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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11

WASHINGTON STREET PAVEMENT.

There are several good reasons why the
contract should not be let to pave Washing
ton street under the present ordinance and
biddings. The ordinance itself is defective
because of its indefniteness, and the bids are
extortionate in any event. the lowest bid
being $l24 per lineal foot on each side, or
$24. so per running foot. This cost is to be
paid by the property-owners along the street
In addition to this; the city would have to
pay for the paving across the streets and alleys
interesting Washington street. which would
be over fifteen thousand dollars ($15, 000 J
The city has not the money to make this i'm
provement with now, nor will it have it In a
year. When the petition to pave the street
was circulated the cost was represented as
being about half the lowest bid now received,
and the persons signing the petition signed it
with that understanding. 1t would be gross
violation of good faith and square dealing to
let the contract and impose this heavy burden
upon the property owners along the street
The property on Washington street is
already taxed at more than it would
sell for and the continued infiction of these
burdens will amount almost to confiscation.
There is no pressing necessity for the work
being done this year or even next. Washing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11
Mr.. Lincoln's Ingenuity.


W washington Post.
10 1864 he was greatly bothered by the peace
at-any price mon from the North. There was
especially one old fellow from Massachusetts.
very bland and wholly bald, who was the thorn
in the Presidential flesh. Mr. Lincoln man-
aged to get rid of him and his Quaker appeals
OF one device or another till his ingenuity was
severely taxed One day, when the angel of
mercy had been boring him about half an hour,
to the delay of important business, the Presi-
dent suddenly rose, walked to closet and took
large bottle from it.
did you ever try this for baldnessl" he asked,
exhibiting the bottle for his visitors inspection
The visitor admitted that he never had. Mr..
Lincoln summoned a servant had the bottle
wrapped up and gave it to the astonished phi
lanthropist. with the injunction: Now 90 and
rub some of that on your head. Persevere; keep
it up. They say twill make the hair grow
Come back in three months and report"
The Grieved disciple of Penn found himself out
the door, with the hair restorer under his arm
before he had time to fairly reflect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11
oR1ME IN THE MARKRT-HoUsE.

The report of the committee appointed to
investigate the report that "bulln beef, but
terine, oleomargarine, and decayed and un-
wholesome fruits, vegetables and foods Of all
kinds. are being offered for sale on the public
market of this city, directs attention to a mat
ter that should be promptly investigated and
corrected by the proper officers. If,
as the committee declares, reputable
butchers are being driven out
Of the trade, by reason of being undersold by
men who sell cheap and nasty meats, the
Board of Health has been derelict in the dis
charge of its duty. If the people of Indian
apolis hope to maintain their market, which is
of inestimable value to them, it must
be kept free from such swindles
The man who would take advantage
of the public by selling what he knows to be
impure or unwholesome food would not hest
tate to steal, did opportunity offer. They
should all be hustled out of the market house,
and their places given to honest dealers. 1t
is useless to talk of building new house,
and expect these practices to be con-
tinued. The Board Of Health and the
market master owe 1t to the public to discover
and punish all who dare offend in this manner
The public wants to know what it is buying
and eating, and the city cannot afford to be-
come party to this detestable business COM
planned of. A thorough investigation and
swift punishment Of the guilty is demanded
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11
A FURRY IN WABASH.
A Lady Stakeholder Charges that the Mana
gers Are Under Jay Gould's Thumb.

Lady Stakeholder Charges that the Mana
gers Are Under Jay Gould's Thumb.
New York Special.
A lady who particularly wished that her name
be kept out of the newspapers was the liyeliest
person to-day at the ivelest meeting of railroad
people there has ever been in New York It was
the Wabash bondholders' meeting to discuss the
chances of their ever getting their money out of
the concern, and she was one of the bondhold-
ers. Incorporation of the purchasing commit
tee made some time ago, considered, and
the charge was freely made that the committee
had been under the thumb of Jay Gould. Final
ly after the lady had told the other unfortunates
that she knew what her legal rights were and in
tended to have her consolidateds dealt with on a
par with frsts and seconds, committee of five
ordered to be appointed by the chair, Fl. H.
Body, to investigate the road. 1t is to consist
of two firsts. two seconds and one consolidated
representatives
A. d. Ashley, one of the purchasing commit
tee. made an excited speech, denouncing as alb
solutely false the charge that the committee had
favored Jay Gould He declared that not one
dollar of the floating debt had been caused by
the payment to Jay Gould and Russell Sage
'sThe figures given by the committee are abso-
lutely correct" he said, ''and defy anybody to
prove different This meeting is treating us Just
as the London meeting treated James f. JOY.
The London people found ont their mistake, and
Jay Gould, bat when tell You that he has lost
81. 900 or 81, 000 600 in Wabash, perhaps you
won't shout so bad. | am glad this committee
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11
Jackson,s Great Battle-Field.

New orleans Letter,
The battle ground of New Orleans is to day the
very prettiest spot of interest to be found in all
our land 1t is beautiful orange grove. and
under these fruitful and laden trees is the MOSS
perfect riot of flowers that arr and generous ma
ture can bring together. Many of these flowers
such blossom the winter through. Here
the federal Authorities established cemetery
for the soldiers. Twelve thousand federal dead
lie here, with nearly as many thousand British.
In corners of the graveyard you see little heaps
OF British cannon-balls dug up when digging
graves for the federal dead. These balls are
small and rusty, not unlike the oranges that
hang on the trees overhead. The monument to
General jackson, placed on the spot where he is
supposed TO have sat his horse and directed the
battle is only half completed and in sad state
of decay. Ipassed up the circular step inside to
view the top of the half finished shaft. Our par
ty was attacked by swarm of honey bees, the
February day being warm enough for them to be
out and we had to hastily descend At the base
of the monument l saw nest of mice in
sheaf Of rice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11
Beware of Torn Checks.

Boston Transcript
A new and ingenious swindle has deem detect
ed, follows: check, say for so. is obtained
from a depostor at bank and blank check
exactly like the fed-in check Is So
cured. The two checks are laid one
upon the other. so that the edges
are exactly even. Both checks are
then torn irregularly across and in such way
that the signature on the filled check appears on
one piece and the amount and name of payee on
the other The checks having been held together
while being torn, of course piece of the blank
check will exactly fit the other piece of the filled
check. The swindler then fills in one piece Of
the blank check with the name of the payee and
the amount to snit himself, say S. 900. takes
it with the piece of genuine check containing the
signature Of the bank, and explains that the
check was accidentally torn. The teller can put
the pieces together, and as they fit exactly the
chances are that he will think that the pieces
are parts of the same check and become victim
of the swindle. The trick, of course. suggests
its own remedy. The teller should refuse to pay
any check that is mutilated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11
BREAKFAST TABLE CHAT.

LOUISE MICHEL says she hopes to come to
America after death, when her soul migrates.
THE young Princesses Of Wales are expert
tricycle. riders, doing sometimes forty or fifty
miles day.
In the United States the liquor men have eight
trade papers, while the Prohibitionists have l29
publications
The Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, is an en-
thusiastic entomologist, and has lately been but
terfy-hunting in the Himalayas.
JUDGE: Fond father-Dont you think ought
to have my daughters voice cultivated Tor
tured guest-I think you ought to have some
thing done TO it.
The London Literary World remarks, in con-
nect;on with Mr. Carnegie's triumphant
Democracy" that the exuberant author is
Yankis ipsis Yankior.
AMONG the wedding presents of Nine. Patti
Nicolni was massive gold tea and coffee serv-
ice, sent from San Francisco by Mr.. Michael H.
De Young, of the Chronicle
HoBART PAsHA died in the arms Of his wife
a young English lady only twenty seven years
old. One of his dying requests was that he
might be inferred in Turkish SOIL
Miss MAY MCCLELLAN. the daughter of the
late General Mcclellan, is said to love strange
pets, and is sometimes seen at the opera and
theater with white mice on her shoulders.
JUDGE: Caroline HerschelI, the woman as
tronomer, admitted at the age of ninety-nine
that she had never had an offer of marriage
She resembled the turtle, perhaps-she lived too
much in Herschell
A LADY in London, Ont, has Marechal Mel
rosetree on one side of which the roses are GRIM
son and on the other lily white. Some of those
on the center stalk are divided ir color, being
half crimson and white Others again have the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11

ton street has been twice paved or powdered
at the expense Of the property-owners within
twenty-five years. The first improvement
within that time was eighteen inches Of
broken stone and river gravel that, if left
alone and reasonably cared for, would have
lasted until this time Then, a few
years later, that was taken up and
the present powders put down. The
street railway, and the building of the main
sewer along the street, one-half the expense
of which was charged to the property-owners
along the line have caused the damage to the
street The specifications of this new scheme
to swindle the city and property-owners will
never be complied with; nor should they be- be-
cause they contemplate the removal of good
foundation for surface paving and the substi-
tuition of one that is inferior in stability and
durability. This whole scheme is fraud,
and steal The Journal does not know who
is or may be responsible for it, but it does
know that great big steal is sought to be
made by somebody, and it takes this early oc-
casion to serve notice Oh the Board Of Alder
men, the Common Council, and the contractors
to whom the work may be awarded, if it be
awarded, that this Jordan will be hard
Dad to travel" before the money is collected
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11
Miss CIeyeland's Newspaper.

CIeveand Plain Dealer.
The Literary Life, the newspaper which Miss
Rose Cleveland is said to have made a contract
to edit In Chicago, was originally started i'm
Cleveland by viii NJ. Clemens, newspaper man
who has a large experience in starting newspa-
pers that have never had lengthy existence.
Clemens removed the Life to Chicago and I'M
loaded it upon Mr.. Elder printer, and its ex.
istence has been a sickly one. Miss CIeveland's
name is probably wanted to give the paper q
new start, but the little lady's friends ought to
see that there is some financial responsibility
back of the concern to give her pay for her la
Dor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11
Analyzirs Jones's Charms.

fM
There seems to be peculiar charm In the asso-
citation OF well-known truths of religion and tenn
perance with the kind of slang usually heard ia
bar rooms and on street corners. They do not
always Rotoeether, and tho apparent ncongrnit1
attracts attention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11

Of Eve has been appointed The company viii
welcome any investigation the cpnmittee cAfes
to make. but for heavens sake don't begin litiga-
ton
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11

bers Of the Legislature The present system
of doing local business is cumbrous, costly,
inefficient, and tends to extravaganza and
corruntion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11

A GERMAN professor at Portland Me-, claims
to have discovered an anesthetic with local eff
feet that is more powerful than cocaine, and alb
solutely harmless. 1t is said to be made of Ger
man water gas which is Transmitted into kind
of snow and again into mass of beautiful white
crystal, resembling ice, SO powerful that q single
touch completely benumbs the member, and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11

ELLEN Terry tried to commit suicide at Lousi-
vile the other day. 1t was not the actress of
that name, however. English Ellen takes no
risks by spending the summer in Kentucky.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.

TERMS INVARIABLY IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. PREPAID
BY THE PUBLISHERS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11

THE wages of sins is death. Mover was this
aphorism more literally fulfilled than in the life
and death of Cora Pearl" the woman of the
world, who for years dazzled the corrupt courts
of the old world. Hers was a brilliant career
SO long as her beauty lasted, but then it was the
old story over. Cast of and despised by those of
her lovers who had survived her, she de-,
scended to abject poverty, and died in this
neglected condition in the absence of friends
and relatives. She won certain kind of fame.
and died in the depths of shame and neglect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11

MILWAUKEE is going to have literary school
this summer. Thus early is the Indiana au
thors' convention bearing fruit. Wisconsin lite
rary people must go to school first but in time,
they, too, may become writers of imaginative
prose and verse" and ehold convention To
begin with, they will study Goethe, and Profes-
sors Harris, Snyder. Sanborn, and others, will
instruct them. 1t will. in fact, be an imitation
Concord School. and great expectations are
based upon it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19
MINOR NJ IGNITION.

In a recent number of the Literary World the
question was addressed to each one of its read
ers: IF you were imprisoned for life, and could
only have two works for your library, what two
would you choose~ Up to the 18th inst Il had
ELECTED only fourteen answers, these coming
from ten different States. The small number of
answers might indicate that readers of the Lit
erary World couldn't decide what they would
wish to read il imprisoned Coz life, or. perhaps
they regarded the contingency of imprisonment
as so remote that they didn't care to consider
the question. The question was intended as
stimulant to thought and discussion about read
ing, and, as such. might have some value. If
the term work" were construed to include an
encyclopedia, embracing several volumes, doubt
less almost every person Of reading turn would
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19
Cable Notes.

Two Germans have been arrested on the charge
of being implicated in the late robbery of mail
train between Ostend and Verviers
There were sixty-fve cases of cholera In tho
hospital at Mendoza on Saturday. There wera
twenty five deaths from the disease in Rosario.
Sir r. D. Morier, British ambassador at st.
Petersburg. has been summoned 70 London to
confer with the government concerning fresh
disputes which haze arisen concerning the AT
CHAN frontier.
Tim Hurley the tenant who, on Oct. 20 last
with band of neighbors successfully defended
his hut at Clonakilty from a force OF constabIe
and police who attempted to evict him. and who,
with his friends, was subsequently arrested whils
on their way to the tavern to celebrate the vic
tory, was on Saturday acquitted aud set at lib.
erty.
NJ: De Lesseps at a meeting Of the French
Geographical Society, declared that the Panama
canal would be opened for traffic in 1889, but
that there will not be time in the interval to con-
struct the locks. These NJ De Lesseps de-
cared to the society ''can be made later, the es-
sential point being that shipping will pass
through the canal in 1880"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19

priation. For the credit of the State it Is to
be hoped that the effort will meet with no op
position. Provision should be made at the
same time for the proper care Of various
records, historical documents and other relics
of value which are now scattered about the
State buildings some moldering away in boxes
under the Secretary Of States Office These
should come under the care of the librarian,
and in the new State-house ample facilities
will be afforded for their arrangement. The
Indiana library should be put in a shape that
will not make it laughing stock TO all who
go to it for purposes of research or to crafty
the desire to know something of the States
history and institutions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19
A DELICATE SITUATION.
How England Has Incurred the Ill-Win o
Russia and France.

Russia and France.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LONDON, Dec. 18-The Tories have always
claimed to be possessed Of heaven sent diploma
cy, and it is certainly curious proof OF 1t that
they should have succeeded in making two great
countries-Russia and France-Eugland's bitter
enemies at the same moment England was
never so unpopular as she is in Russia at the
present moment, and everybody sees that the
action of France Is largely due to the provoca-
ton and sympathy of Russia. If this
state of foreign affairs had been brought
about by Mr. Gladstone, how the
Churchils and the Ashmead -Bartetts would be
screaming all over the country. and how, when
the House of Commons met, Mr.. Gladstone
would be put on the rack of interrogative torture
every night of his life. The general effect of tho
opinion of English newspapers is that the annexa-
ton of Egypt is not to be thought Of, but at the
same time that it is impossible to fix given time
for the evacuation of the country. The
question is largely complicated by the fact that
the time is fast approaching when England
shall own half the shares of the Suez canal and
this accounts, in some degree. for the pressure
which the French government is putting upon
England. The ultraiingo organa continue to
talk of the wild proposal of an alliance with
Germany and Austria, for the purpose of keep
ing Russia back, but everybody knows that
Prince Bismarck has no such keen interest
in the keeping of France and England from each
others throats as to be ready to enter into any
such alliance Altogether the situation is I'M
pie are beginning to wish it was In the hands OF
a stronger man than Lord Iddesleigh, with safer
advisers that the sardonic Salisbury and tbs
volatile Churchill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19
Yesterday. Developments in Ireland


To the Western Associated Press
DUBLIN, Dec. Is AT demonstration held
last night in Krush, County Glare, in favor of
the 'plan OF campaign" Jeremiah Jordan, Par
nellite member of the House of Commons for
West Clare. and Mr.. Joseph Richard Cox, Par
nellite member for East Clare both 6efed the
government to do its worst by arrests and CO.
ercion against the plan. These gentlemen openly
declared that the plan of campaign would be re-
lentlessly enforced against the large Vandeleur
estates in County Clare, upon which the rents
are due to-day. Owe will bring vandeleur to
his senses tomorrow" cried one of the orators
'bv collecting his rents
Mr.. Kenny. member of Parliament. also spoke
and said the Vandeleurs bad been murderers
since 1916.
During the past two days every bit of the rent
owing by the tenants of the Fosberry estates, at
Listowell, County Kerry, minus the amounts of
the reduction demanded by the tenants and re-
fused by the landlord. has been collected under
the plan of campaign and quietly deposited with
trustees. all unknown to the authorities.
Mr.. O.Brien, who is now in Dublin, to-day re-
ceived a summons similar to the one served on
him at Lopghrea, to appear here and answer to
another charge of conspiracy TO defraud." A
similar summons will be served soon. it Is
stated, upon John Dillon, William Redmond,
Daniel Grilly, David Sheehy and Matthew Har-
ris, all Parnellite members of Parliament The
alleged conspiracy to defraud consists In Eacceut
ing, as trustee for tenants the reduced rents re-
fused by the landlords. 1t begins to look as if
the government has arranged to resist the plan
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19
Mrs. Bigelow,s Heroine.
New York Letter.


Anyone at all familiar with the face of Miss
Jennie Chamberlain will recognize her as the
original of Mrs Poultney Bigelow's American
Beauty" in the December Century. The story
is not founded upon fact, however, the resem-
blance between Miss Chamberlain and Jessie
Raynham, the heroine of Mrs. Bigelows story,
being merely a resemblance in externaIs Mrs
Poultney Bigelow was prouder of the cheoue the
Century gave her for 'An American Beauty"
than of the handsomest present she had ever
previously received. While Mrs. Bigelow who
is an American beauty" herself though not g.
professional" is writing of American life in
England, the Pail Mall Gazette hears that Mrs
Langtry. the English beauty sis writing novel
dealing with English life in England and Amer
ica y
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

MISS KATE FIELD is enjoying herself in
Washington society. She has 800, 900 worth of
telephone stock, and can afford to attack the
Mormon monster occasionally, whether she
hurts him or not
Miss CATHERINE WOLFE. the wealthy lady
who is now believed to be dying in New York,
has for many years been besieged by offers of
marriage in person and by letter. These con-
tinued until the last few months, and many of
them came. IL Is said, from ministers.
AN engineer on an Iowa railroad saw flock Of
turkeys on the track. and. knowing their habits.
slowed up, blew his whistle, and got them of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19
Kalnokx,s self-Possession.

London letter IN Liverpool Post.
Count Kalnoky is getting better known to
Europe through recent events than he ever
seemed destined to be- He appears to be per-
sonality of considerable interest He is con.
irmed bachelor, hates society, never gives an
entertainment of any kind, and appears to have
no passion but passion for work His chief
strength especially in debate, is his perfect self
possession. When he is attacked he does not
color or fdget but simply puts up his glasses
and calmly surveys his assalant. He certainly
has got the better of his opponents in all the re-
cent duels