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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-05
ADJUSTMENTS.
GRAND OPERA-HOUsE-O'NEILL's "MONTE
CRISTOv

GRAND oPERA-HoUsE-o'NEILL's MONTE
CRIsTO.n
A good audience witnessed the presenta-
tiOn of James O'NeilPs Monte Cristo" at
the Grand Opera-house last night. AS fas-
c1nating as is the romance, whether read
twice or thrice, so its incidents of adventure
retain their power to absorb ones atten-
tion with all the accessories of dramatic
requirements whenever presented. 1t is a
play that is alwaysfresh, especially whenin
the keeping of a company like that which
is supporting Mr.. O'Neill this season. Ed
mund Dantes belongs as much to him as
we may say, created the part, or rather
given it a popularity which, in this in
stance. means the same thing. But aside
from Mr.. O'NeilPs art the ann in which
the play is presented is enough to satisfy
brought to its highest limit on the stage.
Miss Kate Fletcher, who was well known
to Indianapolis audiences, fairly divided
the honors with Mr.. O'Neill, and acted with
force and understanding. In the days of
the old stock. companies here no actress
was more popular than Kate Fletcher, and
her years of retirement from the stage
have evidently not dulled her powers.
Monte CristO" will be repeated tonight,
tomorrow afternoon and evening.
ENGLISHS OPERA-HOUSE-"UNCLE TOMS
CABIN"
Uncle Tom, TOpsy, and all the rest of
them, were at English's Opera-house last
night, where Stetson's company appeared
in the drama that has such a remarkable
hold on the interest of theater- gOers.
The audience was as we'll pleased as
if there had not been Uncle Toms for years
and years, because the company has merit
in it and understands how to tell the story
SO as to bring out the best effects. The pc
culiar features of the performance, without
which no Uncle Tom would be complete,
are well presented. Tonight. tomorrow
afternoon and evening the play will be re-
peated.
NOTES.
Mr.. Wallick put on his other play, 1.-THE
Bandit King" at the Park last night and a
large audience ~applauded it vociferously.
1t will be repeated at both performances
to-day and Tomorrow.
The next engagement at the Grand, fol-
lowing Mr.. O'NeilPs. will be Hoyt's Hole
in the Ground" with the original cast.
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Norelties In Mems Welr

AT TAYLoR's, SO EAST WASHINGTON STREET.
Our lines in mems wear for spring and summer
are now complete.
In underwear and hosiery we are showing a
greater variety than heretofore, from a medium
to the finest fabric.
In neckwear we. as usual, head the procession;
thus far no house in the city has been able to
compete with us in variety. novelty or style Of
neck dressing. See and believe.
Our shirt department is the management
of Mr.. A. III. Grafftey, who has had twenty years
experience in the manufacture OF tine dress
shirts for weddings and evening wear. In con-
nection with this we deem il not improper TO
state that General Halrison's inaugural shirts
were made at our factory. Material, workman
ship and fit guaranteed.
Our laundry tthe EXCELSIOR is conceded TO be
the best in Indiana, and so it is not necessary TO
amplify upon this subject. only to say it has a
capacity OF Il. 900 to Is. 1000 pieces daily; has all
the latest improvements Tor doing frst-class
work. employs about forty people, who are paid
better wages than any similar establishment in
the West. hence better work.
Leave orders at 15 North Illinois street, or at
my store, 80 East Washington street, and we
Will attend To your wants at once
MAJOR TAYLOR.
Telephone 40.
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Thus there nave been, since 1870, three
Southern States holding black majorities
South Carolina, Mississippi and Louis
iana. The white majorities all increased
from the decade of 1S70-lSSO, and the negro
majOrities increased during the same period.
1t will be further seen from the table that
there is a group of six States that have suf-
ficiently large majorities of white voters to
render the cOlOred vote of little or no i'm
pOrtance, viz: Arkansas, Kentucky, North
Carolina. Tennessee, Texas and West vir-
ginia, and to these Florida may be added.
Negro suffrage is practically but little more
of a problem IN these States than it is in
Ohio OF Indiana.
There is still another group of three, Ala
bama, Georgia and Virginia, with. large
white majOritieS, that are growing larger.
These will soon cease to feel the disturbing
influences of the negro vote.
Thus the circle is rapidly growing
smaller.
1t is probable that under the influence of
| white immigration Louisiana may now
have. or will soon have, a white majority.
Mississippi and South Carolina will be
left as the only States holding negro ma
! j~Orities. So that what was once a question
as broad as the South has narrowed itself
down to the compass of two States.
The indications are that as the Southern
States with white majorities secede from
the direct excitation that originally be-
longed to negro suffrage, which in reality
alone constitutes the sectional issue, their
political affiliations Will be indicated by
public questions of essentially different
| characters. Their material interests will
not point them to the suffrage as a concern
of dominating Importance. or even of
secondary consequence. Ordinary ques-
tiOns of national politics will influence
their sympathies as we'll as their actions.
The South will not indefinitely remain
solid. DisintegratiOn is inevitable. A mere
sentiment or memory will not prove a cohe-
sive force strong enough to perpetuate
unity of political policies in a nation where
politics Is governed by material interests.
These things are as sure to happen as any
thing that can be predicted of the future.
There was a time when the leaders of the
South, by united action on a line of policy
distinctly different from the one adopted.
might have secured a vastly modified con-
ditiOn of suffrage. but that time and OppOr-
tunity have passed beyond recall.
The practical lesson from these views is
that the people of Mississippi must rely
upon themselves for a permanent adjust
ment of their affairs. No external aid is
coming. 1t was never expected from one
national party, and was never intended, to
be extended in any measure by the other
in Mississippi.
The situation is unquestionably strained,
with all the apparent indications pointing
to an increased tension.
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GRApuAL failure of strength. extreme ia.

GRADUAL failure of strength. extreme pal
Tor of face, puffiness unde the eyes. per-
sistent swelling of the joints, abdomen and
shortness of breath followed by the lungs
filling with water, which the kidneys fail to
pass off-any one of the foregoing are symp-
toms of advanced kidney or Bright disease.
The late DR.. bio Lewis said. over his own
signature: IF / found myself the victim of
q serious kidney trouble, l should use your
preparation" Prof. Wm. III. Thompson. NJ.
D., of the University of the city of New
York. says: More adults are carried OFF
in this country by chronic kidney disease
SUMPTION
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Died at the Hospital.

C.. A. Kroger, the New York travelling
man who was found in a j., NJ. & 1. train
on Wednesday night in an unconscious con-
ditiOn, and removed to the City Hospital,
died there yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
He did not regain consciousness before his
death, and what was at first supposed to be
apoplexy proved to be congestion of the
brain. His body was taken in charge by
Kregelo, and the remains were shipped to
New York last night.
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William Gabb, afflicted with e~pileptic
insanity. was yesterday recommitted to the
Insane Hospital, where he was treated from
Jan. 4 to May is, 1882.
Daisy Gabriel yesterday filed her second
suit agains. her husband j. Lester Gabriel,
for a divorce, alleging that he has been
cruel at various times and has refused to
make any provision for her support. Last
year Mrs. Gabriel applied for a divorce,
hut the matter was compromised at the
time.
Robert Haar was Yesterday fined So for
contempt Oh CONT before Justice Oh Ihe
ppnaed TO appear as a witness, but she
failed 81 do so and sent her son in her
stead, who informed the Squire that be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-05
The Election Cases.

But n Indictment, that against Ernest
A. Shultz, of Salem, Washington county,
was quashed in the federal court yester-
day. Mr.. Shultz was charged with illegal
voting. the Indictment. like all the others
of the class returned, relating to residence,
the accused having been employed outside
the State when he came back to vote.
Quite a number of other motions to quash
have been entered, and will be passed on
by Judge Woods sometime to-day or to-
morrow. The trial of Derk DeRuiter, has
been set for the 10Th inst.
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A Delayed Registered Letter.

The trial of Alonzo Sharpe, postmaster at
Newtonville, Who is charged with delaying
in his office a registered letter containing
money, was begun before a jury in the fed
eral court yesterday. The evidence was
partially heard, and court then adjourned
to await the arrival of some more witnesses
to-day. The evidence SO far shows that a
registered letter was held in the Office, and
the person to whom it was addressed stated
that when he received it the money it con-
tanned was $50 short of the amount placed
in it when it was mailed. Mr.. Sharpe ad-
mits the delay, but claims he does not know
how it occurred. The case is the only one
on the docket for trial this week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-05
Eound in q Freight Car.

William Walker, seventeen years of age,
and Frank Melster, nineteen. found last
night in a freight car, loaded with merchan-
disc, in the Big -Four yards, were taken to
the police station on a charge of vagrancy.
The seal of the car was broken. and al
though the young men claim they went
there only to sleep. it is probable they may
be held on q more serious charge.
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The Governor Pardoned Him.

Charles Schaeffer, of Evansville, who was
sent to the southern prison in 1888 for
shooting at his wife, was pardoned yester-
day. Schaeffer is said to have been a man
of industrious habits, but he and his wife
became intoxicated at n social gathering.
1t is stated in his behalf that she tried to
force him to put up q revolver he had taken
out Of his pocket on the way home. In the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-05
A DIRGE IN STATISTICS.

Gradual but Sure Decay Of the Solid South
and the Colored Vote.
New Mississippian.
The question of negro suffrage can no
longer be regarded as essentially a South
ern question; if it has not actually ceased
to interest all of the Southern States, it
does not virtually concern them all.
To be convinced of this il is only neces-
sary to examine the following table, show
ing the relative white and black pOpula-
tiOn, compiled from the census of 1880 and
the majorities of 1870 and 1850:
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Question as to q Strip of Land.

Samuel Meyers, agent for the L.. N. A. &
c. railway, appeared in Judge Walkers
room againt the trustees of Butler Univer-
sity, to hold them. if possible, to a con-
tract which he claims was made in regard
to some land over which the road has ne
gotiate6 for right of way. The strip of
land. 7O) feet long and 90 feet wide, lies
along the l.. f. IL w. track. between Lin
coin and Home avenues, and was decided
to the agents of the Monon by the trustees
of the university for $1,000, which contract,
the latter claim, was afterward rescinded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-05
A Bailiff-s Tedious Task.

Some time was lost in the Criminal Court
yesterday in an effort to find one Sam p.
Arties, whose name appeared on the prose-
cutor's list, and the bailiff fatigued himself
considerably in an unsuccessful attempt to
locate the gentleman. About the time he
was ready to give it up as a bad job, it was
discovered that the name was intended to
represent the words 'same parties" and re-
ferred to a couple of defendants mentioned
Immediately above on the list.
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MINOR CITY MATTERS.
DOL COMMISSIONERS REGULAR MEET

SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS REGULAR MEET
ING-Evening.
DIR. n. CLEyELAND'S LECTURE-"Historic
Philadelphia" Plymouth Church, 4:15 p. NJ.
EXHIBITION observation-disclosures VS..
Louisville. League Park, 3 p. NJ.
Y. NJ. c. A. HALL-Entertainment by pupils in
elOcufion, evening.
GRAND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ONeill In
"Monte Cristo," evening.
ENGLISH'S OPERA-HOUSE-"Uncle Toms
Cabin" evening.
PARK THEATER-James Fl. Wallick In ''The
Bandit King" afternoon and evening.
BATTLE OF ATLANTA. CYCLORAMA-Mar-
ket street, between Illinois and Tennessee.
EDEN MUsEE-wax figures and curiosities, aft
ernOon and evening.
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Alimony Never Collected.

Eliza A. V. Roberts yesterday brought
suit against Joseph ID. Roberts to recover a
Judgment for alimony of $500, which she
secured in April. 1881. At the time an exc
cution was issued to the sheriff against
Roberts's property, and it is still on file.
She now asks for the original Judgment
with the accrued interest, amounting to
S1,2Ss.S5, and for an order from the court
requiring Roberts to make a showing in
court in regard to the property on which
the Judgment was first secured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-05
Disposing Of a Smith Family.

The jury in the Smith and Shear cases,
before Judge Irwin for receiving stolen
goods, yesterday returned a verdict, giving
Margaret Smith, the mother, four years in
the State prison. Hattie Smith three years
and Frederick Shear one year. Frederick
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-05
Buying Princely Favors.

The Information by cable that "the Prince
of Wales has accepted an invitation to dine
with Mrs. j. w. Mackay," does not give a
full report of this important International
event, until the detail is supplied of how
much Mrs. Mackay paid for the accept
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-05

4dcice to Mothers.
Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup should al
ways be used when children are emitting
teeth. 1t relieves the little sufferer at once:
it produces natural, quiet sleep by reliev-
ing the child from pain. and the little
cherub awakes as" bright as a button.D 1t
is very pleasant TO taste. 1t soothes tina
child, softens the gums, allays all pain, re-
lieves wind, regulates the bowels. and is
the best known remedy for diarrhma.
whether arising from teething or other
causes. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
Do not madly risk consumption when a
few drops of Hale's Honey of Horehound
and Tar will inevitably cure coughs. colds.
catarrh. influenza and every other ailment
leading to that awful malady. Sold by all
druggists.
ute.
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scuf1e that followed the revolver was dis
charged. fatally ~wounding the woman. The
Judge and prosecutor who tried Schaefter,
and numerous citizens asked the Govern
or for his pardon.
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ing of any system which has a vestige of
power to control men. except the wreck
and ruin of its own inherent corruption.
Prepare for the change
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Local News Notes.

AOSoA <SC"o OsC
Thieves entered the butcher-shop of
Charles Homer, corner Blake and New
York streets, while the family were at din
ner yesterday, and took So from the money
drawer.
At a meeting of the WOman's State Fair
Association, yesterday. Mrs. Finch was
elected as secretary for the ensuing year,
ON account of Mrs. Seward ~resigning the
Office on her removal from the city.
Building permits were issued yesterday
to Mary A. Kensler frame dwelling, corner
New York and Alabama streets, $500; l..
ID. Switzerland, addition, 240 Bright street,
faDoi Sh and L ioe C av rspaeIs s5c s0T William anl
I. Elliott, frame addition, Noel street, near
Ohio, $500.
Marriage licenses were granted yester-
day to John w. Miller and Elva Hoyle;
Adam Steinmann and Louisa GraskOff,
Joseph Platt and Estella Hone. Oliver Hess
emma Holler. Frank Woodforth and Hattie
Bachem, William Hurt and Maggie Wheeler,
Louis Westphal and Lizzie Moore. Alvin II.
+. LanyOn n Anna M. :Merithew.
Personal and Society.
Mary F.. Hedrick is visiting friends in
Greensburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Goodwin have returned
to Terre Haute to live.
MI. 0. w. Williams has gone to Terre
Haut for a short stay.
Judge James II. Jordan, of Martinsville,
was in the city yesterday.
Miss Lizzie Hay is spending a few days
in Kokomo with her aunt, Miss Lands.
Mrs. Horace Eddy will leave tomorrow
for Louisville, to visit relatives for a few
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Borden will go to
Washington to-day to remain several
weeks.
Mrs. T. j. Mccarthy. of Minneapolis,
Mimi, is visiting Mrs. Z. II. Cornelius, 3SS
North Illinois street, for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Taylor will give q
large progressive euchre party this evening
at their home, No. 4S4 North Delaware
street.
Miss Scott and Miss Alice Scott, of Gin
c%innati, nieces of Murat Halstead, are Wis.
iting. their cousin, Secretary of State Grit.
FIN, this week.
The Winter Nights Club will give their
last dance for the season at Brenneke's
Academy on Monday evening. 1t will be
full dress affair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry vinton, and Mrs
Blanche Vinton Stahl. of Lafayette, and
Miss Nellie Coffin, of Bloomington, are ex.
pected tomorrow to visit Mr.. and Mrs. G,
E.. Coffin, on North Pennsylvania street.
Capt. Ben F. Johnson left for Washington
yesterday afternoon, to take a place in the
| Treasury Department. The Captain has
been a resident of this city for more than
thirty years, and his appointment will
please many friends.
The committee having in charge the ar
rangements for the farewell dinner to ex.
Governor Porter. Col. John G. New, j. N
Huston and others, have decided to give il
at the New Denison, on Tuesday evening
next, and the cards of invitation will be
| issued this week.
Miss Ward and Miss Evaleen Stein, OF
Richards next week. They will show some
fine art embrOideries at the exhibit of the
Art Association, to be held at Mrs. J.. F.
Pratt's, No.. $40 North Pennsylvania street
| on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday.
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Not on the Bills of Any Thcater, bat Fully
Satisfactory to III Parties Concerned.
Employer and employees had button-hole
bouquets, but that was not intended as a
part of the floral display.
Everybody thought that Paul Krauss,
when he moved around the corner and took
Nos. A and 40 East Washington street, had
undertaken a contract greater than he could
swing if he supposed he thought he could
make those great rooms coy and attractive.
Those who saw the place last night at its
grand opening are ready TO c0ncede that
Paul krauss knows a great deal more than
is comprised in gentlemen's furnishings.
He knows that thoroughly, but as a dec
orator and floral artist ne is simply i'm
mense. The place was a palace of light, q
bower of plants, a garden of delight. and
everyone who looked through the estab-
lishment c0mplimented the proprietor on
the ~thorouglness with which he had done
the work that makes this the handsomest
and most complete gentlemen's furnishing
house in the West.
As the indianapolis News remarks in its
complimentary notice: "Mr. Krauss is a
large importer. perhaps the only one in his
line in the State, and the sole representative
and agent of the great London houses of
WEIGH, Margiston X Co., and Nirgoe &
Middleton, manufacturers of shirtings,
neckwear, tennis apparel, etc"
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Suit was brought yesterday against the
Capital City ~Planing-mil Company, Peter
Reuter- and the city of Indianapolis by
Clayton Harrison on behalf of Florence
Harrison, six years of age, for $4,000 dam
ages. Harrison claims that on the Esd of
last month Peter Reuter-, as lessee of a part
of the building belonging to the planning
MIL NIL CON company, obstI ;1S e Peru street, near
although this obstruction remained there
for several days the city authorities failed
to have it removed. At the time mentioned
in the suit the child Harrison was playing
and caught him in the wreck, breaking its
left leg. p
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Oklahoma.

Excursion to leave Indianapolis April Is.
via the Chicago ~ Alton route. For par
t~iculars, maps, rates and all information,
address or call at my office.
A. d. PERRY, Travelling Pass. Agt.,
Room 4. Jackson Place, opposite Union De-
pot, indianapolis, Ind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-05

PEARS Soap secures a beautiful COM
plexion.
BEECHAM's Pills act like magic on n weak
stomach.
For a disordered liver try Beecham's
Pills.
BEECHAM's Pills cure biliousness and
nervous ills.
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A A IN THE COURTS.


Additional Litigation Growing Out Of John
+. Sullivan's Misdeeds.
Sample Loftin yesterday filed a supple
mentary complaint IN his suit against John
f. Sullivan and his bondsmen for the fore
closure of a lien upon property to which
other claims are made by persons whose
rights, he alleges, are inferior in point OF
time. West Noble and William Bells. in
their complaint filed recently, asserted
that on Dec. % last they entered into a con-
tract with Sullivan to put into his poultry
house a boiler and smoke-stack for $500, all
of which work was faithfully DONE. On
this account Sullivan paid 500, and, Id
his refusal to pay the balance, the firm
filed in the county recorders Office notice
of their intention of holding a lien on the
lot and the property. On Jan. 29, Sullivan
had previously mad an assignment to
Charles Lauer, trustee, and his creditors
now claim a share in the property involved.
Treasurer LOftin claims in his complaint
that his demand is senior to all others, and
he asks that the lien be foreclOsed and a
Judgment rendered for S505.51.
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Executors Sue to Quiet Title.

W OAC wv
VOlney L. Malott and August w. Ritz
niger, as executors of the estate of John F.
Ramsay, yesterday filed q rather volumi-
nous complaint against twenty-five persons
scattered throughout the State, to quiet
title in regard to some property of the
Ramsay heirs, located in this city. Since
Mr.. Ramsay's death the real estate has
changed hands some eight or ten times,
having been decided first to Ramsay by
William S. and Dorcia s. WoOten, on Feb.
z, 1874. On Feb. 9, 1874, it was decided to
Alice M. Lemon, subject to the conditions
of the original mortgages, after which it
pf Fraa ne san a C snmes hm.o S She pSssesSip "a
Fletcher, Francis M. Churchman and 9TH
ers, and the executors of the Ramsay es-
tate now claim a prior lien on it, as they
were empowered by virtue of their appoint
ments to pay Ramsay's debts from bis es-
tate. The property is valued at $1,000.