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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas says that Presi.
dent Cleveland has made up his mind to go West
long tour this fall
GLADSTONE wears Is hat, Lord John Russell
II. John Bright y, and the Prince Of Wales
a T. President Cleveland wears Il.
CARDINAL NEWMAN sweeps his own apart
ments before breakfast each morning, and shaves
himself. His life is very simple, and he is grow
ing feeble with age
BURLINGTON Free Press: modest New Jer
sey girl will not allow her young man to kiss her
in the potatoe,fleld, because her father plants
the twenty eyed potato.
NJ. CHEvREUL attended a theatrical perform
ance at the Opera, Paris in honor of his one
hundredth birthday. 1t was the first time in
twenty years that he had gone to see a play
ANNA DICKINSON has been passing the sum-
mer at West Pittston. Pa, with her mother and
sister Her health is nearly restored. and she
expects soon to engage In some literary artistic
work.
FIVE hundred million dollars were represented
at the wedding of Miss Rita Armstrong and Mr.
A. j. Drexel the bankers son. at Elberon the
other day. Among the presents were $500, 900 to
the bridegroom.
Mrs. ANNIEL. JACK, the widely known author
ess, is Canadian, and has beautiful home on
the banks of the Chateauguay river, near its
junction with the st. Lawrence. Here with her
husband and their twelve children, she passes q
happy life
BUFFALO Commercial: ISIS Miss Blinkins at
homer asked Mr.. Saunders of the Irish girl who
answered his ring at the door. EYES, blave
she is, sir" rs she engagedl" "And it is en-
gagged you say9 Fax, an l can't tell you, sir,
but she kissed Mr.. Vincent last evening as il she
had never seen the like of MIN, and it's engaged
l b'ave they are, sir"
WHILE the Rev. DIR. Gordon was preaching in
the open air at Lowell, Mass, the other day, his
audience suddenly turned their backs on him to
become spectators of an interesting dog-fight.
The Doctor was equal TO the OCCASION for the
moment the dogs were separated he gained the
undivided attention of the congregation by say
ing: NOW l want to tell you q story about q
mad dog"
PRINCESS BISMARCK is represented by a
French correspondent as woman of great
worth, and, though of somewhat vulgar manner,
possessing a good heart and great amount OF
common sense. She has the most unbounded
love and admiration for her illustrous husband.
She is not in the least proud of her position. She
is greatly liked by everybody around her,
though she is always brusque towards them, and
sometimes even bearish.
owe have the Princess of Wales staying at
the Allee-Saal," says Langen- Schwalbach cor
respondent Of the London World. "She looks
very pretty and very young still A German
friend of mine, who never had seen her before,
as soon as she caught sight of the royal group
walking together in tho gardens by the band,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
STREET PARADES.

The protest of Rev. DR.. Bradley against the
days parade is one that must arouse the at
tention of the people. and should command
the immediate notice of the authorities It
will not do, even for so orderly and creditable
parade as that of Sunday last, to allow
church services to be disturbed and obstruct-
ed. Church people are entitled to the pro-
lection of the law as much as any other, and
it cannot be permitted that to accommodate
any sort of demonstration, the services of a
religious body shall be interrupted. This nat
urally suggests that the authorities must have
some control of the streets of the
city; that persons or bodies desiring
the use of the streets for parades shall make
application for them, and be subjected to such
regulations in aheir use as will avoid the evils
of which DIR. Bradley justly complains. This
is done in other cities and it should be done
in Indianapolis, to the end that the rights Of
all classes may be properly observed and pro-
tected. Upon the religious phase of the ques-
ton, of course, the secular authorities can
not well act If people desire to go to the
Exposition grounds and listen to addresses
they have as much right to do so as
others have to 60 to church and
listen to sermons. If some people
want to parade in the streets in the interest of
labor they have as much right to do so as
others have to parade in the burial of COM
rade. We may, personally, regret that any of
these classes should select Sunday for street
display, and, as a matter of policy, we may
think it unwise for them to antagonize the re-.
spect so largely entertained for the Christian
Sabbath; but we cannot SEQ why it is
wrong for the labor organizations to
orderly parade on Sunday behind brass
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will return to the
White House this week, and Attorney general
Garlands anxiety to resign may at last find re-
lief-Chicago Times.
In the language of the street, this is getting
to be very ancient Chestnut" Mr. Gar
land will not resign, for the very good reason
that he is satisfactory to the President, and it
is not at all likely that he would be foolish
enough to resign and thus confess his culpa-
bility while he can remain and bask in the ia
vor of the reform" President Little facts
like this do not seem to have occurred to the
champions of the administration. AS it is,
Mr.. Cleveland stands sponsor for the acts of
his Attorney general.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21


made the usual remark: Younger than her
daughtersv People behave very decently and
nicely here; no one stares or rushes round
to meet the royalties as one constantly sees
elsewhere"
ACCOUNTS of the massacre of Catholic mis-
sionaries and converts in Southern China show
that the race of martyrs is by no means ex-
tinct. Father Terrace, who had lived for nine
years in Yunnan, when q mob surrounded his
house at night gathered his followers in the
chapel gave the last absolution, went to the
door, and presenting himself to the rabble, said:
Here am to answer for ALL" He was at once
cut down by sabres. Father Becbet, a young
priest in Tongking, a number of his con-
verts beheaded. and then refusing to be bound
or blndfolded, offered his neck to the execu-
toner without tremor. Father Chatelet, or
dered to descend to the place of execution. as
hundreds of his converts had done, said: 81 shall
not 60 so far If you want my head come and
get it, The swords made short work of him
where he stood.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

THEY are sampling little home case of
Democratic reform down in Decatur county.
Mr.. Henry c. Sandusky, leading Democrat,
demands the removal from his Office of one
MIR. Bobbitt, county superintendent of public
schools, also Democrat, because Of drunken
ness The Greensburg Review says:
with an officer charged with habitual
drunkenness and his removal demanded by a
brother Democrat the party Of reform is in
deed in a bad plight. That's right gentle
men, let the bright light of day beat in upon
the records you have made"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

A SPECIAL from Washington says of Sena-
tor Voorhees, that che has prepared two
speeches, which, for thought and review of
the progressive Democracy, will eclipse any
previous effort. One will be delivered at
indianapolis on the 9th of September. and
the other at Terre Haute on the 28th.
Both will prove, doubtless, the key-notes
for the campaign, and will contain happy
suggestions as to how harmony along the
line can be restored in Indiana" Let Mr..
Voorhees, come right along He is the man
we have been looking for. 1t is barely
possible he may have in his gripsack a
recipe that will "harmonize" the Sentinel
and Mr.. Bynum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
THE METHODIST nHuRGH,

A ock-and-bull story has been started
by some sensational simpleton to the effect
that the force Of the Methodist Church is to
be turned in aid of the third party Prohibi-
tionists. The story goes that the bishops
and the leading men have been in consulta-
ton, and that the word has gone out to
swing the church around in the direction
indicated. The movement" is to be in
augurated by Rev. DR.. Buckley in the New
York Advocate, the principal official church
paper. The Methodist Church has long
stood solidly opposed to the public liquor
traffic, and by its General Conference has
declared in favor of total abstinence for the
individual and constitutional prohibition for
the state; but to reach the last, it has
always left the methods to be deter:
mined by the individual judgment of
the membership. Indeed as a matter
of fact the entire deliverance has
no binding force; it is not law, but is the
mere expression of the men who voted for it,
and its influence has the moral weight that
would attach to the judgment and opinions of
those who formulated it. The Methodist
Episcopal Church is a great and grand body
in all respects, but it is nowhere greater and
grander than in the liberty of conscience and
freedom Of action it permits within the lines
of a gospel Christianity. There could be no
greater libel upon its leading men-its bishops,
its editors its conference oficers-than to
suppose them guilty of the folly of an attempt
to put hook in the nose of the church and
lead it arbitrarily in any given direction. We
know something of the temper and spirit of
the Methodist Church, and it would
be little the unhealthiest business
ever bishop or an editor undertook to try
any sclericism" upon the membership out
side Of the constitutional and disciplinary
limitations which the members themselves
have ordained and established. The Metho-
dist Church is not a church that can be led
or driven at will in any given direction by
bishops or preachers. In no organization is
there less liberation of priestcraft, though no.
where more loyalty and devotion to the au-
thorities in their ordained legitimate spheres.
The idea upon which the sensation mongers
have builded so largea story is utterly absurd,
and the bugaboo would, we doubt not, receive
prompt official denunciation were it beliewed
that the fabrication could receive any Gre
dence outside of refugees for the imbecile.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

IT is said the people of Charleston have
been contrasting the conduct of the Presi-
dent, in the mannerin which he has ignored the
calamity that has befallen the chief city of the
Southern seacoast, with the way King Alfonso
and King Humbert went to the aid of their
subjects when they were stricken with the
cholera, and when it was worth a mans life
to do so. IF he had done his duty" said a
prominent Democrat at Charleston, che would
have left off fishing and visited Charleston.
His presence here would have done more to
cheer the people than anything else"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
HERE is paragraph from the Bucyrus, O.,

HERE is paragraph from the Bucyrus, O.,
Journal, which we commend to the consid-
GRAFTON of the Republicans of Indiana:
"Hon. j. G. Blaine in every speech square
ly attacked and denounced the Southern
crimes Of political murders and massacres, and
Maine has gone Republican by majority of
about double what even he hoped for. Cow
ardly, white-livered Republicans in Ohio are
afraid to call murder, murder, and Cleveland
a usurper, and the Republicans, in conse-
quence. have to fight hard for Ohio even aft
er the Payne and Cincinnati iniquities.
The Journal believes, with Fred Douglass
and many others, that the campaign of 1884
was lost because of its Miss Nancysm on
this question. Had Mr. Blaine spoken dur
ing the canvass as he did after the election,
and had the Republican party everywhere
stood up squarely and honorably for the rights
of man-for equality of rights which is the
first of rights'-the result would have been
different.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

by similar districting of the city. honest men.
without regard to party united to rebuke them,
and succeeded. In this movement no man was
more in earnest than Hon. VIM. FL. English, who
could not afford to allow the liquor element Of
the city to tax his immense estate in their inter-
est We believe that the first duty of the enc
mics OF the Liquor League is to secure the right
to vote, and have each vote to count as much as
any other vote. Away with your petty divis-
ions, We men Of the majority, and appeal to the
honest men of the State, irrespective Of party,
tore-enfranchise you! They will do it IL proper
ly appealed to. The man who would disfran-
chise his neighbor or acquiesce in a disfran-
chisement and approve of it after it is done.
would invade his stable or money-drawer if
there was no penitentiary awaiting him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

Dr. SARAH STOCKTON assistant physician of
the department for women in the Insane Asylum.
has written the following letter to Mrs Agnew,
the author of the volume, From Under the
Cloud"
Having read your interesting and instructive
book. From Under the Cloud 1 take pleasure
in recommending it to a thinking and reading
public. The story of your sufferings and wrongs,
together with your admirable suggestions by
which some of the faults in the management of
hospitals for the insane might be remedied, is
worthy of the consideration of every individual
into whose hands it may fall None know how
soon such dire affiction as a mind diseased
may come to them or theirs. Three years asso-
citation with some of the characters and scenes
you have mentioned, and the observations thus
afforded are sufficient to convince me of the
correctness of your statements and the appreci-
alton they deserve. Hoping your book may meet
with its merited success, 1 am, very truly. your
friend, SARAH STOCKTON.
Assistant Physician in D. for W."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
Chicago Inter Ocean.


When the President gets out of the woods he
will have lot of things to learn He has heard
rumors of the earthquake, and will learn that
the people of the United States know that the
Washington Department of the government was
appealed to and found wholly inefficient. He
licked by his great Secretary He will learn
that our fishermen down East car neither fish
nor cut bait, unless asking the privilege of her
Majesty the Queen. He will also hear that
while he has been idling Jim Blaine, in the State
of Maine, has been tramping down Democratic
pastures. fellow gets awfuliy behind in cur
rent history who buries himself away from
postofices for month
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

bands and right for Masons or Odd
fellows TO parade behind bands in funerals, or
right for some churches to have similar street
displays in a dedication of now house of
worship. But these questions are outside of
the thought that DR.. Bradley's card reveals a
condition of things that should not be allowed
to exist, and which should be provided against
in the future by putting the use of the streets
of the city for parades under some sort of mu-
nicipal regulation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
The Candidate for 1888.

Spokane Falls (W. To- Review.
No man in public capacity has discharged his
duty &c his country more honorably or with
more uniform and consistent patriotism than
Benjamin Harrison, OF Indiana. A man highly
educated and highly endowed he has, by the
sheer force Of native talent, untiring industry,
answering purpose and high moral worth,
placed himself among tbs foremost of American
statesmen of the present day. No man would
better grace the presidential chair or discharge
its high duties. The great Northwest whose
battles Mr.. Harrison has so untiringly fought,
would give a warm and unqualified approval to
his selection the candidate of the Republican
party for the presidency in 1883.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

THE earthquake at Charleston developed
the fact that large number of buildings in
that city had not been honestly constructed
in the manner they should have BEEN It is
possible that this is true; but it is not at all
probable that any kind of stone or brick struct-
ure would have witbstood such shocks.
There is not city in the world built of stone
and brick that is ready for any considerable
disturbance of the earth's surface. Of course,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
Reduction of the. Debt.



Ar interesting calculation has been made,
showing how the steady and rapid payment of
the public debt incurred in the war for the pres
ervation of the Union combined with the re-
ducton of the interest rate ard the increase of
debt burden borne by our people per capita. In
1865 the debt amounted to $7S 25 per capita.
Last year it amounted to only $24.14 In 1865
the per capita portion of the annual interest
charge was 81. 30 Last year it was but 83 cents
The ratio of the principal is now but two-thirds
what it then was; that Of the annual interest is
but little moro than one fifth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

THE 'point" is being made that every Dem
ocratic State convention has unqualifedly in
dorsed the administration. 1t is hard to see
how anything else could have been expected.
1t was not reasonable that the Democratic
party should criticise the man it elected. 1t
were wiser to endorse" him now, and see to
the same these indorsers will try to do.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

In 1880 the Republican plurality in Maine
was S,66S. This year it will prove to be about
$4,000, yet the Independent press insists that
the Republican vote has fallen off "nearly
1l,000," and the Democratic but about 4, 900.
This would leave margin of but 2, 000 There
Is a lie out somewhere and there is no. an in
dependent ~ or Democratic paper but knows
that it is falsifying when it INDUCES in any
such statement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

"A BUFFALO paper applauds the vetoiEg pro-
pensities of its present Mayor, comparing him
with the man who exercised that power in the
same position not many years ago. He may
be like the President in this respect, but it
viii not avail him anything outside his own
city. The people have had enough of that
kind of men. And besides, an accident like
that which made Mr. Cleveland President is
not likely to happen again in four hundred
uyearS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
A LErTEn is published from the late Salmon

A LETTER is published from the late Salmon
P. Chase dated May 81. 1856, addressed to Mr..
Henry Reed, then editor-in chief of the Cincin-
natl Commercial, in which he says:
"a gentleman from Indiana to-day assures
me that the current there is setting decidedly in
my favor. He represents Ortiz as having been
for Mclean, but now for me; and Gregory, Will
son and H. S. Lane as being decidedly for me-
These he saw. Would it not be useful If the
Commercial should now speak pretty decidedly
as to the availability of men who fully represent
the idea now apparent in the public mind-oppo-
sition to the extension of slavery beyond the
limits of the slave Statesl learn, also, that the
Wisconsin delegation will be for me or for Sew
ard, and that Rhode Island will be likewise.
have nothing definite from Illinois. In New
York, / am told, have many strong friends in
the delegation"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

country Is vitality interested. There are,
possibly eight millions of negroes in the
United States to-day; they are increasing at
the rate of FIVE hundred every twenty-four
hours. They cannot be expatriated; the
race cannot be diminished. What will you
do with themf This was the question DIR.
Hartzell set for himself to discuss and answer,
at least, in part.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
CHARACTERIZATION.

This is fine word for Democratic stump
speaker. It has smack of blood and thunder
in it calculated to make the average Democrat
ic hearer roll up his sleeves and wet his
whistle with an air of 'tnow for business" In
Governor Grav's late "key-note speech at
Logansport-that in which he advised his
hearers to vote for the devil if the late gerry
mander did not accomplish its intended pur-
pose-our fierce chief executive charged the
Republican Senate with "emasculating" the
Democratic bill to reduce the surplus
which surgical operation was performed
by the rascally Senate in the interest
Of the "noney power" Laying aside
these surgical metaphors, the Governor failed
to explain to his excited hearers why the Dem
ocratic House so nearly unanimously consent
ed to this "emasculation in the interest of the
money power of this pet measure. The
House vote stood, for the "emasculated meas
ure and Wall street,"
Democrats .--..-..........- e
Democratic majority. Observation-Disclosures Al
for "Emasculation in favor of the money
power"
Another curious fact will puzzle the aver
age observer For sixteen months before
Cleveland put this bill in his pocket the
Democratic administration paid off of the
public debt $5s, 1873, 900, and within six
weeks after this veto they have called in
bonds for the sake of reducing this surplus
$50,000.000. Perhaps the Sentinel can ex-
plain the difference between now then?
Has the fall elections anything to do with
this quickened zeaY Or is it the result of
this emasculation in favor of the money
powerG We wish some one would explain why
"emascuation" has such peculiar effect upon
the Democratic party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

CARTER HARRISON thinks it is mistake
to hang the condemned Anarchists; that
they should be degraded, not made martyrs.
We think they should be elevated. AS rule
the man who is hanged does not get into the
calendar as a saint.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

INDIANA's charitable institutions are get
ting good deal of free advertising just now,
but not the kind that will rebound to the cred
it Of the State. There is rottenness in the
partisan management, and it cannot be truth
fully denied. The shame is upon all the peo-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

CHICAGO is altogether too modest There
is no danger of any one suspecting her of
prodigality if she were to give little toward
the relief of Charleston. The mistake Of
Charleston was in not being located to the
north and west of Chicago. 1t would then
have been of some moment to cultivate her
good will
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

CHARLES EDGERToN, employed in the in
sane asylum at Flatbush, L. l., is man after
Sim Coy's heart, and would be fine addition
to the corps of assistants employed at the In
That he scalded patient to death would make
him fine fellow in his eyes, if he only be a
Damocret
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21

THE New York Times conveys the cheering in
formation that Taft, of Chicago, has in hand q
statue of Lafayette for Indianapolis" AS an in
terested disinterested party Indianapolis would
like to have him do his best on it, and deliver it
free of charge. Lafayette was the founder of
the pretty little city bearing his name, in the
western part of the State, on the Wabash For
a long time he was a ferryman at that place, and
at one time held the position of justice of the
peace. He was quite character in his day.