The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-31
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
'"The growth of the coal trade here" said ex-
Mayor Caven, ''has been prodiglous. In 1853
opened mine in Clay county, near Cleveland,
and that winter brought considerable coal here.
| 1t was thought considerable then, but it was, in
| fact, Insignificant quantity, would be
thought so now. Robert Griffith aud myself
| opened the mine. There had been a mine
| opened a short time before at Highland, half
| mile east of where We mined. Coal had been
taken from it to Terre Haute There was little
demand for coal then. Wood was plenty and
cheap, and there was hardly any manufacturing
| here. The few carloads sent brought about 10
cents a bushel It did not pay to mine it. nor
| could it have been done had not Griffith and my
| self done the work. 1 was born and reared In
the mining region of Pennsylvania We taught
the farmer boys Of Clay county mining. We
| only had one man, John Andrews,
| Scotchman, who knew anything about
| coal mining He afterwards bought my land
and continued the mining. He opened up the
| block coal vein, which not thick as the
| vein we had been mining, and 1t was he who
| gave the name of 'block" to the coal now known
| by that name He is now mining IN Owen
| county. The coal did not go into very rapid
| ly. We had great difficulty in getting the Terre
| Haute road to build US small switch. We
| were refused to send the coal on to Madi-
| son, and when it arrived here had to shovel it
| myself from one car to another.
| ~
| Mrs. Kate F. Parker. of the Charity Organiza-
ton Society: The weather has been unusually
pleasant this fall and there is more work for all
kinds of working people this year than last year
| at this time. The calls we now have for relief
are largely for clothes for children to keep them
| at school Besides these calls and cases of sick
| ness there is little demand for relief, conse-
| quently anticipate lighter call upon US for
| relief than at any time since the society has
! been organized.
'The Journals article last Sunday on Gifts to
| Grocers,'" said Meridian-street man to Odds
and Ends, might have been greatly extended
and then not contained the whole story. think
an offer had the other day would have made
| the cap-sheaf to the Journals article. man
| made the proposition that if / would buy ten
| cases of smoking tobacco of him ne would make
me an accident policy for ono year.
every year." said VI. F., who served his
country in the Seventy ninth Indiana ''this
thing of soldier being Democrat and voting
! that ticket grows more absurd. / have deter
mined to break away this time and cast pretty
nearly straight Republican ticket. Here see
this administration has gone and put portrait
of General Hancock on the two-doar silver certi-
| 6cates and the engraving has to be done
| again, as they put the sash the wrong shout
! der. Now, if they would put Dan Voorhees, and
| Bayless Hanna on they would have no misft
| shoulder-sashes."
Somebody ought to inform the indianapolis
| postoffice that there is United States arsenal
4 how I'd IN fr0r Waoh
| ton directed to the post library" should be sent
there, and not to the city library.
T. j. Cullen, Grand Hotel: During the past
three years the hotel business has improved
amazingly. The present year has been espe-
cially good. There are better SPA day
| houses in the country than here and So houses
here are. am told by travelling mon, as good or
better than 81 houses elsewhere. Better &C
! commodations are given here at So and So so
| than in St. Louis or Chicago for So. Our
hotels have all the modern conveniences and
luxuries that are obtainabe anywhere, and if the
guest doesn't see what be wants, all he need do
| is ask for it.
It is the season of the rubber coat. The
proverb as to the fitness for companionship of a
wet dog would pale into nothingness if the rub
Der coat was worked into like adage. The
rubber coat in crowded street.car of rainy
evening carries more discomfort to everybody
except the wearer, than dozen dogs dripping
wet fresh from the pond The rubber coat takes
on it's most disaereeable phase when worn by
the polite man, who insists upon acting as con-
ductor, and passing up everybodys fare He
slashes through the car, forward and back
while rivulets of the coolest and clammiest
water pour from his rain-coat over the clothes
| of his fellow-passengers. Not unfrequently
there are half dozen of these polite rubber
coated assistants of the street.car COM
panv on one car In such case, when
thor unfortunate fellow. travellers arrive at
their homes they about thoroughly
drenched as if they had been soused neck and
heels in tanners vat. When higher state Of
civilization is reached there will be laws passed,
and enforced against the wearing of rubber
coats IN vehicles carrying other passengers and
in all places of public assembly
German illustrated newspaper gives pict-
ure of the Berlin Market Hall. Outwardly
Tomlinson Hall and the new Market-house are
almost counterpart of the Berlin structure.
Ellsberry H. Perkins, foreman of the Indian
apolis News will withhold his support from the
Indiana Humane Society until ne is officially as
sured that it will not include in its protection
the English sparrow. Mr.. Perkins, who lives
on North Mississippi street, the other
day. noticing the sidewalk a cock
sparrow that seemed to be hurt,
he picked it up with some humane design.
Whatever this design might have been it was
not suffered TO develop, for the bird, which, it
seems, only Thoroughly angry from being
engaged IN q conflict with others of his feather
seized Mr., Perkins, finger and almost bit a
piece out of it. With great difficulty Mr.. Per-
kins succeeded in getting loose from his assail.
ant. and now, as measure %, safety. be carries
1 a club as he goes TO. an9 from his work
It was Mr.. Perkina - in Mgy. 1877,