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Poisonous Lilo uors.

New York Liquor MI nufacturer.
We make champagne which you buy for the
genuine article. 1t costs to manufacture 81 a
basket. We sell it for $40 to dealers. We make
the stuff and put 1t into own bottles make
fac slmile label of the genuine article; Spanish
corks for the bottles and French straw and
basket to pack them in. When we want to
initiate genuine imported wine we buy bar
rel of it. Our cooper takes the barrel as a pat
tern and makes one by 1t. They are new and
bright We put them through steaming
process, and they come out old and musty and
worn just like the genuine importation. Thirty
two deadly poisons are used in the manufacture
OF wine. Not one gallon in fifty sold here ever
saw France. We send thousands of gallons of
whisky TO France TO have them bac
something else. OF all the poisonous liq uors in
the world Bourbon whisky is the deadliest
Strychninc is only one of the poisons in it A
certain oil is used in its manufacture eight drops
OF which will kill cat in eight min utes, and q
dog IN nine minutes. The most temperate men
in New York are the wholesale dealers. They
dare not drink the stuff they SELL
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seems little to affect the ardor of search in
the slow-going old-world country. the Bank
of England having issued many advertisements
respecting the retransfer of unclaimed divi-
dends, claimants having appeared, including
three cases in which the dividends had remained
since 1853 1897, and 1898. Persons claiming TO
be entitled to fund standing in the name of
Anna Sheppard, who is believed to have died
IN 1741. now only invoked. Tho treasury
solicitor sought the next-ofkin in some forty
'crowu windfalr cases, the owners of these
estates having died intestate without known
heirs. 1t may be here noted than by the
recent decision of Mr. Justice Chitty in the
Heathcote case the crown comes into wind
fall of f200. 600 by reason of the death OF a
lunafic in 1884 without known next-of-kn. A
very considerable sum accrues annually 70 the
crown from this source. but it is only after ex-
trems efforts to discover next-of-kin all over the
world. more especially in the widespread remote
British possessions. Some curious cases arose
out of the presumption of life Limitation
(Scotland) act under which relatives sought to
s.npift and enjoy" the estates of persons who.
having failed to report themselves for periods OF
seven years or upwards, were supposed to De
dead.
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AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.

freight Traffic Heavy for Winter Month.
The train records show handsome move
nent of freight for winter month over all
Inca Il will be noticed that there were 239
more loaded cars handled at this point last week
than in the week ending Jan. z, while there
were twenty seven fewer cars handled than In
the corresponding week of 1887, but as COM
pared with the corresponding week III 1886, an
increase of 5,017 loaded cars is shown. In the
second week of January, 1885, however. the
northern lines were having troubie from snow,
practically suspending freight traffic for two or
three DAYS The train records show an increased
tonnage Of export business, and quite a large
movement of lumber while shipments OF
grain fell off somewhat. Then there was an
increase of shipments of live stock over the pre-
reding week West-bound there is an increased
tonnage shown, and from this On for some weeks
the increase will continue, as merchants are
already making their purchases OF spring and
aummer goods North -and-south roads have
been doing better OF late the j., NJ. & ]. and
the L. N. A. e. c. main line making an excellent
showing. considerable per cent OF the bust
ness the c. l., St L. 81 &. is carrying is south
bound shipments of grain and provisions. Coal
traffic is little of; all the roads are holding
loaded cars their side-tracks awaiting the
readiness of the dealers TO unload them. Live
stock traffic is not heavy as at the correspond
ing period last year. hogs having been shipped
on to the market earlier than usual The short
age of the hog crop begins to be apparent through
the decrease in shipments. Local traffic is
ahead of it's usual average at this season OF the
year yet the clerks and platform men are able
10 take care of the business without working
ver-tirne, which is the first time in several
months. Below is given the number of cars re-
ceived and forwarded at Indian polls in the
week ended Jan. IA, as compared with the num-
Der handled the corresponding weeks of 1887
and 1856:
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Next of Kin Wanted.

New York Evening Post.
The English advertisements for 1887 OF Next
OF hin wanted, and persons who might "learn
something greatly TO their advantage are less
dramatic than sometimes happens but yet are of
varied nature and not without peculiar interest
Tor some persons in this country Jacob Her
bert, last heard of in Pennsylvania will lose
soinethine handsome IL hs does not soon ma
teriaiize. and so will William Barnes slast
heard OF in Chicago" and Albert and
and adopted by separate families The
heirs-at-law OF Henry Blizzard should
o. course. be looked for in Manitoba or Montana
rpiess Joseph Prunty, a shopkeeper who left
Ireland Tor America in 1880, makes himself
known within 8 given date, letters Of admins
tration VIII be granted to his next-of-kin as il
ne nad died intestate. Near New y ork per-
baps, may be found persons sought, who are '.in-
terested In unclaimed dividends OF the West
New jersey Society lI6923H) Lapse Of tsns
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Southern California.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis journal:
notice a letter in your paper of Jan. r. 1888,
headed ga Defense Of Southern California;
over the signature of c. Bradford, a tenant of
w. S. Hubbard, of our city, and DOW stopping
at Los Angeles, Cal, who claims to have been
amused and suddenly become indignant upon
reading reply to w. S. Hubbard's
letter, written by me. in your journal
of recent date, in which I was
taken to task for speaking out in nesting"
as my friend Pico of Sullivan. writes, and tells
1 said about the climate. living and business is
true, every word, and great deal more can be
said against that glorious country. Others have
confirmed my statement, and even Mr. Brad
ford himself admits it, and even goes fur
Their. and makes the bold assertion
that there ara no trst-class hotels
in Los Angeles. / hardly think Mr.. B. could
have read Mr. Hubbard's letter. for his letter
admits substantially the truth Of my assertions
in giving an account of the country, and climate
and living. Several other writer's have fully in
dorsed my statemsntsj contained therein, and
lots of others could do tho same IL they dare
speak out and give their experience; but
most people shrink from newspaper notoriety, but
/ for one am willing to stand by our own glori-
GUS city. which to-day offers better inducements
for business than any other city in the country,
notwithstanding all they claim for Los Angeles
and southern California, for all the gas they
have there is artificial, while ours is real natural
gas, and plenty of il. i have no desire TO ques-
ton my friend Huobard's word or any other
gentleman. but because don't think see as
some others do. shat is no fault OF mine. /
went there with the firm determination of 10
eating there. After hearing all the glorious
statements and printed exagerations of that
rosy climate, / decided to go, and did go and
came back to Indianapolis. well satisfied to re-
main here in preference TO going to California
TO live. For visit trip, it will pay
any that is admrer of natures
works to make the trip. The scenery is beauti-
full beyond description. and / enjoyed it very
much; but poor man has any business in
California to make it home. and hundreds
would gladly come back il they had the money
TO come with. Most all OF our indianapolis peo-
pie are engaged in the real estate business, and
some of them have made some money at the
pense of others; but it can't be long before the
bubble will burst, and then the great march to
the Golden City will cease. Better let well
enough alone and stay in Indiana, and take my
advice that California is good place TO stay
away from WIN. T. MARCY.
JAM 13, 1885,
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Bishop Coke and Bishop Chatard.


TO the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal
The Roman Bishop of Vincennes. f. S.
Chatard, in a letter dated jan 13, published in
your issue of the 18th, takes exception to the
letter of Bishop Coke, which sent you. Know
ing that the DEGREES of Clement XIV against
the Jesuits, and the refusal of cardinals of the
Roman Church to permit them 1.-THE Jesuits) to
enter their 1.-THE cardinals) jurisdic tons are
known by English-spsakine people OF intelli-
gence; am satisfied now, and
ter to let the letter appear in the
same paper as did the reflection. The Jesuits
replied to Bishop Coke that the maxim does not
mean that ''the end justifies bad means The
Bishop replied: Good means require no iustif-
cation" The Bishop referred to Encyclopedia
Britannica because generally recognized and
easily accessible, and contains the quotations
from Jesuit writer's Busembaum, Layman and
Wagemann. However, Bishop Coke says,
land the letter from the Roman bishop of Vim
cennes does not disprove). but who can bind
Proteusl" Am DESTROYS Of controversy with
no one. Bishop Coke and his letter will take
care of themselves. F. w. HENRY,
Rector OF Grace Church, Muncie.
Hr-Nrr
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Lamar.

TO the Editor of the indianapolis Journal
The Democratic party. as ia their custom. en-
tirely fail to give proper consideration to the
question of judicious appointment to the SUI
preme Court vacancy. With them it 10 q mere
matter of party policy. The selection Of Mr..
Lamar is not dictatediby any fitness on his part
The organs of the party make no effort to have
the appointment confirmed on the score of his
qualification for the position. He is a man Of
very much ability. but in the qualifications for
this position he is as barren as the ordinary
practitioner. Had his life been spent in the
law. then there were no doubt of his ability.
The Democratic party make argument in
favor of his appointment, but simply say that
his confirmation is opposed because Of his acts
during the war In answer to this We have but
as Secretary of the Interior was confirmed at once
and willingly, and that for such a position,
for many others, he Is eminently qualified. The
selection of Lamar is the dictation of the Solid
South-merey party policy and not be-
of his adaptation to this position.
His confirmation is not opposed because
is dictated by the solid South, but because Of
his utter unfitness. We expect q Democrat to
be appointed, but has the party no ADLER jurista
Have they no man in all those eleven States
who possesses abilities sufficient to recommend
him to this exalted position? Don't misunder-
stand u.s. Lamar Ii great man. but he is not
man. but no one would say he was fitted for
irst-class jurist. Sumner was a great man, but
who would have selected him to lead
the armies of the Unionl Inger-
soil is great man, but he was not
thought of as a substitute for Beecher. Frank
lin toyed with the lightning and constructed
governments, but when he made a rabbit-cage
he cut a large opening for the old rabbits pass
il aud out and then cut small opening for the
little rabbits. Give us the best material you
have for the position; not q man who is simply
great man. or good man, but one who is emf
nenty fitted for the position. I confess that,
admitting the fact that the vacancy, under the
rules of politics, will be filed by Democrat,
and under the iron domination of that party the
man must from the South, it will
be difficult task to find . man into whose
hands it will be safe to place the Constitution
it is for support and enforcement, but they GER
tainly have one man of ability and patriotism In
all those eleven States. and it is the duty of the
Senate to see that such one is selected. If he
cannot be found in that section, do not Let that
very important branch of the government be
endangered by political geographical ap-
pointment, but compel the President to select
man who can fill the DISQUALIFICATION first,
geography and politics afterwards The Senate
does assume to dictate the appointment
but it is its sworn duty to say who shall not be
selected. ISAAC FL. PHAREs.
Enxxrr To-
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.
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r AIDES WISHING TO SECURE COMPETENT
IL help have their wants supplied by calling
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N1HE GRAND UNION EMPLOYMENT BUREAU,
i AND BUSINESS CHANCE EXCHANGE of Michigan,
Franklin Block. This is OF the largest and best
appointed Bureaus in the world with branch and
associate offices in all i'm portant business centers,
securing situations for and furnishing all classes OF
commercial, mechanical and subordinate help, both
male and female. All classes of business trans
actions skiItuly handled Business chances bought
and sold. f. F. DAVIS s. CO., 81 Circle st.
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Getting = Pleasant Expression.

new n.
Photographers Ito sittsr)-'T saw you at
church last Sunday, Miss Smith
Sitter-"Oh, did youl"
Photographar-''Yes and also your friend
Miss Brown-if you could raise Your chin
trhe, thanks-and what an Notwithstanding
hat she had on. latter a pausel. There. Miss
Smith, il is over. and think we have caught q
very niaaSAnt expression.n
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Hayes H.s the Best of r.

Minneapolis Tribune.
Jokes about the r b. Hayes hennery are still
floating abont but il is better to have fresh eggs
for breakfast and fried spring chicken for sup
per than to chew ham sandwiches in the abodes
Of the scribes and paragraphers.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

FINANCIAL.
MONEY TO LoAN-WM s. H NJ. HADLEY. 70
Vl East Market street.
MONEY TO LOANS PER CENT. HORACE
Vl MCKAY, Room IL. Talbot 8 News Block.
L'INANCIAL-MONEYO ON MORTGAGE-FARMS
u and city property. @. E. COFFIN Sc co.
OK PER CENT. ON CITY PROPERTY IN IN
- diana Isaac H kisrsted. Is Martindale Block.
MONEY TO LOAN ON FARMS AT THE Low
M est market rate; privileges for repayment before
due We also buy municipal bonds. THOS. @. DAY
q CO., ~ l.. Market street, Indianapolis.
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pRTEsrLY DUTY.

Converting savage is as hard as tanning
rhinoceros, which, it is said, will die OF
broken heart before it will abate its
natural ferocity. The second nature of an
Indian is hate of the white man, and this
Unborn dislike must be subdued to re-
spect for a white teacher before any good
impression will take hold. To see savage,
therefore, at the feet of a Christian mis-
sionary learning the divine precepts is an
exhibition of wonderful will power OF the
former over the latter. An instance of the
kind is the mission service of Rev. L. n.
St. Onge, P. P, who, through very trying
exposure during ten years of hard Indian
missionary life in the Rocky Mountain
region, pursued his noble calling. Of this
he writes that he encountered worse
enemy than the savage developed from
his mode of life) and taking hold of him
with the tenacity of death itself. With
this enemy he struggled very hard, which,
like the Indians prejudice, he had to Crap
pie because it was violent, and, like his
own will power over the sayage-that
which he employed to conquer and sub
due-was in its nature as overpOwering as
.he influence he exerted on the savage mind.
Itpenetrated with magical effects and made
its permanent result. Let him explain.
In 1882 he wrote from Glens Falls, N. Y,
stating: II am kept in bed by rheumatism
and am cripple trying the virtues of your
great remedy. I could not bear the pain
yesterday, but single application stopped
it and made me sleep comfortably. trust
it will reduce the swelling and allow me to
walk" Oct. 20, 1856, he writes again:
Everything I used failed to relieve me
until tried St. Jacobs Oil. One applica-
ton was sufficient to stop the pain, and
very few applications to reduce the swelling
in the joints. 1, therefore, recommend that
remedy to every one afflicted as was, and
consider it duty to give it unqualified
praise" AS a priestly duty he makes it
known. The same sense of heroic duty
prompts him, and in conquering the in
stincts of the savage by patience he has by
patience found the greatest discovery of the
QOe
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THE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS.
A Terse and Comprehensive Statement OF Its
Natural and Acquired Advantages.

Col w. R. Holloway secretary of the Cable
street Railway Company, has issued map OF
the city of Indianapolis. with the following facts
respecting the advantages OF Indianapolis as
city for manufactures and for residence
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HOOPS Sarssparilla is purely vegetable prep
aratIon being free from injurious ingredients
IL 10 peculiar in its curative power.
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DIED.

BRADY-Jan. Is. at .. M, An Lynn Brady
wife Of John Brady. Funeral notice later.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-10

The ideal foot OF modern ladies is about
No. 8. We hear but little about the shining
goal toward which the masculine foct is
directed, The length of the average foot is a
difficult matter to decide Perhaps there was
a time when its status was more reliably
fixed than at present. For instance, the COM
mon unit of lineal measure, foot, was de-
rived from the length of the human foot
Human feet differ in length all over the
world; so does the standard of lineal meas
urement. There was time when not only
each country, but each town, had foot
measure of its own, indicating different aver
ages of the different feet in various localities
Taking the English foot 12 inches) as a
standard, we find the French foot to be IL Is,
the Rhenish foot 1885. As these compare
tive lengths were derived from the average
human foot of these nationalities, we may
take comfort in the fact that we are in the
happy minority of inches at the base. The
Russian foot of measure equals the English,
and the German or Rhenish foot varies in
the different states. The longest foot of
measure is that of old Turin, which is equal
to twenty inches of English measure. This
latter, founded upon the length of the Turin
pedal, might, in the persihage of our time,
be said to have descended by heredity to a
certain section of our great country, famous,
In fable at least, for its breadth and length
of understanding. In order TO get an idea
of the length of shoe sizes in inches, it may
be stated that foot measuring ten inches,
with the weight of the body resting upon it
may wear, comfortably. No. 6 shoe The
reader can figure from this up to the Turin
foot of twenty inches by allowing three full
sizes to the inch.-Shoe and Leather Re
porter
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-10

President Holmes. of the Chicago SYM
dictate at present controlling the street
car lines of the three cities, carries his
thorough business principles in all enter
prises to which he devotes bis attentions,
evidently. Among the Stories of the
Street" in toiay's Chicago Herald, ap-
pears the following:
President c B. Holmes, of the Chicago
City Railway company, is thorough
business man. He is deeply interested
in numerous charities, and is president of
the Chicago Home for the Friendless, lo>
Gated at the southwest corner of Wabash
avenue and Twentieth street. Mr..
Holmes believes in bringing his business
principles to bear upon his charities, and
he does not countenance idleness in the
home when he believes the idler is self
supporting a story is told of him to
the effect tat few weeks ago there was
woman admitted into the casual ward
of the home, and that this woman had
but Que leg At the meeting of the direc,
tors Mr.. Holmes advanced his business
ideas and argued that if the onp-leggeC
woman was suffered to remain with then
she would probably be there for life
whereas if they did little specializing OF
the outside and bought her cork lie!
she might be able to get out and "hus
tie" for herself. His idea was adopted
after some debate, and the woman wa
set adrift with cork leg as a floater
According to the story she found hus
band inside of week, and now Mr.
Holmes suggestions haEe gone up abov,
par in the directory of tie home.
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from the mother and sent him to brother

from the mother and sent him to brother
in Atlanta
Monday Halves married in Columbus,
Miss, and was passing through here with
his second wife on his way to Augusta, Ga,
when he was arrested He was little agi
tated at first, but when closely questioned at
the iail and told that one Of his children had
been murdered he seemed apparently uncon-
cerned. and said he had left Mary and an.
other little girl some days ago with her
mother, and that all of them had already
gone to the mothers relatives somewhere in
Maine.
Facts, however, kept coming out that did
not agree with HIVES statements, and the
conviction settled down on the community
that the mother had gone the same way as
tqe daughter 1t is also known that Halves
was not divorced from his first wife, and had
lied TO the girl he married last week. 81
search for the woman's body was begun
and blood-stains were found in every room
of the Halves cottage. Following up the
''signs," at noon Saturday the body of the
missing woman was found at the bottom of
lake in the park, half mile from the cot
tage where the family had lived and five
miles from East Lake. where the body of
little May Halves was found last Tuesday.
The head Of the dead woman had been
crushed in by blow with an axe and the
body was kept at the bottom of the lake by
| 200 pounds of iron fastened about the neck,
| feet and waist.
| The couples second child is missing, and
search for her is going on. There is no doubt
her body will be found in the lake where the
mothers body was found aud the Lake will
be drained.
All Saturday evening the widest excite.
ment that Birmingham has ever known pre-.
vailed. Second and Third avenues and Nine
teeuth street were filed with mass of PEG,
ple and the crowd grew larger every mo-
ment Business had been suspended on
account OF the great tragedy, and no other
subject was thought OF. Talk of lynching
Halves and two negroes who had been ar
rested for completely, was free and open
Mayor Thompson issued strict orders to
Marshal Packard to thoroughly protect the
Jail and the city, and a large number Of tried
and true men were sworn in to special duty,
and they surrounded the jail, armed with
Winchester rifles.
An excited citizen who mounted box in
front of the Florence hotel and urged the
mob to violence was arrested and marched
OFF to prison.
Halves says he was married to Miss Emma
Pettis, daughter of Col. Pettis, of Atlanta,
by whom he had three children. He alege:
he secured divorce from her last October
but continued TO live with her and she cared
for the children.
The new wife says Halves represented
himself to be a widower with but one child
boy who had relatives in Atlanta She
announces she will take immediate steps Il
have her marriage with Halves annulled