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Merchant Tailor.

HARD BLOW AT ROSY.

The State Bound to Stop Prize Fighting There.

THE LEGISLATURE YESTERDAY.

|}ill Introduced to lluild Six Intermediate Prisons in Various Parts of the Stale—Is Ex-Attorney General Smith's Office to

Be Investigated—Ncw« From All Over Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 19.—The assault upon Roby was begun the legislature yesterday when Mr. Dinwiddie, representative from Lake county, introduced two bills at the request of the governor. One of them, which defines prize fighting, was drawn by Judge Gillette of Crown Point. The bill provides a penalty of from one to two years' imprisonment for any person in any way connected with the fight. The second bill amends McHugh's voluntary association act, under which the Roby Athletic club was organized, by striking out the clause legalizing the incorporation of associations for the purpose of giving exhibitions of athletic skill and physical contests.

There was another warm discussion in the house over the question of legislative employes arising upon a special committee report on a bill regulating matters. After numerous propositions were made and defeated the matter was laid over in order that the Republican members might come to an agreement on the subject in the caucus, and after noon adjournment the Republicans held a caucus but did not dispose of the subject, referring the whole matter to the joint cauous of the senate and house Republicans to be held Monday evening.

The senate held a very brief session, devoted mainly to the introduction of new bills, of which the most important was one by Senator Schneck providing for the building of six intermediate prisons or reformatories for the incarceration of minor offenders, the prisons to be distributed in various parts of the State and no one of them to hold more than 100 prisoners.

The bill to establish a state soldiers' home at Lafayette was favorably reported with tho appropriation cut down from $150,000 to $100,000.

TWIN SISTERS

Will Leave the Cuhrcli.

ANDKKSON, Ind., Jan. 19.—Several Catholics here who heard Father Mulcahy and the papal decree that tliev must withdraw from the Knights of Pythias. Odd Fellows and Son- of Temperance, have announced that they will hesitate in oboying the order and 10 of them will ignore it or petition for the withdrawal of the decree in St. Mary's church.

The Glass Men.

ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 19.—It is now very doubtful if the Indiana windowglass manufacturers will succeed in forming their combine to shut down the first of the coming mouth for six weeks. There are 38 plants in Indiana, and but 32 have gone into the combine.

Released on Ita.il.

ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. 19.—Young Vanness, who nearly stabbed John Yoke of New Lancaster to death Tuesday night, has been released on bail pending the result of Yoke's injuries. Vanness' brother, who is an accomplice, is still at large, having eluded the officers.

Crushed to Death.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 19.—John McLaughlin, a car inspector employed by the Union Railway company, was killed at the Um'oii station in this city. In making the apling he was caught betweeu tho bumpers and crushed.

Will It or Will It Not I

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 19.—Gossip is current that the Republicans have abandoned their proposed investigation of ex-Attorney General Green Smith's office for i'ear they would be compelled to investigate Republican officers.

Break in the Gas Main.

PERU, Ind., Jan. 19.—By a break iu the main pipe of the natural gas company of this city, 10 miles south, all of the 8,000 fires are extinguished. Repairs will be made today. The weather is not very cold.

Charged With Train Bobbery. MOUKKLV, Mo., Jan. 19.—-Frank Bateman, an ex-employe of Wabash, was arrested here as one of the robbers that held up the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train six miles from Ottumwa last Saturday. Papers, money and other articles found on Batcman's person identify him without a doubt as being one of the robbers.

Texas Hanging.

CI.ARKSVILLE, Tex., Jan. 19.—Andrew flack son, colored, was hanged for the murder of Henry Dyke in October last. Jackson first burned down Dyke's house, and when Dyke came out in his night clothes shot him dead.

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After Forty-five Years Are, Happily United. LEBANON, Ind„ Jan. 19.—After 45 years of total ignorance of the existence of each other, Lucy &nd Eva Buntin, twin sisters, have been united. Lucy Buntin, who resides in this city, in a dream, two weeks ago, saw her sister, whom she believed to be dead, and at once began an investigation by writing to different postmaster- at various points, She was informed by the postmaster of Rusliville, Mo., of her sister's whereabouts.

liidiunapolis Officials.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 19.—An gating committee appointed council several weeks ago tc gate the management of the municipal affairs has about finished its work. One Republican member of the committee will join the Democrats in recommending to the council the removal of the board of public works and the stz-eet commissioners.

GREENFIELD, INDIANA," SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1895.

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Special attention given to children. Kind reader, we f$ earnestly solicit a share of your patronage. Goods delivered free of charge.

URIAH GARRIS

Local and Personal.

"Pocahontas." James Heffernan returned to Anderson to-day.

Alvah Reeves has been appointed as a substitute mail clerk. Old Uncle Hiram is in town. See him to-night at Masonic Hall.

Born to Granville Fisher and wife, a ten pound girl Friday night. There is a good deal of counterfeit silver afloat around Shelbyville.

Mrs. Eaton, who has been at Rusliville on business, returned home to-day. There is a bread war on at Indianapolis and it is now being sold at 3 cents a loaf.

Miss Fannie Matthews is visiting her brother Dave Matthews, at Indianapolis to-day. -v

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Beckner went to Arlington to-day to visit relatives for a i'evv days. $

Miss Lizzie Harris, Mrs. Fannie Huston and Mrs. Ivrearer were shopping at Indianapolis to-day.

FOUND:—A buggy tap near J. C. Meeb's' blacksmith shop. Owner can have same by paying for this notice. d&w

The Arabian Dance in Uncle Hiram. See the greatest craze of the season at Masonic Hall, Saturday night.

The Uncle Hiram Co. which will show at Masonic Hall Saturday night is one of tha best that ever strikes Greenfield,

Mrs. Frank Mahon, who has been visiting the family of S. A. Wray, returned to her home in Louisville, Ky., to-day.

Eld. R. W. Thompson and wife left this morning for Hagerstown, to fill his appointment at the Salem church near there,

The 5th and 6th grades of the West school building took a ride last night in a bob sled around town and had a goods time.

John Turk, the mail carrier, is sick with lung fever. Mr. Glascock, the excarrier is doing John's work while he is sick.

See the mammoth production of Uncle Hiram, including the well known comedian, Harry Green at Masonic Hall Saturday night. 'i

Uncle Hiram and his company have arrived. Uncle has been on the streets and excited all the small boys and some of the big ones.

D. H. Goble and wife left this afternoon for Indiauapolis to spend Sunday with their daughters, Mrs. L. C. Polen and Mrs. J. M. Bourne.

Last night a number of people from Greenfield attended a spelling school given at Pleasant Hill school house, about three miles south of here. ......

Several of Frank Barr's friends dropped in on him last night and enjoyed a pleasant evening. It was the occasion of his 43rd birthday. Refreshments were served.

Lauren Mitchell, who has been selling fruit trees in Howard county, has been here visiting his father, James L. Mitchell, since Wednesday. He returns tonight.

John Hefl'erman is suffering with a badly poisoned foot. He has the rheumatism and was wearing an artic over shoe and the poisoning was caused by the red lining. Some feared bad results but his physician, Dr. Adams, says he will get along all right.

.Work by the Knights of Maccabees. Will H. Kiglit, Douglas Shook and John H. Marshall, workmen at the stove foundry, have all been elected as members of the Knights of Maccabees and will be initiated Saturday night, Jan 26. A team of twenty from Indianapolis will be here to do the work.

Marriage Licenses.

William Walker and Jessie A. Fish.

Latest Kdition.

Philadelphia Press. In reply to ''Anxious Inquirer" we will say that that charming brochure on "How to Get in a Hole," by Walter Querulous Gresham, has reached its fourth edition, the last issue being brought up to date by the insertion of a chapter on "John Bull and How He Undid Me."

Hjpnotic Test.

New York Press. "It won't work," said Jones sadly, "What won't work?" Hypnotism. Tried it oh the butcher. Looked at him fixedly until I had his undivided attention then I said, very slowly and with great emphasis: 'That—bill—is—paid.'" "And what did the butcher do?" "He said: 'You're a liar.'

New Cases Filed in the Circuit Court Joseph L. Binford vs. Martha J. Rigdon, et al. On note and forclose mortgage, demand $300.

Cyrus C. Barrett, et al. vs. Wilkinson Land & Improvement Co. Complaint to forclose mechanic's lien.

Calvin J. Jackson vs. Julius M. G. Melton and Viola Kirkpatrick. On note and to foreclose mortgage. Demand §400.

CHllUCH NOTES.

It having been announced that Rev. Henry McKinley would preach at the Friends's church, Sunday morning, we wish to say that he cannot come, but Professor Joseph Moore, of Earlham College will take his place.

There will be, revival meetings at the M. E. church. They are having good meetings and everybody is urged to attend.

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In view of the proposal to build anew Christian church this year, Rev. Dailey will talk to-morrow night on that subject. All who are interested in the undertaking are invited to be present. Come in the morning also.

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Dr. M, Al.. Adams to Warm His Home by Hot Water. Mr. Luman Banks, the expert plumber is putting in a Syracuse, N. Y. water heater for Dr. M. M. Adams, that is the finest invention yet to heat a house. The heater can be run with the same amount of gas that it takes to run one stove, and eight rooms and two halls will be heated by the water system. It is a great saving of gas and labor, heats a house more evenly and keeps sufficient moisture in the air to make a room healthier and more enjoyable in every way. The system costs a snug sum to begin with, $300, but is worth the money. Mr. Manville H. Gant on North State street has his handsome home heated by the same system.

Oil. IN HAMILTON COUNTY.

Oil Wells Will He Developed In This

County In a Year or Two.

As the gas pressure in the Hamilton county field has gone down, oil has come into a number of gas wells in Hamilton oounty, and recently a well on the farm of a Mr. Brooks near Olio in Fall Creek township which adjoms Vernon township this county, was found to send out a flow of oil estimated at twelve or fifteen barrels per day. Territory has been leased in large blocks, and the field will be developed later. It is only a matter of a few years until producing oil wells will dot Hamilton and Hancock counties and the owners of farms made thousands of dollars richer. Oil wells pay land owners better than gas wells many times over. The gas and oil business has put Indiana to the front in the past few years and future prospects look equally bright for continued prosperity and progress in the Indiana gas belt counties, oue of which is our own cpunty of Hancock.

Kailroad News.

The trolley electric lines to suburbs a few miles out from Pittsburg have proved such a failure the present winter that the Pennsylvania has put on its old time number of suburban trains to accommodate the travel. It is possible that the numerous electric roads planned to run from Indianapolis to various other Indiana cities may not be the glowing success that is now anticipated.

The time of the Knickerbocker fast train, oyer the Big Four and Vauderbilt lines, will on Sunday be cut dovrn to meet the time of the Pennsylvania and Vatidalia new traius. The time between St. Louis and Indianapolis will be reduced thirty minutes.

The new train over tho Vandalia and the Pennsylvania lines between St. Louis and New York is similar to the famous Chicago and New York limited, over the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago. The schedule of the train eastward is as follows: Leave St. Louis at 1 p. m* Indianapolis, 7:15 p. m. Pittsburg, 7 a. m. reach New York at 6:30 p. m. Eastern time, or 5:30 p. m. Indianapolis time,

The production of Uncle Hiram will be worth seeing, as it is seldom we get a company of such artists to come to our city. They will positively produce the saw mill scene and railroad train, just as advertised. They will appear at Masonic Hall next Saturday night.

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REDHOT NIGHT SESSION.

Representatives Almost Coins to Blows in Discussing Pensions. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—The Indian appropriation bill was considered.

There was another big row at tha night session of the house last night, which grew out of the events which transpired last week. Feeling ran high Wid bitter words were spoken. It started after the failure of an effort to increase the pension of the widow of General Abner Doubleday and to pension another widow who performed services as voluntary narse during the rebellion. Both bills wrere blocked by the obstruction of Mr. Jones (Dein.,Va.). Cooper (Dem., Ind.) roasted him.

Mr. Simpson (Pop Kan.), Mr. Cox (Dem., Teun.) and Mr. Moses (Dem., Ga.) were drawn into the controversy. Feeling ran high, and it looked for several minutes as if a personal encounter might occur. Talbert (S. C.) came to Jones' assistance white with rage, and, while deprecating the continual appeal to sectional passions, asserted that such appeals usually came from men who were invisible of time of war and invincible in time of peace. Had the debate been prolonged amid the excitement and feeling that had been engendered, it might have degenerated into a personal combat.

Senate.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—The senate yesterday passed the army appropriation bill, carry $#3,000,000, ana the bill which in effect advances General Scofield, in command of the army, to the rank of lieutenant general, held by Generals Sherman and Sheridan. Aside from this, the day was given to debate on tlie Nicaraguan canal. Mr. Morgan, in charge of the measure, sought for a time for bringing the question to a vote, without result, and the tedious discussion goes on with little prospect of a speedy vote. Mr. (Jr .'ry of Louisiana presented a new phveon the subject by offering a resolution urging a new treaty with Nicaragua and Costa Rica for the cession for canal route, under the jurisdiction of the United States. At 5 o'clock the senate adjourned.

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It Is Proposed to Itntld a Ship Canal From Lake Krie to the Ocean. CLEVELAND, Jan. 19.—It was announced at the chamber of commerce yesterday that a project is now afoot by which the proposed canal from Lake Erie to tidewater will be built by private capital. It is stated that a charter hap already been secured from the Canadian Government Incorporating company as the North American Canal company, aiid tlie present congress will be asked for rights as far as American property is concerned.

The intention is to use the Well and canal as far as Thoreau and from there build to Queenstown, a distance of eight miles, with two locks, doing away with the 25 locks of the Welland canal. The plans call for locks 500 feet in length, 05 leet \Vide and 20' feet deep. Those of the Welland canal are 245 I'eet long, 45 feet wide and the least depth is 13 1-2 feet.

The proposed route to the sea uses the Welland canal to Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence river, a canal 40 miles long from Lake Francis, in the St. Lawreuce, to Lake Champlaiu, a canal 535 miles iong to the Hudson river, and th-mce to tlie sea, making a total length of 81 1-2 miles. Tlie distance from Lake Erie to New York is 720 miles, or 803 miles from Cleveland, iu the entire distance there are but live locks.

Wishawaka, Ind., has an epidemic of diphtheria. At Dutch Flat, Nev., the snow is five feet deep oil the level.

Lord Brassey has accepted the governorship of Victoria, Australia. Negotiations between Mexico and Guatemala are positively declared to be off.

Morganfield, the trainrobber, was taken from Cincinnati to Virginia for trial yesterday.

The western wing of the Columbia (S. C.) female coliege, a Methodist institution, burned.

At Muncie, Ind., James Bryant has been arrested charged with selliug a dog for a 'possum.

Charlie Mitchell has challenged Peter Jackson to fight for $5,000 a side, the battle to take place in May or June.

At Savannah, Ed Davis, colored, received a reprieve until Feb. 15, just a few minutes before the march to the scaffold was to begin.

When the late James G. Fair's will was offered for probate at San Francisco counsel for his children secured a continuance of three weeks.

The Duke of Argyll, who fainted on Tuesday night while addressing a meeting at Glasgow, has announced his retirement from public life.

At Warsaw, Ind., Mrs. Dr. W. H. Kendall was scared to death by her horse running away. She was found sitting upright in her seat.

The bill creating the rank of lieutenant general of the army has passed the senate. The bill, however, creates it only for the benefit of Major General Scholicld.

By the bequest of Mrs. Selinda Whiteford of Baltimore, the Catholic University of America receives $50,000 for the endowment of a chair in the law department.

Three of the damage suits against the Phcenix bridge, resulting from the disaster in December, lblM, in which many workmen lost their lives, have been compromised.

Before the Seaside Athletic club Jack Denipsey and Tommy Ryan fought three rounds. The referee stopped it. and gave the decision to Ryan. Denipsey was in no condition and appeared to be drunk. His action was a surprise to his friends anil udmirers.

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No Rebellion in Greece. IBBM

PARIS, Jan. 19.—A dispatch from Athens gives a formal denial to the reports that a rebellion has broken out iu Greece. The dispatch adds that the country is everywhere perfectly calm.

BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

News I'roiu Here, There and Everywhere in Condensed Form. A wave of reform is aweeping over Peru, Ind.

PRICE, TWO CENTS

1VTHE SACRED CODFISH.

Tho Proposal to Trilie It Out of the State-1 house In Boston Crr.iXes a Sensation. Tho Worcester Gazette says:

Charles Francis Adams recounts "TheStory of tho Cod" in the Springfield Republican. In 17N2 John Adams secured from Great Britain an eminent diplomatic victory after a wearisome contest —the right of fishery—and on March 17, 1784, John Rowe, a Boston member, asked and received permission to hang the historic codfish on the wall of the chamber of representatives in the statehouse. Thirty years later another war with Great Britain occurred. John Quincy Adams was called on this times as a diplomat, and he, too, saved the codfish once more from British encroachments. The statehouse cod, which the sacrilegious are now threatening to store in the garret, is emblematic of commerce, war and diplomacy and tells of Massachusetts victories in all three fields. After the peaco of 17S3 John Adams quartered the codfish in his coat of arms, and it is there now. This must have been the origin of thephraso "codfish aristocracy," once in common use. It was commonly spoken in derision, but tho pride of tho Adamses in tho codfish would seem entirely worthy.

On this subject tho New York Sun rcmarks: There is a proud and beautiful building in Boston. Bulfinch did it. It is a Parthenon surmounted by a gilded gasliouse, and to those who love it it is the supreme architectural achievement of tho world. Even the limited or prejudiced persons who deny its charm cannot forget tho joy of its associations. To go to Boston, to view that domewith an eager eyo and to perspire with the pulchritude of it and the deeper thought that one doesn't have to livo in Boston is not the least of pleasures in a world that persons of fair digestion regard with a certain amount of attachment. As a matter .of fact, the dome isa hollow fraud. Mr. Bulfinch, who has had the distinction of having an eminently parochial street named after him, was not lucky enough to have his designs carried out, and the statehouso, with its feeling Dutch name, is not all that it might have been. But it has merits. There is or was in it the sacredcodfish, a palladium that fell from heaven plash into tho Frog pond in tho days when Boston was an eminent seaport. This codfish was almost human and quite superhuman, It, could wink. It had learned to say cultyur and literature and leftenant, besides the other things that are said in Boston. There was a silver bathtub in which it used totipple when the Boston nine got a, game. It used to leap into the air whenever Governor Greenlialgo appeared with bluo knit thinking cap on. It was sprinkled with champagne whenever the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company had a feast. All the thinkers in tho legislature revered it. It would wag its tail at a good thing and dropdead whenever a bore was.up.

They have been "fixing up" tho statehouse. Evidently some idiot is in chargo. Tho sacred codfish is not to be

included among the treasures of the ro-

stored statehouse. The Law aud Order' people say it drinks too much. The A. P. A. says it has a Hibernian countenance. All tho same, it was tho best in the state. It was tho most venerable instution there, except Harvard college and Georgo Marden of Lowell. It is gone. It has been torn down. It is nil. So falls tlie codfish aristocracy. So fades a glory unmistakable.

NO FEED, NO TOOT.

Why the Marine Band Did Not Tlay at a Certain Holiday Reception. Mrs. Calvin Brice has, vulgarly speaking, "put her foot in it," and not the dazzling Trilby foot, which subjugated all who saw it, but the foot which rich people are popularly supposed to reserve, for tho necks of their inferiors. Mrs. Brice, liko Mrs. Tymmyns, of humorous memory, sent out cards for a New Year's reception to be held at her Washington residence. Her "social secretary" was sent to secure the Marine band for tho occasion. But tho Marine band had played at Mrs. Brice's last year, and after its hard work and enchanting strains was not even asked if it would havo a glass of punch or a cup of tea. Tho Marine band has a tenacious memory.

Professor Fanciulli bowed to tho social envoy of Mrs. Brice and asked it ." "after five hours of music will tho musicians havo some supper?"

Tho social envoy replied, "I would assoon ask the cook oat to supper as tin band." So Professor Fanciulli said the--members of tho Marino band were not cooks, but musicians of the nation. The-* commandant waved his baton, and the-' social secretary retired in confusion!— Washington Gossip in Now York Advertiser.

Ti-itm.-s i.iot'lvi-tl by Snow.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19.—Snow audi rain storms have delayed all mails, and,.~ along the line iu the Sierra Nevadasthe track is impassab.o.

Killed by a Snowslhlo.

OruvY, Colo., Jan. 19.—Joe Peroth, a* 1«sm '*1 the Mickey Breeu mine, was*killed by a Vnowslide.

Edwin O. Quiiiley of the firm of Quij lev & Tuttle, dealers in county and municipal bonds and other investment, securities, New York, was arrested charged with, forging a number of bonus on tlie city ot el a a is and said be bad speculated. The Mcican tile National bank will lose $50,000.

Fair cooler winds.

lislicauoiis. in northwest portion west*