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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

THE Jacksonville News, says a contem-
elected a State representative, a United States
senator and perhaps annexed Texas to the
United States. The instance briefly re-
lated is that a Democratic voter in Scott
county, in this State, was induced to 90 to the
polls by the loan of a pair of boots from a
friend, who accompanied him at the request
Of Mr.. VIM. III. English. 1t was the August
election of 1916. The Democratic voter with
the borrowed boots, after casting his ballot,
forgot to return the boots to the barefooted
owner. But the latter was consoled when he
found that the single vote secured by the
loan of the boots had elected the Democratic
representative to the State Legislature. That
single vote in the Legislature elected Edward
c. Hannegan to the United States Senate,
and Hannegan's vote annexed Texas, bringing
on the Mexican war" There never was as
many and as preposterous blanders crowded
lutO Uuo Sdul0 uuLuUcT VI WOTOS SluC6 ldillOlO
humanity was put on the earth to blunder
and die. Hannegan's name was Edward A.,
not Edward G. He was elected to the national
Senate in the winter Of 1842-43, not that of
1S46'47. He was elected over Oliver Ell. Smith
by rs to 60 votes, a majority of z instead of
l. The single vote that made him the Demo
cratic nominee, replacing T. A. Howard, was
that of Kelso, of Switzerland county, not
Davis's, of Scott county, and Kelso was elected
by several more votes than one. Finally,
Texas was not annexed in the year 1916, when
the borrowed boots decided so many great is
sues. That election was in August, 1916, and
Texas was annexed by the passage of the
joint resolution Of the House in the Senate
Dec. %, 1845. Once more, and lastly, Han
negan's vote didn't annex Texas, or carry the
joint resolution Of annexation. That was
passed by a vote of 81 to Ia, according to Ben
toms ~abridgment. It is just as well to have
these little points of history right.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

THE COMING t-ABSENTEEISM."

We have all been reading at times Of the
purchase of vast tracts of our wild lands by
companies of English noblemen and capital
lists, with a view to the prosecution of cattle
breeding and selling, but probably very few,
except those who have given the matter
special attention, had any idea, till the recent
report Of the congressional committee on pub
lie lands, how much of our domain had thus
been appropriated and cut off, for all that can
be seen now, permanently, from all chance of
division, cultivation and improvement. The
committee say that 100, 600, 900 acres have
thus been distracted from the means Of health
fully populating and using our great extent of
enough railroad bonds and other securities
protected by mortgages which will nave to be
foreclosed to give them 100, 900, 900 acres
more, or 200, 000, 900 acres in all. This is
nearly enough to make ten States like Indi-
ana. The area, taking into account the varied
character of the soil and climate covered, will
easily support a population of 20, 900, 900. In
other words, these British-they are main
ly English-syndicates will be the
masters of a population equal to a second class
European power, with a domain of 100, 900
square miles, nearly as large as Spain and a
good deal larger than Italy. The area of a
half-dozen large States will be practically held
at the pleasure Of owners who are not citizens,
who have no HON here, and want no interest
here except to make off us money enough to
live on luxuriously at home. They make that
very large portion of our inheritance no longer
a refuge for the poor and oppressed. 1t is a
big English estate, only lying on the other
side of the ocean,, to be managed as the big
English holders choose. They can lease on
fair terms or shut it up altogether. They
can Gx conditions on their tenants as i~ntcler-
able as those the Irish have just got rid of
and the Scotch are trying to throw off. They
can do as other property owners of less for
midable proportions do with tenants.
They may, some of them, fall in
with the spirit of the age and the
country, and make their territory as
helpful to the needy of Europe as it has al
ways been the national purpose to keep it, but
they may not. The probability is that they
will not. They have already begun exceeding
their legal rights, by fencing in national prop
erty and shutting out settlers from the
streams necessary to their stock and %cultiva-
ton. And this usurpation argues i'll for any
liberality of policy in dealing with tenantry.
The upshot of this new invasion Of our do
main will be the establishment of a system of
"absenteeism," very much worse and wider
than that Of Ireland. The avails of an area
Of territory as large as four States like Ohio
will be regularly drained from here. to sup
port luxury and display in Europe. 1t is time,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

THE next capital war will be in West Vir-
ginia. The Legislature of 1877 passed an act,
which was submitted to a vote of the people,
ordering that the capital be removed from
Wheeling to Charleston on May l, 1855. Now
che point is raised that the passage of such an
act was unconstitutional, and those opposed
TO the removal are already preparing to swear
out an injunction prohibiting it. The two
factions arc already beginning to simmer with
excitement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

THE Senate, yesterday, failed to ratify the
Nicaragua canal treaty, by vote of 80 to %
not a two-thirds vote. An amendment, Of
fered by Mr.. Sherman, looking to an abroga-
ton Of the Clayton ulwer treaty, was adopted
by a vote of 30 to Is. 1t would seem almost
impossible for the treaty to command a suf-
fcient vote for it's ratification, and, as the
Nicaraguan is certainly the most popular of
all the treaties now pending before the Sen
ate, it may be accepted as a fact that the
whole series will fail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

THE Louisville Courier Journal is still foun-
dering in the slough of per cent. of increase
Of manufactures. In answer to a correspond
ent, it cites the fact that tha increase in value
of manufactures between 1850 and 1860, a
period of approximate free trade, was IS per
cent, and says that that rate Of increase has
not been eQualed since. Certainly not and
probably never will be, for the very good
reason that it is an impossibility. Eighty-ive
per cent. is but Is per cent. short Of
100 per cent. Suppose we say manufac-
lures doubled during the decade be-
tween 1850 and 1860. Would the wise
man of the Courier-Journal expect them to
double again between 1860 and 1870, and once
more between 1870 and 1880, and yeta third
time between 1880 and 1902 Suppose that in
1850 the output was 81, 900, 600, 600; then, ac-
cording to the Courier Journal it was 50, OOO,-
600, 900 in 1860, and should have been $4, 00O,-
600, 900 in 1870, So, 900, 600, 900 in 1880, and
not less than $40, 600, 900, 900 in 1890. In
other words, the able financial editor OF Louis
vile would have the increase of 81, 0OO,-
600, 600 between 1850 and 1860 increased
to So, 0 900, 900 during the current
decade. In short, he would have his
correspondent believe that national wealth
should increase every ten years by geometri-
cal progression, a proposition too absurd to
puzzle even a school-boy. According to that
way Of swelling business, a man with 81, 900,
ought at the end Of ten years to be worth
81, 024, 600, having doubled it the first year.
The political economist of Kentucky should
study the a b c's of finance before taking hold
of national affairs. We would recommend a
six months course in mental arithmetic to
begin with.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

PROBABLY the opinion of Chief Fire Engi-
neer Webster, as to the adequacy of the water
supply at the Insane Asylum, will be regarded
with more favor than the assertions Of a dis
charged employee. We are by no means
to be understood as indorsing the hos
pital management with carte blanche;
but it is apparent to every sensible man that
there is not a sufficient and an efficient water
supply for an institution having nearly 1000
people within its walls. The mind Of the
Legislature should not be confused over the
simple question Of supplying the asylum
with enough water.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

The Prohibitionists of Pittsburg are a
lively and amusing folk, if not SO thoroughly
righteous as they esteem themselves. AT a
meeting this week they denounced Francis
Murphy. who has, so far as outsiders can
judge. been doing a good work after methods
of his own among the depraved frequenters of
saloons. The chief objection raised against
him was that he worked for money, and must,
as a consequence, be insincere. They also
joined in berating the Legislature and the
CITY government which they declared to be
corrupt, through and through. One speaker,
after denouncing everybody who was
not a Prohibitionist, piousiy prayed
Col that 'these saloon keepers, the
Legislature, the editors, reporters and
I'D others who arc opposing US. be re.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30
THE TREASURY INVESTIGATION FARCE

THE TREASURY INVESTIGATION FARCE.
AS was indicated by the course of the de-
bate in the Legislature, and by the appoint
ment Of the committees, the alleged investiga-
ton into the affairs of the State Treasury has
already proven to be disgraceful burlesque
doubt, and that all the Democrats
participating in it are equally guilty
of fraud upon the people is also beyond
question. At first the Legislature was very
keen to investigate Governor Porter, but when
that gentleman appeared before the commit
tee and announced his readiness to be ques-
toned, the Democrats dropped him like a hot
potato. Then, when the Republican mem
bers of the committee attempted to
inquire into the methods of doing bust
ness in the State Treasury, the Democrats
objected, and the farce peremptorily closed
under a bold, palpable falsehood. The people
of the State will take cognizance of this
shameful procedure. When the Democrats
finally concluded that they must submit
to some sort of an investigation,
and the Sentinel appeared to unite
in the demand, the journal said it was to be
fairly presumed that matters had been ar
ranged for a 'show-up." That we told the
truth is demonstrated by yesterdays sham.
Mr.. Cooper was prepared with deposit state
ments from the banks which are carry
ing his bonds, and with other evidences
of debt, to the amount standing
charged against him on the Auditors books;
but the Democratic members of the commit
tee hastily and discourteously forbade any in
quiry into the real status of the treasury and
the methods of its management. Messieurs
Democrats, this will not answer the
demands of the people. The money in
the State Treasury is their money.
The people have a right to know something
about it, and how safely and securely it is
kept by it's legal custodian. These efforts to
conceal matters, to cover up, to keep the
books closed, will only increase the suspicion
and uneasiness already prevalent throughout
the State. The books must be opened.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30
General Grants Tribute to MIR. Colfax.

An autograph letter just received from ex-
President u. 8. Grant. after mentioning his
health as improving from a disabling attack of
sore throat, says: 'Mr. Colfax and / were warm
personal friends from the day of our association
on the same ticket for the highest Offices in the
gift of the nation. up to his untimely aud unex-
pected death. / was always his defender against
what | believed to be most unjust charges" The
letter abounds with expressions of the heartfelt
sympathy of Mrs. Grant and himself with Mrs.
Colfax and her son in their sudden and great
loss. and closes with additional words Of eulogy
Of Mr.. ColfaG President Arthur has also sent
a message, expressive of feelings of the deepest
sorrow at the death of Mr.. Colfax."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

For a man who is virtually out Of politics
MIR: jefferson Davis manages to keep pretty
we'll to the front. He. occupied three promi-
nent places in the newspapers Yesterday.
: Mr.. Blaine scarcely receives SO much
attention nowadays.-New York World.
Things have changed considerably since the
Democratic party triumphed. Had the Dem
ocratic party succeeded in 1865 jeff Davis
might have been President long ere this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
When and where was Ferdinand Ward. of the
firm of Grant & Ward, discovered; who is he and
where is he now and what fort DAILY READER.
MUNCIE, Ind.
He was born at Geneseo, N. Y, about thirty
years ago. About six years ago he went to the
city, accepting various employments, at one time
as assistant secretary Of the Produce Exchange.
He made money rapidly, and thus gained the
influence that enabled him to form the business
relations he did with the Grants. He is in the
Tombs prison on a charge of having misrepre-
sented his financial standing to effect loans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

WHEN a Democrat of any prominence goes
TO Albany he is said by his party newspapers
to have been Summoned" This term would
be misleading, if every reader was not well
aware that Mr.. Cleveland needs no resort to
imperative command, but that a crook of his
finger or Il wink of his eye will bring Demo
Gratis and m~ugwumps swarming about him
IKE flies around a molasses barrel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

TIE special tax bill, prepared by the may
0rs' convention, was very properly and salts
~factorily killed yesterday in the Senate, by a
vote of 80 to 10. There we're some good
features in the measure, but it was based on
a pernicious principle, and studiously avoided
the one source of revenue that the Legis-
lature should tap and would tap if it were not
shiyeringly afraid of the saloons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

New YORK, Jan 29.-The jury in the case of
Philip Lodges, who was tried for the murder of
his brother-in-law, John Hester, a Bowery tailor,
cameinto court this morning with a verdict of
manslaughter in the first degree, and recon
mended the prisoner strongly to the mercy Of
the court. Judge Gildersleeve sentenced Lodges
to the State prison for seven years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

THF Macon (Ga.) Telegraph regards Carl
Schurz's Southern lecture tour in the light of
q belated demand Cor contributions to the last
Democratic presidential campaign fund. Can
it be possible that the eminent German has
not received his wages for the summer
months, and has to do double duty before he
can get paid off?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

1T has been granted to a small philosopher, of
seven years, to adjust to it's proper position the
common phrase, bloom of youth" A bright
little fellow. who is in the city visiting his grand
mother and a%unties, and, therefore, having a
most delightful time, was appraised from home
that a brand new. barefoot boy had Joined the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

ss.OF all the Offices Of indianapolis, In the News
alone thegsexes are absolutely equal. The same
price is paid for composition, whether done by
man or woman. -Kokomo Dispatch.
Not wishing to rob the News of a single laurel
it justly wears, it is proper to say that that rule
has always obtained in the JOURNAL Office for all
kinds of work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30
omnipotent

Now that the Oklahoma boomers have been
expelled from the Indian Territory, which was
the thing to do, the government might we'll
look into the charge that the land in question
is occupied by a monopoly of cattle-grazers
without any more claim than had the Gloom
ers.' Let them be driven out also.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

THE terrible tragedy at Newport, KY, on Sun
day last, in which an insane mother killed a lit
tie son, attempted to kill a daughter and then
committed suicide, has been duplicated at
Winterset, Ia, save that instead of using a razor
the insane mother in this instance employed
poison. The daughter, aged ten, survived by
reason of having been given an overdose.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

The mayor of New York prides himself on the
celebrity with which he performs the marriage
ceremony, practice and attention to business
having enabled him to make two hearts beat as
one in three minutes and forty-ive seconds,
standard time. This is only equaled by the dis
patch with which the couple can be disunited
when they reach Chicago on their wedding tour.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

ON Wednesday night last, a piano was stolen
from a hotel at Shepardsville, KY, and hauled.
it is thought, to Louisville. The landlord says
be heard q wagon pass the house about II
o'clock, and thinks the instrument must have
been carried away in that. That landlord would
do well to chain his smoke house. The thieves
may return for that.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

LOUISVILLE people are so given over to the
tolu habit that no less than 700 chewersin action
were counted at a theatre recently. The authori-
ties distribute tolu instead of bread among the
destituta.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

The proposition is to exclude from the
Baltimore Cleveland picnic all Baltimoreans
who are Office seekers. Mr.. Cleveland will
xause himself at a game of solitaire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

A ST. LOUIS genius has invented an automatic
fre-kindler, which only needs to be wound up
and "set' for any chosen hour, when a fuse at
tached to the machine and the stove will do the
work. The description tallies too closely with
that of a dynamite machine to become popular
with a suspicious public. Most housekeepers
will prefer to rout out the old man or the hired
girl. as usual.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30
Mrs. Tom Thumb to Marry Ar.,.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. 2a--Mrs. General
Tom Thumb, who is at present playing at u mu-
scum in this city, is to be married in about three
months. The namc OF the prospective bride
groom is not known to a certainty, bat 1t is
thought to be Count Rosebud. q gentleman Of
exceedingly diminutive stature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

family. On being asked whether he did not
wish to go home and see the baby brother, the
small boy replied: mo. ] would rather stay
here. | would like to see him while he is in the
bloom of youth, but / am not ready to 60 home
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

DURING Lord Dufferin's voyage to India. a
portable stage was erected on ship-board and
amateur theatricals were had. Something Of
that kind would greatly mitigate the horrors of
seasickness and drowning. Either would be a
relief from the first named.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
What is the pronunciation of the lame Of the
State south cf Missouri. east of Indian Terrific
sippi2 A READER.
MILLIGAN, Ind.
The Legislature of that State has enacted that
it shall be pronounced Ark an saw, with accent
on the antepenult.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

'DoN'T Leave Your Mother, is the title of a
new and popular song. 1t was probably written
as a companion piece to the one with the re-
frain: She's three times six, four times seven,
twenty-eight and eleven; she's a young thing
and can't leave her mother"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

FHocIoN HOWARD, correspondent at large
for certain Chicago dailies, has been offended by
certain senatorial a~spirants at Springfield, and
has gone back to his rural home, refusing longer
to hold the State up by the tail. This is a very
severe blow to Illinois.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

JOURNALISM in Egypt is about as p~erilous
a. in America. OF the five correspondents
With Wolseley three have been killed and one
wounded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

HOTELS and saloons in a number of villages in
southern Pennsylvania are said to have ''invol-
UNFAIRLY stopped selling liquor, not, as might be
supposed, from an enforcement of the laws, but
on account of a religious wave which has con-
verified the drinkers, and auenched their thirst
for frewater. 1t may be remarked that this
wave shows no indications of spreading over the
wide territory covered by the late Manitoba
wave,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

Mrs. ELLA WHEELER Wilcox announces
that she has a new volume of religious verse in
press entitled Songs of Faith and Reason" the
most of which has been written since her mar
riage. The echo of pain and gloom which has
walled through Elias latest poems has alarmed
her friends who did not know she was getting
religion, but who will now be relieved by her
announcement. Marriage has evidently proved
a discipline to the sweet singer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

Thu SLATE went through the Democratic
caucus last night. The prison rings got in
their perfect work, as they dia in the organi-
sation of the Legislature. The rings are
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

ACCOUNTS from various parts of the country
relate how ice a foot or more in thickness is
broken to accommodate devout and enthusiastic
converts who wish to be immersed in the
streams beneath. The shivering reporters who
chronicle the events evidently measure the
intensity of the religious fervor by the thickness
of the frozen covering, on the supposition that
water under ice an inch in thickness is much
warmer than that under twelve inches.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30
OPEN the vaults of the State Treasury.

ARE the people Of Indiana satisfied to have
the books of the State Treasury longer kept
Rhute
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

THE Muncie Times objects to the Legisla-
ture counting Delaware county out in the con-
ETessional apportionment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

to "call a halt" and not only so, but to "try
back and lay restraints on the control al
ready obtained.