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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-01

r.ro,tsr of the san Francisco Call with
an expression Of pitiful condescensionl
"why. I've seed the most wonderIuI
tb;nGs in that line. Well, we were over
IN the China Sea. One night, just alVer
we'd passed the Formosa group, was
Tonsed out of my bunk by the mate, VINO
sings out 'Mermaids aboard Out l
iurnps, and gets on deck In the turn OF .
helm. You can splice my main S II there
wasn't bout twenty OF the biggest mer-
maids fioppin' around the deck ever
seed. Two of 'em had got the fellows
on watch cornered and was klssln' EN-.
The mate had took to the riggln' after
hailing me. 1 was a leetle s'prlsed,
though I'd seen nermaids afore, but not
more'n one at time. .I adies,' says l,
make yourselves at home, says L, and
YOU bet your hawsers they did. They
omit f1oppin' and all got on the rail, side
by side, a holdin' their tails in their
hands, and commenced to sing, and l
lust tell YOU they whooped things up:
They skipped through the Sweet By and
By. and took several reefs in the Red,
White and Blue and slowed to port on
"A Life on the Ocean Wave in beautiful
style" a..
Didn't see them again, did ycu?'
asked landlubber.
"Well, yes, the next day we was be-
calmed. There wasn't smell of breeze,
and whistlin' for it didn't do any good,
was madder'n a stuck whale, for L
wanted to make quick passage. Sud
denly sees a commotion in the water,
and shiver my pinnacle lights ii them
mermaids warn't swimmin' around us.
One of 'em boarded lis as slick as could
be and says, Give us a rope Well, |
throwed 'em one, and I'll lay to on lee
shore if they didn't tow us until we strrck
breeze. Got the rope right In then
mouths-about fifty of 'en-and pulled
us along. l was so 'bieeged to 'em that
l throwed 'em a mass o. lookin' glasses,
clocks and shoe-blackin' out of the cargo.
"Next day we struck another calm, and
| 'spected the mermaids would pull us
out again They were all around don
MIN their mornin' uniform in the glasses.
Hey says ], tow us along, will your
Well, no sooner had l hailed 'em than
every one of 'em looked at the clocks
which they had slung around their necks.
'Scuse US, cap they said, we see it's
just time to keep our appointment at the
bottom, and cuss me if they didn't all
disappear. -.--.---
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-01
SUICIDE.

Utah is fast becoming famous as a
place for suicides, and so common has
become the occurrence that now it rarely
calls forth any further remark than the
common one that 50 and so has COM
mItted suicide. Those who suicide as a
rule do not assign any reason for their
act, and the act is generally attributed
either to nervousness, disappointment in
affairs OF love or business or temporary
insanity. Perhaps in all cases the public
assigns as the cause for suiciding a tenn
porary fit of insanity. The reasons Tor
always assigning insanity as the cause
are chiefly two, the love Of life, which is
so strong in most people, and the relig-
ious condemnation which the act of self
destruction brings upon the person COM
mitting it, Both reasons are born OF
fear; the one, that the act may bring
complete annihilation; the other that
there may be some ofense against Gods
laws, for whose transgression He visits
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-01
CORRESPONDENTS
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S
B a NJ e
SALT LAKE CITY,
UTAH

General Banking Business Transacted
Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and
sold.
Special attention given to the purchase and
sale of ores and bullion.
Returns for collections promptly made at cur
rent rates.
TelegTaphic transfers made and commercial
and travellers credits issued, available il the
principal cities OF the world
Having in addition to our Bank correspond
entS, an Express Agency in almost every
town West of the Rocky Mountains affords US
special facilities for making collections and
executing commissions.
Accounts OF Banks ana lkerS, mercantile
and manufacturing firms corporations, min
ing companies, stock growers and individuals
received On favorable terms
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-01
lie Had Seen Mermaids,

About mermaids," said the CAPTAIN
as he stood upon the unfinished end Of
the seawall and surveyed the landlubber
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28
THE NEW

President Cleveland makes no mistakes in
his appointments. AS each days list is an
nounced from Washington there is inward
crashing of teeth among the organs of the
g. o. p. all over the country. The selections
are of the f~ttest. and every appointment
shows that due elaboration has been exer-
cised, and that the administration means to
have character, ability and worth as the
standards by which must be measured those
who are to fill the offices under government.
This reform in men, as well as measures,
is what alarms the Republican press. Ac.
customed as they have been, under the spoils
system, to bestow the Offices entirely as
q reward fer party service, without regard
to fitness or qualifications, il is no wonder
they are filed with dismsy at the wise course
taken by the new administration. Their
apprehension is great. and though most of
the Republican papers undertake to criti-
else and belittle the a~ppointees to Office. in
defatigably pursuing and hunting their
weak points, yet do they all acknowledge
that On the whole the officers chosen are
men OF character and merit. Some of the
more liberal organs go q step or two farther
and speak out in praise of the men who are
appointed to place, and OF the judicious
course taken by President Cleveland.
The only news of interest to the organs
from Washington is that relating to the
latest appointments. So long have they en-
joyed the spoils of Office that they claim
these as belonging to them; that Democrats
are entitled to a share CT the offices is not a
part of the Republican theory, and they raise
. howl when word comes that one of their
number is decapitsted.
Meantime affairs Of great moment to the
people pass unheeded by the organs. That
steal of 10000 acres OF land in Louisiana
by the late Secretary Teller is not criticised
scarcely mentioned by the Republican press
The honest, manly efforts of Senator Van
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28

C~INcINSATI, March 27.-Mrs. Hoyt, a
teacher IN the second intermediate school
on Ninth street, near Main, was alarmed
after the close of school by an unusual
clamor in one of the rooms. When she en-
tered the apartment she found four boys
rushing over the desks in the greatest con.
fusion with large revolvers and all whooping
like Indians. The unruly youths were dis.
armed, and it was learned that they had
planned TO go to Texas in May and become
cowboys, and were practicing in the school
room WHEN found. All were armed with re-.
voivers and bowie knives. The Oldest was
thirteen. and he was to provide funds for the
expedition. The children belong TO well
known families, and their names are sup.
pressed.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28
sPIRIT OF TIE STATE PRESS.

A PEW Republican papers have lately been
oDxiously inquiring as to why the books
were not being opened. They ara silent on
the subject just at present, for they have
learned that they are being opened, and by
experts ut that Huntington Democrat.
1t Is lsughable TO note the continued in
teIest all onr Republican exchanges feel in
the federal offices. They seem to have no
regrets over their late defeat, SC az they are
left in possession of the postofices and such.
No word of regret oversdefeatsd principles,
no more fear for the freedman Auburn
Courier.
REPUBLICANS all over the State have gone
into mourning because the Legislature did
not pass the appropriation bills in time to
avoid an extra session. But, as the Auburn
Courier AYERS, they don't tell all the truth
that might be told. The fact ia, the Republi-
can members have continually voted against
brip ging up the appropriation bills, and that
is just what compelled the extra session.
Angola Herald.
THE character of the service rendered the
people By the forty Special Agents and H.
spectors who have Just been dropped from
the rolls OF the Treasury csn be imagined.
These people work principally during politi-
cal campaigns, ard their labors are not then
for the people whose money sustains them,
but for the politician or oficeholder through
whose influence they were appointed. Much
of the scandal that has been brought on the
public service has been due to the fact that
every managing party chieftain has had sew.
sral of these fellows in his keeping, to go
and come at his beck and call.-Vslparaiso
Messenger.
In order to DELAY matters and make a spe-
cial session necessary, the Republicans hit
upon a plan of opposing nearly every mer-
itorious measure, and delaying matters by
sp~eech-making. They would occupy hours
with speech-making when speeches were
unnecessary, and when a vote was finally
reached occupy as much of the time as pos
sible in explaining their votes. Thus has
days and weeks passed with work that
should have been lone speedily being left
undone. After ali their splutter and speech
making, they now nave the e~ffrontery to
say the Democrats are responsible for it
all.-Covington Friend.
OK of the grandest evidences that Mr..
Hendricks does his whole duty as 8 Demo
cratic official is the fact that he has the
cordial hatred OF the rsbid Republican press.
The radical vipers would not be happy il
they could not squirm and hiss their venom
st the Vice President. The future of Mr..
Hendricks Is what worries the Republicans;
they have reason to fear that he will be the
next Democratic observation-disclosures Sun.
IN these latter days civil service reformeIs
are becoming like angels visits-few and far
between. The necessity of reform in the
the public administration is, of course,
dwelt on as emphatically as ever. but it hes
now assumed the simple and intelligible
shape of reforming cut of place the present
ofice-holders, and substituting for them men
OF q different political stripe. Wells County
Times.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28

IT seems that several Republican Office
holders in Washington, as soon as they heard
that the President had made up lis mind to
attend DR.. Sunderlsnd's Church. immedi-
ately made arrangements to worship in the
same church. The price OF the pews bss al
ready gone up 30 per cent. That makes no
difference, however. One applicant said,
money is 10 object, if L can Sit near the
President" The church seems to be stu.
ated in a very unfashionabie quarter. The
immediste vicinity Is filled with lawyers
Offices. cheap boarding houses and drinking
saloons. Polite society, which followed Ar
thur from the Methodist church where Hayes
worshiped, to st. Johns Episcopal Church,
on II stree, does not relish the idea of going
to ~ street to practice its devotion; but it
will, nevertheless. In fact. the tide hiss al.
ready set in that direction. Qaite a number
of applications nave been made this week
for pews centrally located.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28

s. G.. Morton. Secretary OF the Western
Polo League, was in the city yesterday, and
left last night for bis home, ia Chicago.
Mr.. Arthur G. Levi is Visiting bis brother.
Mr.. Levi, Of the MODEL Clothing Company.
He represents Stitch Brothers, OF New York
City, one of the most extensive of Eastern
hat manufacturing firms.
p. II. Mccormack, Columbus; J. Irving
Riddle, Mrs. a. J. Nelly, Terre Haute; Mrs.
W. G. Ssyer, Miss u. McCown, Wabash:
Henry Maley, Edinburg; J. Z. Lynn and
vile. Bloomington; W. Keller, Al. Fred
ericE, North Judson: E.. II. Wolfe. Rush
vile; O.. Maier, Danville; Samuel Higgins.
Fort Wayne; Colonel A. F. Beach, Attics;
7. J. Charlton. Plainfeld; Walter Vail, n.
P. Rogers, G. o. Deming. Michigan City :
Sam. b. Sweet, Fort Wayne; a. NJ. Viii
loughby, Perry Hood, Vincennes; A. NJ.
Atkinson and wife, Wabash, are at the
Grand Hotel.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28
TIE NEWS NEW BULLOCK PRESS

TIE NEWS NEW BULLOCK PRESS.
By invitation quite q number OF promi.
nent citizens assembled in the press room of
the News Office yesterday afternoon to Wit
ress a test Of the new Bullock press. First
The party was shown the stereotypeing pro-
cess, and after completing the eight stereo-
type plates for the evening edition, the press
was set in notion, snd ii worked to per.
fiction, printing and folding at the rate of
about 1880 completed papers per hour.
The press. q double one, Is certainly the per-
lection of printing machinery, feeding itself
from a continuous roll of pspsr ana folding
two completed sheets at the same time. The
improvement OF newspaper printing ma
chinery in the last decade is wonderful TO
behold, and we congratulate our neighb0r
on its acquisition, for il is certainly g prize
in it's way. Our evening contemporary is
now beginning to reap the results OF years OF
psInstsking labor TO build up a good news
paper, and We are glsd of it.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28

Wyck to show up some Of the land grabs and
outrageous steals OF Republican office
holdersI are frowned down. and be taksn
TO task by his brother Republican
Senators, who are almost ready to read
aim out of the psrty because OF his telling
disclosures. sDd his desire to bring the
guilty parties TO justice, or at least to
difgorge their stolen land grants. Such is
the RepublIcsnism Of the great ''God and
morality" party today in its pure, simple.
unsdulterated state. Nor can it again rise
TO power while so lacking in principle, hon.
esty or usefulness.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28
Items From Washington.

bpbClaI % Int btlElneI.
WASHINGTON, Ind, March 27.-Railroad
elections in Elmore, Steele and Washington
Townships to determine whether or not the
corporations will pay the tax asked tor by
the E. and 7. Railroad will be held April Ia.
The wheat crop in this county (Daviess) is
not very promising.
Considerable anxiety is manifested here in
regard to the bill establishing q new judicial
Circuit out of this county aud Martin. That
such an arrangement is an absolute necessity
Is very evident, from the fact that it is al
most impossible for one Judge to dispose of
ali the cases that arise "a this and Knox
County, as the circuit is now constituted.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28
Shot by a Street Oar Driver.


About IL O'Clock last night Frank Madison,
q street car driver, observed two young men
in the yard where the company keeps its cars
when nor n use. This yard, which is situated
on Tennessee stseet Just opposite the stables.
is enclosed by q high board fence, sud the
driver knew thkt the men had no business
there, so he pulled out his gun and
hurried toward them. One OF the men
ran and the other made an effort
TO 90, when Madison. pointing the revolver
at his feet, fired. He then seized the msn
and took him into the Office, where inyesti-
CATION proved that the bullet bad passed
into his left ankle. The young fellow was
turned over to Merchant Policeman Webb.
and sent TO the Central Station, where he
gave the name of John Hartsr. He
was slated on a charge of burglary, and the
ball was removed from his leg by
Police Surgeon Hedges. Young Harter.
who is q brother to Ira. recently
sentenced to four years in the penIteRiiary
for holding Willis Ellis up. said be did not
90 into the yard for the EurPose OF robbery.
bat failed to give a satisfactory explain alton
IS to what be wanted there. The change
box in one OF the cars was broken open, but
II is understood that the money was taken
out of il before the car was moved into ths
ward.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28
HENRY Is

Henry Watterson was in New York a
night or two ago, and a special to the Chi
csgo News says that he was asked his opin.
ion of the President. and he replied that he
had been sgreeably surprised. He had
strongly opposed Cleveland's nomination at
Chicago, as he thought the country needed
a President of more experience, but he was
now convinced that the President was more
than capable of filling the position to which
he had been elected. The Cabinet chosen
was an exceedingly strong one. There had,
of course, ben great disappointment in the
West that Mcdonald had rot been chosen for
the Treasury Department, bat, mas
much as Cleveland must bear the
brunt of criticism should his al.
ministrstion prove e failure. he ought
in justice to be allowed to choose his own
advisers. Mr.. Watterson was especially
pleased with the foreign appointments.
With regard to the offices, he believed in
turning the rsscsls out" Still, while he
favored filling vacant offices with Demo-
Gratis, he thought ability and honesty should
be considered. If there were not enough
Democrats to fill the offices, then by all
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28
MISS VAN zANDr sURRENDERs.

There was a determined attempt made to
create q riot in Paris on Thursday night
when Mile. Van Zsndt sang. About 500
students from the Latin Quarter started TO
the theater, singing and shouting in a disor-
derby manner as they went, and about the
time they reached the Opera Oomique the
crowd had swollen to 10, 1000. Although fire.
quent attempts were made. they did not sue
coed in getting into the Opera House, but
massed themselves outside, hooting and sing
ing. Indside, the Kisses on the one hand
and the cheers of encouragement
on the other followed each other
promptly and plentifuilY. A cable
dispatch describes Mile. Van Zandt's atti.
tude and bearing as "dauntless." Except
for q moment at the first hissings. she never
hinched, trembIed or broke down. Her
had ever been, and she sang the love duo in
the first act so faultlessly that she was
obliged to repeat il. She was called before
the curtain after every act, the whole audi
ence rising repeatedly and cheering till it
was hoaIse. At the close of the opera she
was twice recalled, and was 90 overcome
with pleasure and excitement that she could
hardly totter forward to bow her thanks.
As she was driven away with her mother, q
crowd got around the carriage and mobbsd
her. She managed TO escape bodily violence,
however.
This last hostile demonstration decided
her future course, as we learn from a Paris
dispatch of yesterday that Miss Van Zandt
had decided not to sing any more in Paris
and had so advised the management of the
Opera Comique. We are sorry for it. We
had hoped that she would stand her ground,
but the attempt to mob her carriage after the
excitements and triumphs of Thursday
night was too much for the lady, and she
yielded up the struggle 70 a gang composed
of certain hostile critics, street gamins and
student roughs of the French capital.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28
Boiler NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Contest.

Boiler Explosion-steel-Kidd Contest.
Special to the Sentinel.
MARION. Ind, March 27.-This afternoon
about 3 o'clock a boiler explosion occurred
at the saw mill of II. f. Larkens. near Jones'
horo in this county. instantly killing George
Miller, a resident of Marion, who had lust
called at the mill a few minutes before to
see a friend thai was enginser at the mill.
and while talking with his friend the explo
sion occurred, with the above named result.
and also seriously scalding his friend,
Charles McFarr, the engineer. The mill is q
total ruin.
The taking of evidence In the Steel Kidd
contested case in this the Eleventh Congress.
sional District is still dragging along. 1t 80.
pears there will be on end TO it. J. 7. Strong
is the attorney for Kidd aud Kerry Il Bald
win for Steel. Both parties are well repre-
sented. a grea. maoy witnesses have bssn
examined, and as yet no one can forshsdow
the result.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28

means appoint Republicans. Should he or.
der q clean sweep at once, he would come
into collision with the Republican Senate,
pare with his. Both the great parties were
committed to tariff revision, and II Cleve-
lard could bring Randall and Carlisle to-
gethe- and define q policy agreeable to both,
there was no reason why the necessary re-
vision should not be accomplished before
the close of next session.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28
A patriotic Catholic addresses q letter Il
the New York Suu aud says:

The writer has been taught, and taught with
hundreds of other young men. By his religious in-
s~truciOrs, trat TO be true TO God ne mus. be true
10 his fellow men. And who are mis- fellow men
but Americana
instructions under which he has lived and 20 the
community in which he moves. aud wat are
these institutions and communities but American?
The man who questions the patriotism or true
citizenship of Catholics because they are Catholics,
does that which is low, AMI errOne.
Ous: and. instead OF making out Catholics 10 be
the enemies of American institutions. makes of
himself the laughing stock of all true minded
men. and his statement TO be ad captandum
Vuleus.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28
REPUBLICANS AND CIVIL SERVICE.

The Republican party would nave some.
thing less OF disrespect in its retirement
from power, did its organs and leaders pirate
less Of civil service reform. II is only when
the Democracy has the dispensing of the Off
ces that they clamor for the enforcement OF
the civil service ensctments. When their
Owl party had the appointing prerogs-
tive they disclsimed against any share OF the
offices going to other than Republicans. In
practice they endorsed. religiously, the doc
trine that "to the victor belongs the spoils."
Upon the doors of the Departments and
every Government building of the country
was, iEpliedly, painted the sign; mo DEM
ocrat need apply But now that the De-
mocracy has the keys to these doors, the
ousted party Indignantly protestsagalnst the
signs being changed 10 read in the same way
against Republicans. AS long as the Repub.
lican party vss knccker-out it claimed the
entire gate receipts. But now that it aas
been fairly beaten, il is whining for o divis-
ion of the receipts. This is very
contemplate. 1t indicates despicable
littlenesss and dishonor. Even the
devotees OF the sporting ring would scorn
and rspudiate such a spirit. 1t Is as mean
as is the act of the man who having staked
in an effsrt to beat another out of money and
lost, seeks technicalities of law to recover it
from the winner.
Under the civil service law, itself ema-
mating from q Democrat, sons Republicans
will for some time be retained in Offices But
Lad the Democratic administration adopted
Republican PARTY ethics, the offices would,
every one, before this time have been filled
by Democrats. From a party standpoint,
and in view o. the practice of Republican
administrations. no Republican is entitled to
an hour of service or q dollar of compensa-
ton under this administration. II Mr..
Cleveland ~sustains the civil service laws, he
is doing what none of his predecessors have
done. If be permits Republicans to tarry
a while, it is in pursuance OF a policy which
10 it's nationality is entirely foreign to Re-
publican narrow psrtisanship. Let the De-
mocracy deserve never so much praise for
its magnanimity, the Republicans deserve
only contempt for their baby act appeals to
STAY.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28

O5R Washington correspondent telegraphs
Us that general good feeling prevails among
the Indianians at Washington over the sp.
pointment of Mr.. Jones as Postmaster at In.
dianapolis. All are at rest now except the
Republican organs. They continue to fret
and fume, and this they would have done
no matter how the matter had ended. They
fixed the trap to catch the Democratic COON
''gwine or comm aud 10 and behold they
are caught themselves. Don't get excited.
gentlemen. Kick around awhile and enjoy
yourselves.