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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-28
Like a lion growing low,
Like night storm rising slow,
Like the head of unAeen foe "

You poured forth by thousands TO save
your country and raise aloft its trailing flag
There were hurrying feet, tears, sobs, and
you were gone-gone to the camp. to the
battle, to wounds, imprisonment, death. The
Rebellion in many respects is the most re-
markable of wars. 1t was signalized not
alone in the magnitude of the
BY the valor of its men. 1t was the
courage of free men, patriots, who had the
heart to love, and the intelligence to prize,
their country. Again this was marked
above others in the superior character and
intelligence of the soldiers. 1t was no mean
material that made up our army. This war was
also made illustrious by the fortitude and pat
riotism of the women at home. Almost every
loyal woman of the north did something in
those dark days. The spirit of liberality
and sacrifice rose higher and higher as the
war proceeded. Once more, l noticed
among the features that distinguished this
war its high moral character and the vast
ness of the issues involved. Never, it would
seem. were the lines so sharply drawn be-
tween the right and the wrong as in this
struggle.
All. gallant soldiers of the Army of the
Republic. 1t is an Unreasonable debt OF gra IL
tude we owe to you. Because of your
achievements we have united country, free
in deed as well as in name. 1t is well
that day should be set apart
in commemoration of your valiant deeds and
heroic service. 1t is well that we seek 20
refresh our minds with the story of our sacri-
fee. And those who have gone from us
Our fallen heroes How long is the roll
| Cod forbid that we ever cease to do them
| reverence and honor. May every chapiet
wreath be but the emblem eff the hearts pure
offering of affectionate remembrance.
think it was Horace Mann that said, "lg-
norance in Republic is crime. Ihere Is
level below which the average inteiigehcs
of the people cannot with safety pass
II il town schools that we must look fol
the correction of any tendency in this direc
ton. There are evils that are aggravated oy
emigration. Inward corruption has seaiee
the fate of many a nation. The church II
another great bulwark of our nation, and ou
Tor its work we would soon be plunged int
swift waters of moral decay and ruin. W.
cannot afford then to be in
different to the true Interests
.na welfare of the christian church Tht
fnture rises before me. see nation CRANE
beyoud all precedents.-free, united pros
nerous.-an example and inspiration TO tn
whole world. see people. IN wnom in'el
l;yence and christian manhood are oeing con,
Joined. l see patriotism deep and true. !,
hear men and women talk over IN
| deeds Of their fathers. There are no mem
beers of the Grand Army there. They are a
zone. But their deeds are not forgotten
Fender hands still deck their graves VIII
Howers. their names gathering fresh BEAUTY
and sweetness as the years go oy
are embalmed in the American heart an
there is no exclamation of man so proud =
this; "My grandfather served in the war
nnion and liberty against the wicked reoe
lion Of slavery"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-09
EUGENE HIGGINS.
He Agains Seeks Political Notoriety, but
Finds Himself without Influence.

He Agains Seeks Political Notoriety, but
Finds Himself without Influence.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July 8-Eugene Higgins. the
Baltimore ward striker. who achieved so much
notoriesy in q short time as appointment clerk
of the Treasury Department and who gave out
to the press that he was tired Of public life and
desired to enter into private business has been
S sehl,ine good dea! of his time recently in
Washington. Higgins is very fair sample of .
class Of cheap politicians who were brought into
prominence by this administration, and, proving
unsatisfactory. were thrown overheard after
brief trial. and permitted to sink out Of sight.
year ago the name of Higgins appeared In al
most every newspaper 10 the country, daily, and
the people about Washington were inclined to
think that he was for all time to come On influ-
entail citizen Of the United States. Immedi-
ately after he retired from his Office he re-
turned to his political hsunts around
Baltimore and the capital of Maryland, and be-
gan to engage In the species or small politics
which has given him political hand-hold upon
the rough classes of his native State 1t is
said that Higgins is DESTROYS of securing an
other place under the administration. AMI that
he has been soliciting his friends in Congress to
help him out Senator German is reported to
have left Higgins to 'sink or swim" some time
before the latter left the Treasury Department.
and he finds himself without any of that politi-
Cal Influence he himself boasted Of possessing
only few months ago to a degree which
abled him to control Maryland politics Here 10
man who less than year ago was running the
politics OF the Treasury with high hand. kick
ing men out of Office and thrusting others into
places with that neelige which becomes old poll
ticans of omnipotent power, while to-day be
is himself hustling around for q place, and 10
unable to command even the slightest influence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-09

THE ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.
RumOrs that Confessions Have Been Made. but
the Stories Are Not Ready for Publication.

CHICAGO, July 8-The question whether
Smith, Bowles OF any other of those arrested as
suspects in the alleged dynamite conspiracy
have made confessions, is still mooted one.
Affirmative differences can only be taken from
conversations with those directly interested in
the management of the case for the "Q'
eyes and refuses to affirm or
deny. and adds that Gensral-manager Stone has
been agreed upon as the spokesman, and that
all news must come from him. The latter,
when the question is put squarely at him, ap-
pears to dodge the issue by saying that the
case is not yet ripe for publication, and
thas when it is the public will
bs duly informed. The opinion pre-
walls very strongly that confessions have
been made, but that they do cot reach the
game which it is sought to reach among the
higher Of the Brotherhoods officers, and that,
therefore, the 20" officials desire to keep what
they have ascertainej from the knowledge Of
those interested on the other side.
General Manager Stone was seen tonight and
be expressed himself strongly pleased with tho
condition of affairs. He said the road Is bound
TO make out case against those already impli-
Gated. and perhaps against others not yet ar
rested, but who are under the strictest survell-
lance. He scouts any idea Of insincerity on thu
that they wish no dealings whatever with the
Brotherhood; neither do they propose to be in
ary way molested by its members. What was
a great conspiracy. he says has had its back
bone broken and the loss Of life and property
has been averted.
The local papers are still engaged ia investi-
eating that part of the statement made by Gen.
eral Manager Stone on Friday. which deals with
the secret circular said to have been sent out by
Chairman Hoge The latter, of course. is
emphatic as ever in stamping il q forgery.
and denies, further. that snch letter was ever
discussed or even thought of by Arthur. Sargent
or himself. The location OF the man Sewers,
whose name appears in il as the man who would
furnish further instructions than the letter con-
tanned, has not yet been accom- lished. Hoee,
the proprietor OF the National Hotel, where
Sewers said to have resided, and where he
is supposed TO have obtained his mail, and the
mail carrier of the district in which the hotel 10
located, all srate that no such man existed Mr..
Stone sffirnls that such a man did exist, and
that Hoee got the mail for him which was ad-
dressed TO the hotel named.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-09
KEPT SECRET SINCE APRIL LAST.
A Postofice Robbery at Albany, N. Y, just
Made Public.

Mauo fuDuc.
Washington Special.
Postmaster-general Dickinson to-day trans
mittsd to Congress an account Of one Of the
cleverest postofice robberies upon the records
Of the department. that committed on April 20
last in the postofice at Albany. N. Y. tho de-
tails of which were not given to the public at
the time, with the recon mendation that mas
much as the loss to the government occurred
through no fault OF Postmaster OLeary q
special act should be passed reimbursiug him.
The robbery is described by Assistant Post
master McMurdy, who was In charge OF the
Office at the time. as follows:
II was left in sole charge Of that part Of the
postofice known as the postmaster and assistant
postmasters rooms Next adjoining and con-
nected with my room by iron doors. 10 the vault
in which postags-stamps. money and records
are kept / was engaged in the vault 10 making
a recount of cash when my attention was at
tracted by loud rapping at the window In the
partition which divides the room into . lobby
for callers. stepped 10 the window and there
saw two men, we'll dressed and apparently re-
spectacle. who informed me that lady, a rela-
tive of Daniel Manning, was standing at the
door OF the postmasters room aud desired to
him about . registered letter / requested the
men TO say to the lady that IL she would step to
the registry window come into the Office lob
by she would be waited upon. Thereupon the
men stepped TO the door openiog from the lobby
into the corridor. and after looking out and ap-
parently talking to person returned and said
the lady still waited there and desired TO see
the postmaster or his assistant.
Il then walked TO the door of the room, dis
lance OF twenty-five or thirty feet, and suspect
ing no wrong and expecting to be delayed but
minute, did not close the iron doors to the
vault Upon opening the door found the same
two men standing in the corridor but no woman.
The men informed me that the lady had tired
o. waiting and had gone up the ct airway to the
next floor and would shortly be down again.
One of the men ran up the stairway and beck
oned as II TO recall the woman. while the other
requested me 10 lend him my lead pencil, which
/ did. He wrote something upon envelope
and handed the pencil back to me. and by that
time the man who ran up the stairs having
turned they walked of. saying that the lady
would probably come down in a minute
McMurdy then retained 10 the vault and was
surprised to find the connecting doors wide open
and the stamp-box lying empty upon the floor.
While the two men had ineenously held his at
tention In the lobby a confederate had stolen
stamps and cash to the value of So, SIG. 60 and
safely made OF with the booty, no trace Of
which has ever been discovered. Under the
law the Postmastsr-eenerali is authorized to re-
imburse postmasters under similar circum-
stances where the loss does not exceed 1900,
but for greater amount. as in this case. a fpe-
cial act OF Congress 10 necessary to enable the
Comptroller 10 adjust the Accounta
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-09
A Score. Revealed by = VIII.

CIHcINSATI, July s-The settlement by COM
promise Of a contested will, filed yesterday in
the Hamilton county Probate Court revealed a
romantic story in real life that had been covered
for half century by the veil of secrecy. Not
long sgo, Mrs. Francis w. Meeks, of Walnut
Hills, died, aged seventy-two, and left $40, 900
TO be divided between church and charitable
societies and several personal heirs whom she
named. One George Spencer Baker. farmer,
living twalve miles south OF Covington KY,
ffty-one years old, to whom his parentaee had
been a lifelong mystery, appeared az a contest
ant of the will, on the ground that Mrs. Meeks
was mis- mother Rather than let the matter GO
into court, the other heirs, none Of them her
children. as she left no Acknowledged issue,
agreed to a settlement which gives Baker sl4-
900. II appears that Baker was her son when
she was Miss Francis Kemper. not yet twenty
years old She was afterwards twice married,
but was divorced from her last husband. The
strange secret was revealed TO Baker few years
ago by o man unknown to him
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

At Nicholasvlle, KY, last night Edward
Sparks, son OF Senator Sparks, called Charles
Myers out of the Coffman House paror and
called him vile name. Myers struck Sparks,
who then shot Myers in the abdomen. The
wound Is probably mortal
During drunken carousal 10 Long Island
City Saturday night Mrs. Eliza Watson. Of IL
Purvis street, was thrown over the railing of her
stoop by some Of her own tenants, and was
killed by the fall. Several arrests have been
made. The house has bad reputation.
John Grelow was, yesterday. cleaning out
furnace in the gas-room at the maleable iron
works at Black Rock, n. Y, when he fell into it
and was suffocated and burned to death by the
intense heat Upon removing the body from
the furnace large pieces of roasted flesh fell from
the body. The deceased left q widow and three
children.
Charles Korn, of New York, made himself
doubly when he committed suicide. He
went out on the East river in q skiff. stabbed
himself with pen-knife several times, IN
dressed. aud jumped into the river He Was ir
comfortable circumstances. He was fifty years
old. and married. illness was given as the
cause of the deed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-09
A Measure That Has Provoked More Noisy
Agitation and Opposition than Any Prop
osition Brought Forward in Many Years.
A Demand that the Charges Against the
Parnellites Be Pushed to the End.
The Troubles Of the Servian Queen with Her
Unfaithful Husband-EmperOr William and
the Czar-Denial from DR.. Mackenzie.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
A Measure That IL Giving the Salisbury MINI
istry o World OF Trouble.

Measure That IL Giving the Salisbury MINI
istry o World OF Trouble.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
LONDON, July S-Probably no Parliamentary
measure since the introduction of those
that mark crises in English his
tory. has given much offense or aroused SO
much agitation in opposition to il, as the local.
government bill that is now drawing its slow
length along through the Commons. The gov
eminent has lost elections on It's account and
made enemies for themselves over this
much-construed measure. Nearly every
clause. out of the 125 that compose IL.
which has thus far been debated, has
contained some Questionable feature. and not q
few have been abandoned as impracticable.
The clause known as ths "Sunday-closing'
clause is the one which finds violent opposition
at present. 1t is proposed 10y this measure to
close all liquor shops on Sunday. The British
public do not take kindly at all to this PROPOSE
ton. The workingmen want their LIQUOR on
Sunday as we'll as on other days. and. in fact.
the demand is greater on this than on
any other day, barring Saturday. This 10
evident from the condition Of the workingman
on Monday. as that day is almost q dead letter
so far work Is concerned Frequent meetings
have been held. denouncine i. as aiming at de-
priving the workmen Of their time honored priv
ilege of getting. drunk on the first Day of the
week.
To-day, at Hyde Park, o vast assemblsge
gathered to protest against Sunday closing.
Many speakers addressed the crowd. which
marched TO the park with bands of music, and
carrying banners. On some OF the banners was
inscribed: "Are We drupkards. that We should
be robbed of our Sunday beerl'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-09
Society OF Christian Endeavor.

CHICAGO. July s-This evenings session OF
the Christian Endeavor societies filled Battery
D to overhowIng. The usual opening exercises
were followed by tbs adoption Of = number of
resolutions and recommendations for the gov
eminent of the organization. DR.. Wayland
Hoyt, of PHILADELPHIA. was 10 have been
the first SPEAKER. but in his absence the Rev.
Arthur Little. Of Chicago. delivered his address
on 'Ths Element of Power" He was followed
by the Rev n. Boynton, of Boston, who
preached a lengthy sermon. at the conclusion of
which he complimented the assembled dele
gates for the attention they bad given to all
those who had remarks 10 make during the con-
yention.
Moderator Van Patten brought the convention
TO . close with few remarks
A number OF thoss present had left the hall
when Mr.. Van Patten called the convention
meeting to order. Members OF each delegation
were called upon and testified 10 the vast
amount of good the convention had done them.
All the remarks were interpreted with songs.
Tho benediction closed all proceedings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-09
REPUBLICAN LEAVEN.

How 1t Il Working Among the Young Demo-
Gratis of West Virgins.
special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. July 8.-As evidence of the
political feeling Of the young men in Virginia, /
give the following conversation with . gentle
man who was born in Virginia aud has lived
there all his life: ~ have always been Demo
crat," said he shut have found it hard to main
tain my allegiance to that party during the last
few years, and / cannot vote the Democrats
ticket this fall but shall vote for and 10 all
can for the election of Harrison. Still / am not
resdy to say that am q Republican. am q Re-
publican on the tariff issue. and believe the
Republican party reflects my opinions on every
issue except one and that is its treatment of the
South. And believe that fault is more with
few leaders than with the party itself. The Re-
publican party, TO my mind, is the
great American party, and / am Amer
lean. / believe that James 6. Blaine is the
greatest American living, and that his policy, if
be were President would DO more to build up
America than anything else. believe the lib
eral policy of the Republican party in appropri-
atoms is right, and the nigeardy policy of the
Democratic party wrong l believe that the
country has stood still under the four years of
Democratic administration. and that If It's pres
ent policy should be continued another four
years that IL would retroerade. / believe that
the Democratic position the tariff Is wrong.
and If carried out would prove ruinous TO the
country. believe General Harrison is pure
and able man, whose past record is unassailabe,
and il elected he will carry out the principles
laid down in the Chicago platform. every propo-
sition Of which l approve. Hence shall vote
for him this fall did not vote for Blaine In
1854. not because l did not admire him. nor
because / did not think then /
think now on the questions have
enumerated, brs because had not then succeed
ed in overcoming my prejudice against the Re-
publican party because of the hard things its
leaders and members were continually saying
against my people OF the South. But have
never ceased to regret he was not elected.
am not q sorehead. disappointed because / did
not get en- Office. | never held Office never
was an applicant for one, and do not want one.
/ am builder. and make more money in my
business than any Office would Day me. and am
coptented. But want TO see the United States
grow to be the greatest nation on earth. and
believe II can only become such through the sue
cess Of the principles advocated by the Repub-
lican party. No State 10 the Union is more con-
csrred IN protective tariff than Virginia in the
new order OF thirgs. and no State will be more
benefited by IT, And Thousands of ats citizens
ere beginning to think ~ do. and will vote -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-09
THE O,DONNELL-TIMES SUIT.

Explain atory Letter from O'Douneil---Davitt
Defies the Atiorney-Ge General.
special to the Indianapolis journal
LONDON, July s-Mr ODonnell has written
a letter to the Cable News in which he says that
his counsel who conducted the libel suit against
the Times, adopted his own mode Of procedure,
and did not ask the advice of two eminent Glad
stonian members Of Parliament, who are law
yers. who urged that the move of the Times
would be completely exposed # they were COM
PEELED to show their whole hand. and that they
were reserviug all their material evidences, in
GLIDING O'Donnell's. for rebutting the case. Dir.
O'Donnells solicitor also writes to contradict the
Parnellite denial of 81 knowledge of the case.
He states that Mr.. Davitt wrote in February,
offering in behalf of Mr.. Parnell, every assist
ance in his power. and that since that time the
Nationalist have been acquainted with every
thing that has transpired He also states that
Mr.. Parneli requested Dir. O'Donneil's return
from Italy in order to have private interview
about the matter.
Mr.. Michael Davitt, in q speech at Glasgow.
yesterday, said that it has been limited that Mr..
ODonnell had been in collision with the Times
in bringing the recent libel suit. This. he de-
clared, was both unjust and untrue. On the
contrary, Mr.. ODonnell pursued q course which
was contrary to his own judgment. and on the
advice Of himself (Mr. DavittD and other Ma
tionalists who believed that the would be
impartially heard. They were. however, dissp-
pointed. Mr. Davitt said the excuse given by
the Times for their not bringing their inform
ants to the DOCK namely, that their lives would
be unsafe, was absurd. The real danger, said
he. was that the informants themselves would
be placed In the dock for forgery. AS Attor-
ney-general Webster had asserted that be could
prove the charges alleged in the articles on
''Parnelism and Crime, it was his duty to place
Mr.. Parnell and himself In the dock. 81 chal-
lenge the Attorney-general to attempt it, cried
Mr.. Davitt ''thus can the charges be sifted to
he bottom"
Enormous preparations are making for hold
ing meeting in London &c petition the govern
ment In regard to the issue OF the ODonnell-
Times libel suit, with the intention Of getting
the government TO proceed against Mr. ParnelL
accordance with the desires of his former col
leagues in bringing the suit against the Times. 10
is learned that Mr. P4rnell had nothing TO do
with the matter, but that Michael Dsvitt and
Joseph Biggar. Nationalist NJ. p. are chiefly re-
sponsible for the advice given ODonnelL
Mr.. Esmonde. speaking at Nationalist meet
ing here, tonight. accused the government OF
collision with the Times In deliberate plot 10
discredit the Irish cause. Mr.. Parnell, be said.
did not sue the Times, because he could not get
justice from London jury. IL was the duty OF
Irishmen TO defy coercion and its admin;stra-
tors IL the Irish were not allowed TO make
their laws, they must see that nobody else Is al
lowed to make them.