davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
An Elegant Line Of new SPRING GOODS!
Korah Moire Kora,h MORE,
CHINN, ROSS & TODD.

gospel as Jesus intended it should
be none than any people who are
now engaged in that business.
There is a law here against in
terrdpting religious worshiP,but it
but it only applies when the relig-
ious worshippers are these heavy
.swells in the fashionable churches.
If Jesus Christ were to go 10
Georgetown and commence
preachingjust anywhere on the
street that the people wanted to
hear him, like he used to do. that
town marshal would have him in
Jail before you could say Jack
Robinson.
lam a salvation army man !
am.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
State Chairman Harris Says
ssGO ON with the Blade"

PADUcAH, KY, Sept. 1. 81.
DEAR MooRE-My wife and ]
say yes; go on with the Blue Grass
Blade. May it never die, and
never grow less in power, or in
fighting against the licensed liquor
devil of the land.
/. If newspapers and editors were
all as fearless and manly as you
and the Blade in waging relentless
war upon wrong, crime, and the
liquor traffic, and its criminal, de-
bauching, devlish and hellish re-
suits to home and hearts in this
world, then indeed would the
hopes of the "Old Guard OF the
Prohibition party fly high.
Go on with the Blade. Cut
quick, fast and smooth, and may il
brighten with every stroke
Put me downas lite scholar
and subscriber.
JOSIAH HARsIs.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

a preacher or an editor in the
Bluegrass region, except the hea-
then Chinee who runs the "infi-
def' Blue Grass Blade that will
blast these people for these things.
One of the greatest arguments
in favor of Prohibition and woman
Suffrage is that the people of this
state are 80 opposed to them.
Every old religious hypocrite
and Pharisee in the whole country
has blasted the proposition to
keep the Chicago Exposition open
on Sunday, and blown his old ba.
zoo with a vigor unprecedented
since Joshua blew down Jerico
with rams horns; but nobody ha:
said word against the arrange
ment with the Spaniards to have
bull fights at the exposition.
Old Kit Columbus came from
Spain, and Spain will have to be
petted, and the Christian Spaniard
can not get along without his bull
fight, and they will not only have
them at Chicago, but they viii
have them on Sunday, like they
do at home.
But that is not half. In lesc
than ten years with the rapid
strides that Bluegrass Christianity
is now making, they will have
bull fights in Lexington to raise
money to pay preachers and build
churches.
The only difference between
the Lexington bull fight and that
of Madrid will be that in Lexing-
ton the piccadors will be armed
with pitchforks, and the bulls will
be these spoiled Angus ones that
have no horns, or old cows-as Pat
said In the famous "Irish BULL
If they would get that bull that
lately killed his owner
down at Elizabethtown, Ken
lucky, and put him and some Of
these charity show fellows all to-
gether, in a high and tight barbed
wire pen, and let them fight it
out with pitchforks or "Chuna-
ment" poles, it would look more
like bushes.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

No. 6, UNION PLACE, BRooKLY,
N. Y. Aug 80, 1891.
NJ. ~ ~ Mooro

No. 6, UNION PLACE, BRooKLY,
N. Y. Aug 80, 1891.
Mr.. G. G. Moore,
DEAR SIR AND BRoTHER-The
Blade reached me yesterday and
has been read with great interest
When l get out my large issues 1
will try to reciprocate your favors.
| like your writings and your
principles. Would to God our
churches could be converted to
your honesty. l am not much
concerned about your infdelity,
though l am a son of the Pres
byterian church, and from a
family that has been pillars in it
for many generations. l do not
say you are technically right in
your religious theory, but you are
true to your convictions, and that
is better than a correct creed IN
practiced. Il
1 have devoted my life to g-
ion, Prohibition is, with me, oI]1S
one among many issues in which
righteousness is concerned.
l am sure that nationally we hre
in great danger. Nothing but
honesty and moral integrity Gan
save us, Permit me to clasp y4ul
hand in fraternal greeting, IND
bid you God speed. n
Twill not ask you to come rrr
on my platform, for l think lou
are already on it. l subordinate
all opinions to righteousness. All
religious questions are open q;ses-
tons, and must be re-tiscussed
except the being of God, and the
resulting truth and duty. II
there is no God there can be nc
truth and no duty. So l must
stand on this foundation. All
else is unimportant comparatively
Do not understand that l refuse
to discuss the being of God, OF
any other religious question.
l only mean that like Archim'
ides, we must plant ourselves
somewhere, if we would move the
world.
Your remarks on Baron Hirsh'l
interference with prophecy re-
minds me of Prof. Totten's "Oul
Race theory that not the Jews
but ourselves are the heirs of thu
promises of Abraham, Isaac an(
Jacob.
Read this book before abandon
ing prophecy.
Faithfully and fiaternally,
D. P. LINDsLEY.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
OF course this brother is right

VI course this brother IS right
in his latter utterance that even
the "being of Cod is a question
open to discussion. Investigation
and discussion hurt nothing but
error; and they always tend to
confirm the truth. If there is no
God we ought to know it, Just as
much as we ought to know it if
there is God.
! am quite satisfied that there
is no God that even remotely re-
sembles the ideal personal God
that is worshiped in the churches,
anG except the doing good to our
fellow men there is no worship
that would be pleasing to an all
wise and intelligent author of the
universe But the origin of the
universe is a theme for our most
earnest and serious thought. AS
to this origin none of us should be
dogmatic and overbearing, because
none of us know ANYTHING def
finite, and even the utmost reach OF
our speculative philosophy has
not yet formulated anything that
may justly he called "working
hypothesis"
1t is most desirable tina: all men
should feel free to express them
selves upon this, and all similarly
occult subjects that come within
the domain of religion. The ag
gregate and cumulative wisdom OF
the world might effect some great
calculation of such subjects. which
it is not likely we shall gain by
our individual efforts under the
present terorizing influence of the
church.
The origin, continuance, pro
gress and ultimate desting of the
human race must ever be theme
of the highest interest to all mel,
and every man who appreciates
his own competency to think upon
these subjects should assert his
right to do so, and use that right.
These questions have long en-
gagged the attention of the highest
thinking capacity, and while such
have honestly and modestly ad-
mitted their inability to compre
bend them, inferior capacities
have rushed in and affirmed their
convictions, and by stress of num-
bers have forced them on the
world, and they arein the ascen-
dency to day, though every adj
vance in science but serves to
expose their errors.
In the absense of argument to
demonstrate the truth of Their
conclusions they have tried to
force them upon others by threat
ening with eternal damnation
those who do not believe them.
But men must understand thai
our beliefs are accidents of life,
and therefore have in them DC
moral quality. They are moi
opinions that make men good OF
bad, but the deeds they do, and
the lives they lead.
As long as men who support
such an iniquity az The liquor traf-
fic, by voting against the Prohi-
bition party that is trying to
SUPPRESS it, and then vaunt them
fseTves npon Being Christians and
good men, simply because they be
lieve some theory of some theo
logical abstrusity, are allowed te
assume superiority to men who
do not accept their creeds and
dogmas. but who as Prohibi
tionists. or moralists in other de-
partments, are trying to elevate
a"@ purity and make happy thei'
fellow men. just SO long will VIZ
find the church the buIwark o.
the greatest iniquity that hal
cursed modern civilization.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
The greatest moral enormity
on earth to day is the liquor traf-

The greatest moral enormity
on earth to day is the liquor traf-
fic.
Christianity has been proven a
failure that it can not put it down.
Mahometanism can put it down,
and has done so from the time Ma
homet told his people not to use
liquor, nor to taste wine. The
Christians say their great teacher
made wine, and his followers get
from it authority to run breweries
and distilileries and make dogs
and,hogs and beasts of themselves
l want the Mahometans here, 1
want them bad, and 1 want them
p. d. q. l saw lots of them in the
French army when Nepolean III
was alive. They looked down
upon all Christians as dogs. They
were as black as a plug hat; their
hair was straighter than ours, and
they were just as handsome as the
rMoor of Venice" that BESIDE
mona got mashed on. But there
were two things you can't make
them do-eat hog meat or drink
liquor. They had been using car
tridges for years that were creased
with hogs lard, before they found
it out, but as soon as they did find
it out they threw away those car
tridges, and their Christian COM
manders, could not make them
touch one again, though they tied
some of them to the mouths Of
cannon and fired them off. They
would just as soon go to the devil
as go into one of these Christian
drinking saloons, here in Lexing-
ton.
Yes we want Mohammedan mis-
sionaries here and want them bad
The most degraded religion in
the world now is Kentucky Chris
tianity.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

1 suppose l may consider this
the most authoritive encourage
ment that / could receive from
this state. Mr.. Harris is the
Chairman of the Prohibition Elk
ecutive Committee of this state,
and our late candidate for Gov
ernOr.
He is a nice man, and just what
we want for Governor of Ken
lucky, but l don't care so much
for the mans, endorsement as dc
for his wife's.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20
CLEVER DIAMOND ROBBERS.
A Good. Looking Woman Occupies the Clerk and
Her Accomplish Walks Off with the Jewels.

NEW YORK. July 19-Robert Howe. q
young book-maker's clerk. has been or
rested on a charge of stealing $4,000 case
of diamonds from the jewelry firm of Carl
Warnicke. No. IL West Twenty eighth
street. The robbery occurred on Feb. 6.
and the police have been working on the
case constantly.
On that date Howe. or a man who very
closely resembled him, called at the jewelry
store with q handsomely dressed woman,
who said she wanted to purchase some
diamonds. The compile had visited the
store twice before and had made few
purchases, 80 that every attention was paid
them. While the woman was examining
some rings the man walked about the store
and finally went out for q cigar. He re-
turned in five minutes, and the woman.
who had decided to make no purchase.
went out with him. The tray of diamonds
was Immediately missed. and Mr.. Warnicke
remem berei that the mans overccat hulged
at the breast when heswent out for his
cigar. They gave their name as Bedford
but this was found to be false. and de tect-
ives traced the man to the Hotel Metropole,
where he had been living with the woman
under the name of Howell. Before they
could make an arrest the clever sneaks
night that they came upon Howe in Broad.
way. He answered the description of the
thief. and they took him in. He was re-
manded to the custody of Inspector Byrnes,
and now the detectives are looking for the
woman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20
THE FITzSlMMONS.HALL FIGHT.
st. Paul Ministers Protest, but the Mayor Says
the Mill Will Benefit the City.

ST. PAUL, July 19.-Next Wednesday
night occurs the battle of the year for the
supremacy in tine middle weight class.
condition and ready to fight for their lives.
The stories from Beloit indicate that Hall
is sanguine. and everybody who has been
out to White Bear 10 see "Fltz" knows
that he feels positive of victory. He re-
marked to-day 10 reporter:
II shall not stop training till Tuesday. as
must gain q pound o. two of flesh and /
train ND instead of down. To-day have
run around the lake twice. or forty five
miles. weigh $50 pounds and on the night
of the fight intend to weigh 154. am in
perfect condition. shall claim the forfeit
If Hall weighs over 156 pounds and shall
fight to WIN from start to finish. Hall is q
clever pugilist. He will endeavor to win,
but have $4,000 worth of confidence that
he won't"
The sale of tickets progresses
sand have already been taken.
and there is a scramble for the best seats,
that is, the Sl5 places. Not only has this
fight aroused the sporting world. but the
church going st. Paulites are greatly ex-
cited. ID. +. Noyes, ex-president of the
Chamber of Commerce. called upon Mayor
Smith yesterdayian requested the execu-
tive to put stop to the Fitzsimmons-Hall
contest. The visit was the outgrowth of q
correspondence between the two gentle
men, In which the Mayor informed Mr.
Noyes that the mill would be conducted
within the law. The Mayor insists that
the fight will bring great deal of money
to the city. that it will do great good in ad-
vertising st. Paul. and that he thinks it is
q worthy enterprise. To-day nearly every
pulpit in the city was aroused against the
fight. and an Indignation meeting has been
called for tomorrow night at the New
Market Hail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20
COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.
1t Has Not Been Running Smoothly for ST.
Louis Couple Now in Chicago.

CHICAGO, July l9.-The monotony of ho-
tel life will probably be pleasantly inter-
rupted at the Leland tomorrow morning
by the marriage of Dr.. L. P. Ehrman and
Miss Adelia Crofton, both prominent resi-
dents of st. Louis. THE marriage hinges
altogether on the result of my conference
with DR.. Joseph Riley" said DR.. Ehrman
at the hotel tonight. "Dr. Riley is an old
college chum of mine. We have been inter
ested in many transactions. If the matter
does not GO through there will be no mar
rage. Ny tiance. Miss Crofton, will re-
turn to st. Louis at once"
AS yet the ST. Louis ply stefan has been
unsuccessful in his efforts to secure Ii
cense. On Saturday afternoon he went to
the office of the county clerk for the pur-
pose of taking out a marriage license
Clerk Wolff had left the county building
for his suburban home and the applicant
tor the license conducted his disappointe ted
finance back To her carriage and to the
hotel. DIR. Ehrman is well-knOwn Wis
itor at the Leland. He arrived there on
the present occasion July Is, and falling
i'll, telegraphed for Miss Croften, who left
home hurriedly. not even waiting to take
her baggage along. This hasty departure
and the subsequent development here gave
rise to rumors OF an elopement. which were
soon tying around the corridors Of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20
FIVE FISHERMEN DROWNED.


LOUISVILLE, KY. July 19.-While sein;ng
in the Tennessee river. near Murray, yes
terday, Edgar Brown, Walter Strader,
John l.. MeadOr. Dick Eaves and John T.
Brame were drowned. The party numbered
eight. They tied one end of their seine,
seventy~fve feet long, to the bank and
stretched the netting nearly straight out
into the river. Stationed at intervals near
the outer end the eight men, with only
shoes, hats and coats off. SWAN with the
seine poles toward the shore. None of
them was we'll acquainted with the river at
that point and they swan into a swift.
cold current. Suddenly one was seized
with cramps. A panic followed. The seine
was dragged and Brown and Strader be-
came entangled in it. Meador and caves
were swept under by the current. while the
other three succeeded in reaching the bank
All the men drowned belonged to old fam
lies in the county. A crowd was gathered
and search for the drowned men began.
The seine when hauled in still held the
three who became entangled in it. Eaves
and Meador have not been found.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20

Senator Morgan, of Alabama, Declares the
Ex-President Can't Be Nominated.
WASHINGTON, July Ex-senator Morgan
has just reached Washington from his home
in Alabama and talks freely about political
topics and the impressions he has gathered
during his stay in the South. where he has
been ever since the adjournment of Con-
gress. He does not believe Cleveland will
be again nominated for the presidency.
There 49," he says, earnest and patriotic
feeling among the people of the South in
regard to the presidential campaign next
year. They feel grateful to Mr.. Cleveland
for having given them q chance for the
wonderful prosperity that they are now de-
veloping. They have perfect confidence In
his integrity and in his fidelity to Domo-
cratic principles and policies. They are
proud of his administration, and they think
that it contrasts favorably with any that
we have had In many years. They agree
with him in the suggestions of his tariff
message to Congress. which they believe
was a heroic devotion TO principle, for
which the country IS greatly indebted TO
him and would give him ND with very great
reluctance.
However, the Southern people" he says.
regard antagonism to the remonetiZing of
silver and Its free coinage as a blow at
their rights, secured TO them by the Consti-
tuition. They have always acted upon
principle rather than with any reference to
mere expediency. and they regard the re-
fusal of men in their own party to restore
silver to its alleged proper functions and
rights as denial of one of the fundamental
doctrines of the Democratic party. They
deDlore the apparent opposition of Mr..
Cleveland TO the free coinage of silver and
it's reconciliation almost as a calamity.
They might be willing. under the pressure
OF great demands on their patience, to
avoid other troubles even more serious. TO
delay q final demand for the free coinage Of
silver. but they would do it with great re-
luctance. This is the doctrine and pur-
pose of the Democratic party. and those
who think that the Democracy will yield
are altogether Mistaken.
SECRETARY Foster was very fortunate in
having had the advantage of Democratic
idea injected in the silver bill by Senator
Beck. by which he has been enabled to in
crease the amount of available money IL
the treasury to the full extent of all the
available money that may be found there.
senator Sherman seems TO be grateful TO
every body but himself for having found q
plan TO extricate the Republicans from
their dilemma, and is disposed now to eX-
press his appreciation of the very coin
certificate against which he labored SO
earnestly and for so long a time. This
coin certificate will never be dispensed with
in our financial system hereafter. do not
see. when we produce Sl00. 900 year OF
precEons metals, one-thi.d of which Is
gold. why we cannot accumulate coin in
the treasury almost To any extent that we
desire, and issue coin certificates repre-
senting dollar for dollar into the hands OF
the people. In ten years that sum would
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20
CASHIER GONE WRONG.
Departs with $4,000 and Young Woman,
Leaving His Family Destitute.

CHICAGO, July 19.-William Leuthstrom.
manager of the Carey Lombard Lumber
Company. who has been missing from home
for more than q week. is supposed to be q
defaulter to the extent of $4,000. He was
last seen by his wife q week ago Tuesday,
at which time he told her he had to make a
business trip. Saturday afternoon he left
the office of the lumber company with
$1,000 which he was going to deposit in the
bank. Failing to show mp by Tuesday in
quiries as TO his whereabouts developed the
fact that Leuthstrom had left the city. A
hasty examination of the company's books
showed shortages amounting In the aggre-
gate To over $1,000. Although q married
man ana the father of five children, Leutn-
strom. when ne left the city. was accom-
panied by q woman with whom he has
been occasionally stopping at the Briggs
House since February last. 1t is. known
that the defaulter has been doing consider
able specializing on Change of late. The
hrm or whose interests he was manager
had implicit confidence in his honesty. He
j. believed 20 have started for Australia.
His wife and children are left destitute.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20
Catholics and Greeks Commit Murder in Order
to Obtain Possession of Sacred Spot
Which Neither Have Any RightTo.
Permanently of the Present French Cabi.
net Said to BE of Short Duration.
Striking Railway Employees of France Declare
They Will Stay Out Until Their Demands
Are COnceded-EIecution Postponed.
HOLY GRoTrO DEsECRATED.
Catholics and Greeks Fighting Within Its
Sacred Portals.

Catholics and Greeks Fighting Within Its
Sacred PortAls.
SPECIAL to the Indianapolis Journal
LONDON, July 19.-The decision of the
Sultan to station larger guard at the
grotto at Bethlehem. owing to the large
number of deaths which have occurred
there through the frequent fights between
Greeks and Catholics for possession or con-
troll OF that sacred spot. has created feel
ing of disgust in the civilized countries
The disputes. which have in many cases
ended so fatally. have Mortified the Turkish
authorities, who cannot understand the
feeling which should actuate two Christian
sects to deeds of violence for the possession
of q sacred SPOT, to which neither has any
right that is recognized by any laws
or treaties extant. One of the
strict observances of the holy place is the
rigid requirement that any person who en-
ters shall do SO in his bare feet. Recently
o Greek seeking entrance removed his
Shoes but neglected to take off his stock
ings This sacrilege so shocked Catholic
devotee that he drew a knife and attacked
the Greek, who In the ensuing fight was
killed. There have since been q number OF
sauguinary encounters, and the warfare has
grown so fierce that the Mohammedan Sui
tan has found himself at last compelled
to station a guard at the grotto sniff
Gently strong to keep the Christian
wranglers from flying at each others
threats and further desecrating the place
they both profess TO hole sacred.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20
LYNCHED A NEGRO.
John Farmer, Charged with Murder, Taken
from Jail BY Mob and Hung to Tree.

ARKANSAS CITY, Ark. July 19.-At 2
o'clock this morning John Farmer. the
negro who was charged with having assas.
sinated Dr.. G. c. Buckner. near Dermott,
Wednesday night. and who had beer bound
over to await the action OF the grand jury
was taken from the calaboose by an armed
mob and hanged to tree. 1t is understood
that before he was hung Farmer confessed
to the crime, giving as his reason that he
wanted to marry Callie Marion. the negro
girl who was cooking for Buckner. and
that Buckner was in the way. The shoot
ing, he said. was done with a gun belong
ing To Horace Wade. another negro, and
was done a: the instance of the Marion
woman. Wade and the woman are under
arrest also. and barely escaped lynching.
They were hurried off to Lake Valley this
morning in the custody of two deputy
sheriffs. it being feared that they would
share Farmers fate. The mob was CON-
posed of both whites and blacks. Buckner
was prominent planter and leading Re-
publican.