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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

A Washington dispatch says that Mr..
Bynum is a candidate for a place on the
Board of General Customs Appraisers, and
adds "the position is worth $3.50 a year and
is for life" The salary of the office is $1,000
a year and the appointment is not for life.
Appraisers are appointed by the President
and confirmed by the Senate, like collectors
and postmasters of the higher grade, and
the law says they may be emoved from
Office at any time by the President for in
efficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in
Office They are commissioned for an in
definite period, but are removable by the
President at any time for cause.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

Those citizens in the northern portion of
the city who do not want to give UP their
streets to unnecessary street
should not fail to be represented at the
hearing tomorrow afternoon. 1t seems that
the Board of Public Works had informa-
ton sufficient upon this subject to refuse a
farther hearing, unless, in it's wisdom. it
concludes that such corporations have high
er rights on the streets than the people
and that those who use such railways will
be delighted to nave a half dozen different
companies which will interfere with the
privileges of transfer and cause constant
confusion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

A new construction has been given to
the law OF libel by the verdict of a Min
nesota jury. A member of the Legisla-
ture who received from a certain town
in the State a scurrilous dispatch signed
MANY Republicans" sued the Western
Union Company for libel in transmitting
the dispatch and recovered $4,000.
Query: Would the same rule hold If the
nbelous dispatch bore a genuine sigma.
f,fre9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

sympathetic spectators of the trained
animals on exhibition here last week had
a feeling of Indignation at the sight of
lions, tigers and elephants forced to act the
part OF clowns. 1t Is well enough for pigs
TO be trained to do ridiculous things. but
it seems a needless deprivation of dignity
to require a lion to ride upon a horses
back, TO stand upon a ball. or to jump
through rings. 1t may be all a matter of
sentiment, and the pig be quite as worthy
as the lion, but the animal known as the
king OF beasts seems to show Q sense Of
shame as II his self-respect were injured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

The rule adopted by the majority of
the State Senate that IL the presiding
officer shall refuse to state motions 1t
shall be done by the Secretary of the
Senate will not hurt the Lieutenant
Governor unless he runs against it. 1t
Is simply a measure for the enforcement
OF majority rule, and nobody should OBJ
fprt m TINT
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

The common practice of public officials
favoring their bondsmen has often led to
trouble. The following statement of trans
actions between State Treasurer Taylor and
Ex-Governor Mellette, Of South Dakota, is
not creditable to either of them:
About two years ago Taylor loaned Mel
lette, then Governor Of the State, 81 5000,
and Mellette gave him as security a war
VANITY deed for all his property, real and
personal, to the amount of $50,o0. This was
not recorded. A few months ago Taylor
asked for the money and said he was hard
pressed and must have it. Mellette went to
Boston and secured the money by making
a new, but similar, deed TO parties there
and was about to turn over the money 10
Taylor when the crash came. Yesterday
he learned that Taylor had recorded the
deed and had mortgaged the property for
it's full value. and the two deeds We're
placed on record "Wednesday night, the day
after the defalcation became known. This
bankrupts Mellette and deprives the State of
any chance of recovering from him as
bondsman. He has, however. given the At
torney-general a full list of his property.
and the State already has attached and will
contest the deed given by Taylor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

Representative Sibley, of Pennsyl-
vania. who has achieved temporary no.
toriety by Safeguarding the President
in a recent speech. is no ''hayseed,' but
n millionaire of expensive tastes. who
never enjoys his dinner If not in evening
dress. He affects Populistic theories.
because he, alas! has the pestilential bee
ff not richer men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

II II is true that Spain has placed he
United States in the most favored ma
ton list. so far as duties are concerned,
the duty on flour has been reduced from
an equivalent of $4.75 for go pounds to
"a. and other merchandise in nearly the
same proportion. but 81 is much above
the Harrison duty OF 81.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

livion by Issuing proclamations; on the
other hand. the l~aw-abiding and law
respecting people of the country will be
reminded of his conspiracy to compel
the country to accept him as the dicta-
tor or the railroad system.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

A bill has been introduced in the Illi-
nois Legislature defining anarchy and
fixing the penalty therefor. AS an at
tempt to Civ a legal definition of an
archy it is Interesting. It provides that
any person or persons who belong to.
or who shall be designated by n socie-
ty or organization existing in this State
or any other State or Territory. which
provides in writing or verbal agree
ments. or countenances the taking Of
human life, unlawfully. or for the un-
lawful destruction of buildings or other
propertyewheresthe loss of human life is
probable as a result of such destruction
Of property, shall be deemed Anarch-
lists" This would include members Of a
labor organization guilty Of train wreck
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

The President and Secretary Carlisle
ought to feel Inundated by the fact that
the defeat of their pet currency scheme
had a favorable effect on the stock mar
kets of all the money centers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

zone swallow doesn't make a spring.
said the boarder who misquotes.
"A swallow of beer might" said the
Cheerful idiot.
And when the landlady guessed that 1t
might make a spring on account of the
hops in it, the Cheerful Idiot got huffy and
left the table before the prune pie was
served.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

1t is a rare day now when some Demo-
cratic statesman does not come to the
front with a new plan for destroying
the public credit and creating values
out OF nothing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13
His Little Joke.

do you have fish here on Friday" asked
the new arrival.
Might serve you a few fried souls" re-
sponded Satan, after hastily dashing off a
glass of liquid sulphur FOR his complexion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

Sixty-or was it se-venty?-hearts made to
ache by the election of the sixty-first or
seventy-irst-as State Librarian. And fifty
of the number probably wept salt tears when
it was all over and the others put their
hands in their pockets and swore, more or
less softly, about the uncertainties of poll
tics. 1t is too bad, really, that there is any
politics connected with that office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

Why should a general officer who was
not much in active service after July 4.
1863. be pensioned at 800 a month. while
thousands OF men who marched in the
ranks and are unable to earn their
bread be assailed as bounty jumpers
when denied $12 a month?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

Kipling's jungle stories. pity rather than
admiration or enjoyment is felt when these
wild creatures are put through their PAGES
and their subsection to human force EN-
rbaSixa1
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13
Timely Foresight.

Chicago Tribune
.Lobelia." shouted Mr. Mcswat, at the
foot of the stairway. 1T is time we were
off"
I'll be down in a moment.'
Mrs. McSwat. Il happened to remember
/ had only enc handkerchief and went back
they were going to hear Clara Morris.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

Trinity Church, New York. is a very
wealthy corporation. and among other
property owns the ground on which
many tenement houses stand. If what
Prof. Felix Adler says is true. the char
acter of these tenement houses goes to
prove the -adage - that-"Cocporations
have no souls not even church corpo-
rations. Professor Adler was a member
Of q commission which did good work
for tenement-house reform in New York
several years ago and is a practical re-
former. In a recent lecture before the
Ethical Culture Society he declared that
the only effective way to reform tene-
ment houses in New York was to re-
form them out of existence. Referring
to the determined opposition which the
commission of which he was a member
met with. he said it came principally
from Trinity Church. He continued:
Trinity blocked the way of reform in this
town. And Trinity is an old offender.
Complaints against its tenements fill the
Board of Health records. The death rate
in it's teneTnentS Is 80 per cent, against "a
per cent. in other tenement houses. Death,
sickness, foul cellars, falling ceilings. leak
ing roofs, rickety stairs, sunken haggings
these are the marks of many of Trinity's
tenements. 1t has been said that We shall
never have reform until We CnrlslNanlze
the domicile. You see how Trinity Church
is proceeding to Christianize the domiciles
of the poor of New York.
The only defense made for Trinity is
that it owns only the land n not the
buildings, but Professor Adler asserted
hat as many of the leases are renewed
from year to year the church practically
had control of the matter. 1t would
seem that, to be consistent. the corpora
ton should either reform it's tenement
houses or stop holding church services.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

in it an unanswerable plea for their hos
tility in the fact that. In criminal pro-
cedure, general ignorance is preferred to
intelligence for men who are to be
judges of fact and law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

South Dakota has an official public
examiner. and the law provides that he
shall examine the various county and
State Treasurers' affairs at stated inter-
walls, and. II he finds them at all out Of
the way he shall at once proceed to TAXI
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13
A Limited PriviIewe.

I'll just fine you an even twenty" re-
marked the judge to the. ambitious young
man who had tried to lick a policeman.
Nobody but the mint director in this coun-
try has a right to put a head on a cop
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

A senate finance committee with two
such members as Senators voorhees, and
Vest on it is capable of doing the gov
eminent credit a vast amount of harm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

1t is remarkable that Senator Vests
proposed currency bill not only has a
silver lining, but is pretty much all
lining.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13

1t never pays to be impolite. While a
Chicago man was laughing heartily at a
woman who slipped and fell on the street
a cable car struck him and gave him a
severe shaking up.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-13
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Up to Date.

do you read your Bible every day."
asked the visitor.
.Me?' said Tommy. Nav. It's way be-
hind the times. They amt a word about
Napoleon in IL anywhere"
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WILL SHE WED THE DUKE?
Miss Vanderbilt the Most Inter
 esting Character in Society.
Hor Life and Her Ad7entures-A Curious HI Omen Which Hangs Over Her Why the Servants Call Her
 "HTfse Thank You.'
ro,yRIeaT. 1s95.

To Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daugh- ter of William Kissame and Ava B. Vanderbilt, of New York, belongs the significant distinction of being for the moment the most interesting young lady of her age in the United States. Will she wed the duke? The purely contingent nature of the reply so far possible to this query constitutes the foundation of temporary attention to her personality. The duke is the duke of Marlborough. The lady's dover is ten million dollars with as much more to inherit. Thus does Miss Consuelo be- come a parsonage.
 She is very young, remarkably young, to be attracting such universal obser- vation. Consuelo Vanderbilt was born March ?, 1877. She is therefore but little more than eighteen years of age. She was christened Consuelo in honor of the duchess of Manchester who had been Miss Consuela Yznaga. In re- turn the duchess named one of her twin daughters Ava after Mrs. Wander bilt. There has been a great deal of confusion as to whether Miss Wander O14b . aStIlG IS OOL1SlAC4O LII OOA4SAtC1eh. The former is the correct name. The latter is Cuban-Spanish variation merely, and although strictly speaking the duchess name ended in "a" she changed the final letter to .'on and Miss Vanderbilt changed hers in honor bound There was something of chill in the Vanderbilt household when Lady Ava Montagu died. This youthful aristoerat was but little past fifteen and according to the fanciful notion prevailing in such matters, the two girls-Lady Montagu and Miss Wander bilt-shorld have pretty much the same sort of earthly careers. The early death of one should therefore presage the early death of the other. Nay, & fortune teller of gipsy origin. who came to the country seat of the duke, made just such a prediction. The lives of the two girls were always deemed, so to speak, tangled. Their respective mothers had been school girl friends and greatly devoted to each other. The death of the daughter of one was naturally deemed an evil omen for the daughter of the other.
 However. abandoning this clement of pure conjecture, let us glance at the
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HOWARD G0ULD'S NIAGARA.
Sport Across the Atlantic Among
 Tip-Top Titled Swells.
Crack of the Twenty-Raters-A Herre- shoff Boat Which Beats the Kaiser's and Dunravenis Gould Runs
 Away from Blue Floods.
COPYRIGHT. 1895.

Howard Gould has, this year, been racing in British waters with the Herreshoff twenty-rater Niagara Among the owners of twenty-raters in England there are to be found more titled swe1ls than in any other class devoted to yacht racing Yet it is pleasant to note that nobody has ven tured to insinuate that young Howard Gould is seeking social advancement rather than sport. One reason for this may be found in the fact that the Niagara has won majority of the races in which she has been sailed, and though she has by no means made the clean sweep in her class that did, last year, the Herreshoff ten-rater Dalkotah of which the Niagara is an enlarged edition British nautical critics con- eede that she is the crack of the twen- ty-rating fleet.
 The Niagara is a racing machine pure and simple. Herreshof designed her with an eye single to speed. She may be described best as big canoe
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1885 had the good luck to marry Prin- cess Beatrice. the youngest daughter of the queen, and for his kindness and
 consideration was made shis royal
 highness, and put in possession of several sinecures and given some emoluments, not without some groan- ing and complaining on the part of British taxpayers of radical tenden- cies. He is a colonel in the British army, colonel of the Isle of Wight vol unteers. captain general and governor of the Isle of Wight and governor of Carlsbrool1e castle. His taste for salt water, however, is not simulated mere ly to please the British public. Long before the queen accepted him as 8 son-in-law he was sailing around in 8 62-ton yawl. That was in 1874, and
 soon after that he got rid of her and bought schooner, the Gelert, 9s feet on the water line. His twenty-rater, the Asphodel was built for him in 1894 by Watson. He will probably get an- other one soon, for he is an enthusiast
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wealthy Mrs. Brine-Brown, who after wards decided not to occupy the place. So Mrs. Vanderbilt bought it last March for s250,00O, and immediately set about refurnishing it. The man. sion is really rather a plain affair, be- ing but four-story American basement edi6ee. It's architecture is of the Ital- ian renaissance style, and the materials employed in it's construction are yellow brick and Indiana limestone. On the first floor are the reception room, par lors, dining-room and billiard-room. The three other floors are devoted to bedrooms. In all there are nineteen rooms in the house. The dining-room is fitted up in the style of Henry ", the library after the fashion of the first empire, and the reeeptionroom after the style of Louis KY. Of course this new home of Miss Gonsuelo does not compare with the Fifth avenue palace she formerly lived in, but the heiress is not one to care. much about that.
 There is great deal of uncertainty as to whether Miss Consuelo will after all really marry the duke. It seems that her mother favors the match, be- ing socially very ambitious. To have her daughter duchess would mate rially assist Mrs. Vanderbilt in the great campaign she is carrying on against her husbands family. But Miss Con- sue1o herself is not very ambitious so- cially. However, the engagement may be announced any moment. There was, to be sure, a story abroad to the effect that Miss Consuelo would wed young John " Maekay, Jr., son of the great California millionaire, and there is no denying that he was for time very at-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-14

 SOUND MONEY SSAYING.

=. Gen. Hardin's free silver convic tions are understood to be based on the resolution of the bartenders' union to require cash in advance. Chicago Tribune.
 =. One of the real converts to sound money is Gov. Matthews. He was very much for free silver a year ago, but now he is for international bime- tallism, and until that can be secured he is opposed to the free coinage ot silver. This avowaI made the free silver committee which waited on him recently exceeding sorrowful. - In. dianapofis Journal.
 ....So long as silverites contend that free coinage will bring silver bullion to parity with gold at the present legal ratio, they cannot consistently complain of the statement that only the owners of. silver mines will be benefited by it. If they are correct in that assumption they are entirely wrong in assuming that free coinage will advance prices. As they claim both, they are clearly inconsistent Louisville Courier-Journal.
 ... A uoItli 1cOrgld Tree SliVeF news paper is quoted as saying that ..as a result of the gold standard there are in south Georgia sixteen mortgages to one mule.n We dc not believe there are in any part of Georgia, north or south, sixteen mortgages to one mule; but if there are, it would be safe to assert that the mule is in the hands oi a sixteen to one free silverite, and that he is looking for an opportunity to mako the mortgage and mule ratio seventeen to one. The census report shows that there are fewer mort gages in south Georgia than in any other section of the state, aud when the time to vote comes it will be shown that south Georgia is com. paratively free from the silver craze. Savannah lGa.) News
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tentive. But he appears to have been given the mitten or, perhaps we should say of such wealthy people, the kid glove.
 It is worth while mentioning that of late years coolness grew up be. tween the duchess of Manchester and Mrs. Vanderbilt, and consequently the latter has been at disadvantage in making her way socially abroad. Her daughters wedding with duke would remove all obstacles to foreign con quest. Mrs. Vanderbilt's annual in. come is three hundred and seventy-fve thousand dollars a year. Her three children will divide eighty million dol lars of their fathers money at his deat&. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt has no sisters. Her two brothers are Will liam K. Vanderbilt, Jr., now in his seg- enteenth year, and Harold S. Wander bilt, who is eleven. All the children are given to their mother by the decree of the court.
 Miss Consuelo is thus the heiress oi the year. In all American society there is scarcely a more interesting fig ure. And nothing connected with her is more interesting than the question Will she marry the duke?
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of the Atlantic. He sailed the Thistle when she was beaten by the Volunteer and commanded Gen. Paine's Jubilee in the trial races of 1893. He is a Scotchman and he learned his business on the Clyde.
 Deserving of first mention among Howard Gould's swell competitors is that royal Jacl1-of-all-tr - and master of not a few-the emperor of Germany. He bought the Thistle after her failure to capture the. America s cup, and rechristened her the Meteor. He raced her frequently and gamely, but she stood no show against more modern boat like the Britannia, and when they raced together the German emperor found himself compelled to follow in the wake of his uncle, the prince of Wales He is not the sort of man who relishes being left behind in anything that he goes in for. so at the close of last year he commissioned Watson to design him twenty-rater. She was built in Germany under Wat sons supervision. She is fin-leel boat, but not of the same extreme type as the Niagara. Neither has she the same get theres qualities. Thus far the Niagara has had no difficulty beat ing her every time they have met Probably, ere this, her imperial owner has regretted that he did not place the order for her design with Herreshoff instead of with Watson.
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X Good Iiisfiance.

l had cat which had long been a
 inmate of the house, and received q the attentions which it is well know
 old maids lavish on such animals Finding the mice were more thal one cat could attend to, secure a kitten and wished to keep tn two. My cat was indignant, an in very plain language requestel the kitten tog l endeayored to maH1 peace, lifted both on to the table, am espostulated with puss. She istenea with sullen expression, and the' suddenly gave d claw at the kitten eye. i seolded and beat her, whef9 upon she left the house, and neVsi saw her again.-London Spectator
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with bulb fn-keel attachment. Her dimensions are about as follows:
 Length over all, 65 feet; load water line length, 45 feet; beam. 1e feet; draft, hull only 3 feet inches; depth, keel to deck, feet inches; draft ex- treme, II feet. Her construction ex- hibits that remarkable combination of lightness and strength for which Herreshoff is famous, and an equally characteristic sacrifice of comfort to considerations of speed. Her interior shows an extreme head room of only 5 feet and 211 inches, with less than 1 feet in the forecastle. No yachtsman who expects to make his ship his home would select the Niagara, but she gen orally "gets theren ahead of her com petitors and that is what she was built for. Her performances justify more screaming than the American eagle has yet indulged in on her account.
 She is commanded by Capt. John Barr, who has had a long and varied experi- ence in all sorts of craft on both sides