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Telegram-herald., 1889-04-16


CAUGHT ANYTHING.
al "old ma,ter"-Nke one OF Turner'S
biasphemOus sunsets. for instance IL
struck me that chi, trade ia West India
goods must be worth writing up.
\ young man Was sslvep on settee be
hind the stove Isuccerded in waking him
by removing the box which di4 duty for
the Lex, that had formerly been on the
rear part of the ,ettee. tie SAT up on the
foor. looked az me, rubbing his eyes
Young man" 5aid l. What DO you
sell here"
Fish. said he
West India hsh'" inquired
Nav. salt f-h. gol darn ye. he replied
with Puritan simplicity.
Where ara the West India goods you
advertised. " | asked. sternly.
Don't advertise nuthin'.'
Il mean the sign out there"
ION; that's old Mullins's sign. When
the old root walked of the wharf one night
'boutt TWO year ;sfore was born, pa married
ais danghte an got the business an Null
nns's body when they found IL out TO the
mouth Of the river Ma buried the body
and pa buried the business. = near : ] can
find out never seen neither OF EN-"
is there much demand for salt fish,"
Not rex lar. said the boy. but long
bout the fifteenth o the month when pen
sions come in we sell quite considerable.
We got some molssses down cellar. too,
an some canned goods on the shelf. Here's
a can o. peaches, | b'lieve, but ii might be
lobster. he iahelS kind er "irtin' worn of
OF &c. an I've most forgotten what IL was
Last time | sold a can o peaches it turned
out 10 he lobster, an il wasn't air tight,
nuther; soft when they opened il up TO
'Lish' Googins's s'prise party il druv
everybody out'n the house. LObster's
perty powerful when il gets excited. They
buried il six feet deep out'n 'Lish's garden,
but you can smell il now when the winds
the right way"
rs your father about ,"
Nav; pas down fshin' of n the end o
tha wharf -
Telegram-herald., 1889-04-16
BOOMED THE TOWN
Unusual Activity IA Soose1oek1e-
Funtlcus, Ae.
Bsasra flsilla. oass iHta . izsonsia.,
B4siaess- Be nak-s . Baa isl4a-
asl Ihs kesalt of ~
Eu8Fts.


A. -n1 a@~er sections ~ r1s coustry
haze aad sooms Through tas eoisuls
81 04E 1a4iY papsrs a. llast al ~ - aaye
ooen arsed - - taks - car abode villa
the ailzalorsof sllrli4. Cd settle in Cali
fsrnls 40 maze Dad Eine f4r cheap table
a a9ts dlal-r=. 9r Cd escape ilto the Sllt
Northwest. ~asrs the pfiaci PAL ADVANTAGE
~ the climate zpp~ars - be t1at tie snow
- ~ deep tna- your JlIseriaaAHie aeixa-
oors c,iA' CAL and scalp you during nins
a4lst Aollhs II lls gear. For the rest II
Telegram-herald., 1889-04-16
~ know us a sin To

Il know 'tis sin To
But I'm bent on the notion,
III throw myself INTO
The deep. briny ocean,"
l. the mental exclamation of many a
sufferer from headache, mdig> - irn
constipation, torpid liver, etc. The use
of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, how
ever, would transform these unfortu
mates and cause them TO sing:
But my spirit shall wander
Through gay coral bowers,
And frisk with the merma.ds,
1t shall, 10y the powers.
Telegram-herald., 1889-04-16
atarrl (ured.

from that lOathsOme disease, catarrh
and vainly trying ever known remedy,
AT last found a recipe which completely
cured and saved HIM from death. ANY
sufferer sending a sclf-addrossed stam-
ped envelope To Prof. j. A. Lawrence,
IS Warren-st., New York City, viii re-
ceive the recipe free of charge.
Telegram-herald., 1889-04-16

Mrs WinSlows Soothing Syrup should al
ways be- used for children teethlng. II sOOihes
the child. softenS the gums. aiiayS all pain.
cures wind collie. and Is the best remedy Tor
diarrhHa. y cents a bottle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
SOME of the naval officers stationed at

SOME of the naval officers stationed at
Washington censure Admiral Kimberly
for the recent Samoan disaster, and
think there should be a court of inquiry
ordered TO fix the responsibility. They
say this was the season of the year for
hmrri canes in that quarter, and that Ad-
miral Kimberly should have been pre-
pared for them. 1t is possible if these
naval officers in their snug berths at
Washington had been in Admiral KIM
berly's place the result would not have
been different. That the American YES
sells were in the dangerous harbOr of
Apia instead Of the safe one at PagO-
PagO is no cause for censure, because
Apia was the point of controversy, and
exactly where the ships should have
been. If Admiral Kimberly, or the
officers under him, had had notice of the
approach of the hurricane N doubt they
would have gotten up steam and run.
out into open sea, but hurricanes do not
always announce their approach. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09


THE moonshiners in the mountain re-
gion of Kentucky have recently shown
a degree of organized strength and def
ance of law that challenges attention.
A few days ago they routed a revenue
agents posse and killed a deputy United
States marshal under circumstances of
great aggravatiOn. AS these are crimes
against the general government the per-
petrators should be brought to justice at
any cost. The Louisville Commercial
says: "The participants in this black
crime are all known. They can be capt
ured if the proper effort is made, and
neither the State of Kentucky nor the
national government can afford to per-
NIT such a crime to go unpublished"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
An Incident of Life I'm Georgia.

~ A0a-) appeal.
Two gentlemen had a place selected for
potatoes, and, the soil being so near worn
out, they thought it useless to undertake
making a crop without manuring the land.
To save buying guano land may be thought
1t better, tO0,) last season, when they COM
menced to prepare the land for planting.
they went to an old house somewhere near
by and commenced shoveling up and haul
ing the dry dirt from under the floor. and
placed IT on their patches in hills the prop
er distance apart, bedding ON it, and leftit
standing until planting time.
Later on, when the time came to set ont
the plants. they fixed everything in readi-
ness and commenced the work. It's a GUS
tom in setting out young plants, a small
hole Is usually made, either with the hand
or a pointed stick. In this case the band
was used, and to the surprise of both of the
men, when the first hole was made. almost
an endless number of fieas, all sizes. from
the largest to the smallest, commenced to
make their way out at the hole, darkening
the whole element for yards around, liter
ally covering the gentlemen and terrifying
them so profusely with their sharp-toothed
bites that they were compelled to make
their. exit, leaving the feaey spot unmo-
Tested. satisfied with the experience, fully
believing that the prospect for an enormous
flea crop exceeded by far anything like q
credltable potato yield.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

an enormous manufacturing industry be
created, but new mines will be discovered
and worked, for there is abundant evidence
that tin exists in large quantities in several
parts of the United States.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
THE civil-service law should be made to
cover everything but the highest and most
responsible positions. Heads of depart
ments should be held entirely responsible
for their subordinates, and changes should
only be made when the efficiency of the
service demands it. Let President Harri-
son make a great name for himself in the
history of the county by taking advanced
ground upon this subject and maintaining
it to the end.--Philadelphia Telegraph.
THE Southern method of preserving con-
troll in the hands of the minority Is fraud.
intimidation and violence. This is admit
ted by candid SOutherners, some of whom,
like the late editor of the Charleston News
and Courier, openly depl0re the effect
consciences of young men who grow up in
this condition of things. The remedy is a
very simple one, and it lies in the hands of
the Southern people Observation-Disclosures
j Ournal.
THE last election was fought on the issue
of protection or free trade. and the South,
as usual, was relied upon to go sOIid!y for
free trade. But there was an Ominous
weakening in the line, and here and there q
breach difficult to repair. And now, II the
proposed programme is carried out and thir-
ty-five congressional districts send protec-
ton Representatives, regardless of party
lines, to Congress, the solid South will be
broken sure enough, the ground will be cut
from beneath the feet of the Democratic
party and it will befOrced to find some new
issue-if it can.-Kansas City Journal.
If the good of the public service in the
South should anywhere require the APP
pointment of conservative Democrats to
Important federal offices, no Republican of
common sense and patriotism will demur.
But if loyalty to Republicanism twhere
such loyalty often means social and bust
ness Ostracism) were to be made a Gisqual-
itcation for federal Office. and loyalty to
the Democracy a recOmmendatiOn-then
there would be heard a Republican protest
make the Presidents leach particular hair
to stand on end."-Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
COMMENT AND OPINION.

If the rascals [~penitentiary cOnvictsl are
to be maintained in idleness, in other words,
the honest men will have to do extra work
to provide for them; and thus New York
will present the singular spectacle of a
State with an aristocracy of criminals,
served and supported by a commonalty of
upright c~itizens.-New York Tribune.
EXPERIENCE has shown that the free
trade theory, plausible as it is made to ap-
pear to unthinking and il!-infOrmed per-
sons, invariably fails when it is brought to
the test of practice. There are indications
that the free-trade heresy has passed it's
prime. From now on it's decline promises
to be steady and swift.-Albany Journal.
WHEN the latest teachings of medical
science become known to the people. and
carries with it the germs of may be fifty
loathsOme and deadly diseases, they will
turn to clean and healthy coin in prefer
ence, and the era of hard and honest money
will be permanently established.-LOuisvllle
Commercial.
IT may be true, as reported, that Presi-
dent Harrison proposes to recognize the
protection element of the South" in the dis
tributiOn of the patronage; but 1t does not
follow that he intends to give offices to,
Democrats under any circumstances. He
can do all that is necessary for the element
in question without going beyond the lines
of his own party.-St. Louis GlObe-Demo-
crat.
SOME Democratic papers aEe falsely de-
claring that the Repu blicans promised a
business boom if protection won in No.
vember. What they did predict was bust
ness ruin if free trade won. However,
business has about recovered from the in
Jury done it by the free-trade campaign,
and the prospects for the neXt three years
are satisfactory. = Brooklyn Standard
Union.
THE Monroe doctrine is thoroughly in
corpOrated in every treaty made by the
United States with other American nations;
not only so, but it is incorporated by other
American nations in their treaties with
each other. 1t is, therefore, a principle of
internatiOnal law so far as the nations of
the new world are concerned. As a matter
fact. repeated recognition of 1T by foreign
nations has given it validity all over the
world.-BOstOn Advertiser.
The mugwumps of 1884 are the only mug
wumps we know anything about, and they
are about as important a factor IN politics
| just now as an extinct tribe of red men.
The Republican party has wisely left them
to chase their own rainbowsa and enjoy their
they taste no veal until they are invited to
partake of the Republican fatted calf they
will nave TO go without veal for a long time
to cOme.-DetrOit Tribune.
If the next Congress displays a modicum
of common sense and puts the duty on
timed iron up several nOtcheS the manu-
facture will soon become developed on an
enormous scale in this country. with the
usual result of greatly reducing the cost ut
! the article TO the consumer. Not only will
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

If the schOOl-bOok law contains an
emergency clause it went into effect on
its passage, and the State Board of Edu-
cation should have taken preliminary
steps some time ago for putting it in
operation. So few of the acts of the late
Legislature are constitutional that If
there is one valid it should be enforced.
This law is full of crudities and defects,
but that is no reason for its non-enforce-
ment, and the soone it is enforced the
sooner they will be developed. The
majority in the last Legislature were
not capable of framing or passing a good
law
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

Hon. JAMES y. HUSTON, the newly
chosen Treasurer of the United States,
yesterday filed his bond, and will soon
enter upon his duties. The appointment
of Mr.. Huston to this honorable and re-
sponsible Office is an admirable selection.
He is a gentleman of sterling integrity,
and by business habits and training is
thoroughly fitted and qualified to dis
charge the duties of the position. The
President has honored the State in the
nomination, and Mr.. Huston will reflect
honor upon the Office by the faithful dis
charge of its responsible and laborious
duties. The Republicans of Indiana and
the Journal compliment both the Presi-
lent and Mr.. Huston upon the appoint
ment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

friends are trying to have him retained
because the office is non-political. An
other high official, Judge Durham, of
Kentucky, First Comptroller of the
Treasury, is anxious to retain his posi-
ton, and is having papers circulated for
signatures attesting his efficiency. All
this is neither unnatural nor dishonor-
able, but it shows that when Democratic
officials boosted so loudly of their pur-
pose to resign they did not understand
themselves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A SISTER of Stephen A. Douglas. almost
eighty years old, is postmistress at Clifton
Springs. n. Y.
Mrs. WILMERDING, born Tracy, daughter
to the Secretary of the Navy, will christen
the cruiser Philadelphia when she Is ready
for salt water.
REV. RICHARD HARLAN, eldest son of
Justice Harlan, of the United States SUI
preme Court, is engaged to Mrs. Swift, a
rich New York widow.
Mrs. L. p. MORTON, wife of the Vice-pres-
ident, will alternate during the summer be-
tween her country houses on the Hudson
and at Saratoga Springs.
Mrs. GEO. B. MCCLELLAN, wife of the
General, is understood to have decided
upon an indefinite residence in Europe,
where she has been a year.
Mrs. HALFORD expects to make her Flor
ida home, Breezy Point" a horticultural
paradise. where Observation-Disclosures and
legislators may resort for winter holidays.
1T is recalled that President Lincoln once
extended executive clemency to a young
Englishman found guilty of piracy and
blockade running. because, as he expressed
it, John Bright, of England, has asked us
to pardon him."
A CHURCH in southern Illinois is about to
have a fair in which one of the features
will be the pigs in clover with real pigs. A
large fac-simile of the toy will be built in
the hall, and a prize will be given to the
man who pens the pOrkers.
1T is said that Miss Kate Drexel, of Phil
adelphia, knows more of Indian affairs than
any man in the United States, and that she
proves her sympathy with the dwindling
race by spending nearly 100000 out of her
own pocket each year for their benefit.
GEN. CLINTON b. FISK, who was the Pro.
hibitory candidate for the presidency, re-
marks: Both General Sherman and my
self feel happier all day long and sleeI
more sOundly every night because our OLD
Corinth comrade, Ben Harrison, sleeps to-
night in the White House."
SIR CHARLES RUSSELL, who figured sc
prominently in the proceedings before the
Parnell commission, is a ~fine-looking man
with dark eyes and beard, and a manner
which strikes terror to a p~erjurer's soul
He can talk twelve hours out of twenty
four and not become exhausted.
PROF. DAVID SWING said the other day
that he understood that President Harrison
intended to make a journey to New York il
George Washington's carriage. 'and Nv,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
Making Meal of Money.

AlDany lGa-J SptclTL
Over in Lee county the other day, at
Sam Hawkins's mill. the machinery sud
denly stopped. Something had fallen into
the hopper and shut dOwn the whole con-
Germ. Warren Baxter, a negro who was at
tending to the corn grinding, put his hand
down beneath the upper stone, which he
removed for the purpose, and to his as
tonishment found a lot of silver coin,
which had been the cause of the trouble.
There were some five or six pieces ranging
from a dime to a half dollar. He was very
much surprised to discover it. and could
not imagine where it could have come from.
When he went to depart he placed his hand
in his own pocket and discovered it was
his W money. While shoveling the corn
in the sacks $1.75 had fallen into it, and
been ground into u~nrecognizable shape by
the great stones. He brought the mutilated
pieces to town, and an enterprising jeweler
secured it for 80 cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

<hiDduy
Hundreds of people have been amused
during the week at a somewhat unusual
spectacle presented on the market site in
the afternoons. The boys congregate there
after school hours and indulge in baseball.
One OF the mines is made up of eight sturdy
young fellows, of ten to fourteen years Of
age. and one girl, about fourteen years old.
The maiden is petty and saucy looking,
trinity attired. and she evidently Joins in
the sport for the love of it. She can pitch
and catch with the skill of an old
hand, and run the bases like a deer.
is weak is in throwing to bases. She is
also clever in watching chances and steal
ing bases. AS a rule the boys treat her
courteously, n refrain from bad language
in her presence, but when one forgets him
self, as is sometimes the case, and saws
something prOfane, a smart slap in the face
from her fair hand recalls him to a sense of
the proprieties. The square is lined with
people every afternoon, watching the games
and admiring the play of the girl.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

ALONG in February last we heard a
good deal concerning the heroic inten-
ton of Democratic oficeholders to re-
sign on the 4th day of March, or as soon
thereafter as possible. There has been
no remarkable display of haste in this
direction. Now not a few of them are
concluding that they would be willing
To hold Office eve under a Republican
administration. When Colonel Swift
Ter, of Missouri, appointed by Mr.. C1eve-
Sand chief of the Bureau of Statistics,
took charge of the office he summoned
the clerks before him and informed them
that if he had his way he would dis
charge every one of them and fill their
places with Democrats, but under the
civil-service law he supposed he could
not. Nows Colonel Switzler and his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

The Journal remarked some time ago
that the defective indictments in the
election cases gave Mr.. Leon Bailey, the
person who drew them, the choice of be-
ing considered a fool or a rascal. This
interesting individual has no such choice
in regard to his course in the Davis mat
TER, described in yesterdays Journal.
The nature of his attempts to secure an
Indictment against the foreman of the
Coy jury show him to be both asinine
and knavish.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

THE April term of the United States
Court, which began at Little Rock yes
terday, is likely to prove interesting by
the trial of five persons who were ar
rested in November last and bound over
to answer the charge of interfering with
the Congressional election at Plummer-
vile. Two of the defendants were cleo
ton judges, one is Mayor of Plummer-
vile, and the others acted as deputy
sheriffs On election day. The trial of
these cases is expected to lead to i'm
portant developments in regard to the
Clayton assassination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

In Massachusetts, the carpenters are
striking for nine hours work and ten
hours pay, and in st. Louis they are de-
handing a full days wages for eight
hours work. If this tendency to lessen
the hours of labor increases in this ratio
as one approaches the setting sum-, it
may presently happen that the Cali
fornian who wants a house built this
summer will find it necessary to begin
wear before last.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

FROM present indications there is
likely to be a wild rush to Oklahoma,
followed by disappointment, loss and,
perhaps, suffering OIL the part of many.
Oklahoma is not an Ell Dorado, and, for
the present, at least, offers no induce
ments to any person not Injured to from
tier life and prepared to rough it. 1t is
no place for 'tenderfeet" or men with
soft hands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09
The Snake Liar Wakes Up.

Two young men drove out TO a pond upon
the farm of Maj. w. p. Burks, near Albany,
the other day. They had gone on a fishing
frOlic. To their astonishment they found
the pond alive with moccasins. They were
sporting in the water and running in and
out upon the banks. In the spring their
fancy had doubtless turned to thoughts of
love, for they were apparently mating.
They all were in pairs. Those that they sup
posed to be of the masculine gender were
small, saucy-looking black fellows. By the
side of each of these slender snakes was a
great serpent as large as a mans arm and
nearly three feet long. These were spotted
or striped with black similar to the mark
ings upon a rattlesnake.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

HERE is a bit of John Bright's eloquence
which Americans will love to read. 1t was
delivered in Birmingham in 1862, when
Bright's hostility to slavery and his stead
fast sympathy with the North in our civil
war had angered the ~populace against him:
/ have another and a far brighter vision before
my gaze. 1t may be but a vision. but 1 will
cherish il. / see one vast confederation stretch
ing from the frozen North in unbroken line 10
the glowing South, and fromsthe wild pillows of
the Atlantic westward TO the calmer waters OF
the Pacific main, and I see one people, and one
language, and one law, and one faith, and over
all that wide continent the home of freedom and
a refuge for the oppressed Of every race and OF
every cline.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

A ST. LOUIS Sunday paper publishes
interviews On politics with 500 Missouri
women. Of this number only a few are
PrOhibitiOnists, and less than twenty
favor full woman suffrage. This is re-
garded as conclusive evidence that the
majority of women do not want the bal
lot, and it certainly does support the ar
gument of the anti-suffragists that wOm-
en- in general are opposed to the mOve-
ment. 1t will not do, however, to give
too much weight to this test, and base
conclusions In regard to the future sue
cess of 'the cause" upon it. Women
are curious, and what they think next
year may be Numerically opposed to
what they think, or think they think,
now. 1t is eve pOssible-the sugges-
ton is made with hesitation, and a will
ingness to withdraw it at any moment
that if each of the 500 women had
known that all the others were going to
say boldly that they wanted to vote, she
go by favor, but suffrage opinions go
largely by fashion and custom, and I'M
til it is understood to be good form to
want to vote the majority of women will
politely deny that they have any lean
ings that way. To say that they are
like sheep, and when one jumps through
a particular hole in the fence the rest
follow, is not intended as an invidiOus
comparison. 1t is a human trait, and
the voting sex is by no means exempt
from it.