Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1883 — Page 3

THE IRON-WORKERS OF WALES. The Largest Establishment In the World— The Fay of the Workmen—An Industrial Graveyard. Robert P. Porter, In New York Tribune. I walked from Merthyr Tydvil to Dowlais, where are probably the largest iron-works in the world, employing, it is said, 9,000 hands —4,000 under and 5,000 above ground. In the journey one passes houses black, white and gray, yellow and mouse-colored, piebald and mottled. In raised gardens, looking, as Rowe saj r s, like blacksmith’s small coal, “fenced” from the road with very intermittent bowlders, “a few bony cabbage-stalks were shamming to grow.” Muddy streamlets were cascading from the hillside. Rails and dingy railway bridges and flat-topped sloping piles of black rubbish ran and rose on all sides. The houses on both sides of the narrow, dirty, winding, steep road leading to Dowlais are occupied hv the miners and laborers. They are about on par with those at Coatbridge, Scotland. The floors of some are sunken lower than the streets, and others are entered by steps. The doors were mostly thrown wide open, and, as I toiled up the hill, I had excellent opportunity for observing how men with large families exist on 2s 6, or sixty cents a day. Without any exaggeration they are little better than pig-stves—broken-down, leaky, grimy hovels, with everything crowded into one general room. I doubt if in that walk of two miles I found one comfortable home, one cheerful, tidy cottage. They were universally dilapidated, universally gloomy, with no outlook in front better than pools of black, slimy mud, and at the back but yawning chasms and dismal mountains of slag. As for Dowlais, I can only say that it has been truthfnlly described ns “a dirty, slovenly, big village,” in which “the clartier the cosier” seems to be the motto. The following is an accurate description of the utter bewilderment of a stranger first turned adrift in the Dowlais works: “He hears a sighing roar like that of ocean, a hiss of steam, a clank of iron, a whir of wheels; sulphurous smoke and a spray of grit choke his nostrils; he sees round keeps and angular bastions, with fire leapinu from their summit and glowing at their base; a forest of chimney stalks—a jumble of mysterious buildings of all shapes and sizes, a maze of muddy rails, mounds of coal and lime, piles of metal, timber and white brick; an army of men, women and children whose diverse garments are turned into a uniform by unvarying grime-facings. The slush on the ground is black as ink and sticky as tar, and men and girls are shoveling it up by truck-loads. Wherever the dazed visitor seeks rest for the sole of his foot a tramhorse trots right at him. It is indeed [a bewildering nightmare vision—that ‘lurid Valley of the Shadow of Tips.’ ” Some of the girls one sees*in?this part of South Wales are very dirty, very bold-eyed, and yet squalidly picturesque, with their cheap earrings and their colored kerchiefs. They ply their shovels like navvies, and lift immense blocks of stone and coal. The employment of women in this labor, thanks to the factory act, is growing less in England, and in 1880 not over 5,000 were so employed. Dr. Rowe, in his little work on the laboring classes of England, says that an enormous quantity of drink is consumed in Merthyr. “What do the miners live on?” “Beer,” is the first answer you get. When maddened with drink the miners fight long and furiously. They turn out into the street, strip to the wnist, and not content with blinding one another with sledge-ham-tner blows, they fasten their teeth in one another’s ears and shoulders, and worry the flesh like dogs. Some of the miners attend chapel on Sunday, but the English Established Church, judging from the following description of the parish church of this town, has no hold on the Welsh miners: "It has a dimly illuminated clock, but that Is the only thing bright about it. It seems to be molderimr away in its green church yard, as the Bibles painted on some of the tombstones are scaling off from the green Blabs. The flags are as damp as the bricks of a cellar. When the clergyman goes to the communion table he is quite exiled from his sparse congregation. There were between forty and fifty persons present the morning I attended. The faded organ seemed to be shivering up in the chilly gallery; and when the thin old cle/k in wig and spectacles and

lonc-skirted coat took round the pewter plate he looked like the last of his race. It was worth while going to church, however, if only to hear the litany read in Welsh. It was a sen-like piece of music.” Returning down the hill to Merthyr Tyd--vil I passed the old Penny Darran Ironworks, now closed, and rapidly going into decay. The gate was open and I entered Within the gray moss-grown Walls it looked like a dead city. Twenty years ago 5.000 busy men circled round those ruined workshops. All was then as smoky, as black, as active and as bewildering as Dowlais is now. I wandered amid the gray stone blast furnaces, now covered with grass and weeds, and through the vast sheds in which lay the ponderous machinery thick with rust. Shafting, wheels, engines, steam-hammers, anvils, forges, puddling furnaces, rolling machines, with rust accumulated, had remained silent and stationary for twenty years. The solitude of the place was only broken by the rushing of a stream cascading down tne hill and the singing of the birds. In the blast furnaces and ovens through which once roared the flames from melting iron, and in the once smoke-envel-oped rafters, the birds build their nests. Here, too, the ivy clings and the wild flowers grow. The ironwork which once encased the boiler has crumbled away, and the rusty iron shells look like a row of dead triants bursting from their stone coffins. Moss-grown was the mortar, and green vegetation was peening forth inside where twenty years ago hissed the steam that propelled the now motionless machinery. The outfence had collapsed and become gray with moss and lichen; the shops had decayed by degrees; abandonment and desolation had crept downward toward the valley, and nature was slowly asserting herself again. The bell, that formerly called the men to work, and the clock remain silent in the cupola; and the weather indicator on the top had lost all its letters but the W. Sitting in the midst of this huge industrial graveyard, trie thought occurred that possibly the significance of this was the fact that the iron industry had taken deep root in the far west, or that, perhaps, better paid, better fed, better housed men, with brighter futures and lurger possibilities, were doing at this moment the very work that inis mill, with its cheap labor, located in the center of the second great coal district of Enkland, within a few miles of three important ports, had found it unprofitable to do. Governor Porter’s Views. Kankakeo Special to Chicago Herald, Governor A. G. Porter, of Indiana, with bis Stute Commissioners on Public Charities, visited the insane hospital here to-day. In answer to inquiries by the Herald correspondent, he said: “I believe the Republican party will go Into the campaign of 1884 reunited. The reduction made in the tariff by the Republican party will satisfy the masses. Carter Harrison's speech at the Iroquois pow wow was a fatal error in his political life. Should the democratic nomination come from the West, Joe McDonald,, of Indiana, stands well. His ability is recognized, and he would make a

strong man in a canvass. New York will scarcely furnish the Republican candidate, because of her factions. Should that nomination come from the West, Senator Logan may be tiie man. There has been nothing about Logan’s conduct since Arthur became President that his enemies could urge against him. lie is very popular in our State, and could poll a full vote there. He has a strong ! personal following, is a representative man, and the New York factious could be combined on him.” Governor Porter, after examining the asylum here, said: “The institution combines the palatial and cottage systems in a manner which we shall adopt in our three new asylums. It is orobable that we shall locate one asylum at Richmond and another at Logansport.” FACTS ABOUT GLASS, Gleaned from the Latest Consular Reports to the State Department. National Republican. The State Department has published an interesting pamphlet on glass manufacture in Europe. The statistics were obtained by United States census. Reports are mads from Belgium. France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Holland. The cost of materials in Belgium, when ready for use, averages, for sand, $1.60 per ton; limestone, $1.50; sulphate or carbonate of soda, sls; cullet mold glass, sl4: fuel for furnace, about $12.50. The wages of laborers in Belgium run from SSO to $l5O per month; blowers’ assistants, from $25 to S3O; flatteners, from $25 to S2B; his assistant, from $8 to sls; teasers, from $25 to SSO; cutters, $25 to S3O; shearers, from S3O to $35; his assistant, S2B to S3O; engineers, S2O to $25; laborers, $lB to S2O; blacksmiths, S2O to $25. The best American glassware is superior to the best Belgium, but the difficulties of introducing the American are enormous. Besides, American water tumblers are made too large, and American beer glasses too small. Europeans drink but little water and a great deal of beer. Americans do not have proper depots and agents for their wares, and the cost is greater than Belgium ware. In France the cost of materials is something less than in Belgium. Labor is paid from S3B to S6O per month. Blowers when paid by the month get from S7O to SIOO. The quantity of window glass made in France in 1868 was about 8,400,000 square yards, worth over $2,200,000. In Germany the cost of the material is greater than in France or Belgium. Labor, except blowing, is paid from $lO to $43 per month. Blowers are paid so much per piece, and average higher wages than in France and Belgium. In England the cost of material is still higher than in Germany. Blowers get from $lB to $65 per month. Other labor from $4 to $25 per month. In’ Italy, at Rome, labor receives from 48 cents to $2.32 per day, besides free lodgings. Material is as high as in Belgium or France. In Holland the wages are from $2 to sl4 per week. POLICEMAN KEARNEY. The Officer Who Arrested Guiteau Consigned to Obscurity. Washington Letter to Baltimore Sun. Policeman Kearney, who figured so conspicuously as the man who arrested Guiteau at the Baltimore <fc Potomac depot when President Garfield was assassinated, has been transferred from that post, which he so honored, to another of much less importance and responsibility in South Washington. Kearney naturally does not like the change. Indeed, with the general public, the transfer is very unfavorably received. This officer, though a man somewhat advanced in years, has been stationed at the Baltimore <fc Potomac depot here for many years. He knows every citizen that goes out or comes in on the trains, and is quick at detecting strangers, and, as has been said of him in the press recently, “he has never failed to watch and protect all government officials who have passed in and out of that depot since Garfield was shot.” Naturally he wishes to be retained in his old position, but the chances are against him, and he will probably have to retire from actual public notice. Since the assassination of Garfield, Kearney has been one of the “sights” of this city. He has been photographed and shown up in illustrated papers, and sought by strangers who arrived here as a guide and narrator of the famous crime. All the information desired the officer has furnished willingly and without cost to the sight-seers. He has been obliging and attentive.

A Mother’s Atonement. New Haven Palladium. A praiseworthy act was performed yesterday in the town agent’s office. Not long since a young girl named Annie Parker charged one Wilson with betraying her. She was driven from her home, and finally sought shelter in the alms-house. Proceedings were instituted against Wilson, and he produced witnesses who testified in his favor, so that he was cleared of the charges against him. Yesterday his mother, Mrs. Hazleton, appeared in the town agent’s office and asked permission to take the girl from the almshouse and care for her, as she believed that the witness for her son had not told the truth. She said it was her son’s duty to marry the girl, and she felt much sympathy for the erring young woman, ar.d she was determined she should not be treated with injustice. Town Agent Reynolds gave her permission to take the young woman from the alms-house. She is now quite ill, and as soon as she recovers Mrs. Hazleton will take her to her own house and care for her as a mother would for her child. Mr. Bennett Having Fun with His Yacht. London World. Mr. Gordon Bennett's steam yacht Namouna has had a very narrow escape from being totally lost at Villefratiche. It appears that Mr. Bennett, having ordered steam to be got up. put his captain and mare on shore, takingsiharge himself, for the avowed purpose of showing them how to handle a yacht. Steaming out of the harbor of Villefranche, she all but collided with the French gunboat Hvene. Once .outside the mole, the Namouna was steered straight for the railroad station at Villefranche. and, in consequence, ran full speed ashore in a very few moments. Fortunately, the beach where she struck was composed chiefly of sand; hence, after discharging some forty tons of coal and stores, she was got off by some tug boats dispatched fmn Nice, apparently without having sustained unv serious damage. The gunboat Hyene offered assistance, which, it is understood, was declined, Mr. Bennett stating that he ran the vessel ashore for his own amusement. A JotirniiliHtlc Scoop, Bt. Louis Post-Dispatch. A New York telegram announces that Sir Anthony and Lady Musgrove have arrived from Jamaica and are stopping with Cyrus \V. Field. Mr. Field is a distinguished journalist of the metropolis, lie is now about six points ahead of the editor of the Tribune, who had Sir Kdward Archibald to dinner the other day. No Kespector of Persons. New York Tribune. Dynamite is no respecter of persons. When it goes off it blows up a street-sweeper who happens to be there just us readily as u prime minister. Neglecting Tlielr Duty, National Republican. The enterprising newspaper correspondents have not issued an order for Post mastergenerul Gresham for several days. Free-Trade Dynamite. Philadelphia. Times. Henry Watterson is rapidly becoming the O’Donovan Koskh of the Democratic party. Tkmpkkaxck clergy men, lawyers and ladies, use Hop Bltiera, they donut intoxicate.

THE INDIAInAPOLTS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1883.

DYNAMITE STORIES. i A Can of the Explosive Used as a Foot--Btool*—lts Proposed Use at Petersburg. Philadelphia Press. In 1865 a prisoner who was condemned to hard labor in a German mine (a fate that befalls inanv evildoers in the Rhineland) managed to effect his escape. He had licid a position of some little confidence in the | mine, and when he decamped he succeeded | in taking with him a small tin can, containj ing about three pounds of nitro-glycerine. | Profoundly ignorant of the nature and fell ! destructiveness of the explosive, and believ- ! ing from the care with which he had always seen it served out in the mines that it was of considerable value, he clung to his treasure with tenacity, and eventually embarked for the United States, carrying the ca*' with him and using it on his long sea voyage as a pillow. New York, he sought accommodations in a Greenwich street sailors’ boarding-house. There, pending his search for a purchaser, he put the can in the public bar-room, where it was used by the boarders as a foot-rest when they blacked their boots. This went on for fully two weeks, and probably the little can was knocked about ail that time by careless marines, wiio little knew the danger that they were incurring. One day there was a fight in the bar-room, and the can was kicked bj' a stalwart German in his effort to reach one of his opponents. That fight ended instantly. Simultaneously with the kick theye was a general scattering of all the inmates of the room, and a crashing of falling bricks and splintering timbers, and a report like a seventy-four’s broadside. A horse that was passing in the street was struck by some of the bricks hurled from the building and pieces of an iron pillar that had been shattered, and instantly killed; but strangely enough, the men in the bar-room escaped with slight bruises, the kicker, even, being only stunned by the shock. In 1866 there was a destructive explosion on board the West India mail packet European, which was then lying at her dock in Aspinwall, on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus of Panama. Forty-seven persons lost their lives by this disaster, and its origin was a profound mystery for some time. Subsequently it was discovered that a part of the freight of the vessel was nitro-glycerine—-disguised under the apparently innocent name of “glotivene,” or “glonoinoil”—which was on its way to the gold-mining region of the North American Pacific mining states. The vessel was destroyed, and the loss was $1,000,000. Just after this a Pacific mail steamship was blown up by nitro-elycerine in tlfe harbor of San Francisco, and eight persons were killed. It is said that during the Crimean war the harbor of Cronstadt was protected by nitroglycerine torpedoes, Jacobi, the Czar’s chemist, possessing the secret of its manufacture, but this assertion may be taken as more or less conjectural, since it is known that the harbor was rendered practically unnavigable by the sinking of a fleet of war ships that were not raised for many years afterward. It is a well authenticated fact, however, that the explosive has figured largely in war by land and by sea. During the siege of Petersburg. Va., by General Grant, not long before the brows of that hero were adorned with the laurels of Appomattox, the chances for the capture of the city looked extremely gloomv. At that time Colonel Taliaferro P. Schafner, wLo had served in many European countries as an engineer, and was in some way connected with the manufacture of nitro-glycerine, suggested to General Grant the expediency of blowing up the beleaguered city with the explosive. Ilis proposition was favorably received, and the general and his engineers began to make the necessary preparations. It was the purpose of the general to mine as near the city as possible, and to place 25,000 pounds of nitro glycerine in a mass at a point where the explosion could not fail to be eflective. Indeed, it was the opinion of Colonel Schafner that the explosion of that vast mass would have utterlv destroyed every building in the city. While the negotiations were pending, and just before the contracts were to have been signed, Petersburg was evacuated, and thus the most stupendous scheme of modern warfare was thwarted.

A Most Inglorious SEndlng;. Colnmbna Republican. The grand old Cincinnati Gazette, which had such a long and honorable career, was the political text-book of so many j’oung Republicans, and the political bible of so many old ones, has had a most inglorious ending. Its individuality was all lost when merged with the Commercial, and its oldtime friends could scarcely find a vestige of it in the new publication. The Journal, which was a kind of weak continuation of the Gazette, lias now been sold to the News, the new Democratic paper, which to-day issued its first number since the sale from the old Gazette building, and nothing of the Gazette now remains. Tewksbury or Boston Gossip. Fresh Arrival—l say, old fellow, why don’t you keep a decent place while y’r about it? This is about the worst hole I ever struck. (Starts off muttering words of dissatisfaction, when all of a sudden he is commanded to halt.) Tiie Devil—T.ook a-here, my fine teliow, none o’ y’r grumbling here, else straight back to Tewksbury you go. Fresh Arrival (drops on his knees and looks up at the devil imploringly)—Oh. good Mr. Devil, don’t say anything about Tewksbury; I was only joking. I think your place is just splendhh .Judge Jterk— Reformers Who “Want to Tell the Stery of My Life,” Etc. To the EiDtor of the Indianapolis Journal: It may not he uninteresting to add a little to your history of fudge Beck, of lowa, or so far as relates to his parentage. I think I am not mistaken In stating that lie is the son of a sister of Tom Morris, Ohio's United States senator, who was tiie first to assert the fact in that Senate, and in the face and in defiance of the Southern fire-eaters, that lie was an Abolitionist. When he failed of re-elec-tion, in consequence of his unfortunate dissipated habits, it was a source of congratulation witii the Beck family, and which they freely . expressed, that he was succeeded to that office by such an Abolitionist as one of the famous Tappan family. This was fortyfive years ago, and now wiiat a change. About twenty-seven years ago a Mrs. Shepherd came to this city and expressing a desire to “tell the story of my life,” Dr. Abbet ami the writer were about the only temperance men in the city who cared about aiding one who wore ladies’ clothes to procure a place of meeting where she could tell tliat story; and tiie onlv place that could tie obtained was the United Brethren Church, on New Jersey street, where she toki tiie tale of her being a widow of a drunken husband, and she was trying to educate a daughter; hence her appeals to the friends of temperance. The jewelry upon her lingers was profuse, but did not prevent n large collection being taken up to aid her in her educational scheme. “Sam" Wiies passed the hat. Unfortunately tiie gift of one contributor was larger than his heart, and in consequence lie (Wiles) came to tiie writers house where the lady was staying, early tlie next morning, to say to that bereaved widow that one contributor had dropped a tive-dollar goldpiece by mistake into the hat, instead of n quarter, and would she please exchange it for that unlucky quarter? "O, 110 indeed, there was nothing larger than a quarter 111 what I received.” was the answer. If the gentleman who measured his quarter’s worth of that "story” with a tive-dollar gold-piece is still in the land of the living, and shall see this, he may readily remember tiie fact, In-

j dianapolis has been cursed by those who have worked for tlie cause, for the “collection” I there is in it, and at this time it will be well ! for the managers of the temperance work to be on their guard. A. 3. Klnosley. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department. . Office of tub chief Signal Okkiorr, S Washington. May 2, l a. m. ) For Tennessee ami the Ohio Valley—Warmer, fair weather* followed by local rains, wimls mostly southerly, lower pressure. For the Lower Lake Rejnon—Warmer, fair weather, followed by local rains, variable winds mostly southerly, stationary or lower pressure. For the Upper Lake Region—Partly cloudy weather, local rains, variable winds, mostly northerly, stationary or lower temperature in the north portion, higher barometer. ixjcal (loser vutiomw Indianapolis, May 1. Time, j Bar. I Th. Hum Wind Weather R’f’l. 6:24 A. m. 30.09 51.2 52 E Fair 10:24 a. M 30.09 61 30 8E Clear. \ ... 2:24 P. M. 30.03(06 35 SE Clear 6:24 P. M. 30.00 67 36 SE Clear. • 10:24 p. M.[30.01159 48 SE Clear Maximum temperature, 68; minimum temperature, 48.6. General Observations. War Department, ( Washington. May 1, 10:25 p. ro. i Observations taken at tne same moment of time at all stations. " J 1 'I 7f 'f 2 2 a 5 - % station-. { 5 : \ n S I ; , i r* i • * i :•! ; x Bismarck, Dak... 30.14, 35 NE Clear. Cairo 30 0:* 65 S Clear. Chicago 29.97 52 E Cloudy. Cincinnati 30.u7 59 Calm Clear. Davenport, la— 29.85 60 HE .01 Cloudy. Deadwood * Denver 29.54 54 NE Cloudy. Des Moines 29.84 57 HE Th. st’m Dodge City 29.64 64 SW Clear. Fort Assmabome.. 30.20 33 E 'lear. Fort Buford 30.23 35 NE Clear. Fort Concho 29.81 75 8 Clear. Gaiveston 30.00 73 8 Clear, Indianapolis 30.01 59 8E Clear. Keokuk 29.83 64 SE Clear. La Crosse 29.94 53 E .12 Cloudy. Leavenworth 29.72 69 S .... Clear. Little Hock. Ark.. 29 97 66 8E Clear. Louisville 30.01 61 N clear. Memphis 30 00 67 Calm Clear. Moorhead 30.13 35 NE Clear. Nashville 30.03 64 HE (hear. North Platte 39.07 51 NE Cloudy. Omaha 29.73 58 NE .07 Lt. rain. Pittsburg 30.10 50 E Clear. 6an Antonio 29.97 71 HE .... ('lear. Shreveport 29 99 67 8 Clear. Springfield, 111 29.95 03 S Clear. Bt. Lotus 29.94 60 8 Clear. Htookton Bt. Paul 29.95 49 NE cloudy. ViekßOurc 30.02 09 8 Clear. Yankton. D. T Las Aminas Springfield, M 0.... 29 86 06 8 (dear. NewOrleaus 30.01 54 Calm ('lear. Fort Smith ... Fort Billings 30.06 29 NE .18 Hysnow

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES, At Philadelphia, during April, 6,356,000 pieces were coined, valued at $1,575,008. Chicago has been chosen by the Supreme Council, Royal Arcanum, as its next meeting place. The removal of the big Boston organ Is enjoined. The origiuai subscribers are the petitioners. The city council of Fremont, 0.. has taken 755 ballots for ciiy clerk, and the balloting is still going on. Tim meeting of the Southern Historical Society, called for Nashville, May 23, has been postponed till autumn. A soda water fountain exploded at Syracuse, N. Y.. yesterday, fatally injuring oue ami seriously injuring two. The. City Council of Danville, 111 , last night, raised saloon license from $4.00 to SOOO. There are forty saloons in the city. Mrs. J. W. Clarke, of Cincinnati, missed from her room on Monday a satchel containing SI,BOO in cash, and jewels valued at $1,200. Joseph W. Toplitz, book keeper and cashier of Solomon Rothkoph. of New York, lias been arrested on a charge of embezzlement. At Morton, Neb., Constable Dryden was shot dead by Coustaole Sleeves while attempting his arrest for the illegal seizure of a horse. The Newark, 0., glass-works have shut down until next fall, on account of a strike of union men against the employment of non-union men. About 100 vessels cleared from Chicago yesterday. Half of these were grain laden for lower lake ports, with an estimated average cargo of 40,000 bushels. An incendiary fire destroyed the stables on J. H. Wolfolk's Potosi plantation, near Yazoo City, Miss., on Monday night. Thirty-live mules were burned to death. It is stated that John Crowell, the absconding collector of the Lowell Manufacturing Company, Erie, has gone to Terre Haute. Ills wife is expected to follow. Marshfield Plains, at Marshfield, Maas., nro ablaze, mid 200 men are uuanle to cheek the spread of the fi lines through the forest. Dwellings are imperiled. A fire on Sunday night- at Waxnhatebie, Tex., destroyed five buildings, including a grain elevator. Loss, s4o,i 00; insurance, $22,500. Incendiarism is charged. At Youngstown, 0., Mrs. Mary Clements, born in Tyrone, Ireland, Is celebratiug her one hundredth birthduy. Sue is quite feeble, nearly deaf and almost blind. Dr. A. S. Todd, one of the oldest physfeianc and a proniiuent citizen of W heeling, and the proprietor ot a number of well-kuowu patent medicines, died yesterday at an advanced age. The “assisted emigrants” from southwest Ireland arriving at Philadelphia, yesterday, are very poor. They number nearly 300. Niue hundred Scandinavians and Germans also landed. At Atlanta several Southern theater managers yesterday considered their interests. The principal object is to unite against the erection of opposition houses. Nothing definite was done. Marshfield, a small lumber town on the Wisconsin Central railroad, was visited by lire this morning. Nine house-* were burned, with a loss of $7,000, and fifteen families made homeless. James A. Madden, employed in the lace department of the house or Muser & Brothers, New York city, is charged with stealing $23,000 wortlf or goods Receivers of the goods were also arrested. Schedules of the assignment of Isaac Sippill, of New York, the merchant recently arrested on a charge nf swindling, have been filed. Liabilities, $236,575; nominal assets, $572,5*33; actual assets, $147,768. The body of an unknown man was found In Bear Grass creek, in Louisvillo, last evening He had in his clenched right hand an unopened bone-handled knife. He is a stranger to all who have seen the body. J. D. Latham, who absconded with $12,000 belonging to the Central railroad of New .hrsey, while clerk, and captured in Tennessee, pleaded guilty, yesterday, and was sentenced to the State prison for four years. William B. Jones, eighteen, has been arrested at Boston, for robbing the hardware house in which lie was employed Three other youths were arrested for robbing the sufe of a lawyer by means of false keys. The Board of Aldermen unanimously request the trustees of the Brooklyn bridge to change the date of formal opening from the 24tiwinst., the anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria, to the 30th, Decoration Day. The dissatisfied Orangemen of Toronto have decided to form a third, or Protestant party. The chief planks of their platform ate to he the abolition of separate schools and the use of the French language in Parliament. At Z.m svllle, 0., on Monday, Della Barton attempted to sttme the house of Clara Winn, when l Ciara replied with a pistol, shooting I). llaacross tin* head, inflicting a wound winch may prove i fatal, and was locked up. Both ure women of the town. The first annual commencement of the Womens Medical College of Baltimore took place yesterday. The liiatrioulatree number ten from Maryland and one each from Illinois, Nebraska, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Canada and Germany. The west-hound express train early yesterday morning, struck un obstruction near Quinnimont, W. Va.. and the engine anti tender plunged dowu au embankment rnto the New

river and was completely wrecked. The engineer wu* seriously and the fireman slightly injured. The rest of the train remained on the track. No passengers were hurt, i The hoard of aldermen voted the Western j Union Telegraph Company permission to use the , streets of New York to lay their wires under ground at a cost of one cent per lineal foot for each street opened uud giving two wires for the city’s use. The jury in the ease of Low Honk, charged with t.lie murder of Paul Lehman. In 1879, was secured, at Delaware. 0,, vesterdar, after five days’ proceedings. A motion to quash the indictment was overruled and the examination of witnesses begun. Walter R. Pattee, agent of the Singer Machine 1 Company at Hnulton, Mo., has been arrested for smuggling. He. sold sewing machines acrogsthe ; border, taking goods and produco ip exchange. The government, it Is said, will lose several ! thousand dollars. i At New York, Mary Keith, aged seventeen, fearing her young sailor husband, from whom site had not heard for some time, had been drowned, she poisoned heiself. When found she had the pictures aud letters of her husband pressed to her heart. The five-story building No. 147 Baxter street, New York, occupied by Seheerer & Cross, trunk manufacturers, and A. B. Birmingham, pictureframe makers, was gutted by lire last, night. The moulding factory or J. 11. Bidder & Sons, adjoining, was damaged. Loss, $25,000. The city attorney of Eldorado Springs, Mo , who has been married bur four months, attempted to elope on Sunday with a young lady of respectable connection in the place. The couple were overtaken by the lawyer’s father-in-law and two uncles of the woman, who obliged them to return to Eldorado Springs. Orphan Asylum Annual Election. The annual meeting of the trustees of the Orphan Asylum was held yesterday afternoon. The reports of the officers showed that during the year over 300 orphans had been maintained in the institution, and it was shown that out of 111 children there was not a single ease of sickness during April. The election of officers for the next year resulted as follows: President—Mrs. Hannah Hadley. Vice-presidents -Mrs. John Bradshaw, sTrs. IBmlab Mansur and Mrs. W. V’. Hawk. corresponding Secretary Mrs. John C. Wright. Recording Secretary—Mrs. G. A. Wells. Treasurer—Mrs. Frederick Baggs. Managers—Headlines Hettte Adams, A. L. Wright, Rachel Clarke, George W. Moore, John W. Dodd, D. W. Grubhs, Benjamin Harrison, J. D. Howland, R. L. McOuat, Henry Coburn and John Tarklngton. Clothing Committee—Mesdumos William Mansur and Thomas M. Bassett. School Committee—M.-sdames John Love, Levi Ritter, William R. Evans aud John 8. Duncan. Finance Committee—Messrs. W. H. 11. Miller and John 8. Duncan. New Building Committee —Mesdames John 1). Howland, W. V. Hawk, Frederick Baggs, William Mansur and Messrs. W. H. H. Miller, Theodore I’. Haughey, E. B. Martindale aud John 8. Duncan. During April thirteen additional children were received in the asylum, and homes were provided for seventeen. An old hen-pecked man from Older, Sprained his hack in lightiug a tire, He got a good drubbing, Bur, St. Jacobs Oil rubbing, Made him well and very much apryta*. C. E. KREGELO, CHAS. TEST WHITSETT, 183 N. Tenu. St. 336 N Alabama St. C. E. KREGELO & WHITSETT. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS, No. 77 North Delaware Street. Telephone conneotiou at office aud residence SOCIETY NOTICES. Masonic— a. and a. Scottish rite—indinna Consistory, B.*. P.\ R.\ 8.*., will meet this (Wednesday) at 4 o’clock, continuing at 7 o'clock p. in., conferring 19° t-o 32°. By order N. R. RUCKLE, Com. in Chief. C. F. Holliday. Secretary. ANNOUNCEMENTS. PLA BTERERB, PLASTERERS, PLASTERERS wanted at St. Louis. Mo.; $4 ami $3.50 per day; plenty of work. Come and grow up with the city. Call at Secretary Mechanics* Exchange, Seventh and Market streets. 'PO-NIGHT. TO-NTGUT. “UNDER THE PALMS,” Or the Flower Feust, A Cantata illustrating the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, after the captivity, will be given at Memorial Presbyterian Church, Wednesday evening, May 2, by the Church Choir and a Selected Chorus from the Sunday-sohool. Admission, 25c; children, 150. WANTED. WANTED— A TINNER, AT 58 INDIANA avenue. ANTED—ONE GOOD LIMESTONE-CUT-ter, or a general stone-cutter. A. Y. TROGDON, Paris, 111. Tir ANTED-A PARTNER IN A GOOD PAY t ▼ ing drug business. Address CALCIUM, P. O. Box 21, Warsaw, Ind. TITANTED—A "gE RMAN MILLER. WHO Tv thoroughly understands translating German into English. Address, at ouce, MILLER, Journal office. ANTED—THE CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER tv in the West. the. Weekly Indiana State Journal. One dollar per year. Ninety cents in clubs of five and over. 117 ANTED—A FEW ENERGETIC MEN AS TV canvassers and collectors. Apply to JAMES LYN< If, Room 20 Baldwin Block, corner Delaware and Market streets. RANTED -AT 6NCe7 TO TAKE CHARGE TV of new stock and press brick card. An experienced bricknmker, one who thoroughly understands how r to make and burn stock aud press brick, put together and repair machines, aud is not afraid of work or dirt; oue who can speak German preferred. Inquire Room 6, 120 GrisWold street, Detroit, Mich. FINANCIAL MONI.Y TO LOAN at LOWEST RATE OF interest. E. B. MARTINDALE Jc SONS. ONEY TO LOAN ON CITY OR FARM property. U. M. STODDARD, Clay pool Building. ONEY TO LOAN AT THE LOWEST RATES of interest. JOHN W. WILLIAMS Si CO„ 3 uud 4 Vinton Block. Money to loan'on first mortgage of city aud farm property in Indiana and Ohio. Low mterest. JOS. A. MOORE, 84 East Market street. I WILL FURYrSFI MONEY ON FARM BE--1 canty, promptly, at tne lowest rates for long or short time. THOi. C. DAY <Sc CO., 72 East Market street. FOH SALE. IJOR SALE FARMS, CHEAP. ON LONG credit, which we have taken on foreclosure. Send for circular. FRANCIS SMITH Jc CO. ]?OR 8 ALE- AN AJBSOB !\Mi; \r OF fUSC ONI)* hand engines, boilers, and sawmills in good order. HADLEY, WRIGHT A CO., corner Tennessee and Georgia streets, Indianapolis. IX>R BALE—BY A N()~N RESIDENT, A PROPerty that rents for $240 per year, at $1,000: one that rents for S4BO, for $3,500. Good ami profitable investment. T. A. GOODWIN, 29 Thorpe Block. 170 R SALEWA F URN ITU RE STORE ANI > furniture fuctory, located in good county seat; fine opening. For particulars Inquire of RICHARDS <fc BUTLER, corner Missouri and Georgia streets. I I I I IMT ■■HI I AUCTION SAL&ES. IJUNT A MCCURDY, REAL ESTATE MfD I 1 General Auction aero* $8 E. W osiumrton st. DPI TTY* Q Organs, 27 stops, $120; Pianos, ULifii 1 1 u $297.50. Factorv running day and uignt. Cataloguo free. Address DANIEL F. BEATTY, Washington, N. J.

New Life is given by using Brown’s Iron Bitters. In the Winter it strengthens and warms the system; in the Spring it enriches the blood and conquers disease; in the Summer it gives tone to the nerves and digestive organs; in the Fall it enables the system to stand the shock of sudden changes. In no way can disease ba so surely prevented as by keeping the system in perfect condition. Brown's Iron Bitters ensures perfect health through the changing seasons, it disarms the danger from impure water and miasmatic air, and it prevents Consumption, Kidney and Liver Disease, &c. H. S. Berlin , Esq., of the wdl-known firm of H. S. Berlin & Cos., Attorneys, Le Droit Building, Washington, D. C., writes, Dec. sth, 1881: Gentlemen: I take pleasure in stating that I have used Brown’s Iron Bitters for malaria and nervous troubles, caused by overwork, with excellent results. Beware of imitations. Ask for Brown’s Iron Bitters, and insist on having it. Don’t be imposed on with something recommended as “ just as good." The genuine is made only by the Brown Chemical Cos. Baltimore, Md.

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