Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1883 — Page 8

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A GRAND SUCCESS! TAILORING DEPARTMENT. L. S. Ayres & Cos. Our Cutter, Mr. B. B. DILDiNE, *s turning out work second to none in the State. Wo have a large stock of the best makes of Suitings in the market. We propose in this Department to do only first-clas9 work, and will guarantee to i please the most fastidious, both in style and workmanship. L. S. AYRES & CO., INDIANAPOLIS. N. B. —The largest and finest stock of Ladies' and Misses' CLOAKS ever brought to Indiana now on sale. Geuuiue London Dye Alaska Seal fiacques and Dolmans, our specialty. Best Shapes and lowest prices. SURGICALINSTRUMENTS And appliances of all kinds, from best manufacturers. Dental Forceps, Trusses, Supporters, Shoulderbraces, Elastic Stockings, Medicine Cases and Chests, Artificial Eyes. Crutches, etc. BROWNING & SLOAN, Apothecaries’ Hall. THE NEW YORK STORE (ESTABLISHED 1853.) S I L K_ DEPARTMENT. Thirty years of experience in supplying the inhabitants of Indianapolis and vicinity with Silks and Velvets gives us advantages that we share with our customers, and which they fully appreciate. We have received the patronage and enjoyed the confidence ot the most experienced buyers of Silks and Velvets in the State. Our mail orders for this line of goods have increased every season. Mindful of the demands on this department of our business, we have largely increased its dimensions, and are now showing a stock of Silks and Velvets that is very largely in excess of any previous season. The newest novelties in colors and styles may be had at our Silk and Velvet counter.

Prices Always In Plain Figures. PETTIS, BASSETT & CO. I———— THE CITY IN BRIEF. Owing to tbe rain, Mayflower CUurch Sundaygchool will not have tbelr picnic on Saturday. John D. Campbell bas taken judgment against Jobn A. Cassiday and others on foreclosure for $2,442.55. Tbe telegraphers of tbe city are preparing for tbelr annual ball, wbioh will be given on night. Judge Taylor yesterday granted Tompby Ann •Taylor a divorce from Richard Taylor, who bad been convicted of a felony. Tbe Gentlemens’ Driving Club will meet|at the Denison House tills evening for the purpose ®f more freely organizing tbe club. Hannan E. Hensley has brought suit for divorce from James Hensley, to wbom she was married in July, 1878, alleging abandonment and intemperance. A jury in room No. 1, Superior Court, yesterday gave Mrs. Ellen Smith judgment for SIBO against Planner & Homiuown for damages sus'tained by the defendants’ making unwarranted use of tbe private burial ground belonging to tbe plaintiff at Greenlawn Cemetery. Spencer Browder and Rena Brooks, Samuel Coleman and Sarah Hutson, \Vm. A. Hogan and Earab Carter, Win. D. Butler and Murtba Clark, 'William Bowman and Elizabeth Lowder, Abram B. Tharp and Mary A. Clifford, Jonathan A. Cheney and— Ackerman were licensed to marry yesterday. The colored citizens propose holding a meeting neat Monday night, at tbe Baptist Church on Michigan street, the object being a discussiou of the decision of ihe Supreme Court on the civil-rights bill. Prominent white Democrats ami Republicans have signilied their intention of attending and making remarks. Another Telegraph Company. Articles of association of the Bankers’ and Merchants' Telegraph Company were filed with the county recorder yesterday, it being the purpose “to build telegraph lines from New Castle to Terre Haute and other towns in Indiana.” The capital stoek is $20,000, of which $19,600 is held by Anthony IV. Dimiuook, of New York, and SIOO each by J. D. Case and John B. Gale, New York; George Putnam Smith, Elizabeth, N. J., and Garrett S. Mott, Philadelphia. The offices are to be looated in this city. Death of Samuel C. Astley. Samuel C. Astley, a well-known young business man of this city, died yesterday morning at Plymontti, lud., whither he had gone in search Os health. Several months ago Mr. Astley had an exhausting attack of typhoid fever, apd has singe beeu seriously troubled with an affection tot titti itibgs. JJc receutiy went to Plymouth in the hope of securing needed rest, but was taken with a relapse, and died vek'tcrday morning, ills remains were brought to the city last night. Reunion of the Fifty-First Indiana, . There will be a grand reunion of the Fiftyfirst and other regiments at Bruoevllle, Ind., on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Arrangements have been made for excursion rates The fare will be $4 35 for the round-trip. Train Will leave Union Depot at 4 p. M., on Monday. Kinu &Eu>KKiiavo the largest assortment of tfliea desk* in the State.,

GALEN’S HANDMAIDENS. Work of the Flower Mission's Nurses at the City Hospital, The System Under Which They *Keceivo Instruction ami Their Remuneratinu Before and After Their Graduation. Yesterday morning, on invitation of Rev. O. C. McCulloch, a Journal reporter visited tbecity hospital, whore the experiment of a training school for nurses is now being tried. This work is under the pay and patronage of the Flower Mission, and the trial is made at the city hospital as the most available place and without any expense to the city abovo what has heretofore been paid for far inferior service. There are nowsixty five patients, male and female, in the hospital, including medical, surgical and obstetrical cases. These are iu the uew wing of the hospital, which, though not yet ttuished, furnishes brighter and better quarters for the iumates than were ever afforded heretofore. Instead of large rooms, with long rows of beds filled with suffering humanity, the largest room in this uew hospital contains hut eight beds, while of the other rooms noue contain more than four beds, and some only two. This does away with the depressing effects occasioned by crowding large numbers of sick together; besides, in small wards, it is possiole to distribute patients according to their moral as well as medical status. The rooms are all well lighted and well ventilated. In the first room into which the reporter looked were two boys of about the same age, thirteen or fourteen years old perhaps, one black, the other white. The negro boy lay upon the floor before a bright fire in a grate, the white boy was in bed. Suffering had put old and knowing looks in both the young faces. The negro had lost one leg at the knee. “Rotting of the bone,” explained the Doctor. “The other has hip-joint disease.'’ Miss A. A. Traver is the superintendent of the nurses, and with her are two head nurses and three pupils. Miss Traver took charge on the 10th of September and she and the two head nurses aregraduat.es of the Training-school for Nurses of Bellevue Hospital, New York. Os the twenty-six or twenty-eight schools for nurses in the United States only three are in the West—this one here, one in Chicago and one in St. Louis —all part of a general movement for the education of women as trained nurses, begun at Bellevue. The plan here, as elsewhere, is to take pupil nurses into the Hospital, where they will have practical instruction by the superintendent,lectures by physicians of the city, and obtain experience in surgical, medical and obstetrical cases. Tbe rule will be to receive them one month on probation, without pay. If a candidate is likely to prove a good nurse she Is put upon pay and at the end of a year may be considered capable of beiug placed in charge of a ward. At the end of the second year a nurse is qualified as ahead nurse, or capable of going out as a private nurse. Chicago graduated its first class this year, and is now sending out its second-year pupils into private families as nurses. There is a future in this profession. In Chicago, as in New York, physicians are constantly applying for tnese trained nurses. Bellevue has graduated 200 of these young women, of whom the greater number are now employed. Sixty-five aredoin ff private nursing In New York city. Four jreceutlj- went to Rome, Italy, to start a hosp tal there. Miss Traver, the superintendent of the school here, gets a salary of SSOO a year and board, and each of the two head s3>o a year and board. Each of them could get more money elsewhere, but their hearts are in their work, and they are here tor the good that they can do. The pupils receive $8 a mouth for the first year, and sl2 a month for the second year, with board. A home has been provided for these nurses at No. 274 West New York street, where they live when off duty, aud enjoy their hours of rest and relaxation. In this school for nurses, applicants desiring to become pupils are not to be less than twentyone yearn old nor more than thirty-five. Thus far there have not been enough applications from the kind of persons who are desired, and six or ten more pupils are needed. The class of girls who seek teaching in the public schools, women of intelligence and strength of character, are what are needed, and not the ignorant who look upon nursing as requiring no higher qualifications than those demanded of a chambermaid or cook. The nurse is the physician’s handmaid, and her profession requires talent while her occupation, when she becomes proficient, meets with remunerative pay. Skilled nurses, in the larger cities, receive for private nursing from S2O to $25 a week, and here their compensation would hardly be less. Os course, their services would grow more valuable with experience. Two young women who are now attendants at the Hospital for the Insane are to be added to the number of pupils on the Ist of January. The present home for the nurses is too far from their duties, and it will be a matter of consideration by the Flower Mission and their coadjutors to get quarters for them nearer the hospital. There is room on the hospital grounds to build the required homes, if the funds can be secured. The attention of the reporter was called to three small charts upon the wall beside the bed of a patient. These charts were a history of the case from hour to hour, edited by the nurse for the enlightenment of the physician having the case in charge, and also for the governing of the nurse, as they uot ouly exhibited the temperature, pulse aud respiration of the patient from hour to hour, hut gave directions to the nurse regarding medicines and nourishment with day and night orders. The nurses are iu uniform, dresses of bine and white stripes (seersucker) and white caps. They are reinforced b3 T an orderly, a man, who is to be uniformed in blue with brass buttons, the coat with red collar and cuffs of the same color. Next year when the members of the new hospital staff (graduates from tbe medical colleges) go in they will don a uniform of plain blue, frogged, and without buttons. There are a number of pay-patient wards, in each of which there are two beds—one for the patient and one for the watcher. The terms to this class of patients are regulated by the ability of the patient to pay. The new wing of the hospital has a capacity for 100 beds, probably more than will be needed this winter, though the number of patients will, as is always the case as the colder weatlmr comes on, be considerably increased. The hospital labors under several disadvantages now which will be more apparent when winter sets in. The chief of these will be a lack of heating facilities. The steam-heating apparatus (hat should be now in will not be put in this winter, and the attempt will he made to warm long lines of wide and windy halls by ineaus of stoves. There Is also lack of kitohen, washhouse, engine-room and patients’ dining-room. In the additional wing to be put on next spring, these needs will bo provided for. The experiment of the nurses’ training aohool is looked upon with great interest by a great number of people, and especially by our physicians, who hope that it will meet with all the help, financial and otherwise, that it deserves. The day of the Betsey Prigg and Sairey Gamp school of nurses lias gone by. Florence Nightingale, with woman’s tender touch, her low, sympathetic voice, gentleness and humanity, is here. Let us make it possible for her to remain.

Probably a Test Case. Jobn Higginß bas brought suit against John Sonrbier, who was Inspeotor at tbe third precinct of the Twenty-fifth ward, at the late city election, claiming $5,500 damages. He alleges that he is a legal voter and that Sourbier refused to receive his vote. He is one of the persons who live in that district just outside the city limits who offered their votes ou eleotion day, but they were not received, and this suit is probably brought as a test ease, so that the decision may be used in the Geiger-Pattison contest. E. C. Buskirk is Higgins’s attorney. The Wilson Divorce Case. Mention was made recently of the effort made by Mrs. James A. Wilson to have the decree revoked by which she was divorced from her husband, and the consequent refusal of the court to take sueh action. Yesterday Mr. Wilson filed a petition asking that the deovee be set aside, 89 that be might be heard in defense of the charges of abandonment and adultery. The former divoroe carried with it a prohibition of marriage for two years, and it is suspected that another is wanted so that this prohibition may be removed. Seriously Injured. Mrs. Stevens, living at No. 06 Smith Noble street, fell into a sink last evening, about 7 o'clock, and was badly injured. The sink was beneath a buck walk in tiio yard back of the house,

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and it is supposed to have given way from the effect of the rains during the day. The fall was twenty feet, and, besides badly spraining her aukle, sbe was struck on the head by a falling bnok while beiug drawn out of the sink. Her husband is employed at St. Louis and was seut for last night, but it is not thought that she was daugerously injured. RIGHTS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. An Important Decision of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. John W. Holcombe, Superintendent of Public Instruction, in reply to inquiries addressed to him relating to the privileges of certain school children, yesterday rendered the following opinion, which is of considerable importance iu school matters, as it is iu contradiction of the opinions which have been held by his predecessors in office: “My predecessors have Interpreted the law on the enumeration of school children very strictly, but, though reluctant to differ from them in such matters, I have concluded, after considerable reflection, that it ought to bo construed in every case as liberally as possible for the benefit of the children. “Section 4,472 Revised Statues requires school trustees to 'make an enumeration of the children, white and colored, within their respective townships, towns and cities,’ and to ‘list the names of parents, guardians or heads of families, male and female, having charge of such children.’ The law In this section recognizes three distinct relations in which the person having charge of a child may stand to the child, viz., parent, guardian and head of a family. The term‘heads of families’must refer to a relation not included in the terms parents and guardians. I tbiuk it is intended to cover cases where a person has children of school age iu his home aud under his protection, whether as employes or as members of bis family, though without formal adoption or legal guardianship. But there are other cases which the provision of the statute as to listing names does not include, bat which must be provided for under the requirement enumerating the children within the several corporations. The domicile of a minor is with Ills parent or guardian, and in theory every minor is supposed to have a guardian. But in fact many are completely sui juris, independent of parental control or support, and living by their own labor. The homes of such, for the purposes of this section, must be the places where They are employed or stay without any immediate intention of departing therefrom. No one can be said to have charge of them; they do not live at the homes of their employers, aud are not under their protection as heads of families. They are none the less entitled to school privileges under what our constitution requires to be a general and uniform system of common schools, wherein tuition shall he without charge, and equally open to all.” “Tbe Supreme Court remarks, incidentally, in Johnson vs. Smith i64 lud., 275): ‘The theory of these statutory provisions [the school law of 1865, and supplemental and amendatory acts,] is. that each aud every child of the proper age, without regard to race or color, within the limits of this State, is entitled of right, and without charge for tuition, to the benefits of such an education as may be obtained in and by our common schools.’ (Page 281.) I nold, therefore, that all persons between tlie ages of six and twenty-one years are entitled to school privileges, and may be enumerated in the school corporations in which they, in good fath, have their home—understanding home in tbe general sense, not in the technical sense of legal domicile. Those who are in any way in charge of a resident head of a family should be so enumerated; those who cannot be so assigned may be enumerated as without guardian. In acting under this interpretation trustees should guard against imposition by finding out whether the case can be brought under the law of transfer (Seciious 4,473 and 4,474); and, if not,whether the child is dependent upon himself for support, or upon the person with whom he livo9. Children cannot legally he sent to school by parents or guardians and maintained bv them in a corporation other than that in which they thernBelves reside.” Pants One Cent a Pair, Great excitement in the city yesterday in the clothing trade, and a run was made on jeans pants, the Model Clothing Company selling hundreds of them at ten cents a pair, and later in the day they disposed of fully 500 at one cent a pair. The Model seems determined to gain notoriety by underselling all the clothiers in this part of the country, and have started out in earnest to do a large business, in fine as well as cheap grades of all kinds of clothing aud furnishing goods at popular prices. A. C. Deputy, Dentist, No. 26 Massachusetts avenue. Office on ground floor. “Shoot ’Em.” We have a very fine and well-selected stock of breech aud muzzle-loading Shotguns, double and single, which we bought low and sell at low dowv prices. Merchants would do well to give us a call before buying. We have exclusive control of the King of the Forest Bilver Steel Ax and the Fire-orand Cross-cut Saw. Hildebrad & Fugate, No. 35 South Meridian street, Agents for Howe’s Bcales. TO PRINTERS. Arnold’s Patent ELECTION STICKER Blanks. For sale by HUBBARD & ANDERSON, Wholesale Paper Dealers, No. 127 S. Meridian St.

NEW STYLES CARPETS, WALL PAPER. WINDOW SPADES LACE CURTAINS. REMEMBER W. 11. ROLL, South Illinois Street, Indianapolis. SALE OF BANKRUPT MILLINERY STOCK OF B. W. COLE BY H. P. WASSON & CO. Ribbons, Plumes, Feathers, Bonnets. S Subscribe for the Weekly Indiana State Journal.

psggso uTfgiy .“S&sgja w Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel or purity, strength and wholesomoness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot bo sold in competition with the multitude of low teat, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold ouly in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDER 00., 100 Wall street. New York. ~ WHEN MODEL WATCH IS WANTED CALL AT BINGHAM AND WALK’S 12 E. Washington St. FANS. FANS. OPERA AND PARTY FANS. VIENNA MANUFACTURE. JUST RECEIVED. CHARLES MAYER & CO., 29 and 31 W. Washington Street. FANS. FANS. BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS Are fast taking the place of all others in fao tories, Foundries, Machine Shops and Mills* Parties having their own power can procure ail Electric Generator and obtain much more light at much less cost than by any other mode. The incandescent and storage system has been perfected. making small lights tor houses and stores hung wherever needed, and lighted at will, day or night. Parties desiring Generators or to form companies for lighting cities and towns, can send to the Brush Electric Cos., Cleveland, 0., or to the undersigned at Indianapolis. J. CAVEN. READERS OF FICTION. Mrs. Wistar, the translator of so many delightful German stories, has just ready “BANNED AND BLEBBED.” 1 yol., cloth, $1.50; will be sent by mall on receipt of price. Roe, Wallace. Crawford, and all the new books as soon as issued. , BOWEN, STEWART & CO., No. 18 W. Washington SL IJOP. SALE—ONLY ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR ’ the Weekly Indiana State Journal. Send for it.

VANQUISHED! ARE THE FORTRESSES OF HIGH PRICES BY THE INVINCIBLE ARM OF THE MODEL CLOTHING CO. “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’’ The MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY point to the utter consternation and wild frenzy of other dealers in proof of the far-reaching victory already achieved. We have stormed the CITADEL OF HIGH PRICES and its walls have fallen, crushed and crumbling to the ground. THE SPELL OF EIGHT TEARS DURATION In high prices has been broken, and the MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY, “with malice towards none and charity tor all,” announce that they will continue their indomitable sway as DICTATOR OF LOW PRICES. Once for all, let it be said that no temporary cut in lowpwced goods can deter us from fixing the lowest possible figures upon every article of Men’s and Boys’ Clothing and Furnishing Goods sold by us, from the cheapest to the finest. We sold Jeans Pants, yesterday, in large quantities at 40c a pair, according to announcement, and afterwards at CENT, and also gave away many pairs. They are all sold, but the stock of ODR ABILITY TO THROTTLE CALUMNY IS INEXHAUSTIBLE. Our mammoth stock, fresh from our Rochester, N. Y., factory, displayed in our elegant store rooms, is the pride of the city, and gives offense to no one who believes as we do, that there is ROOM IN THE WORLD FOR ALL GENTLEMEN to live and do business.

MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. WILLIAM TERRELL, DEALER IN' . SI. % A, WOOD and SLATE MANTELS. Grates, Brass Fenders, 1* T * Open Fire Places, Brass Fire Sets, p- ____ Encaustic Tiles, Etc. Agents for U. S. Encaustic Tile Company, Indianapolis. , State Agents for J. S. Conover & Cos., New York. Sole Agent for Bisseli & Co.’s Celebrated “PEERLESS” Grate. No. 60 N. Pennsylvania Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. "Write for designs and estimates. PAPER. INDIANA PAPER COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS, WM O DrVAY Agent No. 23 E, Maryland street. ’ The paper upon which the Journal is printed is furnished by this company. A. L. WRIGHT & C 0.,” CARPETS. 1 We are now offering special bargains in fresh goads, selected especially for the fall trad A. L. WRIGHT & CO., 47 and 49 S. Meridian St.