The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-10

private, only officials. elsrgymsn. physicians.
and limited number Of citizens being allowed
to be present After the execution funeral
services may be held within the prison walls.
and the body shall BE- delivered into the custody
Of relatives. If requested. otherwise. it sall be
decently inferred within the prison grounds.
All these provisions are in the direction of re-
form, tending 70 do away with the maudlin and
morbid practice of making heroes Of condemned
criminals.
A London cablegram says paoic has occurred
in the market for diamond mine shares, some
shares falling i've per cent Speculation in dia-
mond mine shares is as common in London and
Paris as speculation in railroad stocks 10 in New
York. There ere four diamond mines in South
Africa. and last year they paid in dividends
$40, 0o0, 600 The stock huctuates in value much
the same - other mining stocks, depending on
the returns. The four mines referred to are all
situated within = radius Of one and . half mile.
The capital invested in them is SIC. 900 900. and
they produced last yeas 3646. $685. esrats, valued
At s20,000.0o0 in the rough in round numbers
The value per carat viii run from $40 to $50.
After the cutting the yield last
year was worth probably 10000
600. about SO, 000, 900 worth being i'm
ported to the United States.
A WEATHER propher, who says he has mo do
sire to create sensation nor to cause useless
alarm" predicts storms Of unusual severity dur
ing the last week of June. The reason assigned
Is that 1.-THE earth and Mercury will pass the
suns equator and Venus its equinoctial between
the 18th and 18th Of June, and II there is any
thing in planetary meteorology these three as
Economical events coming 50 close together will
cause an increase of electrical potency aud there
BY augment the force of the storms II the
storms come the prediction holds; otherwise
a generous and eonfdine public will please con-
slider it of.
THE editor Of the Muscatine Journal. who has
just returned from the Methodist General Con-
ference, says Of the New York papers. "Asids
from treating tho conference In . msasly way.
they are the poorest papers for their opportunity
in tho entire country" The wonder is that the
Muscatins man has but just discovered this.
The superiority Of the New York papers has
been little but . tradition for many years, and
their deficiencies have long excited the surprise
of Western publishers. The best newspapers,
as well as the best Of . good many other things
truly American, is found on this side Of the
Alleghenies
Mr. RAS PHI. agent and confidential friend
Of Ann Odeh Diss Debar. the New York spirit
ualistic fraud who swindled'lawyer Marsh, testi.
fed in court the other day that he once asked
the Madame if she were not afraid Marsh would
tumble She replied: 81 amt afraid Of God
Almighty, man or devil. I've had hard knocks
all my life, and now I'm going to live In luxury"
Ann Odelis omitted one element from her calcu-
lations. She defisd God, man and the devil
with tolerabls success. but wilted when Mira
Diss Debar No. put in an unexpected appear
anee. raa
OF all the vicious practices Of modern times
there is none more insidious. dsmoralizing and
corruptine to youth than the sale Of obscene
pictures. In spite of an occasional protest from
the press. there 10 reason to believe this infa-
nous traffic is increasing Many cigarstts-dsal-
srs arc engaged in It, and the boy who Injuries
his body by cigarette smoking 10 also poisoned
in his mind and morals BY the gift of an inde-
cent picture. The traffic il disgrace TO our
civilization, and the persons who engage in it
should be prosecuted and punished to the ut
most limit of the law.
The New York Sun is at loss for word to
describe the ipfiction Of death by electricity It
says. 1--WE cannot say that the victim Of capital
punishment has been electrified, for . man may
be so without death. A case of execution by
electricity is an sleetricide; and We say that
. man. after UNDERGOING the death penalty. has
suffered electricide." But it thinks neater and
better word is required. How would electro
or cause death, and the prefix electro would
indicate the method.
AT late meeting of the Anthropological Con-
eress in New York q paper was read to prove
that America was first discovered BY the Chinese
We protest We are willing the ancient
Norsemsn should divide honors with
Christopher Columbus and Americas Yes
pucius, but We draw the line on
Cinnamon. II We yield this point the snthropol-
ogists will soon be claiming that America be-
longs to the Chinese by right Of discovery. This
thing must be met at the threshold.
The Journal deyotes no little space this morn.
ing to . full account of the banquet given by the
county society to the Indisna Medical Associa-
ton on Tuesday night last. The occasion was.
in all its features, the most commendabls event
of the kind that ever took place in Indiana. In
aud of itself 1t Is worth the attention il attract
ed; but readers will ind many things of special
interest in the account, among which We may
mention the poems Of Mr.. Riley and Mr.
Matthews
A COMMITTEE OF insurance agents have petit
toned the Mayo. of Chicago to suppress the sale
and explosion Of Are-works>on the Fourth Of
July. They regard the practice rs . relic Of
barbarism, and cite long list of accidents grow
ing ont of il IN former years and of fire losses
caused by it, The facts are unanswsrable. and
il men were governed by reason and common
sense instead of caprice, fireworks would BE-
abolished. But they won't be.
IT is expected that then sw managers OF the
Washington Post will dispense with the services
of competitors TO . great extent A number Of
Mereen,haler type machines have been placed
in the building. and girls have been practicing
upon them until they have become very expert
CHAIRMAN Cox. of the census committee. e.
inmates that the population Of the United States
in 1890 will Be GA. DOC. 0O0 and that the cost of