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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. NJ. H. HoTCHKIss. of Lakeville,
Conn. has given seventy-five acres of land
and S275,O00 to found a preparatory school
for Yale College.
MRS. GEORGE J. GOULD, who was q Miss
Edith Kingdom. is a careful and economical
housekeeper. She 10 a good cook, and fire.
quently makes her children clothes.
Mrs. MARY WASHINGTON FINCH, a grand
daughter of Gensral Washington, has the
nearest thing to the historic little Ratchet
a silver one made from q spoon once
owned by the Father of his Country.
One of the prominent guests at Saratoga
this season has been T.. o. Mills, the banker.
He is q small and why man of about sixty
five, with a bright face and clear blue eyes.
He dresses most modestly and does not look
as if he had an income of S1.OO0.O 600.
GLADSTONE pays but little attention to
doctors. and in som respects is very reck-
less of his health. He IS frequently seen
out of doors without an overcoat at times
when the wind seems cold and raw to a
youngerman. But he rarely takes cold.
Two hundred schOol-teachers are needed
at once in New Mexico, school ma'ams'
being preferred. And q railroad official of
that territory declares that hundreds of
eligible men IN New Mexico are anxiously
awaiting the opportunity to offer their
hands. hearts and homes to some good
woman
LONDON TRUTH says that Mime. Boulang-
er, for whom SO much sympathy has been
expressed on this side of the Atlantic. is "a
woman of q sad temper, prosaic, common
place and with q bad liver" -The Generals
mother was a very beautiful woman. and
has still. though now in her dOtage, a very
charming manner.
LADY HENRY SOMERSET Is thirty-two, en-
ergetic. eloquent. of the bluest blood and
heiress of Lord Somers and sister of the
Duchess of Bedford, and she has come to
this country 20 preach temperance. Just as
If there was no field for her missionary
labors in England. Lady Somerset will be
the guest of Mrs. Aston.
ONE of the most picturesque men seen on
Broadway. New York. is Henry Sanford,
the newly elected president of the Adams
Express Company, who bears a striking re.
semblance to Henry Irving. the actor. The
slnooth-shaved face, with Its strong lines.
the long hair sprinkled with silver. the
cultured stoOp. the intensely dramatic
manner, are all wonderfully like the trans
atlantic Irving.
WHEN the late William Henry Smith, the
First Lord of the Admiralty. went up TO Ok.
ford. in 1879. to take the degree of D.. c. L..
with which the university had honored
him, the undergraduates seized upon the
occasion 10 perpetrate an excellent Joke
npon Mr.. SmItb. As he stepped to the
front TO receive the document he was
greeted with n roaring chorus OF "And now
he is the ruler of the Queens navee." while
from the gallery vas suspended a huge pin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Will you inform me in the next issue of the
Journal AZ any tin-plates are made in this cOun-
try! r..
Norton Brothers, of Chicago, are making
tin-plates; Ne%idringhaus, Of st. Louis. is
making fifty boxes q week. and will soon
be making SIX hundred boxes a day. The
American Manufacturer. non-partisan.
says the United States Iron and Tin-plate
Company Is making two thousand boxes q
month. and so on. That paper says that
$40 boxes a day were being made at that
time. Sept. l.. Alarge number of companies
are putting in plants, including one at FL
wood. in this State. 1t takes time to get
machinery and get ~tin-plate factories at
work. but the industry is as certain as sun
rise a year hence. No one questions it ex-
cept Q Democrat who is q free-trader be-
cause his party is free trade. and the Anglo
maniac newspapers which are edited by
those who are toadies to Great Britain.
These papersa are lying in the hop of help
ing Great Britain to maintain the in-plate
monopoly, but lying will not save it. The
United States has steel, and tin, and CAPT.
tai, and will have. in q few years, the
greatest tin plate industry in the world,
because it is the greatest consumer of tin
plates. What the Anglomanlac organs are
now saying about the impossibility of tin
plate manufacture in this country they
said years ago about the manufacture of
iron
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES ABROAD.

Governor Campbell, of Ohio, has been
asserting in his speeches that American
manufactures produced, under our pro-
tective system, are sold in Europe by
the manufacturers or their agents at
lower prices than they are sold for in
this country. The same statement has
been frequently made by free-trade pa
pers. Ex-COngressman GrosvenOr very
efiectually disposed of it in a speech
which he delivered q few days ago.
During a recent visit to Europe his at
tention was called to the circulation of
this statement by the free-trade PAGERS
of the United States, and he d. termined
to investigate it. He did SO by address
ing letters of inquiry to several United
States consuls in Europe who are in a po-
sitiOn to know the facts. Hon. Frank III.
Mason, cOnsul-general at Frankfort-on-
the Main, has been connected with the
consular service thirteen years. He writes
that, so far from American manufacture
ers giving discounts and reduced rates
to foreign purchasers, their unwilling
ness to do so is one of the main hind
RANGES to the extension of American
trade abroad. "The principal difficulty"
he says. (which / have always encoun-
tered has been the rigid adherence of
American exporters to their price lists,
their refusal to grant any special con-
cessiOn either in price, terms of pay
ment, or conditions of packing and de-
livery" He adds that it is just this un-
willingness of American exporters to
make liberal concessions in order to es-
tablish O foreign trade which makes for
eigners say of us, as a people, that we
are great manufacturers and home trad
ers. but o merchants in the large
sense of the term.
Hon w. II. Edwards, consul-general
ut Berlin, says he finds that many things
manufactured in tho United States for
the home trade are too highly finished
and too expensive for the foreign trade.
Americans want and our home market
demands in every instance a highly fin
ished article, while the foreigner prefers
a cheaper and less highly finished one.
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afore bearing the inscription. "Admitto to
AL gradum ID. {. L.. and so do his sisters,
and his cousins. and his aunts-" The mer-
riment was redoubled when the organist
struck up the tune In question. for MIR.
Smith was admittedly the original of the
amusing Gilbertian character.
THE poet ~Swinburne IL q shy little man
with a very unimpressivo appearance, He
was tied TO his mothers apron-strings up
to the very time he went to college. and it
Is said that even when a youth of eighteen
II he wanted an extra slice of toast at
breakfast he had to ask his mother for it
In a very timid and deferential way. The
poet Is passionately fond of tea, of which
he drinks great quantities. He lives In q
retired way with his chum Watts, editor
OF the AthenRum, near Putney, and sees
but little society. The bohemian friends
of the heyday of his youth are barred out
now, and he has but few
CORNEIIA SoRABJI. a tall. Olive-skinned
Hindoo girl. is q notable figure among the
students at Oxford University. She is a
remarkable scholar and at the age of
eighteen became professor of literature at
Bombay: but she longed for an advanced
education, and went to SOmerville seeking
admission TO the historical and literature
classes. Her examination papers attracted
considerable attention on account of their
brllliancy. Her papers on Roman law.
written after six months study. were de-
clared by the examiners to be the ablest
ever written at the university by any
student of either sex. The young lady
wears a native dress, usually of pale blue
Grape, with gold embroidery and an en-
brOidered mantle over her shapely head.
If an S and an I and o and a T.,
With an X at the end, spell SUI;
And an l. and q y and an T. spell /,
Pray, what is a speller to do!
Then. II also an s and I and G
And an II + spell eide,
There's nothing much left for a speller TO do
But go and commit siouxeyesighed.
-Pearson's Weekly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

THE lnterstate-cOmmerce Commission
has been collecting evidence which is
expected to result in the indictment of
some high railroad officials in the West.
The point of attack is that many rail
roads are being operated by officials
who are not stockholders, and who, it is
alleged, have no interest in the roads
beyond making operating expenses and
salaries. The commission regard this
as a serious evil in railroad manage
ment and propose to try and break it
up. 1t is questionable, however, if a rail-
road had not better be managed by
practical railroad men who are not
stockholders, han by stockholders who
are not railroad men. Ii does not follow
that a salaried man may not be
thoroughly loyal and faithful to the in
terests of a corporation in which he
does not own a dollar of stock. And,
on the other hand, it is not an uncOm-
mon thing for directors in banks and
stockholders in other corporations to
prove u%nfaithful and dishonest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

Judge Higginbotham, the Brilliant Orator,
Dies at the Kelley Institute.
spec,al to the Indianapolis journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
FRANKFORT. Ind. Oct. IA telegram
announcing the death of Judge b. h. Hig.
to-day, was received here. at his home. with
feelings of surprise and deepest sorrow.
The Judge babe his friends here a cheerful
goodbye ON Saturday morning. and In CON-
pany with his law partner. NJ Bristow. left
for Plainfeld. where his intention was to
take treatment for the drink habit in the
famous Kelley Institute. Not in rugged
health, be expressed grave doubt as to his
ability to stand the severe treatment. Re-
ports at hand say the immediate cause OF
his death is not known, but 1t Is believed
10 be due to heart failure.
The career of Balser X. Higginbotham
was mingled with sunshine and shadow. A
giant in intellect and a born orator. his
abilities attracted the plaudits of the PEG.
pie beyond the confines of his own State.
So charming were his powers of oratory. SO
convincing his logic. that in the Garfield
campaign he was called to New York. and
In company with Roscoe ConklinR stumped
the Empire state. As an acknowledgment
of his great service Garfield promised bin
an appointment as minister TO some foreign
country. and il was while waiting IN Wash.
ington for this that he gave way TO his be.
setting sir. strong drink. The President
was accordingly forced TO withhold the ap-
poIntment. Returning from Washington
be remained but q short time. and then re-
moved to Cedar Lake. Ind. where he lived
a quiet life until he returned to ankfo
a year ago and entered practice again. His
great weakness was the love of drink. yet
his efforts were continuously to free him.
self from its terrible grip.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
CONSPIRED AGAINST PARNELL,
John Dewey Hints at Revelations Involving
Healy, Davitt and Egan.

CHICAGO. Oct. 19.-At the Irish meeting
ON Mr.. Parnell's death and the future course
to be pursued in the Irish agitation. John
Dewey said that his lips had been unsealed
BY the death of Parnell and the subsequent
efforts of his enemies To injure the cause
which he espoused. Touching the CON-
pact between the leader of the physical
force party and Parneli. Mr.. Dewey said:
"If Healy and others go into the revelation
business, there will be revelations that will
show them In q different light. l sat in
Kildare street, Dublin, with Parnell and
Michael Davitt. in 1879. when the condi-
tions were made. adherence to which was
laid down to Parnell as the irreducible
minimum of what would be accepted for
Ireland. He wanted 1t understood that he
was not to be made q puppet of capricious
politicians. He asked that nothing should
ne done by the physical force element that
would give England O chance TO suppress
public sentiment under the plea thatlt was
treason. Parnell pledged himself to the home
rule which we demanded and that no men,
Der of the Irish party should take Office IN
til it was accomplished. If any question of
veracity is raised documents are in exist
ence to prove the truth of everything l
have said. Davitt having the right to
speak. we pledged ourselves to two things
to keep the movement free from premature
futile attempts at insurrectiOn and that
the platform should not 60 any further on
the land question than peasant proprietry.
Parnell kept his promise. Davitt kept
these conditions faithfully about two
years, and then. we'll knowing / dare not
speak for fear of injuring the movement
and that Parnell could not speak, began
his conspiracy to destroy Parnell and de-
prive Ireland of his services. DavItt and
Egan were bound together in this conspir-
acy . but they had warning enough to have
warranted them in taking q different
eoursaO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
Deadly Duel Over /. spanish senorita.

SAN ANToNIA, Tex. Oct. 19.-VIstorIano
VelascO and Espinaro Remirez. two young
Mexicans, of this city. have for some time
been paying their respects.to the same Span
ish senorita. She is a handsome young wom-
an, but refused to encourage one sultor
more than the other. The two rivals de-
cided to settle the contest by o duel to the
death. They chose q small room in an
unoccupied house in the Mexican quarter
for the scene of combat. They went there
alone at midnight Saturday night, and,
stripping to the skin. began the battle,
each using a long ~stiletto. They had been
fighting for some time when the attention
of a policeman was attracted TO the place
by the noise. He forced an entrance and
found both men in a terrible condition.
They were each covered with blood. which
was flowing from many cuts. They were
They will probably die.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
UNIVERSAL FREE DELIVERY.
Mr.. Wanamaker Says 1t Would Pay and Would
BE q Blessing to Rural Communities.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-An organized effort
is under way among farmers to secure from
Congress free mail delivery in country
towns. The Farmers Allianc Q, Patrons of
Husbandry and other orders are canvass
ing the matter. Letters are being written
to Congressman in favor of the project. n
petitions to Congress for free delivery are
being circulated in MANI parts of the cOun-
try. Farmers assert that a daily mail de-
livery at their door Will add p~erceptible to
the money value of their farms, and will
be worth still more because 1t will keep
them in touch with markets and the out
ton and monotony. The farmers are writ
ing to the agricultural press that this con
venience would enable them quite gener-
ally to take daily papers as we'll as to sub
scribe 10 tor the Local papers more Literally;
vember acknowledgement Wanamaker
states definitely, for the first time, that the
experiment made by the POstotfice Depart
ment for free delivery in farming districts
than pays all the increased expense. He
believes that universal free delivery would,
therefore,, be se~lf-sustaining. Mr.. Wana-
makers article also contains this statement
OF the case:
while the postal service keeps pace
with the growth of the towns. the farmers,
9uarrymen. blacksmiths. millers and arti-
sans, all paying the regulation rates of
postage. are left to get their mail az best
they can from the pOstoffice in the village
OF at the railway station. In a ham,
let Of one hundred houses perhaps
sixty persons from the village and the
vicinage make a daily pilgrimage of a dis
lance of from one block to two miles from
the home to the postOffice to find ont
whether there is any mail or not, n u
hundred more persons within the circle OF
the office do not find it convenient to 60 to
the postofice Oftener han once a week.
One hundred or more persons each day, in
all weathers, are making trips to the post
Office often at great personal i~ncOnveni-
ence u discomfort, when q single carrier
could once or twice each day make the
round of the village, and distribute the
mail. and save the hundred q daily unnec-
essary tramp. collecting at the same time
from the letter boxes located at the street
corners the mail to be forwarded. A news
paper brought every day to the doOr of the
farmer or workman who has no one to go
to the postoffice for ir would find a thank
full subscriber and light a new lamp in the
hOuaahOldo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
GOING TO PIECES.


BALTIMORE. Nd, Oct 1a-Ex-United
States Senator Wade Hampton is visiting
in this city. He said TO q representative OF
the Sun that he is out of politics. aud in
tends for the future to keep in the back
ground. THE Farmers Alliance he said,
rs rapidly d~islntegrating In the South.
and within the ext four years il will com-
pletely disappear. to live only in the men,
DRY of those who have been benefited by
the upheaval. This will be the case not
only in South Carolina. but throughout the
whole South. The people there are rapidly
awakening to the absurdity Of the demands
the organization has promulgated. and are
gradually dropping OIL. and forswearIng all
allegiance to the Alliance. In my own
State. the Governor, who was elected by
the sentiment that secured my defeat for
reelection to the Senate, has already
broken away in q great measure from the
Alliance measures. and is catering In his
administration of the asfairso of the State to
the conservative and thinking element.
The uprising was founded on demagogy
and fanaticism, and. therefore. cannot
have q long existence. Moreover. the his
tory of this country has shown that no Sc
cret political organization can live long or
retain any lasting holding on the public.
We are too conservative a people. ana too
fair minded In our judgment of right and
wrong In popular government, tn permit
any sway by secret societies. In my opin-
ION, it is folly for any one in this country to
enter into o controversy with a Farmers
Alliance adberent on the sub-treasury plan.
The measure 10 so ~palpably wrong on It's
face as to make It absurd To all who have
the prosperity and welfare of the country
at heart. 1t can never become q law until
passed by Congress. and it's absurdity will
prevent this. no matter how much dema-
gogues may urge its enactment. This feat
ure OF the Alliance has never been fully &C.
ceptod in the South. and l have too much
confidence in our people TO hin shat 10
ever will be-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

is that our pension roll is a heavier tax
upon the people than the cost of their
great standing army is on the German
people. This a very narrow, contempti-
BILE and unpatriotic view of the case.
The cost of the German army represents
simply the interests of a family and a
dynasty in which the people have no
direct concern; the cost of our pension
list is a debt of gratitude which the peo-
pie W to those who saved the govern
ment. If our pension list were double
what it is and had to be paid as long as
a single veteran survives the people
would still be largely the gamers by the
inestimable service it represents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
New Ship. for Carrying Malta.

NEW YORK, Oct. lathe officials of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company to-day
announce that it has been decided TO issue
$1,000. 600 debenture bonds for the purpose
of building three new steamers for the
China trade II the company succeeds in
obtaining the contract for mail service from
the government. The steamers will be
first class in speed and equipment but will
not be of the extremely heavy tonnage
called for by the requirements of the hrst-
class subsidy payments under the new law.
They will. however. be the largest and
fastest steamers ever put on the Pacific
ocean. 1t is understood that negotiations
have been closed between the Pacific Mail
and the Occidental and Oriental Com pany
by which the latter company VIII discon-
tinue operations. leaving the Pacific Mail
alone in the field. The Pacific Mail will
then double its service. making twenty-six
trips per year hereafter instead of thirteen.
and il is for this increased service that the
new steamers are necessary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

The Sheffield Telegraph advises En-
glish manufacturers to cooperate in
making the British display at the Chi
cage worlds exposition q success. at
is not wise" says the Telegraph, ''to cut
off your nose to spite your face. If
trade with other parts of the world can
be promoted by sending exhibits it
should be done. but as little as possible
should be taught the natives of the pro-
cesses of manufacture. The less in
structiOns we give Americans the better
for ourselves" If we remember rightly
the Official invitation to foreign govern
Rients to participate in the fair did not
ask them to teach any of the processes
of manufacture. 1.-THE natives are toll
erably apt in devising processes of their
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

Ii is not at all unlikely that the story of
President Lincoln's interest in s%pirItualis-
tic manifestations is true. so far as his
presence at an occasional seance is con-
cerned. Most people of mature age "
attended those curious gatherings at some
time in their lives. and nave been none the
worse for it. even if they have not been es-
pecially edited. IL. because of such at
tendance. they are to be classed as believ-
ers in the doubtful science. in whose work
ings they have had only idle curiosity, and
no faith at all. the visits TO such places of
persons who are careful of their reputa-
tions will be made with much hesitation
hereafter. Ii President Lincoln listened to
the advice of spirits" il was for the same
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

THE New York Recorder says it is
happy to be able to announce, as the re-
suit Of careful inquiry. that the pros
poets of the election of Mr.. Fassett as
Governor and for the overwhelming de-
feat of the entire Tiger ticket are SO ex-
cellent as tojustify the statement that,
if the voting were to take place on xt
Tuesday, Fassett's majority would ex-
coed that given at any ~gubernatorlal
election since 1882. 1t is pity. then,
that the election does not occur to-day.
Our experience is that when victory is
ripe delays are dangerous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

Hon. GEORGE w. STEELE confirms the
report of his resignation as Governor of
Oklahoma, and assigns purely personal
reasons for the step. He and his family
found the discomforts OF frontier life
irksome, and the attractions of Office
were not sufficient to reconcile them to
the separation from his home at Marion.
Besides, Governor Steele has large pri-
vate interests which he could not afford
to neglect for any Office. The indica-
tions are that it will not go begging.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20

THE government has concluded an
other large real-estate transaction in
the purchase of about 100000 acres of
good land from the Shoshone and Arapa-
hoe Indians in Wyoming. The land
ceded is a little more than half of the
entire reservation, and the Indians get
5000, 900 for it, or a little more than So
cents an acre. 1t is a good trade for
both sides, for the government gets a
large tract of good land very cheap, while
the Indians will have an abundance left
and the interest on the purchase money
will be very serviceable to them.