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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14
The Southwestern Strike.

ST. Louis, May 13-The managers of the rail-
roads centering in East ST Louis appeared be-
fore the Curtin labor investigating committee
to-day and testified. almost without exception,
that the strike at that point was wholly in sup
port of the position taken by the strikers on the
Missouri Pacific, and that they had no serious
grievances OF their own. In few cases their
switchmen had demanded the Chicago scale Of
wages. but they felt certain that this would not
have caused a strike. They detailed the hind
RANGES they had met with in their attempts to
resume traffic, and were unanimous in stating
that their business would still have been para
lyzed had it not been for the presence of the mi
litia.
Col r. NJ. Smith, commanding the military
forces in East ST. Louis, testified that the au-
thorties there had been powerless to offer the
least protection to the railways He considered
the state of affairs there at present TO be of such
an unsettled nature, that Ii would be unadvisable
to withdraw military protection. He condemned
the action of Sheriff Ropiequet during the begin
ing of the troubles in East st. Louis, and said
that had he tRopiequet] been member of the
military he ISmithl would have demanded his
immediate resign alton.
Sheriff Ropiequet was called and testified that
the only cause for the strike in East st. Louis
which he knew or had heard of was to ai6 the
Knights of Labor on the Missouri Pacific rail
road. He had been present several times when
there was trouble in the yards, and saw both
violence and intimidation From o'clock on
the day of the killing he had been in East ST.
Louis, and had commanded the crowd more than
a hundred times to dispense. but they paid no at
teEtion to him. He had asked the Mayor to co.
operate with him in dispensing the mob, but was
told that he 1.-THE Mayor could do nothing, as the
police were resigning as rapidly as possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14
A Warming to Dernagoeues.

Northwestern Christian Advocate.
Governors and Mayors who shilly -shally and
hesitate, and thus encourage anarchy ought to
be sent to the rear forever Hail to the Govern,
ors of Wisconsin and Ohio, and the Mayor OF
Cincinnati
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14
A Hint for the BuIldozers.

Western Christian Advocate.
The man who compels his neighbor to leave
his employment is setting a precedent for soma
one who may some day force him to quit work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14

Memphis Avalanche.
A Secretary of War from Massachusetts is.
next to the Shah, of Persia, perhaps. the very
best man to put in charge of the Mississippi
river Improvement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14

Danvilie Breeze.
The only place in which the average woman
can be placed where she can think Of absolutely
nothing she wants 70 say. 10 at telephone
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14
The Hurricane as Repeater.
Chicarn Mail.

| Lightning never strikes twice in the Same
| place, but hurricanes do Hurricanes do not do
up their work so neatly and thoroughly as light
! ming does hence the second CALL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14

Local Observations.
INDIANAPOLIS, May IS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

Thunder. storm.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05
-
The Pictured Rocks of West Virginia

A Morgantown (w. Va) letter says
"The famous pictured rocks on the Evans
vile pike, about four miles from this place.
have been source of wonder aud speculation
for more than century, and have attracted
much attention among the learned men of
this country and Europe The cliff upon
which these drawings exist Is of considerable
size and within "a short distance of the high
way above mentioned. The rock is a white
sandstone which wears little from exposure
to the weather. and upon its smooth surface
are deiineated the outlines OF at least fifty
species Of animals, birds, reptiles and fish,
embracing in the number pauthers, deer,
buffalo, offers, beavers, wildcats, foxes,
wolves, raccoons, opossums bears, elk, crows
eagles, turkeys, eeis, various sorts of fish,
large and small, snakes, &c. In the midst OF
this silent menagerie of specimens of the
animal kingdom is the iull-length outline OF
female form, beautiful and perfect in every
respect lnterspersed among the drawing.
of animals, &c, are limitations of the foot
prints of each sort, the whole space occupied
being $50 feet long by so feet WIDE To wba
race the artist belonged, or what his purpose
was in making these rude portraits, mus
ever remain mystery, but the work wa
evidently done ages ago"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05
abe Ea,,faster Jntellige,,fer.
LANCASTER, MARCH s. 1855.
A Tale of Two Cities.

Some of the Philadelphia newspapers
point out the fact that although Gen. Han
cock was native of Pennsylvania, and
his most illustrious service was rendered
for the immediate protection of his own
state and its metropolis, New Workers
have given ten dollars to the widow where
Philadelphians have given one. One of the
suburban towns reports about the same
proportion of collections for an equestrian
statute and for the relief of his family.
There is in all this suggestiveness of the
different scale upon which things are
done in the two cities. New York
is far more advanced, liberal, progressive
and prompt. Its rich men acted upon the
impulse of the moment and rolled up big
subscription. 1t has probably come to q
stop, and will be succeeded in interest fCl
them very shortly by some new subject OF
like kind. After good deal of contempla
tion the fact that Gen. Hancock's widow
is in want and has claims upon them will
overtake the minds Of the Philadelphians
They will proceed cautiously ant
deliberately to raise proper amount
and between the city of his birth--for h,
belonged to its suburbs-and the city o.
his home, his wife will be made comforta
BILE. The indications are that 800, 900 vii
be raised for the fund, which, with the pen
sion to be granted by Congress, will be &
! liberal benefaction especially as Mrs
Hancock has no family.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05
Checking the Divorce Evil.

Judge Mcpherson, of the Dauphin-
Lebanon judicial district, is entitled to the
thanks of all good people for the firm stand
he has taken in checking the divorce evil
within hisjurisdiction. Under his ruling
in the case of Rosanna Miller versus Levi
Miller, the sheriff 3 return to the order of
proclamation that " the written order of
court has been complied with 4" is not sufii-
cient. The sheriff must show what he has
done and allow the court to decide
whether the order has been complied with
1t has been found that this kind of loose
methods in divorce proceedings frequently
permitted collusion on the part of one or
both OF the ill-assorted pair, which is fatal
tothe legal idea Of divorce.
Judges cannot exercise too much pre-
caution in the trial of divorce cases to
avoid lending themselves to what Judge
MCPHERSON describes as "the desire of
one or both Of the parties to be rid of a tie
which has come to be felt only as re.
straint." Divorce, under our institutions
appears TO he a necessary evil, and Judges
should exercise most sedulous discrimina.
tion in granting it. The safety of human
society depends on the sanctity of tbe
marriage tie, and the easy-divorce granting
Judge is one of the greatest foes Of this
happiest of human relations.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05
Give the Author a Chance.

A most ridiculous and reprehensible
fashion of literary criticism coming too
much into vogue is that which holds an
author individually responsible for the
opinions of his chaTacters. We are con-
tinually seeing pert and flippant "points, -
made or imagined, that are urged against
this or that writer Of fiction, because of
some sentiment that falls from the lips OF
one or another of his fictitious personages.
There is nothing fair in this. 1t is the
function of the novelist to represent life as
it is, or human nature as he fancies it
might be; and this gives him illimit-
able range. When he sets his figures OH
the stage they are to play their parts. They
may be agreeable and attractive, or un-
wholesome and repulsive; they ought to
be consistent, but even this real men and
women are not. That people as we meet
them are not nearly all agreeable or ortho-
dox is the certain truth and they often say
stupid, shocking and untrue things, and
quite as frequently do them ard are them
selves of such character. The novelist is
not to be blamed for improper purpose or
lack of literary skill, if his creations
are not in themselves of your liking.
Dickens, Thackeray, Howell and James.
Cable, the author of "The Breadwinners, !"
and many Others are fercely lampooned by
thin-skinned people, who themselves in
many cases feel the lash, because certain
characters of their books are not, it is
claimed, characteristic TYPES of the
class they represent. Even were this
true it would not be fair ground for ad-
verse criticism, for common experience
shows that no novelist has yet produced
such marked individuality of character
such romance OF situation, such intensity
of life and eccentricity Of motive as mark
the record of EVERYDAY life.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05
A StpFy of Itn,nIn

In the autumn of 1850 travelling book
peddler, who afterward became a successful
publisher aud the head of a firm whose name
is well-known in the United States to-day,
came to the door of log-cabin on farm in
Eastern Illinois, and asked for the courtesy
of nights lodging. There was no near inn.
The good wife was hospitable but per-
picked, "for" said she, "we can
feed your beast but We cannot lodge
you, unless you are willing to sleep
with the hired man" Lets have a look at
him first said the peddler. The woman
pointed to the side of the house. where a
lank, siX-tooted man, in ragged but clean
clothes, was stretched on the grass reading a
book. Hell do" said the stranger. "A
man who reads book as hard as that fellow
seems to, has got too much else to tn ink OF
beside my watch or my small change" The
hired man was Abraham Lincoln and when
he was president, the two men met in Wash.
lngton aud laughed together over the story
OF their earlier renconue.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05
Throwing Herself In Front of AN Engine,

Lizzie Shuitz, young woman OF Williams
port Pa, aged about u years, committed
suicide Thursday morning by throwing her.
self in front Of an engine ON the Northern
Central railway at Ralston, "a miles north of
the city. Her head was crushed IN such a
terrible manner that nothing remained
of her features but an unrecogniZabie
mass of flesh and blood. There was
not even enough halr left on the he I'd
To tell the color. A track-haud was walk.
ing along the railroad with her at the time
The young woman was inquIring for man
named Frank kavanagh, and during the
conversation IA switch engine came along aud
she threw herself in front OF it. The wheels
of the engine and tho caboose passed over
her head She WAS picked up and taken into
the Rslston house Lizzie lett Williamsport
Wednesday night for Ralston Her parents
are respectable people. Two years ago she
was married, but soon afterwards was
separated from her husband. She told the
lady she was living with that she was tired
OF life and would kill herself She was
despondent She had been corresponding
with kavanagh for some time, and when
asked where she was going she said she was
going TO meet him. Her body was brought
home,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05
PERSONA AL,


JOHN KELLY is greatly educed in flesh
and is 80 weak that he is only able to move
about his room with the assistance OF nurse.
JOSEPH ARCH, NJ. p, says his attention
was first drawn to politics by the reduction
OF his own wages from eleven shillings to
nine shiilings week.
MAYOR SMITH of Philadelphia, in reply
to an interrogatOry said "Oh, I'm dandy
mayor, am," which recalls the saw tha
seli.praise Is no recommendation.
Mrs, FRANCES PENDLEToN, the young
wife OF the son Of the United States min
lister to Germany, who was married last
June, died recently at her home in New
York.
NJ. PAsTEUR wants 100000 francs with
which to stIrt hospital IN Paris, and 50, 600
francs per annum for its support Prime
Minister de Freycinet is in favor OF the state
granting the latter sum.
COLONEL WILLIAM LUDLOW, l.. $. A.,
recently at Philadelphia, il Is reported, will
probably be nominated as engineer commits
sioner of the District of Columbia in a few
days. The salary is $1,000.
ONoNTUYoH beautiful Mountan), full,
blooded Indian graduated at the Buffalo
Medical college last week. His uncle, Oro
nyetekha (Burning Sky), who graduated al
Oxford, England, is now a successful practi
| toner at London.
CYRUS W. FIELD, who advocates the pur
L
/ lines in the country, thinks that the govern,
| ment should establish a principle that the
| stock OF a company which had earned pei
cent, clear profit must be rated at par in
| making the purchase and rated in the same
| ratio ii earning either more or less.
MRS. HARRIET W. HAwLEY, wife o
| Senator Hawley, who died i'll Washington
| on "Wednesday, Was honored with the un
usual tribute OF respect OF an adjournment o
| the Senate. She was one of the most eilicen
| Her dying testimony, uttered in calm con
l versation with the one best beloved, was
"Why should fear? l have no dread o
my Heavenly Father"
| f. T. WHIPPLE wants q college established
70 educate female domestics. He think,
"the unframed servants Of today follow th,
Baconian theory that knowledge is obtained
by observation aud experiment. but theil
experiments resemble those of the Irish
pilot VINO aiter remarking TO the captain o
the ship that the coast was full of sunker
rocks, casually added as the vessel strucl
'and that is one Of 'em.'"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05
Then aud Now.

From an old speech of Senator Edmunds
Is exhumed declaration on his part in Il Q
Forty-drst Congress on present live sub
ject. " II is cause enough for me, sir, !" he
sid. s constitutional cause, when the
president of the United States, acting
ii he Is honest, As he always must, upon a
conscientious sense of his responsibility to
the people and to God, chooses to send In
one mans name for place that another
holds"
That is not only sound as sentiment, but
II u mpregnable as matter Of constitu-
tional law. Whether cause enough for
senator's satisfaction or not, the discretion
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05

IT was pretty idea at the annual celehTa
tion of Robert EmInet's birthday in Phila.
delphia on Thursday night by the Clan.na,
Gael society of that city to reproduce the
court scene OF Emmet's trial and conviction.
When the curtain rose in the Academy OF
Music, the prisoner was in the dock, the
judge upon the bench, the jury in their box
and guards in uniforms stationed about the
court room. And when the pseudo prisoner,
asked If he had anything to say why sen.
tence of death should not be passed upon
him, burst into that impassioned utterance
Of the Irish patriot: "When my country
shall take her place among the nations of the
earth then, and not till then, let my epitaph
be WRITTEN" the raiters rang with applause.
All signs point to an early writing of the
martyrs epitaph.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05
GLADsrONE's CLkrkR SPEECH.
The Premier Refuses to Step Into a Consersatiy


Trap.
On the meeting Of the House of Commons
Thursday afternoon, Mr. Hugh Holmes, Con-
servative, offered the motion of which he
had given notice. 1t was to the effect that
the House, before voting on the Irish
estimates, wishes to know what policy the
government has agreed upon to restore and
maintain order in Ireland"
Mr.. Gladstone, speaking on the motion,
chaffingly declined to fall into the trap set for
him. He said that he was not such simple
ton as to yield to the artful allurements OF his
opponents He mad already stated that the
government was considering the question
OF social order in Ireland, the land question
and the question Of the future government
of Ireland. These subjects we're inextrica-
bly, associated. The government was really
entitled To three months time for the prepa-
ration OF Irish measures. Mr. Gladstone
characterized Mr. Holmes attack as one of
the ieeblest ever made upon the executive
branch of the government. The introduction
of the motion was really tantamount to justi-
flying coercion, in which the government
would be no party. II the late government
had proposed coercion the mere proposal
would have been followed by disastrous con-
sequences. Referring to sneering allusions
to Mr.. DaVitt > aud the leagues denunciation
OF outrages, Mr.. Gladstone said that he was
clad to hear that Mr.. Davitt was preaching
order, aud delighted that the league was
mending its manners.
Mr.. Holmes motion was withdrawn.
The Pdrnellites admit that Mr.. Glad
stones speech was very brilliant oEe. and
they express themselves as highly satisfied
with it.
In an interview Mr. Healy (Nationalist)
said it was evident that Mr.. Gladstone was
determined To fulfill his pledges on the lines
OF his Midlothian manifesto, even if he should
he compelled TO throw overheard Mr.. Cham
berlain and other members of the cabinet
Mr. GladstOne's speech contained no definite
ildication OF his mOdus operandi, but the
Parnellites would be perfectly satisfied with
the result OF the division.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05
A Tribe Investigation.

We agree with such of our esteemed con
temporaries as cherish the apprehension
that the investigations of the alleged abuses
of the orphans school management will
be somewhat muddled by the manifold in
quests organized and organizing for the
purpose As we understand it the super
intendent of the school department is on
the wing by himself looking up the sub
ject two other branches of the state govern
ment represented by the governor and attor-
ney general, accompanied 10y John Norris,
of the Philadelphia Record, for the prose-
cution, start to-day to make tour of the
schools, an investigation of their condi-
ton and stenographic report of their dis
coveries; the Grand Army of the Republic
meanwhile is fitting out an expedition for
the same purpose.
And yet all of these representatives Of
these different interests have had the same
opportunities and obligations heretofore to
make these Investigations that the Record
had. The governor, we believe, was be-
times a visitor to these schools with other
state institutions; the state superintendent
surely attended their regular annual EXAM
nations and had every opportunity to see
their deficiencies; and the c. A. II. was
with them always. Nevertheless, the al.
legged abuses are said to have ilourished
under their noses. If they are now cured
in advance of their heralded coming, theil
investigations will mean nothing, If they
renort them tp ayiSt and IN have pyist sd
when they should have seen and reported
them before, they will only condemn thei
own negligence.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05
RECENTLY APPOINTED TO sUCCEED
MAJOR GIN. HANCOCK, DECEASED.

on Wednesday March s. 1885, President
Cleveland nominated Brigsdier General
Alfred II. Terry to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of General Hancock. There
had been considerable speculation rs to
whether the vacancy in the list Of major gen.
erals, caused by the death of Hancock, would
TALL to the lot of Howard or Terry. The for
mer is not only a graduate OF West Point,
which Terry is not, but he received his COM
mission as brigadier general, in the regular
army on December 2lst, 1864. while Terry's
commission as brigader is dated JAN
uary 18th, 1855. The new major gen.
eral IS native of Connecticut. He ell
tered the service in May, ls6l, as colonel
of the 2d Connecticut volunteers, and in
September of the same year, he assumed
command of the 9TH Connecticut On April
25th, 1852, he was made a brigadier general
of volunteers, and on January 18th, he was
promoted to major general His record
during the war was conspicuous, the daring
assault on Fort Fisher, resulting in its cap
ture, being the most marked feature General
Terry at the close OF the war was placed
in command OF the department of the
James, with headquarters at Richmond, Va.
His most noted services since the war nave
been on the frontier, and he has acquired a
high reputation as a successful Indan-ti ghter
| In 1876 ne conducted a remarkable campaign
| against the hostile Sioux in the Northwest
| 1t was in this campaign that General Custer
| with portion OF Terry'S force, was mbu sh
| ed and slain. General Terry has long beer
one OF the most popular officers in the regu
| lar army, and his promotion will give gen
eral satisfaction.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05

A GOOD STORY with moral is told Of a
Virginia farmer who owned a fine calf. He
was asked, recently, by friend what he
would take for the animal. "SiS dollars"
was the reply. The very next day the friend
rushed over to the farmers house in a furry
OF excitement. "The train killed your calf
just now," said he. 81 gosh - exclaimed the
farmer, "the railroad must pay me SIS for
that calf l wouldn't have taken S25 for
him." 1t developed, however, that it was a
hoax, and the farmer still holds the calf al
So
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05

WEARIED, no doubt, with her importantly
and in order to get rid OF her, the Senate
committee on library have bought Mrs.
Fasset's picture OF the electoral commission.
They paid her $500 for what she first ask ed
SIS, 600 aud it will decorate one OF the capitol
walls. 1t is remark able Tor its portraiture OF
a great many prominent public men, and is
of course not a reproduction of any actual
scene. 1t commentaries the great fraud,
and some day those who helped the side OF
rascalty will be ashamed to see their faces
pictured in work perpetuatipG the inglcri-
Gus memory of it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05

Of the president in matters Of removal and
suspension is all that the constitution con-
templates, and all that the law exacts. 1t
may be that senator's would like the presi-
dent to reappoint the old officers when their
terms expire; and they may ask him why
he does not do so, and to send them all the
papers he gets on this point.
Indeed they may call spirits from the
vasty deep. But will they come
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-05

The Philadelphia and St Louis league
base ball clubs are permitted to charge
twenty-five cents for admission price, instead
of fifty cents which the other league clubs
must demand. II all could come down to
the quarter. dollar rate, they would find an
improvement in their treasury at the end of
the year.