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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-11
Labor Notes.

HARTFORD, Conn, Sept, 10.-At meeting this
evening the Hartford Amalgamated Trade and
Labor Unions condemned the alleged labor ticket
nominated in this city last Monday and decided
that in no way would they support it,
CHICAGO Sent. 10.-rhe International Asso-
citation of Plumbers, Steam and Gas-fitters, in
secret session here. refused to-day by large
majority, to be merged rs a body into the
Knights of Labor. Harmonious relations be-
tween the two organizations will, however, be
preserved
PHILADELPHIA, Sent. 10.-A general strike of
stove-foundry employees in this city occurred this
morning Representatives of the stove molders'
assemblies of the Knights of Labor will confer
with a committee from the manufacturers asso
citation Monday. The busy is fairly com
menced and manufacturers have plenty of orders.
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PROPOSALS FOR COAL.

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Com
missioners of Marion county Indiana. will. prior to
the 18th day of September 1886 receive sealed bids
to be opened that day for furnishing coal for heat
ing and steam purposes for the courthouse. work
house JAIL county asylum and for the poor of Center
township.
The bids must be for each institution separately.
and each bidder must file bond in the sum Of So 900
that he win comply with the terms of his bid If any
bid 10 accepted and contract is awarded him. The
contracts viii be for year from the 4th day of No
vember, 1885.
Coal for county asylum must be delivered in the
in carlots, the railroad switch at the Insane
Hospital For the workhouse cars, in CARROTS, at
work house switch. For the Courthouse and JAIL to
be delivered ordered. and weighed on the court
house scales and the coal for Center township must
be delivered required upon the order Of the trus-
tee of Center township
The Board therght TO reject any or all bids
All coal furnished must be of the best quality. Bid
ders state the particular kind of coal they
pose to furnish. and the price of each kind
By order of the Board of Commissioners.
j. q. ADAMS, A. NJ @.
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Fr,endless and Weary of Life.

CHICAGO, Sent. 10-Mrs. Frank Comfor, a
widow twenty-five years old, made a desperate
and perhaps successful attempt. this afternoon,
to end the lives of her two children and herself.
Since the woman's husband died, about year
ago, she has had several fits of melancholia.
Strange noises in her apartments to-day
caused nei2hbors to break in. Mrs. Comfor
was found lying on bed. and clasped
in her arms were her children aged two
years and seven months respectively. Upon
the floor was an empty bottle, marked Corrosive
sublimate." Mrs. Comfor was conscious. but hys-
tercally resisted any effort to save her life. The
two babes were in a stupor. Their mother was
soon corpse. Tonight, at the hospital, the lit
tie ones were still alivs. and it was thought had
a chance to recover. The mother has been out
of money for some time, and seemed to have no
frienda
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USELESS SPIRITS.
They Assembled in the South but Told Moth
ing About the Earthquake.

They Assembled in the South but Told Moth
ing About the Earthquake.
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
There has been a big gathering of spirits up at
Lookout mountain. but they never said any
thing about this earthquake. If they knew, they
ought to have told US If they didn't know they
haven't made much progress in the mysteries of
nature. They haven't travelled.
But reckon we will all get light after while,
and truth will settle down. There many
hidden things to be revealed. The world has
been cropping around in the dark for
ages trying to settle upon the
truth about the body and the soul,
and about the unity of the races. and the food.
and the rainbow and about spirits. and purga-
tory. and eternal punishment The children of
the most intelligent parents are afraid of ghosts
right now. There were spirits in Bible times
good spirits and evil spirits. don't know when
they left us for good, or whether they have left
or not Swedenborg conversed with them every
day, or believed he did, for he was a great
and good man. But one thing ] DO know:
| am not going to run after the spirits
through these professional mediums who work
for pay. | am not going to accept any communi-
cations that come through table or another
ridiculous channel / have too great respect
and reverence for the good spirits of departed
friends to believe in any such nonsense. / be-.
lieve they have risen to a higher and purer con-
dltion of life. believe that the angel mother
would whisper to her child if she could-yes,
IL was
a noble and true woman. Her devotion
to her mother was ll-absorbing. and that
mother promised her in her dying hour that if it
was possible to come back in the spirit and COM
fort her child she would. Il will make some
sign. | will give you some token if the Lord
will let me-" But the token never came The
door was closed. Mrs jackson wrote in her me-
mors that she looked and lorged, and waited by
dAv and hv night In reveries ana Dreams and
lonely walks and at the chancel. and in her mid
night prayers. she courted visitation, but it
never came, and she died without sign.
Still there may be wandering spirits in state
of purgatory-spirits too good for hell and not
good enough for heaven-and they may go
about il some mysterious way and rap upon
these tables and write upon these
states. don't know and l am not going Co ex.
pertinent with them to find out Spiritualism
has been prancing around occasionally for a
century and has come to nothing yet, nor are its
votaries any better than the common run of man
kind. In fact the average is not so good.
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WOrkingmen In Politica.

ST.. Louis, Sept. l0-The Knights of Labor
and the members of the Central Labor Union
and other labor organizations of this city have
combined under the name of the United Labor
party, and will hold a convention OF delegates
from the various assemblies and unions on Oct
z, for the purpose of nominating full city, con-
gressional and legislative ticket. Their central
committee has recently been in conference with
the Greenback committee, and an alliance with
them will probably be formed. Prominent
Knights o. Labor say that the new party will
have the balance of power in the coming cleo
tons, and if they cannot elect their own candi-
dates they can elect those Of either opposing
party, as they wish.
RICHMOND, Va, Sept 10-A convention of
representatives of assemblies of knights of La
Dor of this the Third, congressional district has
been in secret session tonight since o'clock.
and at 1890 this morning nominated VIM. III.
Mullen for Congress. Mr.. Mullen is member
of the national executive committee OF the
Knights of Labor.
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What She Couldn't Bear.
Tid-Bits.

Ilu-blJS.
Old Mrs Tiddlewig's husband liked his teddy,
and the old lady was violently opposed to bibu-
losity. The other night TiddewiR came in
slightly sober and his wife proceeded to talk
to him.
Now look here Tiddlewig. you're drinking
again and just won't endure it."
"Why, my dear" he urged. "a little toddy
don't hurt me particle. On the contrary, 1t
benefits me. and makes another man of me
altogether"
II know it does. Tiddlewie end that's why
object to it so strongly. I might stand your
getting drunk but when it makes another man
of you and still leaves me wife of both of you,
it makes me out a bigamst and | say right here
Tiddlewig, that draw the line at bigamy, and
you've got to quit"
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GU ARDIANS s SALE
r II Al Il TATE.


Notice is hereby given that to order of
the Marion Circuit Court entered of record the 9Th
day of September, 1886. will offer for SALE and
sell at private vendue at the Office of Charles Sayles,
No. 7512 East Market street. in Indianapolis. Indiana,
Monday, the 4th day of October, 1886, at 10
o'clock for not less than the full appraised value
thereof the following described real estate situate in
Marion county, Indiana. to-wit;
Lots twelve (12) thirteen (13) and fourteen t14),
In Allen & Roots North addition to. the city of Indi
annapolis Indiana according to plat of said addition
recorded in Plat Book No. g. at 129 of the
ords in the recorders Office of said county subject to
all tax liens and assessments of 1886, upon these
terms:
Onefourth cash in hand and the balance in three
equal instalments evidenced by tho notes of the
chaser bearing interest and in the usual Indiana FORM
and secured by mortgage of like form. both waving
relief from valuation laws, and providing for 5 per
cent attorneys fees and per cent interest after
turity.
Said lots are appraised at 81 900 each and will be
sold singly a a whole. Q. s. DEAN.
E. @. DENNIS.
Guardians of Mary F. Lathrop.
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Relief Measures.

BALTIMORE, Sept 10-The Charleston re-
lief fund up to tonight has amounted to $27. 900.
and Is still growing Cardinal Gibbons has
issued circular letter to the clergy of the
country, ordering the taking up of collection
in all Catholic churches On the Goth instant for
the same cause, and the Sisters of Mercy in
this city have signiied their willingness to
assume charge of twenty Eve orphans, if neces-
saTy.
NEW YORK, Sept 10-The Charleston relief
committee of the Chamber of Commerce met to-
day. It was reported by Treasurer Brown that
up to the present time he has received sub.
scriptions amounting to $33. 122 out of which
the Mavor of Charleston had been paid a draft
received $7.l22, which included $500 from Jay
Gould, 81. 900 from the Bank of America, $500
from the United States National Bank, and $500
from Robert Lenox Kennedy.
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Thunderstorm.
Official Information About Victoria.

NEW YORK, Sept 10-The muchinq uired for
Mrs Victoria Schlllng Huskamp has tele
graphed Radolph Aronson, of the Casino. from
Dayton, N. j.. that she will report on Monday
morning for duty. Mr. Aronsou said tonight
that he had never entertained doubt that
Mrs. Schillng would turn up at the
appointed time. ''She was looking and feeling
very sick when she went away and said he,
I'VE granted her a leave of absence for q week or
ten days, and the ten days will be Up on Mon
dav."
When asked IL he doubted the genuine
ness of the dispatch. Mr.. Aronson said. ''No;
most certainly not. Mrs. Schilling is very bust.
ness-like and this is proof of it,"
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headstrong passion that s alike regardless OF
parental restraint and womanly self-respect
AS the result of all this premature association
ano raise sex training we see the girl in her own
PFnctlcal estimation nothing as true. pure.
selr-sustained home. blessing woman, but filed
out complete and for the first and only time
something when she has young and calloy
master at her side. and as a natural consennenca
without much regard to anything touching his
education. character. position or prospects nrae-
tically everything being summed nm in his ono
sole virtue OF being simply q male human
animal. In our smaller communities this
is becoming so painfully common that
the modest self-controlled Young woro, 80
once the pride of her home. the pure influence
in society. and the domestic foundation and
hope for the future, is the exception instead of
the rule. Thus we swinging loose from the
old Saxon anchorage OF true domestic virtue and
drifting broadside into the overmasterine cur
rents of mere Partisan frivolity and sex dissipa-
ton. What is the remedyY
We urge no prndish conservatism when we
declare that the times call for prompt and vigor-
Gus attention to the checking and correcting of
the evil by proper womanly training of girls.
We cannot leave this to the general tone and
drift of society. as was safely done previous
to the civil war. In the midst of the
overgrowing laxty of manners, the multiplied
stmulants to precocious passion. and the in
creasiug facilities afforded by devish art for the
indulgence Of illicit qualification, we cannot
safely trust it to take care Of itself. Observaut
fathers and sensible mothers are painfully con-
scious of the growing evil. and alarmed for the
prospective purity and happiness of their chill
drpn and the coming household. They look for
that which will afford the promise of gentle and
intelligent motherhood, and their quest prac-
tically in vain They hope eventually to find in
the germs which girlhood now supplies the mod
est virgin, the prudent wife and the careful
matron, but the prospect seems to guarantee
only the cheapest grades of heroines and virgoS
nuaana
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A Twenty-Year-oldY Youth wearies of Life.

CINcINNATI Sept. 10-Goden Smith, a
twenty-year-old son of Judge Fayette Smith, at
tempted to kill himself at his fathers residence
in Avondale, yesterday. He had been in school
until this summer when he went into business
at Middletown, o. Night before last he came
morning, after breakfast, the family was
startled by the report of a pistol coming from
his room. When they opened the door he was
found lying the floor, with a revolver by his
side and a bullet-hole in his left side. The ply
re- with young lady to whom ne was paying
attention is supposed to be the cause of his
deed
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Fred Douglass to Visit Europe.

Boston, Mass. Sept 10--Frederick Douglass
has arrived here iE answer to an invitation by
the Wendell Phillips Club to dine with 1t, on the
evening of the l1th inst, at the Revere House.
He is the guest of Mr.. Lewis Hayden.
He came early to make a few calls on old anti
slavery friends and coadjutors in the city and
suburban towns. Mr. Douglass proposes to
make tour through England, thence to France
aud return to the United States in time to take
part in the campaign Of 1883. Mrs. Douglass
will accompany him abroad. She is now visiting
friends in Connecticut. where he will join her. en-
route to New York, whence passage will be taken
on the City of Rome Sept l5
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Frightfully Cut with a Carving-Knife.

CHICAGO. Sept. 10-John Morris. the cook.
and Frank Foster, waiter. in a restaurant at
497 West Madison street. quarreled about an Or
der, when Morris grabbed carving knife four
teen inches long. and plunged it into Fosters
abdomen, inficting frightful cash. from the
left side to the right, aud coming out directly
below the right lung. Morris then coolly pulled
the knife from the wound, and laid 1t down on
the table from which he had taken it. He then
started to run, when Foster grabbed the knife
just in time to slash Morris across the heel as
the latter was running up stairs The cut sew
cred the tendons and arteries of the leg. Eos
ter was taken TO his home, where physicians
pronounced his wounds fatal.
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Conspiracy to Oommit Murdar

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10 A man named
George Ehms yesterday made affidavit to a
MAGISTRATE that he had been offered $50 by Mrs
Barbara FRESHMAN. widow, to murder a man
named Frank Glassmire, and that William Con-
rad and William M. Gardner had eudeavored to
persuade him to commit the deed Mrs Press
man and Conrad we're arrested, and at hearing
to-day the former held in ST. 800 bail for CON
spiracy to murder and Conrad in $500 as an ac-
complice. Ehms was placed under 81, 900 bali as
witness. Gardner will be arrested. Ehms
states that Mrs. FRESHMAN desired to get rid of
GlAssnire because he forced his attentions upon
her, and his persistent protestations Of admira-
ton were distasteful to her.
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AMERICAN WOMANHOOD.
Our Girls Suffering from Lack OF Proper
Guidance and False Training.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
In many of our communities there is getting
to be no small occasion for concern with refer
ence to the future wOmanhood of girls. They
are thrown at the outset into the very rabble Of
the mixed schools. Little restraint is exercised
them in their association with the boys.
Little proper grlhood guidance and instruction
are given them. The textbook and the recita-
ton are everything If she has been delicately
guarded at home she becomes half holden
If nature or home neglect has made her
holden she becomes brazen. In society and
the home foolish talk and love gossip, or scan
dal pernicious. petty novel-readine and
newspaper sensatonalism-with that browning
evil unreasonable and insane child parties
quicken into premature life the passion for
beau seeking. until the minkin miss and mont
kin master must have their confidential notes
and arm-in arm promenades. a la Abelard and
Heoise in disgusting miniature. Arrived at
her greenest teens, the promiscuous intermin-
Cling of the evening party the corrupting famil-
larity of the kissing-bee. the undisgused pair
ing of at the popular lecture and evening con-
cert. the dancing club the evening promenade
and the night ride, make the false child fancy q
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Inviolability of kilograms.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 10.-In February last
Frank Jaynes, general superintendent of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, was sub
penaed to produce before Judge Mcguire. Of the
Superior Court, certain kilograms which had
passed between San Francisco and New York
city, sent by either of the various persons
named in the subpoena to any one of the persons,
on each and every day for several successive days.
covering period of six months. Superntend-
emit Jaynes refuses to search for or produce the
kilograms, and was committed for contempt. By
writ of habeas corpus and of certiorari the pro-
ceedings of the Superior Court have been re.
viewed and reversed by the Supreme Court, and
Superintendent Jaynes ordered discharged from
CUSTODY
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WINNIPEG, Sept 10.-Colonel Glider and his
companion, Griffith started for the north pole
last night. They will take the steamer Princess
at Selkirk and proceed to Norway House. From
that point they will ascend the Nelson river and
proceed to York Factory. The outfit which the
Colonel takes with him weighs a ton and half
He also takes two sledges sixteen feet long and
four feet wide. After leaving York Factory
Colonel Glider will take little as possible with
him because of the difficulty of carrying it along
He relies for sustenance mainly upon the game
to be secured along his route.
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here at o'clock tonight. IN descending the
steep bill leading to the village two of the party
Messrs. Warnot and Dakn. took headers. War
not received CHASTITY cut under the chin, and
was severely Jared. Dakin struck on the right
side of his forehead, sustaining conclusion of
the brain, and possibly fracture of the skull
Dakin now lies in unconscious and critical
condition. The remainder of the party, with the
exception of two who will stav here to
care for the injured, will leave for New York
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The Result in Vermont.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT. Sept 10-Com-
plete returns from the entire State give Orms
bee, Republican. 37.68l; Shurtleff, Democrat,
1901; Seely. Prohibitionist, l. 832; Greenback
and scattering 295 The Representatives elect
ed are divided politically as follows Edmunds
Republicans. 155; anti-Edmunds Republicans g.
straight Republicans. 45; Prohibition Republic
ans, q straight Democrats, 90; Edmunds Demo
Gratis, 4 In two towns no Representatives were
alaetad
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The Two Brothers' Joint Canvass.

NASHVILLE. Tenn, Sept. 10-The canvass in
the contest for Governor began at jacksonville
Hon. A. A. Taylor made a strong Republican
speech, and was followed by his brother Robert
in an equally vigorous argument from q Demo-
cratic stand point There was an immense
crowd and the two candidates were loudly
cheered. They confined themselves wholly to
general arguments, and showed no personal feel
ing. They speak tomorrow at Athens
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Actor Charged with a Serious Crime

CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-Alonzo Bondn, leading
juvenile of Robert Buchanan's storm Beaten
company, was arrested tonight as accessory to
an abortion DR.. Albert E. Palmer was arrested
as the principal. Miss Kitty Rober, Buchanan
leading lady. is at the Harrison Court Hotel in
critical condition, the result, it is alleged, of
their crime. The particulars of the charges are
too revolving for publication. Blondin and Pal
mer deny their guilt Miss Rober is sister of
Salle Rober, whose death. about year ago in
New York under peculiar circumstances, created
q great sensation.
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Warned to vacate the Company's Houses
Clothing Cutters Ont AGAIN.

NEW YORK Sept. 10.-The clothing cutters in
thirty of the shops went out on strike to-day
again. The grievances complained of are vic
t,nizng (being Disseminated against because
they are union men, ordering the men to re-
more honrs per day than the rules of the union
allow. The arbitration committee OF District
Assembly No. 40, KNIGHTS of Labor visited a
number of the manufacturers to-day TO confer
with them on the subject of the grievances, but
no settlement was effected.
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Special Policemen Wanted.

HARRISBURG, Sept 10-The Cambria Iron
Company, at Jamestown, has asked Governor
Pattson to commission 1873 policemen for tho
protection of its property, which is spread over
a wide and subject 20 damage and destruc-
tion by persons who opposed to the policy
of the company in not employing Knights of
Labor. The policemen, if Governor Pattson
grants the petition. will be commissioned under
an act of the Legislature. and will be in the pay
of the iron company. No immediate trouble is
fearad
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The Coyotes Gang Surrounded.

ST. Louis, Sept. l0-A New Laredo, Mexico,
special says: "A courier has arrived from the
front with report that Ell Coyotes gang is sur
rounded by the three detachments of Colonies
Salegria and Teran and Capt Gracia Perez. One
regiment of artillery and two regiments of in
fantry from the City of Mexico and two regi-
ments of cavalry from San Luis Potosi are OK
pected to arrive in Saltlto within few DAYS for
service on the frontier"
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Obituary.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Sept. 10-William A.
Foote, prominent business man of this city,
died this morning of typhoid fever, aged thirty
eight years He was a noted Mason, and at his
death held the Office of grand generalissimo of
the Knights Templars Of Indiana. He will be
buried on Sunday afternoon under the auspices
of the Masonic order.
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The Walking Delegate Nuisance.

New YORK, Sept. fitzpatrick Timmins. a
walking delegate from the tin-roofers' associa-
ton, attempted to force his way into some build
ings in West Thirty ninth street to induce the
tin-roofers to quit work. because the builder was
using blne-stone from the yards of George Craw-
arrested. and in the jefferson Market Police
Court was fined $40 by Justice Smith. This is
said to be the first time that walking delegate
has been fined for attempting to foment strikes
in thia citv