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OUR CUTTER Has arrived, and we are now prepared 10 do first-class MERCHANT TAILORING, AT REASONABLE PRICES. We have placed our first invoices of FALL SUITINGS on sale, and can show a choice line ot the best goods the market affords. We respectfully invite every customer to visit our CLOTH Department. L. S. AYRES & CO., INDIANAPOLIS. SURGICALINSTRUMENTS Aml appliances of oil kinds, from best manufacturers. Dental Forceps. Trusses, Supporters, Shonlderbraces. Elastic Stockings, Medicine Cases and Chests. Artificial Eyes. Crutches, etc. BROWNING & SLOAN, Apothecaries’ Hall. THE NE W YORK ST ORE (ESTABLISHED 1853.1 BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT. We ore now receiving our Fall Goode, and our •took will be found complete in all BOOTS and SHOES needed by Ladles, Misses, Boys aud Children. FiNEST FRENCH KID BOOTS. Ladies will find in our stock the best fitting ind best styles iii all 6izes and widths. We have the finest French Kids made. Our $2.00 Bools are superior in fit and quality. All Goods Marked in Plain Figures. PETTIS, BASSETT k CO. A BOON TO PUBLISHERS. An Invention That Will lie of Great Benefit to Newspaper People. All newspaper publishers whose circulation is handled by news companies and ageuts, from whom they redeem all unsold papers, and news companies themselves have for years understood the value of some machine or method which would prevent news ageuts returning papers which had once been sold. The loss from this source to the leading papers and periodicals of this country does not fall far short of a million dollars annually. Train boys and hotel servants gather np every loose paper they can find and in time it is returned to the publisher or news company for redemption. Mr. J. H. Woodard, of this city, has just been granted two patents, one covering the machine for sealing, the other tor seal on newspapers and periodicals, which will effectually break up the practice of returning unsold papers. The machine, is very simple, and can be attached to the folding machine, or can be run independent of It. It pastes a sill* of colored paper, bearing the sea! of the office using it. over the free edges of the newspaper, so that tne buyer cannot read his paper without breaking the seal. One of these machines is now beiug built for the Journal. und another for the Cincinnati Enquirer. The inventor has a large market ready at lined and as the machines can be built at small cost, lus bonanza is one tbit publishers cau readily appreciate. * New Suits Begun. Mathias Mayer has brought suit to set aside a certain conveyance of property made by him to his wife, Rosa Mayer. The complaint alleges that some months ago .die applied for a divorce, and her attorneys secretly got Mayer to come to their office, where they represented to him that he would be compelled to give up all his property to his wife if the suit was pressed, and influenced him to deed to her two pieces of property which he owned. He alleges that the convej’ance was brought about by undue lnlluences and intimidation and without any consideration, wherefore he asks that it be set aside. Lav in a Lyons has begun suit against John Lyons, her husband, and rlie I. & Bt. L. Railroad Company to compel him to contribute to her support. The railroad company is made a codefendant, it being alleged that it is indebted to Lyons. The complaint represents that Lyons has abandoned his wife mid left the eity. Jennie. Stovall has sued fora divorce from John 8. Stovall, to whom she was married in October, 1881, alleging failure to provide aud habitual intemperance. The .state of Indiana ex re). William C. Hammond has brought suit against Thomas C. Hammond, executor of the will of Ann 8. Hammond, to compel him to pay to the plaintiff SI,OOO which he alleges is due hliu under the provision of Mrs. Hammond's wiD, he tnbng her son. John D. Floss has begun suit for SI,OOO against Fletcher and Churchman for a street improvement a Briglitwood. Edward Hudson uskn for a legal separation from his wife, Sarah K. Hudson, to whom he was married in May, 1881, alleging desertion stud had associations. Belle Adams also wants a divorce from Robert Attains, to whom she was married in May* 1877, alleging cruel treatment. Janies Leary has brought suit against the Indiana Banking Company for $3,500 widcli tie liad on deposit, aud Elizabeth Duma* has instituted similar proceedings for S2OO and John Mctzlcr for $3,000. Marlon County S. S. Convention. The fourth annual convention of the Marion County 8. 8. Union will he held on Wednesday, Aug. 29. In tlie Meridian-street Church. A good programme lias been printed and distributed by Ibe president, R u v. 11. M. Morey. Kino .fc Elih-.khiow you fifty now styles of bedroom acts to select iroiu.

TALK WITH A TURNKEY. Where tlie Criminals of the City Have Their Haunts. Tinrnps with Euphonious Aliases—An Incident In the Police Court—Prisoners Who Grew Desperate. “Slicky” Owens was before the mayor yesterday morning charged with stealing twenty-two dollars and some cents, from an old man named | Tim. O’Brien. Owens wasn’t christened Bllcky but Edward, and as to Slicky, if applied to 1 personal appearance he didn’t look it, with several days growth of beard on his sallow face, with his furtive eyes and his bristly, uncombed shook of hair. He wa9 charged -with having, on Thursday of lust week, t iikcu O’Brien, who was drunk, into a yard on Court street aud there relieve, and him of the twenty-two dollars and odd certs, aforesaid. The yard where Slicky had performed this sleight-of-hand, was near Queen Mab’s place, and the Queen was sent for as a witness. She came. The Queen is rather portly, and she moved forward to the witness chair with the grace of a load of lmy settling itself on the city scales. She was dressed in black, carried a black parasol, a black satchel and brought with her a colored girl, Ida Weathers, also a witness. The Qqeen’s voice was harsh and husky, and she wore heavy gold bracelets, a large gold neck-chain and an immense cross blazing with diamonds. “I saw this gentleman,” said the queen, poiuting to Slicky, “but he was smooth-faced, his beard has grown out since, and a colored man take the old man into the yard. The old man was drunk, and they stood him up behind the gate. The colored man said lie was going after an express wagon. The old man said, ‘Take me out: I’ll roast here.’ As this gen tleman [Slicky ] came out the gate I saw him put his hand in his pants pocket, but don’t know if there was anything in it. I did uot see any money.” The old man bad testified that he carried Ills money iu his upper vest- pocket, and that it couldn’t have got out without fingers to aid it. The robbery took place at half-past 12 o’clock, and Slicky was arrested at the county jail, where he was visiting some of the prisoners, an hour aud a quarter later. He had just been discharged from jail the evening before, and at that time hadn’t a cent in his pocket. At the time of his arrest he had on a pair of new boots, was passing cigars and tobacco Id to the boys, and hud twelve dollars and eleven . cents in his pocket. Slicky was held for grand Jury investigation. The reporter, leaving the city court-room, went over to tne station house. Al. Taffe, the day turnkey, was on watch. “I came here,” said the turnkey, “June, 1871; that’s over twelve years. I was away four years; no, only two, for I was deputy city marshal two years, and of course, connected with the staiiou-houso. I’ve turned the key oil thousands of people—all sorts. Do you remember Cluck, who billed his wife with mi ax, I think in 1872! He tried to cur his throat afterward: it was cur from ear io ear, but not deep enough. I fed him on milkpancli for more than a week. Tnree-fourths of it was lost, ns it ran out through the wound. He took morphine and died in jail the (lay oefore he was to have been hauged. Murderers are for the most part very quiet, well-behaved people during the time they stay with me. They nearly all make the same plea,self-defense, and uo trouble to prove their innocence. Jeter was the worst frightened man I ever saw. The day after the murder lie claimed that lie had no recollection of having committed it, and trembled like a leaf. This place is only a clearing-house for the jail; few prisoners stay here.” A HAVEN FOR TRAMPS. “We are not bothered with i ram pc much in the summer, but in the winter we will lodge from 250 to 350 a month. The majority of them are professionals, and mostly young men from eighteen to thirty years old. They steal, of course, but rarely anything above petty larceny. They get real Jolly when brought in out of tlie cold, take out a pipe and load up with a cigar stump and enjoy themselves. Some of them have boys with them, ‘Kids to bum tlielr chuck’ —that ie, to beg victuals for them. Those that strike this town are usually from St. Louis, going east, or Pittsburg, coming west. “The Hut,” as they call Teire Haute, is a favorite stoppingplace with them. Once in a while there is ku honest laboring man out of work among them, but the rule is that they are professionals. Now’ and then, particularly iu the winter, men wiil come here and ask to be locked up. Drunks stagger in und ask us to taaecareof them. Some time ago a rather good-looking man came here and asked to be locked up for the night. He was perfectly sober. I told him I couldn’t do it. ‘All right,’ said lie, and went awav. A little while after be came back and threw a bowlder through the window. ‘I guess you’ll take me now,* saul be, and I did. He was a blacksmith, out of work.” “Let me show you where the tramps register,” he continued. “Tins iR the big room. There are more in where the cells are. In the winter there are more than now, as they get rubbed off.” The names were written on tire walls aud celling, some with chalk and keel, and some with leadpencils. Here are some of them: “Yellow Frank.” “Brocky George,” “Detroit Kid,” “Shilo Jim,” “Boston Dummy, the boss Jew *i - :*nip;” “Ohio Ned,” “Doff Lloyd,” “New Albany Brock,” “Scotty,” “Dennis Condon, Syracuse;” * Philadelphia Shorty,” “New York Kid,” “Jersey’s Florida Kid,” “Black Hawk,” “Cincinnati Kid,” “The Notorious Monk,” “Hartford Bhm,” “Newport George,” “Buck Ltddy,” “Monk Sands,” “Train Jumper,” “Pony Doc,” “Philadelphia Jim,” “Albert Squirt,” “Chips Kid,” “Sligo Billy,” “Tony Blond/.” “Some of these fellows,” said the turnkey, “have been in over aud over again. Like auy other business, we have our regular customers, and I know seven out of ten who are brought here because they have been here before. And our beet customers are those who can’t afford it. Drunks are brought here. Some fellow* over and over again, working men, some of them with families, who not only lose time from their work but have to put up good money to pay for their iaw-oreaking. How their families live I don’t know. PRECOCIOUS CRIMINALS. “It’s astonishing how early some offenders begin. Kids thirteen and fourteen years old are brought here so precocious in crime that they can give points to old men. Girls as young as* thirteen are frequently slated as prostitutes. About a year ago three girls ran away from here to Frankfort, incorngibles they were called. They were brought back to be sent to the Reformatory. None of them were over twelve. They promised to behave and were uot sent. It wasn’t a month befote they were here again slated as prostitutes. The Harter fumllv, as a family, take the cake as regular customers of the station; mother, sons aud daughters are thieves and prostitutes. Ira lias been over the road; John, the youngest boy, is now in the House of Refuge. “Now and then we get some nice fellows—dudes, I call ’em. They have a nine at night, kick over store boxes, roll beer kegs into tlie gutter, and all that sort of tbiug. They register under an assumed name, leave their money . call n cholera morbus, ami their mothers give them sympathy and paregoric. “Sometimes tne lowest women brought here have as ‘friends,’ the high-toued young men of the city, and when they write a note to tne boys, they shin around and bail them out. H AUNTS OP PIKFERENT CLASSES. “Wnere are most of the thieves brought from! Wlmi locality!” inquired the reporter. “The Union Depot aud that neighborhood, and South Illinois street. An old fellow was touched at the Union Depot, night before last for S2OO good boodle,*but the thieves got away. It was done in a car just as a train had pulled Into the the depot. There were three of them worked ir. One pretended to drop something on the floor by* the old man’s feet, and stooped down to get it. The others leaned over the old man, all looking for It, you see, and when he straightened up ins p<>cket-book was gone. He squealed, but the thieves got Hway.” “Where are most of the arrests of women made!” “Well, prostitutes are pretty well scattered. Most of ihem come from Washington street west of the Zoo, from South Tennessee street, slid from Eddy and Ann streets and thereabout. Sligo-under-tlie-Hlll furnishes the worst colored toughs, men and women. Most of onr arrests don’t pan out much money wheu searched. The biggest

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amount of money I ever found on any man was $”,500. That was on a railroad contractor who was on a drunk. Ho hail money iu every pocket nod bad n valtse full. Saturday’ night Is onr big night. The police begin running them in at 9 o’clock, and keep it up all night. There arc more drunks and mtsdemeanors.two to one. In summer than in winter. Whisky and women make nearly all our cases. During the week most of the deviltry is done between II aud 3 o’clock at nigh*. DRIVEN TO DESPERATION. “A man in my place here learns something of medicine amt surgery in the course of time. We’ve had a giod many attempts at suicide, both men and women. None, so far, have succeeded. They usually try to hang themselves by tearing blankets Into strips or with their clothes. One fellow with the jim-jams out in the big room attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a broken whisky flask. When I got. to him he was sawing away at his neck like a buzz-saw going through a block. He was sent to the City Hospital, where he was stitched up aud came out good as new again. I keep a bottle of jimJaui medicine here all the time—chloral and other stuff— aud have to dose ’em frequently. We have had just as bright confidence men in here as ever honored any statiou-hou.se or Jail in the United States. Some of them are very gentec 1 , don’t get drunk, and look like gentlemen. But it doesn’t make any difference how flick they are, or what they have done, they are always given away by some woman. They have a weakness for the sex, and as the poller manage to know tlieir women they know where to find the cod. men when they need ihetn.” Here a painter at the street-car stables, who had fallen on North Meridian street, ut about 8:20, and who had been brought to tlie stationbouse as a “suustroke,” or “painter’s colic” (though there was an alcoholic flavor about it), a couple of hours before, came to himself, rolled out of ttie cot iu which he had been reposing, and walked into the office. Turnkey Taffe, in handing him the money tuken from his pocket, $8.40. explained that Dr. Hell had been called to attend him when he was first brought in, and must be paid $1 for his service?. The late “sun-struck” kicked on this, notwithstanding his gratuitous ride in the patrol wagon, and only left the money after giving expression to some very unkind remarks, which led the reporter to infer that the patrons of tiie stationhouse were not always grateful for the considerate care expended upon them. AN EXCEPTIONAL GAME. Eleven Innings with No Score, and but Three Errors—Umpire Donnelly Gives the Game to Indianapolis* What was in every respect the most intensely interesting and most perfectly-played game of ball ever played iu Indianapolis was that between tbo home club and the Springfield, 111., club yesterday ufternoou. A lover of the national pastime could not have refrained from giving voice to his enthusiasm, the most unusual plays being made on both sides, some of them beiug really phenomenal. Eleven innings with no score, a total of eleven base hits, und but three errors, are seldom witnessed on a ball field, but such was the result of the game yesterday. Both clubs had on their playing-clothes, aud went in to win, exhibiting the greatest caution and accuracy. McKeon and Keenan for the home club, and Lotz and GunDing, for the visitors, were the butteries presented. and to say that tbeir work was superb doesn’t express it. In the first nine innings but two hits were secured off McKeon, aud only three more were added to these in the next two innings, while the Indianapolis boys only hit Lotz for six single bases, two of which were made after the ninth inning. In the entire contest but two men. one on each side, reached first base by errors, Downing allowing Manning to go to first iu the seventh inning by failing to stop a|bot ball, and Scboeniok giving Keenan a life in the second inning by muffing Peters’s thrown ball. One uian on each side was sent to first on called bulls, but neither these nor the errors were fatal. Even un equal number of strikes were called (eleven) off of the two pitchers. The home club never worked better. In the seventh inning Peliz made a catch of a line bail from Ellick's bar. that “brought down the house,” and in the ninth saved a run by a really extraordinary running catch in left center. Peoples made some beautiful stops, and caught a line ball from Peters’s bat, which nearly carried him off of lii6 feet. Downing redeemed himself for tlie error credited him by a catch similar to that of Peoples, in which lie made a double play without assistance. Kerins oaiigbt a foul fly, which fell away down amongst the buggies, behind the right foul line, aud Dorgan distinguished himself by a fine catch and by fielding Manning out at first ou a ground ball knocked clear into right field. Callahan did good work, and Keenan was Invulnerable, while Veutcb earned hearty applause by fielding Peters out. at home-piate in the tenth inning when defeat seemed inevitable. The visitors did nor have so many difficult plays us the dome club, but their work was within one point of faultless. A club that can play eleven innings ami field the ball from ail points, as the Bpriugflelds did yesterday, can play ball, and play like old Acliey kept tavern, ut that. The wav they stopped the hottest kind of balls aud put the baisiueu out was calculated to fill Manager O’Leary’s tranquil mind with deep-seated disgust. At the end of the ninth Inning Captain Peters wanted to call the game, to which Captain Keenan objected, and the same trouble again arose at the end of me tenth and eleven ill innings, when the visitors refused to resume, giving as a reason that they had to catch a tram for Toledo at 7:15. Umpire Donnelly accordingly gave the game to Indianapolis—9 100. Following is THE SCORE. SPKINGFIEIi. A.B. R. li.H T.B. P.O. A. K. Ellick. r f 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 Householder, If 4 0 O 0 1 0 O Manning, 3b 4 O O 0 2 1 O Peters, s 4 0 l 2 1 9 0 •Tones, ni 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 Hengle, 2b 3 O O 0 5 1 0 Gunning, c 4 0 1 1 33 0 Suiioeinck, lb 4 0 1 119 1 1 Lotz, p 4 0 1 1 0 7 0 Total 35 0 5 6 33 22 1 Indianapolis, a.b u. h.h. t.h. p.o. a. e. Dorgan, r f 5 0 1 1 1 1 O Callahan. 3b 5 0 1113 0 Kerins, lb 5 O 0 0 17 1 0 Keenan, c 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 Peltz, If 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 McKeon, p 4 0 1 1 0 10 1 Downing. 2b 4 0 2 2 2 2 1 Peoples, ss 4 0 0 0 3 1 0 Veatch, w.... ¥ 4 0 110 10 Total 38 0 6 6 33 21 2 First base on errors—One each. First base on called balls—One each. Btrikea called--Off McKeon 11; off Lotz 11. Balls called—On McKeon 62: on Jjotz 86 Lett on bases— Indianapolis 6; Spriugfield 2, Passed balls—Keenan 1; Gunning 1. Double plays—Karins to Peoples; Downing. Time of game—Two hours. Umpire—James Donnelly. NOTES. Donnelly’s umpiring was as good as the playing. To-day the Pendleton club plays the home team and to-morrow the I)anvilles will be here. Both are good amateur clubs. The Indianapolis dub plays the Br. Louis G/and Avenues at that city, on Sunday, on which occasion Lauoister will pitch for the opposition. The Spnngfleids could have continued the game nnr.il darkness and taken the 11 o’clock train had they so desired, which furnished an additional reasou for Donnelly’s decision. This Is a Kick* That great labor-saving invention—tlie telephone—whs as mute as a mummy last night. An animated solo of two hours and a half on the Journal Instrument, with only slight intermission for anew man to manipulate the crank, failed to disturb the young men at the exchange office. The service—or rather the lack of it—is at times most exasperating, ami rails nothing short of an outrage on the patrons. The information is volunteered that one of the night men “lies down to pleasant dreams” when he is supposed to be on duty answering calls, but whether this is true or not tho public Is entitled to better service, and an investigation into the condition of affairs should be made by the company. ______________________ Send me a half dozen Swift’s Speciflo for a customer Who says it is tlie best medicine known to man. lie testifies to its rare meri:, and iusisis upon having more. J. M. Hendricks, Fayetteville, Ala.

, THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. Hot urn of Dr. A. W. Bray ton, the Journal's Representative, The Indianians Who Have Been There, and Those Now There—Projected Improvements in the Park. Dr. A. W. Brayton, representing the Journal on the Western Associated Press excursion to the Yellowstone National Park, returned yesterday morning, with health and strength greatly improved. He lias traveled nearly 4,000 miles and spent a week in the Natioual Park, riding 150 miles on an Indian “oaj’ose,” from one point of scenic Interest to another, and returns sunburnt and tall of enthusiasm as to the wonders of the park and the great North west. Mr. Oscar C. McCulloch, who represented the Sentinel ou the same excursion, will return this week. Os the Indianapolis press representatives Morton J. Russell, of the Chicago Times, in his letter of Saturday. 18th iust., says: “The younger, tougher and lighter members of the party form the cavalcade. Cowen, of Colunu >us, formerly a chief of the Interior Department, who visired this country officially ten years ago, is one. He might have been Governor of Ohio it Hayes, who w°° supporting him, didn’t, with characteristic complacency, lake the nomination himself. Cowen is qaiet and shrewd and agreeable. Brayton, of Indiana polls, is astraddle the pony he has riddeu from the start, and beside him is the gray-baired theologian, McCulloch. Brayton Is horuuist, geoloirisr, chemist, physician, journalist, lively us a cricket, Hardy us a mule, hearty as a buck, happy as a sunflower, nimble as a mountain goat. Tlie party owes him much for good fellowsuip. not io mention good physic. Campbell, of West Virginia, deserts the cavalry, but all the young fellows—Nixon, Smith, Reeves, Cowles, Halderman, W lisou—are booted aud spurred, a company of rakish-looking land-pirates, from whom the tame, conventional road-agent of this rekiou would fly in afright. “Among the travelers is the Rev. O. C. McCulloch, of Indianapolis. When I learned that a parson was aboard I felt mat the salvation of the excursionists depended upon feeding the reverend gentleman to the first convenient whale. But I learned my mistake wheu the expedition moved. Mr. McCulloch took to the saddle. He wore trout fles for a hatband. Never once did lie ootrude his calling upou this miscellaneous company of beliefs and of no beliefs at all, but while lie was manly and self-respecting, be was also a leader in sport aud adventure. Quietly solicitous for the comfort of everyone, jovial, hearty, even-tempered, wholesome in speech and disposition, lie soou won the warm regard of tlie whole company. This, too, in the face of the fact that ho gloried in pouring maple syrup on the lemon plo of the wilderness.” Professor John Coulter, of Wabash College, wa6 the first Indiana man to visit the National Park, spending three months, in 1871, with Hayden’s expedition, recording the times of eruption of the more important of the over six hundred geysers and boiling springs of tlie various geyser basins and collecting and classifying the flora of the Yellowstone region. Mr. George C. Hitt, of tlie Journal, speut two months in tlie park In the summer of 1873, before it was accessible by railroad. Dr. Henry Jameson, of this city, the Hon. Graham N. Fitcn, of Logansport, and Mr. Charles Tapklug, of Indianapolis, are now taking in the beauties of tlie park—that is, the seenlo beauties —as but few ladies have as yet had the courage to brave the difficulties of the steep and ofteu dangerous mountain roads which lead to Hie various points of interest. Tlie Yellowstone National Park Improvement Company will petition the next Congress to allow them to build 150 miles of ranroad iu tlie park, of a gauge unlike that of any other American railway, and also to pat several steamers on the Yellowstone lake, so that ladies and children, as well as Invalids, may take in the pleasures of the park as a three days’ offshoot from either tlie Northern Pacific or the Union Pacific. The runner road has just completed rta branch line from Livingston, M. TANARUS, south sixty miles to Cinnabar mountain and Gardner City—a three-inontlis-old collection of groceries, saloons and boat ding-houses, made of tents and “pine shakes,” within a couple of miles of the park limits, ami less than ten miles from the Monmouth Hot Springs Hotel. The latter is one of ten to he built by the Park Improvement Company, of which Rufus Hatch is oue of the main owners ami backers. He is now in the park with a party of- eighty iuvited guests. But when the railroad is opened, tlie steamboats running, and the mountain paths and geyser basins littered with paper collars and city loafers, we opine that much of the scenic interest and beauty of the place will be lost to the hardy and earnest class who visit the park now. But $16,000 Is now appropriated annually by tho government for repairing and opening roads, building bridges and protecting the park from specimen-smashing and hunting vandals. This paltry snm scarcely suffioos to make the roads passable, and the storms of winter destroy the work done in summer. With good mountain roads, having easy grades, and a few more bridle paths, a railroad would scarcely l necessary. A week in tlie park now costs about $75. This includes fare to and from Livingston, and return, pony or buckboard, as you choose—the pony is by far cheaper und more comfortable —teut, guide and board. One cau go entirely independent of tlie Im provemetic Company, who have all rights to build and run hotels in the park for ten years. Tim company have, however, by their moderate rates of board, pony, guides and hack hire, reduced, by competition, the expenses of the trip to the possible lniuuumui. The “season” lasts but four mouths—July to October last. August is the best mouth in tne park. Bv contract, the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel is open tlie year round, with board at from $3.50 to $5 a day. This is the most important point for invalids, as the varied waters of these springs have an almost magical power, by their heat and composition, to break up chronic rheumatic affections, particularly inflammatory rheumatism. Probably in tne warm seasons of the next ten years the park will prove a greater sanitarium than Arkansas Hot Springs, to say nothing of the exhilarating air ami cool climate of the mountains at this high altitude, and latitude. It is to be hoped the class which haunts Hot. Springs, broken down with loathsome diseases, due to their own indiscretion und naturul vieiousness, will steer clear of this land of wonders, aud if the park railroad invites that class it is to lie hoped it will never be built, and that this locality mav be allowed to retain something of its natural wildness and purity, and its dazzling geyser formations and gorgeously colored canon never be disfigured with mammoth advertisements of Lydia Piukham’s Compound or Swift's S. 8. _ General James A. Ekin. General Jumes A. Ekiu, assistant quarter-master-general, will arrive in tlie city this morning, at 10 o’clock, for the purpose of making an official inspection of the Soldiers’ Cemetery at Crown Hill. This will be the General’s last Visit officially, as in accordance with an act of the last Congress lie will be retired on the first of September. General Ek'ii is well known iu Indianapolis, where he has very many warm friends, he having been stationed here during the war as post quartermaster. It was mainly through his Influence that that the beautiful part of Crown Hill now set apart to the soldier dead was purchased by the government fora natioual soldiers’ cemetery, and winch, under the personal supervision of General Ekin, was laid out and adorned, and but recently has been resodded and otherwise beautified. General Ekin is a gentleman of the old school, a most consistent Christian and an honest offi-cial-genial and polite both to subordinates and superiors—he won the hearty respect and esteem of ail who knew him. And now, at the conclusion ot his official career, he leaves tho service of the government with an enviable reputation fsr fidelity and an unspotted name. The Ranking Company’s Affairs. Receiver Ritter was busy all day yesterday in receipting for the various notes and obligations of the Indiana Banking Company, which Mr. Landers turned over to him. During the afternoon Messrs. V. T. Malott, George Yatides and John Frenzel went over the notes held by the bunk with Mr. Ritter, and gave their estimates of their market value. As soon uh this work is complete, the receiver will be prepared to make public the bank’s exact liabilities and a close approximation of the true value ul the assets.

but tlie statement will not be ready for a dav ortwoyer. Mr. Landers will probably make a report to tho court to-day or to-morrow, but It will contain nothing more than the formal announcement that he lias turned over the uffairs of the bank to his successor. • HIS HEALTH. Dr. Pierson’s Declination of the Cal! of Tabernacle Church Inspired by His Weak Physical Condition.

A the weekly prayer meeting of the Tabernacle Church, last night, a long letter was read from Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D. D., justifying Ids aotlou in declining the call extended to him by the congregation, which had called forth some criticism. In tlie course of It he saj s: Since I gave encouragement to the enterprise circumstances have developed which could not have been foreseen. Such circumstances should be regarded as providential indications of duty. If tlie enterprise has taken on any features which depend on my leadership, let them be dropped. Rctaiu only what is essential in tiie judgment of the church. Modify your ba&is, and proceed in your work. Snould f have taken the leadership I should not remain but a short time at the moat. By that time tlie movement would have been so impressed by my conduct that it would be harder than ever for anew man to undertake to lead it. It is folly to talk of disbanding or abandoning a work which has connected with it. such a large and noble band of Christians. I know their superior nowhere. God will uot forsake you hecuuso He has another leader. Tlie modifications which may be necessary may be, in G;d’s eyes, just what is needed for its highest success. As to a leader “Imbued with my ideas.” I would rather the enterprise did not have such a man. There are plenty of men imbued with Gods ideas, who can be obtained to carry on God’s work. lam suspicious of anv enterprise widen bears too stroug marks of Individuality of its leader. This is the main difficulty in Moody's church iu Chicago. To conclude, let me say that I would rather return to Indianapolis and undertake this work than to do auy other work of which I can think; bnt in mv present state of doubt, nsy, more, of positive conviction that I ought not to do so, and with the positive testimony of competent and impartial physicians that I could remain only for a limited time in that climate, I should assume leadership, at best, only with a half heart. I am.so constituted that I can do nothing by halves. I must have, as the basis of all successful work, a clear conviction that I am in tiie way of duty, in order to kindle the courage and the enthusiasm necessary to overcome hindrances and difficulties. Ido not believe that God would allow my conscience to be so disturbed, and mv health to be so imperiled If be calls me to carry on so great a work among you. And I believe that if the work lianes on my leadership it is on the wrong basis and would not have His blessing. I never would have given the movement my encouragement bad I not been assured that it crystaiized about a principle aud not about a person. Toabaudon it on account of my withdrawal is to justify a taunt of its worst enemies, “that it was a mere personal movement.” In a private letter to one of the church’s committee, Dr. Pierson clearly 6hows that the condition of hl6 health and the probable detriment to his physical condition, should he continue his residence in Indianapolis, were the prevailing causes of his declination. He says that Dr. D. Hayes Agnew warned him that his vitality was running low, and be himself discovered that a serious ailment, which had troubled him ever Since bis removal to Detroit, fourteen years ago. was relieved amt his condition improved by s* a air. Dr. Agnew advised him that the climate In the interior is peculiarly unfavorable to one of his temperament. The Doctor confesses that iie is not a little surprised at the extent to which his vital powers have been reduced. He weighs thirty pouuds less tiiun he did when lie went to Detroit, aud his nervous system is so prostrate that he lias been scarce able to eat or sleep. He has signified to Bethany Church (Wanalllaker's), Philadelphia, that if his health will permit he will take charge of thnt field Oct. 1. But he says if he shall not have grown decidedly better by Sept. 1 lie will goto Europe before assuming any new pastoral charge. Os the Philadelphia field, Dr. Pierson speaks enthusiastically. He sa.vs: “Here is exactly what I want—access to thousands of people every Lord’s day, an industrial college and a pastor's college already projectec: a church of the people anil for the people m actual working order, established without friction or antagonism with other churches. If God hail made a church for me. or me for a church, I cauuot imagine a more perfect adaptation.” Dr. Pierson, at present, is staying at his old home, New York oity, at 29 Maiden Lane. WILL GABLETON, THE POET. How the Author of “The Farm Ballads” Looks aud What He Has To Say. Mr. Will Carleton, tho well-known poet, Is in the city, stopping at the Denison House, having arrived here j'esterday from Brooklyn, N. Y., to read a poem befere the Delta Tau Delta convention, last night. Mr. Carleton is one of the few poets who is popular with the masses, his “Farm Ballads” fend “Farm Legends” having been very extensively read and quoted. He was one of tbe first writers who achieved more than local prominence by dialect poems and character sketohes, whose homely sentiment and fidelity tc nature appealed most forcibly to all classes. Os these, his “Betsy aud I are out” and “Over the hills to the poor-house” are best known and appreciated. Mr. Carleton’s personal appearance is decidedly in his favor, lie is nearly six feet tall, of sleuder build, with a bright, rather youthful face, blue eyes, aquiline nose and short whiskers, which cover only his ohin. His hair, which is slightly tinged witJi gray, is combed smoothly back, and this, combined with tne somewhat clerical cut of his clothes, gives him rather the appearance of a well-to-do young minister on a vacation and determined to enjoy himself and make everybody else feel us pleasant as possible. In conversation lie is Vinusuuilv bright and interesting, talking rapidly or* •> the point. To a Journal reporter, yesterb-.y, lie said he was kept busily engaged in literary aud business pursuits. He is writing a book, winch will be ready for publication booh, contributing regularly to a number of periodicals, besides delivering occasional lectures. He said he had hoped to have tiie pleasure of becoming personally acquainted with James Whitcomb Riley when lie came to Indianapolis, and regretted that lie was not in the city. He paid Mr. Riley tlie compliment of saying that he regarded him as one of tlie rising young literary men of the country, and that his writings Were receiving much attention in the East. Mr. Carleton was horn in Hudson, Mich., in 1845. He began teaching school at tiie age of sixteeti for the purpose of getting means to educate hiinsell; entered Hillsdale College in 1865, and graduated four years later. He served in an editorial capacity for tho Detroit Tribune and other pupers for three years and then returned to Hillsdale for the purpose of devoting more time to study and reading. His first literary success was a political poem called “Fax,” which lie wrote while in the junior class at college and which had an extensive local circulation. His first pretentions poem, which lie road on commencement day, was entitled “Rifts iu the Clouds.” In 1873 lie published ids volume of “Farm Ballads,” and two years later “Farm Legends,” which gave him a national reputation. In 1878 he wrote “Tho young folks’ centennial rhymes,” which met with favor, and since then he has done much literary work, generally of a scattering character, ills contributions to the magazines being best known. Mr Carlcton’s present residence is Brooklyn, and he is reputed to have considerble wealth.

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