The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-14
MINOR MATTERS.

The President Sends I'm q Few Nominations,
and the Senate Confirms a List of Officials.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The President to-day
sent the following nominations to the Senate:
Postmasters-Samuel Fl. WAGNER, San Jose,
Cali William E. Baker, at Fairbury, ILL.,; Chas.
III. Brown, Sterling, Kan; Marshall Birdsall, at
Emporia. Kan; B. P. Gavin, at Corning la.
The Senate to-day confirmed the following
nominations
John A. McClernand, to be member of the
Board of Registration and Election in Utah.
Robert Town, of the Indian Territory, agent
of the Union agency. Indian Territory.
NJ. T. Chermack, of Dakota, Secretary of Da-
kota.
NJ G. Barney, of Washington, to be register at
Spokane Falls w. T..
F. J. Park, of West Virginia. principal clerk
of public lands in the General Land Office.
NJ D. Baldwin, of Ohio, agent of the Black
feet agency, Montana
Postmasters-H: D. Davis. Hyde Park, Ill;
F. w. Vesburg, North Vernon, Ind; w. H.
Raymond. Gallon, O.; A. " Mackerby. Green
field, O.; F. j. Klein Bryan, O.; j. M. Heug-
stetter, Defiance, o.; W. E. Tonvelie, Celina, 0.
Proposed Relief for Volunteer Officers.
WASHINGTON, April 13-The House commit
tee on military affairs to day agreed to favor
able report upon the bill of Representative
Laird for the relief of certain officers of the vol
unteer army. 1t provides that all soldiers of
the late war of the Rebellion who, having re-
enlisted as veteran volunteers aud received COM
missions as officers in the army, shall be paid all
installments of veteran bounty, with interest,
which were withheld from them, respectively, on
being so commissioned and mustered; provided
that all soldiers of the late war who were dis
charged to receive promotion shall be entitled to
receive the same bounty, with interest, that
they would have been entitled to had they
served as enlisted men for the full term of their
enlistment; provided, further that all voun ntcer
soldiers or sailors of the late war who were hon.
| orably discharged on account of disease con-
tracted in the line OF duty shall receive the same
| bounty that they would have been entitled to
Chaplain Milburn's Prayer for Temperance.
| Washington Special.
"Oh, God" prayed the Chaplain this morning,
| ANSWER, we beseech Thee, the supplications of
millions of hearts ascending to Thee for the
speedy close of that greatest evil of modern So
| ciety-drunkennes Linked with almost every
| vice and crime in loathsome compact with
| gaming houses and brothels it burdens the
criminal dockets of courts of justice, throngs the
| poor houses, ad-houses, jalls end gibbets;
| drives men to despair through the snake
wreathed portals of delirium tremens, unbars
the postern of life that they may sink into the
cowardly grave Of suicide. Beginning most
often in an alluring taste IN the jocund bond of
| good fellowship, it becomes an appetite and
| master passion which destroys the body, dark
ems the intellect. blinds tho moral sense, dead
| ems the SOUL drives God out Of mems spirit.
and, paralyzing the will, binds men and women
| hand and foot and casts them into hell, leaving
| an entail of despair and wretchedness to their
| children