The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-22

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The Odds and Ends man entered into CONVEX
sation with traveller on the next seat front II
Kankakee end froze my feet, and I'm goin' down
to Gin to draw my pay any lay off. Never see
SIGH rough weather in my life. see twelve
injuns dead on the track between ST. AIMS and
ST. Marys
"Hnjuns do you mean? Hindians frozen to
death? Hawfulw CALCULATED a horror-stricken
Briton on the other side of the aisle.
''Naw, not Indians" responded the brakeman,
pulling his cap down over his ears and shaking
his shoulders, '.iniins, locomotives"
The BritoD gave sigh Of relief and lighted a
fresh pipeful of tobacco.
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Lawrenceburg is calmly waiting to see what
depth of moisture the thaw will bring The re-
porter walked along High street. 1t is called
High, because when the floods come the water is
not as deep there by sixteen feet as on some
other streets. The first man to speak to the re-
porter, recognizing him to be a stranger said
pointing up to a mark the church steeple:
1.-THE high waters riz up to thar" little
further along another citizen, pointing to a
broken piece of iron on a second-story portico
said THAT was broke by skiff, taking fam
lily out in the high water"
Religion politics, social life are predicated
upon 'the high water" There is no amiable
feeling toward Congressman Holman who lives
at Aurora. The people at Lawrenceburg want a
levee built to keep out the high waterproof as
they are of it they have had enough-and want
government appropriation They think Mr.
Holman after his many years service in Con-
gress should have sufficient influence to get it,
and denounce him for having obtained the title
of the objector feeling that the title somehow
stands in the way of their getting the levee.
No town in the State has rs many colonies as
Lawrenceburg They are all Democratic, and
all of recent creation. Most of them belong to
the distillery, and all of them want government
appointments
Home again! Yes, this is indianapolis Here
are Sim Coy, James Bowling, Capt. OLeary,
the Legislature, the Dime Museum, and the new
police commissioner, Tom Cottrell.
Mr. Cottrell, now that he is police commits
sioner, must fabricate some new stories Those
ancient mrth provokers are now chestnuts, and
will no more bring responsive laughter even from
the youngest and vealliest
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'Did you ever hear of Hughes Easts specula-
ton in hogs several years agcT inquired a gem
and another gentleman were in partnership in
the deal. They borrowed several thousand dol
lars of one Of the Landerses-Tm not going to
tell you which one-and claimed to be feeding
large number of hogs on the Holmes farm,
northwest of the city. One day Hughes met
his creditor. Hughes was wearing very long
face. What's the matterg inquired the hacker
Mr.. East groaned. Recovering himself he said,
'the cholera has broken out among those hogs.
1t makes me sick to see big, fat hog, well in the
morning, fall over and die before night He
groaned again, left his creditor, and, turning a
corner, disappeared. The creditor. alarmed,
hitched up his nag and drove out to the Holmes
farm. There was not, nor had there been, a hog
ON the place The cholera was in the margin at
Chicago, however and the entire drove persisted
like the host of Sennacherib."
In the early history of the city two memora BILE
fights occurred. Memorable for the prominence
of the parties and especially for the mystery
that concealed the results. Nobody but the
parties ever knew which whipped The first
was about the time the late Daniel Yandes, one
of the most enterprising and valuable of the
pioneers, and his brother in-law. the late An
drew Wilson, were building their mill on the