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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06
OFFENSIVE PARTISANSHIP.
Postmaster Jones Not the Only Dian Against
Whom Charges Have Been Preferred.


Whom Charges Have Been Preferred.
Washington Special
Postmaster Jones is not the only Democratic
appointee who has had charges filed against him
of offensive partisarshlp And quite as good a
case has been made against them, too, as was
made against the men they supplanted This
result was foreseen by good many shrowd pol
iticians on both sides. 1t was Whispered sung
and shouted into the presidential ear by Demo
cratic leaders.
The President was stubborn. He is man Of
convictions and attributed the hostility to his
theory to the thirst and hunger of spoil smen. 1t
was not until he was practically embarrassed
by the case Of the indianapolis postmaster, and
was informed Of still more damaging
cases not yet made public, that he felt the force
Of these criticisms. Then the reins on the
spy system began to relax, and the manly open,
courageous system began to take its place The
Postmaster general, the Attorney the
Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of
the Interior no longer made the smirching of a
Republican oficeholder's character the prereQui-
site to getting him out. They do not cast about
for some mean apology for exercising legitimate
power of removal and appointment Charges
are required, as usual, where that is necessary
to put off disagreeabe unworthy Democrats.
1t forms very clear bulwark against ndiscrm-
mate and sudden assaults of offceseekers but
whenever removal is really desired no non
sense Of such a nature is longer suggested
The removal is made.
1t seems as if it were only last week when Mr..
Malcolm Hay said fifty times a day: Charges
must be filed IN every case and must be sus.
tanned ssutffcent-thatist the Presidents policy "
1t is quite different now when a man may go
and have removals made in his district with
never word requiring him first to hunt down
the incumbents character behind his back
| a Western Republican senator, one of the
most trenchant debater5 the floor of the
Senate, was asked short time ago what he
corning the offensive partisan" removals. Said
| he:
do you think it deceives anybody Does it
deceive youi VIII it deceive the Senate OF the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

THE report of Commissioner Thoman and
Examiner Lyman in the case of Postmaster
Jones was submitted to the President yester-
day. The coating of whitewash is consider
ably thicker than was expected, and it is
found that not only has Mr. Jones not VIC
lated the law, but the commission kindly
states its belief that he never intended any
violation. AS one Of the men discharged
from the Office was informed in writing that
Republicanism, it is little difficult to see
how the commission reached this conclusion,
but the ways of Democratic reformers are not
as the ways Of other men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

Now that the mugwumps are through with
Jones, let them turn their attention to Secre-
tary Manning His promotion of Mr.. Al
bright, the young Albany lawyer, from the
position of "skilled laborer," to which he had
recently been appointed, TO be MIR. Hgginss
chief assistant in the appointment division Of
the Treasury, without the intervention of
civilservice rules, is described in detail by the
New York Posts Washington correspondent.
By a singular omission the editorial page + that
issue Of the paper contains no reference to the
stern determination Of the President to en-
force the civilservce laws, nor to the wicked
advisers whose Vaccinations have now and
then swayed him from his virtuous purpose.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

Mr. CLEVELAND is about to take a vacation
of month, and, as matter Of course APP
pointments to presidential Offices will cease
until his return. This circumstance may be
expected to cause the mugwump press to
break into their admiring chorus, THE Pres
ident is going slow" The same song is set
by Democrats to a very different tune, but
the effect on the Republican audience is
equally pleasing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

THE completion of the new City Hospital will
be accomplished by the concurrence of the Coun-
ell and Board of Aldermen in the action already
taken and contemplated by the hospital board as
set forth in a communication fled with the
Council and aldermanic body on Monday night.
The Council did wisely in indorsins the course of
the hospital board in this matter, and the
Board of Aldermen should at once give its con-
currence. 1t would be little short of criminal
to permit this institution, which is otherwise
we'll equipped, to pass another such winter as
the last without better heating facilities. It is
not only matter Of humanity, but Of business
economy, to place suitable heating apparatus in
the hospital at once
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
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Strand.
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des Capucines.
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Third and Jefferson streets.
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and Southern Hotel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

REV NEWMAN has now performed his last
public act in the Grant obsequies, and it is
time that the press left off guying him. Tn
der the circumstances he could hardly do less
than he has, though he might have done it a
little less ostentatiously. Whatever public
estimation of him may be, he was General
Grants pastor and entitled to such recogni-
zion as he merited as his friend
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

government work. Mr.. Oyster does not favor
the contract system on government work. 1t
does not secure the best work and is an injustice
to the men who do it. Altogether, Mr. Oyster has
called the turn on the administration in the matter
of employment of convict labor, and he believes
that his efforts will do much good
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

AN enthusiastic believer in the whichness Of
the here, writing of one of the Concord speakers,
says that in his impetuosity he stumbles oc
casionally in grammar; but if philosophy cannot
rise above the rules for subject and predicate,
what is it worth! Must Goethe and Wilhelm
Meister render allegiance to Lindley Murray?
These two conundrums are rather staggering
and no answers will be ventured on; but for the
benefit of the inquiring philosopher, and for the
sake of information, another is here propounded
If Concord philosophy can rise above the rules
for subject and predicate, what is it worth even
at the height of freedom!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

THE remains of the great commander are
now in New York city, near the spot chosen
for their final resting place. The parade on
Saturday will be one of the largest public
demonstrations ever made in the world, a
fitting tribute to the greatness of his fame.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06
MINOR TOPICS.
The Secretary of the Interior Places n Re-
striction on Land Grant Railroads.

The Secretary OF the Interior Places a Re-
striction on Land Grant Railroads.
WASHINGTON, Aug 5.-Acting Commissioner
Walker of the General Land Office has pre-
pared circular to all registers and receivers
which has received the approval of the Secretary
Of the Interior restricting the power of land
grant railroads in making selections of railroad,
indemnity lands. Heretofore the lands so Sc
lected were always the choicest portions of the
indemnity lands, and these were withheld from
settlement for years, and in some instances,
although the roads would not sell and give title,
they were reported to have sold to ignorant
purchasers such rights as the selection gave
them. The circular requires the roads to file
lists OF the land they claim to have lost making
oath as to their correctness before being per-
mltted to make any selections for indemnity,
and land officers are instructed to carefully COM
pare the lists with their records In every case
where indemnity selections have heretofore
been made, without specification of losses the
local officers instructed to notify the roads to
name the amount of deficiency to which such in
demnity is to be applied. Land officers are re-
Quired to reject all selections not made in con-
formity with the instructions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06
Congressman Morrison Seriously Ill.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Congressman VIM.
r. Morrison, of Illinois, is very sick man to-
night. Three days ago he went to his room at
the hotel with malaria. A physician was
summoned. His malady soon assumed the form
of malarial fever and last night he suffered in
cessantly. Tonight friend who has been at
his bedside to-day said Morrison was suffering
more than last night and that it was feared he
would become dangerously i'll
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

equally arduous duties for twelve months,
hes itate to absent themselves on their legal
vacations for fear of finding their places occu-
pied on their return. Reform as practiced by
the administration, which claims to monopo
lie if not to have discovered it, is truly great.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

If George w. Curtis had only postponed for
sne day the delivery of his civil-service adj
dress, he would have been able to point to the
verdict in the Jones case as another sign in
dicating the coming of the reformers millen-
mum under the Democracy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

Not only from the fashionable summer resorts
but from the rural campmeetings comes up a
feminine wall over the scarcity Of young men,
young mans soul is perhaps never rated at so
high value as at camplneeting, and the owner
of one who refuses to put himself in the way of
being captured-that is to say, saved-by fair,
feminine proselyters, either fails to appreciate
his own Importance, which is hardly likely or is
simply afraid, and prefers freedom and sinful
ness to rescue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

The President is quite worn out with his
live months Of clerical work, varied each day
by an hours handshaking, and after the
Grant funeral will go to the mountains to re-
cuperate. As one result of his labors in be-
half of reform" department employees who
baye been faithfully engaged with their
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

IT is in exceeding bad taste that the Chi
cago press keeps snarling over the burial Of
General Grant at New York. The procession
is now on its way to the grave, and it is no
time to say unpleasant things in connection
with the solemn ceremony.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

Mrs. HELEN HUNT JACKSON, the we'll
known writer, is reported to be dying at San
Francisco. She is we'll known by her many
writings, and lately by her papers in the
Century Magazine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

PHILADELPHIA has already started dime
fund for the purpose of building Grant mon
ument In most communities dime colec-
tons are resorted to only as last hope, but
Philadelphia evidently knows herself and cuts
her garment according to her cloth, so to
sneak
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

Washington Special.
General Logan has long been at work on his
tory of the campaigns of the war in which he
participated. 1t was practically completed a
short time since, and for several weeks the Gen
eral has been engaged in revising the manuscript
and preparing it for the printers hands 1t will
be published at an early day.
1t will possess great interest for all soldiers Of
the Western armies, since no volunteer officer
among those who commanded armies has yet
printed history of his campaigns. 1t is known
that General Logan, in common with all who
had personal knowledge of the events,
has been thoroughly dissatisfied with
several previous publications, which have carried
considerable weight with the public, but which
are not history In his forthcoming volume it
may be expected that several subjects thus
enormously treated by others will receive proper
attention.
The close and most friendly relations which
always subsisted between General Grant and
General Logan will add to the interest of a work
from the latter appearing at the same time with
the volume of General Grants memoirs. Sol
diers of the Army of the Cumberland will
doubtless find in General Logans book a chapter
on the question of assigning the General to the
command of the army, just before the battle OF
Nashville, which will be of great interest The
confidential instructions of General Grant to
General Logan OF that matter have never yet
been made public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

THE cholera has now regained all the points
Of vantage held by it last year, and will doubt
less continue its resistless march. 1t is wis
ION to be ready.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

THERE appears to be a difference between
civil service reform as understood by the
mugwumps and as practiced by Postmaster
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06
A SHARP REBUKE.
The President Gives Well-Merited Scoring
to g Careless Indorser.

The President Gives Well-Merite0 Scoring
to Careless Indorser.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-One of the recent in
cidents of the Presidents experience with
political applicants seems thus far to have
escaped observation and report. The CORE
spondence given below, ard about the authen-
ITCHY of which there is no question, explains
itself:
"CINCINyATI, July o. 1885.
'"To the President. Washington, D. c.:
Dear Sir-,This community read the an
nouncement OF - to the - iudgeShip
with establishment and regret, if not pain, and
mono were more astonshed than those who had
signed his petition, and | regret to say that my
name is to be found upon it. I have refused
several whom [ knew to be unfit but signed
this one, thinking it would never be considered,
and not for one moment believing the appointment
was possible. When first presented to me, put
him off and hoped to escape, bnt he came again
with it, and with others. l signed it. thinking
there was no chance for its reaching even con-
sideration 1t was signed by many prominent
men, who hated to refuse and hoped and thought
it would result in nothing"
''Y ours very respectfully. -r
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

WASHINGTON Post FIn all the govern
nent departments excessive and incompetent
employees have been removed" Which?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

IT is only question of time when some one
will be killed by big Four" train at the cross
ing of Ohio, New York or Vermont streets. The
approach of cars going south across these streets
cannot be seen fifty feet. 1t is often the case
that freight trains, or sections of them, back
rapidly across these streets with as little noise as
an ordinary wagon would make Somebody will
be caught in these traps before long, Already
numerous narrow escaps have been chronicled
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06
Tile Only ENCPnfinu

savannah tGa,) News,
A Georgia judge said "that the maxim that
Innocence was to be presumed until guilt was
proved had one exception and that was when an
lrishman was accused of assault ana battery,
for then guilt was to be presumed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

Mr.. SWIFT says he is not surprised at the
finding in the Jones case. Neither is Jones'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

A NEGRO at ST Elmo, Tenn. is represented as
having fallen asleep on a railway track and been
killed while eating watermelon. This story is
false on its face. No negro ever lived who went
to sleep with a watermelon near him
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06

Telephone Calls.
Business Office .23S Editorial Rooms. 49,. .242
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06
SNUFFING ON A COLD TRAIL.
Mr.. Whitney's Futile Efforts to Prove
His Predecessors We're Dishonest.

Mr. Oyster Thinks Secretary Manning Will
Not Let Any More Government Contracts.s
to Employers Of Convict Labor
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Borrowing Grapes Like Cucumbers."

Years ago A. S. Fuller said to the
writer that the lower he trained his
grapes the earlier, finer and freer from
disease they were. And now CORE
spondent of the Tribune suggests letting
the vines spread themselves flat over
stone tagging, or even cobble-stone
or clean gravel pavement He has a
Delaware vine which, allowed to grow
wild, has sent branches along the
ground, overspreading the fag-stones
that cover the well. Last year the fruit
ripened nearly or quite a month sooner
than on trellised vines, besides being
greatly larger and finer in every way.
The vines are also much safer, he finds,
against winter-killing, when trained in
this way.
The above statement from an ex-
change is quite confirmed by our own
experience. A friend, walking through
our garden where about a hundred
young grape-vines are allowed to run
on the ground this summer, because we
had not time to stake them at the
proper season, noticing that they are
loaded with fine fruit, exclaimed: "This
is the first time l ever saw grapes grow
ing like cucumbers." Though their
cannot be better way to get large
crop, ripened early, there are objections
to the method as steady practice.
Weeds will grow among the vines, and
dirt will be splashed on the fruit. But
where they can be allowed to run over
stone-heaps, or low stone-walls, it is a
very nice and easy way to get lot of
grapes with very little expense or
trouble. The grapevine knows its
business pretty well, and takes care of
itself as nicely, and is about as intoler-
ant of being bossed" too much, as
anything that is cultivated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

1t will be noticed that there is large
difference between Bowker's and OAR
ling's ground bone. This difference is
so common in different brands that it is
important for buyers to keep the run
of the analyses, and buy only first-class
goods, as the freight is the same on all.
The report contains the first analysis
we have noticed of the ashes of spent
tan-bark, which reveals the fact that
the potash is removed in teaching the
bark almost as completely as in leach
ing the ashes.
The article sold by the Bowker Com
pany, under the name of " Krugit," is
reported on. 1t is poorer in potash
than KANT, containing but S.42 per
cent of potash, its only valuable con-
stituent. 1t is not, therefore, wise to
pay freight far on so weak fertilizer,
unless it is sold very cheap. 1t is not
worth more than ashes, pound for
pound, for though it has little more
potash, it has no phosphoric acid, of
which good ashes contains over two
per cent.
An analysis of Blue Joint hay is
printed, showing it to be a pretty good
article, richer than other hays in fat
tening material. Several analyses of
ashes are given, showing leached
ashes to contain about two per cent and
unleached about six per cent of potash.
The potash in leached ashes is less
soluble than that in the unleached.
An analysis of Ammonite =" dried
and ground slaughter-house waste)
shows il to be a good fertilizer, contain
ing 11.33 per cent of nitrogen and 3.43
of phosphoric acid. This is valuable
chiefly for composing or mixing with
materials poor in nitrogen. 1t is not
well balanced for separate use.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

them firmly together, placing one in
the center and the other six around it:
cut piece of pasteboard to fit both
top and bottom, then place some pad
ding on the top and cover with any
thing you see fit-cretonne, crazy-work,
embroidered wooden, or anything you
wish. Take a straight piece of CORE
spending material long enough to cover
the sides and the same width as the
height of the cans; sew this firmly to
the top in seam, turn and put on the
cans and sew firmly at bottom; then
cover the bottom with oil-cloth, so it
will slide easily on the carpet. You
can finish off the edge with anything
you have on hand: tasty stitching of
wool makes very neat, durable finish"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

you have any trees for sale? How
does your Pedigree corn look this year?
8 Have you any Russian mulberry
trees, and will they do well here? Is
there any profit in them ?"
REPLIEs.-1 1t depends upon the
man as well as the land and location.
Some make business pay where others
have failed badly. If the Falls village
is to be your market, it is very incon-
venient to be so far away. A new road
has just shortened our distance to New
port village, by team, from two miles
to half mile, which will save us $3.50
year in hauling manure and crops to
and fro. A gardener should be as near
his market as possible. Some large
purchasers, hotels, ETC., often want to
buy in hurry, and rush to the near
est place. A light, warm, rich soil, as
level as possible but well drained, is
the best for gardening. Stony land is
unsuitable, and so is heavy clay. Il
uIdluCu pNdill y 10 OllCu CACclltllJ, IL llOJ
subject to flooding. 2 Currants and
strawberries are both profitable crops
in the hands of skillful growers well
located. The crop named is a very
good one, much above the average,
which will not go over three hundred
bushels an acre for either strawberries
or currants. Hardy varieties would
probably do well if the grower knows
how to fight the curculio and will attend
to it at the right time, promptly. Cook
ing plums are usually quite as profita-
BILE as dessert varieties. We have no
trees for sale. The Pedigree corn
looks well, and we regard it as the best
variety for Northern Vermont. 1t has
never failed to make sound crop since
we got the seed from our friend Foster
of Cabot, thirteen years ago. We
have already spoken of the Russian
mulberry. We do not see how any
thing can be made by planting it for
any purpose.