adj
vance, at first only checked, was quickly
rendered impossible. Then commenced the
stupenduous work upon which his true fame
will rest. With almost superhuman energy
he recruited, uniformed organized, discip-
lined created the national army. TWAS the
first great army that had ever appeared on
the American continent, and when it took
the field it was in appointment, discipline
and organization the greatest and finest
army in the world.
But this was only half. Washington was
destitute of defences. He swiftly Cir
died the city with perfect system of
Notifications, which, by its scientific con-
structiOn and impregnable strength, chal-
lenged the admiration of great soldiers
throughout the world.
The current literature of the present period
is burdened with stories of the exploits and
episodes, the marches and battles of that
heroic time Generals have written of their
martial victories, statesmen have recorded
their civic triumphs, and history has been
formed, and is still forming, more accurate,
definite and circumstantial than was ever
before known. But nowhere in all this
vast and priceless mass of narratives
has yet appeared an authentic account of
these two stupendous achievements-the
creation OF the national army, and the for
LITIGATION of the National Capital. To the
hero by whom these mighty works were &C
complished has been committed by common
consent the history of their accomplishment.
In modesty and in silence he has written it
all. And now, that he is dead, the world
for the first time will hear and read it, sealed
in truth and verify by the solemnity of his
death.
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PERSONALS,

CANoN FARRAR made 81, 500 by his lectures
in New York.
THE King of Dahomey has 3, 500 wives The
missionaries are after him.
M. WHISTLER. the artist, is about TO I'M
dertake lecturing tour in America
The Marquis of Lorne has applied for a
patent for an improvement in bicycles.
REPRESENTATIVE O'NErlL, of St. Louis. is
spoken as the funny man of the next session
of Congress.
GEORGE W. CABLE, the novelist, has become
Sunday-school teacher at his lew home in
Northampton, Mass
H. c. BUNNER, the editor of Puck, expects
to become benedict in January. Stove
pipe Jokes will probably follow.
Ms. GEORGE W. CHILDs, of Philadelphia, is
credited with owning the largest, rarest and
richest collection of canes in this country.
GEORGE BARNES, once famous as the Noun
tain Evangelist of Kentucky, is now a mis-
sionary in India for the Church of England.
REV. DR.. JOHN HALL, the leading Presby-
terrain clergyman of New York, has an in
come of 100000, largely from literary work.
Ex-MAYoR PRINCE, of Boston, has given up
yachting and clubs, disposed of his horses
and is fast developing into literary fell
low"
1T would save Sir John Macdonald heap
of trouble il he would let the American press
govern Canada for him. This everwork is
liable to kill him.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has decided to decline
the projected ovation in his honor on the
occasion of the twenty-ffth anniversary OF
his accession to the throne of Prussia.
REvIvALIsT SAM JONES is credited with hay
ing brought about a new blue law which
prohibits the publication and sale of news
papers on Sunday in Birmingham, Ala.
PROFESSOR BERNHARD STUDER, the eminent
Swiss geologist, on the celebration of his
ninety-second birthday, received from the
Council of the Confederation silver cup.
IT is said that Hon W. W. Astor, late
United States Minister to Rome, has written
a novel of Italian life in the Middle Ages,
which is shortly to be printed by Charles
Scribner's Sons.
CoUNr VoN MoLTKE has just celebrated his
eighty-sixth birthday in the bosom of his
family on his Silesian estate The Field
Marshal is still wonderfully healthy and act
i've for his great age.
ACCORDING to a London dispatch the COM
plete correspondence of Carlyle with Goethe
has been discovered in the Goethe archives.
Copies of the original letters of Goethe to
Carlyle were also discovered.
GOVERNOR HoADLY of Ohio, again omits
all reference to God in his Thanksgiving
reclamation. 81 have no right he says,
Ito command the people of this State to
worsl ip God on a certain day
NJ. DE BRAZzA, the African explorer, ar
rived in Paris on Thursday and was given an
ovation. In an interview he said that the
commerce of the Congo region required the
building of railroads for its accommodation.
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR is so bothered by
persons who request him to sign all sorts of
nocuments and petitions that he has made it
his rule, as matter OF self-protection and in
justice to every one, not to sign any petit
ton.
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Get five of your neighbors to take Sentinel
and your own will be paid for.
CONCERNING WOMEN.

THE widow of Baldwin, the great loo )mo-
tive builder, has 100000 to live upon.
MIS-. EMORY SroRRs has already realized
So, 400 from the fund being raised for her
benefit.
WHEN she is home, Judic, the French
actress, bathes in silver bath tub, which
has her monogram in gold.
JAPAN has q society for reforming the style
of dressing the hair of women. The associa-
ton has over 1000 members.
1T is said that Judic learned to play the
banjo in Boston, and aims to astonish Paris
audiences with her new requirement.
A NEW sect has sprung up in Canada whose
doctrine is that women have no souls, be-
cause the Bible nowhere mentions women
angels. The leader is a Frenchman.
NINE. VIARDoT-GARcIA has inherited from
her father the complete manuscript of the
music of the opera of don Giovanni" 1t
is entirely in the handwriting of Mozart him.
self.
EVEN the soft white feathers on the white
wedding gown of Princess Marie of Orleans,
recently married in Paris, were tipped with
silver. The last touch of brightness and
whiteness was given by diamonds.
SPEAKING of superstition, ladies'" said
the minister, do you think any woman
would consent to be married on Friday?"
Yes" spoke up one of the ladies. "She
would-if it was her last chance"
MISS MORGAN, rich New York woman, is
on trial for lunacy, and one of the facts al
legged against her is that she will never go to
bed at night owing cent Of money. Ii
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separate the real American-German, who is
temporarily sojolrning in fatherland, from
the spurious kind that accepts American citi-
zenship in order to avoid the stern require
ments of the German Government. 1t
would require a trial by court in each
case, with even then an occasional
act of injustice to a real American.
The American Government should not inter
fere only on behalf of those German-Ameri-
cans who obtain American citizenship in
spirit as well as form, but it should interfere
and interfere by effective reprisals-in all
cases where true American citizens are in
volved. The danger in the situation lies in
the nearly impossible task of separating
them, which win lead in the German case to
broad measures of prescription, and in the
American to broad measures of protection.
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M,cLELLAN's AUTOBIOGRAPHY,

1t is positively stated upon the best au-
thority that the late General George b.
Mcclellan left an autobiography, complete
at least to the battle of Antietam, the point
at which his military career terminated.
This gives cause for public congratulation.
Perhaps no public man in this country ever
suffered from concurrent history more griev-
Gus injustice than General Mcclellan. He
was the object of the most bitter and unac-
countable hatred OF Edwin NJ. STAN
ton, the great War Secretary, who
not only improved. but created every
conceivable opportunity to embarrass
his military plans and cripple his move
ments. Nothing that General Mcclellan
could do was right in the estimation of the
War Department. The administration press
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caARzEs a. pRrER. Attorney for PlaIntIa.
CHERIFF's SAIL

CHERIFF'S SALE.-By virtue of a certified copy
- of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk OF
the Superior Court of Marion County. Indiana. IN
a cause wherein William K0Ib Is plaintiff. aud
The Pioneer Brass Works ct al are defendants.
lease No. 34 42S), requiring me To make the sum
one thousand seven hundred ana forty-eight dol
lars and twenty-five cents ISl,7432Jl. with inter
est on said decree and costs. will expose at pub
lie sale, to the highest bidder, on
SATURDAY. THE 18TH DAY OF DECEMBER, A.
ID. 1885,
between the hours of 10 O'Clock a. IN. and o'clock
D. m. of said day. at the door of the Court-hotse
of Marion County, Indiana. the rents and Pronts
for a term not exceeding seven years, oil the fol-
lowing real estate t0-wit:
Thirty (SO) feet off of the east side OF lot
numbered forty seven l47l, in outlot one hundreo
and SeYenty-iYe T5l. in the City OF indianapolis.
Marion County, Indiana: also twenty-three l2ol
feet of of the south side of lot numbered twelve
(2l in outlot twentyeight lSl. IN the City oil IN
dianapolis Marion County Ind lana
II such rents and profits will not sell for a sum
Gent sum to satisfy said decree, interest ana costs
/ will at the same time and place, exposeto pup
lie sale the feesimple OF said real estate. or SO
much thereof as may be sufficient 10 discharge
said decree interest and costs. said sale wlll De
made without any relief whatever from valuation
" -rf GEORGE H. CARTER,
kE Sheriff OF Marion County.
Novernber2 % A. ID. 1855. a
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ISAAC L. BLooNEF, Attorney for Plaintiff.


CHERRIES SALE-By virtue of an execution
- (yendl 10 me directed from the Clerk OF the
Superior Court OF Marion County. Indiana, Will
expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on
SATURDAY, THE 10th DAY OF DECEMBER, A. ID.
1885,
Between the hours OF 10 O'Clock a. m. and O'Clock
D. m of said day at the door of the Court house OF
Marion County Indiana, the rents and prohts Tor
a term not exceeding seven years, OF the following
real estate. to-wit:
Ore-eleventh Gid part of the undivided two
thirds ga of the west half OF lot number five l5,
in square number seventy (70l, in the City OF IN
d'anapolis, Marion County, indiana.
And on failure TO realize the full amount OF
Judgment interest and costs, will, at the same
time and place. expose at public sale the lee simple
of said real estate
Taken as the property of James r. Blake, at
the suit of Mary Z. Baty, for the use oil Isaac L.
Boomer.
said sale to be made with relief from valuation
aud appraisement laws. Case No 1857.
GEORGE II. CARTER,
Sheriff OF Marion County,
November %, A. D. 1885.
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The Sentinel and the Farm Guide for sI.s5.
eERMAN-AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.

GERMAN-AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.
There is trouble brewing in the evident in
tent of the German and Austrian Government
in OBTAINING American naturalized citizens
of German origin and compelling them to
serve in the German army. Yet it will not
do to accept every report of such impress
ment as an act of German tyranny, or of
desire on the part Of Germany to avoid
treaty obligations. 1t has been a very
common practice of many Germans, in
order to avoid liability to serve in
the Germany army, to come to America and
reside only long enough to acquire naturali-
cation papers, and then permanently return
to Germany as American citizens, with all
the claims for exemption that the word i'm
plies. 1t is not the business OF America to
critieise the onorous duties of German citi-
zens as parts of despotic military system
nor to abet spirit of evasion of the Ger
man laws, which these cases OF spurious
citizenship involve. Yet, in the
old troubles with England, over the impress
ment of Americans in her navy, this was ex-
actly the position taken by the British Gov
eminent which always assumed that all sea-
men impressed were really English, not
American. 1t is going to be very difficult to
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Wanted. 1000 clubs of six sentinels for S..

BULGARIA is threatened with collapse.
The Servians have turned the most difficult
passes that separates them from Sofia. The
slight resistance made by the Bulgarians at
these points, after months of preparation,
would almost lead one to believe that it
was prearranged that Servia was to occupy
the District of Sofia as an offset to the Bull
garianUnion. Both Russia and Turkey are
making great military preparations, and
this is about the only interesting feature OF
the conflict.
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A Bargain to Farms rs.

The Ohio Farmer, acknowledged to be one
of the most enterprising, reliable, and in
every way most valuable weekly agricul-
tural journal of this country, is offered at
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