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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MoDJESXA's pet is black cat, PATHS parrot
Mary Anderson loves canaries, and Mrs Langtry car
ries about young monkey.
ONE of Chicago's retired business has published
a volume containing the LORDS prayer in $50 differ
ent languages In the preparation of the work he was
engaged about four years.
PROFESSOR RICHARD A. PROCTOR went to New
Orleans to the exposition, and everybody went to
and hear him. that he will return to his farm at
St. 10 with the profits of six astronomical lectures in
hiszpocket
IT said that General Grant was much disturbed
lately about disparagng remarks he made about
General Hancock five years ago. and sent him mes
sage of regret to which General Hancock returned
kind answer.
SIR JOHN STEEL's marble bust of Robert Burns
about to be put up in Westminster Abbey is the out
come of shilling subscription among Scotchrnen all
the world and meanwhile Bartholdi is still con-
siderably in the of Burns.
IDEAS of what constitutes amusement vary with
different people. Edward King says busy French
man reproved him day for taking so much
amusement in business hours for he said you have
been at three funerals this week by your own confes
sion."
Colonel Lamont. private secretary of the President
has succeed to the atters inaugural apartments at
the Arlington and with his family will remain at that
hotel until fall. Mrs Lamont has two pretty young
children with her. and has taken Friday for her
ton day.
THE Universalist idea of hell was thus epigram-
matically summed up by Albany minister the other
evening: 1.-The burnt child fears the fire. and he who
feels the hell which, in this life sin produces longs
for the peace and contentment which follow pure
Christian life"
Mr.. CHICHESTER BURNAND, who is coming to this
country, and who is geographically paraded as the
brother of the editor of Punch is only of
ond cousin for F. C. Burnand has no brother and is
compelled to find such consolation as he can in eleven
sons-n-law, who kindly relieved him of his eleven
daughters.
THE last reported novelty in London is Burglars
Company, which conducts business in most careful
| and systematic manner 1t has number of inspect
ors who travel over Europe in quest of openings for
work, and mechanics who can open the most elabo
rate SAFE Finally there is a solicitor who negotates
the restitution of bonds for commission of 35 per
cent. All the managers have received prison edu.
cation.
THE predictions of various disordered zeaots in this
country. that the days Of planet are numbered,
recall the story of the Mi erite who met Theodore
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

CARL SCHURZ, in answer to request 70
speak word for government employee is
quoted as saying loftily: II trust. Mr.. - is
protected by his record. The Independents
have made it a rule not to interfere with APP
pointments or removals under this admins
tration. Except by the udvocacy of grsSsral
principles, we cannot ask for any favors, nor
use any influence" Mr.. Schurz was not at
that time, perhaps, aware that the petition for
the retention of Postmaster Pearson had been
signed by all the leading mugwumps of New
York. Evidently he is not qualified to speak
for the "party"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

there is additional reason to withhold set
tied Judgment on it, for a time, at least Mr..
Hendricks interest in the matter is easily ac-
counted for. He was bound to de-
feat the State of Kentucky, if
possible, because the Kentucky De-
mocracy were largely for Mcdonald as a
presidential candidate, the Carlisle candidacy
being simply blind to help defeat Cleveland
Mr.. Hendricks cannot forget that Kentucky
felt kindly toward Mcdonald and favored
him at Chicago. The relentless malice with
which he pursues Mr.. Mcdonald is mex
plicable to any one who does not understand
the springs of Mr.. Hendricks political char
aofar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

MIR. HENDRICKS, and Mr.. Randall, anu Mr..
Manning, with their coadjutors have tri
umphed over Mr.. Cleveland and the States of
Kentucky and Indiana, Mr.. Joseph l.. Miller,
of-West Virginia, having been yesterday APP.
pointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
defeating Phil. b. Thompson for the place.
The appointment is not creditable one, ac-
cording to the best information. Both Thomp-
son and Miller were said to be candidates of the
mhisky men, who, it seems, have been permit
led to name their man for this important
place. Nobody has ever heard of Mr.. Miller
except Mr.. Randall, who discovered him.
Who he is, what he is, what his abilities, or
experience, or affiliations, the public do not
know. If this is a fair specimen Of the IRE
form to which the country is to be treated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17
A Pioneer of the Anti-S1avery Struggle.

Rev. William p. Huntington of Amherst
Mass, was the oldest member of a family which
has occupied conspicuous place in New Eng
land history Mr. Huntington was the father
of Mrs. It. G. Day, of this city. Thes following
brief sketch of his life is taken chiefly from the
columns of the Ham pshire Gazette and North
ampton Courier: Rev. William Pitkin Hunting
ton, of Amherst passed peacefully to his eternal
home on Saturday, March Z at the ripe age of
eighty years. He was born in Litchield, Conn.
where his father, Rev. Dan Huntington, served
the orthodox Congregational church for some
years. the predecessor of Dr. Lyman Deecher
His boyhood and youth were spent in Hadley,
upon the beautiful farm to which the family re-
moved from Litchfeld, and which is now the
country residence of his younger brother, Rt
Rev. F. D. Huntington, bishop of central New
York. His preparation for college was made
under the instruction of his father, who became
the head of the Hopkins Academy, in old Had
ley, and in 1924 he was graduated from Harvard
College. When quite young man he was
strongly impressed with the conviction that
American slavery was crime, and at time
when such opinions were unpopular, he had the
moral courage to proclaim them fearlessly, de-
lvering anti-slavery lectures long before Gerrt
Smith and Wendell Phillips became the lead
ers of the antslavery movement. Gifted with
a rare memory, his mental acquisitions were at
his ready command. Language was ever his
favorite study; in German French, Spanish and
Italian he gained an excellent knowledge OF
the German he was especially fond, and several
of our classic hymns he has translated with
much beauty and power into that language. His
literary tastes were of the first order. He wrote
as he always spoke, with much grace and
afiuence of expression. His choice of words,
that were fitting, was a constant trait of his
speech.
The following lines, written by him in 1880,
illustrate best his own views about death, and
moreover, when he was called to pass into and
through the actual experience, his own hand ap-
pears to have written the prophecy which he
beautifully fulfilled:
Divinely ruled no change in life is vain
| Death S but one link in Beings endless chain
| The worlds a stage; the actors come and CO.
| AS oceans tides successive ebb aud flow.
Change is the worlds first lawn lifes grand MAY
| Their parts performed, the actors pass away;
And whom death knocks, why should we shrink from
deathi-
A transient spasna. amoments lack of breath!
No chasm- no biank--but only change is death.
Why. then. speak men thereof with bated breath!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

THE letter of Mr.. James Buchanan, on the
Oklahoma lands question, will attract atten-
ton. 1t is directly in harmony with the
statement of Mr.. Van Wyck, in the Senate
yesterday. According to both these gentle
men, the disputed Oklahoma lands are now in
the possession of cattle men, who have fenced
in immense ranges, out of which they are
coming fortunes. There are no Indian titles,
and, therefore, there can be no trespassing on
the part of honest settlers. Whatever tres
passing there is is on the part of the cattle
kings in whose interest the action of Presi-
dent Cleveland is avowed to be-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

for him to prove his title to respect, not by
written enactment, but by personal worth
With unfaltering courage and fzutual self
respect, the colored men of this country will
have it in their hands to lift the race to the
highest plane of citizenship, where no party
will dare oppose their most reasonable rights.
1t will be new emancipation day when the
colored voters of the South resolve to take
upon themselves the task of securing their
rights before the law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

In life's ripe harvest what men sow thew reap;
lis sense of wrong allowed makes good men weep
In sooth, not less is death mans friend than Sleep
Yet sleep wins more of praise, death more of blame;
Their methods differ, rather than their aim;
The ends they have in view are much the same;
Twin brothers, they common empire share,
As, arm in arm, they traverse earth and air.
Sleep cheers the senses with alternate rest,
Pouring oblivion through each troubled breast;
When, with nights shadows, these sweet dreams are
fed,
New labors task the hands, new cares the head
But they, for whom death bids heavens gates disclose
Have more than dreams to charm their best repose;-
All through that realm, peace, like river, flows"
&c. death and sleep kindred trust dispense
Yet. mark between them some divergent sense.
Sleep may repair tn exhaustion of day,
The rest wherewith death blesses lasts for aye.
70 cheer and freshly open life. their common aim.
Concurrent powers benign, in the worlds general
frame
The good of both one their difference more or less;
Yet, who would say, death was not meant to blessl
tbs time this hurtful error were outgrown,
Ard Christian faith had ia en- loftier tone!
But be that dispensation veal or woe,
Enough for man that God hath willed it so!
Enough that strength declines as years increase,
Till, finally, the powers of nature cease;
What infancy began, the circling years complete
Till senses fail and pulses TO beat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

Mr.. WATTERSON is greatly discouraged
over the appointment of Mr.. Miller to be
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and reads
Mr.. Cleveland a lecture, in very good temper,
but very decided, to the effect that he must
not tie his administration to Mr.. Randall.
Mr.. Watterson regards Mr.. Miller's appoint
ment as adverse to the Kentucky idea of
revenue reform" It may be that Mr.. Miller
is a better man than he is said to be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

Mr.. CLEVELAND receives so many letters
that Private Secretary Lamont groans, and re-
marks with much humor that he will have to
persuade the President to stop the mails for a
few days until he (the p. 81 can catch up.
1t will be remembered that Lamont dismissed
half the White House clerks off hand, the
second day after his installation there, be-
cause there was not enough work to do.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17
"THE GATES OF HE'LL

When all colored men hold and maintain
the opinion enunciated by Mr.. Chappell,
colored member of the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture, not only will their civil and political
rights be respected, but they will gain person
ally in the esteem of mankind in general.
Speaking in support Of bill introduced by
himself making punishable any discrimina-
ton on account of color by rink, theat err,
eve do not care particularly about the
skating Kinks, but it is the principle that I'M
derlies the whole thing we argue for. [ tell
you, if notice should be put up over the
gates of hell that colored men would not be
admitted we would try to enter because we
have right to-"
attain his rights. Enough has already been
enacted to make the rest clear. The basis
upon which the colored mans civil rights
must be built is the right to vote. This right
the Republican party has conferred upon him.
1t was the gate to the highway of American
citizenship. In certain sections of the coun-
try, and in those portions where by force of
numbers the negro should have been best
able to maintain his rights, this gate has been
practically closed against him. Had the col
ored man of the South appreciated
his rights and his duty to in
sist upon having them, he would have
kept that gate open or filled it with their
dead. Let Mr.. Chappell and his race arouse
to this most vital issue, demanding equal
rights at the ballot box, though hell Of
Democratic hate and prejudice should have to
be stormed to get there. Only those have
rights who are willing to fight, to die, if need
be, to secure them. Thousands of white men
gave their lives for the liberty and enfran-
chisement of the negro. 1t was a God-like sac
rifce, in which thousands of homes were
wrecked and despoiled of their best and
bravest. Colored men, too, helped in the strug-
gle, animated, as they were, by determine
ton to escape from the thralldom of slavery.
The example of the white soldier should serve
as an inspiration 20 colored men everywhere,
and the coptagion of patriotic resolve should
spread from the head of the Massachusetts,
legislator to every negro in the land. The
bars of prejudice set up against them will melt
away under the fierce heat Of moral and physi-
cal courage. Admission to skating rinks and
theaters is a small thing in itself, but, as Mr..
Chappell has said, it is the principle Of the
thing, the idea that one man is not the equal
of the other, that hurts.
tits gratifying to know that colored man
has found voice to say that even the fear Of hell
will not deter him. This watchword, caught
up by colored men throughout the land, and
backed by the energy of determination to
have their political rights, would speedily
solve all the perplexing and vexatious troubles
that besot the colored man. Now is the time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

IT is hardly probable that England would
speedily drive Russia out Of Afghanistan, or
drive at all, while the latter has standing
army of 1000 men to England's 1872, 900.
The Russian navy consists of 1913 vessels, and
the British of but 246. 1t is possible, how
ever, that the British are superior vessels.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
Will you please state in to-morrow's issue
whether the Legislature has passed a new build
ing loan fund, and savings law, amended the
old one2 READER
KoKoNo, Ind, March 16.
A bill is pending embodying the revision of
the building and loan association laws proposed
at the recent meeting of trustees aud stockhold
ers in this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

The department clerks at Washington who
had begun to breathe once more in the hope
that they were not to be discharged, have
been thrown into state of agitation again by
the discovery that 500 blank dismissals have
been ordered for use at the White House.
There is also suspicion that the form from
which the blanks were printed has been
stareOtvDed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

THE extracts we print this morning from
Mr. Blaines second volume will be read with
TIE greatest interest They treat of Andrew
Johnson's accession and of Mr.. Lincoln's flu
neral. The description of the latter is in Mr..
8laine's best style, recalling the beautiful
English of his Garfield memorial
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

WE appear to have entered into an era Of
'fknock-downs," so to speak. Almost every
body is pounding somebody else. 1t would
seem that Indianapolis is in the "belting"
belt, in addition to its other extraordinary adj
Vantages of location.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

THERE is now a suggestion that Hon.
Joseph E. Mcdonald will be rendered the po-
sition of Solicitor general This report can
doubtless be traced to Mr.. Hendricks Mr..
Mcdonald is in Washington, and, according
to the specials, is the biggest man in town.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

In his remarks on Sunday night, Rev. DR..
Marine made an allusion to General Grants
illness, and paid the grand old hero tribute
that came very near causing the large audi
ence to break out into applause. Ulysses S.
Grant is by large odds the first citizen of the
Republic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17
Leather Men in Convention,

CINcINNATI March ia national conven-
ton of tanners and the Hide and Leather Deal
ers Association began its session to-day. James
f. Mooney, of Cincinnati was elected president,
with fourteen vice presidents; f. W. Clarke of
Chicago, was chosen secretary; c. G. Hox. of
Pittsbure secretary pro tenn; W. III. Bechtel of
Newport, treasurer. About fifty delegates were
present. After appointing committees the con-
yention adjourned till afternoon,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

THE Inter Ocean gets off something better
not said" equal to any of the season. gravely stat
ing that Private Henry's old sweetheart has
been discovered living at Parkersburg Va, and
the horrors of the arctic expedition under Gree
ly are revived" The survivors of the Parkers
burg expedition will have sympathy Of the
public
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

GENERAL GRANTS fatal disease marches
steadily forward, demanding an unconditional
surrender The news from the inside of the
sick chamber gives absolutely no hope Of any
protracted extension of life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

How many American cities are ready for
the cholerag This is a question much moro
vital than that of who is to have the consul
ship at Bagdad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

A NEW YORK woman has taken out a patent
for device for curing insomnia. If 'blessed is
he who invented Sleep" what shall be said of one
who makes it possible to obtain the luxury?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

A WASHINGTON exchange publishes recipe
for ''Scotch granite pudding" 1t is probably in
tended to be served up to the disappointed
Democratic office hunters, who want ''some-
thing to chaw on" equal to their powers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

The visit of Prince Frederick William to
Paris in April or any other month, will be an
experiment even more doubtful in its results
than the visit of the Prince Of Wales to Ire
land
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

PERSIA has 1,03O, 600 maps in store showing
the territory of Afghanistan and surrounding
country with minute exactness. The object of
the recent movement is now apparent. 1t is an
invasion of n-peddlers moro terrible than an
army with banners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

A YOUNG woman drowned herself the other
day in the artificial lake at the model town of
Pullman. The boomers of this ready-made vii
lage will probably use the circumstance as an ad
vertisement and a recommendation, on the
ground that once accustomed TO that earthly
paradise no resident is willing to go elsewhere
unless it be to heaven.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

REMoRsE overtakes even the most hardened
A New York accordian player recently stole a
revolver and committed suicide.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

A NEW YORK man claims to have reduced his
gas bills fully 20 per cent. during the past year
by reducing the pressure through the burners.
the meter nearly to the point where it would
cause the gas to burn little less brightly than
before. Whenever much more than the usual
quantity of gas is required on any evening, the
full pressure should be turned on for the time.
There is enough in this, and tits easy enough to
test, to induce a trial of its merits
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

PENNSYLVANIA scored several points ahead Of
Chicago and Connecticut in the divorce business
some time ago, and is still gaining. The latest
achievement in that line, by which one woman
with two husbands is favored with three DEGREES
of divorce, entities the State to the champion
chin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

IT was thoughtful in Virgins to arrange
the big storm for tomorrow. To-day is ST.
Patrick's.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

PHILIpPI, w. Va, is not good place to
''meet" anybody, for two reasons: First, as
has been shown by the Journal, no Intoxicating
liquors are sold there; and secondly, because the
inhabitants don't seem possessed of that meas
ure of common sense necessary for the transac
ton Of ordinary business. Mr.. Stalnacker, of
that place, recently essayed to melt the plug out
of an old twelve-pound shell. The plug came
out at the same moment that the house was
shattered by the bursting SHE'LL and rather too
suddenly to save any great portion of the shell.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

THE old story: Grant not so well. The sol
dier's days are numbered
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17

ANOTHER cold wave. It's going to be
tumble from icicle to bicycle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-17
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-08
.IEHisH PEnSEcUTIoN.

The barbarity Of the Slav population of
Eastern Europe toward the Jews is disgrace
to our age. to civilization, and above all to
the Christian religion these nations profess.
The persecution of the Jews from any stand
point in any country is an evidence that the
people so prosecuting them either socially,
politically, religiously or commercially are
their interiors in every respect, and hence
the desire to drive out or exterminate them.
The most intelligent are the most merciful,
the most just, and the least selfish, other
things being equal. When intelligence is
refined by good breeding, gentle blood and
practical knowledge Of men and things as
well as of books and facts, the possessor
of these virtues becomes a true gentleman
whose honor and regard for the rights Of
others is a stronger bond for his actions than
any other agency. Gods and Natures
noblest work is a gentleman and the loveliest
work is lady, neither of whom, If the gen
uine article, ever knowingly disregarded the
golden rule Of doing to others as they would
be done by. 1t is enlightenment, therefore,
that can raise the half-civiized Slavs
above these race and religious dis
tinctons and prosecutions. Igno-
rance is the father of cruelty and religious
fanaticism its mother, no matter what re-
lgion it mag be. Hence in enlightened
France, England and America a jew is as
good as any other man as long as he behaves
as wen, and no other man is better than a
jew unless he behaves better.