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GENERAL GRANTS BURIAL-PLkCE.

1t is to be hoped that the idea Of interring
the remains of General Grant in Central Park
viii be reconsidered We can but feel that
the surroundings would be incongruous. AS
a public resort it is one of the grandest in the
wcrld, but it is not suitable for the last rest
ing-place of any man. A monument there to
tks memory of the great commander would be
in perfect keeping with the place. 1t would
embellish the park and serve every purpose of
popular education. But the ashes of the Ma
tion's soldier and savior should 90 elsewhere
be given to its keeping be laid upon its altar.
There is nothing about Central Park with
which the history of the United States is con-
neeted. The only possible recommendation
Is that it is public place of large extent and
greatly beautifed. 1t is in the largest city in
the coun try, and that is all, for when these
things are said all is said.
The ashes af the Nations soldier belong to
all the people. From border to border of this
vast country all the people vie to do him
honor. Into their hands let his remains be
given Their gratitude and love are best
guaranty Of trust well discharged. 1t is
easy to understand why New York and other
cities should seek to have the honor of afford
ing him sepulture; but New York city, vast
rs it is, is but small portion of the country,
Let the people speak in this question, and if
they plead for his interment at the peoples
capital let their wish be needed. The great
display that might be made in New York on
The day Of burial would be but
for day. The burial place of Grant should
be chosen with reference to the centuries to
come. If this be done, we feel that the peo
pie will elect the capital Of the Nation as that
place. The history of General Grant is so in
timately woven into that of the country and
its capital that his body should find abid-
ing place at or near Washington City. The
people at large will not be satisfied to place it
amidst the rush and worry of a great city, nor
where it's millions of people find recreation.
There let monument be reared, but commit
his body to earth at the only spot on the con-
tinent where all the people would feel person
ally in terested in securing proper memorial
Rhaft. There is every reason for the most
careful deliberation in this important matter.
The relatives will doubtless give way to the
will Of a people who honor the memory Of
Grant above that of any living man, and with
that of Washington and Lincoln.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS,

WILKIE COLLINS, who is in precarOus state of
health is said to be addicted to morphine.
IT is widely believed in Paris that the stories of
Oliver Pains death all willful fabrications de.
signed to advertise him and herald his return home
AN observing tourist writes that he finds New York
families Of wealth and distinction in all sorts of
out-of-theway places where accommodations are
cheap.
A REMARKABLE bedstead made to order by Mil
waukee furniture firm is tweDty-four feet wide and
has nine compartments each intended to hold of
the purchasers children.
M. REMAIN is maiciously photographed in
round going paragraph as hideously honnely and
grossly sensual looking but all the same he has writ
ten some pretty good books.
Mr.. HERBERT SPENCER overburdened with the
demands of correspondents, has adopted the plan of
mailing autographed circulars explaining why he does
not the letters received by him.
IT is said that the from the bark of which qui-
nine is obtained furnishes quinine unless it is
grown in a malarial region and the homeopathists
claim this proof of the truth of their the.
cries.
IT may be worth while to mention that the proper
pronunciation of the Earl Of Iddeseighs name is
"Idsley," quite short according to the Devonshre
practice of cutting words down to their irreducible
minimum.
ROLLER skating seems to be waning. Many of
the Kinks in parts of the country where the sport
first ragged being turned into other uses and every
where the tendency of the diversion is toward un
fashionableness.
ATLANTIC CITY is said to have flag so wired that
it cannot hang limp if there is breath of air
stirring 1t is fixed above the gable Of hotel and is
intended to convince the heated guest that his discom
fort is imaginary.
THE DEATH few weeks ago. of his last descendant
has removed the difficulties which had been placed for
so long in the way of strangers seeing the house where
Goethe passed such large portion of his life and did
SO much of his work.
A FORCED complexion" is what they call it in
London now, when it is kept in box or a whole
series of boxes making lady's bedroom like the
laboratory in which an actress compounds herself 4"
as DR.. Holmes phrases it.
CHARLES POOLE, son of the famous prize lighter
VIII am Poole, who whipped Morrissey and was sub.
sequently murdered in New York, is reported to be
poor now, with a family and employment in the
city where his father the political boss
A COMBINATION of tent and hotel life has been at.
tempted at resort on the Pacific coast
Each guest family have a separate tent pitched
in grove overlooking the sea, and provided with the
rude furniture of camp but there is also a wooden
hotel, in which ordinary apartment is assigned to
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sEOTIONALISM IN LITERATURE.

"Dixie' is the name OF a. magazine soon to
be published in Atlanta which, as indicated
by the name and stated with plain words in
its prospectus, will be "of the South, from
the South, and for the South" There is no
good reason why literary magazine pub
lished in Atlanta or any other city of the
South should not receive generous support,
both from the people of that region and those
of the n orth, if its merits are sufficient; but
if its field is to be circumscribed and its list
of writer's limited according to the plan of
the Dixie projectors its success will hardly
be great Southern writer's have received
every encouragement from Northern pub
fishers, as glance at the pages of any of the
leading magazines will show, and it is scarcely
fair to bar Northern authors out of the pages
of Southern publication. Even in the way
of carrying out chief aim Of the enter
prise, namely, the development of the South,
individuals living outside of the charmed
region may be capable of Offering useful in
formation and suggestions. This is small
matter, however compared with the fact that
the old sectional line is maintained. What
would be thought Of Northern publishers of
even a political paper, who should refuse to
open their columns to contributors living
sou tn Of the Ohio river? An immediate out
cry would be heard from every direction in
such event, and the charge of sectionalism
justly raised Doubtless in such case the
very originators of this exclusively Southern
magazine would be among the first to COM
plain, owing, perhaps, to the curious idea ap-
parently prevailing in "Dixie land that
reconciliation" so much talked Of means
only the reconciliation of the North to them
selves, and is thing in which they have no
part. The history of sectional publications
should warn the projectors of 'Dixie" that
they have little chance for success under the
limitations laid down. They cannot learn too
soon that literature has no geography, at least
in the United States, aud that all persons in
terested in and anxious for the development
of the South do not live there; having
learned these facts they cannot proceed too
rapidly in the work of revising their pros
pectus and charging the scope of their pro-
posed enterprise.
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dents name and time served Give mail picture Of
all OF them, end oblige. 10. 5.
HUNTINGTON.
Any school history OF the United States will
give you this information The Journal is not
picture paper.
PoWERSS GREATEST WORK.
To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
What is considered to be Hiram Powers's greatest
work JRM
LADoGA.
His statue of Eve is considered his master.
piece among ideal figures, but his Greek Slave,
from being more widely known, has attained
greater popularity
WHERE HE DRANK HIS ALE.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Where did the famous club of which Dr. Samuel
Johnson was the originator and chief meetl
hohoMo' RAssELAs.
AT the Essex Head Tavern. in Essex street.
London. The club was organized in 1888 and
was continued for some time after DR.. Johnson's
death.
GENERAL GRANTS BOOK
TO the Editor of the Indianapolis jon rnai:
Is there State agent for the sale of General Grants
book! Where can an agency be obtainedi BRAZIL.
r. T. Peale, 315 Wabash avenue, Chicago, is
agent for Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. George T.
Binager is local agent at Indianapolis.
JOHN B. COUGH.
To the Editor of the INDIANAPOLIS journal:
Can you give me the address of John B. Cough, the
temperance lecturerl E. NJ. B.
PARAMOUNT.
Lyceum Bureau, Boston, Mass.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-26

WILKEsBARRE, July 25.-The arrest Of Will
lam Vaneer, aged fifty, an alderman of this city,
to day, disclosed an astonishing case of whole
sale bigamy Four months ago Vaneer met
Letitia Summons, aged fourteen, at the Saliva
ton Armys meeting, which both regularly at
tended, and, under the pretense that he was
wealthy. persuaded her to elope and marry
him.
Two weeks later Vaneer deserted her and
married woman named Eroth He lived a
month with this wife, deserted her and married
Lucy Buckler, with whom he has since lived.
To-days arrest was made at the instance Of
Mrs. Martha Simmons, mother of Letitia and
was made when Mrs. Simmons learned that
Vaneer, before his marriage with her daughter
had married three other women in different
parts of the country, and deserted them after a
short time. He now has six living wives four
of whom are here to prosecute him for bigamy.
After his arrest he swore out warrant for Lucy
Buckler, who was witness against him, charg-
ing her with bigamy. At the hearing it was
disclosed that she had three husbands, including
Vaneer, all living in this city Both were COM
nitted for trial
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THE sACRpDNEsS OF SUNDAY.

DR.. Munhall, with candor that some Of
his associates in the ministry might we'll imi-
kate, says there is DO moro reason for the re-
GgiOus observance of Sunday, the day of
Christ's resurrection, than of Friday, the day
of his execution, and that there is nc 'thus
saith the Lord for Sunday observance. There
Is no reasonable room for doubt on this pont
Sunday is made sacred day, so far as it is
sacred at all, solely by the concurrence Of the
Christian world It is sacred To- those who
care to make it so. To others it is not, and
Its observance by others is a matter Of volun-
tary Difference to prevailing opinion, or of
police regulation. AS our Hooser revivalist
says, ''the human machine is built on the seven
day plan" Experience has proved that one
day in seven must be a day of rest, if the ma
chine is to be kept in the best condition for
use Based on this experience, the State prop
arly requires suspension of general business
On Sunday, and of liquor selling as the re-
Straint of special evil, as it stops it on cleo
aiVA ~ ~ q pOI'CC Wholly
now though when enacted the old idea of the
identify of Sunday and the Sabbath was al
most universal, and the law was based less on
hygenic than religious considerations. 1t
was meant to prevent the "desecration Of the
Sabbath" and in the statutes of many States
was so entitled. Thirty years ago last winter
the Legislature of this State enacted a law
'tFor the preservation of the Sabbath" and
that is the law to-day, entitled Sabbath
Breaking in the "Revison' of 1881, chapter
of Grimes against Public Morals" section
1000. But as we have said, Sunday observ-
ance by law has become solely police regu-
lation, not by formal litigation, but by force
of the change of popular opinion. Every man
of sense thinks now, as Dr. Munhall says, that
Sunday has no religious character except by
consent Of community, and no law can force
religious observance of any kind on any
body without violating the national and State
constitutions. 1t is observed now for the
same reason that the orders of the Health
Board and the Police Board are Observation
the same purpose and under the same charac-
ter OF penalty. Police regulations, having re-
gard to the condition of community, must
allow exceptions that are obviously indispen-
fable to comfort and health
The change that has come upon the general
opinion of the character of Sunday has bean
accompanied by physical changes equally
striking and pervadng. There were no street
railroads in Indiana when the act of 1855
"For the Preservation of the Sabbath" was
enacted. There was no regular household
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use Of ice for the preservation Of fresh food.
There was no multitude of corner groceries
and meat shops to keep food in store and sell
as each hours need Of household required
it. There was no demand for Sunday papers
then by men whose weeks work kept them
too busy to read on other days. owe have
changed all that as Moliere's "Sqanarelle"
says, or rather the change has come with the
inevitable movements of the age. The rich
man can keep his meat and butter
fresh in refrigerator. Instead Of pay
ing man to hitch up his horse
and carriage on Sunday, and drive him andhi
family to church, he pays a street-car driver
to do it. Is there any difference morally be-
tween the car and the carriage7 The poor
man who works as track hand, or mill hand,
or pork house hand at six or eight dollars a
week can't afford refrigerator. If he gets his
meat or butter on Saturday, one is oiled and
the other spoiled on Sunday. He can't hang
it in the we'll as the oldtime Sabbatarians did,
for he gets his water from hydrant. He
buys what he needs on Sunday, which has
been kept fresh by the seller, who makes that
his business. Is not that much such pro-
ceeding as the plucking and eating the ears Of
corn by the apostles on the Sabbath, that
Christ approved and the Pharisees did
no+2 Tho Iahor;nr man finds No time to
read during the week, but he does on Sunday,
and gets Sunday paper that posts him
fully on current news. Where is the moral
harm in that, if Sunday has no sanctity ex-
cept as the consent of certain respectable
members of community creates it, Why
may not the man as well pay FIVE cents for
his Sunday Journal as put five cents in the
contribution basket at church to hear sermon
that may contain neither better sense nor
better morals than he can read in his paper9
We say let everybody that can, 60 to church
and hear sermons. But if man can't 60
by buying his Sunday paper more than he is
by buying his Sunday butter? Now how
much worse would it have been for the Apos-
ties to buy ''bekah's" worth of corn on the
Sabbath when they were hungry, than it was
to 'pluck the ears" and Christ saw nothing
to blame in that. The Sabbath has failed
with the changes Of the time, and it was
necessary it should.
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The b., n, Y, & II, Eiti~ation.

P1rTsBURe, Pa, July 25.-In the United
Martin and Franklin d. Locke filed bill of
complaint against the Buffalo, New York g
Philadelphia Railroad Company and others, in
which they ask that decree be made ordering
the foreclosure and sale Of the mortgaged prem
Uses and al! property described in the BILL and
that a receiver of said property be appointed;
also that an injunction be issued against the
defendant and against g. Clinton Gardner,
receiver; that the proceedings in this action be
made ancillary to the proceedings of the
Supreme Court of New York; that the mortgage
be declared to be lien on the property, and
that defendants he forthwith ordered to sur
render up and deliver to companants all pos
sessions, effects, tolls, earnings and profits Of
said company A hearing will probably take
place in this city next week
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SOUTHERN METHODS.
How the People of South Carolina Put an
Embargo on Negro Emigration.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 25.-J. L. Milan, passen-
Georgia railroad, went to Waterloo, Laurent
county, S. c., to obtain transportation for six
negro women to Arkansas, where they were to
meet their husbands. Arriving at the place. one
OF the negro women for whom he had transpor-
tation came to him and said that the white
people were against negroes leav-
ing that section, and, furthermore
that they had threatened to kill
the first negro who attempted to leave the place
The letter says Mr.. Park, the depot agent ad-
vised him to leave as the people there had sworn
to kill the first person that attempted to buy
transportation for the negroes. few minutas
after this conversation three men came into the
hotel and called the proprietor into the yard In
a few minutes the proprietor returned and called
Mr.. Milan, and told him he had better go away,
and that at once, showing him out the back gate
which led into a cotton field, which in turn led
into large swamp. He had scarcely
left the hotel when the proprietor
gave a loud yell, which brought
the mob in pursuit of him. About twenty shots
time, XIII him, kill him." The mob finally
came up to him, tied his hands and beat him UNI
mercifuly After doing this the mob made him
walk for four hours alongside their horses
through the woods, and finally left him with the
threat that if ever he came into that section of
the country again he would be instantly killed.
Walking through woods the greater part of the
night, Mr.. Milan tainted from sheer exhaustion.
He was picked up in the woods by farmer and
driven to the nearest station, where he boarded
the train for Atlanta. He has arrived here, and
is yet in serious condition from his rough treat
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Cotton Mills to Curtail Production.

FALL RIVER. Mass. July 25--An agreement
to further curtail production, which was put in
circulation a few days ago, yesterday received a
number of signatures to make it binding, and
will take effect Immediately. 1t has been signed
by corporations representing over 100000
weeks production between this date aud Oct l.
Some mills will run every other week. ard will
begin curtailment by shutting down all of next
week, while others will continue to run at pres
ent TO suit their special convenience, but will
shut down at q later date
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Ravages of the "Charbonn i'm Louisiana.

New ORLEANS, July pa special to the
Times Democrat, from New Iberia says Char.
bon is still prevailing to an alarming extent
among the stock and cattle in this parish. On
the broad prairie west Of this, the decomposing
careasses are so numerous as to vitiate the at
mosphere. Steps are being taken to have the
carcasses disposed of by burning. For this pur-
pose large quantities of oil and tar have been
sent to the infected district. The malady has
carried off hundreds of horses, mules and cows.
1t is reported that several persons have been
attacked with the disease, which in one case re-
suited fatally. Similar advices are received
from Cypre Bayou Teche and on the prairies.
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Strike of West shore yyorkmen.

UTICA N. Y, July 25.-Fully three hundred
mechanics in the West Shore shops at Frank
fort quit work yesterday. Wages for two months
and twenty-five days are due them, at rates
varying from 3 to SO per day. The master
mechanic cannot tell when the pay car is coming.
The men are quiet and orderly, but have resolved
to do no more work nor to let any others work
until two months wages are paid and day fixed
for payment each month. The resolutions were
sent to the general manager through Master
Mechanic Boone,
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Heavy Mortality in New York.

New YORK July 25.--The record of the weeks
mortality shows that for the seven days ending
at noon to day there were lO4O deaths, against
500 in the same week last year In no week in
1884 did the number of deaths reach ,0OO the
largest being 990 The highest number of deaths
ever recorded 10 ordinary seasons was that OF the
week ending July G. 1872 in the dreadful heat
of that summer when the record reached /, SOL
The thermometer, at p. NJ. registered 96o.
hour
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not ordinarily work for nothing, it is the hope
of the taxpayers that he will be able to resist
the further appeals of their unwelcome guests
with more fortitude. If their expectations
should be disappointed, it will probably be
necessary to garrison the jails, to construct
moats and bitches, and to supply them gener-
ally with all sorts Of defensive armament, to
resist the invasion of them.
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GRAIN AND POUND.


To the Editor OF the Indiana polls Journai:
Where DO we get the weight pound in what did it
originate! biloxi
CROTHERSYILLE.
The old English pound was equivalent to ''the
weight of 1850 grains of wheat all taken from the
middle Of the ear" This gives 480 grains to each
of the sixteen ounces of which the pound was
composed The name grain originated about
the time of the Conquest.
WEBSTERs DICTIONARY
To the Editor OF the indianapolis Jou rnai:
What is the lowest price at which Webster's Una.
brdged Dictionary can be hadl Can any other dction
AIRY, equally good, be had any cheaper than Web.
sters2 VIII.
The price of Websters is $40. Worcester's
Dictionary is good but not so generally in use
as authority The Bowen Merrill Company or
Cathcart Il Cleland, booksellers can give full
information.
PRESIDENTS AND PICTURES.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Please give the names of Presidents from George
Washington down to Cleveland, bow many Republican
end Democrat how long served, and their vice-presi
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QUERIES AND ANSWERS,

All proper questions of general interest will be ad.
mitted to this column, and answered, if possible
If the cannot be given the questions will be
printed to invite replies from the outside. The column
is for the mutual pleasure and profit Of readers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-26

THE criticisms of reformer Swift on mail bag
mending, indicate a highly commendable and
ladylike knowledge on his part of that variety
of fine need]e-work
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-26

A TEXAS cattle firm has offered to furnish
Russia with one hundred cowboys, in the event
of war with England. We know Of no citizens
that could be more easily spared.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-26

WHERE was Freddy Gebhardt when Lord
Lonsdale and Sir George Chetwynd had their
fsticpff encounter over My Lily" Langtry?
Has this once interesting young person possibly
been snubbed for the sake of English mobile
meng'