Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1883 — Page 7

THE DAY’S RAILWAY NEWS. Questionable Whether the Straight Lino will Ever Be Built. • The Bee Line Election Disappointing to 'the Vanderbilts—Matters of General Interest. Personal Points. C. W. Fairbanks, attorney for the TANARUS., B. A W. company, returned* last evening, from New York. Aquila Jones, president of the Indianapolis Rail Roliine-miil Company, has gone to Spriugfleld, 111., to be absent a couple of days. Gaylord Beach, chief engineer, and W. C. Irwin, engineer of bridges on the Bee Line system, are making an inspection trip of the lines, traveling in Mr. Beach’s new coach. John Thomas, president, and Aquila Jones, jr., attorney of the Bedford, Owensboro, Spritig▼ille A Bloomfield road, have gone to Bloomfield to deed 2.000 acres of laud, recently sold at $20,000, to the purchasers. Charles Ridgely. president of the Springfield Iron and Steel Rolling-mill Company, who tendered his resignation a day or two ago, has been ask*d unanimously by the board of directors to withdraw his resignation, but he lias po&itivcly deolined so to do. George A. Sanderson, general freight agent of the Mexican Central road, formerly on the Indianapolis, Decatur A Springfield road, passed through the city yesterday en route for New York. Mr. Sanderson reports that, he is pleasantly located, salary $.'1,500. Tho business on the road is steadily increasing. The rumor current in railroad'circles that J. H. Rutter, traffic manager of the New York Central road, was ill poor health and had intimated that he would resign at an eariy day is pronounced Dv those who best know him to be without foundation. Freight men who met him in New York last week state that he has not been In better health for years. Colonel R. G. Hervey retires from tho Indianapolis A Evansville Straight Line enterprise unscarred, so far as his plncky qualities are concerned, yet the opposition to his building the road bus been strong from the beginning, and it Is hardly probable he ever could have built it. Mr. Hervey still belives there is money in the Illinois Midland road, and it is hinted that his next move will be to form a syndicate to buy that property. Colonel Bennett H. Young, recently elected president of the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago Railroad Company, has not held the position long enough to demonstrate fully his ability to fill it, but he has accomplished one thing, for which he deserves credit—he has stopped the hair-pulling and clashing of authority bet ween the subordinate officers, and it. is stated that, the business of the road is moving along with remarkable smoothness and scouring its full share of freights moving, Local Notes. Sunday next the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago commence running their trains by Chicago Instead of Louisville time, as in years past. There is some eleven minutes difference in the time. The Indiana Car Company, Cambridge City, are building 100 coal cars for the Indianapolis A Vincennes road. These cars have a carrying capacity of 40,000 pounds, and are very substantial in their build. An Easteru rolling-mill company yesterday offered to furnish an Indianapolis road tho best atesl rails f. o. b. at S3B per ton. This company ninety days ago sold rails to the Indianapolis road at $42 per ton. In the week ending March 13 there were handled on the Vernon, Greensburg A Rushville division of the Cincinn iti, Indianapolis, St. Louis A Chicago road 533 loaded cars, which is a good business, certainly, for this young branch. Two consol engines of the 1., B. AW.*one hauling sixty seven cars, tile other sixty, passed over the Union tracks yesterday afternoon. Every car belonged to the New York Central, which indicates that the 1., B. & W. is a valuable feeder to the Vauaerbilt system. The Pennsylvania Company is having built a large number of stock cars at Eastern carworks, which are thirty-four feet in leugtb, and when loaded with horses or mules they are rated at 25,000 pounds, hogs 20,000 pounds, sheep 17,501) pounds. Local Passenger Agent Palmer, of the Wabash system, reports that the Wabash line to Hannibal, which has been out of shApo for the last two weeks owing to washouts and damages to bridges, has been fully repaired, and trams are again running over the same as usual. The Wabash people say that the first week in , March shows an increase of $17,000 in their profits, and this, with one branch nearly entirely covered with snow and closed to traffic. All their roads are now entirely clear, and, barring accidents, they predict a large increase for this week. The new Pittsburg, Cincinnati A Bt. Louis freight depot is to be a handsomer and larger building than the P., C. A St. L. depot now standing. Which is one of toe best freight depot* in the West. Tho new building will he twentyfour feet wider und but a few foot less iu length than the old. For a few days past the average movement of loaded cars on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis A Chicago lias averaged 950 oars per day. President Ingalls gives 1,000 loaded cars per day as the fullest capacity wir.li their present locomotive power. Consequently the management are well satisfied, and expect March earulags to show up admirably. There are 429 locomotives on the Pittsbnre, Cincinnati & St. Louis lines, on divisions as follows: Pittsburg division, 114: first division west of Columbus, 106; second and third divisions, St: Little Miami, 49; Cincinnati A Muskingum Valley, 20; Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis, 45; Indianapolis A Vincennes, 11. The company proposes to increase their power 75 engines the present year. A large force is busy at East St. Louis arranging for the use of the interlocking switch signal in the yards of the Tlfdianupolis A St. Louis road. Tub apparatus which operates the switches and signals will be placed in u building thirty feet square and two stories high, near the St. Louts bridge. By this apparatus fifty-six switches are controled with perfect *(*080, and at all times their action is reliable. The system complete will cost the company $30,000. General News. During the year 1882 forty-three railroad companies filed articles of association in Florida. The withdrawal of the Chesapeake & Ohio from the Trunk Line pool is not creating so much of a rocket as rate breakers had anticipated. The Chicago, Burlington A Quincy railroad has Just opened anew through line between Ottumwa, Ih., and St. Louis. To-day a line of new chair-cars will bo placed on this route. The Illinois Central and St. Paul A Omaha roads are still doing a good business between Omaha and Chicago, and they say they have uo idea of abandoning their Omaha line by way of 4ioux City. The Houston, East A West Texas road is completed and has trains running to Lewisville, Tex.*, firteeu miles northeast of the lato terminus at Lufkin, and 135 miles from Houston. Work is progressing steadily toward Shreveport. The Plttßburg Southern Railroad, now the property of the. Baltimore A Ohio Company* is to be completed over its original proposed route after these long years of waiting. The original route of tho Pittsburg Southern was to run aloug the present course to Y'irgiuiu Junction, and from there to the Virginia line, with Morgantown, W. Va., as the objective point. The Florida Southern road, one of the Henning F.yndicate lines, is completed to Brewer, six miles beyond the late terminus at Gainesville, and fifty-five miles from the Sr. John’s river ut Palatka. The grading is finished to Newuunsvtlle, ten miles beyond Brewer. The Ocala division is iu operation from the main line at Perry <fnrty mile* from Paintkn), to Ocala, thirty two miles, making eighty-seven miles of road now in operation. The unsold lands belonging to the Union Pa ctfio company amount, says an officer of that company, to 14,465,000 acres. The average price of lands sold Inst year was $4.45 per acre. Xf the remainder of the land can be sold at this Average price the lands will fetch $64,369,250. This amount would pay the liability to tun government, amounting to $46,775,000, together with (be sinking fund bonds, which are . second lieu of these lands, amounting to $13,851,000, and leave a surplus <*f $3,742,250. The rates between Eastern cities and San Francisco on the occasion of the triennial conclave of the Knights Templar have been fully agreed upon by the trunk lines and their connecting roads The fare from Boston for the the round trip for Knights and their ladies is fixed at $120: from New York. sll7, and from Philadelphia, slls. Correspondingly reduced rates have been prepared for all the principal in the country from whioli delegations to the

conclave are anticipated. The groat concession* from the tariff rates ure made bv roads west of the Mississippi river, which are anticipating a large amount of travel as a result of the oouclave. DKVBRKITX HEADED TIIKM OFF. A railroad man who is well posted in Vanderbilt schemes, and who Is highly esteemed by subordinate officials of President Vauderbilt, last evening remnrked to the railroad reporter of the Journal that while East last week he learned that the results of the Cleveland, Columbus* Cincinnati A Indianapolis election were not specially pleasing to the Vanderbilt people, they not having the holding of stock, either by purcha.se or proxy, that they expected to have prior to the annual meeting some thirty days. It is understood that J, H. Devereux and Judge Burke bandied matters very shrewdly, and at the election they managed to have in their control stock sufficient to wield an Influence which defeated the wholesale scooping in of tho property in accordance with Vanderbilt's original intention. #E9TBBB MEN MAKING A GOOD RECORD. An Eastern railroad man who was iu the city yesterday states that the management of the New York A New England road has at last got matters to running smoothly. 8. M. Felton, gen- j eral manager, and his superintendents, all old j P.*C. A St. L. men, have systematized operations until accidents and delays are now but few. The equipments of the line are very largely increased, and with this the earnings increase. Twenty passenger cars have just been ordered by the New Yorfc A New England railroad, ten of which will be built at Philadelphia, and the remainder ut Troy, and all will be delivered by June 1 next. Tne road has also given an order for 500 freight oars, to be built at Huntington, Pa. Within a few weeks twelve now engines have been received, ten rroin the Grant and two from the Rhode Island Locomotive Works, and fifteen more are ordered. Five or six of the old cars are turned out of the company’s shops weekly, repaired and refitted, and this work will be continued until all have, been through the shops. Both the Pennsylvania and Erie are throwing a large amount of traffic on to this line. A REASON ABLE STATEMENT. The friends of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road have issued a circular showing the condition of the property quite fully. They account ’ for the present low quotations of the stock for the reason that, aside from the general depressed condition of the stock market, tile company has grown faster than the legitimate investment demand could absorb the stock, thereby leaving on the market a large quantity of floating stock which will require time to place in permanent hands. On the Ist day of January, 1879, the company had a capital stock of SB, 615,000, held by 336 stockholders; a bonded debt (excluding $3,265,000 land grautseveus) of $10,843,000, and 470 miles of road, while on the 13th Uh.v of January. 1883, there were 6,032 stockholder?. holding $56,907,100, u bonded debt of $45,780,500, and a mileage of 2,620 miles. The gross earnings for 1882 on 1,826 miles will approximate $14,800,000, and the expenses, including taxes, $8,650,000, leaving net earnings of $6,150,000. After paying all fixed charges and Dividend* of 6 percent., the surplus for 1882 will be about $700,000, or IY* per cent, upon the capital stock. SOME OF THE LATEST DEVICES. Patents in railway appliances are Brill being asked for numerously, car-coupling patents taking the lead. I. J. Pursley, of Wetmore, Ks., lias just been granted a patent on a car-coupling device. The invention is claimed to be perfectly automatic in its actiou, a common loobo link being used, while a slotted tongue takes the place of the ordinary pin. It can be successfully used on cars of different heights or any other coupler using a link. W. J. Ross, of Memphis. Tenu., a gentleman with a practical experience in railroading of twenty-five years, as manager of a prominent line, has been granted a patent on a car-coupler, which Mr. Ross und his railroad friends claim is entirely practical, simple In construction* comparatively insignificant iu cost or mutetial and labor; can be attached to any freight car, aud insures perfect freedom from accidents iu coupling cars. H. Burk hard t, or Chicago, received a patent, Jan. 30, for a steel draw-bar for freight cars, which is claimed by Mr. B. to be light, strong, durable, simple, and free from any entangling attachments. Tho Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific Railway, after a long aud thorough test, lias adopted the Perry safety coupler. D. W. Davis* of Detroit, Mich., has been granted a patent on a refrigerator car, which it is claimed is to result iu a revolution of refrigerating. WIIAT NEXT? Disposed of at last, is the common remark over the special in yesterday morning’s Journal regarding the announcement of the sale of the Indianapolis A Evansville Straight Line to the Mackay A Collett syndicate. But what next? is the leading question. An anxiety prevails among business men lest this sale means a general killing off of the enterprise, and some are so bold as to say that the Pennsylvania Company furnished the means with which the partially built line whs purchased, aud the road win be abandoned, yet Mr Maokny tells a reporter of tiie Evansville .Journal that in his opinion the rbart would be built. He was not prepared to go ill to particulars as to tho plans of the new company, but it was safe to assume that they had not put their money into the road without the intention of ti ring to realize on the Investment. Mr. Heilman, who was questioned on tiie same point, replied that the roud would be built, and that the connection betweeu Evansville aud Petersburg would bo established before harvest time. An important item in the new purchase is the reduction that the late revision of the tariff by Congress makes on the steel rails imported for the road. There are about 3,500 tons of them, the duty on which when imported was S2B a ton. Now the duty has been reduced to sl7 petton, and the rails, being still in bond, will get the benefit of tins reduction, which will amount to about $35,000. NEPOTISM DON’T PAY IN RAILWAY OPERATIONS. The most successful managers at the present day are those who get acquainted with their employes iu every department aud learn their ability, and whenever opportunity offers, promote men who are deserving. Possibly no abuse iu tho railway service has been more demoralizing and has resulted in greater injury to the companies than the still too common custom of promoting the “son or nephew of this or that official” over tho head of an old, worthy and capable employe. The president of one of the most prosperous of Indianapolis roads can give the name of every employe on his road, down to ths section hands, if such employe has bean m tiie company’s service any length of time. A general manager whose career has uoi been a specially brilliant one, one© remarked that lie had more men under his command than General Sherumn. “I know lens tuan a dozen of them, und those merely because chance throw me near them. I have wished often to fiud a man for certain work, and would have been glad to have taken a man from the ranks if I had known one capable fertile position; but I did not, and the result lias been that the sou or nephew of this or that official would be given the place.” It was the business or this general manager to acquaint himself with his men, personally or through his subordinate officers. There is not a department where there cannot be found men competent and deserving of promotion. The paying of attention to this matter lias made the Pennsylvania road the model road of the world. TIIE DANVILLE <fc VINCENNES LITIGATION. Chicago, March 14 —ln the case of the trustees, Fosdick and Fish, against the Chicago, Danville A Vincennes road, Judge Blodgett, of the Federal Court, to-day made a number of rulings. The road in question was bought under foreclosure, and is being operated by the Chicago A Eastern Illinois road. The court denied a motion of the stockholders in the old Danville A Vincennes property, aud ordered the road lutok into the hands nf tne receiver, on the ground that t.he Chicago A Eastern Illinois is a responsible corporation. The court also denied a motion for reference to a master in chancery, pending the bearing of a case in which the Chicago & Eastern Illinois is defendant; also a motion to strike the bill from the files on the ground that the Chicago A Eastern Illinois claimed to be the bona fide purchasers and might havo a right to a deorce. THE GENERAL PASSENGER AGENTS. New York, March 14.—Tho general passenger agents passed a resolution demanding that a doctor’s certificate should accompany every corpse earried on different roads,to prevent the spread of contagious diseases. It was resolved that all articles of baggage should not exceed 250 pounds. Resolutions of regret were passed on the death of John C. Hewitt, general passenger agent of the People's Line of steamers. The following officers were elected: President* Lucius Tuttle, of the Eastern read; vice-president, O. A. Taylor, of the Richmond, Fredericksburg A Potomac road; secretary, A. J. Smith, of the Bee Lino. The. convention will meet at Chicago on the second Tuesday in September.

TILE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, J 883.

RECORD OF THE COURTS. Proceedings In the Various Courts of Record, Yesterday. Full Abstract of the Opinions Rendered by the Jndgee of the Supreme Court —Work iu the Local Courts. Supreme Court—March 14. lion. William A. Woods, Chief Justice. MORTGAGE DEBT —ASSUMPTION —MISTAKE. 10,049. E. B. Martmdale vs. Robert Connelly et al. Marion 8. C. Woods, C. J.—Parson took a deed for two lot* from Mitchell, containing this clause: ‘‘Subject; to a mortgage duted February 1, 1873, on each j lot, to secure the payment of five promissory notes for the sum of SBO each, etc., all of which ! the grantee, by tiie acceptance of this deed* aasumes and agrees to pay.” Mitchell represented j that there were only five notes on both lots, aud ! it was with this understanding that Parson aocepted the deed. Held: The contract of assumption is well calculated to mislead, but when ! critically read It means a separate mortgage on ' each lot* and as the deed wju* read to Parson it ; must be presumed that it was correctly rend, ard the mistake, if any, was one or law. A mis- ■ apprehension or even misrepresentation as to ! thp legal effect of an instrument affords no ; ground for equitable relief. (72 Ind., 137; 78 | id., 136.) And when au agree.ment has ! been reduced to writing tho parol uegotia- j tions must he deemed to be merged | in the writing, unless it is shown by mutual mis- j take the writing was made to express an agree- ; inent not intended by either party. (23 Ind., 212; 40 id., 366; 49 id., 434,482; 79 id., 417.) No j such mistake is shown in this case. A party who I accepts a deed containing such a stipulation is j bound as by a written contract, (52 Ind., 136; i 45 id., 552; 3 Wash. R. F., 280.) Judgment reversed. MORTGAGE —WIFE’S INTEREST —BILL OF REVIEW. 9,438. James Hardy vs. Elizabeth. Miller. Montgomery C. C. Elliott, J.—ln cases of mortgages executed since the act of 1875 went into force, where there has been a severance of interests by judicial sale the wife is entitled, upon application, to have a. provision inserted iu the decree directing the husband's interest in the land to he first sold, and that, if it brings enough to pay the debt that her interest shall not be sold. (70 Ind., 509; 79 id., 567; 83 id., 4.) But where the only error in the proceedings, ts there was any error, is in the provisions of the decree, a bill for review’ will not lie. This question was fully considered in 79 £mi., 424; 81 id., 54. Judgment reversed. ESCHEATED LANDS—NON-BESII)RUT ALIEN HEIRS. 9,993. The Btate ox rel. Baldwin vs- Martin Witz. White C. C. Besr, C.—Action to recover land escheated to the State. By the act of March 9, 1861, nonresident alien heirs may Inherit real estate, whether the ancestor aiort before or after the passage of the act. The complaint does not aver that Knapp, the ancestor, was a non-resident of this State at. the time of his death, nor that he did not leave surviving him non-resident alien heirs. If he resided iu the State at the time of htu .L ath aud left such heirs, who, daring eight years after the passage of said act, conveyed the land, it did not escheat to the Stare. It was incumbent upon the appellant to show title in the State, ami as the State could only take in the absence of heirs, or on their failure to convey, it was necessary to negative such facts as show that the title maybe elsewhere. Judgment affirmed. PLEA DING—N EOLIGENCB—IINSTRUCTIONS. 9,898. Indiana Manufacturing Company vs. William J. Millican, administrator. Miami C. C. Bicknell, C.—Where an action for negligent killing if* brought hv the administrator for the benefit of the widow and children of the deceased, it is sufficient to aver that the deceased waft himself guilt}' of uo contributory negligence, without averring that the administrator was free from such negligence. (53 Ind , 398; 77 id., 182.) Unless it appears by the record that all the instructions given are before the court, tho refusal of instructions is not an avoidable error. (62 Ind., 307: 77 id., 110.) And where the bill or exceptions does not show that those contained in it were the only instructions given,’ it will be presumed, if necessurv, that others were given. (10 Ind., 338; 74 id., 575.) Judgment affirmed, PARTITION OF LANDS —VENDOR’S LIEN. 9,536. Ellen Grans vs. Commissioners Hamilton County. Hamilton C. C. Howk, J.—The complaint of appellants avers that in 1856 certain lands of William Conner, deceased, were partitioned among his heirs, that they could not be equally divided without loss and that, Alexander 11. Conner should pay oertain specified sums to appellunts in nine years from date, the land set off to him being worth that much more than the land set off to appellants. By agreement of all the parties, appellants,who -were minors, being represented by their guardinps, the court rendered judgment for such sums, which Judgments became a first lien on all the lands or said Connor. As the parties were restricted by the agreement from proceeding on the judgments for nine yours after rendition, their lien continued for nineteen years. (R.S. 1881, sec. 608.) The taking of these judgments constituted anew seourity by which the vendor’s lien of appellants on the particular land set oft to said Alexander Conner was waived. (19 Ind., 151; 60 id., 74.) Judguiaut affirmed. SHERIFFS SALK—PAYMENT OF PURCHASE MONEY. 8.336. John M. Carnalian vs. Allen Yerkes. Fountain C. C. Morris, C—Action by appellees to enjoin the sheriff from executing a deed. The payment of the purchase money is a condition precedent to the delivery of the deed by the sheriff to the purchaser. (48 Lid., 274.) The liqus of judgments attach to tne fund produced by the sale of real estate in the same order as to priority iu which they constituted liens upon the real estate itself. (Herman Kx„ section 279: Freeman Ex., section 347.) In order to perfect Ills sale and eutitle himself to a deed, a judgment creditor who bids lu property at sheriff's sale must pay in cash a sufficient sum to discharge all judgment- Liens which are prior to his own. An execution creditor who bids in property upon his own execution and applies the bid to the payment of his own judgment is not regarded as an innocent purchaser. (Herman Ex., 328; Freeman lb.* 300.) Judgment affirmed. The following oaaes were alaodeolded: 10,032- Wulschner vs. Sella. Marion S. C. Affirmed. Bicknell, C. 10,122. Meredith vs. Citizens’ National Bank. Decatur C.C. Affirmed. Best, C. 9.810. Powell vs. Hunger. Dearborn C. C. Reversed. Black, C. Woods, O. J., dissents. 9.822. Catterlin vs. City of Frankfort. Clinton C. C. Affirmed. Franklin, C. 8,931. Sliordan vs. Kyler. Whitley C. 0. Afllrtned. Black, C. 10,023. Huffman vs. Caubie. Washington C. C. Rehearing denied. Superior Court. Room No l—Hou, Napoleon U. Taylor, Judge. John J. Poliand vs. William Nichols; replevin suit. Dismissed by plaintiff. Mason J. Osgood, trustee, vs. City of Indianapolis et al. Anew trial was granted the city as a matter of right. Jacob B. Julian ct al. vs. Mary A. Taggart; suit on account. On trial by Jury. Room No. 2—Hon. Daniel W. Howe. Jit dare. Eli Burdge vs. 1., B. & W. K. R. Cos.; damages. Ou trial by jury. Room No. 3—Hon. Lewis C. Walker, Judge. Janies H. Bozcll vs. The W., Sr. L. <fc P. R. R. Cos.; suit for damages. Dismissed at plaintiff's costs. Lou H. Bowman vs. Benjamin F. Bowman; suit for divorce. A decree granted ou the grounds of cruel treatment. John N. Shirley vs. Lee Hunt; suit on note. Judgment for $1,048 93. Kdmun Noel et al. vs. Christcua M. Hagerhorst. .1 ury out. Criminal Court. ITon. l’ierce Norton, Judge. State vs. John J. Jeter; murder. On trial by jury. M If you experience bad taste in mouth, sal lowness or yellow color of skin, feel stupid and drowsy, appetite unsteady* frequent headache or dizziness* you are “bilious,” and nothing will arouse your liver to action ami strengthen up your system equal to Dr. Pierce’s “Goldeu Medical Discovery. By druggists. EASTER Our Plaster Designs in Cards ainj Novelties arc worth lookiug at. See them. The earlier the better for you and for us. COME IN. BOWEN. STEWART & CO., No. 18 W. Washington St,

SIGNIFICANT SPRING. A Dissertation Upon Its Advent, and Its Effect Upon Mankind. “The green leaf of the new come Spring."— Shak. Everybody recognizes spring, when it is once upon us, but many persons are not familiar with the exact date of its appearance. Webster, the world-renowned lexicographer, gives us a definition which may not be inappropriate here. “Spring,” says he, “is the season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and rise; the vernal season, comprehending the months of March, April and May, in the middle latitudes, north of the equator.” Thompson, in his “Seasons,” and Shakspeare in many of his works, have* perhaps, no peers in describing it, and yet “ethereal spang” is freighted with malaria, “that insidious foe, lurking unseen lu the very air we breathe.” It spreads over tho fairest portions of our land; brings death and disease to thousands, cuts off scores upon scores of our children and youth, as well os those in advanced life. A pestilence is regarded with little less apprehension, and people everywhere are aftlcing,“What is it!” “Whore does it come from!" “What will cure it!” KIDNEY-WORT AS A SPRING MEDICINE. When you begin to lose appetite, have a headache, a pain in your side, back and shoulders; to toss about at night in restless dreams; wake in the morning with a foul mouth and furred tongue; feel disinclined to go about your work, heavy in body and oppressed iu mind; have a fit of ihe blues; when your urine gets scanty or high colored; to suffer with constipation* diarrhoea or indigestion; have a pasty, sallow face, dull eyes, and a blotched skin; one or all of these common complaints will certainly be evidences that your liver is disordered, torpid or perhaps diseased. A bottle of Kidney-Wort is, under such circumstances* a priceless boon to such a person. Bare assertions of proprietors have oome to possess less force tbau they frequently merit. Tne cause of this condition of popular skepticism is* in the main* to be found in the fact that charlatanism covers our broad land. Meritorious articles are too frequently found in bad company. The proprietors of Kidney-Wort always prove all taeir assertions touching the merits of their preparations. When we affirm, therefore, that Kidney-Wort is a specific for just such disorders as have been mentioned In this article, the proof* too* belongs to and shall follow this statement. A PHYSICIAN’S EXPERIENCED:. R. K. Clark, a regular pliysioiun of extensive practice m Grand Isle county, and a worthy deanou of the Congregational Church, at South Hero, Vt„ has used Kidney-Wort for several years in his practice, aud before the present proprietors purchased an interest in it, he had given his unbiased opinion in its favor. This opinion has not changed. “It has done better than any other remedy I have ever used,” says the Doctor, and, further on he writes: “I do not recollect an instance where the patient to whom I have given it has failed to receive benefit from its Use, and in some severe cases most decidedly so.” These nre strong words. They are from a representative, conscientious, everapproachable public citizen, however, and—better still—they are true. Kidney-Wort will boar all the encomiums lavished upon It by its friends —aud their name is legion. “I will swear by Kidney-Wort all the time,” writes Mr. J. It. Kauffman, of Lancaster, Pa. We will supplement this by asserting, as a matter of fact, and one capable of demonstration. (lint all honest patrons of this remedy are its friends aud advocates, PATENT BLACK WATER-PROOFED CARBOLIZED PAPER. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY PAGE, BOOTH & CO., 49 WALL STREET. NEW YOP.K. By use of this Paper, Woolens, Carpets, Furniture, Furs, Feathers, Carriages, and ail fabrics liable to damage by MOTHS, are absolutely protected. It can be used for several seasons. A strip of tliis Paper, 18 inches wide, if placet! under the edges of a carpet, will prevent the intrusion of the common MOTH, the “BUFFALO” MOTH, or any other insect or vermin. Adopted by the United States Army and Navy. For Sale by all Carpet Dealers.

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY INDIANAPOLIS. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. ELLIOTT <*. BUTLEK, NO. 3 ASTNA BUILDING. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. CHARLES MARTINDALS, Attorney and Counselor at Law. Promnt attention given to collections ami litigation In State aud Federal courts. PATENTS OBTAINED. Correspondence in rolatiou to patents solicited, office, -Etna Building. REAL. ESTATE AND INSURANCE. ALEX. METZGER’S, INSURANCE and LOAN, REAL ESTATE and STEAMSHIP AGENCY, Second FloorOitd-fellows Halt TRUNK MANUFACTU RER. _ 1 NULL ASSORTMENT. TRUNKS MADE TO order. Repairing neatly done. JAMES BOGERT, Telepnone to Bates Houso Trunk Store. MISCELLANEOUS. PATENTS! PATENTS! PROCURED FOR INVENTORS. Patent cases attended to. CHARLES P. JACOBS* Patent Attorney. Indianapolis. Ind. Hercules powder, the safest and strongest powder in the world. Powder, Caps. Fuse, and all tne tools ror Blasting Stumps kept by C. H.JENNE, Sole Agent, 29si North Pennsylvania street. Indianapolis Oil Tank Line Cos., DEALERS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. Corner Fine and Lord Streets. S .A. AV S. W. E. BARIiY, Saw Manufacturer, 132 and 131 S. Pennsylvania 3t. Smith’s Chemical Dye-Works, No. 3 M-artindale’s Block, near Postoffice, Clean, dye and repair gentlemen's clothing*, also, ladies’ dresses, shawls, sacques, and silk and wooien goods of every description, dyed and reffnished; kid gloves neatly cleaned at 10c per pair. Will do more first-oiass work for less money than any house of the kind in tiie State. JOHN B. SMITH.

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MAIL LETTINGS. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., March 1* 1883. Proposals will be received at tho Contract Office of this department until 3 p. in. of April 21, 1883, for carrying tho mails of the United States upon tho routes, and according to the schedule of arrival and departure specified by the Department, in the State of Ohio, from July 1, 1833, to June 30, ISS4. Lists of routes, with schedules of arrivals aud departures, instructions to bidders, with forms for contracts aud bonds, aud all other necessary information will be furnisned upon application to tb© Second Assistant Postmaster general. T. O. HOWE, X’oatm aster-general.

THE BLOOD WOULD BUN. For five years I was a great sufferer from Catarrh. My nostrils were so sensitive that I could not boar the least bit of dust; at times so bad the blood would run, at night I could hardly breathe. After trying many things without much benefit 1 was induced to use Ely's Cream Balm. To-day I am a living witness of its efficacy. Pkiki; Burov., Farmer, Ithaca, N. Y. Apply by the little finger into the nostrils. By absorption it effectually cleanses the nasal passages of ca-

No Kindling Required No Coal to Carry* No aslias to Remove. Prices from $2 to sl6. See Otto Silent Gas Engine. Ou exhibition and for salo by the GAS COAIPA-ISTY, No. 47 South Pennsylvania Strpet. Safe 'ind SnecJv' A F<>,: Oclie auu opecuy iONL Y S2. For informatiou and circulars Way to FortuneTo,T'lkk, Courier-Journal Building, Louisville, Ky.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUR.NAL. FOR 1883. ESTABLISHED 1823. The Indianapolis Journal is now in its sixty-first year, with the support and confidence of a larger and constantly growing constituency, and with an influence, we feel warranted in saying, never exceeded in it 9 long and prosperous history. It has a bettet equipment, more thorough and systematic organization, and a sharpened desire to meet the steadily pressing demand for a clean, high-toned and complete newspaper. Its facilities for the gathering of news and for its faithful and satisfactory presentation were never so good a3 now. and it will continue to be the purpose to accompany the news of the day with such editorial treatment and comment as to still further ally the paper with tho interests and conscience of all the people. In general news, and especially in the news of the State of Indiana, and of the territory in Ohio and Illinois naturally and commercially tributary to Indianapolis, tho Journal will be found to bo largely iu advance of all contemporaries. We have correspondents iu the larger cities and towns* while the county papers are carefully gleaned. In all regards the Journal is, by odds, the best reflex of the interests of thfr entire State and of the territory it seeks to serve. Its present superiority in this respect will be fully maintained, and enhanced as j opportunity may offer. The Indianapolis Journal is the only Re- | publican morning newspaper printed in this j city which publishes the Associated Press reports. Since the recent consolidation of the New York and Western Press Asssociations, combining all the leading newspapers of the entire country, both the quantity and quality of the news gathered from all parts of the world will be greatly increased aud bettered. Its commercial reports, court record, Supreme Court decisions, railway news, and editorial and miscellaneous departments are conceded to be as good a3 the best, and their present excellence will be fully sustained in the future. The Journal will continue to maintain its assured position as the LEADING NEWSPAPER OF INDIANA, and asks support on account of its general merits no less than upon it3 superiority as a special representative of the best thought, and culture and character of the State, The Saturday .Journal. The Saturday edition of the Journal has taken such rank as to make it almost a special and independent paper. It is prepared to meet the demand for a newspaper of tho highest class, filled with reading matter of the best character, and thoroughly unobjectionable in every respect—a paper that can be welcomed into every borne and be a companion at every fireside. It is a splendid treasure-house of the best literary ability of Indiana, and, as such, is worthy the support of the people. The Saturday Journal reaches into the furthest limits of our territory in timo for Sunday reading, which a Sunday pa pot cannot possibly do, because of the lack of railway facilities on that day. It is also on hand for the long hours of Saturday night. The Saturday Journal will be found to contain that which will interest the old and tlm young alike, the farmer, his wife and his daughters, tho literary man, the scholar, tho politician, or simply the one who desires tho fullest news of the day. It already has a much wider reading than any other issue of tho week, and a greatly more extended and better patronage than any daily published in tho State. Special contracts for advertising for the Saturday edition are made, and special subscriptions for it are received. Tli© Weekly State Journal. The Weekly Edition of the Journal is especially prepared for the demands of tho people of Indiana outside of the cities and towns reached by the Daily. It is not a reprint of the Daily, but is an entirely separata and distinct edition, under the care of an independent and experienced editor. It contains the best literary and miscellaneous features of the Saturday Journal; but it ha? exclusively prepared for its columns a complete compendium of ail the news of tho week, both foreign and domestic, and particularly of the State of Indiana, and of the territory which it naturally commands. Its market reports are carefully compiled, aud its agricultural an.l household departments receive particular and competent attention, fn all its features the Weekly State Journal is as good as any weekly newspaper printed in the country, and, of course, it is much better for every Indianian because of its local news and character. Indianians are not interested in the local news of Ohio, or of Illinois, or of Kentucky, or of any other State; but they aro interested in tho affairs of Indiana, and these the Weekly Journal will give them, and at the same time boas good a general newspaper as the best The Weekly Journal is the paper for tne Indiana farmer. Every postmaster is an authorized agent, and will receive subscriptions for tho Journal, which can commence at any timo. For additional information, circulars, terms to agents,or in writing as to adverting and subscriptions, address JXO. C. NEW Sc SON, Indianapolis, Ind. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily. Bv carrier, per week 2.V. By mail, per won til $ l.ou By mail, per unuum pj.iKl The Saturday Edition. By mail, per annum $2.00 The Weekly State Journal. By mail, single ooples, per annum $1 oo By mail* iu clubs, per annum po<j,

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