The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-11

South. He says that ten blacks are in his state salts.
~factorily ministering to congregations of their own
color, and he wonld not like to see any other system
tried.
The City OF Mexico has FIVE railroads, a splendid
s~treet-car system, telegraph wires to all the world. d
telephone service with 700 subscribers, six daily news
papers, electric lights, and the best lighthouses in
America.
MISS FoRTEscUE copied her famous sensible letter
to Lord Gornoyle, written when she was engaged.
from a Perfect L~etterwriter. I" where Il is called
From a Young Woman to her Afianced Husband on
Receipt of a Valuable Present."
AN Arizona paper of recent date contains the fol.
lowing personal paragraph: Larry Chugwhistle, the
popular and gentlemanly baker, of Sun Up Cornerss
departed for the great majority yesterday. We truse
ne has gone to the land where baking is unknown"
DIR. BURNETT of Washington, protests against be<
ing distinguished as the husband of somebody'-to-
wit, Frances Fodsson Burnett, since he is a good
dentist, with an equally good business, and is an ex.
pert in ~etchings, of which he has collected a houseful.
do LEWIS declares that a journey through Iowa
has convinced him of the failure of the prohibitory
liquor law in that State. He found no difficulty
in getting into bar-roons, and there seemed tc be
no less drunkenness than in other parts of tho
country.
PROF. HERMANN GR1MM's "Lifs of Raphael is adj
vancing toward completion. It is undergoing trans.
lation from the manuscript at the hands of Miss
Adams, an American lady now in Berlin, TO whom
English readers owe an excellent translation of .'Ths
Life and Times of Goethe, y by the same author.
JUDGE DENNY, of Oregon, is introducing gafna
birds from China into that country, and recently rs-
ceived a lot of ninety pheasants, comprising the got
den, silver, copper, green, trograpan and ring-neck
varieties. Some previous importations of the same
birds are doing well and increasing rapidly In various
sections of the State.
Whitley COURT, and the great Worcestershire
property of Lord Dudley, where the Prince and
Princess of Wales have lately been on a visit, was
bought from Lord Foley for nearly 81, 900. 900 foF
Lord Dudley during his minority. There have beeH
years in which Lord Dudley's income has exceeded
$4,e00,OO0-from coal, iron aud lead together.
THE books printed in the South during the war ara
now IN demand among collectors. One of these was q
spelling book printed on common wallpaper.
Another, more ambitious. was illustrated with the
old trade cuts found in newspaper Offices, producing
a comical effect. Upon the title page is the legends
Printed in the fourth year of the war Of independ-
ence.'
ExIGov. ABNER CoBURN, of Maine, whose death al
the age of e~ighty-one years and ten months has jusN
been announced, was a poor farmers boy, and by hig
own efforts and a~stuteness accumulated a fortune o.
$4,000, 600 or $1,000, 900. He was never married.
He was the last of eight brothers, no one of whoa
left a male heir, the last of them, Stephens son, hay-
ing been drowned with his father a few years ago.
A LETTER received from Denver indicates thak
Ex-Governor Routt is looming up as the principal op-
ponent of Senator Hill in the contest for the Colorado
senatorship, while ex-senator Chaffee and Secretary
Teller have each some backing, with General HammeL
Congressman Bedford and ex-senator Tabor as dark
horses. Senator Hills following is larger than was
expected, and his fight for reelection promises to be-
a stubborn one. Hill was a poverty stricken, small
salaried Eastern college professor when he went out to-
Colorado on a prospecting-tour and struck it rich.e
His wealth is estimated at $4,000, 900 to $l2,-
900, 900.
THE one absorbing passion of the Marquis of Sails.
bury-or rather of his brilliant wife, the daughter Of
the late eminent Judge. Baron Anderson, vino directs
him-is to stand in history as First Minister of Eng
land, be it for ever so short a time. Some years since
when Cook was editor of the Saturday Review, Ma
Louis j. jennings. ex-editor of the New York Times,
calling on him a4 4s chambers in the Albany, mea
coming out a lady IN deep mourning and weeping Bit
terly. do you know who that wasp asked Cook.
That is the wife of the new Marquis of Salisbury, and
she is weeping because she says Bob's chance of being
Premier is broken by his being lifted to the House oe
Lords.'
DIR. GUERNSEY, in an article on faith cure, in the
Medical Times, cites a case in which will power APP
pears to have successfully supplied the place of faith
Among the parishioners of the Rev. DR.. Taylor. oe
New Haven, wa an invalid lady, who finally took to
her bed, where she continued to receive her pastors
visits. One bitter cold night she sent for him TO CON.
sole her dying moments, and declared herself ready to
depart in peace. eff it is His will, she said, that
shall go to hell, I can still say. Thy will be done.'"
The physician who was present became a little impa-
tent. well, !" said he, 'if that is Gods will, and
both you aud your family are reconciled to it, 1 do NOT
know that I ought to object In a moment the wo-
man was on her feet shouting, II won't die, and Z
won't go to helll'' She afterward enjoyed comfortable
health for years.
AN Englishman residing in Paris has appealed To
the law to support his claim for 20, 600 francs dam.
ages for the loss of his hair. The gentleman, whose
head is at the present moment described as perfectly
bald, went to a hairdresser's establishment sems
months ago to have his hair cut. A few DAYS after.
ward he became conscious of an unpleasant irritation
about the roots of his hair, which increased. and
caused him so much annoyance that he consulted a
doctor. The latter, after a careful examination, told
his client that ne had unquestionably caught a peculiar
disease of a contagious nature, which circumstances
appeared to indicate had been communicated by the
brushes or comb used by the hairdresser. Frictions
and powerful remedies were employed, but to no ef.
feet. The hair gradually fell off, and at the expiration
of a couple of months after that unfortunate visit to
the coiffeur's the patients head was perfectly bald.
NINE O'CLOCK BREAKFAST.