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The El Paso Pool.

CHICAGO Nov. 2l-The members of the Ell
Paso pool, or. more properly speaking, the New
Mexico and Arizona pool, have found that the
rates to the City of Mexico and local points on
the Mexican Central road are too high, and have
decided to make some reductions in the tariff
details of which will be made known later. The
pool has been in operation since June %. 1885,
but the percentages never promulgated
and no settlement of the balances have ever
been made. This subject will be considered at
the meeting to be held tomorrow.
The arbitrators TO fix rates and diferentials
on Wichita & Southern Kansas freight traffic
have not yet arrived at decision. 1t is an
nouneed that final meeting of the arbitrators
will be held in st. Louis next Friday. There is
also a failure to agree among the general freight
agents of the various roads west and southwest
from Kansas City upon a division of business
from local points contiguous to competitive
points, the Missouri Pacific again interposing OBJ
jections that prevented a settlement.
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How JEFF Scott Got an Office.

The law changing elections from October I'M
til November, and particularly the caution Of
the Morgan county recorder elected in 1882, en-
abled Democrat 10 be chosen for that Office this
fall whore otherwise the Republican majority is
deemed mpreenable. The recorder elected in
October 1882, did not go into Office until Oct. 25
1884, but in the meantime the time of elections
was changed TO November. He had his commits
sion dated on the 18th of that month, two years
ago, and qualified on the same day. Under this
the election Of his successor would
not occur until 1883. but COL
jeff Scott. Democrat who wanted
the Office thought the Secretary of State nor any
other man could change constitutional date for
electing recorder, which ought to be done this
year But the Democrats and Republicans in
convention nominated no one. Scott, however.
had tickets, with his name for recorder, distrib-
uted throughout the county. and they were
voted, giving him poll OF 2.o00 with no opposi-
ton. He has qualified and will go into Office
two years hence. In this county the interregnum
was recognized and the fight made so uarely, re-
sulting III the election of Brink.
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heavy executive board, a central commissioner
and one at every important pooling point
A Healthy Movement of Freight.

n Healtny BAoVelneht Oh Erelgnb
The train records show that there were 1922
loaded cars received and forwarded at Indianap-
oils in the week ending Sunday, Nov. 20, against
1869 in the week ending Nov. 10. and against
l6 Ill the corresponding week, 1885, In the first
case being decrease of 84f loaded cars, while
10l more loaded cars we're handled this year than
in the corresponding week. 1885. While stats
ticallv this report is correct, seldom does the
weekly statement fall SO far short of showing the
pulse of business. owing to the fact that not one
of the fifteen Indianapolis roads has cars suf-
ficient to fill their orders. either for through or
local business; more especially for To-
cal points the roads troubled
to meet the demand for cars. In looking back
over the through movement of cars we find that
east bound the usual November average is well
maintained. The lighter movement over the
Bee.line and G., ST. l.. & p, has been fully made
up by the heavier movement over the L. b. 81
W., the c.. II. 81 |. and the c., L. St L. 81 q.
As 1t is settled that east-bound rates advance
| Dec. l, the coming week the demand for cars In
excess of the supply will become even more ap-
| parent. Shippers can comfort themselves with
the thought that east bound rates this year were
not advanced early by fifteen days as IN 1883.
| Westward the tonnage is not so heavy as In DC
| Der, yet heavier than usual in November. and
would be still heavier out for the scarcity of
| cars. This remark will apply with the most
| force to coal cars shipments of anthracite coal
| thus far this month having been 60 per cent.
lighter than in November, 1885. North and
south roads doing good business, and, as
evidenced at the meeting of the Chicago and
| Ohio river pool, last week, at paying rates.
| Local business is at high tide and limited only
/ by the cars which can be commanded. The
business is made up largely in handling grain,
coal and live stock. the volume of the last named
traffic being the largest in the history OF Indian
! apolis roads. Below is given the number OF cars
| received and forwarded at this point 10 the week
ending Nov. 90 as compared with that of the
preceding week and the corresponding week,
| 1874
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elections for State officers since 1873, and shows
that the majority this year, while there was
hardly any other issue than the temperance is
sue is an average of all these years. Espousing
prohibition has not injured the Republican party
in Iowa
These facts are very suggestive to Indiana Re-
puolcans If the result of the late election
means anything, it is a verdict of the voters of
indiana against the liquor traffic, and. fortunate
ly, we do not have to consult the traffic as to
measures. The lquor-sellers of Indiana did
their best to prevent that verdict. and, so far
the platform indicates the line of policy, it is a
verdict for high license and local option. Pc
sonally do not believe in either, or in both com
bined, but that is the verdict, with no little
phass. and accept it and desire TO give il fair
trial. If the Republicans are in earnest m,
concede that some very wholesome leg
lation can be had along that line. "
should recognize the fact that the rubicon 10
crossed. The liquor-sellers our open and
sworn enemies heneeforth. We owe them moth
ing. To retreat is impossible Let US do our
duty, and better day is before US.
u. L. SEE.
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ALesson From Iowa.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journals
1t has been fashionable in certain quarters to
talk of Republicanism in Iowa as having suffered
verse is the case. Possibly if temperance men
had been wholly unmiudful of their relation to
the traffic, and allowed the liquor sellers to have
everything their Own way, the party at times
might have Jared BETTER but this they chose not
to do In 1877 they asked the Republican party
tosay some encouraging word, but it would not,
whereupon there arose what is known in polit-
ical history as the Dugall revolt and 1858
voted for him for Governor But they never
thought of forming a party on that issue, for
the next year, when the Republicans merely
commended sobriety as a personal virtue and
every one of them returned to the fold and
have remained there till this day. That
year, Tor the first and only time in the
history of Iowa politics, the Republicans were in
minority of the popular vote. 1t has been GUS
tomary. with class of politicians, to compare
late Republican maiorities in Iowa with that of
1880, when the plurality was about 79000 but,
first the temperance question was that year q
foremost issue, thoroughly Endorsed by the Re-
publicans; and secondly. the Greenbackers that
year cast more than As, 900 votes so that the Re-
publican majority was only about 81, 900, or
about D per cent. of the entire vote. Last year
and this che Greenbackers fused with the Dem
party only about 400 strong last year. is too il
significant 10 count this year. so that the plu
rallty oil To- III Is practically majority of that
amount, or % per cent OF the vote The Des
Moines Register last week copied from the Gate
City an elaborate comparison of results Of the
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.


TO the Editor of the indianapolis Journal
1t is well to modify our market ordinance, to
take effect on moving into the new market house
In doing this it is well TO remember that we are
city OF 1000 people, not a village of 500
Some things that were wise enough fifty years
ago are not wise now. 1t is not necessary now
to require everybody to wait till the market
bell rings before any sale is made. There is
enough for all and enough for each. All the old
regulations about ''forestalling the market are
out of date. Let anybody buy who wants to, and
in any quantity he wants and at any time that
he can find the seller. In many instances the
grocer who is early on the spot is the only
representative OF dozen or twenty neighbors
who live mile or more away and await his re-
turn for their provisions for breakfast. Let him
buy at any hour, and go. Men and women are
waiting for him; hence, first. the fixing or any
arbitrary hour for opening is unwise and unfair.
Any hour after midnight. Buyers and sellers
will regulate that without harming any
body To have to wait for daylight, this
time OF the year, is cruel Second, it is not
clear that the market-house should not be
opened sumner and winter from 8 to
o'clock every evening. Hundreds of
laboring men who not go to market in the
morning could go by the market as they go home
from work and get their marketry. Unless there
is a demand for this there would be no sellers;
ordinance forbiddlng it. 1t will not do TO say
that they can be supplied at the grocery. The
house has been built for the poor, not for the
grocers. Third it is very clear that the market
should not be arbitrarily closed until after the
hour of morning that is, not before l o'clock.
There are hundreds of laboring men who can
command no time for market as we'll as their
noon hour 1t will damage no one but The gro
to close at /; it will benefit hundreds, if not
thousands, to keep open that late.
Let US inaugurate with the new house new
system of weights and measures, particularly of
weights. The present system requires the use
of steelyards by the butchers. If it had been
devised especially for fraud it could not have
been better planned. Indeed, it is believed to
have been planned by the butchers themselves.
They are hung at a distance from the purchaser,
so that he can never verify the butchers an
nouncement "Three pouuds-thirty cents2'
cries out the butcher; but when you get home it
is scant two pounds, and you have paid Is cents
for beef that you thought you were buying for
10. Let US require every man who retails by
weight to use platform scales with the double
dials, so that the purchaser can readily
verify the butchers weight. They as
accurate as any can be- they can be tested fire.
quently. And then let require him to an
nounce the weight we'll as the price. Now
he throws his meat on the scales and Sixty
cents" "Sixty-fve cents" and you are usually
swindled out of at least nickel, if not two or
three of them. U. L. SEE.
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Loaded Loaded Loaded |
Name of Road. Nov. 20INov IS Nov. 81 |
1856. 1856. 1885.


Mr.. McCrea's Friendship for Indianapolis.
Mr. James McCrea, general manager of the
Pennsylvania lines ard president of the Union
Railway Company, has proved himself to be a
good friend of Indianapolis. AS an employer of
men, he is regarded as one who does as he would
be done by, and. as an employe remarked. he is
''all wool and yard wide" Mr.. McCrea,
from the start, has said that Meridian
street must be closed or viaduct must
be built over the tracks on that street before any
new depot was built He has never hesitated on
the question for moment. Mr.. McCrea favors
the building of a vaduct of really -needed width
not only between Meridian street and Delaware
street, but ON Virginia avenue as well, and states
that the Union Railway Company and
the c., St L. & P. company are
willing to contribute to these improve
ments whatever unbiased men shall say
is just and equitable. The fact is that nothing
would have been done for years to come about
new union depot hut for Mr. McCrea's persist
ent urging the matter When he went over the
Pennsylvania lines with ID. W. Caldwell, some
five years ago, to learn the condition of things,
as he was to step into Mr.. Cadwelps Shoes he had
not been in the Union Depot ten minutes before
he turned to Vice-presdent Mccullough and re-
marked: "Wel the most needed improvement
is new union depot at indianapolis" The
journal has the best of authority for saving that
the first time he met the board of directors he
brought the matter up, and there has not been
meeting since which he attended that the sub
ject of new union depot has Eot been discussed.
The company of which he is general manager has
expended nearly $3.50 900 in improvements in In
dianapolis since Mr. McCrea took the general
managership in 1882. At that time there were
old wooden buildings on Liberty street, called
shops, in which some seventy-five men worked:
now the company has the finest shops at any
division point in the country, and proposes to
double their present capacity the next year.
Extensive yards have been laid out and fitted
up with the most improved appurtenances;
new city freight depot which is a
credit to the company has been bull t.
and they now have two of the best city
freight depots to be found anywhere. There are
many other improvements of less importance
that have been made which cannot be men
toned. There is another point in Mr. McCrea's
favor. He has insisted that the first and most
money should be expended in improvements at
indianapolis Columbus and other points have
had to wait their turn. Mr.. McCrea has proved
his friendship for Indianapolis; but still he has
the interests of the company he represents to
look after, and he does not propose that the
million of dollars his company, with others COM
posing the Union Railway Company have raised
to erect new union depot, shall all be paid out
in building viaducts and paying exhorbitant
damages to property holders, who think they
have the Union Railway Company in a tight
MACE
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Bee-Line Earnings.

1.-THE Bee-line net earnings for September y
says the Cleveland Leader of the 20th tare fully
as favorable as was expected, and continue to
show the same UNMARRIED gains that have oc-
Cured during the earlier part of the year, when
earnings were compared with period at which
rates were the lowest ever known. The esti-
mate for September was a gain of $780,
600, but the actual earnings show little
better 100000 For eight months che gain was
$672 000 and, with September included, the to-
tai is $4,000. The gain for October will
probably be 100000, and for the last two
months ofthe year sufficient to make the aggre
gate show gain in netearnings of million dol
lars. This includes the Indianapolis & St. Louis
road. Last year the deficit was 1857 900 and the
construction account $177 900. Presumng that
the construction account this year will be the
same as last, there would be surplus, Jan. /, of
at least 1860 900, equal to dividend of Il per
cent This showing fully bears out the predic
tion made early in the year that the Bee-line
would show a comfortable balance this year"
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Suuerior Court.

Rooml- N. b. Taylor. Judge
William A. Niedhamer ct al vs. Harvey A.
Gilbert; damages. Judgment for 500 in favor
OF plaintiffs against defendants, Gilbert 81
Hamln and in favor of defendants, Hunt & Nc
Curdy for costs
Cornelius L. Garswiler Vs. Rena g. Garswiler;
divorce. Granted; adultery.
Room 3-Hon. Lewis e. Walker Judge
Emil Martin VS. Henry Ranje; to revive iudg-
ment Dismissed at plaintiffs costs
Amittai A. Ulrey vs.. Stephen S. Ulrey ct al
note. Dismissed at plaintiffs costs.
Gottlieb William va Geo. P. Bissell ct al; to
rescind contract. Finding for plaintiff
Anastatia Brown vs.. The City; damages. Dis
missed at plaintiffs costs
Elizabeth Moore vs. The City ct al damages
On trial by Jury,
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Hon. G. V. Howk. Chief-iustce
The following opinions were rendered Nov. 20:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
1923. Stoughton A. Fletcher ct al. vs. Thos.
H. Sharpe ct al Marion S. G. Affirmed.
Mitchell. J.--Where trustees, with others. have
become general depositors in a bank that has be-
come insolvent, and whose assets are in the
hands of receiver for distribution among all it's
creditors according to law, such trustees stand
In relation Of debtor and creditor between. them
selves and the bank, and are upon no different
level from other general depositors.
DEED-MIsTAKE OF FAoT-NoTE
12S34-Thomas Fleetwood vs. Serepta Brown.
jackson G. @. Reversed. collars, IAN own
er of land abandoned his family and property in
1879. Surprising him to be dead, appellee, one
of the heirs, executed quit-claim deed for her
interest to appellant. taking his note now in
suit for payment. In 1885 he returned, took
possession of his property and excluded appel
liant from possession. Held that there was a
mutual mistake of fact, which would avoid
recovery on the note.
Observation-Disclosures
1897 Ira Carr ct al VS.. James Boone ct al
Hamilton G. c. Affirmed. Elliott, Ditch
proceedings The notice originally given was
that that the petitioners would file a petition on
a designated day, and as against collateral at
tack this was not sufficient Acts 1883, D. 173 J
Notice may be waived but when the parties en-
ter a special appearance and move to dismiss the
proceedings for want of notice, there is no
waiver Those appearing without objection can
not now successfully urge its insufficiency.
Where joint motion to dismiss is followed by
joint assignment of errors, if the motion is
not we'll taken as to all who join, there is no
available error in overruling it. Although there
was no formal judgment declaring the
notice sufficient, the judgment involved
that question and settled it without
formal declaration. The court may order notice
to be given where it is discovered that previous
notice is insufficient. One of the owners affected
moved to dismiss the proceedings. Prior to the
motion the Commissioners had filed report.
and an order was made approving the assess
ment. subsequently he joined the Commits
soners In petition to vacate the report and
order, representing that the owners were not
made parties. On this petition orders were
made vacating the former order and directing
notice to omitted parties, who appeared. The
motion was too late Where rights have been
acquired and money expended a petitioner can
not destroy rights which his own act had been
the means of creating
1861. Indiana Insurance Company VS.. Jen-
ME r. Capehart. Pike c. c. Rehearing denied.
w. F. Browder and C. E. Cox, Indianapolis,
admitted to practice.
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Richmond & Danville and Richmond s. West
Point Troubles Settled.

NEW YORK Nov. 20.--The settlement of the
conflicting interests of the Richmond G. Dan
vile and Richmond & West Point Terminal and
Warehouse Companies was contaminated to-day
by the sale of the stock representing the control
of the Richmond e. Danville railroad for So, 000-
900 cash and 81, 500 900 in stock of the Richmond
& West Point Terminal and Warehouse Com
pany The old board of directors of the Rich
mond g. West Point Terminal and Warehouse
Company resigned this afternoon. and new
board were elected in their place. committee
was appointed to issue notice to stockholders
for subscriptions to the So, 000 600 cash required
to acquire control of the Richmond & Danville
railroad, each stakeholder to be entitled 30 sub
scribe to an amount equal to one-third of his
holdings in Richmond & West Point Terminal
Stock and receive common stock therefor OF
equal to half the amount of his present holdings
and preferred stock at par for the cash sub
scribed. The capital stock of the Richmond 81
West Point Terminal Company will be increased
accordingly.
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Real Estate Transfers.

Instruments filed for record in the recorders Office
of Marion county Indiana, for the twenty -four hours
ending at p M. Nov. 20, 1886, as furnished by
Elliott s. Butler abstracters of titles Room % Htna
Building:
Anthony B. Conaroe and wife to Charles
H. Sullivan, lots and g. in block 3, in
Bridgeport. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $4,000
William Dragoo and wife to Robert e.
Poindexter, lot 81 in James H. Ruddell's
subdivision of part of block % in John
sons heirs addition to Indianapolis - $500 90
Mary E. Berry and husband TO Phidella
Haugh, north half of lot and lot 6, in
Augusta. $500
George f. Lutz to Henry r. Tomlinson
lot 40 in Fletcher ct al. s subdivision
of outots o. 95, SO, 81. 90 and south
half of 81. in Indianapolis. ---.....-.. 100000
Cas- Byfeld trustee, to Sarah Croslev, lot
4 in Davidson's second addition to In
dianapos -...............- 1850
John H. Vajen and wife to the l., D. & S.
Railway Company part of lot block
s. in Holiness West-end addition to In
dianapolis. ....-........--. $1,000
William L. Elder and wife to Alice F.
Wathene. lot los in Allen g. Roots
north addition to Indianapolis. ~. 90
Pinke w. Pattison and husband to Mary
III. Brown. lot IL in square of Martin
dale's south addition to Indianapolis $4,000
Conveyances, s; consideration. ...... So 1885, 90
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Consnlidatinn TaIk.

A big consolidation scheme of railroads in the
New England States, to include the Hoosac Tun-
mel Line, is now being agitated. The Boston Ad-
vertiser says: when the time comes for putting
the tunnel into the scheme the projectors will
find that they are unable to deliver the goods
The people of Massachusetts viii not part with
the Hoosac Tunnel at this time, when the whole
West is buoyant with activity, and when re-
vival of enterprise is occurring, which would
make the purchase of the tunnel for speculative
purposes a bonanza to those who engaged in it.
The people would probably be willing to put the
tunnel into consolidated line in which the State
should retain its interest but they are not
likely to consent to a sale at any price which the
would-be purchasers would be likely to give at
this tme.s
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the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company and T.
Whellen andJ. B. Murray. trustees, was taken up
in the United States Circuit Court to-day. The
suit is brought to foreclose on the Allegheny Val
ley railroad for an Indebtedness of $13, 600. 900.
The arguments to-day were on q motion of Il. W.
the intervening creditors, and on the demurrer
and plea of the plaintiffs to the eross-bill The
time for the argument on the removal OF the
present receivers of the Allegheny Valley rail
road has not yet been fixed.
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''WHAT's in a nameg' That which we call
headache. by any other name would hurt as bad
Just don't call it at ALL but cure it with Salvation
Oil
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Lace boas so much worn abroad last season, are
to be had in New York. They are made of Chan
tiy and point d'esprit lace. Seventy yards of lace
are required for their fabrication.
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Criminal Court.

Hon. A. f. Ayres, Acting Judge.
Nancy Enrick VS.. Frank Enrick divorce On
trial by court
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When shc became Miss, she chung to CastOria,
Whom she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
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The Allegheny Valley Foreclosure Suit.
PITTsBURa, Nov 2O.-The equity suit of tbs
Pennsylvania, the Northern Central and the
Philadelphia & Erie railroad companies against