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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
PLUNDERING A CORPORATION.
Samuel G. Smelling RObs the Lowell Bleach
cry Company of Half Million.

BosToN, July 22-The directors of the Lowell
bleacEery corporation. large and wealthy con-
cern, have removed Samuel G. Smelling from the
Office of treasurer, which he has held for twenty
seven years A committee to investigate his ac-
counts was appointed. Its chairman said that
the deposed treasurer has been guilty OF grave
irregularities. The amount is not known, and
it may be anywhere from 5000. 900 to $500, 900.
The capital stock of the corporation is $55O,000,
but this is no indication of it's wealth, for the
sets are far in excess of that figure. A Areorgani
zation of the company may be necessary, but its
solvency is in no danger. The deposed treasurer
has not been arrested and it is said that he is at
his home in Nahant Mr.. Percival Lowell has
been elected to succeed him. The corporation is
about fifty years old, and is one of the most
widely known of any in New England. The
company has suspended payments pending an
investigation of its affairs. The company's
business is the dyeing. bleaching and finishing
of cotton cloth. 1t has been doing business Of
about ten million pounds per annum and it has
paid per cent. dividends during recent years,
and a higher rate form erly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
caaght by a Gypsy oueen.

BosToN, July %. In the neighborng cit-, ~
Somerville is community Of gypsiss NJ which
Marcella Cooper, an elderly ~,,pa, ~ mncb
!oeai es!rpy pyssy, - the qus~n This woman has
succeeded IN Vafp : ways in accommodating
s soussues"'"- fortune, mostly by duping many of
ner r-asuspecting neighbors Among those who
lave fallen victims to her wiles is the wife of
prosperous German brewers named Rink, who
resides at Boston Highlands. The Gypsy queen
represented to her that she had special facilities
for the investment or money at high rates and per-
suaded Mrs. Rink to intrust her savings to her
care For fourteen years past Mrs. Rink has
given the Cooper woman irstallments of money
10 invest, until the total amounts to $l3, 560
Strange to say, the deluded woman has at last
become alarmed, and today caused the arrest of
Mrs. Cooper for embezzlement of that amount
The entire amount was misappropriated. and no
trace of penny Of it can be found.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
The Home-Rule Muse in stssoue;

The English election is of course one of the
chief topics of the day on the continent and
l. Independence Beige serves up TO it's readers
the following futile hash of language as part of
its report:
ITO signal yet among the fantasies electoral
there is a song popular put to the fashion by the
Pail Mall Gazette She commences by these
words:
1.-The illustrious aged one will carry in the
victory, and himself ends by this smiling con
clusion
John and Paddy (the Ireland) will march
arm over arm UNDER"
To which the grave organ of the city, the
Times, responds by chanson an ii: Gladstonan
in which it has commanded the words of the poet
SwiE burne. the more popular of the Parnassians
English after Tennyson.
Impossible to cite the rhymes of Swinburne.
Her Chanson-song for Unlonists--hmself COM
poses Of fifteen strophes, and she not has not of
refrain. The tongue of the gods is employed to
prove that the bill of home-rule Irish will con-
summate the ruin and the shame Of the England.
rs it that there that what you want?" asks the
poet apostrophizing the voter.
You have yet hour for to reply very WELL if you
merit yet the name of nation.
Respond England of one sea at to the other by the
voice of each one ofyour children"
'sBehold what is ballad too long for to be
adopted as refrain popular, but they will sing
that all of same at London, where they not
doubt of nothing"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23

ST. Louis. July 22-It is positively stated
here that Almon B. Thomson. the defaulting
cashier of the Provident Savings Bank. is in
Canada. Several residents OF this city and
friends of the embezzler returned to-day from a
trip through the provinces. and state that they
saw and conversed with him. Mr.. M. j. Brown
states that he saw Thomson at Montreal before
he had heard of the failure. and exchanged salu-
tations with him. inquring, at the same time,
what he was doing up there. and he replied. with
a smile: I'm just rusticating for a time. got
worn down little" Two other gentlemen claim
to have seen him. and it is generally believed he
will not return to the city until extradited, not
withstauding runners to the contrary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
INCOMPETENT OFFICIALS.
A Savage Attack on the Officials of the En-
giish War Department..


glish War Department..
LONDON, July % The War Office announces
that, in consequence of an article published in
the Times of the 10Th inst, charging the officials
of the ordnance department with corruption.
Generals Campbell, Reilly and Anderson, sue
cessivelv chiefs of that department. for the past
eleven years, demand an inquiry before a cem
petent tribunal, and that Mr. Campbell Banner
man, as secretary, refused to grant an inquiry,
because the charges were vague and were not
supported by any statement of facts. ''Such
tribunal the secretary says, must be empow-
cred to examine witnesses under oath, and such
power can only be granted by royal commission
or by act of Parliament In order to secure such
commission prima face evidence is necessary.
In this case none has been adduced, and there
fore | have no power to institute investiga-
tion. Nothing has occurred to weaken my be-
lief in the integrity Of the officers of the depart
meat."
The Times's article referred to in the state
...e..u u Tie War Once declared that it had long
been manifest that the War Department was in
competent, and that now it was openly said to be
corrupt ''The department" said the Times, 'is
composed oil military men without mechanical,
chemical or metalurgical knowledge; of men
who are babies in the hands of their subordi-
mates, some of whom are Shareholders in pri-
vate gunnerv company. If England should be-
como involved in a war tomorrow
she would be compelled to be-
come a suppiiaDt to Krupp to suply
means of defending her national existence Col.
Hope has offered to prove wholesale corruption
against the department IN supplying guns which
burst rifed cartridges which jam, baSonets
which bend, and swords which will not cut.
Others have offered to prove fraud and perjury
against high officials of ths department., who are
said to carry quite thriving industry in buy
ing condemned stores at one depot and selling
them to another as new stores. 1t is common
belief in garrison towns that nothing is salable
to the War Office except by bribery. The action
of the War Office in refusing to hear evidence is
unfair and evasive 1t is to be hoped that the
new Parliament will extinguish the scandal, and
correct this shameful inefficiency."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
And Warns the Coming Premier to Get His
Manacles in Readiness-The Rent Question
Likely to Prove the Source of Trouble.
officials of the English War Office Said
10 BE Incompetent and Corrupt.
Testimony in the Crawford-Dilke Case Ended
and Argument Begun-The Prosecutor
Makesa Savage Attack on Sir Charles.
THREATS FROM IRELAND.
Injudicious Utterances of Parnell's Dublin
Organ-Moyements of Lord Salisbury.

Injudicious Utterances of Parnelrs Dublin
Orsan-Movements of Lord Salisbury.
LONDON, July 22.-The Dublin United Ire
land, Mr.. Parnells organ, commenting on the
political situation says "The Marquis If Sal
sbury will be compelled, ere long, to produce his
manacles. During the past year the Irish peo-
pie have submitted to the bitterest privations
and extortions patiently. The judicial rents are
becoming daily more impossible for the ten
antry to pay. and more unbearabe
1t is absolutely hopeless to expect any redress
from an English Parliament 1t is not in hui
man nature for the Irish tenantry to longer re-
frain from helping themselves. Landlords will
fight for their rents with fire, sword and crow
bar thus obliging Lord Salisbury to pray Par
lament to assist the landlords by some new
tangled coercion act. Then will come the tug of
war"
Lord Salisbury will arrive in London to.mor
row. when he will hold a conference with his
borne on Saturday.
Mr.. Hubbard Conservative, offers to resign
his seat in London in favor of Mr.. Goschen. If
the latter accepts Office Uith Lord Salisbury.
Justin Mccarthy is in uncertain health, and
his doctors advise him to winter abroad He
offers to vacate his seat in Newry in favor of
Mr. Healy.
Lord Salisbury has written to the Lambeth
Conservative Association on the Tory electoral
victories in London. He says it would be i'm
possible to find constituents with better title
to represent working classes, and that their vote
expressed their emphatic condemnation of the
malignant effort to excite war of classes
which had been the last desperate resort of the
Premier"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
Secretary Bayard Has Entire Control of the
Fisheries Question.

LONDON, July 22-United States Minister
Phelps, being asked by reporter for the Asso
ciated Press, to-day, if it was true that he was
engaged in preparing brief on the fisheries
question for submission to Great Britain,
and had sent circulars to all the prin-
cipal persons engaged in the fishing
industries in his country asking for information
as to the American requirements. answered: II
authorize you to deny that l have been instructed
to prepare, or am preparing any fisheries brief.
have not communicated as has been reparted,
with American fishing firms to obtain tLeir
views. Secretary Bayard retains control of the
entire question, and all the international dis
cussions and negotiations concerning it are in
his hands"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
Royal Plagiarism.

London Cable Special.
1t would seem that the Prince of Wales's sons
have been guilty of very fagrant piece of pla-
eiarism No passage in ''The Cruise of the
Bacchante' has been SO admiringly quoted as the
one written while between Barbados and Mar
Unique, which begins: 'We should be less than
men" and ending 'but the sad memory of their
useless valor. etc" 1t is indeed most eloquent
and effective passage as well it may be- for it
turns out to have been copied almost word for
word from Charles kingsleys charming work,
"At Last" where it will be found in the second
chapter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
Arkansas Rennhlicans.

LITTLE Rock. July % The Republican State
convention adjourned sine die at Ills tonight
after nominating the following State ticket:
county; Secretary of State, r. A. Miller, of
Ouachita; Attorney general. D. d. Leach, of
Woodruff: Treasurer L. Attheirner, of Jefferson;
Auditor, David B. Russell. of Conway; Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court. o. D. Scott of
Miller; Land Commissioner, A. w. Stone, of
Garland: Superinte ndent of Public Instruction,
A. II. Boles, of Franklin. State central com.
mittee of ffty-seven members was appointed
One hundred and sixty delegates were present
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
The North American sengerbund.

n attendance on the National Sangerbund are
parading the streets to night, some with bands,
others with Chinese lanterns pendent from their
walking canes, and many provided only with
voices as means of entertainments. Ore dele
CATION is provided with kazoos and is making
night torment. They ars all engaged in sere-
nading the newspaper Offices and their friends
To night the first main concert took place, and
vas attended by larger crowds than any evening
Avious. Congratulations were cabed to Herr
s.auDsrt, at Berlin, the octogenarian composer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
Receivers TO Be Investieated.

cided to enter an order on Humphreys and Tut,
receivers of the Wabash ST. Louis e. Pacific
Railroad Company, to bring before him a
thorough report of their management of the
Chicago division of the road. This is done to
bring before the federal court here material for
adjudicating upon the rights of bondhollers Of
the Chicago division as opposed to the general
bondholders and creditors The order is granted
on the intervening petition of Henry Lardner.
The receivers are TO make report inside OF if.
teen days
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
WAGES yo,untarilv Advanced.

PITTsBURG Pa, July % The Pennsylvania
Tube Works Company, employing several hun
dred men, have voluntarily advanced the wages
Of their workmen 10 per cent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23

whose cantata, Der Landsknecht," proved a
great success tonight. 1t was decided to close
the sRngerfcst on Sunday with parade and
picnic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
VI ho Is This, Pray?
Gable Special

LabIe Special.
The Queen has refused to allow certain
American lady who lately made stir in society
to be invited to the state ball. although the ap.
plication was supported by the Prince of Wales.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
CRAwFoRD-DILKE.
The Case Nearly Finished-A Savage Excori-
alton 1f Sir Charles.

LONDON July %. = Captain Foster, being
sworn as witness in the Crawford divorce suit,
to-day, admitted that he had been guilty of aiul
terry with Mrs. Crawford. He said Mrs. Roger
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28
The President and the T,riT

President Cleveland is at last getting off
the fence, which he has straddled on the
tariff question, and from present indica-
tions he will take position with the Morri-
son-Carlisle crowd In favor of tariff for
revenue only. At the same time he aban-
dons his free breakfast.table theory, as ex-
pressed in his first message to Congress-
This is one Of the results of the sickness of
Secretary Manning, who was evidently the
balance wheel Of the administration in fiscal
matters.
Time was that Samuel j. was one of the
members Of the Kitchen Cabinet, but he
seems to have lost his grip, while the irrc-
pressible Morrison is taking the lead and is
shaping the policy of the Democracy. This
accession of the President to the schemes of
Morrison, Carlisle & Co. is firm step in
the direction of free trade.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28
a National Exposition.

weekly Boomerang, Laramie, Wyo.l
The project for national exposition in
Washington has at last got before Congress
In shape for simultaneous consideration by
both houses. 1t deserves the favorable at
tention of every member. II the govern
ment can appropriate liberal sums for the
representation Of this couutry's advance
ment in the arts OF peace at foreign worlds
fairs, there is no reason why 1t should not
give like impulse to an enterprise purely
domestic. 1t is to the interest of every
state and territory to advertise It's resources
as widely as possible. Washington is the
capital Of the nation In broader as well as
the narrower sense. II is the city which every
traveller, American or foreign, feels that he
must visit, no matter what other cities he
neglects. 1t is gathering within its borders
the cream OF American society-political,
financial, artistic, and literary. The seat Of
government is rapidly becoming the seat
aud center of other popular activities.
There is no place, therefore, which could
be chosen with equal fitness for such dis
play as is proposed in the resolutions be-
fore Congress; and no occasion surely could
be found more appropriate than the ami
versary of the discovery of the new
world and the foundation Of its great re-
public.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

The New York star, the only DemOcrat,
organ in the metropolis, says, edItorlaIly;
"The readiness Of Italians to u53 u sti
Lotto needs to be corrected BY some pun.
ishment that will strike terror into the
hearts Of the whole swarthy tribe" That
is an indiscriminato attack on a nationality
which is uniustItiable aud uncalled for.
The Italians in this cIty-and we believe
the same is true Of New YorlS-aro good
citizens in the maiu-intolligont indus
trious, and law-abiding.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

THE new Chiucsc minister could give no
stronger proof Of his devotion to the great
American doctrine of JeiTersonian SIM
plicity than is furnished by his determine
tion to have only forty servants in his official
bCueebp11
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

tained, because they furnish an easy WY
Of getting money to defray public expenses.
For the same reason the tariff taxes are
still kept up. Are you In favor Of literal
free trade9 Even Messrs. Carlisle, Nor
rison, Mills & Co, do not propose to abol-
ish the tariff, but want to get II on to a
strictly revenue basis.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

The poor king OF Bavaria Is badly
broken up. lie once had lucid interval
in his youth when Paul Heyse took him up
and taught him some of the duties of mon
arch. But when Heyse returned to Berlin,
young Louis returned TO the fiddle and
played himself away with an energy worthy
Of better cause.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

For the purpose OF extending the influence
of the NAr1oxAL REPUBLICAN, during the con-
grossional campaign Of 1886 we will send the
eisht.pago Saturday Virginia edition to any
address for six months for any cents. At this
low prico there can be no clubbing rates.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

DOUBTLESS Editor PuItzer means we'll,
Tut he cannot expect the country to agree
with him IN the conclusion that falsehood Is
q possibility 10 any New York newspaper.
Tie people are credulous, 1t is true, but
tlcy will insist upon drawing the line
8gGirst so scapdalous an intlmatlon as that
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

IT is said that the Marquis of harrington,
having broken with Gladstone, will have TO
give up politics or accept the tory leader
ship. The latter is quite unlikely. Hart
iugton is a good bit Of man, and though
lie is 10 radical, he is far from beInS In
tune with sucha "frnuc tirour'' as Churchill
or such political fossil us Salisbury.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

LEOPOLD Won RANKE, whose letter to the
Historical Society in Washington was read
on Tuesday, is Just five years older than his
friend and fellow.worker George Bancroft.
He is still working eight hours day at his
History Of the World.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

DEMOCRATS vote for the enforcement Of their
partys principles, and not for bread aud
Luttcr-Etig IOrE star.
That is somewhat ambiguous. Democrats
vote FOR the enforcement of their party's
creed, the chief tenet Of which is spolls for
lie NiCtOrs.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

STEAEING Of Mr.. Pulit2er's resignation OF
lis seat in Congress, the Boston Herd!d re-
marks that "ofieeholding and editing do
net 90 well together" That depends.
Where editing Is done by proxy, as is the
case with many great newspapers, Office
LUldirg does not interfere with it.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

THE friends OF the Irish cause should
turn out tonight In their thousands and
attend the mass meeting at the Masonic
Temple, called to indorse the policy of
Gladstone. Give him cheer upon cheer,
loud and long enough to be heard In Down
inp street
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

LRennbllcnn. phillnni. w. Va.

lRepublican, Philippi, w. Va.
Mr.. Hurd, Of Toledo, denounces thirty
Democratic members OF the House as
traitors to their party. On the judicial ques-
and voted that he was not. According to
Mr.. Hurd, 1t is treason to the Democratic
party not to steal an Office when there is
chance.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

WHEN young Tennyson ioined the Indla
Office in London his felow-clerks tried TO
ingratiate themselves with the laureate's
son by quoting with approval some ultra
sentimental lines Of the poet. The youth
by no means rellshed such advances, aud
bis rctorts were more forclble than scrip
turc1
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

or the Church Of Rome. The wise penny
"came down" politics, when the great ad-
venturer started out at once as an exag-
gerated radical, and appeared before a con-
stituency with a strong letter Of introduce
tlon from Daniel O,Connell.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

THE governor Of the Empire State has
approved the bill appropratlnG $4,000 for
the erection OF monument on the capitol
grounds in honor of the women Of the state
for their humane aud patriotic acts during
tie war of the rebellion. It Is well enough
TO erect such a structure as an incentive to
good works In time to come, but the noble
women TO whose memory II Is " be raised
Lave no need OF monument.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

In convictiug persons who were bribed to
commit perjury our criminal court is well
employed, hut the public sense Of Justice
demands that something shall be done to-
ward bringing the bribers 10 grief.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

OUR nelghbor, the Critic, was brilliant
last evening with the productions of three
men eminent throughout the world -
Macaulay and Bancroft, the historians, and
Judge Waxem, the profound statesman
from Wayback.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

THOMAS JEFFERSON, Of Augusta county,
Va, subscribed to the WEEKLY NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN yesterday. A live Jeffer-
soniOn Republican is far better than dead
JefIersoniau Democrat
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

No CITY can boast of better corps of
citizen soldiers than the Washington Light
Infantry. This is one of the reasons why
the fairs given by this organization are al
ways succcssful.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

IT Is marvellous that men of Saxon race,
high character, aud established literary
position will continue to slop over with
almost incorporating adulatlon Of zola's
putrid stories.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

The internal taxes have been repealed. The
farlff taxes remain and have been Increased
Why2 Because they are profitable to q few
large Interests which are bauded together 10
resist their removal or roduollon,-N T. Tlmss
Some OF the internal taxes are still 70
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

THE promised memoirs OF Sarah Bern
hardt will not be Sunday school literature,
but the realistic age OF Zola and company
will not quarrel on that account.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

The best that can be said Of the forty
ninth Congress thus far, is that 1t has not
done all the mischief that was possible.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

IN the great state Of Texas there are no
weekly newspapers, all Of this valuable
class Of publications having been super
scded by lebdomiuals.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

THE protectionlst who votes the Demo
cratic ticket Is q more ridiculous mon
strosity than the Mugwump.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-28

TIE men who control Democratic ma
tionai conventions are now going through
the familiar process of being read out o!
their party.