Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1889 — Page 8

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1889

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PRICES ALWAYS IN PLAIN FIGURES PETTIS, BASSETT & CO MLXOR CITY MATTERS. To-lays Doing:. REGULAR MEETING OF COUNCIL Council Chamber, evening. STATE TARIFF-REFORM LEAOUE-Masonto Ilall, evening. TARNELLDEMONSTRATION TomlinsonHalL evening. GENERAL ASSEMBLY Fifty-sixth session, Morning and afternoon. PARK TnEATER-Mlsnani Brothers Specialties, afternoon and evening. EDEN MUSEE Curiosities and Wax Figures, afternoon and evening. BATTLE OF ATLANTA CYCLORAMA Market street, between Illinois and Tennessee, day and evening. Local News Notes. M. E. Ingallshas closed a contract for an elevator for his block. It is to bo operated by hydraulic power and is to be in position April 1. Indianapolis grain elevators, on March 1, contained only &iG,0HJ bushels of grain, against 502,923 bushels for the corresponding date of lbSS. Kingan & Co., last month, killed 70.000 hogs or an average of 2,000 a day, which is about double the number they slaughtered in February, 1&& The Van Camp Canning Company purchased, last week, oTo bushels of peas to distribute among the fanners in this vicinity who are to furnish the company green peas the coming summer, for canning. Personal and Society. A sister of Mrs. John Foudray came here Saturday to visit her sister, whom she had not seen for thirty-three years. .Miss Chaffee, of Baltimore, now in the city, hopes to arrange for a course of art lectnres. She has iust completed a course in Cincinnati, which the press of that city praised in the Inchest terms. Miss Chatlee will assist Mrs. May Wright Sewall at her usual Wednesday afternoon reception, and Mrs. Sewall will be pleased to receive all her friends who are interested in this line of work, and who may wish to meet Miss Chaffee. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Mrs. Ann E. Swope, of StilesTille, has been visiting her daughter. Mrs. 8. C. Kennedy Mrs. Cteoree Kaiser, of Muncle, fcns been visiting her daughter. Mrs. Ira McConneil....Mrs.Wm. Jones and daughter, of Indianapolis, have been visiting th 3 family of John Nicholson.... Mrs. J. L. Campbell and Mrs. A. B. Anderson have been in Lafayette during the. past week.. ..Parties this week have been Riven by Misses Hannah and Madge Jolmaon, Blanche Stockton, Hattle Furcell, Mrs. John Smith.Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goltra Mrs. Lydia Hood Talbottla tho truest of John 8. Brown and wife John Nicholson and wife entertained a number of friends in honor of M i.vs Jessie Jones, of Indianapolis. . . . Mrs. James Matthews has returned to Jacksonville, 111.... Mrs. May Thornton has returned to Indianapolis after ft visit with Mrs. Henry Campbell The f olio-wing citizens are in Wafbinnton, I). C: Grandmother Heaton, 8. M. Coilman, W. A. llartman and wife, C. II. Pavidge, T. V. Maxedon. Horace King and wife, C. N. Williams Mr. and Mrs. u. A. balkbury and Mrs. Emily Salisbury, of Lrbana. 111., are guesta of the family of C. M. Travis. .. MU Mary Hovey is visiting at Indianapolis.... Mrs. J. M. DavKof Danville, Is visiting Mrs. A. Lara Moore.... William Ulinc, of Indianapolis, is visiting his son. of Wabash College. Misses Ada Diinnan aud Lou Moore.of Kingman, are guests of Misses Lizzie and Hannah Johnson Mrs.Mattie Dyer lioutts has returned from a visit to Mrs. bamantha West Miller and b. M. Dyer, at Indianapolis. MARTINSVILLE. Mrs. Ebar Greeu visited at Mooresvillo and rialnlleld last week Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Johnson, of Sandusky, 0.,are tho guests of their daughter, Mrs. J. II. Jordan.. .. Miss JIollieBuras gavo a pleasant Koeiable to her voting lady and gentlemen friends, on Wednesday evening.... Miss Flo Hoover, after two weeks' visit in this city, has returned to her home In 8t. Raul, Ind. Miss Minnie Crnry is visiting friends in Indianaili....Afb4a Hawkins, of Richmond, is the f neat of her uiu le, C'apt. David Wilson. ...Miss 'osi p.o, who Ijai leen attending the. art department of I :arlbain College, has finished her course and returned home. ...Miss AMine Squire, daughter of ex-Ciovernor Squire, of Washington 'Territory, after a thne months' visit here, has fone to Washington. D. C Miss Eva Miller, of anTlUe, lnd., Is v tilting her father, Dr, O. W. Miller. 0 J JlSfi desks at L. Elder

THE DAGGER OF SECULARISM

Mr. Foster Holds that All Government Should Submit to Divine Guidance. A Deadly Upas Tree That Poisons Horal and Christian Influences Aniuersary Exercises of the Temperance Union. Rev. J. M. Foster, of Boston, . preached last night at Meridian M.E. Church, taking as his text the thirty-third Psalm, twelfth verse, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." He said he thought, perhaps, the best illustration of the statement in tho text was in this Nation, for it is a Christian nation; Christian in its origin, its history, its life. This country was settled by Christian men with Christian ends in view. The Pilgrim fathers before landing npon Plymouth Rock, while in the cabin of the Mayflower, drafted a constitution of government which began with the words, "In the name of God, Amen; for the glory of God and the maintenance of the Christian faith." All the colonial charters, without exception, contained the sentiments embodied in the ordinance of 17S7 in these words: "Religion, morality and knowledge are essential to good government." In the Declaration of Independence there is a fair and explicit recognition of a superintending providence in national matters; in thirty-four out of thirty-eight of the State constitutions tho same principlo is recognized. This principle is recognized in every inaugural address, and in the Nation's public ceremonials; it is recognized by the appointment of chaplains for the arniv and navy and for Congress: the Bible is recognized in the public schools; oatha are administered upon it in the courts of justice; tho laws protect the ordinance of Christian marriage, and protect tho Christian Sabbath. Christianity is the common thing in the land. A Christian nation ought to J-Ve a distinctly Christian government. 1 he character of a nation is ultimately determined by the character of its government, and if the nation be morally above its government, it must bring the government up to its level at the iirst, or the government will bring tho nation down to its level at the last. Mr. Foster cited a number of instances to prove this proposition. The papal policy of 1 fillip II of Spain was reflected in the Spain of to-day; the revocation of the edict of Nantes opened the voins of France and spilt her best blood, and to that edict was traced the Reign or Terror, and the suffering of France for many years after. One hundred years ago this Nation adopted a Constitution, but it does not contain the word God. Morally speaking, the best that can bo said of it is that it is a secular instrument. The Nation is being secularized, n e have tho Sabbath desecrator. Mormon polygamy and speedy divorce. The Coramandmeuts were the constitution of the JewishNation. How could this Nation do better than to write tho Decalogue in the Constitution to be held np before the people? Tho state is the keeper of the first commandment. The state has the power pf life and death; it is not in the man nor in tho mass; it is a God-given power. Rulers represent God's power in the world, act by authority and in his name. The government is the arm of Jehovah. As to the seventh commandment the state, as God's representative on earth, must care for the family against divorce and polygamy, and like crimes. The state is the keeper of the Sabbath, for tho Sabbath is both civil and religious. Tho Sabbath-breakers of Jcrusalom, ho continued, gave no heed to Jeremiah except to arrest him, and the Babylonian captivity followed with seventy years of exile. Nehemiah found the workmen at their labors npon the Sabbath, and sellers conducting their business in violation of tho law of tho Sabbath. The Jews had lawyers, and tho business of lawyers then, as now, was to lind loopholes for their clients. They advised their clients to go without the walls on the Sabbath, but Nehemiah held that the Sabbath was without as well as within tho walls. Perhaps these gentlemen then held indignation meetings and talked about personal liberty, and if Nehemiah had been a candidate he would have lost votes. The reason lor Sabbath desecration today, he said, lies with tho government, whioh should lay hands upon these men who run beer gardens and base-ball; on railroad trains and on Sunday newspapers. It is the duty of the government to prohibit Sabbath desecration both of the individual and the corporation. A national law should prohibit postollices from opening on tho Sabbath, and every man should have his Sabbath rest. But professing Christians go to the postofflco on Sunday, and professing Christians buy the Sunday newspaper. There is a general cry now that these things must stop. The facilities of railroads are so far in advanco of business that they can easily do in six days all the work of the week, and these facilities always will be in advanco of business. But their wheels go on Sunday like the car of Juggernaut, crushing out tho lives and souls of their employes. Tho bondage in Efcypt was not to be compared to tho bondage of two and a half millions of men in England and America to these railroads: but the time will come when man shall nave his divinely appointed day of rest. As to the- sixth commandment, it must be learned in America that it is as great a crime to kill a man with alcohol as with gunpowder. Kill a man with a revolver and you hang, but these men kill sixty thousand with alcohol every year, and are lioensed by the Nation to do it. Kill a man with a revolver and it is murder; kill sixty thousand a year and it is business. The criminal who kills by wholesale should be puuished. When the government was established, said Mr. Foster, two deadly upas trees were planted one or slavery and the other of secularism. In 1801 God came down with tho ax of His law, and laid down tho first tree. That upas was cast into the lire, and liberty proclaimed to all the land. But the deadly upas of secularism remains. One of its brunches is tho churchless mass of citizens. One million wyear of foreign immigration is coming to these shores to add to the seventeen millions come before, and by the end of the century this country will have forty-three millions. Sixty-four per cent, of tho population of the city of London is born within tho city limits; 93 per cent, born within the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; but there is not a city in the United States that has two-thirds of its population native born, and more than one-half the people never enter a church door. In one assembly district in New York there are thirtyone churches and 3,018 saloons; in another seven churches, with 153 saloons to each church; in another C0.000 people and only one small church. In the city of. Chicago there is a section of 00,000 people in which there is no church at all. but many saloons are to be found there. Tho trouble is how to leaven this mass for the leaven does not come in contact with the churchless mass in this country to-day. Out of sixty millions of people, five and a quarter millions cannot read; six and a quarter millions cannot write. Take the vote as ten millions it is nearer twelve one-fifth cannot read their own ballot and and another fifth cannot read it well enou gh to vote intelligently. Then there is the criminal class vote dominated by the saloon, leaving the intelligent vote about equally divided between the two parties bidding for the illiterate and criminal class vote; it does not need that a man be a prophet to see danger ahead. The liquor branch; the Sabbath desecration branch, ana the political corruption branch aro nil dangerous to our countrv. These political faults make the disease without the body, the national small-pox, while secularization is the disease within the body, fever; aud both are deadly. The speaker told of a great tree in tho Yosemite, which had been felled, and tho smoothed stump had made the first floor for a three-story house. The builder of the house was asked how he had cut down tho tree. He told how difficult the task had been. It had been girdled with lrnghandled axes; great saws had cut into it from all sides, hut it would not fall; augurs bad bored into its heart, but it moved not. ' At last - a cyclone came, and taking tho tree in its mighty arms it hurled the giant of tho woods to tho ground, and tho earth shook as with an earthquake. "And what we Srorose," said Mr. Foster, "is to girdle this eadly upas of secularization with the ax of divine law, saw it round and round, and bore into it with tho auger of divine justice, and by and by God will raise such a cvclone of divine wrath as to cause it to

J awuy and totter usuX fall with a crash that

will shako tho country. Then the tree of liberty will take new root in tho land and will grow and tlourish." Mr. Foster preached yesterday morning at the First English Lutheran Church from Mark ii, iT7: "The Sabbath 'was made for man." Ho will probably remain in the city three or four weeks longer, preaching in several of the churches. Conscience Void 'of Offense. At Central-avenue Church, yesterday, Dr. Ford preached from tho text in Acts, xxiv, 1G: "I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and men." He said that tho text unveils a splendid picture of Paul standing in the adverse andpoiluted atmosphere of a pagan court, and so challenging the scrutiny of his own character, molded upon personal integrity and fidelity to God, as to compel tho reverence of a petty tyrant, whoso career is conspicuous only for infamy and lust. Ho enters no plea of sinlessness, because he is the representative of a Christianity that is essentially sin-confessing. Ho offers no excuse for 6in, because he stands there the exponent of a religion that is keenly sensitive to sin, expels it from the system by confession, and fills the created vacancy by appropriating divine qualities. Therefore the expression, "I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God." This is tho key-note to tho wholo Christian life, and Paul stands in the court of Felix as the Christian model for tho ages. Conscience, the Doctor said, is the most important element in the whole complexity of man's being, because it is the repository of all that can make a rational life really happy. After giving various psychological definitions of conscience, he said that, while they were all correct, yet to clearly understand tho nature of conscience one must correctly understand the nature of the being in whom it is manifested. Man is a dual being, composed of soul ?.nd. spirit. The primary meaning cf soul is life, and. thus the old Grecian masters always used it. In general it means the life cf tho aui-, mal body, with its instincts, appetites and desires. But when applied distinctively to man it means also his intellectual life,, of thinking, feeling, honing, fearing and the', like. In this sense the Savior used it in. the question, "What shall it profit a man' to gain the whole world and lose or iorieit his own life!" As soul is the life of man,; so spirit is the very essence, life and o'ut-u flowing of God. AVvhen God breathed into the 6oul of man the breath of life He', posited therein the germs of His own life, ( and. man became a living soul. That ist . man became a rational being, consciousot. God; and this consciousness of God is tho ; verv basis of all thinking and all knowing) in the life of man. Tho soul has a mmd of its own. known in Scripture as the earthly or carnal mind. Jt is primarily builded upon ideas deduced from its relation to tho world of concrete things. Thus, hunger, thirst, landscapes, and starry worlds all have a language - for the mind of the soul. As the life of God is in these created things as well as in the human soul, so when the soul looks out upon these created things pregnant with divine thoughts, man thinks; but his thoughts aro but all births from the correspondencies between the life of God in creation and the life of God in his soul. Thus no man can formulate a thought independent of God, for it is the divine correspondencies moving from these two fields of discovery, and touching each other in the human understanding that gives birth to every primary thought in tho mind of man. ? The spirit, the Doctor continued, alsohas mind, which Paul calls "tho mind of tho spirit," but it is builded upon impressions coming down into it from the spiritual world above. These impressions aro spiritual intuitions of invisible things that have no concrete form or existence. The principal function of the mind of the soul is to seize these intuitions, claborato them into thoughts, 60 that they may bocome revelations from God. Now this process of elaboration forms the basis and essenco of human reason. Reason, then, is the connecting link between the mind of tho soul and the mmd of tho spirit. Through it the spirit takes cognizauco of the soul-world while the soul gams its inspiration for aspirations toward the spiritual world. The result of the union fit this dual nature and these dual minds is a rational being capable of rising in comprehension and character to tho throne of God, or else capable of sinking down into congenial companionship with demons in hell. From the center of this mysterious union reason goes out into tho labyrinths of nature on her voyages of discovery, while faith mounts upward to the sunlit heights of spiritual nature and makes discoveries that the best trained reason could never have mado. Tho return of faith and reason to tho laboratory of the understanding laden with rich discoveries Itom two infinite empires forms tho most delightful amusement for human wisdom. Conscience is that function of both reason and faith combined that carefully examines the moral quality of tho discoveries of Reason and rejects all that do not . correspond with faith's discoveries in the spirit ual realm. A conscience void of offense, tho Doctor further said, is a conscience that condemns and expels all that is uneod'ike. and ap

proves and appropriates all that is liko God . in thought, and feeling, and purpose. . Con- ' science, tnen, is aiso mat action 01 reason -which discovers the right, and this action forms tho ground of our entire moral nature. But the idea of right always arises from the consciousness of God, and ; this idea of right in its relation to God is-tho ground of every moral idea in the world. As conscience is the only department of the human mind that recognizes obligations to God, so it is the only part of man to which God can speak, the only faculty of man that feels nis presence or hears his voice.: To keep this conscience void of offense is. the noblest attainment of tho human; will. , To keep the soul in speaking distance, and t tho heart in a speaking condition with God. was the crown of the Paulino genius. Tho conflict in which conscience is the monitor centers around the question as to whether soul or spirit shall dominate tho future life of tho rational man. If the soulish clement dominate, then the sense of guilt will . forever darken its triumph, spread thedraperv of gloom across the face of heaven and blot out every spiritual vision that lies beyond. To a rational life now under., tho dominance of soulishuess every thought of God brings a sense of guilt and judgment to come. Hence, thoughts of God are troublesome. This is tho secrot of so many absentees from thd worship of the church. One may bury conscience now, but it wiil not stay buried. It will arise from tho rubbish of sinful pleasures and desires, and, liko a Banquo's ghost, it will haunt guilty souls throughout the long weird marcn of eternity. Paul's was a conscience that felt divine approval engraved npon everv thought, and deed, and purpose, and felt divino forgiveness for every sin. Such a man can look the devil squarely in the eye without a tremor, and look an angel in the face without a blush. The evening of tho true Christian's everyday life finds the account settled with God, and the conscience at peace. What a delightful pillow on which to rest tho head and heart at night! And thus in tho sunset of life, having bent every energy to tho supreme task of keeping the conscienco void of offense, tho soul will lind itself at peace and calmly waiting along the river in the mellow gloaming of a brighter day, with its whole future set to the music 01 "Well done, good and faithful servant." Temperance Union Anniversary. Tho Woman's Christian Temperance Union held exercises in Roberts Park Church last night in observance of its fifteenth anniversary. There was a very large attendance, and nearly every woman whoso face is familiar in this work was present. The platform was occupied by Mrs. T. B. Harvey, tho president; Mrs. Loftin, the vice-president; Mrs. Josephine R. Nichols, Mrs. Dr. Brown and Mrs. Emily Kclley. Tho lesson was read by Mrs. Brown, who chose the CXLVIth Psalm, or so often called the "Crusade Psalm," and Mrs. Kelley mado the rrayer. Mrs. Harvey introduced Mrs. Loftin, who gave a short sketch in placo of tho annual report. She said: "Fifteen years ago a small band of earnest women met in Roberts Park Church to organize the union. The first president was Delitha Harvey, with Auretta Hoyt as tho first hecretary. Among tho original members wero Mrs. Z. G. Wallace, Mrs. R. T. Brown, Mrs. Pleasant Bond, Mrs. Pray, Mrs. Noe, Mrs. Siddall and others, and none of them have ever stepped from tho ranks. Ono of the first acts was to select a name, and as the work was ail to be

done by women Christian women for tho good 01 temperance, and as there was to bo no sectarianism, they called it the Union, as it is now knowiij and the name so lowly born has become tho watchword hero and in thirty other countries. The white ribbon, which is the badge of temperance and purity, has nearly belted tho globe, aud its literature is printed in eleven different languages. The Union has grown to bo reformatory, and it has fort3-iour branches of work, sixteen of which aro represented by superintendents. Work has been done in every corner of the city, at fairs in abolishing beerstands, literature, the uso of non-alcoholic wines at the Lord's table, tho suppression of impure literature, and teaching in schools the evil effects of alcohol and tobacco. It has given to the for-, eign population temperance literature in their own tongue. Parlor mdetings have been a source of help. A dining-hall has been maintained, the needy havo been helped, and the unemployed, until tney procured work, havo been fed. Lastl, the members established a home for workinggirls, not in any sense a charity, but a place of safety, and all homeless girls of good character aro welcome. Mrs. Nichols then spoke, and for more than an hour held tho undivided interest of her hearers. She has an earnest manner, a pleasing address and well-modulated voice to add to the eloquence of her words. She 6aid: "Tho problem of self-government is agitating many countries. In Russia they have nihilism, in France, communism; in Ireland, boycottism, and in America we have had the civil war and tho outbreaks between labor and capital, but nono of these great forces havo solved tho one great social problem. "When Rome became debauched with winehermin began. In one hand wo holdout to foreigners tho rights of citizenship, tho advantages of our institutions, and in tho other give them false notions and implant in them the idea that liberty is another name for license. When the devastation of liquor had become so widespread, tho women rose in alarm at tho danger and they set forth to conquer and rescue the drinkers." Mrs. Nichols, in showing how tho Union proceeds in its fight for purity and temperance, said tho children must be taught that the liquor traffic is their greatest foe. The crime liquor ha3 done to motherhood deserves its downfall, and the doctrine of: prevention should be taught by giving to children tho lesson of: the evil effects of liquor. In an orphan asylnm in northern Indiana there wero thirty-four children, sho said, and all had been made orphans by the terrible drunkenness of the parents. Most children in these homes are orphans of the . liquor traffic, and three-fifths of them are iChildrcn of foreign parents. Sho closed rwith two experiences, one of seeing a house built by a rich brewer, the cost of which jwa ten times more to the people of tho county than it was to the brewer, and the oths r was a visit to one of the lowest parts of New York, where tho poverty, crimo and disease were directly due to alcohol. Many times voices from different parts of the church echoed her expressions. A choir of twenty voices gave excellent music dur.ingtho evening. ' , . i Education in the Argentine. ' : Mrs. May Wright Sewall invited a company of forty ladies to meet Miss Isabella and Miss Rachel King, on Saturday afternoon. The Misses King were teachers in the'eity schools, who wero called to South America five years ago to labor in tho schools of the Argentine Republic, and are noW here on a visit. The company to receive them was almost entirely made up of tho former friends and fellow-teachers of the visitors. Miss King talked for an hour or more very entertainly about her (experiences in the Argentine. Sho first discussed the, geography and the physical characteristics of the country, and then described the 4 social manners and enstoms of its ' inhabitants.- She described at length the new educational system that, is being developed, this including the state normal schools established in every province, aud tho common or district schools. The Misses King were engaged for three years in the public school work, but for tho past two years they have conducted a largo private school for girls at Goya. Miss King brought with her a most interesting collection of laces and other jn:Is of hand-work of tho natives, photo

graphs and other curious objects. 4 The Week's Amuneinents. ! Miss Julia Marlowe, who has bounded into fame and popularfavor within the past year, and who is generally regarded as a young woman of extraordinary dramatic ability, will appear at the Grand tho laat two nights of the week and at tho Saturday matinee. This young actress has achieved remarkable success in her chosen art. On Friday evening and at tho Saturday matinee sho will appear as Julia in "Tho Hunchback." and Saturday evening she will bo :Son as Viola in "Twelfth Night." ; ,Gorman'8 Spectacular Minstrel Company will be at English's on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, and Charles L. Davis will fill out the week at tho same house in, is new play. "One of tho Old Stock." , At tho Park a lino specialty company, headed by the Maguani urother8, will put in the entire week. The combination includes twenty specialty people. . fhe Eden Museo, which has been closed for two weeks, has been entirely remodeled and refitted, and will open to-night with ftiveral attractive features, chief among which will bo a collection of wax figures, representing kings, queens, presidents, . statesmen, and military leaders of note. t . m r The Parnell Demonstration. ' A largely atended meeting was held at the St. Charles Hotel yesterday afternoon, ,to make the final arrangements for the Parnell demonstration to-night at Tomlinr8on Hall. Tho various committees reported excellent progress in their work. Members of both' houses of tho Legislature will bo present, and leading citizens have signified a purposo to take part in the proceedings. Tho Emmet Guards and the Irish American Club, together with other organizations, will march to the hall with music. The exercises will be interspersed with vocal and instrumental numbers. Miss Annie L. Abromet, Miss Maggie McKeever and Professor Kohl having consented to appear. Gov. Alvin P. Hovey will preside. The members of the Legislature, vice-presidents and tho various committees will take seats on the stage. The short time in which the committee on invitation had to work mado it impossible to see all whom it wished to invite personally, and it earnestly asks all to come. Kon-Partisan Tariff Reformers. Tho tariff-reform conference of Indiana will begin at Masonic Hall to-night and continue through to-morrow, when tho organization of a tariff-reform league is expected to be completed. The "tariff reform" appears to be a new skin for an old snake. The organization claims to bo strictly non-partisan, and yet a casual glance at tho list of vice-presidents would indicate that there must be a mistake somewhere, or their reformation has happened since the recent campaign. Among these for me!", Lorenzo now Moody, John P. Frenzel, Charles E. Hauch, Pliny- Webster Bartholomew, John T. Dye, John A. llolman, and several others. The Court Record. CRIMINAL COURT. Hon. Wm. Irvin, Judge. State vs. David M. Burns; grand larceny. Acquitted. State vs. Kate Housley; petit larceny. Acquitted. State vs. Henry Highstreet; assault and battery. Fine of 25 and sixty days in the work-house. State vs. William Duggardj petit larceny. Fine of 1, and three months in work-house. yew Suit Filed. In tho Superior Court tho following was filed Saturday: Nancy Porter vs. Daniel H. Davis; suit for damages. Demand, 000. Only a naif Crop of Ice. Up to tho present time about ono half as much ice has been harvested as at this time last year, and tho ice men have but little hopes of securing any more, which means that at least three thousand car-loads must bo shipped hero to meet tho demand.

non-partisan reformers are lliomas iaggart. Wm. II. English, Isaac P. Gray, njiniel Burton fMv G . this isnonlnce

THE GOVERNOR'S POSITION. It Means Trcnble for the Democrats Along the Entire Line of Appoiutive Officers.

In connection with tho settlement of pending questions between G overnor Hovey and tho Democratic majority in the Legislature as to the appointive powers of tho executive, a review of the situation prior to the meeting of the present Legislature will bo of interest. At that time the appointments made by the Governor alono consisted of tho State Geologist, provided for by the Revised Statutes, page 1229; a Commissioner of Fisheries, Revised Statutes, page-1231; three trustees of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, acts' 1SS7, page 16; Inspector of Oils, R. S., page 1115; four commissioners of the additional hospitals for tho msajie, acts 16S3, page 164; one Commissioner of Dentistry, acts 1SS7, page 5S; three trustees oi the Institution for Feebleminded Youthv. acts 18S7, page 46. The executive appoiutmeuts made with the consent of tho Senate under the acts of 18S3, page 15, were two trustees each for tho Blind Asylum, Deaf and Dumb Asylum and the Hospital ior the Insane, and a president of tho btnovolent boards. Three managers for tho Woman's Reformatory were annointed bv him under the Revised Statutes, page 1SJ2; live meiubera of the State Board of Health acts 18S5, page 100; three commissioners of the Reform School, act 1883. page 20: ono ALine Inspector, R. b., page 11S0, and lour trnees of the State Normal School, R. S., jxie JS7. Tho Legislature had tdic power to elect a State Librarian. R. S., paffo 1224; threo directors of tho Prison South, R. S., page 1314; three directors of the Prison North, R. S., page 1320; tho Senate officers, R. S., page 108U; the House officers, R. 6., page 10G9, and tho chief of the Bureau of Statistics, acts 1883, page 104. itexcrring 10 xne ioregoin;? iisi, a lonuti judge of the Circuit Court yesterday called attention to thofacrt that of the thirty-seven appointments heretofore vested in tho Governor the present Legislature 1 it J A 1 A A 1 nau unaenaKen to usurp ininy-nve, auu tho other two, tho appointments of two members of the State Board of Health, had been held up by the Senate pending action on a bill which was intended to take tho power of their appointment- out of the Governor's hands. "That tho Supreme Court will sustain him in his right to retain these appointment.," lie added, ! have no doubt whatever. I believe, too, if the question is ever brought to atest.thattlie courts will sustain the right of the Governor to appoint the directors of the State prisons, north and south, and tho Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. The State Librarian may, by an extended const ruction, be considered an officer of the Legislature, but tho only power of that body, in the way of appointments, is in the selection of its own officers, such as the President of the Senate, the Speaker of tho House and the clerical and other officers of the two branches. Any other effort on its part to appoint the administrative officers of the State is an unwarranted assumption of rights which do not belong to it, and an infringment of the powers and duties of the executive department. That it should undertake to both create and lill new administrative officers is an outrageous usurpation of authority which it was never intended it should exercise and which strikes at the root of all fneo constitutional covernment. How hxag would it be, if such usurpation was allowed to go unchecked, before every department would bo within the control 01 a legislative majority and our whole plan of government, with its nicely-adiusted system of checks and balances, would be transformed into an olicarchv in .which a few men .would havo absolute rule! Even in the cases wnero an aavisory power is given the Legislature, as where the confirmation of the Senate is necessary to perfect an appointment, the appointive power in the first instance rests with the executive, and this has never been disputed. As to both creating and filling the office by tho legislative department it is an anomaly in the system irom which our plan is derived. Tho Parliament of Great Britain, which is supposed to be omnipotent, has no such power, nor can tho Congress of the United 6tates usurp any such function of the executive department." "Could not the fact that such usage has prevailed in this State be held to warrant its continuance!" was asked. "No, 6ir. It has been held, time and again, by our courts, that use of any duration does not run against the public, and besides this, constitutional rights aro not impaired by any previous infraction of them. If Governor Gray or any of his predecessors had seen fit to assert the rights given them under tho State Constitution, tho courts would have sustained them. It is not strange that they did not, for the exercise of the power of appointment is apt to weaken its holder, but the fact that they failed to assert their rights cannot be used to defeat Governor Hovey's present position in this matter." Small Loss by Fire. Tho tiro at midnight last night was in Charles A. Vescelis's coal office, No. 187 West Ohio street. The building is a onestory frame, and tho hro probably caught from a coal stove. The loss will not exceed $100. Builders and Contractor Would do well to call and see us before buying their hardware. We have eoine very low prices tootfer on building material, and have some odd and regular sizes tiash. Doors and Ulinds to close out at away down prices. Also agents for Hill's Eliding Inside Blinds. IIILDEBRAND & FUGATE, 02 South Meridian street We Are Jtreparcd to Furnish Natural-gas burners for all kinds of stoves and ranges, and mako gas connections. We change gasollue stoves into gas-burners. Mantel grates and tilo hearths; repalfingand rescttingattended to. Ail work warranted. "M. fc IV' wrought steel ranges, best in tho market. Tin, copper and sheet iron-work. Wm. H. Benxett A 8on, 33 South Meridian etreet. ALWAYS IN SEASON. This is one distinguishing mark about a Jewelry Ftore. Jta goods hare styles, of course, and they change, but not with tho seasons, so that in comtng to a a Jewelry storo you can be always on time. You are sure to be if yon have a watch from our establishment. 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