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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-17
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
The Exhibit Not IA Favorable ~ 1t should b
The acarcifv of cara In aarionsly infarfAriu

The Exhibit Not IA Favorable ~ 1t should Be.
The scarcity of il seriously interfering
with business. There is not an Indianapolis
liuethat would not have done more business last
week than il did could tie cars have been COM
mapded TO move the freight offered. The train
records show that l, ISL fewer loaded cars were
received and forwarded at Indianapolis In the
week ending Sept 10 than in the preceding week.
When compared with the corresponding week in
it should be said that the volume OF traffic in the
week ending Sept. Il, 1887. was the largest OF
any week in the year. Not until 1885 Ia reached
10 the car movement as light in corresponding
weeks as it was last week. In west bound bust
ness the tonnage was hardly mp 10
the first week of September, but the
scarcity of had, dontt, something
to 90 with this falling off, as merchants and
business men generally are complaining that
their freigh,s shipped from the East are de-
layed more or less. North and south roads are
doing admirably holding rates and carrying a
large tonnage. The j., M. 81 l., for instance,
makes the most favorable exhibit OF any week
this year. Local traffic is at high tide. The
ROADS have learned TO keep the cars intended
for local service on thsir lines. and consequently
mess does not affect. to any great extent, local
business. There is still a large movement OF
building material, a fair movement of grain, and
an increasing movement of coal, and aside from
this the tonnage of merchandise, furniture and
machinery Is unusually heavy. The livestock
shipments are much lighter than at any time in
many years past Below Is given the number
the week ending Sept. 10. a. COMPARED with the
cOrraspCudinv weeks 1881 and 1856.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-17
Soldiers, Take Warning.

70 the Editor OF the INDIANAPOLIS Journal:
There is being circulated by a prominent Dem
ocrat Of Seymour, letter purported to be writ
ten by Captain Moore, of Noblesville. this State.
who says he was captain Of Company Z. Eighth
Indiana Cavalry; that he has heretofore been q
Republican, but now ,denounces the principles OF
the party and evsrmore commits himself to the
Democratic free-trads party. The letter has
not been Published, but is quietly handed
around to the old soldiers, who arc instructed 20
read and return. Upon investigation it was
found that there was no such officer, commits
stoned or non-com missionsd. in the Eighth Reg
iment OF Indiana Cavalry. The letter is bogns.
1t Is reported that the same trick 10 being re-
sorted to throughout southern Indiana. The
cavalrymen OF the Eighth Indiana were not that
kind OF men. JAMES ID. THOMPSON,
First Lieut.. Co. K, Thirty ninth Ind. Cav.
SEYMOUR, Ind. Sent If
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-17

In the week ending Sept ID there were trans
ferred over the Belt road ll,367 cars. against
13, 4l0 the corresponding week OF 1887; decrease
this year, 2,043 cars.
Belt road engines last week handled GA car
loads of live stock, against 737 carloads the
corresponding week OF 1887; decrease this year,
l23 cars
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of Marion COUNTY Indiana for the twentyfour hours
ending at P. NJ. Sept. Is. 1855 furnished by
Elliott Butler absractors of titles Room 3d. Etns
Building.
Harry Strickland to Laura Strickland,
part Of lot %. in Maguire's heirs subdi-
vision OF part of OF outlot ISL $4,000
Mary X Webb to William S. CARRIER, lot b
of outlot i59 100000
Albert Patrick to Nettie Cropper lot %.
in block IL, in North Indisnapolis...... 1880
Walter p. Scott James II. Lewark,
Ct ais southeast addition, -. $4,000
Ssvilla W. Barkis 10 William Hubba
ords addition to town Of Lawrence. 100000
James w. Jenkins to Christopher c.
Thorn pson ct al. part of north half of
southwest quarter, section IL, town
ship is north, Of range east..... 100000
Lizzie Olsen to Charles IL. Sullivan, lot
BroOkside .....-.............. 225oo
Henry Jameson 70 Vinson Winnings part
of southwest. quarter of northeast auar-
ter, section 10. township Is north, of
range east. 10000
Henry b. Prather TO Francis :. Cbatard,
addition , ~. ' :. =. .....-.. 100000
Joseph W. Connolly to James 5. Cruse
ton .......................-. $4,000
Nicholas McCarty ct al 20 Mary H. Wit
side addition ..................... $4,000
Harry j. Sfilligan, trustee. to George Il.
addition ..... ,'.r' 10000
Perciva A. Salisbury u James G.. Kings
addition NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 100000
Conveyances l3 consideration. SIG / 5000
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A Generous Oner.

At the suggestion of Austin Corbin the en-
ployes OF the Philadelphia & Reading road are
to organize a relief association on very liberal
scale. An employee need not join it unless be
chooses, and the company. although a liberal
contributor will have DO voice in It's manage
ment The railroad Management will not only
defray the expenses OF the association, but will
also contribute 10 per cent of the dues until the
amount in the treasury reaches 81 600, 900. after
which it will contribute per cent This offer
is generous that IL deserves the highest praise
and the result will be valuable TO both sides.
The employees aud their families will not only
have substantial aid when sickness or death
comes, but the company will be rewarded By q
mere efficient service than ever, for a man
works twice as well for liberal employ er
as he does for one who takes no interest in him.
The great value OF these relief associations is
made apparent by the monthly statements of the
Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania associ-
ations. Of like character. and nearer home. on
the Bee-lne and the c.. III. & ID. roads. The
Baltimore & Ohio, on Saturday last, published
its statement for August. which shows the re-
ceipts Of the month TO have been S29, SCI. 10 aud
the disbursements TO sick and injured members,
and on account Of seven deaths, were $40 584 &c.
Since the association was organized. May i,
1880, 10 has paid out in benefits 81 500, l29 40
furnishing aid in 1917 cases
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To the Editor Of the indianapolis Jonrnaf
Cur farmers are selling potatoes at so cents
per bushel and realizing fair profit. but there
10 tariff of 10 cents per bushel on foreign Do
tatoes. Now. when a Canada farmer ships in
his potatoes will he add the tariff to the price.
or will he sell at our priest Who paye the
tariff T.
DAyyII.LE Sent IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-17
The Vandalia Line

Will sell excursion tickets, Indianapolis to 81.
Louis and return. account the exposition, every
day until further notice, at So. co.
For tickets and particulars call at the Van.
dalis ticket Office, No. A. cor. Washington and
Illinois sts. or Union Station.
III. r DERINe,
Assistant General Passenger Agent
vandalia Line, Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-17

ANGosrURA Bittsrs are Endorsed by all the
leading physicians and chemists. for their purity
and wholesomeness. Beware of counterteits and
ask for the genuine article, prepared by DR.. j.
G. B. Siegert & Sons.
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WANTED-MALE HELP.

VEANTED-IMMEDIATEL 200 MEN To
w work in car-works at Birmingham, Clay coun-
ty Missouri near Kansas City. Good wages, steady
work and cheap living None but good, steady, reli
able men wantec who used to freight-car
works. Come at once and secure permanent posi-
ton Address @. II. HOWARD, Superintendent Ksn-
sas City Car and Wheel Company, birmingham, No,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-17
Real Estate Transfere.

instruments fled for recorf in The recorders Office
of Marion COUNTY Indiana for the twentyfour hours
ending at ?. NJ. Sept. Is. 1883. furnished by
Elliott Butler abstractors Of titles, Room 90, Etns
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-17
GIRLS CLASSICAL SCHOOL

Seventh year opens Sept. IL. Prepares for all Col
leges that admit women. Handsome acoommod afions
for boarding pupils Send for Catalogue. T. l.. Sewa
and May Wright Sewan. Principals, In dianapols Ind
Please cali at Jas North Pennsylvania st.. between
- and d O'Clock
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EDUCATIONAL.
BOYS CLASSICAL SCHOOL

Thirteenth year opens Sept. II. Prepares Tor al
Colleges Boys Of eight received. Send for Gaia
logue r. l.. Sewall, Indianapolis. Ind Plea cab
at 3i3 North Pennsylvania ST.. between a nd 3 o,
IL and o'clock.
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SANFORD'S GINGEI
ANNOUN CLEMENTS
The Delicious Summer Medicir

AIRS. THOMASS DANCING ACADEMY, WHEN
Nl Block, is now open.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-04
GOSLINGSFOR BAIT.
Bass Landed, and the
Hook Baited Only Three Times.
From the st. Louis Globe

A letter from st. Louis gentleman,
who has been for some time up at Green
Lake, Wis, has just been received
here, and it contains the account of n
fishing exploit that is remarkable.
81 went out early the other evening""
writes the gentleman, in the hopes of
encountering some of the famous pick
erel of this resort when they were Just
coming up from their messy beds after
morsel for breakfast. 1 trolled for
half mile without strike. 1 was
passing farmhouse, i'll front of which
were an old goose and lot of goslings a
month OF SO old. They were swimming
around, dipping down under the water,
and chattering away in high glee. Just
us [ was opposite them there was Il
splash, and one of the goslings disap-
penred. Almost instantly another one
went i'll the same way, the mother goose
never seeming to heed their absence. |
thought it strange, and pulled over
toward the flock, but before L reach d
them three moro were pulled under the
water. L stopped rowing close to the
spot where tho fowls had disappeared,
and watched from close range to see if [
could discover what agent was at work
of the little fellows was separated from
the other three, for that's all that were
left [ WIS close to the single gOsllng
watching him, when | saw II mOnstrous
black bass shoot through the water, grab
the bird | had my eye on, and give the
water q firt with his tail as he disap-
peared with his breakfast. Before the
surface had become calm or my astOnish-
+I., oir,ir
three of the gosling brood were i'll the
capacious maws of the hungry bass.
by this time the old goose, who had
been TRANQUILITY swimming about began
to think that something was wrong, and
when no little ones came at her call
she became frantic, | stood right there
for some time, expecting that some au-
dacious bass would walk off with the
old goose, but they didn't.
81 went up to the farm house, told
the fate of the goslings, and was met
with no expression of surprise.
"'Ihat's- no uncommon thing, said
the farmer, III bet I've lost thou
sand young geese Just in that way. [
thought those were too big for bass bait,
/ keep my young geese in a pond back
of the house until they get big enough
10 lhkt tdIt VI JllGlllStlNCS, 40 L CllOuShJ
the ones you saw gObbled up were. -
can idea struck me, and | bargained
with the farmer for three gOslings from
the pond back of the house. l would
fool the base He soon came in with
threo nice, downy little fellows, and
took one, tied my line about the centre
of his body, and fastened gang of hooks
under the gosling's breast so they hung
down about three inches. Then ] took
q long rod from the boat, attached the
line, and gently dropped the swimming
bait into the water. The little gOsliug
swan around for about half minute,
then there was rush, tug at the line,
and had my hungry fish safely hooked,
1t was whopper, and it took me twenty
minutes to bring him up to the boat
The bass had struck the hooks, as
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-04
Abolish the Rattan.

In one of the Brooklyn schools boy
was severely thrashed by his teacher and
the whole city is in hubbub about it.
Do you remember what they used to
do fifty years ago? We can recall lit
stubborn n youngster as ever played
truant We could stretch our hand out
and touch him if we were in Lapland.
The teachers of those days had no com
Functions about using the rattan. 1t
was very sizeable weapon, too, and
when he laid it over boys shoulders
that boy carried the welt for a week A
blow on the bare palm like the sudden
alightin9 of ten thousand hornets, an
other blow across the shins, and two or
three placed where they would do most
good, after the culprit had been seized
by the back of the neck and bent over a
desk, rather tended to make school life
rather serious matter. Yes, we re
member the incident with something
like painful vividness.
But that was all wrong. Birch rod
education is both brutal and unneces-
sary. \ hot tempered teacher, a hot
tempered switch and bad boy are a
very dangerous combination, and the
chances are that the boy can't be tlug hit
to love his books in that way.
New York allows no corporal punish
ment 'Tis wise and best If scholar
is persistently bad, demoralizes his
classmates, breaks up the discipline of
the room, send him home. \ school is
only secondarily reformatory institu-
ton. 1t is for those who are willing to
study. If one is not willing turn him
over to his parents.
Rattans and school books do not mix
any better than oil and water.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-04
Coal Mines i'll Japan.

The principal coal mines in Japan are
situated on the island of Takashima, out
side of the harbor of Nagasaki. They
form one of the principal centers Of
coal supply in the East, and have now
been worked by a lessee of the govern
ment, with all tho more recent and i'm
proved appliances, for about 1G years
past. According to recent official re-
port 2, 500 miners are engaged, the total
population of the island being 10000.
The remainder is composed of fisher
men, officers, mechanics, surface labor
ers and floating population of hangers
on to the miners. The latter havo daily
rations sold at fixed prices. These con
sist of rice, vegetables, pickles, ten fish,
beef soup and occasionally beef, the total
daily cost being under I'D. The daily
earnings are 114d. to 123d and the to-
tai reductions for necessary expenses
are altogether I'D, leaving between 4d.
and sd. clear, while the scale of dietry
is far above the average of the same
class elsewhere in Japan. Married and
unmarried men live apart. The latter
live in buildings containing living
rooms, dOrmitOrics, and eating rooms.
The kitchens and Offices are all apart
lIOn1 tES dwellings, kA~lfb IS pe1ilt s5r2HE2-
ageintO main cOnduits. The rooms arc
warmed by large ireplaces, and venti-
lated and lighted by windows fitted with
sliding venetian shutters. The area al
lotted to each man i'll the living rooms
is about 500 cubic feet of air space. The
married people live i'll separate apart
ments giving about 1900 cubic feet of
air space. From July to October the
island is put into a state of semi-quaran
tine against all outside communication,
partly with view to prevent the impor-
tation of epidemics, but also to prevent
the sale of deleterous food brought from
the mainland. All such food rs sea
weed, unripe fruit, uncooked vegetables,
shell fish, etc. are strictly forbidden, as
is also the drinking to excess of intoXi-
eating liquors. Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-04
nre, he uttered his insane, exuIting

ture, he uttered his insane, exuIting
laugh.
How longed and prayed for death;
how hoped the mailman would once
draw the moose so tight that, when re-
Iaxed, my breath would still refuse to
come. Suddenly his brain seemed pos
sessed with some new plan. Slowly he
drew off the rope and with one backward
glance left the room. At first [ dared
not hope for life, but when the time
went by and still he came not, l began
to think that he was gone entirely, and
that my life might be saved. I struggled
to free myself once more; struggled and
wr1thed until my heart nearly burst
through my body, but in vain. just
then new sound caught my ear, filing
me with unutterable dread
a fork of light shot up. Yes, it was
true, the maniac had set fire to the
hOvel. And now / saw his face grinning
at me through the window. Making one
last superhuman effort, l uttered a fear
full shrek. The mailman leaped il at
the window, and at the same instant an
other form followed him Some one
seized me. [ knew no more.
When consciousness returned I was
lying upon a bed in my sweetheart's
own pretty room, and she, with gentle
tears in her eyes, watching me slowly
return to life.
[ learned afterward, when my strength
that the madman had escaped
from an asylum in the neighborhood,
and being missed, his keeper attracted
by the sight of the flames, arrived just
in time to save efrom the horrible fate
which seemed to await me- [ had fallen
into deep swoon, and from that into
raging fever, and during my rawlings
enough was learned to send me to the
house which had been my destina-
ton when l started out the previous
night. AS soon as [ was well again
Alice and [ were married, and were sure
y happier than it falls to the lot of most
nortals to be; but never while I live
shall I forget the agonies Of that one
hight of my life. Columbus Nc1cs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-04
A Brickiayer Congressman.

There was a man by the name ofStan-
ton, and he was n Congressman from a
Kentucky district some time III the year
of 1857. Before his election TO Congress
he had been a bricklayer and stone
mason. During his term some of the
contractors engaged on the Capitol eN
tension and improvement got into an
imbrogliO, and first one and then an
other began throwing mud, and finally
one of them, in his anger, made the
charge that the work done by another
was of the poorest kind, and that the
Capitol building was III danger. 1t wa8
the first time that any such intimatioH
had ever been made concerning the
safety Of the Capitol, and it cause CON
siderable alarm, SAYS the Chicago IimGs.
1t led to the appointment of an in
yestigdtiug committee 10y Congress.
Mr.. Stnton was m.dt chairman OF the
committee. it is customary when Il
Congressional investigating mmittCo
is appointed for it to take mp quarters i'll
some elaborately furnished committee
room, send for witnesses, and then To
polt its findings. Stanton didn't 10
anything of the sort.
He pat on bricklayer's suit and
clothed his committee in the same gath.
They went out about the Capitol and iu
side OF it armed with the impl. merits
which stDnemasons and brickmnsous Use.
They examined the work thnt had been
done, AMI found that there was not one
word of truth in what the fuarro.iug
contra, tors had charged. The commit
tee SO reported and was discharged
That was, 50 | am told, the only time
that any charge of fraud in the construo-
ton of the National Capitol WAS ever
made And if some of the Investigating
committees of the present day would go
about their work as Stanton went about
his good deal of valuable time woali
be saved and scandal would lie nipped
in the bnl.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-04
Mrs. Kate Chase's Troubles.

Mrs. Kate Chase, the divorced wife of
William Sprague, of Rhode Island, re-
turned from Europe with her two yOun-
gest daughters early in May, and has
been living quietly at Edgewood during
the summer. The eldest daughter,
Ethel, was in Washington all Of last
winter visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Mullett.
She has a penchant for the stage, and
has been studying since her early child
hood. Miss Sprague has dramatic tai
ent, but as yet it is uncertain whether it
is sufficient for success in that vocation
which is so attractive to the young girls
and silly married women.
Mrs. Chase has all her children with
her, for her son William is now with his
mother for tho first time in ten years.
The boy (he is not yet 24) left his mother
and joined his father during their do
mestic troubles. Before he was barely
81 he married sister OF his fathers
second wife. He is separated, if not di-
vOrced. from her, aud TO escape from all
Ii famiIvlconnectiOn he has at the So
licitation of his mOthor, returned TO her
roof. He had some fortune from his
grandmother Sprague when lie came OF
age, but like all the Sprague money it
has vanished.
Edgewood has greatly enhanced in
value the last few years. IT is beauti-
fully situated, two miles from the Capt.
tai and commands splendid views. The
place is said to be worth more than
SlOO.O0O As Mrs. Chase has no income
she may have to sell this, the last pico of
property OF all the millions she had
through her husband when she married
him. In the comparatively short space
Of twenty-five years she has tasted all
the sweets of power and affiuence, and
ali the roverses which fall to the lot of
mortals. Like the eX-Empress Eugene,
everything has been swept away, and
only the memories remain. - L0uiSciUe
JDUrHdi
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-04
Nine. POnisi's Little Romance.

We do come across dramatic
things as we go about in real life. There
is Nine. Ponosi, for twenty years q de-
pictor of stage matrons in the WaIlack
company. At the age of thirty Nine.
Ponisi was a remarkably handsome and
fairly srrcessf4,l etrsss IN L.ssndon. Sh6
played sentimental and even tragic roles
in those days. Her husband was a Ser
man singer named Ponisi. But while he
was raising his voice in opera, she was
falling in love with one of her mimic
sweethearts in the drama, and the up
shot was that she eloped to America,
where she lived with her companion
amicably until he died. Later she be-
came Mrs. Wright by marrying the
prompter at Wallack's. The narrative
has now run along to nearly the present
time. Nine Ponisi makes it a practice
to go to many of the funerals OF stage
players. On one of these occasions she
rode with the cortege to Greenwood
Cemetry, and after the burial stopped
with two women friends at q wayside
inn to refresh themselves with cool beer
The place chosen w highly respect
able but rather humble garden. The
man who came forward to their table to
take the orders WAS old, portly and of a
distinguished air. He gazed at the aged
actress. She gazed at him. There was
n theatric pause. The man was none
other than the ex-singer Ponisi. Hus-
band and wife were thus accidentally
brought together after an absence of
twenty years. 1t was such meeting as
we are apt to regard as improbable when
we see it on the stage. But in this case
nothing thrilling came Of it. The hus-
band served the beer, the wife drank it,
and that was all there was about it.