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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

under the government. The question of par
don from the penalty Of a crime and the quail
ifcations for an ofice-holder are two separate
and distinct things, and cannot be juggled and
confused. even by an 'fopinion" of the At
torney general of the United States.
If Mr.. Garlands position be correct, then
the third section of the fourteenth amend
ment Isl absolutely imperative upon anybody
except Jefferson Davis. By proclamation of
July 4, 1868, sixteen days prior to the taking
effect of the amendment President johnson
gave full and complete pardon to every
body who had been engaged, directly
or indirectly, in the Rebellion, with
the single possible exception Of Jefferson Da-
Wis, who may have been under indictment or
presentment in United States Court for
treason. That the effect of such pardon was
to render inutile and powerless the third sec
ton of the fourteenth amendment was never
dreamed Of or heard of, until the theory is now
advanced to allow an honor to be paid an ex-
CoHiSucIalot WHO oOdSteu InaI ne WOulO uOC
ask for the removal Of his disabilities while
Republican administration was in power If
presidential pardon has this scope, why the
hundreds, and possibly thousands, of bills
that have been passed by Congress re-
moving disabilities in pursuance
of the constitutional plant Attorney
general Garland was member Of the
Senate and of the Judiciary committee; he has
doubtless passed upon many Of these appli-
cations, and voted for many of these bills.
Why did he not make discovery of his new
doctrine Of presidential pardon during all the
time, when, according to his present theory,
Congress was INDUCING in work of super
erogation, and Southern ex-confederates were
being put to unnecessary trouble and expense?
In the light Of Mr.. Garland's own record his
present opinion as Attorney general evil not
wash"
There are other reasons that could be
urged against the validity of this opinion;
such as the intention of Congress at the
time the amendment was passed It can be |
shown that the precise point Mr.. Garland
bases his opinion upon was then raised, and was
overruled by Congress in its vote adopting
the article. 1t could also be shown, very
readily, that his citation from the Supreme
Court decision is entirely irrelevant; the right
to sue in the Court of Claims is very differ
ent thing from the privilege of holding Office
without possessing the constitutional qualif
cations imposed by the only authority that
has the right to determine what those qualif-
cations shall be. This alleged great lawyer,
''the greatest in the Senate" does not appear
to advantage in the first opinion he has given
out as the chief law officer Of the govern
mant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

The Springfield Republican says it is only
necessary to compare the speech Of Carl
Schurz before the Boston reform club with
the utterances of Mr.. Evarts on recent occa-
sion to see which "wields the grasp of power"
In its eagerness to say something crushing
the Republican let's 60 its grasp of the ver-
nacular,' when everybody knows, too, that it
would rather be grammatical than even to be
GOOD
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30
Signs of Democratic Progress.
w ashington Special.

Vice president Hendricks was observed, tho
other day, in the midst of an argument against
civiI-servce reform This is nothing unusual,
but those who stood near were surprised to see
two Democratic senators take MIN to task for
entertaining such views antagonistic to reform,
and then declared for themselves, that they
thought President Cleveland should and would
enforce the present law. The bystanders in
cluded some eminent Republicans, who have
given years of thought to the subject, and they
were agreeably surprised to note the signs Of
cratic party
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

The Washington Post tries to calm the i'm
patient and hungry brethren by telling them
that it takes time to ferret out the rascals.
According to the way the Post talked before
the Inauguration every Republican Office hold
er was a rascal. AS few have since d ed, and
still fewer have resigned, there should be no
difficulty in sporting" them. The Posts
apology for the administration will hardly be
accepted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

Hon. JOHN s. WILLIAMS, of the Lafayette
Times, has been appointed Third Auditor of
the Treasury, vice E. W. Keightley, resigned
Colonel Williams will make an efficient and
and the temperament for an auditing officer.
President Cleveland has been happy in his
selection of general officers for his administra-
ton from Indiana. Magee, Mclean and Will
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

The opinion of Attorney general Garland is
an attack upon the fourteenth amendment
That amendment is in the way of good
many Southern men and Southern plans, and
it must be overcome in some way. Whiting
1t away by piecemeal is, doubtless, thought to
be the most effective, and likely to raise less
opposition than the Frank Blair and Senator
Blackburn plan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

A GREAT many school teachers in Kentucky
have not been paid for services rendered in
1884. The cause Of this delay is that the law
governing the school revenue does not provide
for its collection before the 1st of April, while
the school year begins on the LIST of July No
State can afford to underpay or poorly pay the
teachers in its schools.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30
INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, APRIL 80. 1885.

pendents will suffer many heartaches and dis
appointments before they can run the govern
ment. to their liking Cruel as the remark
may seem, it will probably be better that they
should suffer thus rather than the country
from the fulfllment of their plans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

ANOTHER lot of Millerite fools, this time in
New England, spent the day, yesterday, in
their ascension robes, waiting for the second
coming of Christ. 1t is not irreverent to say
that, if He had come, you could have played
checkers on the tails of those robes. Such
idiots should be treated with the contempt
and ridicule they deserve.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30
ultinnatum.

Our Washington special says that Attorney
general Garland's opinion in the Lawton case
is not believed by hundreds of the best law
yers in the South. A number of the ablest
and most influential newspapers in the South,
among them the Charleston News and Courier,
have taken the opposite ground.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

GENERAL GRANT continues to improve ap-
parently. The doctors said yesterday, with
some decisiveness, that his condition had
really improved within the past month. 1t is
now nearly four weeks since the Journal was
taken to task for the publication of news from
his sick room that indicated that the General
might live for several days."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

AT the celebration of Grants birthday in
Washington, clergyman. whose church
President Cleveland does not attend, offered,
according to a local report, generous and
eloquent prayer" There is hardly room for
doubt that the Lord was duly impressed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

Boston Herald.
The New York World calls for "a discontin-
uance of the meaningless humbug of public re-
ceptions," which take up the time and exhaust
the nervous force of the President. We are in
clined to second the motion, on the side of econ
omy of time and good sense But if the dear
people cannot approach their President at will,
what becomes of the delightful Democratic
simplicity that to prevail under the new
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

DEMOCRATIC members of the Council need
not be in doubt as to their duty if they care
to retain the confidence of large element of
their constituents. "Sim" Coy, the whipper-
h, says ae would like to see any Democratic
councilman vote to increase the saloon IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

A New YORK pastor tells his friends, who
offered to send him to Europe, that ''until
satan takes vacation we ministers should
stay at home As satan appears to be rollick-
ing around in Europe just now at an uncom-
monty lively rate, the New York man Of peace
is probably wise to stay ON this side, where
there is less danger.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

DOES the s'Hon." Sim Coy own the Demo
cratic party of Indianapolis Does he hold
mortgage upon the votes of the Democratic
members of councilR These are questions to
be decided by the fate of the one-hundred-
dOllar-tax ordinance. Mr.. Coy has issued his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30
The Result of Economy"

New York Mail ana Express.
The direct result of reducing the force OF
clerks at the White House has been the over
working and breaking down of Colonel Lamont
The absence of Colonel Lamont, we learn, has
thrown more work upon the President than he
would otherwise have to look after and there is
considerable anxiety lest the latter, also, prove
victim Of false economy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

KEROSENE OIL has been recommended as good
for almost any purpose except to drink, but
Georgia man has been found who imbibes illu-
minating fluid by the quart as pleasant stimu-
liant The coaloil vice will hardly become com
mon, at least among smokers. A single cigar
after pull at the can might cause fatal ex-
plosion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

THE rseudo-heroine Yseult Dudley, has
forfeited every laurel by agreeing to a plea of
insanity. Had lawyers had charge Of Joan Of
Arcs case, the Maid Of Orleans would have
gone into history as a mad-woman, instead of
an inspired heroine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

HAVING struggled with the skating rink ques-
tion Boston ministers are now discussing the
mind cure, which some of them regard as de-
vice of the evil one. If there is any way by
which the Boston mind can be cured surely
it should not be frowned upon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30
Considered by Its Greatness.

Philadelphia Times.
Vice-President Hendricks declined the invita-
ton of the Manhattan Club last week on ac-
count of important business and then went
to see base ball match. Mr. Hendricks evi-
IDENTIFY has high appreciation Of the great re-
sponsibilities of the Vice presidential Office and
the necessity of their strict performance
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30
Avn Ornitholocical Error.

Chicago Tribune.
The Atlanta Constitution calls the mugwumps
SQUADS" This ia an pathological error.
SQUAD is a pigeon, and of either sex; mugwump
is always hen-a simple, hopeful, self con-
scious cackling hem
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

ARRANGEMENTS are being made to light the
interior of the Washington monument with
electric lamps If the Father of His Country
could visit the building he would doubtless be
gratifed at the improved Illuminating process
The house he lived in never had anything better
than tallOW or wax candles
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

SoME-eighty members of the Illinois I.egis-
lature have arranged an excursion to New
Orleans presumably drawing their pay regu-
larly while away from duty. With a little
encouragement, the Illinois body might aspire
to rival that of Indiana in general worthless
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

IT is an open secret that Carter Harrison, in
his suit against the Inter Ocean. intended to
demand but $4,000 damages; but when that
paper allowed it to 60 uncontradicted that he
was the author of the "Siva" letters, he raised
the figures TO $500, 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

cense. s1t viii end his political career so
quick that it will make his head swim"
"Sim" Coy to the contrary Notwithstanding.
the people would like to see the saloons COM
PEELED to pay some reasonable share Of the
expense the traffic entails upon the COM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can ba found at the following places:
LONDON-American Exchange in Europe, 449
Strand
PAR1S-American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard
des Capucines.
NEW YORK-St Nicholas and Windsor Hotels
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
CINCINNATI-J. R. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine street.
LOUIsvILLE-C. T. bearing, northwest corner
Third and jefferson streets.
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot
and Southern Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

A BRIDGEPORT, Conn, widow was allowed to
remove the body of her husband, but when she
attempted to remove the tombstone the children
objected Filial love is very strong in Connect
lent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

THE Association" has fined the Metropolitan
base ball club $500 for violation of some rule.
The Metropolitans will take the amount out of
the next weeks salary of the pitcher
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30
Inconsiderate MIR. Hendricks.

Philadoi phia Record
Mr. Hendricks is going South. The perverse
old man will not see what an aching void his abb
sence creates in Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

On his birthday Otto Bismarck received more
than 400 bottles of wine, some of it lat years
old aud worth $40 bottle. Wine of that kind
is likely to give anybody the 'big head"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

THE President regards the declination Of
Mr.. Lawton as a great loss to the country.
The country will try to bear up under the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

Jams are all creditable appointments. The
only break he made is in the selection Of
Bayless w. HANNA but as his principal duty
is to ride into Teheran on mule, as he him
self announces, probably he will do.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

To the credit of the English language be it
said that it contains no word to rhyme with
"mugwump."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30
A Profound statement,

Atlanta Constitution.
The man who faints at the sight of drop OF
blood can look at demijon without batting his
eyes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

Atlanta Constitution.
Epithelioma reminds one of Brights disease.
Ii the patient gets well 1t isn't Brights disease.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30
Prohibition Grammar.

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Prohibition etymologists give the expression
'liquor license as good example of synta1
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30

IT is said that electric light is a preventive
of crime. Very likely; no one thinks of steal
ing an electric light while burning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-30
Abusing a Sick Man.

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
General Grant seems 70 have passed the Tropie
Of Cancer
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Telephone Calls.
Business Office .23S Editorial Rooms. -. .242
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RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.

TERMS INVARIABLY IN ADvANcE-posTAGE PREPAID
BY THE PUBLISHERS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
A MEXICAN LAKE LOST.
city of Mexico Two Republics.

The Metztitlan lake in tae state of
Hidalgo headwaters of the panuco
river, has disappeared within the last
few days, and no explanation is offer
ed at its strange conduct. 1t was a
lake at the time some six miles long,
and was located in the open Metztitlan
plain. Even during the dry season it
was quite a body Of water, a few
mornings since a subterranean rumble
was heard, low and sullen, which
shook the hills around. The strange
quaking was especially noticeable on
the Colo de las Yegus hill The peo-
Pile living in the vicinity of the Tajo
hill were especially alarmed at that
pass is the tunnel which for some time
past has been made TO carry off the
surplus water. AS soon as the sounds
ceased the waters Of the lake began
disappearing rapidly till ali had gone.
They emptIed into a cavity IN the
vicinity of the pass. The land jHst
beyond commences to rise, and has
always served, from time immemorial,
as a dixie to hold back those waters
II is not known where the water
which existed there has gone, as the
Panuco river, hitherto partially feed
by this lake, has not evidently receiv-
ed them. The government should
make a scientific examination of the
matter. The waters which empty on
this plain are many. The streams
from the hills cover a territory of
thirty leagues with their tributaries
from the .Tulaucingo heights to the
natural dixie at the Tajo, a great bowl
among the mountains. This bowl
has beeu almost filed at times during
the rainy season, and has been con-
slant menace, overlooking fields and
crops, and many farm on the shores
of the Metzitlan lake has been ruined
by the rising waters. The tunnel
thus drilled by nature itself has given
outlet to the waters, and those people
have without further effort solved
difficult problem. Work will proba>
bly, now be discontinued on the tun>
mel, which was slowly at the expense
of all the porperty-holders IN the
vicinity, who could not well afford
the cost. But it is also necessary to
examine the phenomenon with refer
ence to its after consequences, and so
as to avoid evils which might arise
HYGIENE measures should be adopted
TO purify the air from the effects of
the decomposition of fishes lett behind,
as well as to remedy the miasmatic
exhalation from what is YET vast
marsh.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
Correcting Il Mistake.
Texas siftlngs.

4 Harlem bridge tender, who had
swung open his portcullis TO allow a
schooner to pass up the river, was
warmly and violently assailed by the
captain of the craft for some slight
inattentlon to duty a few days previ'
Gus.
IF | had you down on the dock OF
this vessel I'd break your neck, said
the skipper, shaking his fist
eyer would, would ye, yer chuckle
headed salt horse If yer was on the
plank'n' of the bridge I'd mop the
fore with yer ugly carcass an hang
yer up ter dry on the truss.
Shut up your animated slush~
bucBet For two brass pins I'd send
my cabin boy up to feed dlstillery
hogs with your remains. you chop
snooted son of a gun"
"Arrah, ye handy legged horse ma
rine, I've big notion ter drop off NV
the bridge an maui yer ter a pulp"
"Well, why don't you dropg
sneered the captain. Just drop, and
III undertake to feed fishes with you,
eyer lynn skip~jack. "
\ GU re req hosea ScavengeF, with
blue mold and cock eye, Pm go.
ing to tie up just above here, and III
give you a lively old interview when
| get ashore"
SIS it tie up ye're goin' ter be after
doin'9' inquired the bridge tender,
anxiously.
That's just what I'm going TO do,
cap"
Correct, melud. When yer have
tied up yer schooner come oop here,
and wen take IN the lager beer saloon
jest feminist the aste ind Nv the bridge.
Perhaps I've made a mistake.
can right, my hearty. Mebbe /,
too was little quick I'll be there,
because when drink / always aim TO
do it with a gentleman.
AN it's gentleman yer is, cap"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22

every sale Oh strip of paper, and
drops clipped bi. into locked RS
ceplacle. There is a man who OWES
thirteen large bar-rooms, all exlrava~
gantly fitted up, and located in places
OF fashionable throngiug. He SAYS
that he would oe ruined IN a year, IN
stead of enriched BY his excessive
business, if he did not take such meas
ure against offering Esery horse
car company uses implicated and
effective system Of bell-ringing and
registry for fares. Retail stores of all
kinds are similarly QUILTED. Even
the more prosperous soda water and
cigar stands sre provided with checks
and clockswork TO enforce honesty,
On the Brooklyn elevated railroad
the ticket-sellerS do not so much as
touch the tickets, but jigger them out
through the spout OF registering
machine, from which the passengers
larry them to the drop boxes 1T the
gates. Thus nobody employed in the
stations ever handles a ticket, and
there is no chance for collision. Re
sentiment over these things has worn
AWAY, duu SuOuINH Ue uNCu sur
prised at the early introduction of
patent. registering contribution
baskets in churches The good Deacon
Huyler, noted for piety and fresh
every>hour candy, and warmly eulo~
gized after his recent death for having
insisted that the girls in his store
should all belong to his Sunday school
class, did not allow religion to be their
only shield against temptation.
What makes you use checks and a
punching box on your counters,
Brother Huylerin a fellow church>
man asked. Are not your young
ladies honestp Perfectly" was the
bland reply, ''and mean to make it
easy for them to keep so. After the
inventors have solved the problem of
compelling all of us to be honest to
our employers, perhaps they will dis
cover how to make us true to oursel
yes, aud then we shall have the mill
lenium.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
He Took the Others.
M Yonth's Companlon.

4uE ARuLA , NeAA leAAAiNAs
A gentleman who paid the best
prices for his provisions, and who
liked to live as well as did his neigh
bors, was once deceived by the poul
terer in the age Of some poultry he
bought. Meeting the dealer a few
days afterward he walked up to his
wagon and inquired
"Got any geese to dayp
"Oh, yes" said the the poulterer,
"a fine lot."
"How many have you got2"
"a dCZan-nice ones.
The customer turned them over,
and then ne added:
NOW, you see, I've got pesky LOT
of fellows at my house, an they eat a
great deal Of poultry. Haven't you
got any tough ones2"
"Well, yes" said the dealer. pick
ing them over. there's one, two,
three, four, five Of 'em."
SIS that all the toug' ones you've
gotl'
eyes, yes; that's all, laid the seller,
separating them.
"Well, then, / reckon on the whole, u
concluded the buyer, "pll take the
other lot"
The poulterer looked thoughtful,
and, like most thoughtful people, was
silent.