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Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-10-30
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press Josephine white mil embroid-
cred about the edge o. the skirt il inlrni-
tation Oiwild roses and green leaves
about her shoulders a green scarf, which
MAS turned about her Well-shaped body:
N her hand small bouquet OF roses.
There was no situation in this act to call
forth her powers as an actress. except
perhaps during Claadg Mclaoafc's recital
Of the beautiful lines descriptive O. his
palace home on Lake Como: but her
graceful mein and bearing were watched
with deep interest. In the third ACT she
Won the audience BY her soornfuI paro-
dy Of Claude's beautiful descriptions.
when she compared the humble cottage
to which hehad taken her with the palace
on the lake which he had promised.
Miss Constance Fenimore Woolson
has rented for the autumn and early win
ter part of an old stone villa on the hill
called Bellosguardo, outside the Roman
gate Of Florence, Italy. In the same
villa resides Miss Greenough, sister of
the sculptor, and Mr. Francis Booth. of
Boston, with his daughter and son-in-
law, Frank Duveneck, the painter.
Miss Woolson's quarters have an old
garden in front of them, and are very
Economically situated. Across the west
ern end other reception room is broad
parapet, just elbow-bigh, 10 lean upon,
and from this parapet the distinguished
novelist gazeS upon the mosl beautiful
Landscape in Italy-the valley of the Ar
no westward, with the strange outlines
of the Carrara Mountains at its end,
and the river like silver ribbon wind
ing down toward Pisa and the sea.
This parapet is, in fact, the broad top
of an old stone wall, which plunges
straight down on the other side forty
feet or more. The next villa to Miss
Wooson's is Villa Montanto. where
Hawthorne wrote the marble Faun."
and which he describes as the home of
Donatello. The shadow Of its old
stone tower moves across Miss Wool
sons garden every day like that Of a
Isun-dial. Not far distant is the smaller
villa where Miss Woolson's great-uncle,
James Fenimore Cooper, spent two sum
mers with his family sixty years ago.
He wasvery fond OF Italy, and the days
Ihepassed there were the happ est Of his
life.
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-10-30
About Women.

Lady Randolph Churchill isin attend
ance upon the Queen. She is the first
American who has ever occupied the
place of lady-in-waidng.
Mary Duke, of Clanton, SIX years old,
isthe Youngest school-teacher in Alaba-
ma She has an infants school. and
charges ten cents a month for teaching
the little ones their letters.
The Ne.ylortk~est, Mrs. D4niway's
paper published at Portland Oregon, re-
Gently completed IFS fifteenth year. L
is always to be congratulated on It's ty-
biographical neatness, and its able
editorial management. The Nc.y -Nl.y-
sgef promises for the current wear a new
serial story by Mrs. Dumway and various
other interesting features.-Tribune.
In Philadelphia women make a good
living as professional Hampers. They
contract to call each day and trim and
keep in perfect order the lamps of the
household. The metal, the chimneys,
the shades and the wicks are kept i'm
malculate, and the oil fresh, and the re-
lief to the average housekeeper more
than compensates for the slight fee re-
quired.
The Southern WOman prints list of
about fifty women who are actively con-
.nected with papers published in the
South, and urges the formation of a
Southern Press Association. The No
mans Tribune dislikes any suggestion
OF separation between the aims and in
tereStS of the different localities, and
would remind the Southern women that
when a National Woman's Press ASso-
ciahon was formed by the efforts OF
Mrs. Marion Mcbride during the New
Orleans exposition, southern woman
was made the president. By the way,
what is our National Association
doing?
When Mrs Langtry made her APP
pearance on Monday evenining as Paul
inc in the ''Lady of Lyons she was
greeted with long continued applause.
1t was in the French garden scene of the
second actthat she first came upon the
stage, attired in the fashion of the En-
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-10-30
News Notes.

NJ de Lesseps will attend the dediea-
fop of Bartholdi's statute.
Gossips will have it that the broken
engagement between the Earl of Cairns
and Miss Grant is likely to be renewed.
The friends of ex-President Arthur
say that he is very much better than he
was when he went to New London.
Lieutenant Hem is reported as SIo,-
900 out of pocket as the result of his eff
forts to catch the championship cup.
The Paris Express reports cattle dying
inseveral portions Hogan county which
istermeda peculiar disease.
Its estimated that about 700 women
voted at the school election this fall in
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The New Orleans Woman S Club held
their first meeting in their new home, "a
fine three story. nineteen-room house on
CampStreet' the nth of October.
N. Bartholdi sailed from Harve for
New York Oct. I6, to attend the cere-
nony of unveillng his statue of Liberty
on Bedloe's Island.
The edition of the November Century,
containing the first chapters OF the author
ICED "Lite of Lincoln, will be a quarter
Ola million copies.
President Cleveland has sent $50 to
the Confederate Home at Charleston,
o. y, accompanied by a sympathetic
letter.
Inc New York World spent thousands
u dollars this summer in giving free
sN'HlSiohS to the newS-boyS and work
ng-glrls.
Benjamin Folsom, of New York, has
VSea appointed Consul to Sheffield Eng
I'no' He Isl cousin OF the Presidents
WooJ n
woods Pasha, admiral of the Turkish
f asy' and one of the best living authori-
,f,. on everything relating to naval
r WIG has written an article for the No
uOer number of The Forum on
n mlent Naval Progress, in which he
c ,'NeS valuable suggestions as to the
Instruction ofour new war ships.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
THE POOL LITIGATION.
The Hearing Begun, but Brought to a Stop
by Defendants Refusing to Answer.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16 "A hearing was held
by Attorney general Cassidy before a notary
public here, to-day, in the suit of the State
against the anthracite coal combination, to re-
strain its members from maintaining a pool.
President Joseph A. Harris of the LehighsCoal
and Navigation Company, was the only witness
called Acting under the advice of NJ. e. Ohm
stead, counsel for the company. Mr. Harris de-
clined to answer any of the questions Of the
Attorney general
Mr.. Olmstead, attorney for the Lehigh Coal
Company, said he desired to go record as call
ing the attention of the Attorney general to the
fact that there was filed in the Dauphin County
Court motion to vacate the rule under which
the examination was proceeding, and that Tues
day next had been named for a hearing. He re-
served all rights and objected to proceeding un-
der the rule on the ground that it ia not prop.
erly taken. and that the Attorney general is not
authorized to take dispositions.
Mr. Gendell. assistantto to the Attorney general,
said, In view of Mr.. Olmsteads statement, the
State would require him to produce witnesses in
open court on Tuesday Further effort on the
part OF Mr.. Gendell to elicit information from
Mr.. Harris met with the repeated response, Il
decline to answer"
After a recess Of an hour President Roberts,
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, was
asked to take the stand. A delay was asked by
his counsel, which was granted. and the hearing
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company officials
was postponed until Saturday morning at IL
o'clock.
Mr. Samuel c. Dickson, on behalf of witnesses
I. Fl. Jones' Austin Corbin, George Deb. Keim,
Stephen B. Caldwell, j. Lowry Bell, Samuel G.
Harris, A. j. Speese. E. P. Wilbur j. Lowber
Welsh and A. J. Drexel. formally declined to
allow any of them to be sworn stating they had
received the same instructions as had been given
Mr.. Harris.
Attorney general Cassidy then gave notice to
the defense to produce all their witnesses, to-
gether with all papers mentioned in the sub
poenas, at Harrisburg, in the Court Of Common
Pleas on Tuesday next
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
Exchange of Friendly Compliments Between
Americans and Eranchinen

Exchange of Friendly Compliments Between
Americans and Frenchmen.
PARIS, Dec 16. General Pellisser gave ban
quet. last evening, to United States Minister
McLane and the French delegates to the cere-
mony of the dedication of the statue Of Liberty
Enlightenng the World. The general express
sion was one of profound emotion over the cor
diality extended them by the people of the
United States. Mr.. McLane. in response, said
French Huguenots and other Frenchmen were
established in America before English civiliza-
tion was planted there, and they had left their
names to places, testifying to the extent and
persistence of French influence. Other nations
with whom tho United States was happy to en-
tertain good relations, could not Mr.. McLane
said be surprised or offended at the long histor
ical association established by the closest and
most intimate ties between France and the
United States. The blood which had been split
had afterwards sealed this friendship, which was
sustained by common aspirations toward the
same political idea. ''This friendship" contin-
ued the American minister, rests upon the
great principle whose henefcent action your IL
lustrious sculptor has symboized, and will last
as'long as Liberty eDlehtens the world"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
FREEDMAN's SAVINGS BANK.
Recommendations of Comptr oller Trenholm
as to Settling It's Affairs.

Recommendations of Comptroller Trenholm
as to Settling It's Affairs.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6-The Speaker laid be-
fore the House to-day report from the Comp
troler of the Currency, ex offcio commissioner
of the Freedmap's Savings and Trust Company,
on the affairs of that institution The report
shows that on Dec. there was balance on
hand of $7,7l9 The Comptroller makes strong
plea in favor of the assumption by the govern
ment of the liabilities of the institution to its de-
positors. He quotes at length the reports of
his predecessors on the subject, and says 'More
than fifteen thousand depositors had to their
credit. at the time of the failure of the bank
only S. or less each, and it may be necessary
that these should be sought out and paid with as
little cost to them as possible; while thousands
of others have still to their credit amounts so
small as to be entitled to a like share
of consideration he says it would
seem proper to allow at least three
years for the presentation and auditing OF these
claims, and suggests Jan. /, $780, as term of
final liquidation. He Is inclined to think that
the estimate Of his immediate predecessor that
$l coo, 900 would be sufficient to settle all de-
mands likely to be proved ia correct. In his re-
port the Comptroller reflects strongly on the
former managers of the institution. He says
that the congressional investigation In 1879 re-
vealed nothing but hopeless tangle OF involved
and disputed reckonings. Nearly every man OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
He Is Now Little Better than Confirmed In
valid. and Is Assisted Up and Down Stairs
at His Home and in the Department.
Operations of an AdrOit Swindler Who
Claims To Be a Great Scientist.
Comptroller Trenholm Urges Settlement of
Freedman's Bank Affairs-More About Dab
ney's Record-0ther Washington News.
SECRETARY MANNING.
His Health Is Very Poor, and He VIII Ger
tainiy Retire from the Cabinet

His Health Is Very Poor, and He VIII Ger
tainiy Retire from the Cabinet
Special to the Indianapolis JournaI.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Although newspa-
pers throughout the country have fallen into
the habit of late, of referring in a sneering way
to the reports of correspondents concerning
Cabinet changes it is nevertheless true that at
least one change is about to take place in the list
of President Cleveland's counselors. 1t may be
Wild speculation, and is probably untrue, that
Attorney general Garland has an idea of retir-
ine but the people who are permitted to see
Secretary Manning daily have not the slightest
doubt that he will be out Of the Cabinet in a
very short time. If he does not go out volun-
tarily, his friends fear that he will do so
through necessity, as he is in very delicate
health, notwithstanding the fact that he tries
to make himself believe that he is
improving in physical strength. Mr. Manning
is helped in and out of his carriage, up and down
stairves at his residence and at the depart
ment, and is lifted up and down the steps at the
White House, as though he were an invalid of
many years suffering He totters and reels, and
has all the appearance of who suffers in
tensely and has grave apprehensons of the end
being imminent. Those who have talked with
Mr. Manning recently, and who have had the
best opportunities Of judging Of his physical
strength say he must leave the harrassments of
his office or run great risk of losing his ife 1t
is evident, for reasons for which even his friends
do not speak of. but which relate to the pre-
carious condition of his health that Mr.. Man
ming will not be in the Cabinet after March next.
He will stay till Congress adjourns, in all prob
ability
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
The President ana Congress.

cpecl2f TO the 1nGIanapon6 Journai
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-When Southern
member OF Congress called upon President
Cleveland, the other day. and talked about the
work of the session, the man at the White
House said something like this:
Il hope you people up there will do something
With finance and the customs laws before you
adjourn. These are matters in which .he coun-
try is vitality interested, and if you don't take
some action I'm afraid / will have to call ybur
attention to the subjects again. and in moro
impressive way than did in my message"
The member is puzzled to understand what
the President meant, out is of the impression
that 1t was an extra session of Congress. He
says, however, that the President may have in
tended to convey tho idea that he would be more
pronounced in his message to Congress when it
convenes in December next Since the utter
ances of the President this member has been
feeling the pulse of the House, and says that the
President will have to do his worst, as there is
no earthly chance of changing the tariff at this
session. or in any way modifying the silver coin
age. etc,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17

A Prospective Row About Proposed Cow
ernment Charity in Utah.

Prospective Row About Proposed Cow
ernment Charity in Utah.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16-The Secretary of the
Interior, in response to letter from Senator
Edmunds chairman of the Senate judiciary com
niittee, asking for information as to a supposed
difficulty or want of harmony in Utah concern
ing an item in the miscellaneous appropriations
of 100000 to aid in the establishment of an in
dustrial home for polygamous wives and their
children in Utah, has transmitted to the judiciary
committee the annual report of Hon. Caleb w.
West Governor of Utah, which contains refer
ence to the industrial home, and q copy of a
letter from Mrs. Angie +. Newman of Lincoln,
Neb., in which she vigorously protests against
Gov. Vests Interpretation OF that portion Of the
act making the appropriation Mrs. Newman
writes that the wishes of the members of the
Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah,
through whose active lnstrumentality the appro-
nriation was secured, have been disregarded by
the board of control. contrary to the spirit Of
the law. She also criticises the methods thus
far pursued by the board, and intimates that all
the labor and money expended by the promoters
of the enterprise is in danger of being sacrificed
to misjudgment and mismanagement. Mrs.
Newman asks for legal construction OF the
text of the act as to Its intention to include in
the management of the home tho association
above referred TO. The present board of con-
troll consists of the Governor the justices OF the
Supreme Court and the district attorney of the
Territory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
Gable Notes.

Germany has annexed several of the Solomon
islands, in conformity to an agreement with
England.
The Pope. fearing the result of the agitation
in favor of separation of church and state, has
instructed the French bishops to endeavor to
counteract the effect of the movement by show
ing the people the evils that would follow.
The commission of the Reichstag to which the
governments military bill has been referred, to-
day rejected, by vote OF l6 to II, the clause
proposing to fix April next as the date to put
into effect the contemplated increase in the Ger
man army The commission also fixed the peace
effective force at 400. 900 men for three years.
The vote stood 16 to IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
Celebrating a Victory for "the Cause"

Special to the indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK, Dec l6.-The ladies' suffrage COM
mittee tonight celebrated, at the Hoffman
House, the vote cast by Mrs Lucy G. Barber, in
Alfred, N. Y, under existing law, at the last
election. Mrs. Kato Palmer Stearns presided,
and criticised Hon. A. s. Hewitt's statement
that domestic ser4ice is the cure for work.
ingwomen's distress She said most working
women cannot get such employment, and those
competent for it are kept out by unjust social
stigma upon the occupation. The other leading
speakers were Orlando B. Potter, Isabella
Beecher Hooker, Emma Beckwith, and Hamil-
ton Wilcox. Mrs. Frank Leslie, Dr. Clenence,
s. Losier and others, sent letters of regret Res
were adOpaGs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
AN ApRoIT swINDLER.
A Rascal Who Uses Another Mans Name
and Preys Upon Scientists.


and Preys Upon Scientists.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 16-A swndler. who is
apparently a man of some ability, has been
country by representing himself as a scientis.
connected with the geological survey, and his
career has now been continued with good de-
gree Of success for about four years. He takes
the names, one after another, of the chiefs of
| the several scientific branches, and borrows
books and specimens from libraries and college
museums. and money from professors and libra
rians. He has examined alleged coal and cop
per mines and received money for making favor
able reports, which he promised should apppar
in the annual publications of the survey More
than once he has promised positions in the sur
vey to persons who have paid him literally for
the supposed favor. In dozen places he has
arranged to deliver lectures upon scientific
subjects, and has decamped after max
ing many dupes as possible He is said
to have fair command of geological and pale
entologic terminology. and to be plausible and
entertaining talker upon variety of subjects
Recently he has been operating under the name
and title of Capt Clarence E. Dutton whose
fame as geoogist and writer is we'll known
The first that was heard Of him in this character
came in a letter to Captain Dutton from north
ern Michigan The writer said he had driven in
the dark and through the mud a long distance to
hear the Captain lecture las per invitation" and
was chagrined and surprised to ind that the
lecturer was not on hand, and had not been
heard from at the appointed place He could
| overlook this failure and swallow his disappoint
mert, but he begged that the two valuable books
borrowed by the geoogist from a clergyman to
whom he was introduced by the complainant be
returned, the clergyman held him respon-
sible in the matter. This writer expresses ad
miration for Captain Duttons ability and ac-
quirements, but earnestly lectures him upon the
grave defects OF character betrayed by the book
episode, and admonishes him to reform.
Then there came letter from the president of
an Ohio university, apologizing for his delay in
forwarding documents, and expressing the hope
| that it will not prove fatal
Next the president of literary society in In
diana wrote to close the bargain for lecture.
begging that an early day might be fixed, and
assuring Captain Dutton that the ladies would
be delighted to see him again.
A man in Detroit demanded the return of the
book loaned to the Captain, and informed him
that those promised to be sent from Washington
had not come to hand.
Major Powell says the survey has heard from
this swindler as often as once month for four
years, and he thinks it time that steps were
taken to put end to his career-an opinion
which Captain Dutton thoroughly indorses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
A Youthful Postoffice Thief

Special to the Indianapolis Journai.
MERIDEN Conn, Dec. 16.-For some time
past letters with money in them have been
missing from the Meriden postofice. w. A.
Kelsey G. Co.. manufacturers of the Excelsior
printing presses, who receive considerable sums
of money by mail were the principal victims.
Suspicion pointed towards Frank Hess. fifteen
years old, who had charge of the delivery
window This afternoon the monev-order clerk
addressed decoy letter to W. A. Kelsey & Co.,
with marked dollar bill inclosed, and 1t was
rested, but denied taking the letter, alleging
that he found it on the pavement and forgot to
mention it to the postmaster. He will have a
hearing tomorrow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
DABNEY,s RECORD.
His Boast that He Did Service as Guard
at AndersonvIlle Prison.

His Boast that He Did Service as a Guard
at AndersonvIlle Prison.
b. v. B., In Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
In view of the pointed and apparently we'll
backed denial, by Mr.. Dabney. and others in his
behalf, it has been the general belief here for
several days that he has been unjustly charged
with any connection with Andersonvlle. But
last evening report was current that DR.. Dab
ney himself had declared in talk with fellow
clerks, that he was guard at Andersonville
Careful inquiry in regard to this matter to-day
shows that this report is true. reliable clerk
in tho Pension Office says that Dr. Dabney some
time ago stated in the presence of his associates
in the Office that he had been guard at Ander-
sonville prison.
sion it was alleged that the mind of the appli-
can't who was an Indiana soldier, had been Inn
paired by the treatment ae had received at
Andersonville. The claim happened to fall into
the hands of Dr. Dabney. He took the Claim TO
another medical reviewer, and made derisive re-
marks concerning such an allegation, laughed at
and treated the claim with contempt His con-
duct was such that an old employe called him
to an account for it, and they had an alteration
OF words Then DR.. Dabney, to defend himself
In his position II regard to the claim stated that
he knew such a claim to be ridiculous, for he
was guard at Andersonville, and knew what be
was talking about 1t has been we'll known in
the medical division for some time
There seems to be no doubt that DIR. Dabney
did make this claim. Even if it was false
claim, as his denial implies, the fact of his maxi
ing it would seem to render him even mere unfit
for service in the Pension Office than if he had
actually served at Andersonyille and kept quiet
about it. A man who, being free from that most
Internal crime against civilization, would set up
a claim Of connection with it, exhibits kind of
depravity which no language can characterize
with sufficient severity