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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.
Scenes and Incidents at the Late Reassem
bling of the British Legislature.

Scenes and Incidents at the Late Reassem-
bling of the British Legislature.
ST. Stephens Review.
Although it is the most imperturbable assem-
bly, in the world, council of Crowfeet Indians,
the House was fully sensible of the novelty of it's
position on Thursday, when it came together for
the first time since the autumn adjournment and
the explosion OF January. 1t was observed with
considerable interest that the artifcers called to
repair the ravages caused by Mr.. jeremiah
ODonovan Rossas bombs had executed their
work with considerable SKILL and this naturally
set Sir Stafford Northcote thinking how the raw
ages caused by the Egyptian policy of the minis
try might be repaired with equal success. I'm
fortunately, as Sir Henry Wolff observed, with
his characteristic shrewdness: "You cannot
veneer, and varnish, and paint out the effects of
an administrative earthquake" If it be possible
to "fx up Mr. Bradlaugh's bench under the
peers gallery with double Quantity of flock and
a couple of oak sticks, it is not quite easy to
restore shattered system TO allay wild, fa-
natcal insurrection, to recover those who have
been taken captive, and to bring back to life
those who are dead. Mr. Newdegate, entering
with pale face, feeble gait, supported upon
stick, and dragging behind him foot disabled
by gout, was sympathetic picture Of temporary
Humiliation. Look, said Mr.. ". e. Forster to
Geschen; see Newdegate What does he
remind you of" Of an old enemy" wheezed
Goschen. mo. Think again!r Cant think
any more. Can't hcstow two thoughts on New.
dcgate Give il up. was Gosehen's peevish re-
ply. "He reminds me of Gladstone's govern
ment grunted w e. +. at is on one leg now,
hobbling upon stick smiling desperately, and
flying red bunting TO simulate triumph" "Very
good symbol. ! cay, Forster, come with me
into yonder dark corner. i would speak with
thee about this vote of censure Of Northcotes & y
Whether they felt II Or NOT, Ministers success
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
THE SENATE.
Van Wyck Continues His Pursuit of the
Land Grant Railways.

Ianu-Grant Railways.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE backbone"
resolution offered by Mr. Van Wyck was before
the Senate unfinished business Mr. Van
Wyek said the senator from Colorado IMr.
Tellerl had como to New York. to he absent a
day or two and asked that action upon the reso-
luton be deferred until Friday
Mr.. Van Wyek then offered the sss...,.Vine reso-
lution and asked that it lie upon the table for
the present:
Resolved that the Secretary of the Interior and the
Attorneygeneral Of the United States be and hereby
directed respectively take such action as each
may deem necessary to prevent any sale by the Aar-
tic q Gulf West India Transit Company or by anv
company person claiming under them, of the lands
described in the act approved May IL $40 entitled
AN act granting public lands in alternate sections to
the States of Florida and Alabama to aid in construc-
ton of GER ain railroads in said States far as the
same lie within line with said railroads between
Waldo and Tampa bay, Fa until Congress shall have
authorized the same
Mr.. Allison moved that the Senate adjourn.
Mr.. Morrell said he had beard very indirectly,
that there would be communication from the
executive.
Mr.. Allison was glad the senator from Yer
mont was able to speak for the executive. and
withdrew his motion.
After lapse Of twenty minutes, Secretary
Pruden appeared and delivered sundry messages
IN writing The Senate went into executive ses-
sion, and five minutes later adjourned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
THE VICE-PRESIDENr.
He Proposes to Resist Retirement to the
Shades of Political Life.


Shades of Political Life.
Washington Special.
Mr. Hendricks seems inclined to test the cues
| tion whether he has politically taken the black
veil and retired from political life, only to reap
| pear in case of some constitutional disability
arising in the Office of President. Himself an
| acknowledged spokesman, he has evidently looked
around with sinking heart upon the limited
number of petty Offices which the presiding officer
of the Senate was allowed by custom to control
What small potatoes and how few in a hill-a
private secretary. a telegraph operator and the
keeper of restaurant.
Besides, this restaurant is one where the
most popular dish is Mcdonald stew, his Indi-
ana competitor having taught the cook way of
cooking oysters which captured the palate of all
the epicures in the Senate Looking over the
field where these few ''nubbnsr have been set
apart for him, he has concluded to break out into
other pastures where the grazing is better. So
he has concluded to raise the issue that he Of
right is the proper person to control the patron
age of the city where he lives He has therefore
insisted that he should be allowed to maine the
new postmaster at Indianapolis. This has started
the Indiana music box. Representative Bynum
wants to know where a Vice-president gets any
representative character. Whether he has any
or not, Mr.. Bynum will continue to his dying
breath to protest that unless President dies or
resigns, a Vice-presdent is political nonentity,
aside from his half alive functions of presiding
officer of the Senate and that above all things
he has nothing to do with postofices Mr.. Hen
dricks will doubtless make soma brave lunges to
break out of the net which custom has woven
around the dull office he holds; but the cords
will hold, and after little while he will be as
quiet and as far removed from public attention
as the long line OF his already forgotten prede-
cessorS
1t is related that when Mr.. Hannibal Hamln
was Vice-president he requested the Postmas,
ter genera. to appoint certain man postmaster
OF little town in Maine, and the cabinet officer
declined, saying the representative from that
district was the proper person to control the
appointment
But" said Mr. Hamlin ''you forget, perhaps,
that am Vice-president"
''Oh. no, do not" was the reply; 'you hold
very exalted Office but you actually represent
nobody
The venerable Hamlin bowed his head mo-
ment. and finally said, good -naturedly:
"Well, that's a fact; don't represent anybody
or anything"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12

A Man Calls on God to Punish Him, and Is
at Once Stricken with Paralysis.

MONTREAL March IA story is being cir
culated in the city relative to miracle which is
said to have taken place in Acton Vale. Some
days ago man, while threshing gran swore
very badly, and some bystanders reproaching
him, he replied ''If there is God, let Him
punish me-" He was at once seized by paralysis
and fixed in the position in which he stood. Not
only So but he became rooted to the ground, and
could not be removed. Neighbors had to cover
him with rugs TO prevent him being frozen, and,
although thoy offered him food he could not
take it. Mgr. Favre has gone to the place, pre-
sumably to try and restore him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
Cable Notes.

The municipal authorities of Dover have rec
ommended that Friday of this week be regarded
as day of mourning for Gen. Gordon.
Mr.. Parnell has issued manifesto advising
the municipalities of Ireland to abserve a re-
srectful neutrality regarding the approaching g
visit of the Prince of Wales
Ingrant OF $20, 900 has been made by the
British government to the family of Gen. Cor
don which has been paid over to trustees, who
will use it for the benefit of the family, accord
ing to Gordon's last wishes, in such way as the
Queen may direct
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
Crushed and burned to Death.

two-story frame building, No. II Providence
street, used 10y Mr.. Corline as broom factory,
suddenly collapsed, fell, and then took fire.
Three men escaped but Mr. Corline, Leonard
Remmer and another worker were caught in the
debris. Mr.. Corline and the unknown man
were rescued with slight injuries but Remmer
was crushed and burned to death. Digging a
cellar in an adjoining lot caused the building to
FOL o -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
Sentence Passed on Murphy's Wanderers.

New ORLEANS La, March H. In the Grim
inal Court Judge Baker sentenced the murder
ers in the Murphy case, found guilty last week.
Pat Ford and John Murphy, who were found
guilty of murder, were sentenced to be hanged,
and Judge Thomas Ford Caulield and Buckley,
who were found guilty of manslaughter, were
sentenced to twenty years imprisonment IN the
penitentiary, the full penalty Of the law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
Tie Coal strlke Spreading.

PrTTsBURG, Pa, March 1.-THE coal miners
strike is growing and Secretary Flannery, af
the miners association, o-night confidently
claims that every pit in the Monongahela region
will be closed within the next twenty four hours
Several additional mines shut down tonight
Jordon & Neils men are the only ones now work
ing in the fourth pool and they have promised
TO come out in the morning. At Scott Haven
the strikers have been gwen ten days in which
10 remove from the houses of the Youghiogheny
Coal Company
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
w ar NToyements in Turkey.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, March 11.-Volunteers are
being secretly raised in Phillipopols to invade
Macedonia. Eight battalions of Turkish troops
have gone TO Prisrend, in Albania.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
American Meats in France.

PARIS, March lit is stated that NJ
Fournier, Minister of Commerce, will ask the
Chamber of Deputies to repea; the law prohibit
ing the importation of American meat This
action is taken with view to allaying the feel
ing aroused by the increase of import duties OF
corn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
The Indicted Custom-House onicers.

New YORK, March 1l.-CaptaSn Charles n.
Bracket appeared in the United States Circuit
Court today and pleaded not guilty to tho in
dictment for bribe-taking. Captain Bracket
asked a speedy trial and the 10th inst. was fixed
upon. The case of Captain Chalker, similarly
indicted, viii take the salne course
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
MINOR MENTION.
or anything

Ex- x-Reprcsentative Stockslager Wants To lie
Second Comptroller of the Treasury.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WAsHINGToN, March ll.--To-morrow morn
ing delegation of influential Democrats.
headed BY Senator Voorhees, and Representa-,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
Freight Cars Blown from the Track.

VAN ALsrySE, Tex, March l--At o'clock
tonight cyclone struck the north bound freight
on the Texas Central six miles south of u:n
styne rive cars were blown completely off the
track, including the caboose. No one reported
injured
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
Coal operators win Act in unison.

PITTsBURG, March 1.-The River Coal Ex-
change held meeting this morning and by o
unanimous vote agreed to stand together against
the striking coal miners. The members were
all pledged not TO pay the advance demanded
BY the strikers. This covers nearly every mine
on the Monongahela river.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
The French Yictorions at Kelnne.

HoNG KoNG, March 1.-THE French, after
five days fighting, carried the Chinese positions
around Kelung. Forty Frenchmen were killed
and 200 wounded
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12

For wounds, whether incised or confused, Sal
walton Oil is the best remedy Price 25 cents.
A boon TO suffering NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Oil
Yriee only % cents bottle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
A Trappist Monk To BE Guillotined.

PARIS March ll.-Gamahut a Trappist monk
and principal in the murder of Madame Bal
lerich, has been sentenced to be guillotined
His accomplice has been sentenced to penal
seryitude. Gamahut confessed his guilt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-12
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

Terms of the Anglo German Agreement as
To South and Central Africa.
BERLIN, March H. The result of Count Her
bert Bismarek's special mission to England,
relative to German interests in Africa, is re.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-11-19
How Girls Treat.

When men 60 together they generally
shake for the cost of the dinner. Girls
generally pay their shares. But like
to watch the conscious superiority, the
bland Importance girl pnts on when
she is going to pay for the feast. The
affcctionate attention she receives from
the others is 4 simple and efficient
guide to thep Of the party. If you
have any doubt of it watch the ostcnta-
tious way in which the payer takes out
her purse, takes up the check and ex-
anlincs it or asks the waiter how much
it is. Watch how they all wait upon
the girl who pays. They show her a
Difference which is unmistakable. give
place to her rs they approach the
counter and trot out giggling and
laughing, the guests holding on most
deyotedly to the arms of the treater.
It's lovely. But, dear creatures, they
are chuck full of human nature and
that's the trouble with US all.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-11-19
Snakes In the stomach.

For two years past John Lor gwell,
of Charleston, Pa, has been subject to
fits, being attacked suddenly andlying
unconscious for hours. Within the
last few months he has experienced d
cold sensation in his throat occasion
ally, as if something was rising into
his mouth. This, attended with the
singular feeling in his stomach, con-
WINGED him that there was something
living there. His physician was asked
to give him an emetic, anyhow, and
accordingly gave his patient a large
dose. The result was that Mr.. Long
we'll threw up two snakes, one. about
fourteen inches long and the other a
fool in length, brown in color and both
alive, and they are alive yet. The
story is vOuched for by several who
were about the house ut the time, and
the physician expresses his belief in
the incident. Longwell is 4 young
farmer and a man OF veracity. Mr..
Longwell thinks that he swallowed the
eggs which produced the snakes while
carelessly drinking water from a
spring.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-11-19
Vegetable Sheep of New Zealand.

On Mount Torlessc. in New Zealand,
grows single plant, specimens Of
which are known as vegetable sheep"
The plant belongs to the Cudweed
tribe. and is described by a recent boz
tanical explorer as growing on loose
debris ut an altitude Of 1850 to 5000
feet, and forming round or kidney
shaped patches; some of them as much
as eight feet across and three feet high.
They resemble immense cushions, in
one species snow-white and in the
other silvery-gray, and in both are
formed dense mass of lcafy branches
so closely packed together that a chisel
can not be easily thrust irto the mass.
The flowers are SO small that their
parts can be seen distinctly only under
the microscope. The peculiar shape
and appearance Of these plants led to
their being occasionally mistaken for
sheep by early settlers, aud hence the
name,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-11-19
Sociabliity Among Chairs.

II could tell my readers alfthc good
things ! read and hear in the house.
keeping line should be n an oracle
unto them. have been greatly inter.
cstcd in an article on the ..Science oi
Chairs. in Good Housekeeping. II j.
by Anna /. Dawes. Speaking humor.
ously, ] might gay that the writer
pleads for more sociability among
chairs. Chairs in many houses are very
stiff and awkward in their behavior,
and the writer would remedy matters.
Here is paragraph from the entertain.
ing article:
THE parlor. which, in most families,
i the quiet corner in which a guest
may spend an nninterrup.e.! half hour
during social call, needs some easy
chairs. lest the wcaricd visitor never
come again: but it needs still more.
light chairs--and more than one--thai
can be easily moved about. Whether
the easy chairs are cane seat rockers or
plush divans, their position cannot
readily be changed. while the light
chair that can be taken in hand and
carried from one corner to the other.
will furnish the opportunity for socia-
biiity two or three times in single call,
perhaps. 1t must be a chair that car,
be carried: it is not enough that it roll
on casters, for it Is still clumsy and
heavy, and the efforts necessary to alter
its position will often prevent the
change altogether. This is not all the
battle. however. The original arrange
mcnt Of the furniture is like the dispo-
sition Of troops. 1t il here that the host
ess shows her knowledge Of human
nature and her experience of So
cietv. A clever woman, TO whom the
great world was second nature, once
said on this point that she always OBJ
served how the chairs were left III a
drawing-reom where several people
had been sitting. and put tLsm in the
same position next time. This is the
secret Of success with chairs. Dispose
them SO that persons who fall into
them shall sit down in the places most
natural and satisfactory. Arrange .
group of chairs near the door, where
the casual caller will drop into one ant
the hostess into another. aud withou,
realizing the fact that they arc sitting
near together, will yet be placed in ths
best possible position for little con
versation. If it is large drawing
room constantly used BY 4 number o.
people, multiply these groups Of seats
not in ridiculous aesthetic situations
with the sofas at right angles to I'll,
room, but conveniently and naturally
Sit down in the chairs, il necessary
! and see in what position you wouit
Ike to find your neighbor. If you re
member that the chairs are to sit in
not TO look at, not even to give coior
You will place them as people will wisl
to find them, aud without KNOWN.
why. your drawing-room will often b,
full Of people. and its reputation vii
go abroad. Chairs are to sit in. lie
us repeat the refrain and learn it
lesson. Comfort, convenience and us,
will determine their kind and their pc
sition, and will suggest their absenc'
when unnecessary. So satisfaction
shall dwell at the hcarthstone, and hos
| pitality. unsupported by crutches
shall trip merrily to the measure OF en-
joyment.
L
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-11-19

IL eyaporating III our modern atmo,-
phcrra vague tradition lowering
around the age marked mansions of an
earlier date. tho type Of sentiment Of
home-atfachment and reverence which
we seem to have small leisure and a
lesscning disposition to cultivate.
a change is going on in this ,lirec-
ton. which has many indications, and
needs TO be checked before il becomes
unmanagcablc. We are turning every
thing OF this sort into an affair of taste,
and patronize the picturesque ON prin-
ciplc OF artistic criticism. An old
homestead we are proud Of, If it has Il
kind OF aristocratic baronial air; and
we take our gentcel acquaintance to see
il. il it looks as though the family which
used To live there belonged to the up
per-tcns Of those times. But the little
one-storicd red cottage on the back
crOss-road we do not care to say pro-
tected our infancy, if polite people are
about. We admire the ancient spread
ing oak or elm because it SETS off the
lawn so rsthetically; but we do not
hold it in vencration almost as hal
lowed cathedral of Gods building, sa-
cred and loved as the memorial Of
countless divine kindnesses. and human
experiences Of hope and fear and joy.
during its cutlery Of slow and silent
growth. We are fond Of very nice
people, who look we'll in photograph
albums: but we do not rise up before
the hoary head and honor the face Of
the old man as well in decrcpitude and
burdensome helplessness. Never.'e-
less, a true veneration for the veneer
able is wholesome sentiment, q grand
and elevating attribute Of character,
whether its object be IN inanimatc
thing or a living soul. Any observance
or agency Which cultivatcs this quality
among us deserves all praise and fos
tering care. DR.. H. T. Tucker. in SIM
tiay afternoon.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-11-19
Pulled the Wrong String.

As the midnight train was leaving
Brockport ON its run west last Saturday
night rather green and rural-looking
young man, with his best girl, occupied
one Of the seats OF the last car but the
sleeper. Mr.. vcrdant arose, walked
down the aisle to bring his flair one"
drink Of that beautiful nectar dis
pensed on board trains of the New
York Central road, water, had placed
the cup underneath the stopper to the
tank, seized the Westing house air
brake cord which is fastened near, and
gave it a jerk anticipating a flow Of
limpid beverage. No water, however.
but suddenly the train stopped, and
amid the execrations Of the conductor,
train hands and passengers 1.-THE
chap from the country SUNK back to
his seat. After i hull in the storm the
young lady was heard to remark quite
andibly: What did you do that for,
YOU big fool?'
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-11-19
The Old Time Thanks gi ving---Is Its Spirit
Dying out:

uylhg QUIZ
We cannot spare them from our
family anniversaries, our Christmas and
Thanksgiving festivals. The chair Of
honor belongs to the patriarch Of the
house at these domestic reunions.
Our New England fcast-day. especially,
has found, from the beginning, its
chief attraction in the welcome BY
parents and grandparents Of the
scattered members Of the old home
under the ancestral roof: but hardly
now SO significantly as in former times
of more simplicity and serenity OF
living. Our Younger people can
scarcely spare hours enough to fly,
even at railroad speed, from their city
residences to the not very remote farm
or village where white locks and trem-
.ulous hands would rejoice. how
tcndcrly, to embrace again children
and children's children in the quiet
pleasures of an old-fashioned Thanks
giving day. There is real ground of
apprehension that tho genuine spirit
Of this thoroughly American institution
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-11-19

We sometimes hear man boast OF
never having known fear; but it is an
idle .vaunt. 1t cannot be true; but If il
were, it would bcspeak him less, no,
more manly. One of the bravest SOL
dlers confessed to having felt fortunes
of fear in his first battle; yet he after.
wards swerved not an inch, and his
comrades thought him utterly fearless.
His courage kept him firm in the path
of duty despite bis fears.