Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1877 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1877,

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THE DAILY NEWS.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER S, 1877. THEY are having an inter-state “rifle” match in Chicago. Tins has no reference to xavinga banks, but is noted aimply as an example of Chicago’s propensity for parting names in the middle.

Attorney-General Fairchild, of New York, in response to Conkling’s resolution in the Bochester convention that Fairchild had conducted his office in a way to merit public rebuke, alleging the waste of public moneys in ordering prosecutions, says “the statement is false, not only in its implication, but also literally false.” That is a long but not very indirect way of saying, “Mr. Conkling, you lie!” The New York Sun makes much ado of its immaculateness in never referring to the president other than by his individual name. But it recognizes some of his appointees by calling them “secretary,” as it did “Mr.” Schurz the other day. The acumen of this process is beyond the reason of the average man. It is of a piece with Governor Williams’s “request” of the “secretary of war”‘during the July riots. Evidence in the trial of the railroad rioters at Beading, Pennsylvania, has been given to the effect that the destruction of railroad property was definitely determined upon the day before the riot began. The rioters used the name of that great South American traveller, Dom Pedro, as their pass word. Thus far indications point to a deliberate purpose in that region, not merely to strike for higher wages, but to destroy railroad property. The Missouri greenback convention in St. Louis, yesterday, delivered itself of a tangled mass of nonsense which would have discredited an assemblage of spiritualists or freelovers. Their remedies for the ills of government are almost as applicable to the case as the resolutions of a college of veterinary surgeons would be. They ring the changes on everything from free money to free trade and advocate every thing from the wildest license of selfwill to the strongest system of paternal government. With gold at 2 j their trepidation is excusable and perhaps it is not to be wondered at that they seize on other notions for notoriety as the color of the beloved greenback more nearly approximates the yellow of gold. There should be no tinkering with the finances. Let well enough a\one. GoMis only 2j. There is a watchfulness on Uie part of those who want to see what congress will do about it. If it labors on this question with those who only stand and wait the last hope of speculators will be gone. It will be easy to predicate values on the small yellow streak of margin that still clings around the gold; investments will be made, not withhold as they are now to some extent in order to know if a still higher percent, may not be demanded. The returns from the crops will begin to flood the avenues of trade and all things combine te produce a steady progress on a legitimate basis, and in the march of such progress the small premium will vanish. What is most needed from congress on the money question now is a masterly inactivity sufficiently well displayed. Counting Booth, of California, and Davis, of Illinois, with the republicans, the roll of the senate foots up forty r-*-pr.hHcans to thirty-three democrats. Sharon, of Nevada, it is thought, will be «brent, as will be Morton, of this state, and Patterson, of South Carolina, it is thought, will not vote while under indictment. Tliis reduces the republican vote to thirty-seven. If the three democratic contestants are admitted it will increase the democratic strength to thirty-six. Senator Booth, it is said will vote to displace Secretary Gorham on account of connection with the Sergeant-Page ring of California, and it is not impossible that the December session will open with a complete change in the officers in the senate. This a democratic horoscope exclusively, and turned in this nnst favorable light it still exhibits a speck in the glass of one majority for the republicans, not counting the vice president’s vote in case of a tie. The New York democratic state convention announces its platform with a perfect fusilade of protests, consolations indications and what not for Tilden. This Is a sop thrown to him and the like of him far the subsequent ignoring of his pretensions and the nomination of a straight Tammany ticket. New York democrats have plenty of “consolation” for “one of the most illustrous leaders” of their state, but they have no more nominations for him. The hopes Tilden cherishes of being renominated in 1880 as a balm for the wound of 1876 are hereby “stepped on” in his native state; in thewordsof the old song

it U “some other man,” and the intestine strife will go on as it did before the last convention. Tilden captured the whole lot last time. His own state thus early throws down the gunge—and perhaps it will be captured all the same again. Certainly Tilden will have a harder fight for leadership than he bad the last time. The remainder of the platform is very democratic, very full of adjectives, and in the main sound. One of the questions which will doubtless be considered by the Episcopal congress now in session in Boston, will concern the change of name of the common-• ion. Some of the high church representatives strenuously object to calling it the Protestant Episcopal church. They contend that it is a branch of the church catholic, with a ministry in undeniable succession from the apostles, and they do not wish a name which places them on an equality with the other protestant bodies, for they claim to be true catholics. This convention can not decide the question, but only advise the general convention next to assemble. There is more, perhaps, in this example of Shakespeare’s jesting query, “What’s in a name?” than at first appears to outsiders. There is generally a good deal in a name, and in this case there is involved the fundamental difference between what are called high church and low church parties. The change in name would be in the line of high church domination, which of late years has been slowly in the ascendant. The result of Colonel Shatter’s raidover the Bio Grande would seem to indicate that the professed co-operation of the Mexican government for the punishment of the border ruffians, is a sham. The raid was “given away,” so it came to naught, and the expedition was all the time under the espionage of Mexican troops who, while they kept too far away to provoke collision, also kept too far away to render aid, and seemed more interested in watching the United States troops than the thieving intruders. This issomething like a halt for General Ord’s progress. When there was professed oo-operation by the Mexican government for the punishment of robbers, the orders to Gen. Ord to cross the border were in keeping with the course of events, but if this crossing is virtually resented by Mexico the pursuit of the robbers becomes a hostile invasion and at once lies in the line of the duty of congress to say what will be done about it. Doubtless that body will consider this new “southern question.” As it stands further raids into Mexican possessions would seem to be in the nature of a warlike invasion, or at least provocation of a condition of things which may lead to war, and congress is the power to say whether or not there shall be war.

The Sentinel is working itself into a “Jubal Early” state of mind over Senator MaeDonald’s proposition to pair off with Senator Morton. Senator McDonald’s words, which appeared in The News of Wednesday, will show that it was a simple, manly, decent proposition containing not an iota of the gush or nonsense which have been evolved concerning it. It was not an irrevocable general compulsion by which Senator MacDonald bound himself to act on each and all and every occasion, and thus deprive the great democratic state of Indiana of a voice in the government which that law abiding paper theSentiqel says it was. It was intendedos the senator says, and every sensible man knows, to avoid the necessity of”having Senator Morton hauled up to the capitol when unable to be there. In case of a momentous decision it is needless to say Senator McDonald is bound by an oath to do his duty, and Senator Morton is not the man to ask hi in to break it. It is also needless to say that on such occasions- Senator Morton would be carried to the capitol to deposit his own vote if he only had strength enough to nod. It is more to be feared than any of the contingencies which “worrit” the Sentinel that Senator McDonald's generous offer will be of little avail. Senator Morton this morning is reported better and gaining in strength, but it is a question if the wish is not the father of the thought in regard to his final recouery.

Is there any Honesty Extant 1 ! “There live not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grown old,” says FalstafF in a joke. It really begins to look as if he might say it in earnest these days, and widen England into the civilized world. Bascality is riotous and pervading. No country and no business escapes it. Banks break every day through rascally officers. Bailroads are embarrassed by rascally Agents. Insurance companies are robbed by rascally representatives. Merchants catch rascally collectors in embezzlements. Clients hunt up rascally lawyers to account for the money of satisfied judgments never paid over. Government departments are turned into rascally conveniences. Swindling combinations bny congress. Bings are powerful in spite of Oakes Ames’s death and Tweed’s confession. Preachers steal charity funds. The world has gone mad with villiany. Here, in yesterday’s News, one paper for one day’s record of current scoundrelism, there are no less than eight instances of robbed railways, rascally Indian rings, damaged banks, forgeries, insurance villianies, and remnants of old whisky thefts. And we can’t say that it was a particularly good day for catching scoundrels, either. Add to this “hell broth," like the “baboon’s blood" in

Macbeth, to make it comt>lete, the fradulent bankruptcies, the private defalcations, the pious cheats, the common police court crimes, and the total suggests.a view of human nature that may well startle the most inveterable optimist. • Is there no virtue extant? Has honesty fled the earth and gone with Coleridge’s “constancy, to live in realms above?” We hope not,but really, we begin to feel as Carlyle did when he told Hunt that the stars were a “sad sight,” as if creation had been ma'deinvain. Has all the past with its countless changes and ages, its vast successions of eras, Hs rising types of life culminating in man, come and gone for nothing but a preparation for a planet load of thieves and cheats. Evolution had better have left us monkeys than improved our tails off to make such a generation of irredeemable scoundrels. Even professed Christians are

Mow U !* Done.

•*»^«***AAJ VAX MAAS. • • J

ot C.nir«* -.rue must speak—they art always seBut pray whaCa the reason that I am expected to? I m not loud ot wasting my breath as those M-

_ lows do

That want to be blowing f yrtrer a* 1*lfows do;

Why, why call me up with your battery of flatteries? you say. “He writes poetry,”—that’* what the matter i»! “It costs him no trouble—a pen full of ink or two. And the poem is done in the time of a wink or two; As for thought*—never mind—take the ones that lie upiiermost, And the rhymes used by Milton and Byron and Tupjier most! Tbo lines come so easy!—at one end he jingles ’em, At the other with capital letters he shingles 'em,— Why, the thing writes itself, and oefore he's half done with it He hates to stop writing, he has such good fun

no uniform exception. The most extensive scoundrels are generally “pious” men. Most of the bank and insurance embezzlements and fraudulent failures have come of the management of church jnembers who “have always enjoyed the unbounded confidence of the community and been among the most active in their churches.” Over in France a whole denomination joined in proclaiming the performance of amazing miracles at Lourges and the other “holy places” to attract pilgrims and get money. Venality, rascality, one form or another of dishonesty, of coarse money-getting depravity, prevade private and public business, the church and the forum, the market and the mill alike. It is a sad world. “Pity ’tis” that astronomers have no more consideration than to keep finding more of them and widening the curse every month

or two.

Kllie Shooting at Chicago. At the rifle match yesterday the Illinois team won the prize, the Wisconsin team second. The most exciting event of the day was the 500 yards shooting, open to members of regular rifla clubs. The prize was a silver pitcher to the best shot and a silver cup to the next best. The wind had died down during this contest. D. Hill of the Milwaukee team made ten successive bull’s eves, scoring 50 and winning the first prize. C. Fielding and R. S. Thompson each scored 49: J. K. Miller, of the Irish team, F. Hyde of the American team and George Williard each scored 48; Sir Henry Halford of the English team, A. Gaylord and John Johnston each scored 47; K. S. L. Greenhill, of the Irish team, 44. Fielding and Thompson shot off the tie for the second prize, and Fielding won, making 5 successive ball’s eves.

New York Democratic Convention. At the Democratic convention which assembled at Albany yesterday the following ticket was nominated: Secretary of state, Allen O. Beach; comptroller, Frederick P. Olcott; treasurer, James Mackin; attorney general, Augustus Schoonmaker; state engineer and surveyor, Horatio Seymour, jr. The resolutions denounce the settlement of the presidential question by the electoral commission, praise the house of representatives for withholding appro priations, approve Hayes’s southern policy, reaffirm the platform of 1874 in regard to ®dd currency, revenue tariff, abolition of subsidies and monopolies, civil service reform, etc. Election of Officers. The American board of missions, in session at Providence, R. L, yesterday, elected the following officers; President, Mark Hopkins, I). D.; vice-president, Hon. William E. Dodge ;prudentialeomittec, Augustus C. Thompson, I). D., Hon. Alpheus Hardy, Abner Kingman, Ezra Farnsworth, J. Bussell Bradford, Prof. Egbert B. Webb, I). D., O. C. Burr, Elbridge Lorrey; corresponding secretary, Rev. John O. Means, D. IX; treasurer, Langdon S. Ward; auditors, Hon. Avery Plummer, Arthur W. Tufts and John M. Gordon.

A Live Texan. [Dallas Herald.] He was a wild Texan, just from the frontier, and had boarded the train at Fort Worth for Dallas. It was his first ride on the “kers,” and as the conductor reached in his hip pocket tor his punch, the sharp eye of Texas caught a glimpse of its polished handle, and quick as thought lie leveled a navy six on that conductor, saying, “Put ’er up, or I’ll blow daylight through you. No man can get the drop on me.” A Contumacious Corporation. The Southern Pacific railroad company has completed a bridge across the Colorado at Fort Yuma in defiance of a government order to the contrary# It seems that permission was first granted the road to cross the reservation and build the bridge, but was afterwards rescinded. Then the company was allowed to proceed as far as was necessary to preserve work already begun. Under this license they finished the bridge and track and are running trains.

The Patent Office Injured by Rain. The damage to the Ninth and G streets wings of the intent office from the heavy rain yesterday is very great, many records and public papers being thoroughly saturated. The water flowed into the Ninth street rooms and hall so rapidly in the afternoon that it was found necessary to cut a holothroughthe immense wall of the building to let it out. It is now feared the damage by the flood may prove nearly as great as that by the late fire.

Ab, that is the way in which ^simple ones go about. And draw a fine picture of things they don’t know shout! Wo all know ■ kitten, but come to a catamount The txast is a stranger when grown up to that amount, (A stranger we rather prefer shouldn’t visit us, A felis whose advent Is far from felicitous,) The boy who can boast that his trap has just got a mouse, Mustn't draw it and write underneath “hippopotamus;” Or say unveraoiously, “This is an elephant,”— Don’t think, let me beg, these examples irrelevant— What they mean is just this—that a thing to be painted well Should always he something with which we’re acquainted well.

You call on ygiir victim for “things he has plenty of,— Those copies of verses no doubt at least twenty of; His desk is crammed full, for he always keep writing ’em And reading to friends as his way of delighting I tell vou this writing of verses means business,— It makes the brain whirl in a vortex of dizziness; You think they are scrawled in the languor of lazincs*— I tell you they’re squeezed by a spasm of craziness— A fit half as bail as the staggering vertigoes That seize a poor fellow, ana down in the dirt he goes!

And therefore it chimes with the world's etymology That the sons of Apollo are great on apology. For the writing of verse is a struggle mysterious And the gayest of rhymes is a matter that's serious. For myself. I’m relied on by friends-in extremities. And I don’t mind so much if a comfort to them it is; 'Tis a pleasure to please, and the straw that can tickle us Is a source of enjoyment though slightly ridiculous.

X am up for a—something—and since I’ve begun with it, 1 must give you a toast now before I have done with it. Let me pump at my wits as they pumped the Cochituate, That moistened, it may be, the very last bit you

ate.

—Success to our publifhens, authors and editors; To our debtors good luck—pleasant dreams to our creditors; May the Monthly grow yearly, till all we are groping for Has reached the fulfillment we’re all of us hoping

for;

Till the tiore through the tunnel—it makes me let

off a sigh

To think it may possibly ruin my prophecyHas been punned on so often 'twill never p

gait

dolescent t

stinent, all go-to-meeting society gotten the sense of the word inebriety;

never provoke

again

One mild adolescent to make the old joke again; Till the alistinent, all go-to-meeting society Has forgotten the sense of the word inebriety; Till the work that poor Hannah and Bridget and

Phillis do

The humanized, civilized female gorillas do; Till ihe roughs, as we call them, grown loving and dutiful, .Shall worship the true and the pure and the beau-

tiful,

And, preying no longer as tiger and vulture do. All read the Atlantic, as persons ofculture do!

SCRAPS. Mr. Conkling is the crushed tragedian. Children never look on- autumn as a sad season. Drawing has been abolished in the Detroit public schools. The nobby betrothel ring is a sapphire solitaire.—[Fashion ex. The state of Iowa is estimating its this year’s crop of hogs at 1,500,000 head. Russia has over a million noblemen. Turkey wishes they were all grand dukes. Cheer up, Howard! Recollect Mrs. Potiphar’s difficulty in trying to catch Joseph. The Now York elevated railroad carried in the month of Se*ptember, just passed 289,093 paying passengers against 198,632 for the corretqHtnding month last year. An intoxicated passenger on a Virginia railroad showed his total abstinence pledge when asked for a ticket. The conductor punched the pledge, and wrote on it “one drunk.”

Edith C. Bently, aged 14 years, has disapjteared front Paterson, New Jersey, and her parents think she has run away to join some theatrical troupe. Her passion for sensational romances was uncontrollable. There are over half a million Swedes in the west, and they supi»ort a dozen newspapers in their mother tongue. A new weekly in Chicago, the consolidation of two old ones, star.s t fl‘ with a circulation of 9,000. Iowa is rapidly improving her draught and farm horses. During the past three years many importations have been made from France and Scotland, and nearly every county in the state boasts of pure horses. California farmers are cultivating fig trees for the sole purpose of raising and fattening hogs. This fruit contains large quantities of saccharine matter, hence is very fattening. The fig tree, once well started, requires little attention, bears several crops a year, and is very prolific.

The Germantown Centennial. The centennial of the battle of Germantown was celebrated yesterday by a parade, address and mass-meeting. Governor Hartranft reviewed the procession. After the review the ceremonies of the formal transfer of the old clock and bell, which were in the steeple of Independence hall, before January 1, 1776, to the citizens of Germantown, to be placed in their town hall, took place. Another Coach Stopped by Highwaymen. Wednesday night’s coach from Deadwood, carrying six passengers, was stopped bv two road agents twelve miles south of Fort Laramie. The robbers got about $400 from the passengers. The treasure box was broken open, but contained nothing of value to the robbers.

Kiss and Make Up. . .j [New York Tribune.] The republican press of this state is a unit in favor of dropping the convention disagreements, and of working with might and main for the election of the ticket.

When you make a beef stew have good steak, cut it into dice and use plenty of onions. There should be an amount of potatoes equal to the beef. Celery is an addition, and, if you can afford it, there is nothing better than a half can of mushrooms. The juice should be plentiful and should be half thickened. There is lots of polygamy in these United States. Mormons, Chinese ambassadors and Indians are all living right under the American eagle’s wing in this unholy relation. Old Sjtotted Tail, the head chief visiting in Washington, is a regular Brigham Young among his people, having numerous wives, and children to match. During a recent thunder storm near Memphis, Tenn., a negro was severely Jcirked by a vicious mule, and just as he was picking himself up, a stroke of lightning hit the mule and killed him dead on the spot. “Well, dar!” exclaimed the negro, “ef dis chile hain’t got powerful friends to ’venge his insults, den dere’s no use trying’ to hah faith in anything!”

policy bedv c

Curtis on dvll-ServIre Reform and Pros*

Ident Hayes.

[From a Talk with a New York Sub Reporter.] “Mr. Curtis, do you consider the idea of eivil-servM%reforni as sufficient in itself to •base the republican party upon in the future, if, as claimed, its chief original purposes are accomplished?” the visitor

asked.

. “It is a very important question of domestic administration, undoubtedly,” was the reply; “but it is hardly to be described as in the broadest sense a measure of great political policy, and it is upon questions of great^iolitical policy that parties are constituted. Ijlie power of the officeholding class, however, under the present

is such that the feeling

that now exists in this country, there wonln always be an imminent threatening of trouble on that question, andr I think, therefore, that it should be a cardinal point

of administration.”

“Do you think that the coarse adopted by the 'administration in regard to ctvilservice reform is likely to injure the pros-

pects of the republican party 7”

“No man who has a large acquaintance in various parts of the country can for a moment doubt that this question of civil service reform is a vital question, and that not only the attitude in which the republican party has been placed, but the position taken bv the convention, is an attitude that certainly threatens the indifference of a very large body of voters which we ought to have had with us. There are two classes who sympathize with the action that I took at Rochester—republicans who hold in general the views that I expressed, and who sincerely support the poliev of the administration, and then the class which is a very large one, of inde!>endem voters, intelligent men, who would prefer, I think, to act with the republicans, but only upon condition that the policy of the presulent should be seen to be the

of the party; and, of course that

dy of men will be more or lees alienated by ihe course taken by the convention.” “It is charged that the anti-Hayes sentiment which the majoritv of the convention represt nt was a manufactured sentiment, and that the convention did not really represent the views of a majority of the republicans of the state. Do you so regard “What I have observed in the newspaptra, I think, was very evident in the convention—and it was symbolic somewhat of the situation—that the hearty applause of Mr. Haves came rather from the spectators in the audience than from the convention itself. I think that may be considered a fair expression of opinion, be-* cause that was a chance, medley gathering, while the convention was in great part very carefully constructed in the anti-

Hayes interest.”

“Do you think, then, that Mr. Hayes is

gaining in popularity?”

“Oh, unquestionably. I think there is, with a difference, the same popular confidence in Mr. Hayes that there was in Mr. Lincoln, with what Mr. Lincoln used to call‘the plain iteople.’ Of that I think there is no doubt whatever. And the misfortune of the controlling influences of such a convention as that at Rochester is that they don’t perceive soon enough the tendency of the popular sympathy.” “How do you meet the question which bps been frequently asked, as to where any warrant can lie found in the constitution for Mr. Hayes’s order forbidding office-holders to take an active part in po-

litical affairs?”

“I have seen the assertion constantly made that it was unconstitutional, but I have not seen or heard anything to support the assertion. The president has the power of removal; and if, in It is judgment, in the existing state of facts, this organized participation in politics necessarily incapacitates the officers for the propter discharge of their official duties, it is perfectly competent for him to say that such participation will be hereafter considered a just reason for their removal. There is nothing unconstitutional in that. The president might say that if any man got drunk habitually it would be deemed a cause of removal; and it would be no argument for that man to say that he did not get drunk in the hours of his business; because the president would very properly reply that it was a habit which necessarily deteriorated his efficiency. The purpose of the president’s order was that honesty and fidelity should govern the tenure of office, as republican conventions have now for years declared. I say, therefore, that the president's not only taking a perfectly constitutional course, but he is taking a course that the republican party has intrusted to his discretion.”

A Brave Engineer. [Cincinnati Enquirer.] A little railroad accident occurred at the Cincinrihti, Hamilton and Dayton depot on Thursday evening which might have been serious but for the prompt action of Engineer Whalen. The theater train was standing in the depot nearly full of passengers, and the engine, detached, standing some distance in front of it, when a freight train by some blunder backed down at a rapid rate directly toward the passenger train. Fortunately Billy Whalen, engineer in charge of the engine, saw the situation, and, understanding the danger, sprang at once to his engine which was yet detached from the passenger train, and turning on full steam shot her ahead into the rear of the coming freight train. The shock was a terrible oijp. The trucks of the rear car of the freight train climbed up to the front of the engine ;the headlight of Whalen’s locomotive was smashed, and considerable other damage incurred. The bold Billy was badly shocked, but the force of the freight train was checked, and though it struck the passenger train, driving it back to the rear of the depot and

Such an action requires more true heroism than is embodied m a thousand strikes.

Dto Railroads by the Mans. A furious gale raged at Philadelphia last night, and railway trains were delayed in all directions. A landslide occurred at the eastern terminus of the Pboenixville tunnel, ou the Reading road. An engine and twenty coal cars were thrown from the track near Royer’s ford. The south-bound Oswego and Philadelphia express, on the Belvidere division of the Pennsylvania railroad, ran into a washed out culvert a short distance below Milford, New Jersey, causing the complete wreck of the train,’and, it is feared, soma loss of life. The engineer and condnctor can not be found. At Wanesbiirg junction, on the Wilmington and Northern railroad, the engine and baggage car of the train ran into a culvert. The fireman was badly scalded, ami the engineer is missing. A violent storm of wind and rain prevailed at New York all night. Advices from Baltimore state that con* siderablc damage was done there by tin storm^ and trains on the Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore road were delayed by washAl out culverts. On tHe Hudson River railroad a serious washout occurred near Riverdale, and the second Pacific express, leaving New York at 8:30, met with an accident near there. The engine, two express cars, baggage-car and one coach were thrown from tlie track by the wash. No one was hurt, but the train was delayed several hours.

Forgers Arrested. Wm. H. Layman and J. C. Hogan alias George Brown, were arrested in New York, by Pinkerton’s detectives, on a requisition from Justice Russell, of Catakill, on a charge of forging a draft^f the-First National bank of Leroy, New York, for $1,450, on the Importers and Traders National bank, of New York. The complaint is made by James Fargo, 65 Broadway, and alleges' that the accused have practiced large frauds on express companies. Lyman is the party who was arrested for complicity in the Union trust company forgery. Both the prisoners were handed over to the officers from Catskill to be taken there. It is stated on good authority that a large number of check raisers arc*connected with this and similar operations and that they have been discovered and their game blocked after swindling the express (ompanies to considerable amounts. Bombardment of Kntanchio. A Kustehuk special of October 3d savs the renewal of the bombardment by the Russian batteries at Giurgevo has indicted enormous damage upon the town of Eutaschio. A great proportion of the houses are in utter ruins. Only a few remain entire. The intrenchments, however, are intact. The health of the garrison and inhabitants is good, and the casualties few.

The Turf. At the Louisville races Felicia, the favorite, won the mile and three quarters dash in 3:07. The three mile dash was won by Mahlstick in 5:33}. The two mile dash was won by Ten Broeck in 3:36. At Cleveland, Calinet won the 2:26 race in three straight heats; best time 2:25}, The 2:40 class was won by Nancy Hackett in 2:26£.

Fire*. The Trenton woolen mill, a large brick l uilding nt Trenton, New Jersey, burned yesterday. Loss, $50,000; insured. A fire at Adrian, Michigan, yesterday morning, destroyed Eason’s brewery, barn, and several smaller buildings. Loss, $8,000; insured for $2,000. It is supposod to have been the work of an incendiary.

Encouragement for Clapp. [Springfield Republican.] But daily journalism at the capital must inevitably be, for some time yet at least, a cheap and changing and vagabondish sort of thing.

Railway Freight Matter*. The representatives of the trunk lin?s met in New York yesterday. The feeling was decidedly in favor of pooling western earnings and preventing the cutting of rates.

Minim anil Gambetta. Jules Simon is out of danger. The hearing of Gambetta’s appeal against the sentence of the correctional tribunal is fixed fo, October 10.

From Swamp and Marsh,

From land left saturated by receding floods, and from pools stagnating in sunken lots on the outskirts of cities, rises a vapor pregnant with disease. Its name is miasma, and it iajaden with the seeds of fever and ague, bilious remittents, and other malarial disorders. How to cope successfully with these destructive maladies is a problem solved more

than a quarter of a century ago by the discovery of Hcstetler’s Stomach Bitters, which has proved Itself an absolute specific for miasmatic disease In every form, Us sure preventive, and a superb Invigorant and general alterative of disordered conditions of the system. Irrefraglble evidence to prove this fact has been accumulating for years, and scarcely a day passes without some fresh corroboration of it. Eminent physicians have, after a thorough test, pronounced the article perfectly eillcacious and absolutely pure, and the American people long ago adopted It as their favorite household remedy. u of

Tie Oily New M Of WATCHES and JEWELRY in Indianapolis. New Goods, New Styles and Lowest Prices at HERRON’S, 16 W. Washington street.

Indian Fashion. [Sacramento Record.] Among the Indians who came here yesterday were two squaws who were in mourning for “a pretty good chief, their brother," as an old back explained. They both had not only their faces covered with tar, but also their heads. Evidently the tar had been lately applied, for the heat of the sun made it trickle down their necks and hang like'glossy black stalactite* from their hair. To remedy the evil one of them had picked up the wreck of an old parasol, and presented a beautiful spectacle beneath it. while the other finally enveloped her head in an old sack. This sack had been used to hold, chickens, at least, it contained a quantity of feathers, and when one of the bucks took it from her head at the depot, she was one of the most singular-looking children of the forest that has visited the city in many a day.

CARPETS.

Two-Flys, 25 to 50 Cte. Per Y»ri We are bow receivisg «a elegant new line of Carpet* direct from manufacturers, Including BODY BRUSSELS, TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, EXTRA SUPERS, ETC. 150 PIECES NOW IN STOCK.

In coloring, dadgn, and artistic pattern oar sew good* excel anything heretofore offered. Call and aee them. No trouble to show good*.

ADAMS, MAKSUB A CO.

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