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The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

Romance Of a Late Soufherner Who Refused
to Aid the Rebellion.


Romance of Late Soufherner Who Refused
to Aid the Rebellion.
New York Press
Funeral services for George w. Butt were
conducted last night at the family resi-
dence. No. 39l Gates avenue. Brooklyn Mr..
Butt was sixty-five In early life, although
q Virglnian, he was an ardent Abolitionist,
during the war a union man and o Jealous
Republican. His family lived in Ports
mouth, Va. and when he came in posses
sion of their estate he freed every slave on
it. He was the only man in Portsmouth
who voted for Lincoln in 1861.
When the rebellion began jeff Davis
urged him tojoin the rebel army. He an
swered Davis thus: IL will never raise my
hand against the stars and stripes. but
fense." He attempted to come North, bat
was sent to LIBBY. Prison because of his
unionism at Dhvis's express command. His
wife demanded her husbands release.
Davis consented. but Butt re-
fused pardon unless the eight Union men
captured with him were released. Davis
liberated Butt and his companions. but he
ordered that Butt should not be allowed to
leave the South. AS a further punishment
the rebel authorities forbade Southern
ty had already been cOnfiscated, and his
family were almost destitute.
Pressed by Davis, he accepted q position
in the rebel navy construction department.,
but this was only. ruse. A train halted
where Bntt and q Union sympathizer were
at work one day. The two men detached
the locomotive, jumped into the cab and
started at q tearing speed for Norfolk. His
escape was wired along the line. and as the
engine passed rebel soldiers fired volley
after volley at Butt. who was at the throt-
tie. The engine. which had started from
Portsmouth, reached Norfolk, where Butt
and his companion hid until they got q
chance TO escape to the North. Butt joined
his family In Brooklyn. He secured q place
in the navy-yard. where he worked for
nearly twenty five years. He was removed
when Cleveland became President
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

FREE-TRADERs insist that protective
tariff is prohibitory of foreign trade.
and they abused the old tariff as
much as they do the Mckinley law.
Yet from 1860 to 1890 the value of our
imports of foreign merchandise in
creased from $3.50, ,OOO, 600 to S7s9. .OOO, 900,
an increase of 1913 per cent. During the
same period the value of our exports
increased from 1916, 900 to sS45, ,0OO,- :
600, an increase of 1877 per cent. That
is the way protection prohibits.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

"A WORKMAN employed by New York
manufacturer of tinware has been con-
verted from Democracy and free trade
to protection by a box of American tin
plates which were given him to work
up. He found the plates softer, tougher,
way than the Welsh material. which he
has been working for years. And the
American plates cost the manufacturer
little less than the imported. There
will be plenty of talk about tin-plates
between this and November, 1892, but
the fun in it all will be death to the
free traders.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20
Haistead's Financial Panacea.

Murat Halsteed is the apostle of silver,
He declares that he has found the panacea.
and he propounded it TO a number of West
ern silver men at the FIfth-ayenue Hotel
last evening. 81 would continue the pres
ent bullion buy ing plan of the government
exactly as it is, said he. IL would supple
ment il by the plan of Logan c. Murray. of
the United States National Bank, of this
city. He would have it provided that the
nstional banks could buy and deposit bull
ion In Washington as security for national
bank note circulation instead of bonds.
That will do the business sure. Adopt that
plan and the silver problem will disappear
like the mists of morning before the sun"
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

THE Americana Italian press and the
so-called Italian COLONIES" in different
parts of this country are making alto
gether too much noise about the New
Orleans lynching. Their clustering and
inflammatory talk is impertinent and
offensive. If they arenaturalized Amer
lean citizens it is their duty to stand by
the government of the United States,
and. if they are not. the, less they have
to say the better. In either case they
have no right to be abusing the United
States government while under the pro-
lection of its flag. That kind of Italian
organ grinding is very tiresome.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

Logansport Journal

j. Nj. Hayner . prominent agricultur-
ist of Warren county, Illinois, is happy
He has good reason TO be. He has made q
contract with Norton Bros, of May ywood.
ILL.,. for 800. 900 two-pound tiE-cans for use
in canning the sweet corn crop of 1891 at
his canning establishment. Norton Bros.
arc manufacturing American tin-cans from
American tin plate. Last year Mr.. Hayner
cans. This year he buys them for sl.s7, or
81. .140 less, and is able to pay more for his
corn. more to his help and to make more
himself, while the money that he pays for
the cans goes to support American work
men, who will be additional consumers for
his canned corn.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

the unsatisfactory level which has pre-
vailed for year. Another article
which has advanced is butter, which for
the best grades is nearly 10 cents
pound higher now than last year at this
time. On the other hand, when it comes
to what the farmer buys, there has been
no change for the worse in prices. On
this subject the statement of the Chi
cago Tribune is quoted for the reason
that it predicted, last fall, and has as
serted several times since, that the
prices of manufactured goods would be
higher after the new tariff law should
be fully in force. Now that paper prac-
tically admits its mistake in the follow
ing statement:
The other side of the question would
show. by a careful array of figures that
farmer cannot produce but must buy in the
markets is also in his favor in most in
stances; that his coal and lumber can be
purchased at favorable figures; that cotton
relatively cheap; and that, perhaps best or
all, there is q promise that within q few
weeks sugar will drop some cents per
pound. with dealers reporting prospective
sales of standard granulated at 4i2 cents,
against 634 cents now.
But the important lesson which these
changes in prices teaches is that the
high prices of farm staples this year are
due to the shorter crop, and the very
low prices of 1890 to the very bountiful
crop of that year. The lean follows
the fat; consequently, if farmers could
form storage companies to keep the sur
could get reasonable prices nearly all
the time, and demagogues would not
dare to tell them that low prices pre-
vailed because they aafe not permitted
to sell their products abroad and take
foreign goods in return.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

immediate result is seen in the erection
of huge abattcirs and other buildings
at Hamburg for the handling and kill
ing of the cattle, and this will doubtless
be followed soon by large and regular
shipments. Minister Phelps has adopted
shrewd way of introducing American
beef into good society by giving series
of dinners, at which it was served in ap-
petizing fashion. Mr.. Phelps is a very
wide-awake man and thorough Amer
lean.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

IF ex-senator Ingalls, were nearer the
people in the localities where the Farm
ers' Alliance has been most prominent
as political factor he would not now
compare it to the Republican uprising in
1856 and in 1860. There was a great
principle behind that movement There
is nothing but complaint behind the
Farmers Alliance, based upon the de-
preston of prices for agricultural sta
Piles and the reaction of a land specula-
ton. Agitators and demagogues have
taken advantage of this uneasiness, and
have led many people to believe that
they have been wronged by railroad
corporations and money lenders. For
months they heard little else. The re-
suit is that when the election came in
Kansas, Nebraska and other new States,
the voters concluded to try the remedy
offered. 1t was an experiment. From
what can be learned the experiment
has proved q disappointment already.
AS time passes and more is seen of the
PETERS, the Simpsons and the Davises,
and tho combinations of the conscience
less and lightweight demagogues be-
come notorious, the sensible men who
voted for the Alliance candidates will
abandon the political part of the organ
ization. The excesses attempted by the
Alliance House in Kansas and the seri-
GUS results which have followed to bOr-
rowers, as well as lenders of money. the
depressing effect it has had upon busi-
ness and real-estate values, have pro-
duced reaction which is already noted
in the States where the craze was. most
pronounced. The people are finding out
that they have been fooled. Mr. Lin
coin said: "The people can be fooled
once, but not many people can be fooled
twice." Most of the people who were
carried away with the delusions of the
demagogues who attached themselves
to the Alliance will have come to their
right minds before the next election.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20
Misguided Indiana Teachers.

Indiana teachers. some thirty Thousand
In number. are required by State law to
attend teachers institutes for the study of
various subjects. The American Naturalist
points out that so far as science 10 con-
cerned this is made useless by selecting as
textbooks two works, books without q
single 1edeemlng feature, conspicuous ex-
amples Of how not TO do it." The method
adopted ia as bad, that for botany IN the
current year being sidiculously faulty in
plan and purpose. Yet this useless work is
required and made compulsory on thirty
thousand teachers. each of whom adds to
the profits of publishers by buying two
books pronounced worthless by sound
iudQe
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

acres of farms in this county are worth st
least SS.0O0. .000 and mnst be so appraised
under the new law at the forthcoming re-
appraisement next month. This will re-
quire Howard county farmers 20 pay State
tax on their land alone to the amount of
$4,000. This sum will be considerably
augmented by the State tax on their per-
sonal property. Citizens of Kokomo will
have to pay under the new law quite as
much. and. as a result Of it. the State treas
ury will receive from this city and county
taxes to the amount of probably not less
than $40. 600 annually
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

A LOUISVILLE man who witnessed the
uprising in New Orleans says he was
amazed by the quiet and orderly conduct
of the mob. As for lawyer Parkerson,
the leader, this gentleman says: HE is
the best friend the Italians have.
never saw man have such perfect con-
troll of other men as he had of that mob.
One word from him would have resulted
in massacre of every Italian who could
be found. He told the men exactly
what to do. and they did it-no moro, no
less" We fear the Italians do not ap-
preciate Mr.. Parkersons friendship.
They are an ungrateful lot, anyhow.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

The removal of the German embargo
OF American cattle landed at Hamburg
is victory for the administration, the
beneficial results of which will be felt
throughout the country. 1t has been
brought about by the skillful and per-
sistent efforts of Hon. William Walter
Phelps, our minister to Berlin, who has
made it one of the objective points of
his ministry. Hamburg is the principal
port of entry for Germany, and the free
admission of American cattle there
means practically their admission for
the whole of Germany. This means the
opening Of new market for American
cattle and better prices at home. The
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

THE Illinois House has passed upon
no legislative business because the
Speaker refused to appoint the commit
tees until after the election of Senator,
the delay being for the purpose of hold
ing Democrats to Palmer by the hope of
being rewarded by good chairmanships.
Small rewards, but then they may be
big enough for the men seeking them.
The taxpayers will be called on to fur
nish funds to pay for this unnecessary
delay of public business.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

like for the press by making a particularly
villainous character of q newspaper CORE
spondent in one of his recent novels forgot
himself in his book Campaigning with
Crook 90 far as to refer By name to for
mer correspondent of the New York Herald
and to call him "a desperate coward. Mr.
X. b. Davenport, the man thus libeled. Is
now editor of the New Haven News. and
after be had instituted suit for libel and
Harper Bros had recalled the frst edition
of the book Captain King had the humilla-
tion of signing an elaborate apology and q
withdrawal of his charges The lesson will
be o useful one to Mr.. King
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

If the church authorities are wise they
will not pursue their Investigations into
the beliefs of the membership on the
points concerning which Rev. Howard
Macqueary has been found guilty of
heresy. At least she investigation
should not be followed up with the pur-
pose of expelling such persons as hap
pen TO hold views identical with those
of Macqueary. The result might be
calamitous to the theological organiza-
tiOns.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

Mr.. Ingalls, declares that the success of
the gang will t1rn back the hands on
the face of the Democratic clock five
years." The movement which the DEM
ocratic party in Ohio has made in five
years has not been such that it would
be perceptible setback to place the
hands of the party clock where they
were five years ago.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

THE Blind Asylum trustees will meet
with q vigorous protest from the resi-
dents of the part of town near that insti-
tuition if. as reported. they contemplate
inclosing the park north of the buildings
and shutting the public out The blind
pupils do not need the park for play
ground, and should not be allowed to
monopolize it. SInce it has been thrown
open aud improved by the city it has be-
come not only an attractive place. but is q
great convenience to the pubic, and should
be left as il is.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

THE Boston Commercial Bulletin
says that Indiana and Ohio commission
merchants are shipping carloads of
eggs to Boston and other Eastern cities
to take the place of shipments from Can
ada. The duty of five cents dozen is
causing hundreds of thousands of dol
lars that formerly went to Canada for
eggs tc be paid to farmers of the United
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

To them who hath shall be given is
rule that seems to have become applicable
to Wabash. To liberal gifts from Mr.. Simon
Yandes. of this city. within two years. was
recently added the Fayerwether bequest,
and now comes $4,000 by the will of the
late Daniel Jones, of Chicago. The money
conld not be better bestowed. however,
and doubtless the managers can find good
use for more gifts of the same kind.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

MINISTER PHELPS, whose untir1ng eff
forts have caused the removal by the
German government of the embargo up
on American beef, seems to be the right
man in the right place-a fact so true,
however, of the appointees of this ad-
ministration as to make mention of it
in any specific case almost superfluous.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20
His Gentlemanly Instincts.

"Now," said the suave stranger, 81 am willing
to bet that you cannot pick out the card"
Take him up" whispered the second stray ger,
you've got q sure thing"
"But am gentleman" answered the sub
ject. sand gentleman never makes bet on .
sure thing, especially where he 10 sure to lose."
Unconsidered Trifies.
The fellows that make fun of the marriage re-
lation are. a rule, single. Is this state of
things due to the single mems ignorance, or to
the married mems inability to sec any fun in the
situationl
Nothing makes man feel smaller than to have
a pretty girl make game of him-if he has sense
enough to know that she is doing so.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

A SPECIAL in a New York paper says
that Mr.. ingalls,. OF the c., c., c. e. st. L.
Railway Company, who is a well-known
Democrat, is in Columbus. O., fighting
the Democratic gang which Is deter
mined to defeat charter designed to
give Cincinnati an efficient government.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

THE public would vote to disbar those
pettifoggers in New York who take ap-
peals to the United States Court to pre-
vent the execution of convicted mur-
derers. Such men are not lawyers.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

STOCK companies for the purpose of es-
tablishing newspapers are reported as be-
ing formed in various places By members of
the Farmers Alliance. There is no more
sure or rapid method of acquiring an edu-
cation than by establishing papers. but the
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

THE two members of the f. NJ. B. A.
in the Illinois House who voted for Palm
er have been rewarded by the Speaker
with chairmanships of important COM
mittees and prominent places on others.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

education is in . financial direction and not
in the line of the peculiar views sought to be
disseminated by the stockholders. When
the papers wind MP their affairs the Alliance
men will make up in experience what they
lack In WAallh
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places
PARIs-American Exchange in Paris. 36 Boulevard
des Capucincs
NEW YoRK-Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel
PHILADELPHIA-A p. Kemble. S7s5 Lancaster
avenue.
CHICA6O-PAlmer House.
CINCINNATI--J. r. HawIey q Co. 154 Vine street.
Third and Jefferson streets
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
and Southern Hotel
WASHINGTON. D. C.-Risgs House. and Ebbitt
House
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

The F. NJ. b. A. lodges all over Illi-
nois are denouncing Cockrell and Moore,
the members elected by the association
who voted for Palmer. In other words,
the F. NJ. B. A. of Illinois objects to be-
ing an annex to the Democratic party.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

1.-THE Republican party is dead" par
rots the crossroads Democratic organ.
"We're going to have a tough fight in
1892" remarks member of the Demo-
ming the field.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

THERE is reason to believe that the
President will find grounds upon which
to refuse the payment of the Chickasaw
grab of $3,OOO,OO0, for which Senator
Turpie and Mr.. Bynam, with nearly all
the Democrats, voted.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

THOSE candy manufacturers who are
reported to have laid in large stocks of
sugar regardless of the free-sugar
clause of the Mckinley law will pay the
penalty which sooner or later overtakes
those who read free-trade newspapers.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

In the various Italian colonies con-
tinue to clamor for revenge for the
lynching of the New Orleans assassins
they will make the American people a
unit in defense of the act and against
paying an indemnity. Americans do
not like to be bulldozed.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

Kokom0 Gazette Trfbune
The taxes assessed this spring and to be
paid in the spring and fall of 1892 must nee
essarlly be far In excess of former years 80
q result of the three-f fold increase in valua-
ton and the 6-cent increase in tho State
levy. For example. the farmer whose one
hundred acres of land has heretofore been
assessed at 81, 900, requiring to pay State
tax to the amount of Sl.2O, mrst henceforth
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

THE st. Louis Globe-Democrat re-
marks that "the most hateful shape in
which Bourbonism appears in any North
ern State is the Indiana variety" But
the CD. cannot classify Missouri as
Northern State. Its Democracy is as
vicious and more stupid than that of
T.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

KEEP it before the people that the
Democratic party is minority party in
Indiana, and has carried the State by
a majority only once in twenty years.
1t retains power by means of gerry
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

If people will live in Chicago and endure
its dreadful climate they must expect q
visitation of la grippe and pneumonia each
year, and should not demand 30 much SYM
pathy from the outside world that arc judi
oious enough to live elsewhere.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20
Kept His Memory Green.

Kept His Memory Green.
'You say your Uncle Hiram was eaten by can
nibalsl"
''He as. But he got even with them.''
'-Bosh. Eow could hes'
"Why. he gct pretty friendly with them while
they were fattening him. you know. and per
suaded them, q special favor, to serve him q
mince pies"
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

If the Democratic farmers are now
swearing mad over what they have
learned about the doings of their Legis-
lature, they will be frantic when its in
comparable cussedness is revealed to
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

A Paradox of Paradise.
If we can read the Scripture right
With our understandings finite,
Though Adams suit was "out of sight,"
Yet Adam wasn't in it."
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

No Democratic paper was ever known
to denounce the murder of cOlored
American citizen in New Orleans.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

The constitutionality of the new
gerrymanders should be tested before
the next general election.
The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20
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The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20

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There were, we are informed, about
forty tickets thrown out for errors, more
than half ofthem probably thirty. were
marked In the big square at she head Of
the independent ticket--or on the face
of the emblem, or on different parts of
the margin. One in the first ward mark
ed with pen and ink and feur or FIVE in
the second marked with lead pencil in
place designated by law. were thrown
out because the stamp was not used and
the rest were defeciiye in various ways.
Some blank, some marked on both en-
blems and several marked on all the lit
tie squares on all the tiekets-about
three-fourths Of the last votes were like
ly intended for the Republican candi-
dates as the big square is to the right
of their emblem.
In the first ward fourteen were thrown
out four of which were democratic and
marked with the little screw ON the
wrong end of the stamp. In the third
ward sixteen were thrown out, four
marked in the big square and the rest
imperfectly marked of which two were
democratic.