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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A BOMBAY physician asserts that gradual
increase in the size of the skull among the
natives Of India is taking place. which change
he ascribes to the effect of civilization.
OF the men who launched the anti slavery
movement in Boston only Mr. Sewall and Oliver
johnson, one of the twelve who formed the first
New England society, in 1892 are now living.
Mr.. P. D. ARMOUR the Chicago Board of
Trade magnate paid $50 900 last summer for a
seat in the New York Stock Exchange but up
to this time has never put in an appearance
there.
RED hair Of a new and extraordinary shade is
the latest within OF Partisan bellies. It is not the
old-fashioned auburn hair, but the singular re-
suit of dye prepared from decoction of henna
leaves.
THE Boston Globe: Senator Evarts got off q
sentence in his oleomargarine speech containing
231 words between period and period. The Con-
cord school of philosophy will never be com
pletc success till Mr.. Evarts joins
The Rev. Miss Louise Baker is a female
preacher at Nantucket She does not look over
thirty-fve and has remarkably sweet and
sympathetic voice and serenely beautiful face
She was born and bred on the island.
A WEALTHY gentleman. Eli Krupp, of Phila-
delphia, has been travelling about the country
for the last eighteen years, attending camp
meetings He carries tent in two trunks, and
camps alone, doing his own cooking and wash
ing.
IN Iowa, when commercial tourist drops his
gr;psack in hotel of prohibition town, he reg
listers and asks. I'm which room did you say
could find my .ettersp II will show you my
self" said the landlord, as they disappear up
stairs.
ANDREW CARNEGIE's new purchase of 400
acres Of mountain land, situated between Holi-
daysburg and Ebensburg on the highest point of
the AIleghenies, is to be adorned with handsome
cottages and the grounds are to be improved and
beautifed.
ONE of the shrewdest English judges is as re-
markable for the quickness of his eyes and ears
as for the keenness Of his intellect The other
day a stranger in court, espying a friend. ad-
dressed him in a stage whisper with Hello old
feller haven't seen you lately. Are you all
right The remark was hardly heard beyond
the nearest bystanders, and there was. copso-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29
THE SCOTCH OROFTERS.

A cable paragraph brings the intelligence
that the crofters of Three, Scotland, are pre-
pairing for armed resistance to the military,
and that the smiths are busy forging spears,
while the women are engaged in loading all
the available firearms. This would be
amusing were it not that there is too much
distress and too much wrong suffered in that
unhappy region to allow of levty. Thrice is
he armed who hath his quarrel just, it has
been said. But what would it avail hereg
And what could be done by the crofters of
TREE were they thrice three thousand times
armed? The power their courageous but puny
arms are raised to oppose could crush them
into powder without missing the force neces-
sary to do it, Civilization moves in manner
distressingly slow, and it takes long time to
remove prejudice and establish right. The
American colonies had to battle against what
seemed an overwhelming opposition, and
would not have succeeded, perhaps but for
the providential circumstances that surround
her rights for centuries, and still the struggle
goes on. England has the prestige of being d
christian" land, and the "Christian" world
is slow to believe that she is in the
wrong to any great degree. The moan
of the Irish cotter driven from his miserable
sod hut is not loud. 1t does not sweep over
the world in manner to arouse sympathetic
action. The half-starved crofter Of Scotland
and the islands of the sea does not stand high
in the world, and few see him or know any
thing about the misery he suffers from unjust
laws passed by one Of the most magnanmous
| (?) governments of the world. The sympathy
of the outside world is hard to reach, and the
crofters will have to be as patient as they can.
It may be that the feeble but desperate efforts
they are making to forcibly resist the OPP
pressor will help direct attention to them, and
if so they will have accomplished something.
When deliverance becomes dearer than life,
and liberty is worth dying for, the day of bet
ter things is not far off, If these men and
women are desperately in earnest their fight
will not be for naught. If they do stand out
before the guns of England-to the death, if
need bet will not be long until the'ad vanced
civilization of the world will compel the Brit
ish government to relax her merciless grip
and give oppressed humanity chance to live.
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CASTIGATING AN EDITOR.
A Dozen Women Beat an Editorwith Whips in
Revenge for an Objectionable Publication.

PITrsBURG, July pa Petrolia, Butler coun
ty, Pennsylvania, special says: IA very sensa-
tional horse whipping occurred at Millerstown
about o'clock last evening, in which Peter A
Rattigan, editor and proprietor Of the Herald,
and also the present postmaster. figured as the
victim. Rattigan, under the head OF Butler
Items, has been rejecting quite severely On the
members of the Womens Christian Temperance
Union and those who are identified with the pro
hibition or temperance element in this county,
Last week seven coach loads of the temperance
people, among whom were some prominent and
Slippery Rock. and spent the day very pleasant
ly. An article appeared in the Heralds
Saturday edition giving very Encomplimentary
description of the people composing the party
and although dated Butler. it is claimed as Rat
tiean's production. The ladies were particularly
selected as targets. and yesterday evening. just
prior to the hour of closing the postofce, twelve
or fifteen women, armed with whips, placed
themselves near the entrance and waited theft
victims approach. AS soon as Rattigan stepped
outside of the door. they began belaboring him,
and only dessted through exhaustion. Ratti-
gan quietly stood it and offered no resistance.
The affair has created no little feeling, and par
ties from that town say the end is not yet. the
matter having got into the hands of the sterner
sex, and, as Rattgan has innumerable friends,
trouble is expected The friends OF Rattigan
claim that the women were instlgated oy their
husbands and masculine friends"
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COMMENT AND OPINION.

AFTER ALL it may turn out that the only hon.
est butter is the goat Baltimore American.
WE begin to suspect that Congress has Wa
terbury movement it takes so long to wind up
the session. -Burlington Free Press
LIKE the Indians, all good Anarchists are dead
Anarchists The trouble is that there are now
too few of that kind.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
If fifty men in the United States engage in a
violent outbreak it is called local disturbance;
in Mexico it is a revolution. Philadelphia Call.
THE work of keeping the South solid has fairly
commenced. The shooting season for negroes
has opened in several places.-Pittsburg Chroni-
Gle.
pared with the conundrum, What on earth was
the Presidents civil service order issued for?
Philadelphia Inquirer
ASYLUM is a privilege generously granted by
this country to the oppressed-not a right to be
demanded by secret assassirs fleeing from Justice
Philadelphia Telegraph.
THERE are two kinds Of people in this world
who never get there Eli"-those who are too
fast and those who are too slow. It is best to be
imely.-Memphis Avalanche.
BOGUS butter is to be taxed cents pound.
If we could have similar tax on bogus states
manship we could pay off the national debt in
two or three years-New York Hour.
IFIthere is wisdom in numbers the 1194 dele
gates to the Indiana Republican State conven-
ton ought to be able TO nominate ticket which
the party will unanimously support-Philaiel-
phia Press
If the President turns out an oficeholder for
violating his cvil-service order, the Democratic
kickers will hail the decapitated as blessed
martyr and endow him with presidential boom.
National Republican.
The country would be acting d!shonorably if
it should confscate at this late day the great do
main which it once bestowed upon the Northern
Pacific and the bestowal of which it has repeat
eddy confirmed. Minneapolis Tribune
WITH dozen Of her best citizens on trial for
bomb-throwing, with not a dollar in her county
treasury, with Der racing season a disastrous
failure. with the Canada thistle in full bloom in
all her streets, and the Hennepin Canal steal de-
feated in the House, poor old Chicago is in very
bad way, indeed.-St Louis Globe Democrat
THIS country is not an asylum for men whose
hands raised against social order, and they
should be extirpated at once. Their leaders are
generally well known, and they should be put
down with stern hand. They are allowed to
talk too much, to drill, to teach murder, to pre-
pare for assassination. Not TO seize them until
after they have used their dynamite and alled
the streets with blood, is almost criminal. L. Bos
ton Advertiser.
THE Voice, prohibitory organ. is frank in
avowng the programme of the political Prohibi-
tionists. Speaking Of the Republican party, it
says: "We are doing our best to kill that party
in the North The third party Prohibtionists
are good deal more anxious to kill the Repub-
lcan party than they to advance prohibi-
ton. This is the reason that they are such
ready allies of the rum Democracy, for they ars
alike in their hatred Of Repubicanism. Boston
Journal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

The fzz and smoke of saltwater bottle
on the deck of Coney Island steamer on
which Don Augusta Leopoldo, the Brazilian
prince, was passenger, created a dynamite
scare, and caused that young man to turn pale
and remark, 'The devilp A coroner who
CHANGED to be on board was also greatly ex-
cited, perhaps by the prospect of extra work
in his line; but certain hitherto undistin-
guished Mr.. Brown having, with great pres
ence of mind, snatched the bottle and thrown
it overheard, all fears were soon claimed. 1t
will serve, however, as good story of ''nar-
row escape" for the princeling to tell when he
gets back home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29
ASSESSMENT FAIR AND UNFAIR.

The County Commissioners know, the mem
bers of the County Board of Equalization
know, the county auditor knows, the township
assessor knows, everybody knows, that the APP
praisement of the property in Center town
ship, of this county, is too high. They all
know that property of all kinds is appraised
for more than it would bring in the market
The citizen members Of the County Board Of
Equalization and the township assessor have
recognized the fact, and have done everything
in their power to rectify the wrongs and pre-
from this unjust and inequitable assessment.
The citizen members Of the board and Mr..
Sahm, of the Board Of Commissioners, or
dered a reappraisement Of the property In
Center township, and Mr.. Quill, the assessor,
has, in good faith and with great labor. en-
deavored to make just and fair assessment.
BUTT appears that somebody, or some board
or officer. is endeavoring to prevent justice
being done the taxpayers of Center township
by legal bubble. The action of the Board
Of Equalization in ordeling a-reap-
praisement is obviously right and proper,
and also within their power if
ths-eppsinions of good lawyers are worth
anything. The assessor has gone on. under
the expressed order of the Board of Equaliza-
ton, and made REIMBURSEMENT Of the prop
erty in the township which will reduce the
burdens of taxpayers. The people of
Center township are tired, very tired, of
paying an unequal and extortionate amount
of taxes, to be used in other counties
for State and school purposes, and they de-
mand now that no unjust or unequal burden
be placed upon them by the present appraise-
ment, that shall run through the next six
years without hope of or power of
relief. These county officers are the servants
of the people, not the masters; and it remains
to be seen whether they will be just to the
people who elected them. or whether they will
continue the infiction of the wrongs done
viz pOVpAO Aoi OolS Wy tiiO ihpOSlIAOh VI uA-
just burdens. 1t also remains to be seen
whether Mr.. Sahm will adhere to his vote or
dering reassessment, or whether that vote
was simply club thrown to the whale'..t to dis
tract attention. Legal bubbles will not answer
the demand for justice. The tax collector is
never too welcome; but when he presents a
bill that is known to be unjust and unfair,
the people will inquire why, and by whose
authority the unjust burden was imposed
And unless fair assessment be made it will
be within the province of the people to say
whether they will pay any tax at all, until
they test their rights under the new appraise-
ment that has been made by the assessor bv
the order of the Board Of Equalization.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

SECRETARY OF WAR ENDIcoTT is facetious.
He is likewise undignifed and apparently in
full accord with Secretary Bayard's policy of
not protecting American citizens in their
rights if by so doing would put foreigners to
Inconvenience. On being asked if it was the
intention to move troops to Mexico to settle
the Cutting difficulty Mr.. Endicott said there
was nothing in it, and added, hippantly:
Don't you think it rather ridiculous to make
war on Mexico for the sake of one man, when
we have tamely submitted, for the last two
months, to the indignities of Canada upon
hundreds of our citizensf' 1t is probably not
necessary tomake war in either case; certainly
not if the United States shows disposition to
hold her own and determination to enforce
her demands. What is ridiculous in the
situation is not the irresponsible talk Of war.
but the timid and conservative course
pursued by the administration when
American rights are infringed upon,
that leads to further imposition
by the people of other nations. 1t would per-
haps be ridiculous to move upon Mexico for
Editor Cuttings sake, while Canada is left to
infict indignities upon hundreds of citizens
undisturbed, as the Secretary of War jauntily
says; but the spectacle Of a Cabinet officer
who can refer to the Canadian situation as if
1t Eere a~huge joke is spectacle far more
ridiculous" and humiliating. The foreign
policy of the administration, SO far as it can
be said to have one, consists in permitting it
self to be walked over by foreigners to their
hearts content.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

June 80 there were 22,747 changes in these
Offices, or nearly half in twelve months. At
this rate, the administration of President
Cleveland will be about half finished when the
last Republican postmaster will have been
dispossessed. There are 1895 postmasters in
the State of Indiana, and Of this number
1,005 had to step down and out to make room
for Democrats. Changes could not possibly
be made faster without utterly destroying the
efficiency of the postal service. 1t is bad
enough as it is, owing to the many changes
made
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29
FIFTH DISTRICT REPUBLICANS.
Plenty Of Candidates for the Nomination. and
Lively Canvass in Progress.
special to the 1ndIanapolis Jonrnal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
FRANKLIN. Ind, July 28-An unexpected
amount of interest is being manifested Ia the re.
salt of the convention which meets in this city
tomorrow to nominate Republican candidate
for Congress to succeed Col @. g. Matson. The
afternoon trains brought in large number Of
delegates and others interested and tonight the
hotels are throDged with consulting
politicians 1t may be that they are
deceived in their calculations, but it is
here, almost to man, are confident of electing
their congressional candidate next November.
This confidence of success has had the effect Of
bringing several candidates for the nomination
to the front. and there are portentous hints Of
number of dark horses In embryo. Rev. Ira J.
Chase, of Hendricks county, and Fl. G. Duncan,
of Monroe, are the only ones openly ayowed but
the friends of Maj John G. Dunbar. of Putnam,
are urging his availability with much force, and
profess confidence in his ability to capture the
persimmon. There is, however some opposition
to Major Dunbar in his own county, and this is
being used with some effect on many delegates
who have inclined toward the Putnam county
candidate, but who hesitate to enter into any
arrangement that will lead to local disaffections
position being to select candidate who is not
handicapped by any personal or fractional issues
and who will be acceptable to the entire party
1t is evident that Major Dunbar has strong
and loyal following, but whether it is strong
enough to nominate him is question that must
be left to the convention to decide to morrow
The surface indications are that Rev Ira j.
Chase is the most formidable candidate, and his
friends are confidently predicting his
nomination on the first ballot Hen
bricks county sent q solid delegation in
his behalf headed by the Danville Cornet Band,
and his friends are doing some energetic aud ef-
fective hustling. Mr.. Duncan is not on the
ground, but his supporters are urging his availa.
bility with great deal of fervor. and appear to
be perfectly serene with the aspect of the situa-
ton tonight. Owing to the absence of the Bar
thoiomew county delegation there is no basis for
a reasonable guess the result of to-morrow'g
balloting. 1t is conceded by all that Bartholo-
NEW holds the key to the situation, and great
deal depends upon the action of the delegates
from that county. With the present situation
of affairs it Is plain that either Col
Sep. Stansifer or Hon. Joseph I.
Irwin, of Columbus. could secure
the nomination by the asking, but it is under.
stood that neither of these gentlemen would az
cept under any circumstance While there is
considerable rivalry among the supporters Of
the several aspirants. there is no disposition to
wrangle and it ia safe to predict that the NOM
inee of the convention tomorrow, no matter
whom it may be. will receive the cordial support
of the Republicans of the Fifth district
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

WHILE slavery fourished the Southern
States used to be for free trade. Now they
are mainly for protection. Why is this thus?
Will the Atlanta Constitution and the Courier
Journal please explaina-New York Sun.
The South has learned good deal since the
Republican schoolmaster went down there in
1861. The thwacking he administered was
not without effect. The South has been
thinking for several years, and the result is
that the South is sensibly initiating the North
in things that are of good report in matters
of public policy. Kentucky is still in the
bonds of ignorance and iniquity. There is a
stubhornness about the attitude of this bor-
der State that suggests that she is still pro-
voked at herself because she did not Jump in
years ago and grow rich and respectable be-
fore the war. That she did not when she
could acts upon her to make her resentful and
foolish 1t is pity that Kentucky is not
further South than she is.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

THE New York Post points to the honor
able career of the late William Hunter, who
was for sixty years an official in the State De.
partment, as an example of what proper civil
service laws will effect. The Post omits to
mention that the continuance of Mr.. Hunter
in the department for SO long period is re-
futation of the oft-repeated charge that Re-
publicans, during the twenty five years that
they were in power, turned over all the Offices
and clerkships under the government to mem
bers of their own party. AS matter of fact
one reason why more removals have not taken
place in the departments under this 'sreform"
administration is because so MANY of the
desks are occupied by cold timers, Democrats
who were in position before the war and by
ex-rebels or their widows and daughters who
through one pretext and another, secured
places under Republican administrations. On
coming into power the Democrats, who were
to 'turn the rascals OUT found so large a
number to be Of their own party that whole
sale eviction could not we'll take place.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

The delegates from the counties composing the
several congressional districts will meet in In
dianapois at 7:3O o'clock on the night preceding
the date of the convention, at such places as may
be hereafter designated, for the purpose of Sc
Letting
One momber of the committee on permanent
organization.
One member Of the committee on credentials.
One member of the committee on resolutions.
One viee-president of the convention.
One assistant secretary of the convention.
By order of the Republican State central com.
mittee. JAMES N. Huston, Chairman.
l.. T. MIoHENER, Secretary.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. July "a. 1886.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

Cable from London World.
The MARQUIS Of Salisbury is by no means ia
strong health / am sorry. hear that he has
not derived much benefit from his visit to Royat.
and hut for the exigencies Of official duty ho
wouli have proceeded TO Germany for course
Homburg water
Mr.. Gladstone is going on yachting erussl
az soon as he is released from official work, and,
although there is so much vaporish talk abou
his resolution 80 stick to his guns in the new
Parliament, have reason 10 anticipate that,
after preliminary debate, he will not be seen
months, as hear he proposes 10 start for Rome
early in November and to remain in Italy till
after Easter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

THE annual report of Edwin c. Fowler,
chief of the appointment division of the Post
Office Department, makes showing that will
90 to appease the wrath of those Democrats
who have insisted that removals were not be-
ing made fast enough, or as fast as they could
be. According to these figures it appears that
there is total of 1854 postmasters in the
United States, During the fiscal year ending
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

LIEUTENANT A. B. WTcoFF, of the United
States Navy, has investigated lis reports of
the use of oil in sitting the sea in storm,
and finds that it proved failure in but four
cases out of the total named. Theheavier the
oil the more pronounced was the favorable eff
feet upon the waves. The use of oil will yet
make ocean navigation comparatively free
from danger. The use of "oil' makes one Sc
cure in his seat in the Senate as we'll.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

Twas the schooner Thomas f. Bayard which
arrived at New England port on Monday
with the first official notification from the
local. authorities that Newfoundland waters
were closed to American fishermen. A more
appropriate name for a vessel bearing such a
message could not have been devised. The
Coincidence" could not have been improved
upon by writer of fiction or an esteemed
local contemporary.
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government.

THERE is no necessity of going to the trou-
bic to pass law putting stop to the foolish
practice of allowing simple or vicious minded
women to present bouquets and other things
to prisoners accused of infamous crimes. The
judges of the courts can stop it any time they
care to. 1t should be done at once.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

THE law controlling the road to fame and
its rewards is as uncertain in its workings as
are the civll-service rules. Mr.. Brodie, the
tough who jumped off the Brooklyn bridge
last week, has his picture in tho newspapers,
has received $500 from photographer for the
right of selling his portraits, and has formed
an engagement with dino museum at a sal