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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-24

Sight exchange on LONDON was 2j.26 francs
10 the pound sterling.
RAILROAD EARNINGS.
CLEVELAND CINC1NNNI CHICAGO AND ST
Second week Ia Sept. ---~--.ir ,s@,l4 20
July l 10 sept H. ~."Ol''"' -'''o'io
East TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA.
Number Of miles. WlS Lu1s -, 10
Second week IN sept. ellvuVt ,SIai-Hy .Sl-s'D--
FLINT AND PERE MARQUETTE.
Number VI niles. dgl -. SS11 . 3gS
second week IA - pt-. fSV5oes 1919 Sto'-a!
Jan. ] to sept H.. isV't go i't'o.'.' ''"""t"""
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON.
Number o. miles. NJ .5O no c,,Y .ao 5S99
Ste""d ~ w. Cent IL 1fOI.2s7 1C5J574 lisp 225
EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MARKETS.
r,,doo sent oI-i D. m.-C0nsJls, SO ij.lG for money
- az Ia rar the account: Atlantic aud Hrht Western
"i "a rtnr,pe trustees ccffineae-, c. canadian IA
In cg. I1lnal. central 100; Mexican Ordinary. o..
Se a.. p.r cent silver is quoted at az 81 90 per
ifj. adyicrs quote per cent 'rnte- al 81 N L.
for the account aud exchange Ola London -
:, 81 confines for checks TIE am"unt "f bullion
into the Bank OF England on balance today is 1900
pounds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-24
LIVE STOCK MARKET.

- Prime steers sold one year AZ So 50a5 So
ana the average estimated ao -.
BEEVEs Recelpts-2G5 carloads OF 45ls head-0O
carloads direct East side and brooklyn sauehtefers
- cs loads az 6Othst including 80 carloads Tor East.
rous somuany carloads FOR j. Stern carloads for
amman strauss ana carload " locals and 80 car
I'D IN Jrf -.v CITY. nearly an fOr the market
There was good demand for all grades VI cattle and
trade was fairly brisk with everything sold out before
- O'clock Prices fully sustained Common aud
Medium Natives and Texans and Cooraios aud the de-
maud for export very firm tone % top grade.
which brought rather better hgues than could have been
realized day last week.
Texans Colofado Sres gn1 Hs,Rrrs soiI ~ - SU@
s1I Choice aud Extra do at ~ sodsi s5 caJload Of
Cicagn ..Stockers" brought So aud Virginia scrubs
sid M sac Dry Cows and Bulls ranged from III so
l" Lt t & Houseman purchased 205 Extra Prime Ken.
,v cattle paying 81 50 per 100 FOR nearly The eutre
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CLOSING PRICES or CALIFORNIA STOCKS.
San Francisco. sept % 1855
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-24

tOIIONOn the spot quoted dull sId weak o. llbc d."
cline. Sales, $l2 bale iOr consumption. AZ" Ia "eh
hot before Reported 432 bales export an1 81 Gai- fr
consumption. PoIt receipts 3..ll7 bales ~ against
- $50 bales $50 bales tni- d2y la y'3
Sicr September rrvtlpts The ports Aggregated 31OuS
tales ag4hs, 1873 G5 bales for Tie Corresponding Time
last year.
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Real Gsiate tl)anl.o.

WANTED. For the winter: a snail far
w ni-hed suburban dwelling within hst
hour o. the city terms must be leschso'-
Address NJ. BoX 20 Tribune 0fce.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-24
conu,rn Real Gstiie for Sal,

.r CRAWFORD. 40 mlnu.ss from ~. 49,
\ ~. AN Central r. h. OF ~, asslI'
able frsasS 1907 hpSss tS' go, sSsi stassa
barn anu ,, :, 'Aoply ~ WM. ID. BiGELsowI;
near s,su n'oiSa 90. n. j., or lhAs' Lbo
S N'asmY. Al Maiden Lane. N. Y. --
.crSCY FOR MONTCLAlh .hap sl,
\ SINE re..aenees and building ~N AZ
-. homes =. ct, season of les,.,
ENCE d TUBS. peekmAh,se. y. - -
~LiNroN. 81. East orsnS S,;ri n si.1casS.
1 -tiS rnnfarn, thoroughly bullt $500.
" ~, ~. ,nows, Marsng system dr2inssts
.e,"er aud city water roniieetions ea,sss,aads
satl,. esrrlaSe and poultry hogse s.". ~
v,th .wo frontages, la All lvo ~ herss.
ala coo. including eafp.t-. EDWARD
8 81 miiIIsMILToN 4 co. % Broadway o"
~ AID 30.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-24

NOR SALE. One of me finest corners ... . !.
L the bedford district, Brookiyn, noe"
story and manssrd roof erom .,, an tsSe,
49, ,.''n.d and papered 2oNOxlvo
inouirc 81 PAUL & GRENlNV' 40 "''"'
ave. BROOKLYN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-24
STOCKS STILL SLEEPY.
THEY DRAG ALONG SLOWLY.
A FINAL RALLY WITH IRREGULAR VARl
ATOMS IN TIE MARKET
BONDS AND BANK STOCKS.
oregon X d Nav

SALES AT THE STOCK ExcHANeE-sEPT. %.
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sHORT RIRs. PER lnl

cash quotations were ~ follows: Flour-steady 81
unchanged. No = spring wheat, 70Hci NJ prhg
wheat G1oG9c No. red 19i2c No. corn, 32c No
oai- I0ic; No. Iye 4l-c; NO. barley nominal, No.
naNscel " %; piMe timothy seed, ~ 2jdfl 20 Hrss
por, per bb III lara per 100 n - % ,hor ribs 'df'
'1.r Oj0-j TO- dl sailed shoulders tboNei, - 31
- 20 short clear sides tboNcd. - 25G - b whky,
dsler finished goods per gallon IL o. sugars cut oas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-24
GilD Real estate for Sale.

A SMALL 3.STORY HlGH.srQor,
n STONE FRONT HOUSE 70 ~
liiph>t. near Maiis0n-sye. al gfis,'s'
houses un block IL rooms lot full dsP'e'
nne yard Cheapest la market fot 500 y
cation price sl0 800. Apply ID SOhOVN'
MAKER 10 fast lOoth.si
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rHE GENERAL LIST.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-24

102a7s bush; peas. 7j5 lush total 272S05S bush.
Stocks afoa September 81 Wheat, 1G2oDO bush corn
1j2IO0 bush barley 10 900 bush. september IL: WHEAT
600 bush; corn, 10000 bush; barley, i2UW Du.h'
stock " No Red In store September o. lJl2 90 D.
against i22 9s7 bush last week, and 1s'2D94 bush ts
week q YEAR ago ~, 800
NV SATURDAY September n 1899:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26
THE BECKTOLD SCHOOLGIRLS.

The Sentinel answers the inquiries of
a POsey county correspondent concern
ing the Becktold- Williams school books
by assuring him that the statement that
the Indiana SchOol-bOok Company pur-
chased discarded text books els utterly
false" that the books "are newly copy
righted," and "are now in use in the
schools of many States, and are giving
the best of satisfaction Probably that
kind of information will serve a POsey
county Democrat as we'll as the truth.
The fact is, the so-called Indiana
Readers" were first published in San
Fraroisco as the Pacific Coast Readers.
afterwards as the Bancroft Readers,
then, in ST. Louis, as the Standard
Readers, and finally, with new covers,
as Indiana Readers. They were at M
time used in parts of California, Wash
ington Territory, Idaho, Oregon and
Utah, but have been discarded in all
these States and Territories except Utah.
They are also used in a few schools in
Missouri and Arkansas. The Indiana
Geography" was originally written and
published in Minnesota, and is nov used
in some of the schools of that State.
The Indiana Arithmetic" formerly
published as the STANDARD" name and
copyright changed, is used in very few
schools outside of this State. The en-
tire series is a job lot of Cheap-JOhn
publications. When the people dis
cover, as they will in due time, that the
compulsory introduction and enforced
circulation of these inferior books is
costing them more than theyever paid
for good ones of their own choice, they
will repeal the law-provided the Su-
preme Court does not hold it %unconsti-
tutiOnal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26

GENERAL HOWARD ON PENSIONS.

With the highest regard for Major
general Howard, US. A., one may vent
ure Z % observe that his recent expressions
regarding a service pension for the sur
vivors of the war of the rebellion will
not meet with the approval of the most
of those who fought with him to
save the Union. He declares in
favor of a service pension to go
into effect in 1915, or half q century
from the close of the rebellion. At that
time four-fifths of those who served in
the Union army, from 1861 to 1865. will
be dead. The pension then will 60 to
men who happen to be living at that
time, while men of the same, or ever of
greater age, who have died prior to 1915,
will receive no pension. There is, there
fore, no justice in the proposition. In
1918, thirty-seven years after the sur
render of CORVALLIS, all the surviving
soldiers of the Revolutionary wal were
pensioned-the act passing when the
country was suffering from the effects
of the war of 1912, and when the
treasury was empty. The survivors
of the war of 1912 were pensiOned
a longer period after the close
of that war. The Mexican survivors,
a larger part of whom had since been in
the confederate service, were pensioned
on arriving at the age of sixty-two
years, the bill passing about forty years
after the close Of the war. AT the age
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26
THE SAME OLD PARTY.

The Democratic leaders have made
haste to that they will resist
every attempt of the Republicans, who
constitute the majority of Congress, u
make rules and enact laws which do not
commend themselves to them. They
will break quorums, filibuster, and resOrt
to every other reactionary device to
prevent the majority from d~ischarging
its constitutional duty and exercising
Its constitutional prerOgatives. In the
few elections which have taken
place in Southern States, the
spirit of caste and intolerance
and the reckless disregard of the right
of suffrage were never more conspicu-
GUS or more defiant. Southern leaders
and Southern papers declare a purpose
to suppress the cOlored vote in violation
of the Constitution, under the pretext
that the white men propose to rule the
South. To insure Democratic ascend
ency by %arraying the whites against the
blacks, they keep up the color line in
stead of seeking to break it down by
dividing the colored vote. Malone is OPP
posed, SAID a leading Virginia Demo-
cratic paper, because he has proved ga
traitor to the confederate cause" Sen
ator Butler, in a recent speech, aroused
the old sectional spirit by declaring that
Northern Republicans deride and
hate the ex-cOnfederates, which is
an infamous SANDER. No Repub-
lican in the North of any political in1u-
ence entertains or expresses any such
sentiment. The Democratic leaders of
the South propose to keep that section
solid by keeping alive the jealOusies and
resentments of the past, by appealing to
sectional prejudices and fears, and by
raising the race issue to the end that the
colored voter may be disfranchised by
fraud.
Thus the Republican party in Con-
gress, when it purposes to pursue a pro-
gressive and constructive policy, is con-
fronted by the Democrats, who declare
a purpose to resort to unconstitutional
methods to hinder the Republicans from
carrying out a statesmanlike and benefi-
cent policy designed to promote the
prosperity of both sections. By raising
false issues in the South the Democratic
leaders a purpose to elect a
solid Democratic delegation to the next
Congress.
Such is the Democratic party of to-
day. In method, spirit and purpose it is
the same Democratic party that sought
to destroy the Union in 1876. There
has been no change in acknowledgements.
The leopard cannot change its spots.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26
THE ALDERMANIo VACANCY.

The Sentiners attempt to blackguard
the Council into ordering an election
for a member of the next Board of
Aldermen is a characteristic piece Of
Democratic buster. The next Board of
Aldermen will have no official existence
until Jan. 1, 1890, and no vacancy can
exist in the board before the board itself
exists. The present Council has no more
right to order an election to fill an as
sumed vacancy in the next Board of
Aldermen than it would have to fill one
in the board of 1894. The law says, con
the second Tuesday in October, 1883,
and biennially ever after, there shall
be elected two aldermen from each
aldermanic district, whose term of office
shall begin on the first day of January
after such election, and who shall serve
for two years, and until their successors
are elected and qualified. In caseO of
vacancy in the Board of Aldermen the
person elected to fill such vacancy shall
serve only the unexpired term of his
predecessor The death of Alderman
Clark created a vacancy in the pres
ent board, but not in the next
one, because the next one is
not in existence. An election
now could only be to fill the existing va
cancy, and the person SO elected would,
in the language of the law, "serve only
the ~unexpired term of his predecessor"
The vacancy in the next board can only
be filled by a special election, after Jan.
1, 1890. To order a special elections to fill
out Mr.. Clark's unexpired term would
be foolish and expensive. The election
would cost nearly 81, 900 and the person
elected would only attend one meeting
of the board before Jan. 1. 1t would be
an act of unjustifiable extravaganza to
order a special election at a cost of
nearly $1,000 to elect a member who
could attend only one meeting. The
best lawyers in the city have expressed
the opinion that a successor to Mr..
Clark elected now could hold only till
the end of the present term, and that a
special election to fill the vacancysin the
next board must be held after Jan, l..
The Sentinel is trying to blackguard
the Council into doing a foolish, unneces-
sary, and extravagant thing in the hope
that it would inure to the political ad-
vantage of the Democracy. TheeCOun-
Gil should treat its raving with the con-
tamnf If dararvoa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE civil-service law is on the statute
books. and it is there to stay, except as its
scope may be enlarged from time to time.
So much most thoughtful people are agreed
upon.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
WHILE in South America the tendency
seems to be towards republication, In North
America..that portion of it at least desig-
mated as fundamentally seems to be tri-
acknowledgements Tribune.
THE Republican party can hardly afford
to go back on its record by abolishing all
taxation on whisky and tobacco. There
are import duties which can be removed
without destroying the protective features
of the tariff.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
TRULY. politicians are hard to please. and
the o-ffice-mongerIng Republicans in the
West seem especially difficult to satisfy,
even when their party organization is IN
possession of all the springs of administra-
tive power.-Philadelphia Record.
LEGISLATION which welcomes q foreign
tramp and shuts out the man who secures
employment in advance SO that he may be-
the last degree contemplate If it were
not so shockingly Observation-Disclosures
Times.
THE Binding-twine Trust has chiefly
succeeded in bringing out q satisfactory
machine which will biad the farmers grain
another striking instance of greed O'erleap-
ing itself and working TO the benefit of all
else concerned.-Springfield Republican.
The labor of the world will in the long
run be the beneficiary of every labor-sav-
ing invention, but it is impossible to hasten
this long run by combinations of men
bound by promise to each other to work
fewer hours. Inexorable conditions over
rule and nullify all such promises.-St.
Louis Republic.
THE drift of popular tendency is towards
the republic. The drift of monarchs is
arra ri a tho plnSiptn m ~ roinouc md &c
thrones, own and scepters towards the
| auction-room and the curiosity shop. Ma
poleon was not far out of the way when
he ~prOphesied that the century would close
| upon Europe all Russian or all republican.
Chicago Tribune.
THE eight-hOur plan must be classed
among the customs which, if generally
| adopted, must come slowly and upon NUT
nal understanding and agreement. The
simple passage of a resolution at a meeting
| of Representatives, employers or employed
will not effect it, nor will it prevent it when
the proper time comes for its adoption.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE leaders of the Republican party in
Congress should see to it this winter that
the Ciyil-service Commission is thoroughly
sustained and given the funds and facilities
necessary to enlarge the scope of its opera
tons The clamor of the small-fry poll
ticians and the complaints of chronic
ofice-seekers should deceive no one. Lib
eral treatment of the Civil-service Com
| mission by the Republican Congress is a
Republican duty which cannot be safely
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26
Thurman Won't Get 1t.

St Louis Post Dispatch (Dem)
If under these circumstances plutocracy,
disguised as Democracy, secures another
Ohio senatorship-if the prize goes to any
man whose role i'll politics is that of q
boodler or representative of corporations,
or 10 any man whose prominence as a Dem.
rather than to his character and popular
ity as a teacher and champion of Demo-
cratic principles, the recent victory in
Ohio will be a worse thing for the party,
there and elsewhere. than was its defeat in
the national election lastfall. Ohio De-
mocracy will again disgrace itself, and
shamefully wrong the party at large, if it
fails to confer the senatorship upon Judge
Thurman or some other Democratic leader
to whose skirts no faint of bribery or plu-
tocracy can cling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26

Hon. CUTLER s. DoBBINs, a Demo-
cratic statesman of Martin county, is an
aspirant for congressional honors in
that district, and, believing that the
early bird catches the worm, he is al
ready defining his position for the cleo
ton of 1890. He publishes a letter in the
local Democratic organ in which he
says: =
l am in favor of liberal appropriations by
Congress to improve the navigation OF Wa
bash river, and to make the east and west
forks of White river navigable-the first to
Bloomfield and higher, If possible, and the
second to Bedford; and l believe the State
should aid in this work. The convenience
and production along the banks of these
rivers demand this action, and 1t would also
be a check on the transportation charges of
parallel and other railroad lines
AS the east and west forks of White
river drain nearly all of the congress
sional district which the Hon. Dobbins
aspires to represent, the foregoing dec
laratiOn ought to make him very popu-
lar. He should be careful, however, lest
in declaring for the improvement of
these two streams, and naming Bloom
field and Bedford as heads of navigation,
he may give offense to residents along
other streams. Salt Creek, Drift
wood, Bean Blossom, Muscatatuck, and
other classic streams have a right to be
heard before Mr.. Dobbins completes his
scheme of internal improvements.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26

SPEAKING of civil-service reform. the
appointment of the pension agent at
Philadelphia is an instance of the Presi-
dents adherence to the principle. Mr..
Shelmire, who was last week appointed
to the position, has been chief clerk in
the office since 1871, his services having
been found so Indispensable that the
Democratic agent under Cleveland was
obliged to retain him. A mention of this
case is not likely TO be found in any of
the mugwump organs, which insist that
the civil-service law is being knocked
into fragments daily.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26

Hon. GEORGE HI. PENDLEToN was a
conspicuous figure in American politics
and better equipped for public life than
the average politician of either party.
To native ability and force of character
he added a thorough classical and legal
education, the culture of travel, and
large knowledge of affairs. First and
last he occupied many important posi-
tons, and was equal to all of them. He
was the author and champion in the
Senate of the present civil-service law,
though the measure ia other forms had
been under discussion many years. Mr..
Pendleton's health has been breaking
for some time and death has overtaken
him before he reached old age.e He was
only sixty-fOur.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26

publican in both branches. When Lane
was elected United States Senator Nor
ton became Governor. The regular ses-
sion of the Legislature was not marked
by any acts of special Importance, but
on the 10Th of April, 1861, a few days
after the fall of Fort Sumter, Governor
Morton issued a call for a special ses-
sion, to owen on the oath of that
month. The State was in an uprOar of
excitement, and troops were pouring
into the capital from all directions in
response to the call of the President.
Governor Morton's message to the Leg
islature contained a number of very i'm
portant recommendations, and they
were met by the Legislature in a spirit
of true patriotism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26
EDUCATION OF ARMY OFFICERS.

The suggestion of Gen. Lew Wallace,
president of the Board of Visitbrs to
West Point, to the effect that the sys-
tenn in vogue at the Military Academy
be extended to the whole army, partly
by making the commander of every
company an instructor of his command,
and partly by sending such enlistedmen
to West Point the last year of their en
listment for instruction, is entitled to
serious attention. The impressions pref
walls that West Point supplies the army
with the greater part of its officers.
Such, however, is not the case..t The
larger part of the subalterns are eradu-
ates of West Point, but when therank.
of captain is reached it will be found
that not over fifty of the two hundred
and fifty captains in the twenty-five
regiments of infantry have a, West
Point education. But six of thetwenty-
five colonies of the infantry regi-
ments are graduates Of West. Point.
In spite of the adverse circumstances,
a large number of the best. Off
CCAS III tnO dllny hdNO AicOHD IOln
the ranks, while a large number ! of
officers who stand high in the service
entered the army by civil appointment.
At least two of the officers of high rank
in the present tactical board entered the
army by civil appointment. Many of
the young men who,go to West Point,
and graduate, do not take the course be-
cause they have a real preference for
military affairs, but because, at q GER
tain age, the way is opened for, them to.
go to the Military Academy, and it is the
best thing that offers. The government
educates these men, and permits the N
to resign when they find occupations
more attractive than the army. II it is
the policy of the government to educate
men for the army, the present system is
defective. On the other hand,iseif the
government desires to educate men who
will stay in the army, and who will be
q credit to the service, no better plan
can be devised than to select men from
the ranks, men who have become familiar
with army life by four years experience,
and have developed a capacity for mill
tary affairs, and send them to West
Point for scientific instruction, The eff
feet of such a system upon the make up
of the rank and file of the army would
be of the most elevating character, by
opening to those who have a natural
military bias an avenue to preferment.
Hundreds of men would enlist to enter
the competition for a commission, who
will not now, because there is little
chance for promotion from the ranks.
General Wallace's plan would have a
tendency to reduce assertions, because
it would surely elevate the tone of the
rank and file of the army.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26

of sixty-two years the officers of the
United States army are placed on the
retired list, presumably because at that
age they are no longer able to perform
the duties required of them. If, at the
age of sixty-two years, officers are in
capacitated, what must be the condition
of men who largely depend upon manual
labor for their supportl And yet Gen.
Howard would ignore this important
assumption upon which officers are re-
tired and Mexican veterans were placed
upon the pension rolls, and grant a sery-
ice pension to the few who survive until
1915. This is not the most patriotic view
of the subject, 1t is deferring justice
and gratitude until both are too late.