Indianapolis Journal, Volume 2, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1872 — Page 2

THE EVENING JOURNAL: INBTANAFOLIS, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1872.

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MarVct Strfi nrid Circle. INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL COMPANY, PBOPEIgTOKS. INDIANAPOLIS. FRIDAY, NOV. 1. 1371. TERMS: Rngle copies, per week, delivered by carrier,. . . $ 13 By mill, payable in advance, per year 5 00 " per month 50 IDTTBTiarHe batss. Local MATTZiia.Noti9C8 under ttid head will be Charged 30 cents per line for flret insertion, and 15 centa per line for each additional Insertion Marriage Notices 5Gcent Funeral Notices 50 cents Distlatsd ADVIBT18EMEST6, Wants, Fob Salz, fo Rxht, Lost, and Foxjitd, five cents per line for first lasertion, and two and a half cents per lino for each additional insertion. REPUBLICAN TICKET. FOB PRESIDENT, ULYSSES s. GRANT, or Illinois. FOB TICK PKKPIDINT, HENRY WILSON, or Mass. PBSSIDKXTTAL ILFCTOHS FOR TITE STATE AT LARGE. JONATHAN W GORDON, of Marion. JO-EPNa BUCKLES, of Delaware. JOHN SCHWARTZ, of Dearhorn. ISAAC S. MOORE, of Warrick. DISTRICT ELECTORS. First District DA N 1 EL B. KUMLER. Secon" Dietrjct-CYRUS T. NIXON. Third Diatrict-JAM S Y. ALLI ON. Fourth District .JOHN R G'ODWtN. Fifth Dirt-rict-GERQE W. ORUBBS. S xth District JAME T. JOII VSON. Seventh DUtri t-JESSE n RPER. . E:srhth District CALVIN COWGILL. Niuth District R BERT S TAYLOR. Tenth District -ERXSTUS W. M. ELLIS. Eleventh Distr'ct SIDNEY KEI'II. FRAUD AXD ARSEXTEE1SM. Having played out on the charge of Republican frauds in Pennsylvania, the Democratic papers say that the election of Hartranft was due to the absenteeism of the Democratic multitude. The Democratic vote was over fifty thousand short of what it was in 1868, and it is assumed if the absentees had turned out and voted the Democratic ticket, Hartranft would have been defeated. It does not seem to have occurred to the Democratic organs that it may be that the increase in the Republican vote is due to some of these absentees that instead of staying at holne they voted the Republican ticket. It appears that Mr. Greeley, Mr. Trfmbull and other disappointed Republicans could chanjre their views of principles or parties, and it is equally possible for various Democrats to do the same thing. Still, it is a good thing to have the Democracy change their position on the question of frauds by admitting their charges false. Now, if the vote in this State next Tuesday does not convict them of the worst of frauds equal in extent to those falsely laid upon the Republicans in Pennsylvania, we shall be much surprised indeed. In Pennsylvania they will also fail to get out that addi tional vote of forty thousand, and Mr. Greeley will be the worst beat candidate ever run for the Presidency, with the possible exception of General Fcott. THE HORSE DISEASE. The extent of the horse disease and damage to the business interests of the country make it one of the remarkable events of the decade, which will long be remembered by the public generally, as well as by horsemen in particular. The unusual condition of affairs in New York and Boston by which persons living at great distances from their business are compelled to spend most of the day in getting back and forth between their homes and shops will doubtless lead to more earnest 'endeavors to utilize steam as a street motor. This would be a complete precaution against the recurrence of like public inconvenience by future epidemics, while it is believed that the system would prove more satisfactory to the public and render the vigilance of future Eergus unnecessary in fields where they are most required now. The summing up of the latest intelligence from the afflicted districts seems to show the same benefit accruing from the sharp autumn frosts which are noticable in human epidemics; and the disease has probably passed its crisis in the East. The cure there may also prove its prevention in the West, and it is not likely to appear in localities not yet aflected. I do not know that th effort will succeed; but this I know that the act Itself was worfny the f 4e of a monarch, worthy the courage of a devotee wort ay thj favor of a jit God. We have been told that the significance of this great movement Is reconciliation and purification. It Is this, and it is n.ore. We have been told that it mean a just administration of constitutional law. It is this, and it is more. Its chief fdguiflcance, its hi gheft value is this, that underlying the s rubles of parties In ur country, and animating those struIcs, too, there is spirit o' patriotism and love of country whieh rises supreme in the presence of the peril of the country, ana bii gs a etiJnees for every other asp-ra'ion ex ept for Its safetv. That sprit is abroad In the Und n jw; that spirit col'ects and t onsolid .ts 1 s forces now; that spirit speaks to Democrat' and Republicans now. The above quotation is from the recent speech of Hon. George H. Pendleton, at Hillsboro. If Mr. Pendleton will turn to the files of any J 'emocratic paper between the action of the Cincinnati Convention and the meeting of the Baltimore Convention, and find a single article or ua argument in an article favoring the junction of the Democrats with the Liberals that is not -based on the confession that it was impossible to succeed with a regular Democratic ticket, he will be more successful than we have been in a pretty close reading of a dozen or two of such papers. All the patriotism there was in this movement was the patriotism of desire for office. This beautiful theory of Mr. Pendleton is a very long afterthought. "What did the Cincinnati Enquirer, the CoururJournal, the 8t. Louis Republican, the Sentinel, and all advocates of the fusion say? They said it would be impossible to elect a straight Democrat, It would be impossible for the Democratic party to contend against the .Republican party, and that it would be agreai deal better to take a renegade Republican Ii?r a Presidential candidate, and fiththe aid Qt Republican support, elect

Democratic State officers and Congressmen, than to fight for an idea and be beaten. What did Mr. McDonald and Mr. Harrington say in the Indiana Democratic Convention? That the man is a fool who supposed there could be any success with a strait Democratic candidate; and they wanted success. The crv was, we Democrats give you Liberals the President, and you must give us all the subordinate officers. This policy was adopted in this and every other State not overwhelmingly Republican, and before Baltimore the argument of necessity, and the policy of success at any price, were only presented to induce Democrats to cat crow. Mr. Pendleton speaks his piece well ; but wught to have knowledge enough of the American people, to know that so bold a misrepresentation would not be received by them with the appeals to policy as an inducement to Democratic support of Greeley, fresh in their minds. He ought to remember that he was once called "gentleman George," by his admirers, and that truth is the first requisite of a gentlemanly character. The facts art patent to the world, that the support of Greeley by the Democrats, and the support of the Democratic State and local tickets by the Liberals, was the result of the most distinct bargain and sale ever known in American politics. Crow eating was not a sentiment, but a speculation.

EDITORIAL NOTES. Intelligence from the Mexican border informs ua that the American roughs are doing all they can to create a disturbance with Mexico. On September 2uth a band of twenty mounted whites and half-breeds, disguised as Indians, galloped across the Texan border, pillaged and burned the unprotected village of Reeurreccion, and killed the alcalde, or local magistrate, and several other citizens. Retaliation is the excuse which these brutes offer. We trust every effort will be made to chase them to their haunts, and to give them the full benefit of the law. One of the funniest phases of this comical campaign is the fact that Ilorace Greeley himself has written all the mottoes that are now used on the Republican transparencies and banners. The following are specimens: "I have no possible claim to Democratic 6iipporL and neve made any." II. G. "I am a di cided en" y of the Pemocratic party ven in its mo t respectable aspect "II. G. I ventre to snsp-st that General Grant will be far better qual'fled for presiding in 1872 than he was i . ISrtS." rf. G "General Grant has never been defeated and he never will be." II. G. We learn from our exchanges that the opening of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad is stimulating iron productions in Western Virginia and all that section of country which can avail itself of the road. For most of the distance the road traverses a region so rich in iron that it is oily necessary to dislodge the ore and roll it down the mountain to the freight cars for transportation to the furnaces. For one hundred years to come no deep mining wil be requisite. Coal 13 contiguous and readily accessible; also limestone. Furnaces are erecting, and the cost of production being small, remarkable profits are made. Tub cheapness of living in France, says a writer to Frascr's Magazine is due to the simple customs of the people; that, however email or reduced the income of a gerteel family in Frar.ee, their social position is not In the least atlected by their circumstances; that the general difussion of wealth shown by the French loan is owing to the economical livine and the thriftiness of the women, who generally participate in the business of earning a livelihood. And then, when the children marry they continue to live under the paternal roof, as before, in one family, thus reducing the expenses and holding the families in a sort of communion until both parents are dead. A new theory, in opposition to the old belief that the odor of cut flowers in close rooms wa3 injurious to those occupying them, has been advanced by a writer in Xature, who says that all such fragrant plants as mint, clovjr, lavender, lemon and cherry laurel develop a large quantity of ozone when in contact with atmospheric oxygen in light. It has been recox mended that strong-smelling flowers shall be planted around the dwelling houses situated in marshy districts; that they overcome the malaria by the influence of their perfume. So after all, flowers. Instead of being excluded from the sick-room, ought to be left there as a disinfectant. An interesting discovery of the remains of some animals has been made at Millbrook, Ontario. Bones and teeth of gigantic size have been dug up, and on examination proved to be the remains of the extinct mammoth, the elephas Americanus, of the quaternary period. The Ueth are quite sound and have a well preserved grinding surface of seven and a half inches in length by three and a half inches in breadth, and measure twenty inches in circumference. Each tooth weighs about 'x pounds. The portion of the tusk found is also well preserved, and nine inches long by six inches in width. The pieces of leg bone are much more decayed than the teeth. A Yankee has invented a new switch for railroads. The lever of the switch is enclosed in a small house or sentry-box, the door to which is locked. When the switchman enters the house and opens the switch he thereby bhuts the door of the house or box, from whence he can not make his exit till, by shutting the switch he thereby opens the door of the box. If by any chance a train comes along while the switch is open, he must make his escape from the box to avoid the probability of being himself killed. lie can not make his escape without shutting the switch. Therefore every time a switchman opens a switch he 13 bound, under penalty of death, to have it closed before any train comes along. Ox November 5th constitutional amendments will be submitted to the people of the following States: In Wisconsin, to enlarge the Supreme Court, adding two Justices; in Michigan, to fix the salaries of Circuit Judges at $3,500 and limit the number of circuits to fifteen; in New York, to continue the Commissioner of Appeals in office two years; in Minnesota, to borrow $150,000, making stockholders liable, prohibit local aid to railroads beyond ten per cent, of valuation, and sell the 500,000 acres of internal improvement land for the benefit of an internal improvement fund; in Texas; to locate the

ctp'tal ard ut-f.ne the powers of the Legislature in the matter cf land grants; ia Missouri, lo enlarge the .'upreme Court, adding two Justices, to require that the school fi;nd eluill be invested ia bonds cf the State or of the United States, and that county school funds shall be loaned upon unincumbered real estate, with personal security in addition theret.

Tils Baptist denomination at Petersburg New York, ia rent in twain by reason of a dispute about their pastor, and it is difficult to tell which party, his frieuds or Lis enemies, is doing him the treateet injury. It seems the Hiin Ister attended a mite society and he took part in the fts'ivities of the evening, joining in the amusements. Oa this the trouble sprang up, leading even to the arrest of one of the members for threatening language. The friends of the minister are backing him up by giving him donation parties which means, we cuppose, that the members of the congregation send in things to eat and then visit their pastor and eat up the viands donated and clutter up the house generally by treading cake iuto the carpets, and spilling coflee over the furniture. Something like reliable intelligence concerning the diamond and ruby fields of Arizona comes to us from no less a person than exGovernor Safford of Nevada. His ex Gubernatorial Excellency, anxious, no doubt to acquire both knowledge and wealth, carefully searched an area thickly strewn with gems, and succeeded in picking up a greit many of what he supposed to be rubies, but which, on examination, proved garnets, the value of which was something less than the time expended in finding and picking them up No rubies from either Arizona or Nevada have as yet reached our market, and the Territorial diamonds have ceased to excite the 6hrewd people of San Francisco, who are astute in everything save reports of treasure discoveries. Their milliondollar capital diamond company has been dissolved. . Tns agent of the Ilibernicon, familiarly known as the 'That Boy," the other day visited Barnum's show, and having heard a great deal said of the Cannibals on exhibition there, determined upon informing himself thoroughly not only concerning their general appearance, but, if possible, also concerning their manners and customs. The gentleman referred to weighs In the neighborhood of 250, is good looking, and has attractive ways about him too. His appearance before the two real cannibals caused them to utter an inexpressible sigh of appreciation. Tl y surveyed him but a moment and then prepared to make a "square meal" of him. They made a rush for "Pbatty," and but for the interposition of eeveral friends and two or three showmen, it is impossible to determine what would have been the result. "Phatty " retreated In good order and quick time. A vert large number of the immigrants that arrive in New York are transported to the Interior over four great railroads that centre in Chicago, and while en route the new comers encounter sharks who board the trains some forty miles from the latter city. These fellows, plunderers, speak several languages, aud, say the papers, "have studied for years the system of robbing these men." After persuading the immigrant Into the purchase of bogus transfer tickets, the victims are taken to one of the immigrant houses, which they seldom leave while in the possession of any money or valuables. No commission exists in Chicago for the protection of immigrants, and they are absolutely without redress for the wrong3 inflicted upon them unless by an appr-al to the courts, which to thera, ignorant of the language and of the eourse of justice in this country, is impossible. The abuses, it must bo remembered, relate to the immigrants coming by way of New York exclusively. HASH. A unique St. Louisian writes his name, Dr. W. Pope C. Headington. Those wretched Mexicans are flaunting the black flag in sight of our borders. It is really unpardonable in Mr. Greeley's admirers to have left us till this time in ignorance of the fact that he has an eye like Apollo. The man who hopes that Greeley will be elected will have his hopes turned into gall darn it. Report says that there are but four strictly temperate men among the crowned heads of Euiope. Mrs. Bethune has just quit singing at the Montreal Cathedral, after serving for twentyfive years. Baron Tauchnitz, the Berlin publisher, has been appointed Consul General of Great Britain at Leipsic. Pio Poco, who governed California before it became a portion of the United States, is still living. It is rumored that Henry Clay Dean will take his biennial bath on the next rise of the Mississippi Rev. Isaac Prince has been pastor of a church at Amsterdam, Holland, for the past seventy years. The Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, lunched with his hereditary foe, the Sultan, at Constantinople. The Denver (Col.) Tribune says snowstorms are now of daily and nightly occurrence in the mountain cities. Senor Garcia, of the Argentine Republic, the handsomest man at Washington, will soon sail for Europe. A menagerie was sold out at auction Memphis lately, each article being disposed of on its own merits. The present Vermont Legislature claims the credit of being the most temperate one for twenty-five years. While Mr. Washburne is in the United States Mrs. Washburne is placing the children in school at Bonn The National Unitarian Conference resolved that it was irrevocably wedded to the Bible in the schools. A jealous North Carolinian of ninety-eix was lately arrested on the charge ! causing the death of his wife. The rinderpest is playing havoc with Boston drummers, whose systems have been injured by free lunches. Mayor Boyd, who kdlcd Taylor at Baxter, Kansas, has had a trial, and been acquitted. Thus ends another farce. There Is a woman one hundred and'elebt years old who has a son living that has seen his ninety-third birthday. Albert Bierstadt, the artist, and Mr. Clarence King, the geologist, are traveling in the high Sierras of California. C. F. Kennedy, of Altamont, Callfornia.has sued a loyely and wealthy widow for $50,000

because she wouldn't ma-: 'urn whea she said she would. President Juarez left a minute account of all sama of money received by hiin since his elevation to the Presitk'i.cy. A Republican of Stiti.ury whs cured of the rheumatism by the sudden joy he experienced by winning all his ets. It is not probable thf.t John Cochrane was troubled with the epizootic when he issued that "assine address" to the Libera-s. Warmoth, the I.oui&iaiia plunderer, says that a'lhe wunls ii to fee iocoiraptibic tnen of integrity get th? reir:3 of power St. Loui? is troubled with small-por, a fact which does not appear to nvatly grieve the inhabitants of Chieatro or of Louisville. A dlapidated old codger," who gave Lis name as N. P. Banks, was incarcerated in a Cincinnati station-house the other night. ThcMtthodist ? of Lawreuce Kansas, eontemplate erecting a church to eost ?40,Gci, which will point its spire heavenward :ii0 feet. Four conductors on th i fit ight trains of the Vermont Central Railroad have, recently been arrested for stealing properly from other cars. Many of the most fashionable women of New York dispose of their society dresses to Cheap Johns for the best figures they will fetch. The mortal remain- of Heinrich Heine, which were buried in Mont Martrc cemetery, have been disinterred and taken to Hamburg. A fanatical MeshodJst of Carmel has become partially blind from weeping over Lis sins. He 6ecs things now by a "dim religious light." Bayard Taylor passed up the Rhine recently, with his family, meaning to spend the autumn in Gotha. Re is writing a life of Goethe. An Iowa woman has invented an apparatus for raising bread. She should now try her hand at producing something that will raise the fleur. A Dayton man, who heard a burglar at his back-door, "let sliver" with his breech-loader, and killed a valuable hog which had broken out of its pen. Mr. S. P. Taylor, who officiated as organist of St. Paul's Chapel, New York, sixty years ago, is slill living in Brooklyn, at the age of ninety-four. Nileon writes that she intends a build an elegant residence on her Illinois estate for a summer residence, and will live in New York in the winter. Ia Washington the newspapermen think of organizing a club. A lady correspondent anxiously inquires, "Will they admit the lady writers, too?" Texas has just followed the example of nineteen other States, and passed laws and established a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Edmund Winston Henry, voungest and last of the sons of the great Virginian, Patrick Henry, Is dead, in the county of Charlotte, In that 8tate, aged 79. Anna Dickinson is inclined to einbwongpong so 'tis said, and finds it extremely difficult to look pale and thin when speaking of the sufferings of her sex. Paying twenty five cents for a plate of crackers and being invited to take a drink with the proprietor is the latest device of tho unlicensed tempter. Adelina Patti's noble husband lately got out of bed in time to sec a burglar getting away over a garden wall, and the papers call it a deed of bravery. The friends of the Communist Secretary of War, Ciuseret, may be interested in knowing that he lives in retirement near Geneva, and is writing his memoirs. A watering-place correspondent writes that very few bathers bathe at the West End, whereupon Mrs. Partington says 6he "had an idea they bathed all over." That touching drama from the pen of Bret Harte, which was to have been produced so magnificently in New York city, has not yet been written and probably never will be. Milwaukee cherishes a Tuctonic lady, fair, forty, and measuring two yards around her chest, sixty-two inches around her waist, ard twenty-eight inches around her "biceps." A little boy recently asked a lady who made her teeth. She replied, "God." " Well," said the youngster, "Dr. Chaffee made mother's, and they beat yours by a darned sight." One of Theaphile Lautler's witty sayings: "Man is superior to the brute creation in only three thing3 he strikes fire with a Hint, be drinks when he is not thirsty, and makes love all the year round." A modern historian has just revealed the fact that a brother of President Monroe, in coarse cotton Bhirt-sleeves and brown and sui -burnt bosom, used to mend Virginia highways with his shovel and hoe. It is a mistaken idea that railway traveling in Great Britain is safer than in other countries. In 1571 no less than 404 persons were killed, and 1,261 itjured. The percentage was far greater than in Massachusetts. A servant girl in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was recently burned by kerosene, and her employer charged her for the oil she 6pilled and the flour, etc., used to case her sufferings. He then turned her adrifc and she died. So dry had it become in New Jersey that It is 6aid the recent heavy rains have made very little difference as yet in the mountain streams in the upper part of the State, the water disappearing in the dry earth like a sponge. A lady in Marseilles has sued a hair-dresser for two thousand francs damages. He had offered to dye her brown hair red, and, in conquence of his operations, it turned violet, She has been obliged to have her head shaved. The Sunday law in Chicago brought out the following notices from saloon proprietors last Sabbath: "No hypocrisy here; we are pious on Sunday;" and "Positively closed; gone to the 'Little Church around the Cot ner. " A man named Brown, of Jersey City, while leaning out of the window of an Erie express train, yesterday afternoon, as the train crossed the river west of Paterson, was struck by the bridge, and his brains dashed out, and his body thrown into the river. An American who was making some extensive purchases in Paris, lost a pocket book con taining 3675 francs the other day ; a little girl picked it up in the street, and the police, when referred to, brought the loser and finder together in half an hour. An old lady in Erie, Pennsylvania, who cannot read very well, owing to one eye being made of glass and the other being covered with a cataract, says 6he wishes she could ."attend that Laurel Fair they have just been enjoying in San Francisco." The State Fair at Erie this

fall did not amount to half so much in her estimation. A novel yet simple Uvk-e his scrv.dto d( stroy an unpleasant echo n the rew Court House at Bloomineton, 111. Tares or four small wires were stretched rci-oss the room at a proper Light. Zhz theory h that the v.-ires break the sound waves and prevent reverberation. In Portland, Oregon, three months asc, a yourg man died and was placed in a eofLn in the front parlor of bis home, &rA has reraaired there ever jinee, his ino;htr steadfastly refusing to allow the body to be buried, imagining that he wiil return to life, beiugoulyin a trance. Th. opinion ?aLS ground in France s well a3 elsewhere that poweiful gunboats will in future form one cf the moft important branches of the marine, and active means are being taken to effect the needed changes and to build new bo&te, especially for river service, at such time as the exigency may demand. One. of the novel features of the Viem a Espoiition will be a very complete collection of American newspapers, arranged according to States, wi'h a catalogue giving full particu-, lars with reference to each oue represented. Thisjwill be a peculiarly American feature, and it is believed that it will be a most interesting one. "We have seldom kcown," says the Baltimore American, "the nomination of a temperance ticket at a local election which did not result to the advantage of that party iu which the anti-tempcranee people arc always bound in solid phalanx. In other word1, temperance men are always used to strengthen their opponents and weaken their friends." .A boy about ten years old, namedLr.it, entered the Detroit central poiice station with anxious countenance, and to the interrogations of the sergeant he replied: "Oh, it's the old folks again, pouuding and mauling eacii other and smashing up the dishes. I've talked to 'cm and reasoned with 'cm, but they keep right on. It's getting dreary up there, and I guess you'd better bring 'em both in and give 'cm three months each." A little Danbury boy ran away from school en Monday to go chestnutting. During the expedition he fell twice out of one tree, to the imminent danger of breaking his neck, was licked by one of the other boys whose breath he materially lessened by stumbling against his stomach, ran a bliver into his knee, and was bitten violently on the neck by a new kind of bug. When he got home his father annointed him with the boss end of a billiard cue, and the next day at school the teacher escorted him twice around the room by his poorest ear. ne says that chestnuts are so wormy this year that it don't pay to go after thc-m.

"THE SEVEN WHISTLERS." SOME CURIOUS ENGLISH, SUPERSTITIONS. One evening a few years ago, when crossing one of the Lancashire moors in company with an intelligent old man, we were suddenly startled by the whistling overhead of a covey of plovers. Mv companion remarked that when a boy the old people considered such a circumstance a bad omen, "as the person who heard the wandering Jews," as he called tha plovers, "was sure to be overtaken with some ill luck." On questioning my friend on the name given to the birds, he said: "There is a tradition that they contain the souls of those Jews who asLsted at the crucifixion, and as a consequence were doomed to float in the ar forever." When we arrived at the foot of the moor a coach, by which I had hcpc-l to fiuish my journey, had already left its ttatirn, thereby causing me to traverse the remaining distance on foot. The old man reminded me of the omen. Another writer, "A. S.," in A'r. ami (J'tcr!', October 21, 1871. says: "D iriug a tiomoerstorm which pa?sed over this district (K taring, in Yoik&hire,) on the pvening of the sixth of September, on whic'i occasion tl e litrfctnirg wns very vivid, an unusual sp ttn le whs witnessed; iminenee flocks of birds wt" tying about uttering dol-.-fti', all'rio'b.tcd crlei a tney passed over the locality, and for Lou they kept up a continued whistling like th.it uiu.de by sea birds. There must hve been groat numbers of them, as they were also observed at the surne time, as we learn by the public prints, in the counties of Northampton, Leicecter and Lincoln. The next day, i s mv servant was driving me to a neighboring village' t.fiis phenomenon of the flight of bird- became the subject of conversation, and on asking him what birds bethought they were, he told rue they were what were called the 'Seven Whistlers,' and that whenever th?y were heard it was considered a sign of some great cal unity, and that the last time he heard thera was the night before the great Hartley col'.iery explosion; he had a'so been told ty soldiers that if they heard them they always expected a gre tt slaughter would take place soon. Curiousdy enough, on.taking up the newspaper tho following morning I saw headed in large letters 'Terrible Colliery Explosion at WiguM," e. e., etc. This I thought would confirm mv man's belief in tho 'Seven Whistlers.' " Folk Io,v by Charlen JIanlwick. (i RANT'S TREATMENT OF THE SOlTTn. The Staunton I alley Virginian, a Democratic paper, publishes an able article, contrasting the records of Grant and Greeley, in the course of which it says: . "With the views of fairness we entertain, we regard the appeals, week after week, of several Valley papers, based on the following paragraph, as unjust, insincere, and irrelevant to this canvass. Whether General Grant ever gave such an order is a question with us. If he did, it wtis issued in tiuio of war, when every nerve of the Federal rower was stretched to Its utmost tension to overcome the Confederacy. It was given as a necessity cf war, and is 8) stated. This is the paragraph, said to be an extract from an order of General Grant to Sh ;ridan: ' 'Do all the damage you can to the railroads and crops j carry off stock off nil descriptions, and negroes, so as to prevent planting. If the war is to last another year let the Shenandoah remain a barren waste." "It should be remembered that this valley was claimed by both Governments as the 'granary of the Confederacy,' and that the destruction of material resources was one of the most humane methods of closing the war and saving hurasn lifo. As evidence that it was not issued in a vandal spirit, we have only to refer to the order of Grant allowing the soldiers ho surrendered at Appomattox to take with them their horses, for the declared reason that it would enable them to put ou and cultivate a crop. Then was fay less of the liend and less of the vr,ndal shown in this order than in that of the Confederate authorities which set in ilames their own capita', destroyed thousands of dollar' worth of property of private citizens, without a cause or a purpose that has yet been shown. It wr no more brutal than the burning of Chambersburg by the Confederates, We do not wish to be regarded as justifying one more than tho other. They vere both extreme measures, not called for by the necessities of the occasion. But the rtason assigned for making the 'Shenandoah Valley a barren waste was a military one. It was for the purpose of crippling the power of the Confederacy and ending hostilities. The burning of Chambersburg was purely revenge, and that of Richmond craven cowardice." The Weston, West Virgiuia, I),moorot says a gentleman iu that village has a large Maltese cat, which from kittenhood has fraternized and slept with a rough rat terrier. The other day some bogs got into the premises, and the do not doing his duiy, pussy mounted the largest f the hogs, and fur a few seconds it looked as if the hog would never escape alive. Since t hen the cat has turned watch-dog, and is death on any hog that approaches.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

LSAKS 4 DICKSON, B. aiACALTLEY, - - - LESSEES. . - MANAGER. Ejttra aa-ouriceirift "For on? vci 'i cn'y, asd ccramerc!np IMontlay Tveninir. r?:'o vmbpr 4-iYi. Engagement of f h? CMnrinz Cem dlenne and Celebrated Esio'ietal ArS.-ie, J1KS. RACHEL MACAULEY, Wr.o vil-i.i;if i ifciv. tn ber natural and highly fini-i.t-d poriraituivsi or Fashionable aud Domestic I.iiV, s-nppi.rteu :,y A Bill LLI ANT DliA'IATIO COMPANY. MONDAY EYE., NOV. 4 "FROU-FROU." TUESDAY EVE., NOV. 5 " JAST LYNNJJ.' WEDNESDAY EVE., NOV. 6 TROU-FKOU." TIIUKI)AY EVE., NOV. 7 ' EAST LYNNE." FRIDAY EVE. NOV. 8 "O'LD DEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS." SATUKHAY KVK. NOV. 9 "1 ITHRTIA BOItilA," unci "LULL IX A CHINA SHOP." t'ATU RU AY Only MRS. MACAU LEY MATINEE. tlT Rcerved Seats at Pearson A Dickson's. PLENTY OF WOOD. KEEP AVARM. Having ms3e arranrt-jnenl. with ore of the railroads to furnish uswi;.! wotd for ti.c season, we can furnish our citizen;', at FAIR FIGTU13ES, With woo'l. full length, or sawed in quantities theymav desire. ALDRICU ,V. GAY, as ociii-edm Comer Indiana avenue and CanaL 1ST W BAKERY. HAVING FITTED CP A. BAKERY AT 88 FORT WAYNE AAr , I am prepared to furnish families with Bread, Cukes, and all articles usually kept by a No. 1 Baker. octiJ-Sme 1'iIILIP MYLREA. John S. Spann. Tuos. II. Spann. Jno. M. .Spank. JOHN S. SPANS & CO., REAL ESTATE AGENTS, GO Eat "Washington Street. LOOK TO TII3 SOUTHEAST as the beet field for tho advancement of property. FLETCHER AVENUE b:i jusi been graded aiid sraveled, and so has FOREST AVENUE. HUhOX STREET is a line, improved highway all leading direct from the centre to fPANN & CO.'S WOODLAWN LOTS. DILLON STREET, a very important north and south thoronc' ffirc, now ri-ing improved, lies immediately adjohiirg, weet of thiu popular addition. Many hiie :re iu proccsn of erection in this part of the city, and as nearly all tliehvg are now occupied, except the Woodlawn Lot?, it requires no fore'k'lt to be fnre that money will be made by buying lots b-re. Tl:ey are fcti 1 tucsp. and must advance. They li-?high. and many of them have beautiful native forest trees on them, the right size to leave for shade ar.d bea- ty They are selling rapidly. The great sewer in Fletcher avenue and Muth street affords perfect drainRge for all this region, and the new bridge aud tnr.ncl over the railroad tracts afford perfect sa ety in pRs-trsg from the c mre of the city. No objection can be made to these lots, and if any of our customers intend bnying, thev had better come at once, before the advance is put on. ACRE LOTS, near the city, on the line tf the street railroads. Many of the lets have fine forest trees on them. First-class property, at a xroderate price, andou easy terms. BUSINESS PROPERTY, on Fcnnsylvmia, Meridian and Illnos Mreets. Also on Delaware and ashington. We have made several barge transactioions in lirst-clsss business pif perty, recently and we can say to onr customers w ho may wish to invest, the longer you delay the worse it will be HOUSES AND LOTS ard VACANT LOTS In all parts or ihe city. JOHN S. SPANN & CO., etd R .?J Estate Agents. STREKT IMPROVEMENT HOTICE. OFFICE OP CITY CLERK, ( Indianapolis, October 25, 1S71 S VTOTK'E IS HEREBY JIVEX OF THE PEN11 deticy ler-r.: t!:i oni'iion (Kinncil of the City of Iiiiti.iiiMpolisof the following entitled ordinance, to-wit: No. 184 1872. To light with g.-.s, Alabama ?tr jet from St. Joseph street to Fcrtt iloi.ic avenue. So. 185-tS;2. To light with Park avenue between Forest norae avenue aud Litcolu street. No. lsiji.vjy To grade and gravel Grrr.-c street and sidewalks from Hernia avenue to Dj'.ion street. No. IS: 187 To grade and pave with brick the sidewa'ks Of Metrin r aveuii c between Cedar and Diilou streets. 2sn. 1872. To trade at;d gravel the alley running east and weet through squares 17 aud 13. The above en I it leu ordinances will be taken np fr final action at the meeting of Ute Common Conncil, to hj he'd Monday, .cvcniier 11, 1-72, or as soon thereafter as the tame can he heard. By order of the Common Council. CCUMW.M JIIN CLIXT ity UrkSIjKC lalties. Will care Rheumatism. Spiral Sftam Drawers, perfect fit Reynier's IDojsslcin Gloves, Extra Heavy Bhaker Flannel XT n. tit r wear, 8 2 Shins?, open Tmclc ana front. Cardigan Jaekets, Frill stooit of Shirt a and Men's Furnishings at prices "within the reach of all, at WALLACE FOSTER'S SHIRT DEPOT, pcp2 le?,m 2-2 EAST VASniNGTON ST. NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX MYERS. A LL PERSONS dclinijucct for the taxes of 1S71, ar-a former years, are nereoy notified that the Citv Clerk is now preparing the delinquent lift, and that the same will be published within a few days. All person not wishing o have their property advertised, and pay additioual costs, had better call at once and settle. Eespectfnllv. JOHN W. COONS, octl7-3we City Treasurer. HODGSON & BROWN, ARCHITECTS AND SCPEMHENDEOTSL 14, 15 and 16, Marttndalc'a Block, Indianapolis, lad. and 124 South Clark street, Chicago, 111. WE WILL prepare ani famish fleeing, placet spocifie&tion and full working drawings torall claeees of buildirs, public and private, and jrrvo special attention to convenience of arrangement, architectural effect ard economy of conetrnction, ) both in fire-proof and ordinary buildings. W haya l a well organized and efficient corps of draughtsmen, and can promptly attend to all orders, and" will give personal and particular attention to all work, entrusted to as. aagS efcm6xa