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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-06
JAMES GuLEsprE BLAINE.
sEcnrrARY OF srATE,

James Gillespie Blaine, who again becomes sscrc.
tary Of state was born January 81, 1880, In Wess
Brownsville, Washington County, Fem. ne ooncs
trar TIE osd scs,chTrish socs, his ancestors having
been among the pioneers who, csatury sz,d half
ago. assembled Tho great limstors valley In wnieh
Carlisle is situatsd, and founaea the village sir.
Bisine,s gzndfafher Colonel Epzzim Eiaias. wns IN
ofleer IN ths Revolutionary Army BIS son. hhra'rn
L. Blaine. was married to Miss Maria Gillespie,
deyout aember OF the Roman Catholic Church. pug
their seven chdron-1ss boys and two sirs-annefea
to thc traditional faith Of the slaiaes Inc sscon1 W
tb,es ave sons was James Gillespie Blame
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-06
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<.sazt. 1850 M FAs Resc- York frfbsfHe.

Inadon, March E.--Ths English detectives whit
xsrs sent 10 ! drid today identified the body O
trot In tho presence of TIE British Consul, who her
ordered that Che body be buried.
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jurisdiction in those waters. He asserted
no claim over Behring sea beyond quot
ing the language of the law. His proc
lamatiOn did not change the nature,
basis or extent of our claim in the
slightest degree. The instructions of the
commander of the United States revenue
cutter were to enforce the law, and he has
Obeyed orders. The entire responsible
ity rests On Congress, where it ought to
rest. If that body has made a claim or
asserted right which cannot be main
tanned, it will have to acknowledge the
fact and recede. But it remains to be
seen if that is the case.
The fact that the United States has no
object or interest in asserting jurisdic-
ton over Behring sea except to pro-
tect the seal fisheries, and the further
fact that Great Britain is as much inter
ested in this as we are, makes it almost
certain that a basis of friendly settle
ment will be found without much diff
Guilty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06
COMMENT AND OPINION.

NOTHING is more calculated to bring the
law into disrepute than belief on the part
of men that if they are only patient and
persistent enough they can beat it or tire
it out.-ChicagO Tribune.
If all the people who complain about
tips would stop giving them. the imported
custom of making presents for necessary
services rendered and paid for would soon
die out. The persons who preach reform
should practice it.-Chicago Herald.
UNTIL women make up their minds to ac-
cept the democratic doctrine that personal
character should alone determine personal
position, their admission to the greater
colleges can never result in anything but
embittering experience to themselves.-New
York World.
CERTAIN it is that the repeal of the inter
nal taxes should be secured by the Con-
gress which meets next December. The
Democrats should not hesitate to unite
with the Republicans to wipe ont this
OdiOus system. And with the internal reve-
nue. goes the surplus. and go all the buga-
boOs and bOgeyS OF our friends, the tariff
smashers.-New York Sun.
WHILE there are hardships for some in
the ceaseless contest, competition is far bet
ter for the people, and the world, and the
good of the race than absolute or quail
fed monopoly caused by asuppression oft.
and whenever the question has come before
our courts of last resort this doctrine has
been strongly supported in the interests of
sound public pOlicy.-New York Times.
Or tho farms of Dakota the value of the
land is, in many instances, less than the
value of the buildings live stock and ma
chinery. So in Montana; the land and
buildings combined were worth. in 1880,
So, 200. 900, while the live stock and ma
chinery were valued at $4,000 The
single tax an such u country would mean
that the farmer would be exempt upon two
thirds of his property and taxed upon less
than one-third.-BOstOn Journal.
THE escape of the Black Diamond to a
British port involves demand for her re-
turn to American jurisdiction. This conn
try is now the suitor unless the admins
tration lets the matter drop and trusts to the
capture of other vessels as means of max
ing Great Britain either acquiesce in
the American claim to exclusive rights
in Behring sea or show good authority from
international law to the contrary.-Chica-
60 Inter Ocean.
THE liauor traffic lie under the ban Of
public disfavor, and good citizenship i'm
plies want of respect for 1t and Of SYM
patty with it's interests and purposes. This
means that the country has been gaining
i'm morals as well as in material prosperity.
We do not use AS much liquor by more than
one-half as was used in earlier days. for the
simple reason that the standard of personal
prudence and exemplariness is infinitely
higher now than it was then.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrxt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

atom, among which is to always have the
opening move, are numerous "Ajeeb,"
VINO mas the attack, plays on o board or
small compass. and with pieces and pawns
OF unusual shape and size. The lnJelligeItt
person directing the automaton is perfectly
accustomed 10 these men and plays against
an opponent who is unfamiliar with them.
BESIDES this. the person who plays against
'Ajeeb" has to stand up while playing. and
is more or less annoyed by the lookers-on,
the sympathy OF whom is with the automa-
ton. ana who are always ready to ieer and
laugh at Its opponent. There Is nothing
mover In chess automatons, as they have
been IN vogue for more than n century. but
1t is not unlikely some application of cleo
triclty may be made to make the delusion
more occult than it now is. There is now
at the Paris exposition a chess automaton,
and the expert directing il is supposed TO
be Taubenhaus. who. it will be romem-
bered, came TO this country, spent
two months playing chess, was stripped
of means and returned to Europe
on money raised TO pay his expenses. as n
steerage passenger. He is Frenchman,
with German name. which literally means
pigeon-house.
The revival of the game of chess. which
has been steadily going on for five or six
years. brings with il much talk about Paul
Morphy. The common opinion is that his
equal has never lived. and this is confirmed
10y remarks of the veteran English player
BRO, after the closing of the great tourney
played with Morphy after the latter went
10 England in 1858. He stated that the
American marvel beat him far worse than
StelnitZ had done. and that he believed
Morphy would have gone through the last
American Chess Congress without losing a
game. 1t was noted that while some OF
the games of Blackburn, Tschigorin. Poll
lock and others were very brilliant, they
lacked the uniformity of excellence that
characterized all Morphy's playing. Black
burn played at that tournament half n
dozen of the most brilliant games he ever
played in his life, but the remainder of his
games were mediocre.
The rules of the national association will
be strictly enforced at this tourney. All
games will begin at . o'clock A. NJ. and ba
allowed to continue until p. NJ. PLAY will
he resumed at p. NJ. and continue until III
p: Nj. In case game is not finished at the
close of a sitting, unless other agreement ia
made by the parties. a diagram OF the posi-
tion will be made, signed by both, and the
player having the move shall put in writ.
ing the move TO be made. and hand it, with
the diagram, to the secretary, who shall
open it at the next sitting. when the posi-.
ton shall be set up and the move an.
nounced. AS tobacco smoke is offensive to
some of the players and to many who de.
sire to look on during the tourney, there
will be no smoking down stairs in the main
room at the Hotel English. the smoking
players being relegated to parlors up stairs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06
APPOINTMENTS LIMITED.
The President Has His Partys Declarations
and Civil-Service Law to Carry Out.

The Hon. Stanton j. Peelle having res
turned from Washington last evening.
where he had been for week, was asked
by a Journal reporter about matters in
that city. THE weather is very warm
there" said Mr.. Peelle. az came very near
giving out with the heat Friday and Satur
day. The city is deserted by those who
can get away from business. Senator
Hiscock is the only member saw while
there. The President looks well from his
recent rest at Deer Park, though no one can
talk with him without seeing that he is
much overworked. His is the only Repub-
lican administration that has succeeded
Democratic administration since Presidents
LincOln's time, and the people do not seem
to remember that under the operation Of
the civil-service law the number of ap-
pointments are reduced to nearly one-third
what they were under Grant, Hayes,
Arthur and Cleveland. The application Of
the civil-service law 10 railway mail clerks.
special agents of the Treasury Departments
and inspectors in the Postofiice Department.,
to say nothing about appointments in tho
Territories. deprives the President of many
hundred appointments which he would
otherwise have: but he does not ! pre-.
sume feel justified, in view of the declara-
ton of the national Republican platform, in
revOking the orders and rulrs of his prede1
cessor, nor of going counter 60 the wishes Of
the Civil-serviceC Commission.
1t is certainly true. if one can Judge
from the expressions he hears, that the
active political workers, in the main,
in both political parties. are against
the civil-service law, and they have
much to do with mOlding public opin.
ion; but while this is true, the great mass
of the people, who do not hold or want of
fee, care but little who administers them;
and the President, being of the people, and
holding Office by virtue of their will must
necessarily respect their wishes. The plat.
form of the party was made at Chicago,
and General Harrison isnot the man to dis4
regard it. The policy of the administra.
ton regarding civil service and appoint
ments in the Territories was mapped out 40
Chicago by the party which elected the
President. and he should not be criticised
for carrying ont the party's expressed will,
Of course, it is but human for men, who
are applicants for Office, to feel disap.
pointed when they have been unsuccessful,
but when we consider the great demand
upon the administration for place, and
the few places to give to equally good and
deserving men, we will be willing to acc
cord to the President desire to promote q
healthy public service. i am sure that in
point of character and ability the appoint%
ments of this administration have beeif
above the average
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

For the first time in thirty years
Georgia expects to harvest enough corn
this season to supply her own wants and
possibly leave surplus. The Atlanta
Constitution rejoices nightly over the
prospect, and takes share of credit to
itself. For years it has advocated mixed
farming as a substitute for the one-crop
system. By degrees, and after much
opposition, the change has come about,
and farmers who once raised nothing
but cotton, and bought all supplies, now
grow grain and vegetables as well. At
the same time, the cotton crop has not
been neglected, and the result is that
the money received for that product
is largely profit, when it was once i'm
mediately spent for corn, pork, wheat
and other necessaries of life. AS con-
sequence, prosperity smiles upon rural
Georgia, and the people have reason to
rejoice
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Many Applicants for Examination.

A ciyil-service examination will take
place to-day in the federal courtroom,
postoffice building. This morning the ass
pirants for carriers positions win be ex.
amined, there being one hundred and sixty
applicants; and this afternoon eighty appli.
cants for clerical positions will go through
the ordeal The examination will cover
points in geography. arithmetic. spelling,
penmanship. punctuation, letter-writlns
dictation writing and abbreviation exers
cises. and will be the largest one held here
federal offices. DR.. Woodward, of the ex.
aiming board. stated yesterday that the
increase in the board from three to tiye
members will make the task OF marking me
neighborhood OF 1900 papers to be passed
upon.
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An Unsafe Foundation.

1t has been discovered that the founda>
tiOns of the buildings of the Institute for
the Blind are unsafe. since excavation for
the addition began. The trustees intended
to have the cellar under the addition come
to the old foundation, in order to save the
building of new wall, but upon removing
the earth the foundation began to crumble.
Examination showed that the contractors
had done unsafe and cheap work. Tho
wall was composed of broken bricks, stones
and even chunks of clay, thrown together,
apparently without any use of mortar and
leaving great untitled crevices. The ground
on either side of the wall Is all that had
prevented its falling down long ago. 4
special meeting of the trustees was held
yesterday morning, and these gentlemen,
in company with the architect, thoroughly
examined the old foundation. They have
decided to lay heavy wall of masonry
along the old wall. as support for it. The
removal of the earth will have to be done
gradually, so as to not endanger the buildt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

possesses every requisite as the site for
IN international worlds fair with the
United States in the leading part. Its
accessibility by rail and water from all
directions, its ability to handle, accom-
modate and entertain great crowds, and
its representative character in every re-
spect mark it as pre-eminently the
place. The millions of the East are
already near New York, and the millions
of the West love to go there. 1t is
good meeting place for the American
people, and for foreigners as well. Next
to New York comes Chicago, good Sec
ond, but still second. New York is
the place
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

IT is officially announced that Capt.
w. III. Hart, of Frankfort, Ind, has
been appointed Third Auditor of the
Treasury, Nj. NJ. Hurley, of New AL
bany, who was originally rendered the
position, having decided to retain his
connection with the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company. Both the gentlemen
mentioned are well and widely known
throughout Indiana, and either will be
acknowledged as most excellent and
well-merited selection. Both are bust
ness men of decided abilities; in truth,
Mr.. Hurley's declinatiOn is due to the
fact that the company with which he is
now connected showed an unmistakable
appreciation of this, and either would
have filled the responsible position with
credit to himself and the administra-
ton. Congratulations are in order.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

II is reported that tho Marquis of Duff
FERN will succeed Earl Lytton as British
ambassador in France.
EDWIN BOOTH has sent to the ladies in
terested in raising circulating library in
Belair, Hartford county, Maryland, his
check for $500.
III is said that Lord Tenuyson received q
command TO write poem on the occasion
of the recent royal marriage. but no pro-
duction appeared.
SOME of the French women summering
at Deanville and Etretat render themselves
conspicuous by wearing ON an average five
different dresses in one day. Five or SIX
different costumes are supplied for each one
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. xy,s.,. Devot,on Rewarded.

For several years Mrs. j. Il. Newton, an
estimable woman. has been supporting her.
self and child and husband, the infirmities
of the husband, which were caused by in.
iuries received in battle. finally culminat-
ing in insanity. For three years or more
Mr. Newton has been an inmate of the
time the wife has been employed in a
bakery near the corner of Alabama aud
Fort Wayne avenue. An application filed
a long time since for pension has at last
been successful. and the devoted wife Will
receive, as guardian OF her husband, arrears
of pension amounting TO $3.50 and n cur
rent pension of $50 10 month. She has hopes
that the sanity of her husband may be re-
stored but physicians do not regard the
case rs one favorable to recovery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

? DISCUSSION In regard to an Inter
national Worlds Exhibition, to be held
in 1892. is fairly. open, and none too
soon, if the project is to be rightly car
ried out. Allowing for time TO be con-
sumed In preliminary talk and organ
ization, there will not be more than two
years for active preparation, and this is
little enough. Just now the question of
location is foremost, and that involves
several others, as an eligible site, ac-
feasibility by rail and water, ability to
handle big crowds, hotel accommodate
tons, and metropolitan attractions gen.
orally. The four cities mentioned are
New York, Washington, Chicago and ST.
Louis. Washington and st. Louis are
out of the question. One is too inaccess-
IDLE and the other too provincial. No
body goes to st. Louis if he can help il,
and nobody stays in Washington longer
than he is obliged to. The only two
cities worth considering are New York
and Chicago, and of these the first is
preferable. New York is unquestion-
ably the place for the International Ex-
hibition of 1892. That city is present.
nsntly the American metropolis. aud
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

THE first issue of BelfOrds Magazine
since its change from cOnfessedly
Democratic publication to an organ of
independent political thought con-
tains some doggerel by Edgar Fawcett
sounding the praises of Grover Cleve-
land. These verses, which it is charity
TO suppose were left over from the last
editorial administration, and were not
chosen for their literary quality, begin
thus:
A man in whose tried life we have
That worth where duty and courage meet;
He spurned the lures of power and place
To choose the victory OF defeat.
Mr.. Fawcett INDUCES in an unwar-
ranted degree of poetic license. At
least, it would be interesting to know
what he means by saying that the late
Democratic President spurned the lures
of power and place, when, as everybody
knows, he pulled every wire within
reach from his high position to make
sure of his reelection, even going SO far
as to pat the rascally district attorney,
Fellows, on the shoulder and call him his
friend and Christian gentleman. And
he was choosing the victory of defeat,
was he, when he subscribed $4,000 to
the Democratic campaign fund, to be
used in furthering his own prospects,
Verify, the poet sees through a glass
darkly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

DEFENDING the Democratic suppress
sion of Republican votes in the South,
the Sentinel says: eve suspect that the
trouble with the votes in these States,
where so small percentage is cast, is
not so much of suppression as lack Of
extraction" 1t is both. Most of the
votes are suppressed, and of those put
in the ballot-box very few are extracted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06
UNDER the heading, 'Blocks of Five"
the Chicago Herald prints the following
editorial:

UNDER the heading, "Blocks of Five"
the Chicago Herald prints the following
editorial:
Correspondents of the Herald are bitter
in denunciatiOn of the complacent accept
ance by the Indianapolis Journal of the
Dudley brand of infamy. A 'blOck-of-
blOtter" is inclosed as sample of the ad
vertising done by that organ of Harrison
and Woods. Our block-Of-five blotter" is
printed five reasons why the subscriber
should patrOnize the Journal. The fifth
reason is that the Journal has "a high moral
tone"
voters in blocks of five. This was done.
The Journal was effective in shielding Dud-
ley from the penitentiary. The Journal
was joyful when 1T announced that the Re-
publicans had majority of the grand jury.
The paper was edited by the Presidents
corrupt judge who stultified his own bench
to rule in Dudley's favor, when prosecution
was close on that buyer of votes.
Is IT newspaper of high moral tone"
tisement 'block-of-hve blOtterfn Is it
intended to extirpate virtue in Indiana or
to make immortality morale
Correspondents of the Herald who are
so shocked by the wickedness of the
Journal would have done well to re-
strain their wrath, and the Herald to
have withheld its remarks, until they
were sure of the facts. The Journal
never issued the blOtter referred to, nor
anything of the kind. 1t is learned upon
inquiry that such blotter was issued as
an advertisement by another daily paper
of this city, but the Journal has not even
seen it. The other pretended allega-
lions of fact in the Herald's article are
too ridiculously false to merit attention.
The Herald should dismiss some of it's
correspondents ard employ an editor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06
Ex-CoNGREssMAN WILLIAM l.. Scorr

CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM l.. SCOTT,
of Pennsylvania, has just invested a
fresh half million dollars in Pennsyl-
vania coal mines. Although he is a
Democrat, high in the party's councils,
he is also a ''plutocrat," and Senator
Voorhees,, in his newborn hatred of
wealth, must wish to tear him limb from
limb
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
Who appoints local census enumerators and
on whose recommendation Anvil
BURLINGTON, Kan.
Next spring the President will appoint
supervisor for each of the lis census dis
tricts into which the country will be divid-
ed. These supervisors will then appoint
the enumerators for their respective dis
tricts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
LONDON American Exchange in Europe. 449
Strand.
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des Capucines
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avenue.
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THIRD and Jefferson streets.
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and Southern Hotel
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HOuaA
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

In looking through the papers in his safe,
the other day, Russell Sage discovered that
he was the proprietor of railroad out in
Iowa that he had forgotten about. An
active business man can hardly be expected
to keep track of every little million. dollar
purchase he makes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

THIS is Alfred Tennyson's elghtieth birth
day. AS Edmund Gosse says, in an article
commemorative of this anniversary:
Eighty full years have poured their sun
shine and their rain, their joys and their
sorrOws on that noble head, and have left
the natural wisdom, the trenchant wit, the
deep -mouthed music, a little mellowed,
perhaps, but unimpaired.' Whether he
writes more verses or not, his admirers,
which means all lovers of poetry. will wish
that he may live many years longer to re-
ceive the worlds praise for what he has
given it.