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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25
BUSINESS AND THE FESTIVAL.

There has at no time been any doubt that
the coming G. A. r. festival would prove to
be all that the organization hoped, but indica-
tons now are that its success will excel even
the expectations of the most sanguine
The visit of Sherman, and other Union
generals, the magnificent musical programme.
and the liberal rates offered by the railroads
have proved irresistible, and it is now certain
that an immense number Of strangers will be
in the city next week. This being the case,
it behooves the people Of Indianapolis to make
the best display possible of such attractions
as the town affords. The idea
has gone abroad that this Is dead
alive sort of place, lacking in business enter
prise and energy. This impression is due, in
a great measure, to the alternating fits of
apathy and grumbling INDUCED in by our own
citizens when financial skies are not as bright
as could be wished. Upon these same citi-
zens merchants and manufacturers falls the
duty Of conveying to visitors more correct
and favorable idea of the condition of trade
here, and of the extent Of business facilities
and advantages. Thousands of visitors
will be present from all parts of this
State, and from adjoining States,
and the majority Of them will
come with the intention of combining bust
ness with pleasure to greater or less degree.
Such persons will be guided in their shopping
tours and other investments largely, if not al
together, by advertisements in the papers pub
lished here. Those enter Kissing merchants
who have had the wisdom to keep their names
continuously before the people, and are known
wherever the papers are read, will, of course,
profit most from the visits of the excursionists;
but it is not too late for all to share the advant
age. Every man who has anything to sell,
or wishes to '.call attention" to his business,
will miss the opportunity of the season if he
neglects to advertise his goods and his s'bar-
gains this week and next It is a chance
that will not be missed by any wide-awake
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

Mr.. LEVI r. GREENE, Consulting en-
gineer' of the Board of State-h house Commits
sioners, is agent for the Walmoth Steam
heating Company. of Boston. The Wal
moth Steam heating Company, of Boston,
has been given the contract for heating the
new Capitol by the State-house Commission
ers. In October last an estimate of more
than $4,000 was paid on the steam
heating, which Mr.. Greene drew as
agent for his company, and another
large estimate is about ready, which it is pre-
sumed Mr.. Green will also draw. This is the
disinterested expert" the State-house Com
missioners procure to write an opinion in
dorsing the plumbing. The attempt to palm
off the opinion of such man upon the people
of the State as that of competent and i'm
partial expert is altogether the most scanda
lous incident connected with the entire pro-
ceeding.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25
TaE STATE PRESS AND POLITICS.

Hiram T. Smith has sold the Butler Record to
w. A. Hoisington & Co.
George 8. Peasants, of Veyay, who repre-
sented Ohio, Switzerland and Dearborn counties
in the last Legislature, has been nominated for
re election.
A paragraph complimentary to Congressman
Owen in the Journal of yesterday was mad
yertently credited to Michigan City Enterprise
Dem.)." when it should have read Michigan
City Dispatch Dem The Enterprise is edited
by Mr.. Lew Morrill, and is a Republican news
paper of the stalwart stripe.
in the lower House of the next General AS
semby of Indiana. by the reapportionment of
the last Legislature, there will be one hundred
members. Aside from the counties each having
one Representative, members are to be elected
from the following ioint-reDresentative districts:
Ripley, Franklin and Union Monroe and Brown;
Dubois and Martin, Dubois and Orange; Orange
and Crawford; Floyd. Clark and Jefferson Dear
born Ohio and Switzerland; Sullivan, Vigo and
Vermllion; Marion, Hancock and Shelby; Adams
and jay; Putnam and Clay; White and Pulaski;
Cass and Miami; Allen and Huntington LaPorte,
Starke and Pulaski; Scott and Jennings; Gibson
and Vanderburg; Elkhart, Noble and DeKalb:
Henry and Fayette: Tippecanoe and Clinton;
Warren and Benton Jasper and Newton. Adams,
Jay and Blackboard. The counties which elect
more than one Representative are: Alien, 2;
Vanderburg q Vigo, 2; Marion, s. Wayne. 2
Odon Republican: The Republican party
should, of all other candidates, look well to the
man whom they nominate for Representative.
He must have the confidence of the people. with
well-defned ideas the questions of the day.
Frankfort Banner: Liberty is not license.
Liberty protected by law is the hope of the
world. They who undertake to war upon this
are the greatest enemies of society. are by their
own acts placed outside the law. and forfeit it's
Or rejection.
Lafayette Journal: The Democratic soldiers
of Lafayette have made memorandum of the
fact that not one Of their number are employed
as ettercarriers or hold any position in the
postofice. 1t is beginning to appear that the
Democratic love for soldier is all sham.
Logansport Standard: Nations are liable to
get into the frying pan, but it does not neces-
sarily follow that they should jump into the fire.
BY the grace of the mugwumps. we are suffer
ing a Democratic administration, tut there are
only three years more of frying, and then there
will be change for the better, We hope, without
free trade.
Charlottesville Journals 1t is almost impossi-
bile for Democratic newspaper to condemn the
treasonable utterance of jeff Davis. but, as in
1860 and 1861 they endeavor to palliate. and ex-
cuse, and condone his offenses. The fact is, the
recent appearances of J. ID hurts the Democrats
not that they object so much to what he says as
they do to the effect his speeches will have on
the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25
Labor Notes.

Labor Notes.
The Illinois State Labor Congress will be held
in Decatur in June.
There are 1000 coal miners on strike in the
Kanawha valley. and there is no money among
the people for any purpose"
Eighty roof composition makers, employed by
four St Louis firms, organized recently and
strnck yesterday for eight hours work instead
of ten.
The board of arbitration chosen TO settle the
differences between the Pittsburg street-car men
and their employees. made an award yesterday
sustaining the demands of the men for twelve
hours work,
The Cincinnate Volksblatt is gradually filling
up its cases left by strikers last week. Some OF
the strikers have returned, but the Volksblatt
will not receive those who carried guns in the
Socialist procession a few weeks ago.
About six hundred Cincinnati harness makers
struck yesterday for an advance in wages. They
had been working eight hours day. but are not
satisfied with the wages received They demand
an increase of from ID to 20 per cent.
Nearly ali the sash, door and blind factories OF
Chicago resumed on the hour plan yesterday
morning. and majority of the men returned to
work. Two factories are still working on the
eight-hour plan, but are expected to return to
the ten-hour rule in few days.
A convention of the United Nailers and Heat
ers OF America has been called to be held in
Pittsburg May 81. The chief question to be
decided is whether the association shall return
in body to the Amalgamated Steel Association,
or become part of the Kniehts3of Labor. The
paers strike will also be discussed.
About one thousand boot and shoemakers are
idle in New England. The labor situation there
and elsewhere is more satisfactory. Agitations
have been largely discontinued. Organized
labor is waiting to hear from Cleveland this
week Two elements will seek to control the
DEGREES to be made there-one for bold action,
the other for conservative action. The sense Of
the leaders of the larger trades-unio is to let
well enough alone, and not TO threaten any fur
Their disintegration of the industrial situation by
further strikes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

spoken on this question. Notwithstanding the
fact that there are number Of differences
among individual members, the utmost Gnanim
ity prevails as whole and il il said that ths
will be the most important convention of the
kind ever held. 1t is claimed by some members
that, If the trades unions are merged into
the Knights, it will be a great
saving and better for all classes Of labor while
the unions are inclined to stick to their first love
although they have warm sympathy for the
Knights It is only question of policy and
both or. ani4s.ions anxious to do all in their
power fer the benefit of the workingmen. Some
OF the trades want to organize strikes and con-
troll wages to suit themselves, and do not want
to be hampered by the Knights.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

The Supreme Court has decided that Treas
urer Miller cannot pocket the money of the
city, and loan it back on interest Of course
it was the manifest intention of the Legis-
lature that the city should have the use of it's
taxes, but the treasurer and his attorneys
thought they saw way to take advantage of
the public. The judgment of the court is in
harmony With the dictates of common sense
and common honesty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25
a Scarcitv Of Coal Miners.

PrTTsBuRG, Pa, May 24-There is such
scarcity of miners on the Monongahela river
that less than one third of the mines between
McKeesport and Brownsville are in full opera
ton. The operators give several reasons Tor
this condition of affairs. Some attribute IT to
the fact that. during last years strike. large
numbers of minerss obtained other employ
ment and did not return to the mines after the
STRIKE while others put it down to the long dry
SPELL The miners explain the fact by stating
that the difference of one-fourth cent in wages
in favor of the railroad mines has caused a iargs
migration from the river to the railroad
Another reason given by them is that miuers IL
England, Scotland and Germany have been Sc
well posted by their returning friends on tht
present state of the American labor market thas
the stream of immigration to this country has
been practically stopped. Many miners from
those countries who had been on the river for
several years have returned home disguised at
the low rates of wages now ruling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

THE proprietor of one of the German pa
pers in Cincinnati, the compositors of which
went on a strike few days ago, appears to
have the best of the situation, and the men
are beginning to go back to work. He very
sensibly refuses to take any back who are
known to have taken part in the Socialist pa
rade, and bore rifles on that occasion. It is a
good thing TO draw the line against the men
who are opposed to law and order.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

ing very much excited and very apprehensive
over the fact that the daughter of the Count
de Paris is about to esponse the hereditary
Prince of Portugal When power of the
magnitude of France shows anxiety on ac-
count of one like Portugal, it can hardly be
regarded as complimentary to it. If the
French people are republicans, it matters lit
tie what the daughter OF the Count de Paris
does. If they are not, they will be in danger
as much from themselves as from ANYTHING
without the nation. 1t is a bad idea to keep
crying ''wolf' at the sight of every little OBJ
iect that comes up in the nations path
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

III is generally held now. except by the
most pronounced demagogues, that the Amer
lean doctrine of free speech does not embrace
or protect the mouthings of sach mad
dogs as Most and Spies and the other An
archist leaders, and it is generally believed
that these leaders know quite well what they
do-that they are not the ignoramuses the
demagogues would make them appear. They
know quite enough to be hanged.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

THE man who strikes against his Judgment,
at the bidding of any organization is fool.
The thousands who were thus dragged into a
causeless strike by the notorious Martin Irons
understand what it is to be fooled into an m
tenable position in which they were the losers
by tens of thousands of dollars. They would
now be glad to recall their hasty action and be
in the enjoyment of the money that they vol
unfairly and foolishly threw away. In this
world the rule 'every man for himself still
largely obtains, and the wise workingman will
not allow any man or men to usurp the right
to pass on what he shall and shall not do when
it comes to matters that so intimately concern
the welfare of himself, wife and children.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

THE President has retired Major Lewis
Merrill on his rank as major, on account of
physical disability. Major Merrill was en-
titled to promotion to lieutenant colonel, and
had received his appointment. but he had
offended the ex-confederates, and his nomna-
ton was withdrawn at their demand He is
thus punished because he imperiled his health
while attempting to break up Ku-kluxery in
the South.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

larger than for the year preceding; and the
work done in each Departmental larger. Each
department begins the new year with bal
ance on hand.
In the United States there are: Associations,
l. 05; ordained ministers, 16, 191; churches,
%, 953, gain of 354. Increase by baptism,
135, $40; letter, So, 545 experience $3.50; resto
ration, 17,6s8; decrease by letter, 65, GA; ex-
clusion, 35, 702; erasure, 1852; death, &C. 1876;
total membership, 2,572 23s, gain of GA. 485
during the year; Sunday-schools. 1850; Off
GERS and teachers, 93,426; pupils, $685. 969,
value Of church property, $50, 813, 454; re-
ported for salaries and expenses, 50, 924 $50 10;
for missions, State, home and foreign about
ST., 175, 900, and for missions and home expenses,
about 81, $50, 900. There were 1875, $40 baptisms
last year. There are six theological semina-
ries, with AS students; in all there are 125
educational institutions, with an attendance
of 16, 426 students, of whom only 1,5O3 are
preparing for the ministry. In South Ameri-
ca there are five churches, three ministers,
thirty baptisms. and q membership of
113. In Europe, 1892 churches, 6, 169 minis
tiers, 6,911 baptisms, and a present member
ship of 372, l12. In Asia, churches, 764; min
listers, 500; baptisms, 3745; membership, g.
422. Africa, ninety-four churches, sixty-one
ministers, seven baptisms, and a membership
Of 1927. Australia, churches, 1873; minis
tiers, ninety-o one; membership, 1859. Thus
there is total in the world of 81, 200
churches, 23,604 ministers, las, GAL baptisrns,
and a membership of 3,135, 1877, an increase
in the total membership in the world of 49,
1872.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

THE proposed polygamy constitutional
amendment is the work of the Mormons to
kill off the Edmunds bill. Of course the
Democratic House of Representatives readily
becomes the tool of the Mormon apostles in
Washington, and the amendment is reported
favorably. But notwithstanding, both polyg-
amy and Mormonism must go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25
ZENAs FISK WILDER is drunken liar. He

ZENAs FISK WILDER is a drunken liar. He
has made three separate statements as to the
Bell matter already, but it suits the organ Of
the proposed colossal telephone job to assume
that he is now telling the truth. We wish to
again remark that behind the present tele-
phone suit is concealed the most gigantic job
the country has known for many a long year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25
THE NORTHERN BAPTIST ANNIVERSARIES

THE NORTHERN BAPTIST ANNIVERSARIES.
Prior to the day of Judson, the Baptists of
this country had no organization for doing
foreign missionary work. But after Judson,
who had been sent out by the Congregational
lists, became Baptist, and the news reached
this country, the Baptists rose up and organ
lied, in 1914, "The Baptist Triennial Conven-
ton" This organization embraced the Bap-
lists Of the whole country, who worked har-
moniously together till 1916, when they split
on the slavery question. The Southern Bap.
fists withdrew and organized, in Augusta,
'The Southern Baptists' Convention
It has just held its forty first
annual meeting at Montgomery, Ala. 1t has
constituency of about 800, 900, who gave
last year to home and foreign missions about
$25O,0O0. They have missions in Mexico,
Brazil, Italy, Africa and China. They are
doing an aggressive work. The most hopeful
feature of the work of the Southern Baptists
is their friendly and helpful attitude toward
the colored people. one of whom this year adj
dressed the convention and was listened to
with interest.
The Northern Baptists representing all the
Northern States and Territories began their
anniversaries yesterday at Asbury Park, N. j.,
and will continue in session about ten days.
They embrace organizations by the women,
the Missionary Union, the Home Mission So
ciety and the Publication Society. Each of
these societies will hold about two days ses-
sions.
The total receipts of the American Baptist
Home Mission Society for the year ending
March 81, 1886, were 1882, 3l467 The con-
tributions were 1897, los. IA, including $27,-
so of conditional and permanent trust
funds, leaving the general contributions $3.50,
72l.34, which is SO, 977 6s more than last year,
when over $34, 900 were received for the emer-
gency fund. Lsgacies have amounted to
SAG 295.SS. nearly the same as last year The
debt is 1923, 1888. The amount pledged or
paid on the debt to date May Z, 1886, is
800, $50.
The total receipts Of the American Baptist
Missionary Union, for current expenses dur
ing the year ending March 81, 1886, were
1884, 996.73, and the expenditures, including
last years debt of $50,6l5.76, were $780,
05S4, leaving balance in the treasury Of
$685. 10. The receipts from donations, in
Guiding $25, 002. 9S, in response to Dr. Edward
Judson's special appeal for upper Burmah and
81, 019.11 for the debt, were 1921, 353. O6.
The gain in receipts over the preceding year
was 500, $40 20, and in donations from church
es, Sunday-schools and individuals, s47, 05l. 0S.
The donations were 500, 223S7 more than
were ever before received by the society in
single year from that source
The receipts of the Publication Society for
the year, alike in the benevolent, and in the
Bible, and in the business departments, are
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

READING, Pa. May "a "A detective swore out
warrants to day against six hat fnishers, Nom.
bers of the hatters' union. who are now on
strike. on the charge of being the parties who
burned down E. H Codrens hat factory at
Adamstown, involving a loss of $50. 900. John
Downing. formerly of Yonkers, N. Y, was ar.
rested and placed in Jail. and the detectives are
looking for the others. 1t is even alleged that
resolution was offered in the union to burn down
the hat factories. The arrest caused a great
sensation. The finishers of over half the hat
factories in this section still on strike.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25
Obituary.
Special TO the rndianaDo..sss Journa,

Special TO the Tndianapo,.iis Journal.
FoRT WAYNE, Ind. May 24-Willam Fl.
Chamberlain. who was stricken with apoplexv at
his desk n few DAYS ago, died last night. He
was over fifty years of age, and for twenty-five
years was clerk in the Office OF the roadmaster
OF the Fort Wayne road. He was a much-es-
teemed and very capable man. and his place will
be hard to fill He was we'll known, especially
in railroad circles His funeral will take place
on Thursday, under the auspices OF the Odd
fpftnws
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

AT Louisville it has been shown that the
laws can be enforced whenever the people
choose to enforce them. There is in that city
certain street in which. for a generation, the
worst classes of the city have been won't TO
congregate, and to find refuge from the
officers Of the law. 1t has for years been the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

THE Philadelphia Times estimates that the
loss to labor by strikes, taxes to support
strikers and labor officials, prostration of bust
ness and the diminished employment caused
by labor disturbances viii be not less than
one thousand millions Of dollars this year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

THERE were fifteen votes against Postmis
tress Thompson, of Louisville-eleven Demo
Gratis and four Republicans whereat the
Ccurier-Journal mildly felicitates itself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

ELMfRA, N. Y, May "a DIR. A. S. Hazan and
daughter. of Sharpsville Pa, formerly OF
Evansville, Ind, were found by the po-
lice at the Delevan House to-day, acting In an
extraordinary manner tearing their beds to-
pieces and breaking the furniture. They were
removed TO the City Hosniral in pitiable ecndi.
ton, and were found to be victims of the eoralaa
habit They used the drug hypodcrmicaily.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

THE musical festival ct Cincinnati this
year does not promise to rival the ''unparal-
leled successes" of past years. Doubt exists
as to whether the affair will pay or not. In
dianapolis people are staying at home this
year to attend their own festival, which, per-
haps, has something to do with the matter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

MRS. MCBRIDE, wife of a New York merchant.
sues for divorce, claiming that her husband is
in the habit of beating her cruelty Mr. Nc
Brides habits may. perhaps. be accounted for by
the fact that he is proprietor of one hundred and
fifteen tea stores. There is great deal of tannin
in so much tea.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

A CoNgY ISLAND museum manager has
written letter to Herr Most, offering him
$500 week to appear in cage at his place.
II is probable that Most will accept. as that
sum is ten times as much as he can make in
any other way, and there is no work involved
In the duties required of him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

LOUISVILLE is stirred up by phenomenon in
the shape of young lady, lovely. of course,
who is luminous by reason of the 'fact" that she
seems to be phosphorescent. She can readily be
seen in the dark. This may all be true; and if
it is. it is strange that has thought of
what a splendid match she would make. All
that is needed is a stick of man, and the match
is complete.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

Can be found at the following places:
LONDON--American Exchange in Europe, 44S
Strand.
pARIs-American Exchange in Paris, 30 Boulevard
des Capucines
NEW works. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels
CHICAGO Palmer House.
CINCINNATI--J. P. Hawlsy s. Co., 154 Vine street.
LOUIsyTLLE-c. T. bearing northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST. LoUIs-Unon News Company, Union Depot
End Southern Hotel.
WASHINGTON. D. o-Rigss House and Ebbits
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-25

The New York Sun, edited by ex-Assistant
the proposition to erect monument to the
memory of Edwin M. Stanton, the great War
Minister,