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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-24
PETTIS. BASSETT & Co.
THE CONGRESSIONAL FIGHT.
Bynum's Opposition to Reelection in the Dis
trict-Secretary of State Myers's Position.

The discovery Of Congressman Bynums
scheme for securing the nomination for a re-eec-
ton, has caused quite q commotion among Dem
ton to him. The congressional aspiran!s who
have been bordering on" have leaped deliber-
ately into the arena. and the contest has al
ready become quite spirited. The friends
of Will e. English were circula-
ting the report yesterday afternoon
that he had decided to actively enter the field.
and would make an effort to secure the nomina-
ton. Secretary OF State Myers is at work
quietly and will, it is claimed, 60 into the con-
yention with the united support Of the Madison
county delegation. He was asked yesterday if
he was a candidate. I'm one sense" he replied,
al am, and in another l am not. The nomina-
tain contingencies under which would not 60
before the convention as a candidate
What do you think will be the issue in the
canvass" was asked
II know no issue OF any Importance that is
likely to come mp, except high license and
think public sentiment will force that into the
canvass. / belieya there is popular demand
now for higher license"
Twill the universal pension bill be an issue~
II doubt If it amounts to more than sort of
eplurge in politics. There seems to be general
demand for the passage of the BILL and have
met great many good soldiers who are opposed
to it, It may not be advisable to grant every
soldier pension, but il was old, and poor, and
bliad, l think would rather have pension than
GO to the poor-house. How far this Eighth dis
trict movement will extend don't know"
It seems to be pretty definitely settled that
the County Commissioners will fix a week from
next Saturday as the date for selecting delegates
TO the Democratic congressional and joint rep
ressntative convention. In this connection it Is
due Mr.. Richard 0. johnson. who is seeking the
nomination for joint representative. to state that
he emphatically denies that he entered into a
compact with Bynum to secure an early conven-
ton so that no other candidate would have fair
opportunity to enter the contest.
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No Definite Conclusion Reached.

John F. Walick returned yesterday from the
meeting at Chicago of the executive committee
Of the Central Union Telephone Company. but
was unable to give any information regarding
the course that would be pursued, as nothing
definite had been decided upon. In ed interview
with a Chicago Tribune reporter yesterday, Vice.
president Louderback said:
''rhe telephone business is in its infancy and
experimental stage and we had ordered lot of
copper wire at great expense so that our patrons
in Indiana could talk with each other all over their
State Now this improved wire and service
necessitates great outlay and higher toll in
stead of lower. There are hundreds Of towns
haying no telegraph service which yet were able
totfansact their business rapidly by our tele-
phone tystem. Of course ! cannot say what
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-24
Sanderson Acquitted.

James H. Sanderson and wife, the Weststreet
grocers arrested on the charge of selling liquor
on Sunday. were acquitted by Mayor Denny yes
terday. George Goddard. who made the affi-
6avits, said on the witness-stand that he did not
know part of the allegations that appeared there
in. He referred to the statement that he saw
Sanderson sell to certain men. Three Of these
men testified that they did not know anything,
nor could they remember having been in Sander
sons on the Sunday referred to. The police
gave the defendant and wife an excellent reputa-
ton. Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson denied that they
ever sold drop Of liquor on Sunday. 1t ap-
pears ii the prosecution was instigated through
spiteful motiyes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-24
The Republican Editors,

The annual meeting of the Indiana Republican
Editorial Association will be held in the United
States courtroom tomorrow and the next day.
The programme includes an address by the presi
dent. w. II. Elliott; a paper on 'What will be
the issues of 1886 and 1883, and what should be
the attitude of the Republican party tc
thems' by George ]. Langsdale, and
paper on What is the Natural and
Proper Relation Of the Newspaper to
Its Party" by George l. Reed. In the evening
the members of the association will be rendered
reception, and will be addressed by Hon. Rich
ard w. Thompson. The special features of Fri
days session will be an address on '"rhe Value
of Cooperation in Party and Editorial Work
by M. S. CARRIER, of the Madison Courier, and
paper on How Far Can Newspaper Afford
to be Partisanp by e. Ricketts,, Of the Columbus
Republican.
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our action will be in view Of this decision, and
have not seen Williams 6 Thompson, our at
torneys. who may not even have read the decis-
ion in the papers. do not know that an appeal
will be taken. but the corporation is organized
in State other than Indiana we can appeal to
the Supreme Court of the United States-I do
not say that we shall, mind.n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-24
Postponed Liquor Cases Decided.

Charles Goetz and Jacob Hoffman, saloon
keepers, tried some time ago in the Criminal
acquitted yesterday. Judge Norton regarded the
cases as very close, but an element of doubt ex-
listed which benefited the defendants. Goetz
was charged with selling liquor after IL o'clock.
and Hoffman with violating the liquor law by
selling on holiday.
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The South Alabama street Improvem.

The South Alabama Street Improvement.
The committee Of the council having in charge
the improvement Of Alabama street from South
TO McCarty, viii meet tonight 1t is proposed
10 extend the present ffty-fve feet to sixty,
which will be thirty feet short Of the width
north from South. An earnest remonstrance
signed by o large number of citizens who exceed
those in favor OF the project has been fled with
the committee. If the widening Is to be made,
the east side Of the street must bear all the dam
age as the west side Is In q straight line. Those
demonstrating claim that the Improvement will
cause many houses to DO moved back, and great
~ curtail tho limits Of front yards
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-24
The Eight-Hour Labor Meeting.

IH6 EIgHC-E1Our LaDOr Meettng.
The mass meeting at English's Opera-house
this evening. in the interest of eight-hour labor,
will be addressed by Ex-Governor Porter. Will
lam P. Smith, Morris Ross and Rev. O. G. Nc
Culloch. The music will be furnished by Mrs.
Grace lowering, assisted by the indianapolis
Glee Club. A large attendance is expected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-24
A Safe-Robber Sentenced.

William Ramsey, the plumber arrested some
time ago for stealing the contents of cash box
fromra safe in West Washington street saloon,
was sent to the penitentiary yesterday for two
years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-24
Ice Tools.

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THIS WEEK
AYRES
LINEN Department T.

We ask the attention Of house
keepers, hotels and restaurants to a
Special Bargain in Marseilles
Quilts at Is cents, and an extra
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IN Jute, Raw Silk and Plush Table
Covers at extremely low prices.
Towels, Table Linens, Napkins,
Doylies, Tray Cloths, Damask Sets,
etc.-all the lowest prices ever
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The Hair Grower is a hair food, and its com
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Cleveland, Columbus Cincinnati & indianapolis
RAILWAY.

CLEVELAND. o., February 10, 1886.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of this com
pany for the election of directors and for the
ton of other business will be held at tho Office of the
company, in Cleveland Ohio. on WEDNESDAY,
March 3, next, at 1880 o'clock a. m. The transfer
books will be closed from the evening Of February Is
until March A. GEO. II. RUSSELL, Secretary
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Committee will notify secretary or their place
of meeting so it can be advertised by Thursday,
Feb. %. JAMES r. CARNAHAN,
w. O. PATTERSON, Chairman.
Secretary.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. %, 1886.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-27
A Degraded Officer.

An esteemed correspondent writes:
Paymaster General Smith, U. S. N, who
has been degraded for dishonest prac-
tees, but who, had he been a civilian,
would now be in prison, is the one who
was appointed Chief of the Bureau of
Provisions and Clothing over the heads
of twenty or more of his corps, all I'M
doubtedly more competent than he was,
notably Pay Director Edw. G.. Doran,
who will be remembered as former resi-
dent of this city. He was called ''the
honest man." but unfortunately he was
a Democrat. He stood No. on the list,
but was overslaughed for Smith. The
Smith gang carried their resentment so
far as to prevent the son of Mr.. Doran
admittance to the Naval Academy; and
when that failed, efforts were made on
his behalf for an appointment to the
Military Academy. That also was frus-
trated, and the poor old man was sent to
the European squadron to remove him
from the path of this 'delectable Smith
and his friends. There the "good old
man" soon died, as he had lived, be-
loved by all honest people, but heart
broken by the ingratitude of a country
he had served faithfully for nearly half a
century. Oh! that "the good old man"
were alive now to witness the humilia-
ton of that gang
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-27
ESTABLISH SCHOLARSHIPS.

At "a meeting of the alumni Of the Cali
fornia State University, President Hol-
den delivered an address from which we
make the following extract:
There are two or three things that have
already noticed which L would bring to
your attention: First-We need more stu
dents. In a large degree the new students
must be sent to the University by the grad
yates. You, graduates, are and should be
centers of influence and through your Ell
forts the new students must largely come,
students from the Sandwich Islands and
South America.
We stand at the gateway of America to
all nations in the Pacific and to the entire
west coast of South America. Why Is 1t
that students from these countries pass -bV
scientific schools, there 10 acquire what we
can equally well give them? In many
cases the son is but returning to the col
lege of his father, as is most natural-in
many others, he passes by Berkeley with
no knowledge that the facilities he requires
these students should be at least informed
of our very unusual advantages.
These remarks suggest the thought
that some of our rich men might estab-
fish claim to perpetual gratitude by
establishing Hawaiian scholarships at
the Berkeley University, and thus iden-
tify these Islands still more closely with
the educational institutions on the Coast
We hope this matter may not be passed
without thought and action by the influ
entail and pretty numerous class of oul
population to whom it is suggested.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-27

ABOUT DISTRIBUTION AND PRODUCTION.


Steam transportation and increased ia
cilities for distribution have revolutioned
productive industries and changed the
conditions of living within the past
twenty-five years. If there be famine
anywhere possible in the world it is in
countries where internal transportation
has been neglected, because the surplus
products of the world is at all times more
than sufficient to compensate for partial
shortage of crops in few places. Steam
and the electric telegraph have done
more to ameliorate the conditions Of
existence, and to benefit men and ami
mails alike, than all other agencies in the
universe combined.
The other day we spoke OF white bait
caught in New Zealand rivers, being
shipped over L, 900 miles by steam and
landed fresh at the London docks. Dairy
products, fruit, ETC., are similarly shipped
from the producing countries to the con-
Stunning centers. Twenty years ago
scarcely any foreign butter was con-
sumed in England; now not one-hun-
dredth part of the butter eaten in Lon
don is to be reckoned as home produce.
Great Britain annually buys $4,000, 600
$3.50, O0O, OOO) worth of butter from the
foreign market.
It follows from a careful consideration
of these points that the value of land is
becoming rapidly equalized all over the
world, and that the system of tenant
farming heretofore in vogue must break
down as consequence of the entire
change of the conditions upon which it
was founded. In the British Isles land
tenure is undergoing a rapid transforms
ton; the ultimate result will probably
be that great landed estates will be cut
mp and apportioned by sale or otherwise
among the bona fide cultvators of the
soil. These facts should not be lost
upon the inhabitants of the Hawaiian
Islands who are here to stay. Small
freeholds viii be the making OF the coun-
try. Leaseholds and crack rents" which
are now pretty much the rule, inure to
the benefit of a few and seriously retard
the progress of the country. We write
in the interest of the community al
large, and with view to the ultimate
good of the country, and not with refer.
enee to any special cases. Instead of the
natives being gradually bought Oh
squeezed out of their kuleanas they
should be encouraged to retain and cult
vate them, and small freeholds should
likewise be procurable by immigrants
and others upon reasonable terms o.
payment. In this way the country would
gradually fill up with producing classes
the range of our exports would increase
trade improve, and everybody participate
in the general prosperity.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-27
Roads I'm Kona DIstrIct-News Points.

Roads I'm KOna DIstrIct-News Points
Complaints are constantly made of
the spread of lantana, or "Paris weed, I"
in the Kona district, Hawaii, and IN
truth it is spreading all over the Island
and on Oahu also to such degree as to
very seriously affect the value OF prop
erty. This pestilent weed must be re-
moved in some way. The Government
should certainly open the public roads
which have been overgrown by 1t, but
the roads cannot be kept open without
heavy and continuous expenditure un-
less the owners of land contiguous to
them are compelled TO eradicate the
weed. This raises a very serious ques-
ton of taxation and local government,
and should be very carefully considered.
A correspondent, writing from Kona,
February ODD, remarks facetiously of the
Road Supervisor:
"Moses of Kona has delivered us out
of the lantana that lad Overgrown the
roads here to such an extent that though
not the Red Sea it was a sea of red. The
roads have been much improved of late,
and we understand that some of those
in North Kona are to be made so that
they can with some truth be called
roads, whereas now in some parts they
are only trails.
eve have T.ot had any rain for some
months, so that the cattle are suffering
and many have died. The natives have
to use salt water, or go far up the noun
tains to get little.
"The Portuguese are coming into
Kona very fast, so that it will soon be 9
colony of Portuguese"
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country, and this brings us to the point
OF comparison with these Islands. 1t is
not so much the exhaustion of soil as it
is the enormous rents that are charged
for rice lands in this country which
limits production and lessons profits.
This is point worth thinking about. OF
course every one has a right to secure
the best returns he can for his property,
but even that principle may be pushed
to the breaking-down point, as is the
case in the British Isles. 1t is not wise
policy to confscate the bulk Of the profits
of labor and industry in the name OF
rent, and should California become a
rice producing State this truth will be
brought home to all concerned here.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-27

A GREAT and probably a disastrous
strike has been averted at Fall River by
the Board of Trade Committee voting a
10 per cent increase on wages of mill OPP
eratives from March 1st The crisis was
close, as the Secretary of the Spin
ners' Union had issued call for gen
eral meeting to vote strike. The action
of the employers caused rejoicing
throughout the town, because during
strikes, whatever may be their merit,
women and children are great sufferers.
1t is generally anticipated that the man.
ufacturers of Lowell, Lawrence, New
Bedford and other places will also con-
cede 10 per cent advance in wages.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-27

THE Postmaster General OF Hongkong
is evidently a thoroughly practical man,
who understands his business, does not
speak in enthusiastic terms of the wis
dom of the delegates who constituted the
International Postal Conference at Lis
bon last year. But he appears to be
gratifed by the accession to the Inter
national Postal Union of Siam (not that
he says SOY despite the signature of the
royal prince who occupies the position OF
Postmaster General in that country. He
says: "Siam has entered the Postal
Union, and a properly organized Post
Office has been opened at Bangkok,
under the direction of III. r. H. Somdet
Phra Chow Nong va Tho Chow Fa
Bhanurangse Swangwongse Krom HUI
ang Observation-Disclosures Woradei, Min
lister of Posts and Telegraphs." We
hail the accession of Siam also to the
Postal Union; but for the sake of our
friend Postmaster General Whitney, and
his peace of mind, we trust his official
correspondence with III. r. H. the Min
lister of Posts and Telegraphs for that
Kingdom may be exceedingly limited.
One may have too much even of a good
thing, and we fancy II. r. H. must be
rather embarrassed when signing his
name ia full to public documents.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-27
RICE CULTIVATION.

The San Francisco Bulletin" had an
article on rice culture in recent issue,
in which it was suggested that rice might
be proftably grown on the overlooked
land in the Sacramento and San Joaquin
valleys. This comprises a vast area,
and as our contemporary truthfully says,
it contains probably more land suitable
for rice growing than is cultivated under
that crop in all the South Atlantic and
Gulf States. The article is instructive
and well calculated to create an interest
in the subject in California. 1t says:
The cultivation of rice, beyond that of
the first months work, consists simply in
regulating the flow of water, while harvest
ing can be done at about the same cost as
wheat, barley, etc. An inferior quality of
bags can be used for transportation OF the
paddy or rough rice TO mill while the cost
of cleaning and sacking will not be much
more than that of making flour.
The rice-grower has not only the adyan-
taee of a local market, but Is also pro-
tected by customs duty of one and half
cents per pound on paddy and two and
half cents per pound on cleaned rice. One
hundred pounds of small grain paddy nets
about sixty-ive pounds cleaned rice, While
the Iong-grained rice gives less loss in
weight.
IN the Hawaiian Islands the first crops
of rice on former tarO fields ranged from
four to six thousand pounds per acre. Con-
slant cropping without fertilizing the lands,
has somewhat lessened the yield, but the
results are still profitable to the grower.
The water of California rivers contains
considerable sediment, which being de-
posted in the paddy fields, will keep up
the standard of productiveness indefinitely,
which is not the case in the Hawaiian
Islands.
There are undoubted advantages in
favor of California as a rice producing
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-27

LAST January the export of California
wines to this Kingdom from San Fran
cisco was valued at s., 2O5. I f whole
some light wine were introduced and
sold at low or reasonable figure instead
of at twenty-five cents glass, it would
be very much better for the community
at large. The consumption of cheap and
poisonous spirits is large, and if whole
some California wine could be substi-
tuted for it the health and morals of the
native people would be very decidedly
improved We are pleased to note an
increased importation of California vim
taoeS
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