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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

Ii is not with any great reluctance that
the average reader bade the old year adisu.
There is feeling that 1t might AVE been q
more orderly and more generous cycle. 1t
did not retire from Office with wreaths on its
brow from the hsndmsiden Of prosperity.
This industries will not hold it up as an ex-
emplsr for any coming year. The half mil
lion unemployed working people of the
United States will not remember 1t with
blessings. The hundreds OF bankrupts it has
made, or disclosed, ave no kind words for
1t. Commercial men whose trade has
dragged, farmers who have realized bu
sorry prices for their products. transporta.
ton lines whose carvings have fallen of,
and indeed the public at large, look upon
e~ighty-four a. . contracted, dull, sour
visaged old year, whose departure IL not to
be regretted. Even the political revolution,
90 essential to the maintenance of the Re-
public and future prosperity of she people,
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

moral and intellectual stature-a mar with
a genius for politics. a man of high chsrac-
ter aud unimpeachsbie integrity. Indeed,
the de~cadence. meanness and foul condition
OF the Republican party are not made SO
clearly evident by any other fact as by this
that in the struggle in that party for the
survival Of the fttest between Blaine and
CSnkliDg. Blaine was found to be the fttest.
Il must be a muddy atmosphere and a vile
world in which the eagle, soaring Ia his pride
OF place. is rated a poorer bird than the car
ri0n crow. COnkling's election would De a
wonderful sign OF a new departure IN Rspub-
liCan DOliticsn
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
RECEPTION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE
LETTER.

LETTER.
The cordial approval by Democrats of the
letter OF the President-elect on civil service
reform is sorely disappointing to the organs
and demagogues OF the late lamanted G.. O..
P. How often have these pictured to the
public gaSs and hearing a tumultuous rush
By 'hungry Democrats" for the offices. They
have Rugged the delusiOn that greed for
spoils and the precipitate demand for them
would bring disgrace upon toe party, while
r~iva.ries and j~ealousies would soon split it,
much to the benefit Of its rival. But the
universal commentator Of Democrats who
have given expression upon the letter indi-
Gates positive patriotism. Conceding 8 de-
sire to obtain the offices so soon as the ad-
ministration can with safety make the
changes, the Democracy yet desires more
the thoroughly successful operation Of the
Governmental machinery. Il is apparent
now, even to the most blinded par
tizan who belittled aud ~biackguarisd
Grover Cleveland throughout the cam
paigDe that he is q brainy, earnest, broad
guage patriot with principles and impulses
eminently fitting him for the exalted trust
to which he hss been called. 1t must occur
pretty soon to the same partisans that TIE
party which so rcundlyindorse such q leader
is impressed with something Of his ssuti.
ments. Mr.. C!evelsnd's u~tterances and the
Democracy's applauding reception of them
stand ont IN resplendent contrast TO Mr..
Blaine aud his party. To the latter aud
their leader, party came first aGd country
second. To them party was country. But
the Democracy and its President demon.
strate that the public good is their frat
object
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
THE HERALD AND OoNKLINa.

The New York Herald is going to see
Roscoe Conkling write Senator after his
name again or know the reason why. If
for no other reason, the Herald wants Lord
pepper in the eyes of the Piumed knight
when that hero of fuss and feathers puts his
face into Senate affairs. 1t compliments
Mr.. Arthur for being "the most capable
President of the United States since Abra-
ham Lincoln, and Mr.. Evarts as IAN orator
capable of such achievements as talking a
usurper Hayes into the Presidential chair"
and then adds:
"Perhaps the best piece of Senatorial tim.
Der in the United States to-day is Mr.. Roscoe
Conkling. He IL the Saul Of his party as to
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
PHENOMENAL DOWNWARD PEE
CENTAGES.

SENAAGGC
A Sentinel New York special OF yesterday,
r~eoiting reductions of rates made by the Bal
timore and Ohio Telegraph Company, names
certain percentages which suggest that our
correspondent would do we'll to investigate
the pages of a school arithmetic. Says the
special: I'm order that a full appreciation OF
the reduction may be had by running com
parsons as to the rates one gear ago, eau not
but prove interesting, to New England
points, IS above, the fall averages from 100
to 800 per cent"
In illustration, it is stated that the rate is
now twenty cents for ten words to Indian
apolis and st. Louis, a difference of $50 per
cent, the former rate having been fifty
cents"
s The change from fifty to twenty cents is
q reduction of 60 per cent. a reduction OF
100 per cent. on any rate would simply wips
it entirely out. Had the Indianapolis and
st. Louis figures been twenty, and now in
creased to fifty cents, the percentage of in
crease would be $50 per cent. but this is q
case in which the rule will not work both
ways" If it is any consolation to the cor.
respondent to know that he is not the first
man affecting education who has made the
mistake, he is welcome to the assurance, bat
he is none the less ridiculously wrong IN his
computation. He is as far from the mark as
the German who. charging 50 for an article
costing him but 81, declared he was making
a profit OF only l per cent.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
The Speakership.
letter to Madison Herald

With Mr.. Jewett in the Chsir the tax
PAYERS of Indiana can rest assured that, 50 far
as lies in his power, there will be retreach-
penditure of the peoples money.
h graceful and dignifed manner in
which Mr.. Jewett presided over the last
House Of Representatives, as Chairman Of
the Ways and Means Committee, combined
with his uniformly correct rulings, stamps
him as a pa-rliamentarian OF the highest
order, and as a member thoroughly equip
ped for the weighty and responsible duties
of the Speskership.
MoIeover,s as Southern Indisna contributed
q large majority of the Democratic vote OF
the State. it is nothing more than justice that
the x Speaker should be her ~fayorite son
CHARLES L.. Jewett.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

THE Neurology of 1884 for the United
States includes the names of number Of
men highly distinguished in varied callings.
From the list we mention the following:
Ex-Governor Letcher, of Virginia; Congress
man E. w. N. Mackey, of South Carolina;
Wendell Phillips, of Massachusetts,; w. II.
Hunt, United States Minister to Russia
Ohares 0'Connor, the greatlswyer; Cyrus II.
Mccormick, the inventor and manufacturer
Of the Mccormick reaper; Secretary Folget,
Bishops r. II. Clsrkson, of Nebraska; II. Ii.
~Kavansugh, CT Kentucky; George F. Pierce,
Of Georgia. and Matthew Simpson. of Penn
s%ylyania; General Terrell, Of Indiana; DR..
Woodward, of the United States Army; DR..
Samuel d. Gross, WILDER F. Storey, editor OF
the Chicago Times; Thomas Kinsella, ed tor
the Brooklyn Eagle; Robert II. Hoe, in
ventor Of the Hoe printing press; Flank
Chanfrau, the actor, and Allan Pinkerton,
the noted detective.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
rot the Mas.
10 the gdltor Of tha sentinel.

To the Edit0r OF The Sentinel:
SfR-Fhere has been an article going the
rounds Of the press setting forth that my
brotker, Emil Kurchler. was one of the
parties implicated il the attempted assassi-
nation OF the Emperor OF Germany. Ny
brother came II America in 1860 and
enlisted in tho three months service and
served his time. lie then enlisted in ne
Fourteenth Indiana Regiment, Volunteer
Infantry, and was wounded st the battle Of
Anteitam. After bis c0nvalessnce be served
his three years, and then re-enlisted IN the
First Indiana Battery. under Captain Klaus,
and served until the close of the war. He
hss never been il Germany aimee he came to
America IN 1860. He IL now foreman in the
Erie Tsgeblatt," and is the sane man whom
the press represents as having been one Of
the dynamite hends who attempted TO take
the life OF King William. / make this state
ment for the purpose OF defending my
brother against such false aud unjust acclsa-
lions, the falseness of which can bs easily
proven il need be. thrust all papers will be
as ready 10 copy this yindication OF my
brother as they have been TO publish tne
very unjust accusation against hum, as
above mentioned. Very respectfully,
L0U k~URCHLFR.
indianapolis. Jan. /. 1888.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

HERE Is a specimen OF the lying stuff that
is being telegrsphed from this city 20 the ST..
Louis Globe Democra. Republican, of
course):
The administration Of law here under
the Metropolitan Board of Police has reached
such q stage that the organization of q Wig
lance committee has been urged II the col.
umns Of the press. At present tue city is
full of criminals OF a desperate aud danger.
Gus character, and for the many outrsges re-
Gently perpetrated no arrests have been
made
The truth is that the metropolitan police
il the finest organization OF the kind that
the city has ever had. The members OF the
board are recognizedin this city as respected,
responsible, honorable gentlemen. The Re.
publican organs hunger for the miserable,
disgrscetul and scandalous Ecenes enacted
under the old system, when 1t was possible
to stuff ard steal ballot boxes when
ever it was necessary 10 produce
fat Republican majorities. Tins Is
the entire story in q nutshell. The
old forcs was simply an annex to the most
degraded forms Of local Republican politics,
manipulated, controlled and directed sor the
most part by ward bummers in the interests
of the city and county Republican rings.
The rings bave been badly damaged IN
recent elections, and more especially has
the Metropolitan Police bill crippled them.
The plumber hat once held them together
hss been placed beyond their resch. Alto
getber the occasion is O sad one, suggesting
the walls of a wake. Hence the hubbub.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
A P-HREsoIocIsr called to see Mr.. Cleveland

A PHRENoLoGIsr called TO see Mr.. Cleveland
last Wednesday evening. He did not sue
coed in feeling the bumps of the President
elect, but from observation he concludes 20
follows: II find the Governor has great
powers of ~insistance, and the bump of self
reliance is unusually well developed; that
and the organ of perseverance are the most
prominent characteristics he possesses. II
his head does not belle him, he will make a
strong President"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

~as literally wrung from the old year. II
.eighty-fye is al all ambitious for popularity,
it will do well to r~epudiste the methods of
Its immediate predecessor. nor permit the
latter's mantle to be seen on IFS shoulders.
Let the new year show itself Democratic
from the start
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

PRESIDENT ARTHUR received an i'm
mense throng OF New Years visitors yes
terday Notwithstanding the S berian winter
scalp OF the weather at the same time.
Some Of the most prominent ladies in Wash
ington social circles assisted the President
in entertaining his numerous visitors.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

GevERNoR ST.. JOHN. the late Prohibition
candidate, has fatty denied the Republican
charge that he was bribed by Democrats to
make CT continue his race for the Presidency.
Editor McCullagh, OF the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat, having stated that proof is ex-
tant of Mr.. st. Johns trsficking, the latter
gentleman challenges its production. The
Republicans must put up or shut up.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
DEMOCRATIC EDITORIAL ASSOCIA.
TION.
Fifth Annual Meeting.

The fifth annual meeting of the Democratic
Editorial Association will be held in the city o..
Idianapolis
JAcKsoN's DAY-JANUARY 8, 1884.
The indications are that the meeting viii be
che largest editorial convocation ever held in In
diana or in the West. The Democratic editors OF
Indiana contributed their full share in securing
the grand victory November 4, and to a man. they
should be present to take part in the proceedings
OF the Sth Of January meeting. A local commit
tee viii make every required arrangement for the
meeting. of which timely notice will be gwen.
Come one, come all.
l.. p. MCDONALD, President.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
a d Inquiry.
IO'Neill RepOrter.l

We don't wish to do Valentine an injus-
tice and. for information, would inquire IL
keeps q saloon, that the Sheriff also keeps q
saloon, that the County Clerk is in q saloon,
that the Deputy Sheriff deals faro, that the
Judge, Clerk and Sheriff also deal monte
and faro, hat the sessions OF the County
Court are held in q saloon, and IL gambling
is not the main business of the town.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

WoRsHrPERs Of John s. Sullivan will be
delighted at reading thathe has knocked out
another. This time 1t was a slender girl-a
waitress in a restaurant. He struck her on
the face with a wet driving glove; then hit
her a heavy blow with his clinched fist,
cutting an ugly cash over her right eve and
telling her 10 the floor. when be kicked her
cruelty. If the girl had had a big brother
with a crowbar in hand near enough to have
broken both arms and both legs, be would
have lone the country a service.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

The Illinois Senatorial question is still a
p~erplexity. The Legislature is a tie on join
ballot. General Logan's friends claim tina
he will be nominated by the Republican
caucus. The Democrats are understood to
stand twenty mine for Carter Harrison,
twenty-four tor Congressman Morrison, and
eleven for Ex-Governor Palmer.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

THERE is a movement in the Grand Army
of the Republic in the East in favor OF Colo
mel Horatio G.. King. of Brooklyn, for Presi-
dent Cleveland's Secretary of War. Colonel
King is Judge Advocate General on Gov
ernor Cieveland's staff, and wa President of
the Cleveland and Hendricks War Associa-
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
boston HERALD

Charles B. Hodges Is at the City Hospital
with his left hand badly frozen. Saturday
night he was walking with an umbrella
clasped in his hand. and before he realized
the extent of the cold it was literally frozen
stiff to the umbrella. The injured member
will have to be ~amputated.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

Mrs. SENATOR HARRISON and the grand
daughter of General Lewis Cass we're among
the callers at the White House reception
Yesterday.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

ton Of Brooklyn during the campaign. He
Is also Secretary of the Society of the Army
OF the Potomac. HIS father was Postmaster
General under President Buchanan.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
The Deaf Engineer.
fSavanuah NeUs

At one of the cotton presses in Savannah
the engineer is deaf. He takes the string of
the whistle, pulls it down aud ties IL, and
the blowing goes on until some one cuts tha
string.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

BEN BUrLER IS positively going to write a
book. We suggest an embossed spoon as the
decoration for the cover.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

BY the way. is not MIR. Watterson the au-
thor OF the splendid political maxim, Let
Pennsylvania 90 to the devil?'-CommeTcial
Gazette.
Yes and she went over $4,000 just that
Wav
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

IT is estimated that more than 1000 per-
sons were killed by the recent earthquakes
in Spain,
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

purpose of a reform whose Fundamental
proposition Is that fhs public offices shslI
not be so used Inc abused.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

TIE benefits possible TO sccrus to the
United States by the construction OF the
Nicaragua Canal are not generally under
stood. Here is an extract from a speech of
Mr. K. ". T~ewnshend, of Illinois, in the
House Of Representatives, July 5. 1884:
1.-The trade OF those South Americsncoun-
tries ought to be controlled by US. Their
nearness to Us, The facilities of commu-
n~ication by water or rail, all give US the
advantage over any other country. What
share OF this trade do we get now?
The statistics will show that England,
France and Germany come to our
door and taken away the bulk of this trade.
Look ct the figures. Our trade with some of
these countries is so significant in compsri-
son with England and France as to be hu.
initiating to the pride of our country. Take
Chill and Peru, so remote from Europe, and
yet, comparatively speaking, essy Of access
to Us across the Isthmuso of Panama or from
California, and see the disparity:
Exports from Chilli. Peru. Total.
treat Britain ..ss2 O64, 3i7 s.7sl.4Ss $685. SIS
Frenee .....-.~~. I3,059,2l0 S,7l3,Sz2 q, 722,5 SO
United States. S.5s5.iS2 S.571,495 7159.627
II nave not yet had access to the statistics
OF the trade OF these countries with other
European countries Their trade in 1880
with all foreign countries amounted to
S653, 701. 600, of which 1878. 994 600 were i'm
ports and consisted mainly Of manufactured
articles. OF those imports England fur
nished Sss, $40, coo, France $50, al, coo, AID
the United States only $50. O44.OOO. If this
commercial union was established these fig
ures would be more than reversed"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02
Frnm The sonth-
Extract PORN a Private Letter in Hartford Times
Dated Ringgold, Ga. December ISL

Extract Porn a Private Letter in Hartford Times
Dated RinggoId, Ga, December Isl
Now about election and the times. Elect
ing a Democratic President does not make
the bard times. America Is sn over produc-
ing country, and when 100 articles of any,
thing are made where only fifty IRE needed,
there Is sure 70 come o glut II the market,
snd goods viii not sell. The cry of Free
Trade is all empty talk. There is need Of a
revision OF the revenue laws. There is a
duty now on over 600 articles which costs
the Government more 10 collect than the
duty amounts TO.
/ notice In the New York Tribane that the
blocks of the South are Ostracised, and are
s. intimidateG that they are not allowed to
v5te. Such stuff IS a base lie. The Republic
Cans south Ia man places told the blacks
that If Cleveland was elected they would all
be put back into slavery. In many places
where the negroes were numerous, they
were so excited that ma1y whites staid at
home, being afraid to go aud vote. / nav
not heard a single instance OF the blacks
being intimidated. Many counties in
Georgia gave 500 majority for Blaine.
The result Will perfectly satisfy the negro,
restore harmony between the races, enconr-
age Southern enterprise, and make the
Southern States feel that they belong to q
united country with united interests. The
time Will come in a few years when the
South will be %one-auarter If not one-half
richer than she is to-day. Atlanta will
reach q population of 40, 600 within ten
years. In twenty years she has grown from
ruin 20 10000 population. Birmingham,
Ala, hes in twelve years grown from moth
ing TO y 600, and sends 400 car loads of iron
ore to Chattanooga daily. and has contracted
to DO so for five years 70 come. Admission,
Ala, bas sprung up like magic to q popula-
ton OF 5000. Rome, Ca, also has q popu-
lation of 5000. Talladega. Ala, and many
other places are growing like Western cities.
]. X, ROOD.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-12-12
A Madman's" Legacy.

"Sire!'' exclaimed man in the homely
garb of mechanic to Richelieu, Pri ,e Min
lister of France, as he was entering his pal
ace: "Sire, / have made discovery which
sh I make rich and great the natl which
shall develop it. Sire, will you give me an
audienceg'
Riche.ieu, constantly 1mportuned, finally
ordered the "madmann imprisoned. Even
in he did not desist from declaring his
"deius " which one day attracted the
attention of British nobienan, who heard
De Causes story, and developed his discov-
cry steam powerl
All great discoveries are at first derided.
Seven years ago man yet under middle
age, enriched by a business which covered
the continent, found himself suddenly
stricken down. When his ply sicians said
recovery was impossible, he used new dis
covery, which, like all advances in science,
had been opposed bitterly by. the school
men. Nevertheless, it cured him, and out
of gratitude therefor he consecrated part
of his wealth to the spreading of its merits
before the world. Such in brief is the his
tory of Warmers safe cure, which has won,
according to the testimony of eminent per-
sons, the most deserved reputation ever &C
corded to any known compound, and which
is finally winning ON its merits alone the
approval of the most conservative practi-
TONERS. It's fame now belts the globe
The Herald.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-12-12
A Common Superstition.

The conversation turned on supersti-
ton and a travelling man from Chicago
remarked to VIII Shields:
s'Do you believe in ghostsP"
II do, indeedy," replied Willie.
Come off, now, have you ever seen
oue?"
"You bet have"
II don't believe il"
Would you believe it if showed you
one?'
'.Of course"
"Wen, look at that" he said, pulling
out pocket-book so thin and emaciated
that the light shone through it like an
open window.-Arkdns0aU 1raUeler.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-12-12
Be Tender and Loving.

Do not keep alabasterl boxes of your
love and tenderness sealed up until your
friends are dead. Fill their lives with
sweetness. The things you mean to say
when they are gone, say before they 60.
The flowers you mean to send for their
coffins, send to brighten and sweeten
their home before they leave them. II
INV friends have alabaster boxes laid
away full of perfumes of sympathy and
affection which they intend to break
over my dead body, would rather they
would bring them out now, in my
weary hours, and open them that | may
be refreshed and eheered. .-Baptis
UfeLlU
Huntsville gazette., 1885-12-12

Among other valuable lessons impaired
by this teacher is the fact that for a very
long time DR. rPierce's "Golden Medical Dis
covery, has been the prince of liver correct
ives and blood purifiers, being the house
hold physician of the poor man, and the
able consulting physician to the rich
patient and praised by all for its magnif-
cent service and efficacy in all diseases of a
chronic nature, as malarial poi oning, all
ments of the respiratory and digestive sys-
TENS, liver disease and in all cases where
the use Of an alternative remedy is indicated.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-12-12
Young Men, Read This.

THE VoLTAIc BELT Co., of Marshall, Mich,
offer to send their celebrated ELECTRO-VOL-
TAIC BELT and other ELECTRIC APPLIANCES
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them at once for illustrated pamphlet, free.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-12-12

however large, sINedily and painlessly
cured without knife, caustic, powder or
ointment. Consultation free. Write for
pamphlet and references enclosing two let
ter stamps for reply. Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, 6S3 Main Street, Buf-
falo, N. Y.