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ECORD FOR 1885.
Y. g. EHt. port of Failures-Grain
Trade OF L-..' '..iOre-ImprOyement at
IsostOn, Etc.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-R. G. Dun & Co. re-
port that the total number OF business fail
ures in the United States during 1885 was
1867, with liabilities of little more than
S124, 900, as compared with 1O,96s in 1884,
with liabilities of S226, OOO,OOO While the
failur% of 1885 are only 5 per cent. less in
numb 5 than in 1884, the liabilities have de-
creas, nearly 30 per cent. The number of
trade reported in business in 1885 was 49,
900. az these one in every Sc failed. The
avera2- amount of liabilities of each failure
was: 1 1885, Sl1 ,67S, against $40. 63S in 1854
and s. 1863 in 1878.
BAl MORE, Jan. l. The grain trade of
Baltii ore for the past year, while not so sat
lsfacIOry as desired, will compare favorably
with that of other ports. There was a
marked decrease in the receipts and ship
ments which are due to a short crop and the
increased shipments of flour. There was a
large increase in the amount of corn
handled.
BosToE, Jan. lin the business record of
Boston for 1885, figures are given which
show decided improvement in all lines of
trade. Eight millions have been added to
the valuation of Boston by new buildings,
the largest since those following the big fire.
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CONSUMPTION CURED.

An old physician, retired from practice, having
had placed in his hands by an East India mission
AIRY the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for
the 81, eds and permanent cure of Consumption,
Bronchitis Catarrh, Asthma and all throat and
Lung Affections also positive and radical cure
for Nervous DebilIy ana all Nervous Complaints
after having tested its wonderful curative powers
In thousands of cases. has feltlt his duty TO make
il known to his suffering fellows Actuated by
this moiive and a desire to relieve human suffer
ing will send free of charge, to all who desire II,
this recipe, in German, French or English with
full dire ations for preparing and using. Sent by
mail by addressing with stamp. naming this pa
per ~ 1. MOVES, I49 Powers Block, Rochester,
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The greatest consolation to one growing old is
the improved surroundings which come with age,
experience and wisdom.
We are reminded OF this fact by the appearance
OF ne new Seed Annual of ID. NJ Ferry < Co., the
celebrated 81 edmen OF Detroit, Mich. They enjoy
.ls eLVIable reputation OF being the widest and
best known firm in any business in the United
profit and pleasure have found ever increasing
satisfaction and delight in using their seeds.
Every one desiring seeds of the highest type and
best quality, should secure their Annual. 1t is
sent free on application.
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Advice to Mothers.

Mrs. Einslow's Soothing Syrup should Always
be used when children are cutting teeth. 1t re-
lieves the little sufferer at onces it produces
natural quiet sleep by relieving the children from
pain, and the little eherub awakes as "bright as
button" 1t is very pleasant to TASTE 1t soothes
the child softenS the gums, alays all PAIN relieves
wind, regulates the bowels and is the best known
remedy for diarrhoea, whether arising from teeth
ing or other other causes. Twenty-Five cents a
hottie
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Cntarrh and Bronchitis Cured.

A clergyman, after years of suffering from
that loathsome disease, Catarrh and vainly
trying every known remedy, at last found a
prescription which completely cured and
this dreadful disease sending a self-addressed
stamped envelope to DIR. J. Flynn & Co., III
East 18th St., New York. will receive the
receipt free Of charge.
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began using Athlophoros tor an attack OF
rheumatism on Thursday morning. At %.
m went to sleep and slept on till a. M,
when got up and said to my wife: Dear,
look here, 1 am WELL" ID. l.. Southland,
Greencastle, Ind,
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Scott's Emulsion of Pure
COD LIVER OIL, WITH HYPoPHosPHITEs
Its Use in Lung Troubles.

IIo Ost IN 11uII5 IIUUUIOS'
Or. Hiram Cadoretto, of Jacksonville, Fla,
saws: Il have for the last ten months pre-
scribed your Emulsion to patients suffering
from lung troubles, and they seem to be
greatly beneGted'by its USE"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-14
Tariff Revision Not Wanted.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13-The Eastern Bar
iron Conference held a meeting here this after
noon. There was an unusually large attend
ance, representatives being present from all the
leading rolling mills east of the Alleghenies.
The feeling was entirely harmonious, and it was
thought by those present that, while there was
no prospect for a boom this year, business would
be conducted on a paying basis and prices main
tanned. The conference decided that as freights
and fuel, and in some cases labor have advanced,
the mills should advance the price one tenth of
a cent per pound, to cover increased cost of pro-
duction. The schedule of extras for small iron
was referred to a committee for revision. The
following tariff resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, The demand for all kinds of manufact-
ured products has been gradually improving for sew.
eral months, and there are now substantial business
reasons for believing that the year just opened will
witness at least reasonable prosperity in the Ameri-
can iron trade, afforting employment at fair wages to
an increased number of our people; therefore be It
; Resolved, That we call upon Congress to refrain
from attempting a general revision of duties for the
purpose of reduction, which will check the growth of
confidence and VIII make consumers limit their orders,
causing a serious s~hrinkage of business and involving
the closing of many works and the discharge of
workmen.
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ton to show that the bonds were payable in
coin and that a joint resolution introduced in
the Senate in 1878, oy Senator Stanley Matthews,
and passed by a two-thirds vote of both houses
of Congress, declared it to be entirely con-
sistent with the public faith, under the contract,
to pay the bonds in silver. But nobody asked
that they be paid exclusively in silver. All that was
aeked was for our officers to treat silver AS they
treated gold. We wanted no more reports from
them saying that silver cannot be got into cir
c~ulatior, when. in violation of law, the Treas
ury Department refused to pay it out, and al
lowed bonds that ought to be paid to remain
outstanding, while keeping locked up in the
vaults of the Treasury millions upon millions of
silver that ought to be in circulation.
A resolution offered by Mr.. Edmunds was
agreed to. authorizing the Secretary of the SEN
ate to nav ,a = bills incurred in the attendance of
senators at the funeral of the late Vice-presi-
dent Hendricks.
After an executive session the Senate ad-
journed.
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Brief Mention.

Charles Yates, sixteen years old. has been ar
rested, at Carmi, for stealing $75 from q cash
drawer.
The Illinois Masonic School of Instruction is
in session at Mt. Vernon. The session will last
until Friday.
The Illinois State Grange is in session at
Springfield, with an attendance of less than
two hundred.
Gustav E. Harsh, of Peoria, fancy groceries,
has assigned to his brother, Jacob Harsh. AS
sets, $40, 900; liabilities. So, 1000.
The Mutual Mill Insurance Company, Of Cook
county, has changed it's name TO the Mutual Fire
Insurance Company of Chicago.
The public school building in Durand burned
on Tuesday. Loss. $40, 900; insured in the Rock
ford for ST. 500, and in the Washington Fire and
Marine for ST., 200.
At Dixon in the Meyer will case the jury
brought in q verdict against the will, and in
favor of the contestants. The amount awarded
by the verdict is about $50. 900.
At Mt. Sterling the Illinois Weekly Message
printing establishment and the Methodist Episco-
pal Church at that place were wholly destroyed
by fire on Tuesday. The Message printing Office
was one of the most complete country Offices in
the Northwest, and the outfit could not be dupli-
Gated for So, 500. The building was valued at
81, 900. The building and contents were insured
for 81, 900. The Methodist Episcopal Church edi-
fee was a large, handsome frame structure worth
about So, 500. and was insured for 81. 500.
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A Scare in a chicago Theater.

CHICAGO, Jan. ia disastrous panic was
very narrowly avoided at the Chicago Opera
house this afternoon. The house was packed
with an audience consisting mainly of ladies.
present at the first public reception of the Chi
cago Opera-house Conservatory. Miss Anna
Morgan had just commenced a recitation, when
suddenly a cloud of smoke rolled out over the
footlights. The audience was terror-stricken
and made frantic efforts to quit the building, but
the aigles were so crowded that few got far from
their seats. One or two ladies tainted, and they
nearly all screamed. Miss Morgan calmly con-
tinued her recitation. Manager Kayser, of the
conservatory, appeared on the stage and quieted
the crowd by saying that a small blaze had been
caused by an overturned lamp and a piece of
the theater was still filed with smoke, the audi
ence remained, and the performance went on.
The building is we'll known to be thoroughly fire.
proof. and Manager Henderson, the door-keeper
and ushers, by reminding those near the entrance
of that fact did much toward q~uieting the audi
enGe.
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THE HOUSE.
journed.

Nr. Curtin Resigns His Place on the Banking
and Currency Committee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-The moment that Mr..
Curtin, of Pennsylvania, who has been confer
ring with friends, succeeded in being recognized
by the Speaker. he arose and said: ut was your
pleasure. sir. to do me the honor to place me
first on the list of the committee on banking and
currency. I did intend to state to this House
my reason for declining that honor, but On the
advice of many friends, and of the sentiment of
the public journals of the country, l have con-
cluded to offer no reasons of my W as to declin-
ing the position it was your pleasure to give me.
| did not need the advice Of any man, for my
disposition in this respect was made up from the
beginning. For reasons of my own, which seem to
be understood by my many friends and colleagues
on this floor. I do ask this House to excuse me
from the important duty as chairman of the COM
mittee to which you have assigned me-"
The Speaker-If there be no objection, the
gentleman from Pennsylvania will be excused
from duty as chairman of the committee on
banking and currency.
Mr.. Bland, Of Missouri, moved that the House
do not excuse the gentleman from Pennsylvania,
but this motion received no support, and Mr..
Curtin was excused. This devolves the chair
manship upon Mr.. Miller, of Texas.
Mr.. Hill, of Ohio, on behalf of the committee
on Territories, called up, and the House passed,
the Senate bill to legalize the election of a Ter
ritoral Legislative Assembly of Wyoming.
On behalf of the committee on presidential
laws, Mr.. Caldwell, of Tennessee, called up for
action the Hoar presidential succession bill, but on
the statement by Mr.. Cooper, of Ohio, that the mi
nority report had not been printed, the discus
sion of the subject was postponed until to-mor-
row.
The House, on motion of Mr.. Morrison, at l
o'clock, adjourned.
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Smallpox Given a Fair Chance.

CHICAGO, Jan. ia man named Bertholdi,
claiming to be a practicing physician, but not
having a State license, was attending a family
afflicted with the smallpox, living over g saloon
on Halstead street. AS a result Of his negligence,
it is claimed, five persons have died from the
disease, and a number of cases have developed.
Bertholdi remained for some days with a family
at Washington Heights, but was arrested and
taken to jail. In the meantime FIVE children in
the family Ft Washington Heights are reported
down with the disease. and Bertholdi has been
allowed to mingle with the prisoners for a week,
causing a fear of an outbreak of the disease
among the prisoners. The 300 inmates of the
county Jail were vaccinated to day, and the
building will be thoroughly fumigated.
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TEE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY "A. 1886.

with others part of the night. keeping watch.
The next morning, on arising. he complained of
a severe pain in the region of the heart, and in o
half hour he was dead.
A fire at Mt. Vernon burned out the business
houses of Charles Gronermeyer. dealer in boots
and shoes; II. B. Wilbur's wholesale grocery.
and McCallister 81 Sons store. Gronermeyers
loss is $500; no insurance. Wilbur's loss, Sl2, 900:
insured. mncCallisrers loss not given. The total
loss will probably reach Sl5, 900.
t the annual meeting of the Tri county Fair
Association, at North Manchester, Tuesday. the
Following directors were elected for the ensuing
year L. j. NoftZger, F. B. Leonard. B. F.
Giemans, j. 81. Boner. Dan Strauss, d. NJ.
frame, z. Pauling, NJ. Sniderman, John Fisher,
Ihomas Bussard, and j. F. Reahard.
A boy named Roy Alexander had a narrow es-
cape from death at Richmond. While crossing
a railroad track. in front of an approaching loco
motive. his foot caught in a frog. The engineer
stopped his train in time to save the boys life,
put not IN time to prevent a rather serious in
jury to his leg by a wheel of the engine.
On Christmas day Gerge Sterling and Peter
carney. both small boys, got drunk at Cement
vile. and the former gave the latter 81. SO to keep
Tor him. Carney lost the money and refused to
refund it. The grand jury brought an indict-
ment against him and he was brought before
Judge Ferguson, who remanded him to Jail.
crossing of the B. & D. and the Louisville &
Chicago road, caused by the collision of two pas
senger trains. Four employees were killed. No
passengers were injured. 1t is claimed that the
engineer who caused the trouble was worn out
from overwork, having been on duty twenty
hours out OF every twenty-four since the severe
storm of last Friday.
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Negroes Flooking to Arkansas.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Jan. Is. The immigra-
ton of negroes from North and South Carolina
to this State is attracting attention. The new
Drew counties, in southern Arkansas, as places of
abode. The negro population is very large in
that section, particularly in Desha and Chicot
counties, where the Republicans have a majority,
and choose county officers, dividing the Offices
with the blacks. In the past three months hun
dreds of negroes have settled in these counties.
A gentleman in this city received a letter from
Charleston, S. c., stating that the writer, a lead
ing colored man, desired to locate forty or fifty
families, comprising five to eight persons in each
family, in this State during January. Other let
ters from different parts of the Carolinas indi-
cate that at least one thousand negroes will come
TO Arkansas between this date and May.
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Remarkable Historv of Eliza 30 wen.

GALEsBURG, Jan. 13.-The death of a white
woman, Eliza Bowen. yesterday. has brought
out a remarkable story. Since her residen nee in
Galesburg, some twenty years in all. she had
been the wife of a negro black as midnight. For
a long time the two have been looked after by
the city. The woman was partially paralyzed
in one side. The miserable twain lived in a rude,
small shanty, upholstered and uncomfortable in
the east part of the city, which she built with
money she had begged. Lately she complained
Of i'll treatment at the hands of her black
husband. This woman was. before the rebellion,
the wife of Colonel Hanks, at one time an officer
in the British army, and afterward a resident of
Kentucky. There he became possessed of a
large plantation and many slaves, the man Bowen
among them. During the war he died, and his
estate passed to his creditors. His wife he put
in charge of Bowen, whom he instructed to care
for her. The marriage occurred several years
afterward. She has been frequently heard to
contrast the luxuries she formerly enjoyed with
her miserable and penurious surroundings here.
The story is a remarkable one, but is vouched
for by many who have heard it from the woman's
own lips.
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ILLINOIS.
Arrival of Cowboy and Indian Convicts at the
Joliet Penitentiary.

Arrival of Cowboy and Indian Convict at the
Joliet P~enitentiary.
JOLIET, Ill, Jan. 13.-The sheriff of johnson
county, Wyoming, arrived here last evening
with a gang of Territorial ~convicts, consisting of
cowboys and Indians. The party had been on
the road for a week, delayed by snow, storms on
the Union Pacific. The convicts we're heavily
ironed. and had worn their shackles constantly
since starting for Joliet. a week ago. Their ar
rival created quite a sensation as they stepped
from the cars, headed by two powerfullooking
Arapahoe Indians bound together by a logchain
and heavy leg irons. The two Indians were
both young men, excellent specimens of their
tribe, fully six feet in height, and with raven
hair that hung halfway down their backs. The
sheriff explained that the Indians were convicted
of killing a beef in the mountains, near the
Buffalo agency, the penalty of which is from one
to ten years in the penitentiary. 1t is said that
the Indians at the Arapahoe agency are in a
starving condition, owing to the small amount
of supplies furnished by the government. and
that these two Indians were actually suffering
for food when they killed the beef. Although
they had the sympathy of every one at the
agency, they were given q year for the crime.
Their names are Beaver" and Samuel" the
former being a son of the head chief of the
Arapahoes.
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The Western Nail Association.

CINCINNATI. o., Jan. 13.-The Western Nail
Association held a three hours session to-day.
with twenty-four mills representative from
Pittsburg, four from Wheeling, one each from
vile, o.; Brilliant, O.; Ashland, KY: Terre
Haute. Ind; Sharon, Pa; Niles, O.; Chicago;
Belleville. ILL.,; Bayview, Wis, and two from
~Ironton. 0. The following was unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, Recognizing the Importance to US of the
the greater Importance to as of the principles in
volved in the present struggle with our labor, and
thus fully approaching the situation,
Resolved, That we reafirm all our former actions
in regard to the matter of wages and workmen now in
our employ.
Adjourned to meet in Pittsburg in February.
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Minor Notes.


The S@ngerbund Society, of Jacksonville. is
to be reorganized.
The residence of B.. King, five miles north Of
Milroy, was burned on Monday. Loss, $500.
Mrs. Maggie Watson, a Harrison county
school-teacher has been taken to the Hospital
for the Insane.
The Christian Church denomination have en-
ployed j. A. Johnston as an evangelistfo for Mont
gomery county.
Mrs. Eliza J. Cook, wife of Rev. P. s. Cook, of
South Bend, died at that place on Monday. She
will be buried at Dublin, Wayne county. to-day.
A tobacco barn belonging to A. Mattinsly,
near Rockport, was destroyed by fire. This is
the third barn fired in that vicinity during the
past week.
The little daughter of Robert j. Wiley. a
farmer living near LaGro. fell against a red-hot
stove, on Tuesday, and was very badly burned.
She lies in a dangerous condition.
Rev. Mr.. Marshall, of the First Presbyterian
Church at Peru, is conducting nightly meetings
at the Presbyterian Church in Wabash this
week. Much interest is being manifested.
AT Peru, in the case Of the State VS.. Jacob
Nader, accused of the murder of James Ander-
son. in Wabash. last September, the defendant
was found not guilty. The plea of Nader was
self-defense.
Mace, Montgomery county, was burned on Tues
day, together with the contents. Cause, a de-
fective fue. The house was insured for 5000,
and contents for $400, in the Ohio Farmers.
At Fort Wayne, Mrs. Charles Brinsley, who
has been i'll for several weeks from typhoid fever,
committed suicide while in a fit of delirium by
jumping into a deep we'll of water. and was not
discovered for two hours. She leaves two
children.
Samuel Burke died suddenly of heart disease
at Brazil, on Monday. A neighbor, John Pol
lard, dressed the remains for bu-ial, and sat up
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Dion Boucicauit and Agnes Robertson.

CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-Dion Boucicault, who is
at present in this city, was asked to-day if there
was any truth in the story of Agnes Robertson
that he had ne YER been divorced from her. Mr..
subject. and kindly but firmly refused to even
make a simple affirmative or negative answer to
the question.
81 never have made such a statement, either
in the press or otherwise, and a report that was
circulated about five years ago, when this lady
brought a suit for divorce, that I repudiated my
children and put some similar plea on record, is
wholly and unreservediy a lie, for I have never
spoken a word regarding it. even in my defense.
A woman may take advantage of her sex to
make a cowardly statement which, as 1 have
said, have not noticed, and will not, until neces-
sary, and then I shall speak in court"
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Verdict Against a Railway Company.

MADISON. Wis, Jan. 13.-The case of Henry
Waterman, of Milton, against the Chicago &
Alton railroad, for $50, 900 damages, has been
terminated with a verdict for Waterman of
$22. 600. In December. 1882, Waterman was in
Chicago with two cars of stock which the st.
Paul road had shipped for him. While taking
them to the stock-yards the train was run into
by a Chicago g. Alton engine. Waterman sus-
tanned a fall, from which spinal difficulty re-
suited. His nervous system was completely
shattered. He has to be carried about on a cot,
and gave his testimony from a cot before the
jury. The case attracted wide attention, and
every effort was made by the railroad company
to prove that the nervous trouble resulted from
causes other than the railroad accident.
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~Trade-Unionists Indicted.

New ORLEANS, Jan. 13.-The grand jury has
indicted the presidents of the trades union, of
the Typographical Union and of the Pressmen's
Union for criminal libel, in having carried. in
the trade parade of Nov. 25, a banner bearing
the device, 'Fined 5000 for Being Union Men"
The grand jury pronounces it a libel on the
court. 1t at the same time indicted Mark Big
ney, editor of the Item, for criminal libel, in
consequence of an article entitled 1.-The Press
and the Bench, in which he protested against
the heavy fine placed on another paper for pub
fishing testimony in a murder trial which the
court had ordered not published. Ali the parties
indicted were arrested that night