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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
Gen. Fitzhugh Lees Followers Seeking to
Revive the Old Confederate Hatred of
the Negro Race and the North.
A Well-Planned Effort to Set Aside Prof.
Bells Telephone Patents.
Surgeon General Hamilton Resigns His Posi-
tiOn, and the Fight for the Succession
Begins-ClevelandS Exclusiveness.
BLOODY-SHIRT POLITICS.

Virginia Democratic Utterances Contrasted
with the Remarks of Sherman.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept lit mus. require a
good deal of hardihood on the part of Democrats
in the North, or even those in the South, to re-
mark on the course Senator Sherman is pur-
suing in his canvass in Ohio, so far as it relates
to calling attention to the atrocities in the Bour-
bon districts, in the manner of waving the
''bloody shirt" The Bourbons in Virginia are
now, and have been for several weeks, going to
the extremes 1t is we'll known in Washington
that at the Bourbon meetings in Virginia the
banners are inscribed with language intended to
arouse the old confederate hatred of the negro
and the North. The bent of the Bourbon
speeches is to fire the whites against the blacks
This mode of campaigning, however: has long
been conducted by these people. It was left to
few days ago to cap the climax in this direc-
ton. Gen. Robert E. Lees son, in his enthusi-
asm, brought forth his fathers war saddle,
bride and accoutrements, and Singing them
across the back of his cousins horse bade him
proceed on his journey (which must arouse the
confederate patriotism of every true Virglnian." 4"
It is related that Gen. Fitzhugh Lee that day
rode twenty miles across the country and that
he was received with great feeling"
1t comes straight here, too, that the small-fry
Bourbon stump speakers are drawing pictures,
at white heat, of Gen. Robert E. Lee and his
followers, and painting the CORY battle-felds of
Virginia blood-red. If this does not discount
anything in the line of "bloody shirt" that has
ever been perpetrated In the North, there is
nothing in truth.
1t is very probable that the cry about sectional
feeling alleged to have been engendered in Ohio
is made for the purpose of diverting attention
from the work going on in Virginia at this time.
So bitter is the feeling in portions of the latter
State that Wise. the Republican candidate for
Governor, has refrained from speaking at GER
tain places because his life has been threatened
if he appears there. The Bourbons call this
satisfactory progress in the campaign"
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LONDON VICE.
Cardinal Manning Sustains the Charges of
the Pail Mall Gazette.

Cardinal Manning Sustains the Charges of
the Pail Mall Gazette.
North American Review for October.
by our present legal code girl cannot give
her consent to marriage before the age of twenty
one, but she is regarded as capable Of consenting
to her own ruin at the age Of thirteen years
The man who marries her before twenty one is
punishable by law. The man who ruins a child
of thirteen escapes with impunity. She may
ruin herself at thirteen, but cannot marry, for
defect of consent, till twenty-one If any one
should know that his dog or cat were detained
in any house, the police with all expedition,
could search for his property. But if he knew
that his child were detained in the house. neither
he nor the police could enter it. His only rem
edy would be by writ of habeas corpus.
which could not be obtained for
many hours, and perhaps for days; but
the ruin of his child might be at any moment.
Once more say. children of thirteen, and all
girls above that age, are supposed to be free
agents. and capable of consenting to their own
ruin; thus he who ruins them for life escapes
with impunity. on the rule 'Volenti non fit
injuria. 1t has heen, therefore, solemnly
argued, by men who have great legal reputation,
that the abominable and inhuman trade of the
procurer and the procuress cannot be punishable
at law, because the end to which their hideous
traffic is directed is not illegal. Here we have
another legal dictum; the accomplices are not
punishable because the principals are within the
rights of their liberty"
After stating how every effort to amend these
Infamous laws was persistenty defeated "for
five long years." the Cardinal then refers to Mr.
Stead's assault:
''This heartless delay, full of fatal conse-
quences of decentralization, and wreck and ruin
to the innocent. the helpless of ourpeople, Justly
aroused the indignation of those to whom justice
and mercy are more dear than the redistribution
of seats or the disfranchisement for medical re-
lief. Prompted-I might say stung-by an indig-
nant impatence, the editor of the Pail Mall
Gazette and other like minded men, defyng all
antagonists, entered upon their warfare against
the dominion of cruelty and lust. / have said
elsewhere that many of those who profoundly
sympathize in the motives which induced the
Pail Mall Gazette to take up the question might
have desired its modes and expressions to have
been revised and chastened; but that in such
matter Of moral life and death, and, above all,
when the oboquy and calumny of the bad,
and hasty, and short sighted censures of some
good men were heaped upon those who entered
the furnace to save souls, should hold it to be
not only ungenerous, but cowardly and cruel
not to stand between the handful of men who.
for the moral life Of England dared this cour-
ageous action. and the whole world of their CEN
sors. The substance of this action is intrinsic
ally just and mercifuL The incidental evils
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Army of West Virginia.

PORTSMOUTH,, o., Sept 1.-THE ninth annual
reunion of the Army Of West Virginia began
yesterday in large tent accommodating 10, 900
persons. Mayor Turley welcomed the members
Gen. r. B. Hayes, in the absence of General
Crook, the president responded, and General
Hayes was then called to preside A brief ad-
dress was made by Gen. B. F. Kelly the first
commander of the army. Mrs. General Kelly
was made an honorary member The meeting
will continue two days.
General Crook the president, being unavoida-
bly, absent, ex-President Hayes, vice president.
acted as president. He said that the Army of
West Virginia had but little written history,
compared with many other societies. It's services
were mainly in remote and mountainous couu-
try, where the newspaper correspondents did not
penetrate but. nevertheless, the service per-
formed was not to be moderated. The guarding
of a long line of frontier, and line of railroad
for supplies, was no menial service. Nearly all
troops from Ohio and Indiana saw their first
service in Virginia. In fact, it would seem as
though 1t was great military training gschool
for those who accomplished so much at later
period.
To-days proceedings were enlyened by the
presence of large body of the Grand Army and
men from the surrounding posts.
Gen. w. H. Powell, of Illinois, read euogy
on General Grant and resolutions of coincidence
and sympathy with the family of General Grant
were passed.
An original poem, "War Echoes" was read by
Maj. j. w. Longbron. Addresses were made by
Gen. Nathan Golf, ex-Secretary of the NAVY.
Gen. R. P. Kennedy and Gen. r. B. Brown. In
the evening recitation given by Mrs. E.
M. Irving and short addresses were made by
comrades
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
A QUEER LEGAL CASE.
Complications Resulting from the Temporary
Insanity of California Judge.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Sept. 17-One of the
strangest cases in the history of the bench has
just been developed in this city. Several weeks
ago, Judge Clough, of the Superior Court, be-
came insane and was duly committed to the
asylum at Stockton. There was considerable
discussion at the time in legal circles as to how
his place on the bench could be filled, there be-
ing no provision of the Constitution or the
code which created a vacancy in the case
of judge going mad. The difficulty was appar-
emily solved by the resignation of the Judge,
written, as every supposed. during a lucid
interval, but now it turns out that he was quite
insane when he signed the paper. Within the
last few days he has recovered his
reason sufficiently to attend to his
business, and he declares he has no recollection
of his resigning his iudgeship 1t appears that
his wife, wishing to care for him at home, took
him from Stockton, with the assent of the doc
tors, but without certificate of recovery; that
after his arrival in this city, at the request of
the clerk of the county, his wife induced him to
sign the resignation, it being understood that
she should retain the paper for certain length
OF time, and in the event of the Judges recovery
destroy it; but that if he got better she
should send 1T to the Governor AS he got no
better, she forwarded it to the State capital,
and the Governor appointed Walter Levy judge
in his place. Clough has since, however, i'm
proved, and is sane The political code of
the State declares that person of unsound
mind can make no conveyance or other contract,
nor waive any right until his restoration to san
ity Mrs. Clough test6es that the Judge was
insane when he signed the resignation, and he
confirms the statement by averring that he has
no recollection of the circumstance. He is,
therefore, to ali ntents and purposes still judge
of the Supreme Court, and there was no vacancy
for Governor Stoneman to FILL Walter Levy is
not and never was, judge of the Supreme Court,
and unless the lawyers should decide that his
acts as SUCH when he believed himself to be the
rightful incumbent of the Office. valid all the
proceedings taken before him are null and void
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18

geon-general of the Revenue Marine Hospita
Service relate to the prevention and spreading of
infectious and contagious Diseases and require
experience and vast knowledge in this direction.
1t will be remembered that the National Board
of Health was not sustained by the last Con-
gress, and that all the duties of that organiza-
ton have devolved upon the Revenue Marine
Hospital Service, 80 that the yellow fever,
cholera and all diseases of that class must be
looked after solely by this latter service It
matters not that DR.. Hamilton is eminent
physician and surgeon, is gentleman of pure
habits, great industry and wonderfully studious,
always accommodating, ever courteous.
1t is most important that he went to the head
of the service at its incpiency, and has brought
it up to what it is to day. In other words, he is
about eight years ahead of any man in his pro-
fession. There are no politics in the service. 1t
was meyer thought of by any one to question
any of the people connected with the service as
to their politics. The Treasury Department,
Congress- and the people at large. only felt an
interest in having the death dealing epidemics
kept out of this country, and if they did find
foothold here, in having them suppressed
No people more fully appreciate Dr. Hamil-
toms work than those at Memphis Tenn, New
Orleans, and other points where yellow fever
used to rage. They know his efficiency and
they are demanding his retention. 1t doesn't
look like he would be removed; but it is scarcely
to the credit of the Democratic party that he is
not removed.
Dr. Hamilton to-day rendered his resignation,
to take effect Nov. l, but ne is willing to remain
in the service, with the rank of surgeon. 1t is
expected that he will be stationed at Chicago.
Surgeon Honey chief of the purveying and quar-
antine division, is named as his successor, al
though strong fight is being made for the of
fee by Vice president Hendricks, in the interest
of DR.. Matthews, of Louisville, KY. aud by ex-
Senator Mcdonald and VIM. II. English, of In
diana, in behalf Of Dr. Wallng, of Indianapolis.
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Lake street in yacht for Lancaster. The
vessel was struck by squall and capszed. The
three men succeeded in seating themselves on the
bottom of the boat and called loudly for assist
ance. Although their cries were heard on shore
rescue could not be attempted. On Wednesday
morning the steamer Bohemian passed them,
but their signals were not seen. Dickson sue
cumbed to exposure and dropped dead into the
lake, off Port Lewis. McCrmmon exerted him
in his arms for three hours the poor fellow died.
The capsized yatch eventually drifted into
Hungry bay, five miles east of port Lewis, and
on reaching shallow water McCrimmon waded
exhausted condition. He was Immediately driven
to Port Lewis, where he now lies in a precarious
condition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
RAILWAY POSTAL SERVICE.
What the Second Assistant Postmaster
General Saw in the West.


General Saw in the West.
WAsHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Second Assistant
Postmaster general Knott has returned to this
city from tour of inspection over the railway
postal system of the West. Mr.. Knott was
absent about four weeks, and went as far west
as Bismarck on the Northern Pacific, and Gunni-
son, on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, His
object study the system thoroughly and
ascertain the wants of the WesSnp country in
the matter of mail transportation. Mr.. Knott
expressed himself as we'll satisfied with the
present railway mail service, and commended
the Western fast mail, particularly pointing to
the great speed of the trains. the rapdity of the
train service at Chicago for points west, and
the smoothness and accuracy of the
whole service Travelling in railway postal cars.
and having frequent interviews with the en-
ployes, Mr. Knott came to the conclusion that
the division superintendent and clerks were
capable and intelligent, and we'll equipped for
the discharge of their duties Owing to lack
of time he was unable to give much attention to
the star-route service, but from his personal OBJ
servations on several long routes, ard conversa-
tions with postmasters, he is satisfied that on
the important routes the service is very good.
He SAYS that while no radical changes in tho
railway transportation system are ontemplated,
he received number of suggestions during his
trip and himself noted several instances whera
he believed the service might be improved: but
these ideas were as yet crude and would only be
carried out after @feultation with the Postmas-
ter general and tfS1ffcers of the department
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Organizations of Invincibles Would Be Started
in Every Town and City, and Murder
and Intimidation Run Rampant.
A French Army Would Land at LINER
lex and England Be Swept by Fire.
Twenty Cases of Sporadic Cholera in Paris
Bismarck Says Germany and Spain
Will Not Go to War-Cable Notes.
CHAMBERLAIN'S POLICY.
An Irish Papers Picture of the Direful Re-
suits that Would Flow from It.

An Irish Papers Picture of the Direful Re
suits that Would Flow from 1t.
DUBLIN, Sept. 17-United Ireland, to-dsy.
commenting or Mr.. Chamberains recent
speech, says: Twenty seven Invincibles muir
dered government officials, attacked judges and
jurors and held this great city and the state chat
tering with terror until the band was finally
broken up because some of its members failed to
remember their oaths Of refusal to open their
lips when, if they had kept their mouths sealed,
the Castle star-chamber inquiry would have
merely involved week in prison. A similar
organization would be started in every city,
town and village throughout Ireland if
Mr. Chamberlain's argument of Irish weakness
is pushed to extremites." The paper then dis
cusses the probable result of England following
the policy indicated in Mr.. Chamberlains
speeches, and says that such course would
probably result in a French army landing at Linn
erick simultaneously with an Irish confagration
in all principal cities in Ensland, and well plan
ned attacks on the various palaces and banks in
London. The editorial also confutes the charge
of impotency of the Irish people. hints at pos
sibe national boycotting of English steamships
commercial travellers. officials, soldiers and po-
licemen, and warns Mr. Chamberlain to moder
ate his rancor towards Ireland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
sURGEoN-GENERAL HAMILTON.
A Suggestion Indicating the Partisan T.
of the Administration.

SpeciaI to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Probabiy the most
extreme step suggested by the administration
to be taken in the matter of offices is the one
suggested for the removal of Dr. John B. Ham
ilton, Surgeon-general of the Revenue Marine
Hospital Service The fact that it is proposed to
supersede DR.. Hamilton with man wholly unfit
for the many of the intricate and onerous duties
of the position has nothing to do with the ques-
tions at ISSUE which partakes Of civil services re-
form. If there is any position under the gov
ernment wherein civil-service reform should be
observed it is this one. The duties of the Sur
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
Chamberlain's Popularity in Scotland.

LONDON Sept. 17-Mr. Chamberlain is max
ing triumphal tour in Scotland He delivers
an address at every stopping place The villages
where he is announced to appear are decorated
in his honor, and addresses are presented to him
everywhere The people greet him with the
greatest enthusiasm and cheers are given for
Englands future Premier. In one of his
speeches he announced that Mr. Gladstone had
been restored to health and would assume the
leadership in the electoral campaign.
Mr.. John Morley, speaking at Hackney, yes
terday, advised the landlords to embrace moder-
ate proposals. The Chamberlain protectorste,
he said, would not long remain quiescent. He
denounced Mr.. Parnell's protection theories.
He declared that separation would be disaster
to Ireland and disgrace to England. Short of
separation. he was willing to make the utmost
concessions to Ireland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

The Fort Worth Mans Great InvSntion Dis
credited in England.
LONDON, Sept 1.-THE Press Associa-
ton furnishes lengthy accounts of an
alleged discovery whereby telephone COM
munication across the Atlantic is possI-
ble The inventor of the new instrument, it is
said, is a native of Texas, and has no scientific
reputation. He employs an instrument of enor-
nous power. 1t is also alleged that certain
company has acquired the sole right to use the
instrument, and that we'll known millionaire
has given the inventor, whose means are ex
hausted, carte-blanche to complete the invention,
which will cost $500, 900. The story lacks scien-
tiic data, and has the appearance of being a
hoax
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
The Decline in the Price of Silver.

LONDON. Sept. 1.-THE lowness of silver
is seriously affecting financial opera
tions. The Vienna mint could clear 2
coming forms. The Times and Standard,
commenting upon repeating the Bland law, say
it can only cause temporary inconvenience. The
market would soon fird its level, and in the
long run would touch no interests excepting
those of the silver producers. The Standard
says American fnanciers are more likely to re-
deem greenbacks than to sell silver dollars at
from 80 to 80 per cent discount.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
THE CHOLERA.
Twenty Cases Reported in Paris-The Disease
Claimed To BE Sporadic.

twenty Cases Reported In Par1s-The Disease
Claimed To Be Sporadic.
PARIS. Sept 17.-Twenty cases of cholera
have been reported in Paris during the past
three days The sanitary officials claim that
the disease is sporadic and not Asiatic cholera,
and that the cool weather prevailing has made
the cases more severe than is general at this
time of the year
There were S5S new eases of cholera and 337
deaths from the disease reported yesterday
throughout Spain.
Rome dispatch says that during the past
twenty four hours there were $50 deaths from
cholera in Palermo and twenty new cases, and
six deaths in Parma.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
Settling q Strike by Secret Ballot.

NEWCASTLE, Sept. 1.-THE Newcastle strike
at the Armstrong works was yesterday settled
by secret ballot, which the leaders consented to
permit the men to hold. The vote was For contin-
uing the STRIKE 34S; against, 13. 553-about !, 200
not voting: Work resumes to-day, 1t is be-
lieved at Newcastle that without the secret bal
lot. the fears Of the men at openly declaring
their pride conquered would have continued the
strike. Here is, perhaps, solution of future
strikes by the ballot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
Novel Scenes at the Polls.

for school commissioners here the women gen
orally voted. This had the effect of brin ging
out very large male vote, and the total number
of ballots cast was twenty times as great as
usual. Many young ladies tried to vote who
were neither mothers nor tax payers, and their
ballots were rejected. The scenes at the polls
where women were electioneering were novel
The ladies generally voted for the successful
candidates
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
Cable Notes.

The Prussian government has again rejected
the Vaticans proposals in regard to the vacant
see Of Posen and education in seminaries.
The official inquiry into Sunday labor in Ger
many has been nearly completed. 1t is expected
that the report will advise against any alteration
in the present laws upon that subject.
Tennyson's latest poem deals with home rule
in Ireland The author is dramatizing the
work. The health of the poet is breaking, and
this IS probably the last literary work he will
undertake.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
A Mistake that Nav Cost n Life.

ST LOUIS, Sept. 17-An incoming passenger
train on the Hannibal & St. Joseph road, due
here at S:15 this morning collided, near
the city, with special engine and way car
Both engines and baggage car were completely
wrecked. Supply Agent Hamilton, of the Rock
Island road, on board the special, had his right
leg broken Engineer Black. of the special
engine, was badly scalded, and may die. The
accident was caused by mistake in Interpreting
orders.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
Scarcity of Nails at Pittsburg.

PlTTsBUBG, Pa. Sept. 17-Throueh the long
strike OF the nailers the stock of nails in this
eitY and the West has been almost exhausted
Dealers here report the supply smaller than for
twenty years. and say that an order for 100 kegs
could not be filed The strike is in its fourth
month, With no indications of an early resump-
tion OF the factories
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
A Plea of Insanity Rejected.

THE HAGUE, Sept 1.-THE trial of Juane
Lorette, the Brussels girl who, on March 16 last
shot and killed the Japanese consul. Sakurada.
in Rotterdam was commenced here to-day. The
postponement of the case for three months. The
court refused the request, and the trial proceed
ed The prisoner tainted when the revolver
with which she had shot her lover was produced
by the prosecution
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18

Comment on tho Manner in Which the Presi-
dent Secindes Himself

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1Z-Much is said by peo-
pie who frequent the White House about the
seclusiveness of the President 1t has been Gus
tomary for Presidents to be seen once in while
around the executive mansion, and it is not
known that one ever presided there who did not
occasionally go from one part of the house to
the other, or venture around the premises. Mr..
Cleveland so far as outsiders know, remains al
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
An Opinion by an Expert.

BERLIN. Sept lit is reported that Prince
Bismarck has informed the Bundesrath that he
has no fear that the differences with Spain will
result in hostilities