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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-09
Admiral Jouett objects.

WASHINGTON, Sept s. -Admiral Jouett has
written letter to the Second Comptroller pro-
testing against the dsallowance of $400 in his
accounts for acknowledgements, incurred in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-09
Warren County Shows Up.

WILLIAMsPoRT, Ind, Sept. 8.-John B. Claw
son, trustee of Warren township, Warren coun-
ty. is reported as having issued fraudulent war
rants to the amount of $40, 900. He Is missing.
The county commissioners have cited all the
township trustees to appear and make showing
of their transactions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-09
A Missouri County Treasury Robbed.

ST. LOUIS Sept. 8.--Advices from Camden
county in this State, are TO the effect that the
safe in the county treasurers office, in the town
of Lynn Creek. was blown open by burglars last
Saturday night. and robbed of 81, 900 in money
Several stores were also robbed by the same
gang none of whom have yet been arrested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-09

as those of Horace L. Baker well-known rail
road contractor, whose mysterious disappearance
two months ago created considerable excitement
and speculation Baker was well-known in
railroad circles, and formerly lived at Terre
Haute
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-09
The Court of Alabama Claims.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-First Comptroller
Durham to-day gave hearing to Judge Wilson
and other lawyers interested in cases pending
before the Court of Commissioners of Alabama
Claims who asked reconsideration of his &C.
ton disaowing the expense accounts of the
court. They contended that the enforcement of
the ruling will seriously embarrass the business
OF the court and prevent a settlement of a large
number of important cases. They also contend
ed that there could be no illegality in the en-
ployment of the present legal and clerical ssist
ants, inasmuch as the accounts of the court for
such expenses have been approved by former
comptrollers. and sanctioned by Congress,
which extended the time of the court, with q
full knowledge Of it's composition and manner of
dong business. The Comptroller reserved his
decision.
The statement of Judge Harlan. presiding
justice of the Court of Commissioners of Ala
bama claims, with regard to the alleged illegal
expenditures of the court was re-
ceived at the State Department to-day
Secretary Bayard declines to give it out for pub
cation at present. The statement is made in
answer to letter of Secretary Bayard to
Judge Harlan giving the Secretary's views
regarding the authority of the court. 1t Is
very long document, and is understood to con-
tain an elaborate argument in support of the
assertion that the court is legally organized and
that there can be no reflection, in law
or fact, upon its authority organized. 1t
justifes the court for all the expenditures which
have been made, and asserts that 1t has used
every legitimate means in its power to accom-
plish the work imposed upon it within the time
prescribed by law.
Ninety Per Cent ofthe Clerks Are Democrats.
Washington Special.
A number of prominent officials were assem-
bled at the residence of member of the Cabinet
not long SINCE when the subject of civil service
was brought up, and each gave his views on the
merits of the reform, how the law worked, and
what benefit it had been to the several depart
ments of the government. The Cabinet officer
whose guests they were said that the classified
service had not been touched in his department.
Nor in mine" said one of his Cabinet col
leagues: why. sir, have been spending nights
in my office looking over the records of the cler-
ical force under me, and find that 80 per cent.
of the clerks Democrats Yes. sir, Demo
Gratis and have always been so; that is, Judging
from letters on file. ] don't think / could
threaten to turn out for cause without hav-
ing Democratic senator Democrat con-
gressman-elect at my Office next day to protest
against such cruel treatment to a highly-re-
spected constituent or friend. If they did not
come in person they would telegraph write to
me. speak from experience"
The other officials laughed heartily at the re-
mark, and declared that the law which protected
so many Democrats in Office ought.to be rigidly
enforced.
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DIED..

EVANS.-At his residence, corner of Lockerbie
and Liberty streets. at 2:3O o'clock this morning,
Rev. Thomas Evans pastor of the United Brethren
Church.
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Death of Claude G.. DeBrp,er.

Special to INDIANAPOLIS journal.
EVANSVILLE, Sept 8.-Claude G. DeBruler,
one of the bestknown journalists in Indiana,
died at 7:40 tonight, at the residence of his
mother on Second street Mr.. DeBruler began
his newspaper career on the Cincinnati Chron-
icle il 1872. and subsequently went to Salt Lake
correspondent for two years. Subsequently
he returned to this city and bought an interest
in the Evansville Journal. In August, 1884, he
severed his connection with this paper, and be-
came city editor of the Courier. Four weeks
ago he was taken i'll with typhoid fever, and
gradually sank, despite the skill of physicians.
lie was universally liked. and his death creates
feeling of sorrow in the city. He was thirty
dren
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-09
Attempt to Burglarize a Greentield Banl

Special to the Indianaooiis journal.
GREENFIELD, Sept. San unsuccessful at
tempt was made early this morning to rob the
safe of the Greenfield Banking Company. The
knob and dial of the combination lock were con-
siderably battered, but the efforts to open the
safe were defeated. Finding that they could
not open the safe, they wrote in large letters on
the counter Good bye; hard luck" and left
They then broke glass in the front door of
Hart Thayers dry goods store. adjoining the
bank, but beyond the loose change and a few
articles of wearing apparel, took nothing There
is no clew, but they were evidently mex
perenced hands.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-14
Good Suggestions,

Superintendent Moulder, of tire San
Francisco School Department, has Issued
circular TO the teachers, suggesting that
the annular eclipse of the sun, which Is to
take place next Monday, may be made, in
diligently handled, occasion of striking
interest and profit to pupils, and leave an
impression that will last through life. His
remarks apply equally well to instructors
in all portions of the State, and we give
circulation to aportion of them: AS the
time of greatest observation will be about
S:45 A. N. by your school clocks, when most
of the pupils have assembled in the yards,
they may avail themselves of the opportu-
nifty, before the opening of school, TO ex-
anime the eclipse, under the guidance and
instruction of yourselves and assistants,
through smoked glass. l would recon-
mend that Principals and such of their
class teachers as they may designate, ex-
plain, and illustrate their explanations by
diagrams on the blackboard, the leading
causes of eciipses. Much interesting col
lateral information may thus be impaired.
The principal elements that enter into
an exact calculation OF an eclipse
may be explained, such as; The
distance of the sun and of the moon
from IUG edTlH tlc VI tuG
earth's orbit (599, 1874 900 miles) and its
mean velocity per hour t65, AGO miles,; the
diameter of the sun (S50, 100 miles,, of the
moon (2,1S2 miles), and of the earth lin
round numbers, 5000 miles,; the moons
modes, etc. Explain why some eclipses of
the sun are annular, others total, and
others partial and why an eclipse like
that of the 10th of March is annular to the
inhabitants of narrow belt on the earths
surface, partial in other parts, and invisible
in many others. | have found that
children who comprehend the fact that an
eclipse of the sun is caused by the interpo-
sition of the solid body of the moon be-
tween the sun and the earth, and that this
eclipse can only take place at the time of
new moon, are frequently at loss to I'M
derstand why such an eclipse does not
occur at every new moon. This will fur
nish an opportunity to explain the inclina-
ton of the plane of the moons orbit to
that of the earth's, and the nature of the
moons modes. Show how the magnitude
of the eclipse in any given place depends
upon the latitude of the place, and that its
visibility depends upon the longitude"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-14
AMUSING LAUNDERING.

In the name of sanity what has seized
upon our contemporary, the Morning Re
public, of San Jose. On the 18th it said,
after a long and very correct and philo-
sophical prelude;
And now. whether considered as a question of
policy looking TO the building up of our State
with people that may be lsw-abiding and de-
sirable in every way, or whether we regard it
from a moral standpoint, the legislative bill IL
censing gambling In Sacramento. or anywhere
Is perfectly, in every respect, utterly and per
fectly dsmnable: that is II is perfect IN all those
characteristics that would condemn 1t in the
eyes of every man who Is not fool, and of ev-
cry man who Is not knave Words fail us
when thinking on this subject. The bill and the
policy suggesting 1t and the mind suggesting the
policy are all rs unspeakably infamous as the
measure that in form r years licensed houses of
ill-fame In st. Louis and other Mississippi towns
such houses as are frequented by gamblers
and always patronized by them. We have been
able to account for the eccentricities of Our Leg
islaturc to this date, but now we give 1t up and
pronounce Its action on the gambling bill most
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-14
NEWS OF THE MoRNINe

in New York yesterday Government bond
ere quoted at I22}s for Is of 1907; 1ll}l for 41S
sterling, 81 si@4 81; 1011S foT IS; silver bars
1922.
Silver in London, 49d; ccnsols g7Esd; 3 pc
cent. United States bonds extended, lao; Is
125sss; as. 11as<
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quote'
at 849Sl11S cents.
Yesterday was another very quiet day at tn
San Francisco stock boards. The market, how
ever, adhered very well TO previous prices
Franco has become convinced of the nccessi
" of 4 march upon Pekin.
It ia reported IN Korti that Fl Mahdl h&
evacuated Netcmneh.
James Stephens and other FeniGn ssjtutor
were yesterday expelled from France.
A British steamer has been searched by
French nan-of-war in Chinese waters.
Memorial services In honor Of General Cor
don were held yesterday in several English
CathcdralS.
Gladstone says an Gmicab'e agreement Ia
been arrived at between Russia and England.
The New york independents and Democrat!
arc already at loggerheads over the fedora
Offices
4 letter written by General Gordon lust befoTt
his death discloses the utmost antipathy to tbs
Gladstone government.
Joseph John jenkins, the well known Eugllsl
painter in water colors, Is dead
The death Is announced from London OF 81
Curtis Miranda LaInpson.
President Cleveland has Issued proclalna
ton, warming the Oklahoma boomers" thu
the laws of the United States must be obeyed.
Sir Peter Lumsden is encamped on Persian
territory. near Herat.
The spring meeting at MERGED of the Pacific
Coast Coursing Club closed yesterday.
The Hotel de Redwood. on the South Pacific
Coast Railroad in Eanta Cruz county, was de
stroyed by fire Thursday night,
The Ascending cx-Mayor of Adrian Mich.
recently captured in Washington Territory, ar
rived at his old home yesterday, In the custody
Of officers,
The United States Senate adjourned yesterday
until Monday.
Two hundred and twelve business failures DC
Cured in the United States the past week.
Since March 4th. $4,000 trade dollars have
been returned to the Philadelphia Mint.
The funeral of the late S. L. Wilson. at Marys-
vile yesterday, was one of the largest which
ever took place in that city.
The Governor OF Dakota yesterday vetoed the
woman suffrage bin.
a serious railroad accident occurred yesteE-
day on the Sunset route at Sierra Blanca, Tex.
The Arizona Legislature adjourned sine die at
Prescott yesterday.
President Cleveland yesterday received the
members of the Diplomatic Corps and ladies Of
their families.
strike CT locomotive engineers is in progress
On the East Tennessee, Virginia anc Georgia
Railroad
The Khan of Bcloochistan has offered Eng
land the services Of his army in case of war
with Russia.
six Italian torpedo boats have been ordered TO
The Red Sea
A Shanghai dispatch announces tina: the
French are bombarding Chnhae.
At Vernon, Tex, yesterday, twenty-five citi-
aens were arrested on charges of murder.
Joseph II. Taylor Assistant Adjutant General
Of the Department of Platte, died In Omaha last
hight
General Prospero Fernandez. President of
Costa Rca, died suddenly at 6aa jose ycster
day,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-14
WHO Is REsPoEsIBLE}

The question is still being debated: :
. Who was responsible for the failure Of
she irrigation measures in the Senate p
We have been exceedingly solicitors that
a wise and Just irrigation system should
DO set up. We have urged concessions and
compromises, that some practical results
might be attained We regret profoundly
that the whole subiect-matter has been
postponed. It viii profit nothing to irTiga-
ton interests 10 evolve the truth as 10 the
responsibility for failure. But it will profit
thc truth to examine the record and will
result il preventing public misapprehen-
sion and sdefeat the ends Of demagogUe
and political cuttle-fsh are now
seeking TO darken the waters to conceal
their dismal failures. The friends of irri-
CATION, who had held two Conventions
prior to the meeting Of the Legislature
sent before that body a representative
committee 10 present bills for the estab-
Gshmcnt OF an irrigation system. Those
bills were not presented at the opening of
the session, as they certainly should have
been. They were difficult to prepare the
committee had before it grave problem,
but it cannot he denied that 1t was not
diligent in securing front place for its
measures, which might have been done
even while the work OF preparation and
pcrfecting went on. The fact remains that
the bills were held back until the files
were well loaded up in both houses. The
chief fight centered about Assembly Bill
No. 4l0. Let it be asked persistently by
the friends Of irrigation why this was not
Assembly Bill No. l. In the Senate
the leading irrigation bill was No. 210 and
identical with Assembly Bill No. 4l0.
Why was not this Ne. !? Senator
Filcher pushed water-rate regulative and
quasi-irrigation bill before that body which
became law, though severely criticised, and
its number was %. There are not wanting
.hoSe who charge that these irrigation
measures were purposefully held back, in
order 10 create capital for a factious politi-
cal clique that has manifested the inten-
tion TO dominate the Democratic party and
ride railroad hobby to death. Senate
Bill No 30 was not introduced until
February and not referred until February
9th February 9th the Committee on Irri-
CATION reported back the irrigation bills,
with advice that they be referred
to the Committee of the Whole.
At this, the Chairman of the committee,
Senator Taylor, gave notice that on the
following day he would move to amend
the Senate standing rules, so as to create a
new rule, providing for the Committee of
the Whole to consider the irrigation bills
from $50 to P. NJ. on each Legislative day.
When this came up Messrs. Mcclure and
Whitney warned the Senate that if the
Consnittee of the Whole sat as was asked,
the bills, on being reported back, would
go to the foot of the file, and in all prob
ability could not be reached that session.
Nevertheless, tho "friends" Of the bills
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-14
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,

George W. Hancock returned yesterday
from Wheatland.
DR.. II. w. Hardness came up from san
Francisco yesterday noon.
Creed Raymond expects to leave this
afternoon for Paraiso Springs.
Hon. William Cutter OF Marysville LEFT
for that city yesterday afternoon,
Mr. and Mrs. J. NJ. Haight left last even
Ing for Stockton, to spend week.
Thomas Dougall of Marysville, returned
homo yesterday from Los Angeles.
DR. Parington, of Vallejo. returned there
yesterday from his ranch near Lincoln.
Ex-Sheriff Sprague, of Chico, returned tc
that place yesterday from San Francisco.
D. NJ Gloster, of Loyalton, was in town
yesterday, but left for home last evening.
State Prison Director Hendricks came
down from Oroville yesterday, on his way
TO the Bay.
Mrs. J. J. Keegan and Miss Lizzie Ber-
nard went down to San Francisco yester-
day afternoon.
Hon T. A Roseberry, Assemblyman
from Lassen and Modoc counties, is visit
ing in Woodland.
Angus T. Ross, of San Francisco, and
Emma Roher, of this city. were married in
San Francisco on the 18th, by Rev. DR..
Beers.
Mrs. c. Mason Kline, of San Francisco,
who came to sacramento to organize the
Woman's Relief Corps, returned home yes
terday.
Rev. c. 8. Haswell and wife, OF Red Bluff,
who have been spending a few days in
Sacramento and San Francisco, went home
yesterday.
T. E. ]. Riley, formerly of this city,
where he has many friends and ac9uaint-
ances, but latterly living in San Francisco,
is reported to be seriously i'll.
General T. J. Clunie, w. A. January,
State Librarian Wallis, VIM. Higgins, SEN
ator Wallis and John H. Carroll went to the
Bay by yesterday afternoons train.
In the city Yesterday: s.. s. Boynton, of
the Oroville Register George B. Harden, j.
D. Adams and E. Houx, of Maxwell; ex-
Sheriff A Kirby, of Solano county J. C.
Stovall, Williams; Joseph Adams, Colusa.
Mrs. W. C.~Anderson, of FL Dorado coun
tv, who has been employed as copying clerk
in the Legislature, went to San Francisco
Yesterday, where she will spend few days
visiting friends before returning to her
mountain home.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yes
terday: w. A. Johnston, Richland; E. B.
Vosburg agent Gaiety Company; r. s.
Alexander, Johnny Williams, A. B.
Thompson, David Mcclure, S. G. Murphy,
Mrs. +. C. Nugent, r. B. Chisholm and
wife, Mrs. Ariel Lathrop, William Harvey,
Martin Frank. Mrs. II. Wagner, San Fran
CISCO s. w Bugbee and wife. Oakland;
Mrs. J. B. Ritter. Michigan Bar: Miss Kate
Castleton, H. P. Phillips and wife, Miss
Ada Frillman, Oakland; s. P. Stephens,
Woodland; D. s. Terry, Stockton; W. D.
V. Miller, Cincinnati; w. II. Stacey, Chi
cago.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-14

uuhallowed, unaccourtable, and defrnible
only on the ground that tho whole legislative
bdy was drunk.
If any one has been ona drunk, the fore
going article would justify the conclusion
that it was the editor of the Republic.
How any writer on a daily paper could
make such blunder passes comprelen-
sion, if the theory of sobriety is adhered
to. No such bill as the Rop'bIic describes
was introduced in the Legislature. But a
Sacramento Representative introduced, and
both houses passed and the Governor
signed, bill to punish any municipal Off
Ger who should attempt to throw the seem
ing Of authority about the gaming houses
in the form Of license or otherwise. The
| Republic got things very badly mixed. and
it should be 10 it lesson to know some
thing Of every topic upon which it pro
poses to treat-and above all, It should be
certain Of its facts.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-14

TIE Detroit Times. daily of much
prominence in Michigan, published its
Washington Birthday edition in blue, and
with all the matter rhymed, from editorial
to commercial report, and from market
quotations to local and Geographic news.
1t was novel enterprise-but silly one,
meaningless, iaughable, and evidently
death-dealing for few days thereafter the
Times suspended publication. 1t is not
surprising, for machine poetry viii sap the
vitals of the most vigorous life.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-14

DIPHTHERIA AT CROCKETT. = CORE
spondent writes from Crockett, located be-
low Benicia, to correct dispatch as to the
extent of diphtheria disease existing at
that place He says the report greatly ex-
aggerates the facts, as there have not been
to exceed a dozen or fifteen cases instead of
thirty as stated. He claims that Crockett
is one of the healthiest of places. and that
the disease did not originate there from
impurity of water or other causes. but was,
he things, imported from Oakland.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-14

ComMuTATIoNs.-Gover SLOVENIAN has
committed the sentence of Thomas Cove
sentenced in August, 1850, in San Fran
cisco. to fifteen years-to ten years. This
was done on recommendation of the Board
of Prison Directors, on account of his preyi-
GUS good character and doubts as TO his
guilt The sentence of Henry Pearce, con-
victed in Mariposa county in October, 1875,
of murder in the second degree, and SEN
fenced to twenty years Imprisonment, WAS
committed to fifteen years. This is virtu-
ally pardon, as under its provisions
Pearces term will expire to-day.