Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1883 — Page 8

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Mesdames PHELPS & AYEH will open their rooms for thq Fall and Winter Seasons on Saturday, September 15, having been in New York for several weeks. They wF be prepared to ' urn ; sh the -very latest styles at reasonable prices. L. S. AYRES & CO. SURGICALINSTRUMENTS And appliances of all kinds, from best manufacturers. Dental Forceps, Trusses, Supporters, Shouldertu’Mces, Elastic Stockings, Medicine Cases and Chests, Artificial Eyes. Crutches, etc. BROWNING & SLOAN, Apothecaries’ Hall. Wm. HiERLE, No. 4 W. Washington St. Ladies’ and Children’s Furnishing Goods. Fine White Goods, Real and Imitation Laces, Embroideries, Dress Trimmings and Ribbons. Zephyr, Germantown and Saxony Wool, Fine Knitting Yarns, Canvas Embroidery Materials, Braids, Bindings, Buttons, Notions and Fancy Goods. First-class Goods in all Departments. ESTABLISHED 1862. THE NEWYORKSTORE (ESTABLISHED 1853.) SILK DEPARTMENT. We call special attention to 15 PIECES BLACK SILKS AT SI.OO PER YARD. Tliis line of goods are the best value ever offered for the money. Good widths, good color, ibod quality. All Goods Marked in Plain Figures. PETTIS, BASSETT & CO, SHOT BY AN OFFICER. Jack Murphy, a Notorious Character, Shot While Resisting Arrest. Jack Murphy and John Sullivan, two disreputable characters who have figured rather notoriously in local police matters, attempted to rob a man from Fountain county named Columbus Kerkhan. of forty cents yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock near the corner of Market and Noble streets. They had been endeavoring to persuade Kerkhan, who is a helplessly ignorant fellow, and wholly unable to count money, to treat them to the drinks, but he refused. They then grabbed eorae money that he was shaking in his hands. Kerklian made complaint to Patrolman Connett, who found the men near where they had committed the robbery and undertook to arrest them. They resisted however, and succeeded in getting his mace away from lilui. after which they started to run. Ho drew his revolver and fired, bringing Murphy to the ground, but the other made his escape. Murphy was taken to the police station in the patrol wagon and was registered on the charge of highway robbery. Dr. Hodges, the police surgeon, examined biin, and found that he had been wounded m the hip. He failed to locate the bullet by probing, but the wound is not regarded as one which la likely to result fatally. The only danger, the Doctor stales, is to be feared from lockjaw. The City’s School Children. Reports received by Superintendent Tarbell from all the public schools in the city, show the following attendance of pupils on the opening day: Higli-school, 462; grammar grade, highschool, 133; school No. 1, 377; No. 2, 585; No. 3, 625; No. 4, 574; No. 5, 200; No. 6, 564; No. 7. 534; No. 8, 116; No. 9, 524; No. 10, 509; No. 11, >2l; No. 12, 374; No. 13, 608; No. 14, 336; No. 15, 149; No. 16, 133; No. 17, 224; No. 18, 158; No. 19, 80; No. 20, 377; No 21, 23 (colored); No. 22, 363; No. 23, 173; No. 24, 299; No. 25, 370; No. 26, 341; No. 27, 310; No. 28, 420. The number enrolled during the first week of last year was 9,767, while the total number roported at the opening of this year is 10,342. The increase jo the attendance will necessitate the opening of additional rooms at Nos. 4, 9. 20 anu 29. Incorporated. The firm of H. A. Russell & Cos , which propose to manufacture agricultural implements, was incorporated under State laws yesterday. The business will be conducted in this city. The capital stock is $25,000, and the directors are 8. H. Spoils, A. A Russell, H. A. Russell, A. F. Lidow and R. E Parrott. King A Ei.pkr have an elegant line of new Ikaiiibcr suites. *

THE DEAF AND DUMB. Some Facts About the Recent Changes Made Among Its Officers by the Board of Trustees. Recent and prospective changes in the working force of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb will place that State charity even iu a more deplorable condition, so far as the welfare of the uufortunates who are dependent upon it for instruction and care is concerned, than the Blind Asylum. Os the thirteen recently-dis-charged employes all were familiar with the sign language, and had no difficulty in conversing with the pupils. These are Xeplaoed by anew batch, only four of w, iom „ an U9e the sign lanwlTtf 6 a* 0,1 Larleg Howland, tile eteward, 08€ ( .aoharge will take effect Oot. 1, has been rne institution for twelve years, and is thoroughly proficient In the sign language. His duties are divided, aud two men will hereafter be required to do what he did. One of these is Richard O. Johnson, who will figure as a bookkeeper, and the other is named Hough, who will be called steward, nei nerof whom will be able to communicate with the mutes, as they are absolutely ignorant of their mode of expression. Dr. Glenn, the superintendent, after five years’ service is hardly beyond the alphabet, and it is with the greatest difficulty that he can communicate with the pupils. With the old employes replaced by persons unable to repair tue superintendent’s deficiencies or to aid him in any wav, the crippled condition ot the institution is evident. A gentleman familiar with affairs there says that for some time all the employments there have been inefficiently managed, and with the recent changes it is altogether probable that things will go from bad to worse rod the institution will run down hill at a hand gallop. The reporter talked to Dr. J. M. Kitchen yesterday, who said, “I was connected with the Deaf and Dumb Institution for twenty years as trustee and physician. I could not express myself to the pupils there or understand them except through an interpreter, and I appreciated then as I do now the necessity of having a superintendent. matron and attendants familiar with the sign language. Au officer who has learned it is invaluable, and certaiuly should not be removed except for cause. There should be less politics iu that institution tban in any of the State charities. No political whim or question of expediency, nothing but the fitness of an officer or employe should be taken into account. Imagine a French school where the principal can not speak French—that’s Dr. Glenn’s position. It is sufficiently ridiculous, without taking into account his more complete isolation under what is now said to be true of the institution, where none, or but few, of his assistants are netter able to communicate with the teachers and pupils than he is.” It is said that eminent philologist and politician, Mr. Ferriter, is to take charge of the furniture shop. Young ravens must have food. THE STATE’S VOTERS. The Increase of White and Colored Voters Since the Enumeration of 187 7. The statistics gathered by the Auditor of State, in compliance with the law requiring an enumeration of the voting population every six years, to be used as a basis for the redistricting of the State, shows that there has been an increase since 1877 of 48,607 voters in Indiana, aud that the voting population now numbers 499,833, of whom 10,298 are colored men. The increase of white voters during the six years aggregates 46,565, which is at the rate of over 10 per cent. The iucrease in the number of colored voters during the same period has been 2,042, or about 25 per cent. The following is a comparative statement of the enumeration iu 1877, and of the one just completed by the Auditor, given by congressional districts: 1877. 1883. Districts. White. Col*d. White. Col’d. First 34,797 1,553 41,166 2,487 Second 33,713 305 33,985 371 Thitd 31,417 964 34.717 1,190 Fourth 32,133 1,020 32,804 396 Fifth 33,362 369 33,910 447 Sixth 32,445 890 36,197 1,014 Seventh 33,224 1,967 37,770 2,374 Eighth 35,993 617 40.050 804 Ninth 34,482 353 38,068 386 Tenth 34,712 91 37,965 108 Eleventh.... 39,479 384 45 519 449 Twelfth 34,886 71 36,857 89 Thirteenth.. 35,156 125 40,497 182 Totals 442,970 9,056 489,535 10,298 8,056 10.298 Aggregate 451,026 499,833 The largest increase iu the white population during the six years has been in the First district, composed of the counties of Gibson, Perry, Pike, Posey, Bpencr, Vanderburg and Warrick, w'here, in 1877, there were 34,797 w’hite voters, and from the statistics just gathered it is showu that there are now 41,166. In the Eleventh district, comprising the counties of Adams, Blackford, Grant, Howard, Huntington, Jav, Wabash and Wells, the enumeration shows au iucrease from ,>,-*< to 45,519, which is the largest voting population in any district in the State, The First district has the largest number of colored voters, 2,487, aud the Twelfth the lowest, 89. In the Fourth district the colored voters have decrease from 1,020 in 1877 to only 396. Iu Marion county there, are 27,529 white voters and 2,283 colored, while in 1877 there were only 23,745 white and 1,907 colored. Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold. Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold,' wife of Hon. James T. Arnold, of Montpelier, this Btate, died last evening at the Grand Hotel, after a painful illness of several weeks. Mrs. Arnold had been afllicted for several years and came to this city for the purpose of receiving surgical treatment. An operation was performed several weeks ago, from the effects of which she rallied and appeared to be recovering. On Tuesday evening, however, she was taken with congestion of the lungs and died in about twenty-four hours. Mrs. Arnold was widely and favorably known in the community in which she lived, and the news of her death will be received with sorrow by a large circle of frieuds. Mr. Arnold, her husband, was a member of the Legislature of 1879, representing Blackford aud Grunt couutiea. He was with his wife at the time of her death, as was also her mother, Mrs. Johnston. The remains will be taken to Montpelier this morning for banal. The interment will be made at Bluffton. _ Board of Trade Arch. It is probable that the siengerfest arch, at the crossing of Washington and Meridian streets, will not be taken down until after the State fair, a proposition having been made to the Indianapolis Board of Trade, which will, it la thought, be accepted. It is the intention of the board, in case an understaudiug is arrived at with the builders of the arch, to decorate it much handsomer than it was before, and by displaying upon it ail the great products of Indiana, from minerals aud cereals to fiue arts, make a showing typical of the wealth, fertility and progress of the State. A. Metzner, who designed the present arch, is now engaged in drawing a design in which these features will be arranged to the best advantage, and with a due regard to symmetry and artistic taste. J. L. Bieler, who directed the work on the sjengerfest arch, has offered Ins services gratuitously toward decoratiug the arch for the Board of Trade. Dr. Parvin’s Removal. Dr. Theophilus Parvin, who has lived in this city over a quarter of a century as a medical practitioner, left last evening, accompanied by his family, for Philadelphia, whither he goes to take the chair of obstetrics aud diseases of women in the Jefferson Medical College, the most eminent institution of medical learning in the United States. Dr. Parvin has long stood at the head of his profession, and is not only kuown all over this country, but in Europe, as a writer and authority on the subjects he has gone to

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Philadelphia to teach. The ohair that he takes is a highly important one, and has been Ailed by a number of the greatest medical lights in the United States, among whom the most recent are Dr. Charles D. Meigs and Dr. E. Wallace. The position gives between $7,000 and SB,OOO a year in fees, besides leaving its occupant suffleient leisure to attend to a private practice. Sweet Girls from Texas. A party of thirty-seven young ladies, of interesting ages, passed through the city last evening, over the Vanclalia and J., M. & I. lines, on route from their homes along the line of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road, to Columbia, Tenn., whore they will enter the female seminary. They spent two hours at the depot, and their car was surrouuded by a small army of Indianapolis young men, who went mashed on the Texan belles, among them being the railroad reporter of the Journal. If such parties could be guaranteed as every-day attractions at the depot, the places of ‘..musement in the oity would stand no •how whatever for custom. The Condition of the County Jail. The following order was made by Judge Norton, of the Criminal Court, yesterday: ‘Tt is ordered by the court that the clerk of the court transmit without delay to the board of county commissioners, a certified copy, under the seal of the court, of that part of the report of the grand jury wherein the condition of the jail of Marion county is mentioned and commented upon by said jury.” The county commissioners say that this is the first intimation they have had from the grand jury that the jail is not in good erndition, aud that the matter will be promptly attended to. Indianapolis Presbytery. The Indianapolis Presbytery met yesterday at G reenwood, the opening sermon being preached by Rev. W. A. Patten from Acts xviii, 6, “And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, He shook His raiment aud said, ‘Your blood be upon your own heads. lam clean.’ 99 Rev. C. C. Herriott was chosen moderator and John G. Blake and William A. Patten temporary clerks. An unusually large number of ministers are in attendance, and au interesting programme has been arranged. In a Deplorable Condition. A commission consisting of Drs, Barnes and Bryan, and Justices Feibleman and Thompson have adjudged Mary A. Barnes to be insane. She is both blind and deaf, and has beeu so for years. Within the past two weeks she lias become very dangerous, biting and scratching people with whom she came in contact, and being violent iu various other ways. Her unfortunate condition is the result of brain disease when but a year old. She is but fifteen years old. Mr. Patterson's Dose. The jury in the case of Charles H. Patterson, who has been on trial in the Criminal Court for shootiug Dave Pearson, at the Occidental Hotel, last spring, after being out two hours returned a verdict of guilty and sentenced the prisoner to six months’imprisonment In the county jail and a fine of SI,OOO. It will take him nearly three years to “board out” this fine, if it is not paid. It Is understood that nine of the jurors favored two years in the penitentiary. Another Suit Against Wachstetter. Chas. H. Dailey, of Wliitestown. Boone county, lias begun suit against Gottlieb Wachstetter for SIO,OOO damages. He claims that he was drugged in VVaohstettet’s place by poisoned wine, and has since suffered great bodily pain and inconvenience. This is the outgrowth of the proceedings recently instituted against Wachstetter by Dailey for attempted robbery, there being no conviction at that time. A dogskin glove of beautiful texture in the new tan shades just in at Parker’s. A Bad RunawayA couple of men from Thorn town, while here yesterday, hired a horse and buggy and went out fora ride, and while on North Meridian street, near Fall creek, the horse was scared by a gun fired near by, and turning very short he upset the buggy, throwing the men out into the ditch, where one of them said as he picked himself up: “I am glad I buy my hats of Ryan, the Hatter, or I might have been badly damaged. Nobby hats, all colors,at “Seaton’s Hat Store,” 25 North Pennsylvania street. Fall Hunting. We are prepared to show the trade and hunters a very fiue selection of Sporting Goods— Breech and Muzzle Loading Shot Guns, single and double barrel, Ammunition, Equipments, c. Call and examine our stock before purchasing. HILDERAND A FtJfiATE, 3o South Meridian street. Agents Howe Scale Cos, SUGARS. For ONE DOLLAR you ean purchase 12 pounds White B Sugar, or 11 pounds Confectioners’ A, or 102 pounds Standard Granulated, at the stores of H. H. LEE.

WHITE “■> FANCY SHIRTS. LAUNDRIED AND UNLAUNDRIED. KNOWN ALL OVER THE WEST AS THE BEST VALUE. BYRAM, CORNELIUS & CO., NOTION DEPARTMENT. Wholesale Dry Goods and Notions Nos. 101, 103 and 106 S. Meridian Street. rrupiTTljl 0 nn '0 Shirt Factory and Steam Laundry, 1 /ill UHj (X UU.U No. 98 East New York Street, Halcyon Block.

ILALL. UNDERWEAR J. A. K’KENZIE’S, 38 W. Washington St. New Goods IN LACE PINS 3 EAR RINGS. NOVELTIES IN Silver and Rhine Stone Collar Buttons, Hair Pins and Lace Pins. Notice our Window. No. 12 E. Washington St. BINGHAM & WALK. THE CELEBRATED HAZELTON BRO.’S PIANOS IN ALL STYLES PEARSON’S MUSIC HOUSE No. 19 N. Pennsylvania St. STERLING ORGANS. DON’T FAIL TO EXAMINE THE CELEBRATED WEBER PIANOS BEFORE PURCHASING. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS! Offered at the New Piano House of SMITH & NIION, No. 68 N. Penn. St. lumber! I H. ELDRIDGE 4 CO, Alabama Street, Cor. of Maryland St.

NOTIC E! H. P. WASSON & CO.'S Dry Goods Store, Nos. 12 and 14 W. Washington Street, "WILL OPEN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, Instead of September 17. It being an entirely new stock, they find it impossible to get everything in order before that time. WAIT AND SEE THE BARGAINS. The Dress and Cloak-making Departments will also be ready for business. LUMBER! The Largest Stock and Lowest Prices in the City. C. C. FOSTER & CO. PLANING MILL AND YARD, corner First Street and 1., C. & L. Railway. If your Cook Stove needs repairing ask your dealer for PAPR R ~ INDIANA PAPER CO., p APIA 1 1 111 bill M ANU FACT UER ERS. . I -Lilli Wm. O. DeVAY, Agent. The paper upon wliioh the Journal is printed is furnished by this company. WILL SOON OPEN, THE NEW CLOTHING STORE. LOCA/TIOIsr, NOS. 43 AND 45 E. WASHINGTON ST. TIME OF OPENING, IN ABOUT TEN DAYS. - iWILL, EXHIBIT FINEST .CLOTHING EVER SEEN HERE! NAME OF THE NEW STORE, MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY.