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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
THE VIRTUES OF CELERY.
Its Value as q Medical Agent I'm Cases
Rheumatism or GOut.

Its Value as a Medical Agent in Cases of
rheumatism or Gout.
Leeds Mercury.
New discOveries-Or what claim to be
discOveries-oft the healing virtues of plants,
latest is that celery is cure for rheuma-
tism; indeed, it is asserted that the disease
is impossible ii the vegetable be cooked
and freely eaten. The fact that it
vents, its Therapeutic powers from be-
ing known. The celery should be
cut into bits, boiled in water until soft and
the water drunk by the patient. Put new
milk, with little -four and nutmeg, into a
saucepan with the boiled celery, serve it
warm with pieces of toast. eat it with po-
tatoes, and the painful ailment will soon
yield. Such is the declaration of physi-
clan who has again and again tried the ex-
pertinent, and with uniform success. He
but simply develops the disease, of which
acid blood is the primary and sustaining
cause, and that, while the blood is aka
line, there can be neither rheumatism nor
govt.
Statistics show that in one year 1870
2,640 persons died of rheumatism in this
country, and every case, it is claimed,
might have been cured or prevented by the
adoption of the remedy mentioned. At
least two-thirds of the cases named heart
disease are ascribed to rheumatism and its
agonizing ally, govt. Smallpox, SO much
dreaded, is not half so destructive as rheu-
matism, which, it is maintained by
many physicians, can be prevented
by obeying natures laws in diet. But if
you have incurred it, boiled celery is
pronounced unhesitatingly to be a specific.
The proper way to eat celery is to have it
cooked as vegetable, after the manner
above described. The writer makes con-
slant use of it in this way. Try it once, and
you would sooner do without any vegeta-
BILE, with the single exception of the potato,
rather than celery. Cooked celery is de-
ducive to the health of any vegetable that
can be mentioned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
Abusive Libel Suits.
New York Herald


The Philadelphia Times recently stated
that it had spent over $4,000 In defending
libel suits, in not one of which the plaintiff
succeed in court. Ii then went on 10 say:
In other words, this journal has paid over S20..
600 as the price of exposing wrong doors and
battling with foolish sitors or worse than foolish
lawyers TO maintain the freedom OF the press in
the most liberal civilization OF the world. There
is no redress for this wrong against journalism.
and there can be none until defeated libel suitors
are made liable for all actual costs and expenses
of the defendant when in the judgment OF a jury
the action is unwarranted
That very reform has been adopted by the
public-spirited Legislature of California.
Here is a statute OF that State which ought
to be copied by every State In the Union:
In an action for libel or Islander the clerk SHALL
before issuing the summons therein require
written undertaking on the part of the plaintiff
in the sum OF $500 with at least two competent
and sufficient sureties 10 the effect that
if the action he dismissed or the defendant re-
cover Judgment they win pay such costs and
charges as may be awarded against the plaintiff
"a not exceeding $500.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
The Classified Mail Service.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The President has
approved the regulations made by the Civil
service Commission providing for the ex-
tension of the civil-service rules to the
railway mail service. With the exception
Ofthe general superintendent and the assist
ant general superintendent, all the employees
will come under these rules, and appoint
ments to the service will be made in accord
ance with the civil-service regulations. 1t
is provided that transfers of clerks may be
made from the classified mail service to any
G. Lssitied postoffice, and to the Postoffice
Department.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
Rrief Mention.

A fine vein of coal, seven feet in thick
ness, has been struck at Coffeen, Montgom-
cry county. at a depth of $50 feet.
C.. G. Grigson, dealer in groceries at Au-
gusta, has made an assignment 30 w. III.
Mead for the benefit of his creditors.
There were eighty cases of diphtheria in
Rockford in the past month. In one fam
lily, that of Superintendent Russell. of the
Illinois Central railway, three children died.
A two-year-old child of DR.. Grain, living
near Cairo. found bottle of carbolic acid
on a shelf within it's reach, and, unob-
served, drank some of it. The child died
in terrible agony within few hours.
Two damage suits were brought at De-
catur on Saturday, one by Mrs. Mary Davis.
to recover IS 900 from saloon-keeper for
selling liquor to her husband, and the other
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LOSsCs W ~ %
Snecial TO the Indiananolis Jonrnal.

NpCt1df 10 IffttdnuTOIKo
CRAwFORDsvILLE, Ind, Jan. 6.-This
morning, at 6 o'clock, the foundry of Lyle g.
Smith was discovered to be on fire. The
main building was almost totally destroyed,
together with the machinery and contents.
The fire originated in the engine-room. The
loss will be 5000, with an insurance of
$1,000, part of which is carried by the
Franklin Insurance Company. The Bell
telephone generator was also destroyed.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6.-The handsome
residences of Robert McWade, city editor
of the Public Ledger, and j. III. Tighe, on
Lancaster avenue, at Wayne station, were
entirely destroyed by fire last night. The
total loss is about SO, 600.
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came to the United States with their par
ents while they were under six years of age.
There is no record at the places where they
have lived of naturalization papers having
been granted them. and when they come to
be sworn in, at the opening of the next
House of Representatives, they will un-
dOubtedly be asked to stand aside until
they can make good their claims to citizen
ship. Mr.. Brickner, the Congressman-elect
from the Fifth district, who has been here
for several days. insists that he can show
his papers, but he has not yet done so, and
it is doubtful whether he viii be able to.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
A Proposed New Bureau.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ga united effort is
to be made by many merchants and organ
lied labor here to have the next Congress
make provision for printing postage stamps
and stamped envelopes in Washington,
either at the Government Printing Office,
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, or
another bureau to be established. This
has often been agitated, but has never
until now become a popular proposition.
All other kinds of printing for its own use
the government does here, and this can be
done with but little extra expense in the
way of preparation, and what is described
as IAN elephantine monopoly broken up.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
Stage Robberies in California.

= CLOvERDALE, Cal, Jan. ga double
down stage from MendOcinO City was
stopped near Philo, about IL O'Clock, by a
masked highwayman, who demanded the
'treasure-bOx, and, holding revolver in one
hand, took the box from the driver with
the other. He thanked the driver and
ordered him to drive on. He then re-
marked, Good night, gentlemen" The
stage had only gone a few hundred yards
when it met the up stage from ClOverdale,
and the driver remarked he also had been
robbed, but gave no details The express
boxes were all that were taken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
Minor Notes.

Charles Howell, of Harrison, o., while
coupling cars at BrOOkville, on Saturday,
was fatally injured.
DIR. G.. G.. Owens, on trial at Terre Haute
for the murder of Webb Stuart last August,
was acquitted on Saturday.
Frank Goings, a brakeman on the Chicago
d Atlantic railroad, was knocked from a
train last Friday and fatally injured.
Mrs Brown and Mrs. Doughty, living near
away accident ON Saturday. Mrs. Doughty
may die.
Las Friday night burglars carted away
almost the entire contents of the store of
COnbOy Bros, at Pin Hook, Jennings
county.
While Mrs. Ann Childs, aged eighty-four,
was crossing the railroad track in New Al
bany, on Saturday, she was knocked down
by switching-engine and probably fatally
injured.
At a spelling-bee near Anderson last
Friday night, two factions of boys engaged
in fight during which LATE Kemper had
his throat cut, probably fatally, and leg
broken.
Francis Murphy and his two sons have
closed their temperance revival at Corners
vile, having induced 100 persons to 81 gn
the pledge. They will be at Terre Haute
all this week.
Lewis Daily, aged eighty, and Miss Arti-
macy Clarke, sixty-three years of age, have
just been married at Bippus, Huntington
county. 1t is stated to have been case of
love at first sight.
On Saturday Mat Barnum. a colored
roustabout ON the steamer L. g. RagOn, at
Evansville, was fatally stabbed in the
abdomen while quarreling with two of his
fellOw-wOrkmen.
A large barn belonging to John Wright,
living near ROckpOrt, was burned on Satur-
day, with a seasons crop of tobacco and a
number of farming implements. The loss is
estimated at three or four thousand dollars.
An Indignation meeting was held at Ham
mond last Friday night, and a committee
was appointed to discover who had been
slandering the town. The Chicago Herald
was denounced as the means used in spread
lug the alleged slanderOus reports.
Father Meisner, pastor of the Catholic
Church at Peru, has placed an electric
light on the spire of his church edifice. la
feet above the ground, which sheds brill
liant light over the city and can be seen far
OutintO the country.
Martin Kleiser, a weli-respected pioneer
citizen of Boone county, died at Lebanon,
yesterday morning, aged seventy-twOyears
He leaves a family of six children and an
estate valued at $4,000. He was a member
of the dd-fellows' lodge and will be buried
with the honOrs of that order.
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PHILApELPBIA, Jan. 6.-Mrs. Della s:
Parnell, in answer to a question as to what
disposition she has made of the
Ironside homestead and the adjoin-
ing property at Bordentown, N. j.,
says it has all been decided to her son,
Charles Stewart Parnell, of Ireland. She
said: IL have had this matter under con-
sideration for a long time, and have at last
conveyed the house, furniture and property
to my son, who, i have no doubt, in the
money that / can manage to rive him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
Alleged Cure for Insomnia.

Here is free prescription for people
ments, which is vouched for by a we'll
known allopathic physician: ITO those
troubled with loss of sleep, / would say,
eat, drink and sleep! A full stomach upon
retiring does not mean a nightmare or dys-
sound, peaceful and healthful sleep. Just
before retiring eat whatever is in sight--if
it is eatable-and drink a glassful of
water, and I'll guarantee, after q fair trial,
good results will follow
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by VIM. Ryan for $4,000, against two ex-
policemen for alleged malicious assault
and false Imprisonment.
Among the recent deaths of prominent
persons are Alexander w. Mccullough, of
Champaign, aged seventy-nine; Caleb Ed
wards, of Lane Station, Dewitt county,
aged eighty-eight; Mrs. Polly Queery, aged
eighty-four, and jonas b. Miller, aged
seventy, of Decatur and Stephen Green, of
Jacksonville, aged seventy years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
What Will Happen If Rain Falls.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. eff it should hap
pen to rain on the night of the 4th of March,
the Inauguration ball will have to be aban-
doned, and the clergymen who are object
ing to it will have a chance to talk about
providential displeasure. The glass roof
over the court of the Pension Building
leaks like sieve, and during the heavy
rain of yesterday the clerks could not cross
Congress should make an immediate apprO-
priation for its repair, protection might be
insured, but there is no probability of such
thing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
Col. Daniel Mcclure.
Army and Navy Journal.

Army ana Navy journal
Col. Daniel Mcclure, assistant paymas-
teI-general, U. s. A, was retired for age
Dec. 80, after long and honorable mill
tary career dating from 1S49. He entered
West Point from Indiana in 1916, was
graduated July l, 1S49, and assigned to the
Mounted Rifles, but resigned Nov. 80, 1850.
He then practiced law, was Secretary of
State for Indiana from 1856 to 1853, and
came back to the army Oct % of that year,
as paymaster with the rank of major. He
served meritoriously during the war and
attained the grade of assistant paymaster-
general with the rank of colonel July
%, 1866.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
ILLINOIS.

TIE Accidental Discharge of q Gun May Add
Another Death to the Seasons List.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MONTICELLO, Jan. Ga serious, if not
fatal, accident occurred last night at Be
ment, in which Ira Johnston came near los
ing his life. While STOPPING over to take a
cartridge from the barrel of his shotgun,
the gun was discharged, blowing off his left
arm. Surgeons were summoned and dressed
the wound. 1t is thought he will bleed to
death
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
Rates for characterization Visitors.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. The inaugural
committee informs all those wishing to at
tend the Harrison and Morton inaugural
cure good accommodations while in the
city for from 50 to "a per day, by commune
eating with l.. p. Wright, chairman of the
committee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
A "snubr for the Haytian Legation.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ct is called to mind
to-day, as a significant fact, that the
Haytian legation was not represented at the
White House on New Years day, and as a
consequence only one or two members OF
tons on New Years afternoon. This was in
the nature of social ''rebOut" which CAN
not be very pleasing to people who have
really been quite popular in Washington
society
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
MINOR MATTERS.
The Bill Giving Secretaries to Members of the
House Likely to Be Passed.

The Bill Giving Secretaries to Members Of the
House Likely to Be Passed.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Unless the alleged
economical Democratic members of the
House get on atangent, the bill reported
from the committee on accounts on the 10Th
of December, with favorable recommended
ton, authorizing the appointment of pri-
waite secretaries to Representatives during
sessions Of Congress, at compensation of
500 month, and bringing down the sala-
ries of private secretaries to Senators
TO the same figure, will be adopt
ed BIZ the lower branch of Congress. For
years efforts have been made by few men
who recognized as much necessity for pri-
vate secretaries to Representatives as Sem
ators, to secure the adoption of a measure
providing for clerks or secretaries to MEN,
bers of the House on the same footing as
those given TO Senators, but they have in
variably been defeated by large MAORI
ty. Members recognized that they had use
for assistants, AID that it would be good
investment for the people of the country;
but they regarded the voting of clerks or
secretaries for themselves somewhat in the
light OF salary grab, and they were afraid
of the record such vote would make for
them. Now that the life of this Congress
is almost at an end, and there are to be a
very gTeat NUMBER Or changes III the Occu-
pants of seats il the House, vote can be
given to this me- sure without stultifca-
ton or selfishne3,, inasmuch as the law
will not take effect until the beginning of
the next Congress. The secretaries to Sen
ators receive So day. Sundays are count
they receive S42 n week. The members of
the House in proposing that they shall
have secretaries only ask for 800 a month.
The Senators will not agree to the reduc-
ton of the salaries of their secretaries, but
will be willing to give the secretaries to
Representatives the same salary as is paid
to the secretaries of the upper branch of
Congress-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
The New Hampshire Senatorship.

Epccial 10 the lndlanapOnS JOURNAL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The statement is
made here, to-day, that Representative
Gallinger, of New Hampshire, will be APP
pointed Senator on the 4th of next March
by the Governor of that State, to fill the
vacancy that will be created by the expira-
tion of the term to which Senator Chandler
was chosen. When the Legislature meets,
in June, it is believed Senator Chandler
will be reelected. DR.. Gallinger would
thus be given three months experience as
Senator with only about four weeks of
actual service, as the Senate will remain in
session during the most of March to act
upon President Harrison's nominations.
DIR. Gallinger did not stand for reelection
to the House, having refused a renOmina-
ton. He is an extremely vigorous man in
committee and on the floor, aud a strong
and effective partisan. 1t will be remem-
bered that he seconded the nomination of
General Harrison at Chicago and was one
of the first members of the House from the
East, along with Representative George
West, of New York, who announced their
preference for the Indiana candidate This
was several months before the Chicago
convention met.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
Probably Fatal Shooting ARRAY.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FRANCEsvILLE, Jan. &C. w. Dowell, an
insurance agent of this place, made an at
tack this morning on Wood Thrasher.
Drawing his revolver, he pointed the same
then drew his revolver and fired, the ball
striking Dowell in the right breast, passing
through and resting near the shoulder
blade. The shooting is entirely justified by
the whole community, on the part of
a terror to the community, having shot
other parties and made many threats that
he would kill several other persons before
he would be satisfied. His recovery Is
doubtful.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
Charged with Horse Stealing.

SpeClal 20 INC 1nu1anapOnS JOurudl
LEBANON, Jan. Civilian johnson was
arrested yesterday at Danville, ILL.,, and
brought here last night on charge of
stealing horse from his cousin, George
johnson, who lives south of this place.
William had been working for his cousin
George, and about three weeks ago disap-
peared and as the horse was also gone it
was supposed that he had taken him. The
Harrison Township HOrse-thief Detective
Association followed him up and succeeded
in locating him, together with the horse, as
above related.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07

THE most remarkable cures of scrofula on
record have been accomplished by Hoods
Sarsaparilla. Try it. Sold by all drug
OaoA
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Officers Installed.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

CRAwFORDsvILLE, Jan. 5.-McPherson
Post, No. 2, G.. A. R., at Charlottesville, to-
night, installed new officers, as follows:
Post commander, G. NJ. Travis; S. V. c., S.
L. Ensminger,: j. v. c., S. A. Stillwell;
Q. NJ, l.. A. FOote; 0. D., JOS. Mcdaniel;
0. g., w. II. Morrison; chaplain, A. S.
HolbrOOk.
In the afternoon the Woman's Relief
Corps of Mcpherson Post installed the fol-
lowing officers: President, Mrs. Hettie
Talbot; S. v. P, Miss Laura Williams: j.
v. P, Miss Ella Webster; chaplain, Mrs. G. A.
Ballard; treasurer, Mrs. Mary Travis; con-
ductor, Mrs. l.. c. Mcdaniel; guard, Mrs.
Kate Milholland; assistant guard, Mrs.
ReprOgle; secretary, Miss Nellie HOlbrook.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
INDIANA ANDILLINOIS NEWS
AWeak Rope Gives One Boy Liberty from
Jail, but Is a Bar to Two Companions.
Shooting ARRAY That Is Condoned by the
Community-Arrested for DEMONSTRATING
Probable Fatal Gun Accident.
INDIANA.
Highly Novel and Partly Successful Attempt
to Escape from Jail.

Highly Novel and Partly Successful Attempt
to Escape from Jail.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MCNCIE, Jan. GA move. and strange Jail
delivery happened in this city this morn
ing, about 4 o'clock. On the 10th of last
November, the day of the Foraker rally,
George Murray, George Doty and Henry
Butler, three boys ranging in age from fif-
teen to nineteen years, were arrested on
the charge of stealing money from Helen
Gerard. They were found guilty and
were sentenced to the penitentiary
for two years. This morning, by
some unknown means, they escaped
from their cells and got to the cellar. Here
is large, furnace that, since natural gas
has been burned, has been unused. They
entered the furnace. and, by untiring eff
forts, climbed up through the chimney
distance of more than twenty feet, and out
on to the roof of the building. The boys had
with them a quilt, which was made into
rope, and DOty, the smallest of the three,
was being lowered when the rope broke,
precipitating him to the ground, when he
at once took to his heels and is now at
large. After the breaking of the rope the
other boys had no means of escape and were
found on the roof this morning by the
sheriff and replaced in Jail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07
Preparing to vacate Their Onices.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The more promi-
nent heads of bureaus in the several de-
partments are already preparing to move
out very soon after the Inauguration. Your
correspondent was in the office of Commas
sioner of Internal Revenue Miller yester-
day, and noticed that he was packing away
numerous private papers which he had ac-
cumulated during his administration of the
internal Revenue Bureau. He has four
large wooden chests in an adjoining ROOM
In this he was also placing great bundles of
documents which he had neatly jacketed,
Endorsed and classified. He said there was
great deal of interesting matter in the
accumulation. which would make interest
ing reading if il were published, but be
could not give 1t out. Mr.. Miller said that
President-elect Harrison would find his
resignation on his table in the White
House on the 5th of March next; that he
anticipated his successor would be ap-
pointed within week after that date. and
the decapitation of the official heads of the
various collectors throughout the country
would soon follow. Other officers i'm the
The Wisconsin Democratic Members.
Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-There have been
whispers about ever since the election, that
the two Democratic members of Congress-
elect from Wisconsin were not eligible, be-
cause of their foreign birth and lack of
naturalization papers. Itappears that both
81 these gentlemen were born abroad. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07

Special 70 the InuahApOI5 JUurnHI
LAFAYETTE, Jan. 6.-The waters of the
canal to-day cast up the body of John Dill
lon. He had been missing three weeks, but
his absence caused no particular excite
ment. Papers left by him show thai he
committed suicide
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-07

Steamship news.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6-Arrived: La Norman
die, from Havre.
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