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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
THE New York Evangelist says Of the effec'

of high license:
t1n Chicago, where the opposition to the
enforcement of the law was expected to be
most strenuous, the results upon the peace
and order of the city are very noticeable. The
number of groggeries has been decreased by
more than 500, and all of these were of the
vilest kind, while the revenue of the 'city has
increased over 81, 900, 900. In nineteen other
cities and towns there were before the enact
ment of the law 1873 saloons, yielding a reve-
nue. of $89, $50. Now the saloons are reduced
to 46S, while at the same time the revenue
has increased to 1888, 900. The reports all
agree that there is less crime and drunkenness
than before the law was passed. In the larger
cities the number Of arrests has diminished
about 80 per cent. The character of the men
who keep the saloons has also improved. The
business, bad as it is, has become more de-
cent, and the expectation that the liquor-sell-
er who paid a large price for his license
would be interested in driving the unlicensed
men out of the business has been we'll found
ed. The reports furnished give details in
many instances of the practical workings of
the law, and they are uniformly favorable"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

WE have printed no sadder thing, there has
never been preached a stronger temperance
sermon, than the story of the downfall of Bar
ney Macauley, ending in his sentence 10 thirty
days in the Cleveland work house, while suffer
ing almost an attack Of delirium tremens by
reason of excuses in drink. Barney Macauley,
years ago, was as near a perfect type of Amer
lean manhood as could be found. Splendid
physique, rare talent, generous, genial nature,
and an honored place in an honorable profess
sion, he seemed a man to be envied, as he was,
assuredly, a man admired and esteemed. But
he began to drink. He was not strong
enough to play with the devil of alcohol, as
few men are strong enough so to do. Stead
lily, year by year, he has gone
down under the ever-increasing appe-
tite. until now he is in a work-house,
body shattered, mind clouded, temperament
wrecked, and utterly penniless-an object for
pity and aversion. But of how many life his
tories is that of Barney Macauley's an ex-
amplef The planters of the West In
dies used to ply their slaves with liquor
to teach their children the alb
horrence of drunkenness; and so the
press may hold up such terrible pictures as
this of Barney Macauley, in the hope that it
may serve as a warning to some, if not many,
who are taking the first steps in the path that
inevitably leads to disaster. There is nothing
more awful than the spectacle of a ruined
l;f,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
THE Washington Post fe~licitates its party

THE Washington Post felicitates its party
and compliments the President on account of
his expressed determination to 'learn for his
own information and benefit the workings of
every branch of the federal government"
This intention on the part of the amiable
chief magistrate is commendable and highly
gratifying; but has the Post reflected that
there have been Presidents who understood
the workings of every department of the gov
eminent sufficiently for all practical and exec
utive purposes before ever entering the White
Houses Still, there is 40 reason why knowl-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

PosTMASTER-GENERAL Villas has been
reading the postofice directory, and his
aesthetic soul is outraged by the 'Buzzard 5
Roosts." "Tombstones," "Poke Patches" and
other Understanding names attached to many
Of the offices. He will have no more Of such
nomenclature, and petitioners for Offices at
their crossroads viii do we'll to bear this fact
in mind and select none but mellifuous and
noetic names.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
The Holiness People Of Georgia.

The Holiness people, who are recruited from
the Southern Methodist Church, are holding .
convention here, which is developing similas
traits to those of the Salvation Army. Rev.
Miller Willis, one of the number. accosted a
bank president standing on q doorstep reading
the morning paper. Stepping into the door Mr..
Willis, in a warning voice, remarked: Cursed
are the money vendors, for they shall see hell
asked: My friend, where are you going2' IT'D
the courthouse, " was the reply. mo, you ara
not; you are bound for hell" the minister re.
torted. But Mr.. Willis met his match when he
asked a hardened sinner if he did not iced a nav
heart. NO was the reply, ''but ! am badly ia
need of a new liver"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
Clerks Opposed to Promotions.

Washington Special.
There is one little hitch in the ideal of civit
service reform which tie idealists don't seem I'd
have come across yet. They want government
Cabinet officers commission in his desk. For
some reason the department clerks are q unit
against any very high official being taken from
their ranks. 1t has been frequently remarked
how unpopular these officials are who have been
raised from the ranks, and the clerks want the
heads Of bureaus and departments to be taken
from outsiders, untrammelled by any previous
enmities or alliances.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

has repaid the s'liberal element" for securing
his appointment, possibly be can be persuaded
not to further interfere with the orderly work
ing and discipline of the force. He has sufi-
GENTLY shown his sympathy with the liquor
law hreakers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

is the removal of the chief Of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, a practical and ex-
perienced man, and the appointment of a
political ''boss' from Hoboken, N. j. This
is the work of dan" Manning. whose chief
assistant is "Gene" Higgins. Oh, yes; this is
a deeply, darkly, beautifully blue civil-seryice
administration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

IF General Grant should get well-and there
is a shadow of such possibility limited in to-
days dispatches-the people will give thanks;
but the doctors? Who can picture the misery
of the doctors who have doomed him to GER
tain death7
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

Ii his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales,
is a vegetarian, he will probably be cured of
his fancy by the manner in which vegetables
were served up to him at Cork.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
The towards and Ours of Public Life.

1IduIbOH CUuTT6T.
1t occurs to us hat those who take advantage
of privileged positions, such as the Senate cham
Der or the platform give them, in order to assaif
persons debarred of opportunity to respond, are
the towards and ours of public life. A speaker
will not permit an opponent he is attacking to
rejoin a single word in his exculpation or de-
Tense, but an editor gives an antagonist as much
space as he uses himself. 1t is time there was q
reform in this particular.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

GENERAL GRANT astonished his family and
his doctor by walking down stairs and enter
ing the dining-room, whore he took lunch en-
famille. The physical condition of the Gen
eral is really wonderful, and there cannot help
but spSng unbidden in every heart the wild
hope of a possible recovery for the illustrious
Oatient
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

THE Civil-service Commission announces
that Jndiana's quota of clerks in the depart
mems is full. Then what a hollow mockery
it is Tor President Cleveland to refer the clam
oring and hungry Hoosiers to commission
which has nothing to give. Oh, it is pitiful;
in a whole co~untry-full, place there is none.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

PRoF. RAsMUs B.. ANDERSON, of Wiscon-
sin, the new minister to Denmark, denies that
he is mugwump, and declares that he is an
Ishmaelite in politics. To many minds this
will seem a distinction without a difference.
At any rate, a man may be a mugwump and
an Isbmaelite.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
voorhees, Puts ON His War Paint.

LOuisviIle COMMERCIAL.
A letter from Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana,
was exhibited in this city yesterday. and its
war paint on. 1t said that the President
seemed to be bent on making no changes in ofs
Ace except where absolutely necessary, but
added that the verdict of Democrats in Congress
was that every Republican would have to 60.
This would lead to the presumption that unless
Mr.. Cleveland can be persuaded before the next
session he will have a lively time with his party
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
Administrative Luxury.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
Private Secretary Lamont has bought a hand
some fourseated wagon, costing 5000, for the
use OF the employees at the White House. We
shudder as we contemplate the dreadful results
that will follow Secretary Lamar's discovery OF
this vainglorious departure from the rigid SIM
plicity instituted in administrative affairs by the
late Thomas Jefferson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

Thomas F. Bayard, unless it be William 8.
Holman, Of this State. Both men are ex-
amples of how big a hole may be made witla a
very small gimlet by continuous and persist
emit boring. Mr.. Bayard's treatment Of Hon.
George W. Williams, minister to Hayti, is
simply discraceful.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
The Collegiate Windmill.
Dol;o Tr;brra

The Indianapolis Journal is honestly opposed
to ''oratorical contests" and does not hesitate to
say so. Indianapolis has just been bored by one
of these contests" where Demosthnes aad
Cicero were dragged from their graves and
trotted across the stage by windy sophomores
while the usual amount Of plagiarism was ap-
parent. The whole affair ended in a row over
the award, and three or four Indiana colleges
are in Mysteries at the alleged unfair decision Of
the iudpes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

SECRETARY BAYARD is proving himself to
be the narrow-minded, intolerant, bigoted,
contemplate, six-by-nine partisan pig-head
those who saw beneath the veneer Of Della
ware responsibility knew him to be.
There is no man in American
politics who is a bigger fraud than
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

If General Grant should recover, prayer-cure
apostles will claim that they did it. There is a
widespread impression. however, that the posi-
BILE recovery will be due to the poets. 1t is be-
lieved that the General has resolved to get we'll
in order to escape the odes and Zines" which are
being dedicated to him in such appalling profu-
sion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

SINCE the decayed egg episode at Cork, PER-
haps the Prince Of Wales has reconsidered his
determination to visit Ireland at least once
every year hereafter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

st. Paul Pioneer Psess.
There is only one hope for the State of Illinois.
Death may finally wipe out all the members Of
the blue-ribbon nuisance of n Legislature. and
put an end to a session which promises to be
nerpetual.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

SPRING opens in Kentucky with a shower of
birds and grasshoppers, instead of the fall Of
worms, snakes, lizards and bits of CORY flesh
with which the land of the bluegrass is usually
visited at this season. The attention of those
people who seek for a cause for this modified
mentioned in these columns, that the whisky
trade has been dull in Kentucky during the past
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

physicians duty to the country and the illus
trious patient is to cure his sore throat without
any more fuss. Their duty to themselves and
the reputation of the regular" profession is tc
kill him as a vindicaticn. The country has its
eve on them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
Wants to Join General Lawton.

Chicago News.
Gen. d. II. Hill desires it to be understood
that he proposes Ito live and die a confederate
heart, soul and spirit He is probably fgur-
ing fer q foreign mission.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

New York Sun.
La this city the p~ostofice seems to have boon
managed mainly in the interest Of the mug
wumps.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

PADDY from Cork to her Highness, the Prin-
cess of Wales, in her green gown: "D'ye see
onything green in my eye the day."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

NO rogue Ger felt the halter draw

With good opinion of the law"
And this explains why the Mormons denounce
Christianity, on the principles of which the
laws Of the country are founded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

Telephone Calls.
Business Office $500 3S Editorial Rooms......242
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-05-07
Whisky and Democracy.

The vast majority of the consumers of
whisky in this country are Democrats. Out
of every ten persons who die from whisky
nine are Democrats. Republicans, as u
rule, if they drink at ALL drink wine and
beer, containing but little alcohol. 1t is the
40 per cent. of alcohol in whisky, added to
the poisons with which whisky is adulter-
ated, which sweeps off the Democrats in
such frightful numbers. Measuring the
7,000.000 voters in the North by the figures
which the statisticians give us of the num-
Der of deaths from whisky every year, it is
within bounds to say that three fourths of
l per cent. or 81, 600, perish annually, of
whom SO, 900 at least are Democrats, leav-
ing gross Democratic deficit or party loss
Of votes every year Of AZ, 900; or at every
Presidential election loss of 1873, 900 sent
to their graves by whisky. This of itself
will suffice in large part to explain the mys-
terry why the Democrats. who gain so large
ly on the Republicans from European emil
grants, still make no Roadway on them in
the aggregate results of the elections in the
North. Chicago Tribune.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-05-07
Steam Pines in Buildings.

The idea that steam heating pines
can not set fire to wood is q popular
error. One of the best proofs of their
danger was afforded about year ago
IN the house of Gen. Wager Swayne,
in Gramercy Park. Steam pipes ran
through closet in the basement under
the parlor floor and thence into the Ii
bIary. An alarm of fire was given at a
late hour one night, and when the fire.
men tore away the hardwood partitions
they found that the wood work along
which the steam pipes ran was scorched.
The fire lad begun in wooden box
into which the steam pipes entered be-
fore forming coil in the parlor. 1t
was easily got under control, but not
before it had done about ten thousand
dollars damage.
The firemen are inclined to believe
that much of their work in the down
town districts is due to nothing else
than the lack of protection from steam
pipes. The Fire Department as very
stringent laws which it eniorces in mat
ters of this sort, and in the heat ng ar.
rangements of new buildings the dan
ger is carefully guarded aga n%. When
alterations are made and heating pipes
are laid, less care is taken to prevent
fire, and the result of this carelessness is
the destruction of lie and property
NeU York Commercial Advertiser.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-05-07
The Cigar Factories of Madrid.

Before the everyday tourist had
learned to babble of Velasquez and
Murillo, and regarded 1t essential to
his reputation as a man of taste to go
into ecstasies over Moorish arches, the
cigar factories of Madrid were among
the principal show-places of the unin-
teresting capital which, for some mill
tary or other reasons, has been dropped
down in the middle of one of the dreari-
est areas in Christendom. You know
you are approaching it by the odor of
tobacco, and the Babel of voices which
halls the arrival of the "Gringo" can
be compared to nothing except gigan-
tic boarding school with all the mas
ters' backs turned to the pupils. Thou
sands of women-young. middle-aged
and old-are busy rolling up cigars SO
deftly that the Impractical eve has
some difficulty in catching the move
ment of the artists fingers. A pinch
of leaf here, turn of the wrist there,
the slightest possible touch of the
tongue when the case demands it, and
"Ciaro,' or q "Maduro," or "Colora-
do" is ready for the market. Here
cheroots are being turned out by the
thousands, here cigarettes by the tens
of thousands. In another building
boxes are being made, labeled and tied
up, and in and around and over all re-
nound the noisy hum of emale tongues
that will not be tied. But not hand
is for moment idle. The workers,
like science teachers at South Kensng-
ton, are paid by results" and it re-
quires great number OF Government
cigars before the madrilena can earn
the wherewithal for an Ola podrida, a
gay mantilla, or the measure of sour
wine which tempers on high days and
holidays the frugal fare of the water
drinking Spaniard. Some of the old
crones are as hideous as any of the
ancients whom Gustave Dore loved to
draw. But many Of the matrons are
slightly ladies, while the flashing eyes
and roguish fun of the young ones
somewhat embarrass visitor who is
unaccustomed to face such battery of
criticism without being able to ex-
change a compliment with the company
who are so ready to express their indi-
vidual opinions of the caballero. In
truth, il requires some courage to vent
ure into the great cigar mandatory of
Madrid, though those who are fond of
picturesque sight and not afraid of
the smell of tobacco or the play of
Spanish eyes might wander through
the peninsula from Vigo to Malaga
and not come across spectacle winch
would live half as long in their memo
ries. London TELEGRAPH.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-05-07
|, woe-begone

Knocked the wild-eyed, woe-begone
countenance above them.
Following the sound. Grecnberry
was soon discovered, and, by the aid of
step-ladder. rescued from his prison.
DIR. Hackemup and Juliana were
speechless with horror. Harry was
even more affected. Covering his face
with his handkerchief, his form shaking
with sobs GU, he, too, seemed unable
TO speak. At length, however, without
removing the handkerchief, he asked,
in smothered voice:
where's Belinda?"
"Murderedl" walled Greonberry.
DIR. Hackemup flew toward the door
leading up stairs, but started back as
he reached the table. On il were lying
two immense horse-pistols, beside which
was card with this inscription: ITO
Mr.. Greenberry, with the compliments
Of John Heron"
DR.. A. was not quite fool.
IAN elopement?' he roared. Screen
berry, we have all been the victim OF a
base conspiracy"
"Yes," shrieked Juliana Keziah, seiz-
ing the card; "this is contamination
strong as writ of have his corpus. It's
enough to bring on the Sairy Bean
Swinem Afaginnis of the backbone.
She has crossed the Rubicund, let her
go; but" dropping her voice, as her
eyes rested on Greenberry, poor Mr..
Gordy, you surely are monster to the
cause"
Greenberry sneaked home, nearly
bursting with impotent rage, vowing
| revenge.
Belinda Hackemup was never found.
Even her trunks of bridal finery had
disappeared.
But bright young matron, Belinda
Heron by name, is one of the favorites
of Hawkinsville society. Happy, as
wife and mother, she has never regretted
her stepmother's attendance upon the
qualification meeting, and often laughs
with Harry and Jack, her coadiutors
over Greenberry Gordy's leap in the
| dark
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-05-07
Democracy's Reputation Of the Blue.

We have contended that the Democratic
administration is doing right by giving the
South the lions share of Office and patron
age, inasmuch as that section was the main
factor in bringing Democratic victory We
say so still. But it is, after all, unfortunate
for that party that in giving out favors upon
that footing, loyal men who served in the
Union army must give place to ex rebels
who wore the gray. for this one thing will
go very far toward again solidifying the
North against the South. and with a solid
North. solid South is powerless. Call
this waving the bloody shirt. opening
old wounds" or digging up dead and
buried issues, "if you please, but let the Dem
ocrntlc party favor the gray above the blue
and i. will feel the keen blade of retaliation
from the North at the very first opportunity.
The heroes Of the war should not be dis
graced for having done a noble duty in saw
ing the nation from destruction-De Wit!
(IOlrd) Observer
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-05-07
A MISSISSIPPI patriot of the Souther

A MISSISSIPPI patriot of the Southern
stripe has made formal application to Cleve-
land for the pardon of JEFF Davis, and in
the course of his appeal says: The South
ern people trusted you. Mr.. Pres dent. and
their power was felt and they will call you
blessed if you grant this petition" This
is n neat way of reminding the President
that he owes his present position TO the ex-
rebels and that they accordingly expect him
to do their bidding Why not2 He lowered
the flags to half-mast in honor of Jacob
Thompson and named an unpardoned rebel
to one of the highest Offices in his gift,
while his Attorney General virtually decided
that the fourteenth amendment j. null and
void 1t would be only going step further
to pardon JEFF Davis and give banquet in
his honor ut the White House. The South
erDers naturally expect something of the
kind. and the application for the pardon of
jeff Davis has no doubt been made in the
belief that i. will be granted. Mr.. Cleve-
land. however. has doubtless heard some
thing about the effect of laying on the last
straw, and may possibly refuse this last de-
mand.