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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
region where was enacted the immortal

region where was enacted the immortal
tragedy of John Brown.
Once. when stopping there. it seemed to
me that this was the spot of all others for a
monument TO the MEMORY of Brown, and
when l found the scaff0lf was IN existence
i thought, as Brown earned his undying
name finally on that scaffold, it might be
made, more than a quarter of a century
later, to earn funds with which to erect
a monument on the spot overlooking tho
scene of his most remarkable exploit. / am
but 1t is my present intention, if / can find
the proper person to take charge of the
scaffold, to exhibit it. and appropriate the
proceeds. above expenses, to the erection
OF this monument. On the property OF
which l speak there is a fine marble quarry,
and of this marble l would construct the
monument. have offered a portion of the
property TO the State of West Virginia for
a reform school or other public institution.
1t is possible the place may become a sum-
mer resort, as the scenery is grand, and
Harper's Ferry is already a place much
visited. In any event. if the monument be
erected j would reserve enough ground to
lay out a pretty park around it.
Il have inquired into the sentiment of the
people ON the subject, and / do not believe
there would be any serious objection OF in
reference. The views of the old inhabi-
tants have changed greatly in regard to
Brown, many Union soldiers having settled
thereab0nts, and any who might otherwise
object weuld probably be silenced by the fact
that any additional attraction would bring
people and money to the town. This is the
way i have arranged the matter In my
mind. Possibly / may find obstacles in the
way | have not thought of, but l hope not"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
WORLDS Pale FINANCES,

The New York worlds fair commit
tee on finance has received numerous
suggestions in regard to raising money,
ONE of which are thought to contain
the germs of feasible action. The one
that meets with most favor is the pro-
posed ISSUANCE of 80, 900, 900 in bonds of
$50 denomination, each with one hun
dred coupon-admission tickets attached
and each bond to be sold for $40.
This would give the purchaser a net
profit of $40, provided he sold the coupon
admission tickets, and would make each
purchaser an agent for the sale of tick
cts. 1t is an ingenious plan and seems
feasible. This would be in the nature
of popular subscription and would be in
addition to the direct contributions of
the city and State of New York and per-
haps the individual subscriptions of
mOneyed men.
Whatever plan is finally agreed upon
will probably involve the feature of a
popular subscription or an appeal to the
people in some form. This will be no
more than right, and will be in accord
ance with presidents in other countries.
The occasion of the fair, the fourth CEN
tennial anniversary of the discovery of
America, will appeal to national pride
and patriotism, and the fact that it is to
be cOntrasted with those previ-
ously held in other countries will
make Americans anxious for its
success. 1t is not impossible that this
interest would make a popular loan sue
c~essful, but the sale of bonds with ad-
mission coupons seems more feasible
and attractive. The general cOntri-
button plan was tried successfully in the
London, Vienna and Philadelphia fairs,
and, in each case, it was found that the
sentiment of national pride and patriot
ism was a large factor. But whatever
plan the New York committee may
adopt it will be necessary for the
citizens of that city and State to lead
off with contributions liberal enough to
justify them in making an appeal to the
government and country for further
aid. The same remarks apply to Chi
cagO, which is making a strong effort for
the fair, and will be the only real COM
Detitor of Now York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17

THE administration of criminal law is
much more vigorous and effective in
England thar it is in the United States.
Whatever the cause of this may be, the
fact is ~undeniable. The legal penalties
of crime are as severe here as there, but
the probabilities of conviction and pun
ishment are much greater there. The
art of violating law with impunity, and
of making the law itself a pro lection for
criminals, is far better understood in
this country. One of the weak points in
our administration of justice is the long
time generally allowed to elapse be-
tween conviction and punishment. In
England only three Sundays can elapse
between the sentence and its execution.
Here many weeks, or even months, may
intervene. This delay destroys the ter
rors of the law and blunts the edge of
Justice. 1t holds out false hopes to the
criminal, and often, unfortunately, they
do not prove false. The interval of
lettering justice is improved to rally all
the influences against the execution of
sentence, and these are so often success
full that convicts expect them always TO
be. Thus the hope of ultimate escape
from punishment becomes a recognized
factor in the commission of crime.
Sometime We will be forced to recognize
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
RAILWAYS.

The first annual report of the statis-
tician of the Interstate-cOmmerce Com
mission contains a mass of statistics of
special interest to railroad experts and
some points of general interest. Among
the latter is q statement of railway
mileage in the United States on July 1,
1888, viz, 149, 9O1. Illinois leads with
9,707 miles, and Kansas is second, with
S,437. Indiana makes a good showing
with 5,723, but there are nine other States
ahead of her.
The greatest activity in railroad con-
structiOn in recent years, says the report,
'lies i'm that territory west of the Mis-
lively a few years, has not been favor
ably regarded by those who control
large capital. 1t is not said that too
much line has been built in this section
of the country, but it will hardly be
denied, in view of the financial difficult
ties into which some of the corporations
interested have fallen, that railway
construction has passed beyond the
immediate needs of the locality men
toned. The explanation of this fact is
simple. There has been repeated in
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana
and Colorado the old story Of COMPETE
ton between rival corporations for the
control of new territory"
The report shows the total amount of
railway capital in the United States to
be 1885,, 464, O55, of which 81 per cent, or
considerably more than One-half, pays
nothing to the stockholders, and tho
remainder pays only small dividends.
The total amount of bonds issued on this
stock is 1886, $40. O4O, or very nearly
equal to the stock. In theory stocks
represent the property of the responsible
owners of the road and bonds are an
incumbrance on that property. The
large proportion of bonds to stocks
seems to indicate that most railroads
have been built on credit or borrowed
money. Other statistics show that the
financial condition of the entire railroad
system of the country is, to SAY the least,
very much involved.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
GEN. CROOK AT OAKLAND.
His Bad Opinion Of Sitting Bull-The Sioux
Question.

His Bad Opinion of Sitting Bull-The Sioux
Question.
Oakland (Md.) Special in the Baltimore American.
Major-generai George Crook arrived in
Oakland this morning and Joined Mrs.
Crook at the Glades Hotel. When the
American correspondent called on the Gen.
eral this afternoon. he seemed to be in fine
spirits, and much relieved that the knOtty
Sioux problem had been, at last, Temporal
rily settled.
treaty" said the American correspondent,
after being pleasantly greeted by the genial
General.
No" said the General, seating himself
comfortably in a rocker, The Is too pulled
up with his own Importance. 1t is q won
der to me how so great a fraud as Sitting
Bull could be made such a hero of. Why, a
white woman from the East actually went
ont to the reservation and proposed mar
rage to him. which he discreetly declined,
would probably have made it ~uncomfort-
able for her. She is not the only woman,
however, who has given the fellow cause
for his cOnceit," said General Crook, for
many orders come for his photograph"
but did he not really display great
bravery in the Custer tightg'
no" said the General; The showed the
white feather, ran away and afterwards
got all the glory among the white men East
probably through some prejudiced parties;
puO WIN ~ IutRh apoAh a hO
reputation as a brave. BY them he is con-
sidered only q medicine man."
General Crook said he had done a great
deal of travelling since the 9TH of May,
when he started for the Sioux reservation.
He says the Sioux reservation Is as large as
the State of Indiana, and is occupied by not
more than 5000 Indians. The tract is en-
tirely too large for any practical purpose.
They cannot cultivate it, and much of it
lies in the land of the DakOtas. q p~articu-
larly rich section. There are seven agen-
cies. which own the reservation in common.
What the government desired was that
each agency should take a reduced reserva-
ton and own it independently, and then
sell the land lying between the several re-
duced reservations to the government at a
moderate price. The Indians objected, on
the ground that. if they sold part of the
little left them. the whites would. after a
while, want even the small remnant left.
General Crook is of the opinion that the
Indians had been bribed not to sell. but by
whom he had no knowledge, but thought
the cattle men or railroad companies might
have had a hand in it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
A SATISFACTORY SITUATION.
A Righteous Fate for a Man Who Had Lived a
Reckless Life:

1NeckieSs Lie.
st Louis Post-Dispatch.
Judge David S. Terry met the fate which
is reserved for men who right their wrongs,
fancled or real, with dirk OF pistol. Hav-
ing spurDed the methods of enlightened
civilization for the adjustment of legal and
personal difficulties, having assumed the
right to mete out his own vengeance IN his
own way, he has fallen by his own code.
He died as men of his stripe claim that they
want to die-with his boots on.
- The occurrence in which he met his death
was unfortunate. but 1T is impossible not to
agree that the result of it,. and the way in
which the result was brought about,
were the most satisfactory. that could
be devised. Terry invited his death.
He threatened the life of q Judge
OF the federal court because of a judicial
act. He was in the act of wreaking his
vengeance on that Judge when he was shot
by a deputy United States marshal. under
Instructions from his superior ofii cer to pro.
and threats of Terry constituted ample
justification for al opponent to consider his
WI life in imminent danger and to take
Terry's life at the first intimatiOn of viO-
lence. Whatever may be said in depreca-
ton of the necessity of appointing a body
guard for a Judge, 1T must be confessed that
the killing took place under the best pos
sible circumstances. 1t saves the country
from the disgrace of having a Judge killed
for a judicial act or of having a Judge com
PEELED to Stay a litigant in defense of his
own life. The act was committed by an
officer under orders, who was for the time
being a mere part of the machinery of the
law.
One must admit, also, that the act was
well done. If Judge Terry were living he
could not do otherwise than commend the
GOODNESS. skill! and judgment of his slayer.
A less experienced aud skillful man than
Nagle might have shot too soon. or might
have made a less thorough job of 1T. Nagle
waited until Terry had struck Justice Field.
He then warned him, and as he was raising
through the heart.
In short, q dangerous man has been re-
moved, a threatened judge has been pro-
tected without loss OF dignity or infractlon
of law on his part, and the removal was
done by al officer of the court under in
structiOns. 1t was also beautifully DONE"
The most ardent adherent of the code"
could not ask for a better situation. and
nineteenth-century civilization is saved
from outrage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17

The following is a sample of the stuff
the Atlanta Constitution accepts from
its regular correspondents and contrib
utors:
The negro knows how it is, and would be
content If the fools and fanatics of the
North would let him alone. The solution
of the problem is just this: When they get
too smart they Will be removed. and that
in a hurry. We had TO remove the Indians
because we couldn't get along with them.
We will let the good negroes stay and make
the others 90. See if we don't.
The good negroes" of course, are
those who have no aspirations to be any
thing but humble serfs and day labOrers,
while those who must "go'' are such as
Penny, the p~Ostofice clerk. As an ac-
compartment To these noble sentiments
editor Grady should have printed one
of his powerful and impassioned edi-
torials on the glorious privileges opento
all mankind in the "new South" Evil
IDENTITY the passing out of brother-in-law,
cousins and aunts from the postofiice
has caused the editorial mind of the
Constitution to lose its cunning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17

Washington Interview.

WASHINGTON lnteTNleW-
THE President is much stronger TO-DAY
than he was in May. He can already see
that his methods are better understood
and his policy is beginning to crystalline.
In other words, the machinery of his adj
ministration is beginning to work
more smoothly. 1t is one of the
incidents of frequent changes in
our executives hat it takes a
few months to become accus toned to the
new ideas and administration which fol-
low the incoming of a new President.
"The Republican party everywhere is in
good shape. The people under the restora-
ton of Republican control are happy and
business industry is confident and pros
porous. We will have unusual abundance
from the earth, and that means comfort
aud plenty. The next Congress will be
fruitful of, i think. many legislative meas
ures of Importance. During our four years
of exclusion from executive control we
had leisure for reflection. Congress will
doubtless profit by its Republican domino
ton in both houses to pass measures which
have hitherto been defeated by the parti-
san a%ntagOnism of the opposition. j lave
no doubt that the President will make inn
pOrtant recommendations, and then we
have the tariff legacy of the last Congress
to dispose Of"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
THE ATLANTA SENSATION.
Northern Papers Refuse to Treat 1t as the
Outraged outherners Would Have Them.

Northern Papers Refuse to Treat 1t as the
Outraged Southerners Would Have Them.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Here isthe otfense Of General Lewis. as
given in the Constitution: III seems to
have believed that the people would quietly
submit to the imposition and sustain him
would be in almost constant association
South.n
Further, she seemed swift to make a
selection of the negro rather than the
white man.. and for a very responsible
place in the handling of registered letters.
and where the negro was thrown into per-
sonal business contact with a young white
department."
Worse than this: it appears that once q
month this intelligent and respectable
negro would be forced to work at a table
where the white clerks and the white
young woman work:
Once every month the work in that depart
ment is so heavy that every clerk lie required in
the main room.
They are all required at one table.
So, at that table. Miss Lyons and the negro
would have been side by side, or face to face.
Great God! Was the superior race to en-
dure this horrible condition of things7 Not
much. The postmaster is burned in effigy;
his bondsmen has been induced by the in
dlgnant public to withdraw from his bond.
The result will be that General Lewis will
surrender and turn out the negro.
The negro may hand the white his food
at table, cooked by n negro; may shave the
white; may sit in the same buggy seat to
drive for the white; may nurse the white
children. but he may not hand the white
his letters, or come into business contact in
q public office with 1.-The best Anglo-Saxon
blood of the South" The negro woman
may be the mother of the white mans
children, but the mulatto son of a white
nan may not perform clerical duties for
which he has proved himself to he qualified.
Injustice cannot endure forever, and
I, there is trouble ahead.
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be done without detriment to public in
terests or business. 1t will probably be
found, on close inquiry, that this can be
done to a considerable extent in parts of
the country where rapid transmission or
prompt delivery of mails is not impor-
tant. 1t is "A trick of contractors or sub
contractors to get the department to
order seven-day, or Sunday service, in
many cases where it is not needed, the
object being to serve themselves and not
the people. In other cases, notably In
cities and towns, there will probably be
found a disposition to exact more Sun
day service than is necessary. In all
cases where this appears to be merely
the assertion of a mercenary spirit it
should be checked. Sunday service can
only be defended as a matter of neces-
sity, and the government will be justi-
fed in adopting very rigid rules on the
Suhiaot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
MONUMENT TO JOHN BROWN.
A Scheme by Which the Historic Scaffold Ma.
Pay for q Memorial.
Washington Special.

4oJ
Pay for q Memorial.
Washington Special.
Gen. James Is. Colt, now q practicing at
torney of this city, late chief of the old
army and navy division of the Pension
Bureau under the Cleveland administra-
ton, colonel'of the Fourteenth Regiment
of Connecticut Volunteers, and q brevet
brigadier-general. who carries eight wounds
as his war trophies. has purchased the
scaffold on which the hero John Brown and
several of his associates were hanged, and
it is now on its way to this city, and will
soon be employed in n way that will appeal
to the poetry and sentiment of the whole
country.
At the request of the authorities of Jeffer-
son county, West Virginia. this scaffOld
of November, 1859, and on the I'd of Decem-
Der of that year the body of old Ossawat-
tonne Brown was swung from It's crOss-bar.
1t was taken down and stored in the jail
yard. and regretted on the 18th of Decem-
Der for the hanging of Edwin Coffee,
Shields, Green, John Z. Cooke and John
Copeland.
ON the 10th of March of the following
year it was again erected, and did duty for
the execution of Albert Hazlett. alias VIM.
Harrison, alias VIM Hayslett and Aaron ID.
Stevens. When the CHASTITY history was
ended COckrill was asked what he would
do with the scaffold, and he was told to
dispose of 1t as he pleased by Hon. BraxtOn
Is. Davenport, president OIL the court Oh Je1-
fersOn county.
Cockrill transformed the scaffold liz the
framework for the pOrticO for the house of
his friend Daniel Sheets. at the corner of
Liberty and Lawrence streets. IN Charles
town. and there it remained for years. AS
time changed and events wrought a new.
estimate of Brown, even in the minds of
his enemies, it was recognized that III fut-
ure years considerable value might be
placed upon these historical timbers. In
the autumn of 1883 they were bought by
John NJ. Coyle, and stored away in the sec
ond story of the Jail building, under lock
and key.
Il was in Kansas at the time of the Kan
sas-Nebraska difficulty" said the General,
land was a great admirer of John Brown,
though / never saw him. Having some
business at Charlestown, recently, / discOv-
cred the existence of the scatiold. and it oc-
CURED to me that, instead of allowing it 70
be bawked about, possibly by fakirs and
SPECTATORS, it might be put to a serious
and sacred use. / am interested in some
property on the historical Bolivar Heights
overlooking the Shenandoah and Harper
( Ferry. Ii is a beautiful spot. commanding
! . magnificent view. and overlooking all ths
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
A Point for Grady.
Philadelphia Press.

There is one aspect of the case which the
Southern whites do not appear to appre-
ciate. and that is the fact that these con-
slant exhibitions of anger and fear when
ever a colored maj is appointed TO Office
may teach the colored race that the boosted
supremacy of the white race is all a fiction.
A race which is sure of its supremacy, and
which greatly outnumbers the other race,
does not need to exhibit an insane fear and
rage at every sign Of advancement on the
part of another race. Anger is always a
sign of fear and weakness. Such an out
burst of rowdyism as was seen IN Atlanta
last Thursday evening is certain to alien
ate the better sentiment of the country. and
to strengthen the belief that the Southern
people have no desire to treat the colored
man fairly or to seek an honorable and
amicable soluatOn of the race question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17

siderable fame as a Greek scholar. but he
has proved that his knowledge of modern
history is slight. In conversation he is
humorous and genial. and appears TO bet
ter advantage in society than on the plat
form.
DAY after day the rain came down,
The skies were OF a leaden hue,
And not a single one in town
Asked, Is this hot enough for you.
The days were wet. but they were cool:
There was no wrangling DER baseball,
And people said, this life is full
of compensations, after all.
Boston Courier.
THERE was a young fellow of Ga.
To know him no joy 'twould alta.
He called one whole day
On a lady, they say,
And then remarked, Hope 1 hain't ba."
brakes Magazine.
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'egaru as premature.

GEN. FRANCIS f. SKINNER, ex-United
States Treasurer, known during war
times as ''the Watchdog of the treas
ury," and famous by his illegible sigma
ture, is fatally i'll at his home in Florida.
AT his advanced age of eighty-seven,
there is no hope of his recovery. Writ
ing to a friend, the General says: "My
physician has given me strict orders
that / must neither read nor write a sin
gle word. Twill probably soon make my
bow to the denizens of this world and
denart
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17

THE third-party people are disap-
pointed over Francis Murphy's decision
to hold his meetings in this city instead
of at Acton. Down there he would have
found no one to reform, but here he is
likely to win many tOpers from the error
of their ways. The third-party folks
want these topers to wait until the
Democratic party passes "a law closing
all the saloons. Reform at this juncture
they regard as premature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17

SENATOR EvARTs is about to visit
Europe, mainly for the purpose of con-
sulting the oculists of London and Paris
concerning his eyes, which have been
failing of late. The Senator is in his
seventy-second year, and the foreign
specialists will probably tell him that
eyes at his age are apt to fail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17
A Canadian Howl.

Philadelphia Record
A Canadian editor, writing of "the inso-
lence of Yankee cruisers" exclaims:
oh, for one hour of Palmerston, or better still.
1t was timidity that destroyed the
Roman empire and invited the barbarian. We
more devoted army than the United States.
while a few regiments could he sent 70 us, and
the English fleet could sweep American COM
merce from the seas.
Bombastes Furioso still has his imita-
tors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17

The Democratic revolt against Sim
Coy in the Eighteenth ward is encOur-
aging. 1t shows a pleasing growth of
honest and decent sentiment in an unex
pected place, and also offers an oppor-
tunity to Republicans to redeem the
ward from its disgrace. Let them put
up a good candidate for Council and
work to win