Indianapolis Journal, Volume 2, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1872 — Page 2

THE EVENING JOURNAL: INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY: DECEMBER C, 1372.

EVENING JOURNAL.

Market rtret ami Circle. INDIAN AJOLIS JOURNAL COMPANY, PKOFBISTOBS. 1 SIWIANAPOLIS. FRIDAY. DEC. 6, 137? Z 3v mill, payable in advance, per yesx 5 00 " yr month 60 ASfFBTTSIXe RATS 3. Local Sittw,-Notiaee order this heal will b6 charged 20 cents per line for first Insertion , anrt 15 cents per lia for each additional Insertion. Marriage Notices. 50 cents Funeral Notices. tO cents DierriTTtB ADrsBTisEHjnrTS.'WAHT'), Foa Sale, ?or RiwT,LoeT,aEdFor?n, Hvecentp per line for first inoertlon, and two and a half cent per line for lach additional insertion. FA CT8 AXD FIG UltES. We publish in another column a communication containing some figures in regard to coal, its supply, and cost, which should receive the careful consideration of every voter in Center Township. Xo one will question the propriety, indeed the absolute necessity, of opening a mode of communication into a new coal field, when it is established so clearly that thera is no reason to expect any further supply of coal from the present field at a cost of less than twenty cents a bushel to the consumer. No argument could demonstrate more clearly the need of an active competition by some other source of supply. Whether the fault is in the exactions of owners of coal lands in increasing royalties, in the demands of miners for still higher wages, of railroads for transportation, or is the result of a constantly increasing competition by buyers from Chicago and other places, there seems to be no means of overcoming the evil of high prices so effective as the opening of a new mining district. If there were no other guarantees than the completion secured by increased means of transportation into a new coal field encouraging the opening of new mines, it would be well worth the outlay, if we may profit by the example of Cleveland in appropriating a million of dollars for securing a road into a coal field already drained in part by a canal. In this Cleveland enterprise we are told "there is no proposed rate of freight, but the competition is expected to be valuabla to the city." Now, if Cleveland with one coal road already, and a canal into other coal fields, finds it profitable to appropriate one million of dollars toward the construe tion of a new road without any guarantees but those afforded by the general laws of competition, why shall not Indianapolis find it more profitable to appropriate half that amount when it has guarantees that the rate of freight shall bo much leas than has been heretofore paid, and that coal lands shall be leased by the city, or citizens to deal here, atles3 rates than are now paid in the coal fields upon which the city wholly depends for its supply of fuel ? At the present time with block coal at 20 cents per bushel here by retail, it is 3 70 a ton, while in Cleyeland it is $6 50 a ton or 80 cents more. With the start that manufacturers have got in Cleveland, it is possible that the difference in cost to wholesale consumers is greater than in Indianapolis, and that tho boasted advantage of cheap fuel in the latter city has entirely disappeared byjthe rise in coal here the past year. And if Cleveland builds another road, even with-, out guarantees of cheap freight, while Indianapolis refuses to take one with such guarantees, the manufacturer in Cleveland will get his coal cheaper than the manufacturer in Iadianapolis can; then the coal boot will be on the other foot, and the pinched corns will be here. But if Cleveland can cheapen the supply of coal by building a road into a new coal field, so may Indianapolis; and if the decrease in prico can be made greater here because the supply is so much greater, better and more convenient, anew road may be of much more profit to Indianapolis than a new road to Cleveland. Buffalo has invested one million dollars in a road running into the coal and oil regions, to secure the advantages in coal and other commodotios not to be had otherwise. It is the appropriation of public money for the improvement of general business. Now the example of these cities is worthy of the careful consideration of Indianapolis. We are told that Cleveland had come to a stand still in growth when the Mahoning road suddenly opened a supply of coal, which develo ped a largo manufacturing business. We regret that our correspondent did not learn or, having learned, give the whole amount which Cleveland has invested in railroads, with the probable benefit to the city in increasing its business; and the actual bendfit or loss in the excess or deficit of dividends received, compared with the interest paid on the bonds issued, We infer, however, that the appropriations have been very large compared with those needed from Indianapolis, while the benefit is no larger than it would probably be here. At any rate the apparent establishment of twenty cent3 per bushel as a permanent retail price for block coal in Indianapolis, and the impossibility of any remedy by the use of the present means of supply, is the strongest reason in the world for seeking other modes of relief. And the success which has attended the appropriations in similar cases by Cleveland and other cities seems to point a clear road by which Indianapolis may pass to a highly prosperous condition. Therefore we call the especial attention of the reader to the communication in another column under the heading of "The Coal Road Question." The boy crop promises to be large this winter. They are gathering them already wherever the ice is thick enough to carry them out to deep water.

THE POSTAL SERVICE. The report of the Postmaster General furnishes many facts of general interest, which it is well to condense from the report of the Department for the last year. The extent of the postal service is enormous. The country has 7.2o9 mail routes, representing a total of 251,398 miles, and in annual transportation 114,984,222 miles ; that is, in delivering the letters intrusted to them, Uncle Sam's mail bags are carried every year a distance greater than four thousand times around tie globe. Of these routes 57,911 miles are by railroad and 18,S6"0 by steam-boat, leaving 174.C27 miles over which the mails must still be transported by horsepower. The railroads and steamboats having an annual aggregate transportation of GG,800,185 miles, the poor horses traveled 48,184,137 miles last year in carry" ing on the correspondence of the country. But every year their labors are becoming less rigorous, since 1872 there was an iacrease in mail routes of 13,039 miles, of which 8,077 were by rail. These figures show most clearly what strides the country is taking. On June 30, 1837, there were only 947 miles of railroad post-routes in the whole nation, the increase in thirty-five years having been 53,937 miles. How completely we have risen superior to the misfortunes of war and the burden of a vast public debt, is proved by the fact that the largest increase in any one year w as in 1872. Railroads become post routes as rapidly as they are built, so that the increase of 8,077 miles mentioned in the report may fairly be assumed to represent additional miles of railways opened to travel. There are 31,8G3 post offices, there being an increase of 1,818 during the last year, yet 885 offices have been discontinued. Not that many counties have been deprived of postal service; but in the improvement of transportation, post offices for the same communities have been established in other parts of the township, The number of let" ters is not given, but it appears that there were 005,380,820 postage stamps, stamped envelopes, and newspaper wrappers issued during the year, and these figures may fairly be taken as representing the packages passing through the mails, with the exception of large numbers of newspapers going to regular subscribers, under a special arrangement as to postage; therefore, we may assume that the letters carried during the year, made an average of about fifteen to each citizen. We are informed that in fifty-two of the principal cities the free-delivery system de livered 100,102,703 letters, 3G,627,3G3 newspapers, and collected 115,117,321 letters. To handle this immense quantity of mail matter required a large number of assistants, and wc are not surprised to learn that there were 31.8G3 Postmasters, 5,544 contractors, 3,754 clerks, 1,442 carriers, 7G4 route agents, 642 railway postal clerk3, 14G mail-route messengers, 93 local agents, and 59 special agents, making a total of 44.C55, with the Postmaster-General, and 34o assistants in the General Post Office at Washington. The conduct of this mail service required an expenditure of 2G,658,192 31, andj yielded a revenue of $21,915,420 37. Only ten packages of postage stamps, representing $256, were lost in the mails; 4,893 missing letters, containing bonds, drafts and currency to the amount of $235,479 84, 2,305 were registered and 2,503 unregistered; of the former only 172 have been actually lost. But perhaps the most suggestive statistics are those which show that 4,241,374 letters were received at the dead letter office, and of those without inclosures 1,529,707 were remailed to the writers, and 1,216,507 were delivered, but 319,200 were returned and destroyed. In addition, there were 2,294,575 destroyed for the reason that no clue to the writer or address could be discovered. Of the remaining 417,092, all contained inclosures of some sort, but the majority only trifling articles of jewelry, photographs, receipts, and bills of lading, but 57,434 contained money, checks, draftst etc., of the nominal value of $3,391,8G1 8G,of which amount $3,164,345 18 was returned to the owners. It is not a pleasant fact that 3G,093 letters were found to have wholly fictitious addresses and signatures, but it is still less pleasant to discover that 5,152 registered letters went astray; all the other statistics of the dead letter office show nothing worse than almost inconceivable carelessness upon the part of people. We may add as a proof of our growing intercourse with all the world, that during the year 24,362,500 letters were exchanged with foreign countries, of which number 12,774,064 were sent from, and 11,558,430 received in, the United States.

The Senate yesterday passed the bill making the Governor's salary $8,000 per year, and providing that when the State furnishes an executive mansion, the salary shall be five thousand dollars. This certainly is as small a sum as should be paid to the men who are worthy to be Governors of Indiana, while the bestowment of the money as a direct salary is much better than by an allowance, which may be tortured into a cause1 of denunciation of the recipient. From tho tone of the remarks in the Senate yesterday we infer that all who have made this an occasion for vituperating Governor Baker during the past three years are heartily ashamed of it As Governor Baker has been deprived of the amount allowed him by law on account of Executive Mansion by partisan action, we suppose the Legislature will take such steps as are necessary to enable him to receive the arrears due him on that account ii The life insurance community is agitated over the proposition of one of the largest and oldest companies of New York to reduce rates of life insurance twenty per cent It is claimed that the companies have done so well the past few years, as to enable them to make this reduction, and it is but an act of justice to the public. Other companies do not seem to be doing well enough yet, and resist the proposition as cutting their profits down to too low a figure.

II A S II. "The tune of tiie time" Iiow's your hrse! The fashionable poodle now wears Lia mistress' monogram. Some new-fangled ass proposes to caII cable dispatches thalasrams. Tie Galveston Aes calls it epihmekic. Not the horse, but the lasses. Fort Wayne honestly believes Mrs. Bowers is as eood an actress as Jennie Hlghr. Rabies are bo plentiful in Frisco that they usethem for head lights on the street cars. Walter Scott has jubt been acquitted on a charge of murdering Oliver Cromwell, in Michigan. What's in a name The first consignment of exiled Communists have arrived at New Caledonia in the ships Guerriere and Garonne. A hen is not considered to have much of a fever unless her pulse beats 180 a minute; 150 is the natural pulsation of her heart. A man in Macpherson, Kansas, who can walk sixty-seven miles a day, is sld to smile at the prospect of the horse disease. A Jacksonville saloon-keeper has had to pay $25 to a womau for selling liquor to her husband after being warned not to do so. Jeff Davis got one vote for President In Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, but JohnQulncy Adams got only his own vote in the whole cf Massachusetts. Hon. John P. Bale, of New Hampshire, is quite ill. lie has rot been out of his room since the 5th ult, when he rode to the polls and voted for Grant Dr. Julias A. Skilton, formerly of Troy, New York, now Consul General at Mexico, owns the horse accoutrements which formerly beloBged to Maximilian. Laura Fair cocktails, recently Bold in San Francisco saloons, have been discontinued since the rumored attempt of that lady to poison Judge Dwindle. Helmbold is head e'erk in a drus store. It is a pleasure to know that the shining abilities of a man who owes seven hundred and eightyone men, are thus recognized. Major J. S. Hay, who Intends startin? a new evening paper in this city, is justly Indi" nant: an unappreclative press mistakes him for "Little Breeches" Hay. St. Louis Globe. Village debating clubs are now in full blast, and questions that have engrossed the Intellectual functions of sages ever eince the flood are being decided at the rate of two a week. A Mrs. Dap, of Sprlngflold, Illinois, recently gave birth to quadruples. The bereaved father says Shakespeare was quite right when he said we do not know "what a day may bring forth.." The condition of George Macdonaid is still critical, though not altogether alarming. He has had no fresh attack of bleeding at the lungs, but is quite weak. He is at Dover, New Jersey, with friends.

The Boston Traveller charges that the men who said the city would be disgraced by the acceptance of aid for its poor from other cities, have not yet contributed the sum required to prevent such disgrace. If you want to see six county seats at once, you have only to climb one hundred and thirty feet of perpendicular ladder reared against the chimney of the new Insane Asylum In Buchanan county, Iowa. The mania for passing resolutions eeems to have gained a fresh start by the death of Mr. Greeley. Congress ought to set about doing something to protect the distinguished dead of the country from this stupid practice. Lucca lives in one of the most elegantly furnished mansions in New York, and is surrounded bv all the luxurious appointments human weakness could wish for. She is attended by three servants, who vie with one another to obey her musical call for ein lager." A Decatur merchant in a fit of Thanksgiving Day generosity presented hla two clerks with a saw buck and a buck saw, and advises them to take plenty of exercise in the open air, especially before they kindle the store fire in the morning. A French inventor has applied a screw propeller to the balloon, and carried fourteen passengers and a total weight of three and three-quarter tons. The balloon answered the helm, and a two-horse power engine is being constructed to establish and employ the principle. Who, after this, shall say the Chinese are not a progressive people? The Government has issued two proclamations one forbidding Chinese landlords to charge extra rent for rooms or houses on account of the birth of children In then., and the other prohibiting under severepenalties the murder of new-born babes. The Savannah (Ga.) AdvcrtUer says: "When Monroe was elected President the second time his opponent, John Quincy Adams, got but one electoral vote. Let John Quincy Adams, Jr., who was a candidate for Vice President on the O'Conor ticket, lake courage. He came within one of getting as many votes as his grandfather." The oldest State Constitution in force is said te be that of New Hampshire, adopted in 1793, and the press of that State is now discussing the proposal to amend the instrument and adapt it to the instrument since made. It contains a-prohibition against Catholics holding office, an absurdity that ought long since to have disappeared. By tho spring flood in the Tug Fork of Sandy no doubt some enterprising lumberman will bring down the returns from McDowell. Wheeling (W. Va.) Intelligencer.... McDowell adjoins Buchanan, and we are rather piqued that any West Virginia county shsuld even have got ahead of one of ours in lagging behind. Richmond (Va.) Enquirer Buchanan was the county that voted "for Gratz Brown" and "Wilsoa " Nine bodies have been taken from the ruins of the Boston fire, and nineteen persons are reported missing. Five of the bodies have been identified. To the nineteen reported missing should be added the five identified, making in all twenty-four who have perished in the fire. It is supposed that the number lost will greatly exceed this, as many thieves were seen to enter burning buildings and not come out, and their names will never be reported. The Stanton Valley Virginian thinks that Alexandria will be the real eastern terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. "When we consider that deep water can only be reached 30 miles below Richmond, which would make it 1C5 miles, XCom Stanton, and that it can be reached a&Alexandna 115 miles from this point, the logic of trade compels us to arrive at the conclusion that what is now termed the branch road will be in fact the main channel of com munication not only for trade, but passengers, between the Western eountry drained by this great line and the East."

MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION.

THE MEPHITIC GASES IN A PRIVT WULT UN DEB A COBBLER'S SHOP SUDDENLY iXfAND. One of the most rero;,rk.bl.thin;sin a small way that has occurred. for :t long tiue happened yesterday afternoon under the lasement of William F. Tyrrell's house, occupiel &i a shoe f ho 3 on the soulheas1 cotn.r of fourth ard Waiaut streets. An exploiob cam? off whici blew up th? floor, scattered the goois in every direction, and fell just short of causing serious injury to those present. Mr. Tyrrel had, for a lovs time pt, been ncnoyed bya peculiar o2or wk'ch seemed to conie up frcm rctween tie cracks of U.e hoards in the cellsr floor. He had been al?o several times on the point of pulling up fre board and removing ths cause, but from pome trace reason the dfgrte of intensity of Up smelt vavied, inasmwh that for long periods there was not so much as a wh'tf, and at otber times it was worse than the breath of pome of our wealthy citizens. Not only was Mr. Tyrrell puzzled at its vtriablenesa. but also at its strong quality, whicl reminded him of nothing which had never tone u: his nostrils before, and be says that his experience initbls line is as goods as meet men's. Neither could the neighbors make anything of it. A man that had bem in the Dead-Letter office for years, edd that it was new sm.ll to him, and another who had beet on many Congressional Committees, Ewore tint it was almost as foul as the aroma raised ii eome of the Treasury investigations. For sme time back there had been no troublesome v eitation of the nuisance until yesterday, when cn going down into the basement the effluvia that swept past his nostrils made him think thatSi. Keck had 6et up a horse boiling kitchen uncer his floor, and that Beau Thompson was stirring up some dead-hog broth in some of the corners. Mr. Tyrrell made ip bis miad at once that he would find out the cause, and in less than no time he had the uiddle boards up'. At the worst, he thought it came from dead rafs. never crediting tha weird stories floating about of an Italian fruit vender who had occupied the cellar in sorn diys gone by, and to whom strange stories of bleed and mutilation were laid. His neishbors hal often said that ttero was doubtless rotting hunan flesh buried below the floor, and eome bdieved that every now and then the foul passes generated therefrom would sioot up through a fiseure, which, clofitg, would again opened when the gas had gattered Fufllcient strength. Bat he pulled up the floor, and instead of finding a 6tack of macgoty animal matter, a great hole opened before him. The feeling that ran through Mr Tyrrell's frame may be more readily imaginec than described. In the words of the litieratnir of the Board of Health, it "beggared description." After due examination the hole wasfound to be an old privy vault, which had not been properly eraptied, and the fifth which kad stuck to the sides and on the bottom was pitrescent, giving out 6tench which had arisen in Mich uneven quantities. It was all dark be ow, and Mr. Tyrrell Ht a paper brand, which ae stuck down the hole. That was the last ol the investigation. The Vrand touched oil tie gas in the vault, and in a jiffy Mr. Tyrrell, ;he fl ior and the shoe-shop were in the positioi of Mabomet'e colfln, floating between hea'en and earth. Mr. Tyrrell has since come down, ind the choes are safely boxed up, but the holt in the floor has been left open for the ex.aming.ion of the Scientists after they have found out something about the horse disease. Cin. Enquirer. MONDAY PAYMENTS. From Scrihncrfor December. Is it best to pay weekly wazes on Mondiy instead of Saturday? The question, at all eients, Is beginning to be agitated, and may at any moment assume serious importance. Thj one and only argument so far adduced is tint the Comparatively uncultivated and moralljless ttustvorthy classes ot working people who who draw weekly wages will be less exposed to the temptation of cxtravagarce and debauchery when their money is paid them at the opening of a working week, than when .hey have a leisure evening and a Sunday holiday before them in which to spend it. The argument looks plausible, and is one of those whose validity will be best tested bj actual experience and statistics. It is poss'g that the dissipated or irresolute factory mnd who now linds the charms of a Saturday nht spree followed by a long Sunday's stupor nd recovery too much for his power of resistuce will be in some degree protected against iimsclf when he receives his little weekly windlall at such season as renders lndulgueuce less convenient, and indeed practically almost impoisible. To be drunk on Saturday night metna only a headache on Sunday, but on Montay evening is apt to bring delinquency the nxt day, and consequent dismissal. That a sadly large share of the wages received by our working people on Saturday night pnetioally finds its direct way to the gin-mill or some scarcely less hurtful form of dissipation it is impossible to doubt. But it is open to the grave question whether postponement 3f payment would radically or even seriously effect the matter. A debauch on Monday is is hurtful as on Saturday; and where this is prictically impossible, the taste for dissipation wll be pretty bure to invent 6ome way of satisfyit" itself even in the dead low tide of the weeky purse. Publicans are of all men in tho world the ones who know best how and when to trut judiciously for their own interest, and the scoie which is chalked up on an imaginative basis-to-day, may be settled in sad reality next weel. Then, if this enforced hebdomadal economy applies to wrongful expense, why not to ri"kful as well, and if Phelim, in Saturday impcuuiesity. mu3t go without his whisky, nor about Bridget's cnicken or the chiiren'6 airing next day. But the evil after all seems of too far wiile rango, of far too vital moment, to be treated with 6uck secondary considerations and merely symptomatic remedies. We must attack the source of disease, not its phenomena. Insteii of merely making it inconvenient for tto workman to 6pend his earnings in vice, we taut address ourselves, sooner or later, to the fir higher problem of rendering it distasteful, repugnant, and, if it may be, morally imposd ble. And to do this we must begin with tfce workman himself, not with his wages. The question needs more elaborate treatmert than our present space permits, but by way cf suggestion we would only allude, among other agencies bearing on the poinr, to the wise aai noble charities instituted in many of the greet miJl corporations of England, by which the operatives are invited to pleasant evening clubs and lyceums, with all that can make social Utercourse cheerful, entertaining and improvin noihing to make it dangerous. Suffice it for is to have given the hint. Who will carry it further? Depend upon it, it ii wasteful work tfcis trying to head olT our neighbor in the indulgence othis fascinating vices; take out the fiscination, or gi?e him a better one that is tie radical way, and the shortest in the end. TREATMENT OP TIIE IIORSE DISEASE. The horse disease continues in New York and New England, and appears to be exttnding Westward. The report that it has reached this city ia not true. The street railway and stage companies inform ul that no umsual malady has made its appearance among their animals. And yet the epidemic is liable to extend to this city. All accounts agree tnatwhen the disease is promptly and properly treated there is but little danger of lis proving fatal. The Montreal Gazette says: With this medicine, given by advice cf a veterinary surgeon, the following treatment will hardly fail to effect a cure, or prevent the progress of the disease or the takingof it. The horses quite well or slightly .affected by it should not be taken out in wet weather, and if they have to be, should be warml covered. Affected animals should be kept In well ventilated 6table, and fed upon hot, soft; food, easily digested, such as linseed tea, oatmeal gruel, and boiled oats or barley. The appetites of invalids should be tempted by carrots, apples, or any other delicacy our sick quadrcped friend is known to have a falling for. In all etaoles a carbolic disinfectant should be 2i be rally used. The Buffalo Commtrcial says: Messrs. Level & Fralick, livery stable keepers on Ellicott street, between Swan and Seneca streets, have recently received a letter from Dr. C. Elliott, veterinary surgeon of St Catharine's, containing what aave proved valuable suggestions for the treatment of horses euflering from the epidemic now so prevalent among these animals. Dr. . advises that the

stable be well ventilated, the horses blanketed.

and chloride of lime sprinkled through tte stible every morning. The nostrils should be sponged out two of three times a day, if the mucous adheres thereto. The food should consist of bran, with a little oats and a moderate quantity of hay. If the bowels are costive, a hHlf pint of raw linseed ril may be given; but P. is risible that the mash will cause sufficient relaxation. Prescription No. 2 (given below) should be administered every morning and evening. If the throat should be sore which can be ascertained by pressure of the band upon the larynx about two tRbleppinfu!s of prescription No. 1 (also given btlw) should be rubbed so long as the disease is conflaed to the larynx there is'very little dan?er. But should it descend to the lungs which will be indicated by tLe continued standing up of the animal, cold extremities and labored breathing a half pound of mustard should be mixed w ith two oui)ce3 of turpentine and water to the consist ency of thick cream, and the mixture raboed well in behind the forelegs or over the region of the lungs. The leg should be bandaged if cold. If the pulse should be over 53 per minute 15 drops of Fiemming's tincture of aconite 6hould be given every two hours, and if the breathing continues labored and the pulse grows more rapid, apply the mustard aguin, and give one and a half drachms of calomel for two mornings. The following are the prescriptions referred to: Prescription No. 1 Linseed oil, 4 oz.; turpentine, 1 oz ; liquor ammonia fort 1 oz. Mix all together in a four ounce bottle and applv to the throat if you think it necessary to do so. Prescription No. 3 Nitrate potash, $ cz.. tartarized antimony, lj oz.; digitalis oz. Pulverize all tegelher and make twelve powders; give one morning and night. P. S. If they are not very Vad you might omit the last ingredient namely, digitalis. TIIE FIRST BLOODSHED AT LITTLE ROCK. An account of the first gr?t Arkansas duel was published in Xoah't Weekly Register. It happened in 1S30. Kobert Crittenden, who was a Whig, canvassed the Territory against Conway, Democrat. In the crude state of Arkansas society it was felt that on the result ef the experiment depended for a generation to come the political complexion of the State. Th two opponents avoided each other, making different circuits, but the wolfish people demanded a debate, and it was finally appointed for Little Kock. The time was summer, the spot a pine grove. Before this time the partisans of the contestants had made the campaign infamous by abuse and personal accusation. People from the remotest parts of the Territory were present, and the capacity cf inns and lodging-houses was exceeded, so that many wild people camped out in the surrrundicg woods. Conway carried on the debate after the spirit in which it had proceeded, catering to the common taste. Crittenden eaid, during his second speech, that no language was tolerable that could not be sustained by the Code of Honor. At this the inflamed Conway inter rupted him with denunciation and Invective, and Crittenden stopped the discussion, and sent the challenge the same evening. They met the next morning in the presence of as many people as had listened to the discussion. Crittenden's second was Ben. Desha, of Kentucky; Conway's, Colonel Wharton Rector. All Arkansas might have been said to be assembled. A quarrel of an hour arose over the preliminaries, and Crittenden lay quiet on a I lanket, while Conway excited himself. As they stood up to fight Conway looked the swarthy Tennesseean, stem and premeditatlve; Crittenden, the fair-haired, spirited Kentuckian. Desha 2ve the word, loud as the proclamation of the law. Conway fired fist, and cut a button from Crittenden's coat. The next minute he fell heavily to the ground, shot through the heart. Mr. Crittenden had 6et Arkansas an example. At a meeting of the Western Irn Asocialon, held in Pittsburg yester.itTrnwi the price of iron waa reduce i3 ton and XnH wa3Jed0 -ed 50c per keg. The recent reducU 68 Cf Pig metal accounts for lhla PLENTY OF WOOD. KEEP WARM. Having made arrangements with ore of the railroads to famish us with wood for the seaeoa, we can furnish our citizens, at FAIR FIGURES, With wood, full length, or sawed in quantities as they may desire. ALDK1CU & GAY, Octll-e6m Corner Indiana avenue and Canal. AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF M.TJSIO To-TNTightv "TIIE RANK AND FILE OF TIIS ARMY; OR UNTITLED HEROES WHO IIaVE GONE DOWN TO NAMELESS GRAVES." Will be tdld for the first time in public, by the REV. CHARLES L THOMPSON, Go and hear him; you won't regret it. AdmWion, 50 cents. Nothing extra for reserved seats which mav tc had at Beuham's Music Siore. and at Pearson & Dlcknon's. iccl d5t ACADEMY OF MUSIC. RUBINSTEIN CONCERT. ' RUBINSTEIN AND WIENIAWSKI. MONDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 1, 1872. MR. GRAU has the honor to announce as above the First and Only Appearance here of ANTON RUBINbTKIN, The Greatest Livirg Pianist, and one of the most profound musical thinkers of the age. with and es ccnible of Eminent Artists, including II K N" II Y WIENIAW8KI, Th World Renowned YioMn1st, and universally regtrdid aa "the only rival to the memory of Paganini." MLLE. IjOTJIBK LIEBHAUT, The Celebrated Soprano. MLLE. LOQISE ORMENY, Tho Favorite Contralto. Accompanist Moss. L. Rembieukski. C5FStelnway'8 Pianos are used at all Rubinstein Concerts. nov2914tamcol SPJECIAJLTIES. 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JOHN S. SPANN - CORE AL ESTATE AGENTS, CO 2&t TVahinscton street. TIIL; WOODLAWN LOTS on FLECIIER avenue, HURON street, and on ENGLISII avenue, SPANN avenue, and IIOYT aveuue, are now the nearest to the center of the city, the best locked and the lowest in price, of any lots on this market. There are more improved street, on and leading to this plat tLan any other part of lown. There are more houses in process of erection in the 6ou:h-ca8t part than any other. There have been as many lots toll here as in any other part. The chances for qu'ck profit are quite as good here as any where else. For prceciit use for HOMES for eo; h in moderate circumstances it is unsurpassed by any thing in the market. Uniform price $20 per front foot. Oi -(--fifth down, the rcmaindtr in 1, 2, 3 and 4 year?, willi interest John s. pp.-.n:: .ico., Eca' p:.:!o Agents. lu29 etd IMMEDIATE POSSESSION. Can be given of an cnlm lj- :icw and elegantly furnished brick huc of twelve rooms, Inside Blinds, Double Pai Mrs, Grates, Mantles, Gas, Furnace, Water-works, Stable, etc., &c. The !oi is large, fronts east and i.9 in one of our most fashionable uortlurn localities, contigious to street railwa' nrul an easy walk to business. The owner will m jriricc the propert', but sell at a fair price and accommodate tho terms to those desiring to. make a small cash payment. Also twenty acres, adjoining the city on the east, $1,500 per acre. Best bargain in market. FRANK SMITH & CO., No. 7G East Washington Street. LEVI WRIGHT. JAMES P. WEIGHT. J. A. C. H'COT NOW I'OK KltG-INS LEVI WRIGHT & CO., No. 80 1-3 East Market Street. Have ten acres land, cho'ce, improved, beautifully located jutt north of the city. Great baigain, email cah and loui t'ine. Twelve acres a miles north of the city. Small cpfIi paymui t and Ions; time. Twenty five acres eoiitli of city. Great bargain. Small cah and Ww time II ou es and ;ots iu rett vari-.ly. Small cash and Ion? time. Great bargains iuacant lota in all parts of the city. Farm cf 170 acres rorthca?t of city, $100 per acre. Term? eay. Farm or lK) acrvg poalhoast of city, only $75 per acre. Ttrms easy. CAIiL AND SKK US. Carriages ready to ehow property at all times. JAMES P. WRIGHT, Attorney at Law, formerly of Jackson coucty, will practice in all the Courts. novMye nov9-8mc Romberg & Steinmotz PRACTICAL UPHOLSTERERS, Manufacturers and Dealers in all Kinds of FURNITURE, 117 East "Washinaton 8treet. rSDIANAPjOLIS, IND. lrartlcular attention paid to Repairing at f hort notice gep34 Sine USE TIIE AMERICAN HRE-KIXDLEK, XAXTFACTURED BT P. G. JORDAN. Headquarters at Frni Stand, corner of Delaware and Washington streets. Obdeiu from Grocers promptly ailed. tep27c8ia CALDWELL & SON, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, No. 7 Blackford Bloolc. Cor. Wasldngton and Meridian SU.) For Sale or Exchange Two-etry frame etcre building in Carthape, Rash county. Indiana, containing six rooms and ware room two store rooms below and four roonw above. The building is nearly new, with slate roof; price, $4,500; would exchange foraetock of salable merchandise or a good farmwill par diiierence in cash. For Sale House on W. North street; price, $8 00 rentb for $25 per month; will take, as cash payment! vacant Ground in north part of city. Lot 4vi65 on Columbia et, sooth of Tinker near Sewing Machine Factory; price, $S00; very cheap Cerif you want to buy a house acd lot or vacant lot in any part of the city, give us a c&lL sepiie ' PS SALS-JOB TYPE. "we have tUl on hard a number of fonte cf Job Type, which we o2e at lees than half the price of new material. Much of -this type is as good as new. and all of it is in good rorking condition. Send for Bpedmea BheeLitiS price for each font attached. maris tf INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL CO,

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