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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
John FIcOulloughs Narrow Escaps.

PHILADEIPHIA, Jan. John Mccullough,
the actor. narrowly escaped being run over
by railway train at Broad Street Station
last night He bought a ticket for Chicago.
and reached the car shed just as the train
moved out OF the station. He dashed
through the open gate. followed by colored
attendant, xrhc-fsd been seat with him 10
The station, and who rushed past him,
jumped on the train. and then attempted to
assist the actor to get aboard. AS McCul
Tough grasped the servants hand and at
tempted himself to get on the car his foot
slipped and he fell from the platform. The
colorsd man exerted all his strength and
lifted him on the car just in time 70 save
him from being crushed as the swinging mo-
ti0n OF the train brought the cars together.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

What Bismarck Says I'm Acknowledging
Contribution of 200, 900 MarKs.
BERLIN, Jan. Bismarck, in acknowledg-
ing the contribution of 200 coo marks for his
use by the citizens of Elberfeld, writes a let
ter stating that the sympathy exten ded him
ger of msjorities which are only united in
opposition to the measures proposed by the
government, and which collapse when
called upon to fern measures 10 support the
government.
He will make proposal respecting the
disposa OF tue fund, as he considers it i'm.
practicable to apply IL to provide himself
whose salary the Rsiehstag refused to grant
a credit,
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
warehouse frame Breaks.

DuLUvH, MINI, Jan. 2-Thi, afternoon
the frame in grain warehouse recently com.
pleted broke Uuder ieafed car of wheat
pTecipitating il TO the floor, distance OF
twenty-six feet, shatterng the car aud break
ing through the floor. The car aud whest
weighed ak tons. Nine men were on the car
at the time it fell. August Anderson, hurt
about the head, perhaps fatally; compsn-
ION of his had his shoulder dislocated; FIVE
others were more or less bruised. Two es-
cared unin jured.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
WASHINGTON.
Better Times Exps scted In Wash
iDgtOn Under the New Ad.
ministratf0n.
Randall As a Reformer-What He Would
DO In the Treasury De.
partment.
General Grant Broken Down Men
tally and Physically-Gensral
Swaims Court Martial.


Real Estate Men and Others Expect a Re.
vival of Business Under the New dmin-
fstration.
s. ecial to the Sentinel
WAsHISGTos, Jan. 2-It is expected that
the advent OF the new administration will
give things something of boom
in Washington, The city will fill
up with strangers, and the hotels
will be crowded. The old residents, who
are neatly all Democrats are already show
ing their confidence in the ability of the
party 70 initiate things by erecting many
new buildings and rejuveDatiDg old
ones. There is an air of newness
about most of the things. Real estate men
say rents have stiffened aud prices are firm.
They can not say whether this is natural or
artificial. Be that as it may, ii is de.uon-
strated here that the Southern people have
renewed confidence in business matters.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03

NEw YORK, Jan. AT Stapleton, Staten
Island, to-day, Thomas Mclaughlin, the
yonng coachman who, at the age OF twenty,
recently married his employer, Mrs. Abram
Britton. a wealthy widow aged forty, died
from a lung ailment, which caused him to
leave Mrs. Brittou's employ and return
home where she cailed frequently to inquire
about his health. Her calls resulted IN an
attachment and q wedding. Mrs. Britton
attended him constantly until his death.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
Cbapee ,n the C,eve,xna plaiuaea,sr.

CLEVELAND. Jan. 2.-rhe Evening Plain
dealer. the Democratic organ OF Northern
Ohio, announced tonight that Major w. w.
Armstrong bad sold his controlling interest
in the paper. AZ a meeting OF the stock
holders l.. II. Holden was elected President
c. III. Bnlkley, Vice President; G. F. Pres
colt, Secretary; Il. Z. Holden, Treasurer
Armstrong viii remain in an editorial capsc
~. Prescott, who came from Salt Lake
City. will be business mansger. a morning
edition will be issued soon.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
Another pynamite Expiosion.

LONDON, Jan. A dynamite explosion
occurred on the Under-sTound Railway be-
tween Cover street and Kings Cross Station,
at 9:3O this evening. The windows of the
passing train were shattered and the ga
noht extinguished. but beyond this there
was no damsge done. The passengers were
greatly terrified, but no one hurt, and the
train resumed its journey after delay OF
twenty five minutes.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
The Cortes Win Assist the Fart hquaks
Sunerers.

MADRID, Jan. 2.-The Government will
ask the Cortes to vote S25 coo to aid the fund
for the relief Of the sufferers.
The Chamber o. Deputies today uDsn-
imously adopted a motion declaring that
they had heard with deep regret OF the Ca
lamity in the Southern Provinces, aud that
they would cooperate with the Government
in all the measures that might be taken for
the relief of the afflicted.
Further shocks were experienced at Nerja
tC-day
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03

able information about the situation at
Kharloum.
General Gordon says in his letter that he
has two guns, enc on the roof of each Of the
palaces. with which be plays the devil
with the rebels wnen they attack the works.
AS q rule. however. the rebels only venture
to approach at night TO inspect the fortifca-
tioDs while in the day time Gordon has lit
tie else to do than to watch through his tel
escope the movements in the Arab camp.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03

SANTA FE n. Mex. Jan. 2.-Fiftesn thou
sand people attended the ceremonies of dedi-
eating memorial tablet over the grave OF
the great ecout and soldier Kit Carson, in
Taos County, New Mexico. last Sunday. An-
thony Joseph, the delegate to Congress, de.
liyered the grafton. The tablet was fur
nished by the Grand Army of the Republic
of New Mexico. It bears the inscription,
Xxi. Carson, died May %. 1865; aged So"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
Horse breeders, Association.

CHICAGO, H., Jan. 2.--The Chicago horse
men this week will offer to the Breeders
Associations OF Illinois Michigan, Wiscon
sin, Minnesota, Kentucky, and other West
e-n and Southern States that may have Or
gspized regular State Trotting Horse Breed
ers' Associations. stake for colts and fllies
and foais of 1882, to be trotted at their reg
ular fall meeting of 1885. Two hundred
dollars to be added to each stake, aud To be
called the ',Chicsgo Horse Breeders
Stake
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
General Gordon,. Letter.

CAIRo. Jan. 2-Gene7al Gordon's letter is
written on a piece of paper the size OF =
poe tsge stamp. and was rolled up so ss 10 be
no bigger than pin. In this shape il was
smuggled through the rebel country bs a
native messenger, who also brings consider
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
What Randall Would DO as Treasurer.

Wnat hHDuHII "OuIu DO as Trt Hs uTers
Special 70 the Sentinel
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Should Samuel J.
Randall, OF Pennsylvania. go into the Cabi-
Let as Secretary of the Treasury it is
said he will adopt the suggestion of
Secretary McCulloch, who said the
department could be run with
half the force. and curtail expenses by
wholesale discharge of employees. Mr.. Ran.
dali Is very industrious. He believes also
in reirenchment. He is reformer
he is likewise an economist. There
are very few. employees ut the
including in their supplications the hope
that Mr.. Randall will stay in the House.
Sh ould hs come into their midst they fear
they Will be given the Celestial order TO go.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1885

he found out that Substantially these things
were being done in his case. The cr0ssex-
animation here closed and the redirect be-
gan, but the court adjourned before it was
fairly under way.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
The worlds Exposition.

New ORLEANS. Jan. The attendance az
the Worlds Exposition TO day was good. The
Exhibitors Association recommend the
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
WHOLE NO. 1853

building OF steam railway from the city to
To Fair Grounds. The final opening takes
place between the 10th and 18th instant
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
ECZEMA TWEEN YEARS

Cured. Not ~ Sign of Its Temperance.
Your Cuticura has done a wonderful cure for
me more than two years ago. Not a sign of its re-
appearance since. IL cured me OF very bad
Eczema which had troubled me for more than
twenty years. I shall always speak well OF Cuti-
ours. / sell q great deal oft.
FRANK G. SWAN. Druggist.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
BEST FOR ANYrHING.

Having used your CuLicura Remedies for eiah.
teen menths for letter. aud finally cured II, | am
anxious to get IL to sell on commission. / can
recommend IL beyond any remedies I have ever
used for letter. Burns. Cuts. etc. In fact, It is
z. s. HORTON.
MYRTLE Miss
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03
sCKoFuLous aOKEs.

! had dozen bad sores upon my body. aud
tried all remedies / could hear of. and at last
tried your Cuticura Remedie ard they have
cured me. JOHN GASKILL.
i'ebron. Thaver County, Penn.
Every species OF Itching. Scaly, Pimply. Scrotu-
lous, Inherited and Contagious Humors, with
Loss of Hair. cured by Cuticura Resolveat. the
new Blood Purifier, internally and Cuticura and
Cuticuia Soap. the great SKIN cures. externally.
Sold everywhere. Price: Cuticura 80 cents:
Resolvent, 81: Soap, % cents.
Potter Drug and Chemical Co, Boston.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03

If Interested in an 0vercoat,
just look at LOT 5,243-a
Fancy back, Gray Diagonal
Cashmere, marked to $1S.
We have too many of this
LOT, ana name this price to
cIese them,
At The
w H E N
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-03

DIT HTVForC Chapped and Oily Skin.
DhA- u Il i Cuticura Soap.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-02
GREED or TERRITORK.

The rivarics OF European colonization are
having the effect OF promoting pickering and
strife among nations. Everywhere there Is n
scramble for new possessions. Commercial cx-
tension, legitimate object when pursued with
intelligence and sagacity, i giving place 20
greed for territory which is rs unreasonable as
it is Indecent. There Is 40 corner oil the African
coast 50 barron or inhospitablc as to escape the
covetous glance of one or another Of the
great Powers; and Australia, continent by
itself, IL thrown into frcnzy of excitement by
foreign annexation schemes in the South sea
Islands.
New diplomatic combinations are forming in
consequence of this frenzy for territorial ex-
tension. The French press is cOmplimenting
Prince Bismarck upon providing outlets for
the trade. enterprise and surplus population of
Germany, and is joining in the general Outcry
AGAINST English diplomacy Italy Ia making
ovcrtures for an English alliance whereby Il
foothold may be secured on the seabOard near
Abyssinia. Prince Bismarck's hand Is seen
everywhere: In protests at Madrid against the
commercial treaties with the United States and
Great Britain, in the failure of the protocol re-
garding the SOolOO archipelago. in mysterious
intrigues on the African coast, and In the an
nexatlon of portion of Ncw-GuiRca and two
adjacent groups. The great areas in the centre
of Africa, which the Conference has been di-
viding and limiting, already loom up as the
sources of future discord and warfare. The
English press ia denouncing the insolcnce OF
Gcrmany's prctensions and Australia is show
ing resentment because the mother State has
neglected TO protect 1t from foreign aggression.
II il amazing to perceive the greedincss with
which Europe is pursuing this policy of terri
torial expansion. The effect of German ri
vary will be to commit France irrctricvably to
n policy of menace and adventure. NJ. Ferry
will be allowed to reinforce his army in the East
and to plan an active campaign against Pekin;
and tho Paris journals are already advising
him to annex tho New Hebridcs in the South
Seas and by prompt action TO stille English re-
monstrances. In Australia there Is strong
disposition manifested TO send ont color SER
geants east and west among the islands, and to
raise the English flag over every island that
has not yet been claimed by the European
States. Greed begets greed in this lust Of ter
Iitory. If there be any gain from this policy of
aggressive sclflshness. 1t is not for tEe nations
separately. In this scramble for new posses
sions they do not calculate closely. and their
losses will exceed their gains. But for ciyiliza-
ton there must be an aggregate gam. As the
Gordon of European influence stretches more
and more closely around the semi-ciyilizcd and
barbarous races, the work Of human progress
goes on apace
New-York tribune., 1885-01-02
CLEVEL1ND ON 4 NEW TACK.

Grover Cleveland has seen light. His view
Of the Presidential function has undergone q
change. Last summer he was so Impressed
with the conviction that the Office for when nc
was running was essentially executive that
his droll letter of acceptance was barren OF any
discussion of the great public questions before
the country.
Now, however, not being Presidential can
didate. but n Prcsdent-clcct, he shifts ms
ground. The National Civil Service Reform
League wdte to ask him where he stands on
Civil Service reform. Does Mr. Cleveland reply,
" You must excuse me- gentlemen the olllce oil
President being essentially executive, am
constrained to hold my tongue ! On, no.
On the contrary. he writes Il long letter to the
League. explaining and illustrating his position
on Civil Service reform.
Thus the public is taught that the policy OF
the next President is not to be in harmony with
his letter o.. acceptance. Tho essentially
executive absurdity has been abandoned.
We take At for granted that II tie National
Tan form League. or the National Tenn
pcra. =, Reform League, or the National Anti
Monopoly League, or the National Bourbon
Anti -Blnck-Vote League should now address
him n letter inquiring what his views were in
relation to the objects which they have at heart,
Nh. Clr Gland would do Is well 10y every one OF
thcss organizations as he did by the National
Ci,n service Reform League.
,,hat can have induced Mr.. Cleveland to
discBelit his own letter of acceptance IN Its
chief paricuarl To have talked during the
c.. 1ligr 49, Int lavc cost him votes. He can
ta' ]w ~ lout any risk to his ambition.
+ W heir own conclusions.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-02

about ms great as the shrinkage In payments
arising from transactions 10 securities.
But this estimate concerns only the values
paid. During the year there has been great
decrease in prices. The sales OF the same
quantities of products, therefore, have been
represented by smaller payments made through
the banks. From the beginning to the emu
of the year the fall in prices has been about 9i2
per cent, but it is not possible to calculate
precisely how the average of prices through the
year compares with the average for the year
previous Wheat has declined, o little over
% cents a bushel, corn over 10 cents, oats
about cents, oil about 40 cents barrel, lara
over cents pound, coffee 3l4 cents pound,
and good refining sugar 1l2 cents. NO record
of the total transactions in grain or PROVISIONS Is
kept at the Produce Exchange, but the volume
of speculative business has been enormous as
is indicated by the fact that nearly $27,OO0,oOo
has been deposited on option contracts. In
the Oil Exchange the volume Of business has
vastly increased the sales are reported as
amounting to nearly 2.40O, 900, 900 barrels. In
the Cotton Exchange the sales, including
future contracts, exceeded 2I,OOo,Ooo Dales
against 25,600,000 bales in 1883. At the
Coffee Exchange the sales aggregated I3|9,oVo
bags, against 7,522,O00 bags In 1888. These
figures indicate that the shrinka2e in the
volume of business measured in quantities
cannot have been very large. The change was
mainly in the prices of products bought and
sold.
The year 1884 was marked by larger
number of failures than have occurred in any
previous year. The Mercantile Agency reports
1O,965 in the United States, against 9,lS4 III
1888, an increase of nearly per cent In
amountof liabilities, SOC, 100000, theincrcase
was over 80 per cent Nevertheless, the fact
that greater number of failures is reported
is due in part TO the extension Of the reports OF
the Mercantile Agency, which now include
90i,7 100 persons in business. OF these. one III
cighty-tw0 failed, but in 1873, when the
number of failures was not as great the
number of traders reported WAS only G7l,OOO,
so that one in sixty-four failed, a proportion
much larger than has been witnessed, notwith-
standing the extraordinary causes of depression,
during tho past twelve months. a very large
Droporton moreover, of the failures i'll 1854
have been Of small concerns. though the year
was also marked by some failures Of great
magnitude, particularly during the month ot
May
New-York tribune., 1885-01-02

and the United States agreed that nei'her
Power was to have exclusive control over such
a canal. snow, the Nicaragua treaty,
adds, "refers to the specified route and places
ait entirely under the control OF the united
I" States. We can see no answer to this piain
contention" The answer is easily gwen.
While the route is the same, the canal Is not
placed "entirely under the control or ,he
United States" The canal Is to be controlled
Jointly by the United States and the kepuohc
of Nicaragua. The United States Will not ac-
ouire exclusive control over it, and conse-
ouently the prohibition of the wer-Clayton
treaty is not technically violated. 1t Is one
thing to have the exclusive right OF selecting
the route and digging the canal, and 1t Is an
other thing to have with Nicaragua JOINT con-
troll over it when it is opened to the shipping OF
the world.
There is only one clause in the Nicaragua
Convention which technically violates the
terms of the Clayton-Buwer treaty. ms Is
the provision favoring American bottoms IN
regard TO canal tolls. If this clause were can
celled the State Department wonld be able 10
work up case in defence of the convention
which would be strong and convincing, albeit
based on the letter rather than the spirit or the
Clayton -Dulwcr treaty.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-02
NOT EXCLUSIVE CONTROL.

The London press is temperate and conserva-
tive in its comments upon the Nicaragua
treaty. The publication of the full text in THE
TRIBUNE removed some of the serious objec-
tions based upon the inaccurate summary first
telegraphed. The discovery that no direct ces-
sion of territory to the United States was con-
templated tended to concliate English opinion.
Nevertheless there seems to be an emphatic
protest on the part Of the London press against
a convention which practically overrides the
Clayton -Bulwer treaty.
The Daily News is unfortunate In its argu-
ments and citations from the Clayton -Bulwer
treaty. 1t assumes that the existence of that
treaty is fatal to the Nicaragua Convention
"in the eyes CT all who respect international
law" To prove this it quotes this clause de-
fiping the objects of the treaty of 1850: "with
reference to any means of communication
aby ship canal which may be constructed be-
@tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the
way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua and
aeither or 10th of the lakes of Nicaragua and
aManagua, to any port or place on the Pacific
. Ocean v and it then shows that Great Britain
New-York tribune., 1885-01-02
TALKS ABOUT TOWN.

DELIBERATfON OVER THE SPANISH TREATY.
john 49, Foster Minister % Span-rhe subject OF the
Spanish treaty has not been hastily acted upon by the
Executive Department The President has given care
ful consideration It, The secretary OF State ever
nco he assumed charge OF his department. has given 1t
hi. attention The ratification OF the Mexican treaty
and the creation Of the South American Commis sion fol-
lowing the Hawaiian treaty were regarded by them as
an by the legislative branch Of the Govern
mont OF the policy OF commercial rccipr"i y Ii was IN
view OF this action that was called t. washington 10
confer I'm regard a commercial treaty with spain The
ies Of the members OF the House and Senate Commit
ICES ON Foreign Affairs were solicited. then came to
Newly York and tho leading exporters aud commercial
mon best informed the Cuban trade. The careful
instructions from tho state Department with which re-
turned Spain the result 1t can De sad that tho
treaty tho result OF the utmost deDeraoh ana Tore
New-York tribune., 1885-01-02
THE BUSINESS or 1884.

The exchanges of the New-York Clearing
House for the year 1884 fall little short of
S31. 900. 100000, decrease In comparison
with 1888 of II per cent. 1t is noteworthy that
the decrease in balances paid during the
same period was only about per cent. In
times of dulness, when the exchanges shrink
through stagnation of speculative business, tho
amounts paid in daily balances do not corre-
,pondingly decrease. The change in the
volume of clearings, however, does not always
correctly indicate the change In amount OF busi-
ness transacted, unless allowance be made ior
operations in stocks aud bonds. The par value
of securities sold during the past year has been
about $4,000, ,OOO, 900, but the market value,
so far as it can be computed, has not varied far
from half that amount. On the other hand,
the payments through the clearing houses
represent nearly twice the market value OF
securities sold, so that roughly speaking about
One-third of the exchanges for the year may be
attributed to operations In securities. This
would leave about 100000 600, 900 for pay
ments on other accounts, against S23, $780,
100000 in 1888. decrease OF 17ia por
cent. This indicates that the shrinkage
in the volume Of other payments has been