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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03
THE JOURNALISTS

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL is recog-
nized everywhere as the leading newspaper OF
Indiana. No proper expense will be spared IN
The future to maintain this uudisputed excel
lence and to increase the value and interest OF
the paper THE JOURNAL was never so we'll
for the collection of the news of the day are
more complete than ever and we are adding
some special features for 1888 which must en-
hance the popularity of the paper.
THE JOURNAL is the only paper in Indiana
that prints regularly the full reports OF the
Western Associated Press, which are now
more comprehensive than ever, covering the
whole world. These dispatches are supple
mented 10y the work CT special correspondents
at all the principal cities and towns of the
State and of the country at large. We have
special resident representative at Washington
City, who looks after the news of the national
capital with vigilance. paying particular atten-
ton to that which most nearly concerns THE
JOURNALS constituency The national admin
istration will soon pass into the control of the
Democratic party. and the fullest and most re-
liable intelligence from Washington will be
presented in our news columns, free from party
bias, impsrtialiy. and without restraint.
The new State administration takes charge of
affairs with the beginning of the new year. The
Democratic Legislature will be in session. The
Journal will pay unusual attention to the daily
Of SIC doip hat
any citizen of the State may know all that is go
ing on affecting the public interests. accompa-
MED with such comment as may be needed to ex-
plain the possible political social and economic
effects Of the proposed legislation.
Edtorially THE journal is Republican
paper, believing in the principles and general
policy of tue Republican party; but it recognizes
that the day of blind party organising has passed,
and it proposes to be perfectly free TO criticise
and condemn but in spirit and with a pur-
pose for good, having a proper regard
for personal rights and regulations
The citizen, whatever his political faith can be
assured of seeing in the columns of THE
JOURNAL the fullest and fairest presentation
of the news, and in its editorial columns such
comment and structures as will command his
spect if they do not meet his approval 1t may
also be said that THE JOURNALS published
as FAMILY NEWSPAPER 1t recognizes
that the women and the children are to be in
structed and entertained They will always find
in its columns matter specially prepared for
them while the paper will be SO conducted as to
prove a welcome visitor in the household. The
news will be presented in such shape as min.
imze the evil and its editorial and local columns
will be kept free from moral faint.
:. The Railroad News of THE JOURNAL is add
mittedly the freshest fullest and most accurate
printed by any newspaper iii the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

GENERAL GRANT, in his paper on ''Shiloh, :"
written for the February Century, scouts the
idea that his army was in defenseloss condi-
ton at the close of the first day of the battle
He says that before any of Buells troops had
taken position, he had given orders to his di-
vision commanders to attack at daybreak on
the second day. Of the close of the first day
he says: General Lew Wallace arrived after
firing had ceased, and was placed on the right
Thus night came, Wallace came, and the ad-
vance of Nelson's division came, but none
except night--in time to be of material service
to the gallant men who saved Shiloh on that
first day, against large odds" He fixes the
time of the capture of General Prentiss as GER
tainly after 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon, as
he himself was with Prentiss at that hour
'when his division was standing up firmly,
and the General was as cool as if he had been
expecting victory"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

In the extra sheet of the Journal of to-day
will be found the first installment of the
story by Hjalmar H. Boyesen, which is pub
Gshed by us in pursuance OF special arrange
ment with the distinguished author. The
second and concluding part will be published
in the Journal of Saturday next. AS al
ready announced. the Saturday Journal
will have some special and distinctive feature
each week throughout the year 1885. The
week following the conclusion of Mr..
Boyesen's American love story-the first he
has ever written for newspaper-we shall
begin series of four articles by Kate Field
on Mormonism, which will be of absorbing
interest and value. Miss Field has made a
close study of the Mormon problem and will
treat it in manner at once original and
thorough
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

THE News, in recent issue, announcing the
formation and list of professors" in one of
the sporadic medical colleges which spring up
in Western cities as often as there is quarrel
III the faculty of colleges already existing,
dubbed one of the teachers as professor of
medical ceremony" The supposition on the
part of the profession is that medical chem
istry' was intended; but the average layman,
who is only aware of the existencvef half a
dozen medical colleges in this city by their
gilt signs and catalogues viii be inclined to
believe that professor of medical ceremony"
is good title for many medical teachers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

be empowered to grasp this monstrous thing
by the throat and not let GO until life is
choked out of it. But for the good old Demo
cratic doctrine of States rights-no wonder
Mormonism warns to the Democratic party
this evil could have been rooted up long ago,
and the danger now threatened would
have been averted. Little or moth
ing can be expected from a DEM
ocratic administration. The traditions
of that party are all interviewer with the
crimes of slavery and of treason. 1t is mere
folly to expect it to make war against its
friends in Utah. But some day this question
will have to be met and settled. If not in the
halls of legislation, then it may be on the
plains of Utah and the West. The debt the
Nation owes to decency and self-respect, to
morals and to society, is swelling daily, and
will be the more difficult of settlement the
longer it is postponed. The Mormon iniquity
should be grappled now, and settled by law
if possible, by force if necessary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

WHAT becomes of the newsboys is ques-
ton sometimes asked but never satisfactorily
answered. Even the matrons and managers
of the 'homes" established for them can offer
but brief account of any given boy who
comes under their care. The little waits come
and CO. springng up first from no one knows
where, staying few months or at most two
or three years in one city, and then drifting
away from the knowledge of all to whom their
faces have become familiar Their records
are difficult to trace No one keeps watch
over them as the passing years bring them to
manhood. 1t is supposed that they do be-
come men eventually, for the one reason, if no
other, that a newsboy sick or newsboy dead
is seldom heard of. The wandering little
merchants seem, in particular to be free from
erage boy one on which no cautious insurance
agent would take risks. It is this popularity
which causes the fate of one newsboy to at
tract an attention that it would not other
wise command. He was Louisville boy,
ten years old. and. with the instinct
common to the youth of that age, irrespective
of SEX he preferred to descend stairways by
means of the bannisters rather than the steps.
1t was in the newspaper Office where he pur-
chased his supplies that he tried this method
of descent once too often, fell upon paved
floor, and opened his eyes no more upon
world which doubtless had its charms for him,
though he was ragged and hungry. Other
little waits gathered about with awe-struck
faces, and one told the story of their dead
comrade. "His names Mickey Griffin" he
said, "but the boys call him Patsey. He's
been sellin' papers, an tulu, an caramels fur
a long time. I've knew him three or four
years. He hasn't got any mother an no
father that l ever heard him say of. He lives
with his aunt, somers on Tenth and Grayson
an he's the only one who takes his money
home. Mickey was good little chap as never
swore He had lots of customers, an ever
body liked him" He had come to an un-
timely death He was one newsboy whose
record was definitely known and closed. Had
he lived to manhood and come to honors-
legends tell that such things have happened
he might not have found better epitaph-
everybody liked him." OF even an ignorant
newsboy it may be said: ''He did what he
could"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

GOVERNOR BEGoLE, of Michigan, makes
some astounding assertions in connection with
his defense of his course in granting pardons by
wholesale. He says: "From my experience in
our prisons. where have devoted much time.
earnestly believe that there are 200 men in our
prisons to-day in whose cases the ends of justice,
both to the State and the convicts, would be
better served by their release. There are many
young men serving out sentences for no other
crime than being poor. There are rings in all
of the large towns that arrest, convict and
send TO prison persons for no other reason than
to make business for constables, sheriffs and
justices that small sum of money would re-
lease" Few will believe that the Governor
knows of what he speaks. 1t taxes credulity
to believe that there is anything like organ
lied prosecution anywhere, especially to the
extreme of sending innocent men to prison.
Ii anything the difference is the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

IT is solemnly announced that the Demo
cratic State officers will not agree to the selec-
ton of any Republican member af the police
board who is strong partisan. It was in
obedience to this high controlling principle
that they elected Mr.. John P. Frenzel, the
most furious little ward politician In the city
the treasurer of the Democratic State central
committee, and the man who enjoys
the unique distinction of having
defeated woman for school commissioner by
the active help of the saloon-men, an obliga-
ton he now repays by seeing that the law is
not enforced against them, despite his oath
to the contrary. In this violation of his
sworn duty he is joined by Mr.. John W. Muir
ply, whose character and standing are such
as to make it an amazement to the respectable,
law-abiding people of Indianapolis that he can
so far forget his moral obligation and the de-
mands of his citizenship.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

A STRANGE suit-the strangeness lying
principally in the fact that such proceeding
is necessary-has been brought by the Ba!ti-
more & Ohio Telegraph Company against the
Central Telephone Company, to compel the
putting in of telephone in its place of bust
ness. 1t is alleged that the telephone company
declines to put in an instrument unless the
telegraph company will agree not to use it
in the way of business, This is a remarkable
affair in any phase it may be looked at. We
have no earthly. interest in the Baltimore &
Ohio Telegraph Company; but the Central
Telephone Company obtains its right to
do business in this city from all the people;
it uses the streets of the city, and assumes to
serve the people and>business of the city with
out illegal discrimination. The Baltimore g.
Ohio Telegraph Company is here to
transact business on the same terms 1t
must carry messages for anybody, upon com.
pliance with the rules it has established for
itself We cannot see how the Central Tele-
phone Company can evade like duty. There
is touch of odious monopoly in the attitude
of the telephone company which certainly
neither the law nor the courts will uphold.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03
The Sunday Journal has the largest and
best circulation Of any Sunday paper in In
DIANA Price three cents.


The issue of the Sunday Journal tomorrow
will not suffer by comparison with any that have
preceded it Among the special features will be
story by Mrs. NJ. Fl. Catherwood, poems by
e c. and Ida May Davis, and several local
articles of interest by special writers, on
Early Mobs in indianapolis The usual
features of miscellany, society, musical and art
review news, ETC., will be fully maintained.
The Sunday Journal is sold for three cents. and
has the larrest and best circulation of any Sun
day paper in the State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

IT may not be very long until the country
The North Carolina Legislature, at its coming
session, will be petitioned to pass a general
banking law, in anticipation of the expiration
of the charters of several national banks in
that State. Money is scarce in North Caro-
lima, and the opinion is growing in favor that
a State bank system will best supply the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

other way, and only too many guilty men es-
cape their deserts. For Governor to i'm
peach the courts by wholesale, as being in
league against the innocent, is serious Of
Tense, and cannot be used to apologize for too
great leniency toward the criminal classes.
The inconsistency Of declaring that men are
in prison because they are poor, and sent there
by rings" bent on fees, is too bald to de-
ceive anybody. Governor Begole must seek
some other excuse for his abuse Of the par
doning power.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03
THE next thing to follow the Princess Be

THE next thing to follow the Princess Bea-
trice's marriage engagement will be the wrangle
in Parliament over the government allowance
which will, of course, be demanded for her by
the Queen. AS the coming husband is penniless.
round sum will be necessary in order to set the
young couple up in housekeeping comfortably,
and the row raised by the NJ. P's will be in pro-
portion to the size of the portion asked for.
Come to think of it, however, the Princess and
her beloved are not to be permitted to enjoy
their love in cottage, or in any domcile Of
their own but must remain with the royal
mamma of the bride. Whether the impression
is correct or not, O. feeling prevails in this part
of the world at least, that the wise and most ex'
cellent Queen is not an agreeable person to live
with and that Princess Beatrice has had rather
more of her parents exclusive society than is
reasonable, considering the fact that number
of other children, not to speak of grandchildren.
are in existence, and should help bear the brunt
The elders may claim that, being married, they
had other duties to perform, but it may be no-
ticed that they take good care to remain at long
range, whether Accordingly occupied or not.
Particularly is this the case with the sons and
daughters-in-law. The world at large wishes
the Princess Beatrice we'll, especially so as being
in some sense ill-used, and trusts that her hus-
band win not be so in awe of his motherinlaw
that he will absent himself from her side moro
than is agreeable, or find it necessary to hunt
separate boarding house for himself before tho
honeymoon is ended
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

THE Charleston News and Courier plumes
itself because, as it claims, the Democracy of
that State have long enjoyed and practiced
civil service of the reformed sort, and have
made no fuss about it. ''The Democrats, it
says, "have been in power in South Carolina
for eight years. Every department. of the
government is in their hands. Yet in South
Carolina no single officer who is appointed by
the Governor has been removed except for
cause, and no capable and faithful officer has
been removed at the suggestion or demand of
any set of politicians" A faint suspicion
dawns upon the News that this condition of
affairs is not exactly parallel case with the
situation in the North, for it adds, ingenu-
ously: "This evidence of the conservatism of
Democrats will reassure some Of the brethren,
though there is some difference between keep
ing Democrats in Office and turning Repub
licans out" There is some difference, for a
fact and if this esteemed Southern organ
will allow it's memory to wander back a matter
of eight years, it will perhaps recollect that
the Carolina reform did not begin until the
Democrats had every office. This sort of
conservatism, which is claimed to be an
indication of the course the national admins
tration will follow, can hardly do otherwise
than treasure" such brethren as may have
feared some Republicans would be allowed to
retain their Offices
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

THE relatives of the wealthy Miss Welton Of
Waterbury, Conn, who bequeathed her proper
ty to Henry Bergh for the use of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, object to
the WILL and are endeavoring to have it set
aside. If the question comes before u jury there
can be little doubt of the result About twelve
of the dozen honest men and e'may be depend.
ed upon to be poor relations of somebody them
selves, and fellow feeling will lead them to de-
eide in favor of the plaintiffs. even though elder
ly dogs are thereby deprived of false teeth and
decrept street-car horses get no horsptal to die
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

OUR Metropolitan Police Board (of which
Mr.. Malott is not member) yesterday signal
lied the new year by ignoring the law made
and provided for that day, and in violation
thereof permitted the saloons to traffic in in
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
And on that day as on other days, patrol
men, in uniform and on duty, went into
saloons at will, and staid there as long as suited
them The police of the city is in beautiful
state of discipline and efficiency.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03
IT is reported that Louisiana sugar planters

IT is reported that Louisiana sugar planters
are greatly discouraged. A telegram from
Franklin, that State, says:
''The prospect for the coming year, in view
and Spanish treaties and the difficulty of pro-
curing advances for cultivating the cane crop
is very gloomy. Planters are i'll great doubt
tracts with laborers for the new year are being
made, and much apprehension is felt as to
their future, as they are without means OF
support, and wholly dependent upon their
daily labor"
This is simply the experience Of men in all
branches of manufacture. Striking at the
policy of protection, and striking to strike it
down, no man who owns mill knows what
to expect and sees only financial disaster in
continuing operations. AS result, to
protect himself he begins to curtail, cuts
down the output, lessons the number of days
or lowers wages-not because he would have
it so, but because compelled to. The Demo
cratic party's hostility to the tariff has par
alyzed manufacture in this country, and there
is choice of two ways of arriving at some
concluson-one to keep hands off the tariff;
the other to get down to British prices and
British wages as soon as possible. The Louis
lana planters have nobody but themselves to
blame
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

IT is stated that a consultation of physi-
clans has decided that General Grants health
is in state of collapse, and that absolute
quiet is essential to the prolongation of his
life. The grand old soldier and public serv-
ant is undoubtedly badly broken, his recent
overwhelming misfortunes having had the
effect to completely PROSTATE him, he being
in poor physical condition from the effects Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS is to receive q
gold medal from the city of Boston for his
eulogy upon the late Wendell Phillips. Mr..
The effort is worthy the best medal that can
be made. 1t is one of the stateliest and
grandest pieces of eulogium in modern litera-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

WE cannot understand why Mr.. John B.
Finch, chairman of the national Prohibition
committee should be in such sweat. How
does the fact that Mr.. st. John is charged
with being "a brainless and mercenary sneak
affect himG Mr.. Finch should keep cool.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

Ir seems that the Inauguration ball will
really be held. The new pension. building
will b" far enough completed to be used for
the purpose. and at least - 900 dancers can
be accommodated. This now being off our
minds, the country can proceed more calmly
to the recuperation of business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

IT seems. after all, to be actually true, that
DR.. Milton James, of Muncie. has really made
himself believe that he can aspire to become
Commissioner of Pensions When his name
was first mentioned in connection with that
office, everybody, of course, understood that
it was monstrous joke.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

IT is reported that Mr. Cleveland will not
put Mr.. Bayard in his Cabinet because he is
too much under the influence of the Belmonts,
agents for the Rothschilds in this country.
But William G. Whitney, who is the tool of
the Standard Oil Company, is reported to be
his choice for Secretary of the Treasury
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

JUDGE NORTON has made too good a repu
tation as criminal judge to lose any of it now
by neglecting to use the full power of his
court for the detection. arrest and conviction
of the scouudrels who raped the ballots in the
third story of the court house They can
probably be found, if real, earnest effort is
made to run them down.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

THE discovery has been made that Brook
lyn school children are in the habit of getting
drunk on candies filled with mixture of fusil
oil and alcohol. Who knows but what Mr..
Beecher had been eating candy before he
made that speech about the seventh com
mandmenti Such an excuse would be far
better than the one he did offer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

THERE is suggestion of cool weather in
the Northwest that will have tendency to
boom the New Orleans exposition. Thirty
six degrees below zero at ST. Paul, and possibly
fifty, will put even indianapolis in a state of
uncomfortable apprehension. And Indian
apolis is really winter resort
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

want. The repeal Of two or three lines Of
statnte-imposihg tax Of ten per cent. on
State bank notes-will open the food gates to-
the old wildcat system. And the Democracy
is allied with that currency system because OF
its devotion to the dogma of State rights.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

his fall a year ago at the time of the disas-
trous failure Of Grant s. Ward. The respect
and sympathy of the Nation go out toward
him, howbeit the Democratic House OF Rep
resentat.ves disgrace themselves and their
party by refusing to do an act that common
decency demands Of them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03

HAS Mr.. Hendricks retired from public lifes
--Pittsburg Dispatch.
dnsatiate editor, do you expect that good
man to sit up every night to write letters to
his beloved colored fellow-citizens, or to iot
down "reminiscences of the way be helped
quell the rebellionR 1t is too much to ask OF
a Vice president who doesn't want the place."