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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-20
MASONIC MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETY.
Its Seventeenth Annual Meeting Yesterday
The Reports of the Officers.

The Masonic Mutual Benefit Society held its
seventeenth annual meeting yesterday after
noon at Masonic Hall. In his annual address
the president, Austin Ell. Brown, said that there
had been an improvement over the previous
year in the financial management Of the funds.
A reduction Of So, 241.44 had been made in ex
penses, and the outstanding liabili
ties and benefit claims amounting ia
to $1,000, were lower than for several years.
The mortality of the society in 1882 was AZ; in
1883, rs; in 1885, ILL., and in 1856, SO, the present
rate to the 1000 members being TO- 90 per cent.
The number of members in 1882 was A. sos; in
1883, 9.013 in 1884 1000; in 1885, 1O.31S and
in 1886, 1881. The decline il membership was
attributed to the abandonment of the sys
tenn Of soliciting members through tray
cling agents and TO the stringency
Of the times The saving OF
commissions had enabled the society to in
crease the surplus fund. President Brown sug.
gested that it might be advisable to provide some
method by which small sum could be collected,
as annual dues to be used in part for the pur-
pose of keeping up the membership by obtain
ing new applications through the efforts of act
i've agents in the field. The margin between the
paid benefciaries is not sufficient to pay neces-
sary current expenses. He congratulated the
society on its success
The report of the secretary, George H West,
showed 3, $40 members IN the first division and
g. III in the second. The cost 70 each member
the last year was SIS OF per 81, 600. The assets
of the society are $85 go 60 and the liabilities
$35, sos so in the first division The assets of the
second division are $685. GIL IA and the liabilities
$40, 8406 60. The amount paid IL benefits to the
widows, orphans and dependents of deceased
Masons to July 81, 1885, WAS So, TAI, 1877 &c. dur
ing the past year in the first division 1886 287. So
second division, $72, 562 so; total $25S $50 max
ing the total amount paid to July 81, 1856, SO,
600, 587 96. OF this amount 1925, 900 was paid out
of the surplus fund.
William III. Smythe, the treasurer reported a
balance in the treasury at the close of the fiscal
year of Sc, 1868. IL The receipts amounted to
$308 456 A and the disbursements $500, 092. 70.
The balance year ago was $12.S1871.
Henry K Lancaster, of Lafayette, Webster r.
Rchey, of Muucis, and James W. Hess of this
city, elected directors of the society for the
ensuing year. Bellamy S. Sutton. j. r. Bennett
and Charles Lauer were chosen members of the
auditing committee.
The directors elected as officers of the society
for the next year the following named persons:
President, Austin H. Brown; vice president, r.
s. Robertson; secretary, George H. West; treas
urer, Frederick Bags; attorney, Stanton j.
Peelle; medical director. DR. George w. Combs;
general agent, r. S. Heiskell; book keeper.
George t. Moore; financial committee, Austin
III. Brown, Martin H. Rice and A. j. Hay.
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buy. The Howe is without question the most
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PRICES IN PLAIN FIGURES.
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FuRsITuaE At YIN. l. Elders
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Marion County Republican Ticket.
FOB CLERK,
THADDEUS S. ROLLINS.
FOR SHERIFF
RICHARD s. Golfer
FOR TREASURER
HEZEkIAH SMART.
FOR AUDITOR.
SAMUEL MERRILL
FOR RECORDER
EUGENE SAULCY.
FOR CORONER
THEODORE A. WAGNER.
FOR SURVEYOR
b. W. HEATON.
FOR COMMISSIONERS
First District-JAMES E. GREER
Second District-WILLIAM HADLEY.
FOR SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES,
For Terms Commencing November. 1885,
LIVINGSTON ROWLAND.
DANIEL. w. HOWE.
Fer Term Commencing November. 1883.
LEWIS @. WALKER
JUDGE OF THE CRIMINAL COURT.
WILLIAM IRWIN.
FOR PROSECUTOR,
JOSEPH B. HEALING.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES.
PARKER s. CARSON,
OTTO STECHHAN,
WILLIAM MORSE.
JOHN l.. GRIFFITHS,
JOHN CAVEN.
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Special Trains to Bethany Park Oamp-Mssting on
Sunday, August 3d.
Via J. & Y. r. R.. leaving Union Depot at A.
NJ. and l P. NJ. Returning, leave the grounds at
5 P. NJ. and $50 P. NJ.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08
W.. FRIDAY. JANUARY lssG-TwELVE PAGES

to the twenty mining casualties, nearly
all of them caused by explosions, during
the year The massacre of 10000 Chris
tlans by natives of Cochin China is to be
set down among the horrors of 1855. The
small poX plague destroyed hundreds of
lives of eur northern neighbors.
But the old year brought many bless
ings in its train, also, for which we should
not forget to render gratitude to the gra-
cUus Gver. Peace has been preserved
among the great nation of the earth ;
business in this country has revived in II
measure /; plaques have been stayed, and
calamitIes averted. 1t is right that we
should enter upon the New Year with
gratitude and hope. May it he II happy
New Year for all
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of the history. This and the preparation
of some OF the maps has delayed the pub
LEGATION but to the soldiers of the Old
Brigade, the possession of tins portrait
will be an ample reward for waiting; and
all will he glad to possess it. The volume
Will be "A handsome one. 1t Will contain
rs much reading matter as bOth thc.avOl-
umes of Gen. Grants book (Which is sod
at seven dollars), and four more steel en-
graved portraits than the first volume of
the Grant Memoir and it will be issued
at the earliest possible day, and that not a
liStnnt one.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

The editor of the Populur Science
Monthly gives very interesting discus
sion of this topic in the January number
of that magazine. After Il general review
of the popular superstition regarding
these ghostly visitunts, he concludes that
1.-THE men and women of to-day are less
influenced by Il morbid dread of the super
natural than their foreiathcrs were - and
that while the ghost is fading out Of pop
ular thought, spritualism fails to take its
place in the estimation of the people.
The progress of scientific investigation
and the growing muterialism Of the age
may be considered quite sufficient
to account for this decline III the pOpu-
lar dread Of the supernatural. a
lurking fOndness for the old fashioned
ghost, however, still remains, more as an
incentive for creating excitement and sen
satlon, than because the people really be
live in supernatural manifestations of the
sort The tradition of haunted house or
II ghost-peopled graveyard will be handed
down, even in these prosaic days, with a
sort of mysterious relish, while under
meath it all the narrator and his audience
are enjoying the comfortable assurance
that the whole story is myth and de
fusion. One feels, in these days, toward
reputed supernatural V,itants of this
earth much as he feels toward the mimic
persOnages of the stage. II is all very
well to keep up the delusion tor the sake OF
its effects but to believe in all one sees
and hears is behind the spirit of the age,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

While the issue and distribution OF the
first volume Of "Nermunt i'm the Civil
War; has been delayed for few days be-
You'd the time expected, subscribers to the
work should understand that the delay
has been wholly in their interest, and has
been made in order to have the volume
fuller and more perfect i'm matter and III
ustrations. One of the CAUSES has been
the delay in securing a portrait Of Gen.
w. T. II. Brooks, who was the first COM
mander, and has been called the author,
founder and hnisher" of the old First Yer
mont Brigade, Gen. Brooks died in Ala
bama in 1876. His widow left that State Il
year or two later, and though constant
search has been conducted, and many let
ters written to find her, and to secure IA
picture of the general from officers who
served under him. no trace either of Mrs.
Brooks, or of portrait of Gen. Brooks,
could be obtained. Within very few
days past, and after almost giving up
all hope of success in the search, the his
torian has fortunately been placed in cor
! respondence with Mrs. Brooks, and has
obtained from her an excellent photo
graph of the General which is now in the
engraver's hands, and will be completed
as soon as possible, for the first volume
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

The season of american opera in
New York, is said to have opened most
auspiciously. Now let some American
musical author produce first rate native
opera and we will be properly equipped
to set up opposition to the foreign schools
of music
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

The physical condition of the great
Tammany chieftain, John Kelly, is said
to be very serious. lie is afflicted with a
peculiar form of softening Of the brain
which leaves him one day comparatively
well, and the next prostrates him so that
he can not leave his bed. 1t is more than
probable that John Kelly will never gC
on the war path again.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

Polo is getting to be regular smuggling
game in some parts of the country, engen-
dering lots of bad blood and splitting some,
Almost any game of physical skill can
be made brutal, if the contestants come to
think more of victory than they do of hon
orable and decent methods.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

Secretary Manning declares that it is
not his present intention to pay any part
of the government debt i'll silver He
adds, rather suspiciously, that he hopes it
will not be necessary to take that step
while he is secretary of the treasury. We
hope not, too.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

An exchange suggests that in spite of
the recent mad-dog craze, no certified
case of hydrophobia has been developed
in human being in the United States
for the past month. Yet, hundreds of
valuable dogs have been sacrificed in that
time. Verify. ''prejudice is thief"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

The story of the Pinkerton detectives
called for to 90 to Washington to look
after 1.-THE personal safety of President
Cleveland" is especially ridiculous, in
view of the fact that the President is so
refully watched by the Office seekers.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

The trouble with keeping a diary is that
person has to turn over Il new leaf every
day.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

| has vanished into the past-has died away
into silence and nothngnesS, like the
echoes of the bells which, at the close of
every tWelvcmOnth, ring ont the old,
ring in the new" And yet the memory
of the old seems closer to our hearts than
tue promise of the new. The prospect is
as yet dim and underlined; the retrospect
is bathed in the light of remembrance
and is seen as it were, from hilltop
whence we can view unObsiruCted the path
which we have trodden. 1t is natural
that we should turn rather to the record
of the old year to-day than to the white
page of the new. It is, to many,
perhaps to most hearts, Il dark
rather than Il bright record The old
year has been unusually fruitful in sad
experiences in our national and public
life. The shadow of death has crept upon
the dial apace with the shadows of the fly
ing hours. The neurology of 1883 records
wide harvest of the destroying angel.
! The year will long be remembered for the
number of noted men and women who
| have passed from earth during its months.
| Deaths arrows seem to have sought the
most shining marks in every walk of life.
First of all stands the honored and inn
mortal name of our great cltizen-soldicr
| Gen. Ulysses >. Grant, whose death has
been mourned not only by his own conn
trymen. but 10y the whole world. Another
illustrious soldier has joined the great
majorty-in the sudden dCcease of Gen
| George Brinton Mcclellan, while from
! the ranks of those who fought on the
Southern side death has taken Gen.
! Robert rOOmbS of GpOTrII. Is no UtlS-rQ
away unforgivlng, but forgiven
Among eminent statesmen Nice-f resi-
dent Thomas y. Hendricks. has been
taken so suddenly that hi, dearest com
panion knew nothing of the fatal shaft
until it had struck Frederick Is Ere.
linghuysen, one Of the most loyal ANA
faithful public men in the couutry-tn
incorruptible Senator, Il wise aud lailhtui
Secretary of State has closed hi, iir'~
work and gone to his reward. EN-Nicr-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

1t is IL curious fact about Il political par
ty, that the more rings it has the less it
is inclined to show It's hand.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

The affairs of Nassar College are in II
better way. Rev DR.. Kendrick, the act
ing president-who by the way is a Yer
monter, born in Poultney-is very popr-
lar with the students and doing well,
The finances of the college are prosperous
a saving of $4,000 in the expenses of the
last six months having been effected over
the same period of last year. \ special
committee is looking for II permanent
president.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

Ten thousand colored people of New
Orleans ushercd in the New Year by cele-
brating the issue of President Lincoln 5
emancipation proclamation and among
the speakers We're five men who had
served in the rebel army When the lat
ter and the rest of the white Democracy,
permit the colored Republicans to vote, rs
we'll as celebrate, we shall bid goodbye
to the sectional issue.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

1t will soon he no longer necessary to
make II trip to Paris in order to be nocu-
lated for hydrophobia. DR.. Alexander b.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

The new South Londonderry postmas-
ter writes to the BrattleborO RCtOrmCr
to say that he has not admitted that Il
missing money letter was in his Office and
that he does not believe that business men
are in the habit of sending considerable
sums by mail in unregistered letters. The
RCtOrmCr says that Postmaster Wood us
lying too much" and it adds ut is Il
fact, as he processes to doubt that good
many business men along the line of the
narrow gauge have been in the habit of
stuffing money into envelopes and trusting
them to the mails. Either of the Brattle-
boro banks can give evidence of this. 1t
is of course Il dangerous practice, aud has
grown up because it has gone safely 50
long" There is no doubt that the pre-
valling honesty of Republican postmas-
tiers has led the public into rather carele 5
ways about mailing money in many other
quarters besides Wndham county. Bust
ness men are already learning caution,
however, where changes have been re-
Gently made in the offices.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

Mott of New York aud other eminent
physicians have organized and incorporH-
ted society known as the "Amcrlcan In
sttute of Hydrophobia.' which viii ap-
ply the method Of NJ. Pasteur to cases Of
incipient hydrophobia, free of charge. IT
the enterprise is successful, New York
will be the Mecca of dog-btten American
citizens, until other cities have perfected
the process for themselves.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

England's affair with Burmah has ter
minated, as might have been expected, in
the absorption of that kingdom, and Thee
baW ought to have spent Il few hours In
reading up British history before he risk
ed the result Of an armed controversy
with John Bull. Burmah will now send
its bananas to England and receive in re
turn a choice cargo Of retired colonies and
government patterned after England,
other dependencies.
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

The account of the way in which Wash
ington was defended against Early's raid
in 1864, contributed to the FREE PRESS by
Mr.. Hayes, while highly interesting, is
not as new to some Nermonters us he sup
posed it would be. The Tenth Vermont
under Ricketts,, fought Early at the
Monocacy, and the old Vermont brigade
faced him in front of Fort Stevens. The
company of sharp shooters mentioned
by Mr.. Hayes was commanded by Capt.
Beatte of the Third Vermont, and was
composed largely of Nermonters, and
Vermont soldiers could tell Mr.. Hayes
various things about that affair, which he
has not yet learned. They will be told,
however, in the forthcoming volume OF
vermont III the Civil War"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

The Detroit Mich, TrjbUic makes an
ugly charge against the administration,
in the following paragraph
1t is estimated that over $1,000 worth of
Louisiana lottery tickets are sold in Chi
cago alone every day, and the United
States mails are used for the transaction
of the nefarouS swindle without regard
to the postal laws y Republican post
master general vigorously fought this
robbery at every step and succeeded III
curtailmg its power in considerable de
gree. No evidence has yet appeared to
show that the Democratic administration
Of the po,ta system has made any effort
to continue the work begun by its Repub-
licau predecessor Thus the charge that
this notorious lottery company contrib
uted a large sum to the Democratic cam
paign fund last FALL with provisions for
immunity from prosecution, is sustained
by convincing circumstantial proof.
We notice also that good many of our
Democratic exchanges are printing the
lottery company's advertisement.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

The New York Hcruld accounts for the
phenomenal mldness of the present win
ter by the prevalence Of low atmospheric
pressure in Manitoba and north of the
great lakes which, it says, would natural
ly induce and increase the How OF the
warm southerly air currents from the
Mississippi Valley into the Canadian
provinces. Nermonters need not be at all
apprehensive, however. There will be
plenty of frozen ears yet, and ice two feet
thick-t to be bought 10y the pound, next
summer.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

etrot, Mich, is just emerging from
the most destructive fire in the city's his
tory. Millions of dollars worth Of proper
ty have vanished in flames. building
after building was consumed in spite Of
the heroic efforts Of the iiremcn, one of
whom lost his life in the struggle, But
already the burned district is rising from
its ashes, and in few months what is now
il scene of desolation will present com
pact array of brick, stone and marble.
Some times conflagration acts on city
like pruning on II fruit tree, and makes it
bring forth more and better fruit.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

If YOU had taken two of Carriers Little Liv-
er Pills before retiring you would not have
had that coated tongue Or bad taste in the
mouth this morning. Keep vial with you
for occasional use.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

other dependencies.
IL was nope" NAV some '"4hN "e""'.'
might DE S'lne'''' IRON 9'i'l"r E'"''7
It"''Ih7 ut '"' ''et'At'''S ''If"t, 'h
bos'oh' ~ IeI"'"9 MS VIEWS On Iie SlIN'I
question: 1t """lI require an '"'ei''c'
even more s""'Ic 'N'n 'i"O u 'lle average
newspaper i",''l' ""NeNeI' ~ ClOl''" any
thlhI "''er'l'','t't from '"e N"!"'S' '"-
ZLe o. "'I''' Nl''cIl '''e senator from new
YORK gave ms Hr'rtr'' we H"a'l nave To-
wan uh''l -Nr' HN'''9 "'''N'9 MS N'"l'
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08

Mr. Moody began evangelistic services
in Montreal on Saturday.