Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1883 — Page 4

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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. (SKANI) OPERA-UOCSE—Shook & Collier’s “Lights o’ London.” ENGLISH’SOPERA-410LSE— Kiralfy Bros’. “Black Crook.” FAKTv THEATER— J. J. Sullivan in “Maloney’s Ruffle.” THE DAILY JOURNAL. IST JNO. C. NEW & SOS. For Barr* of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1883. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Car be found at the following places-. lONliON—American ExchAßgein Europe. GSStrattd. PARlS—Amoriran Exchange in Paris, 36 Boulevard oes Capucineg. NEW FORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels, WASHINGTON, D. C.—Brentano'e 1.015 Pennsylvania avenue, CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI —J. C. Hawley A Cos.. UM Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearina, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot.. The Worthington Timas is out in favor Os Lieutenant-governor Hanna as the Republican candidate for Governor. It describes him as “a self-made man, trne patriot, brave soldier,, unswerving statesman, and a popular gentleman.” Plon-Plon, the versatile imperialist, failing to awaken popular support in his manifesto looking to the restoration of the French empire, like a good citizen that he is, is now a candidate for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. Wonder if he who sleeps under the dome of the Hotel des Invalides doesn’t turn over in his sarcophagus occasionally? The New Albany Ledger says: "Indian•jpolis is feeling the financial effects of grain gambling. * * * The press of that city are a unit in denouncing the evil. The Journal is especially vigorous in its denunciation. It may be that iti a few more yeats public opinion will come to view such gambling in its proper light, as one of the great crimes of the age.”

The Insurance, a New York journal devoted to insurance, has been looking into the Indiana grave-vara insurance companies, and lias this pleasant but pertinent remark: “There are no less than fifteen corporate atrocities, duly alilbor'icu Under the tirians'or preastn trade in moribund hunfanity, to prey on the helpless, to tempt eruel avarice and inoite cowardly murder.” The Washington Post is grieved because the Republican Senate sets a pernicious exantpit, from a civil service point of view, in turning out its subordinate officers who are Democrats, and replacing them with Republicans. The Post closes its exhortation to senators to pause and beware betore assuming such a resj>onsibility, with the melancholy truism that it is a simple thing to leap the Rubicon, but a very difficult tiling to recross it. Y r cs, it is undoubtedly a sad fact that these Democratic officers will have a sorry time in trying to get back. Thf. Michigan City Dispatch a Democratic paper, says not half the iiquordealers in that city pay the State or county license, sud the bgliool fund is thereby sv, united oal of over $2,000 per annum. The city marshal publishes a giving notice that hereafter “the ordinance shall be enforced to the fejfter of the law. After this day all saloons must be closed at 11 p. m., standard time, and on Sundays.” The good work is marching on. Possibly the time may come when the saloonkeeper will be forced to obey the law just as is the dry goods dealer or the dealer in groceries. Mr. Gladstone cannot go to prayers without being accompanied by a special policeman. Such a fact as this telle more than a volume could of the unrest and disturbance of things in England. Would it not be wortli while for Mr. Gladstone to try an absolute and radical measure of justice for Ireland? He might lose his office and his policeman, too; but lie could attend prayers with a much moredevout mind than now. The world has made much sport of the imprisoned Czarof Russia, but he appears to be quite as much at liberty as the Prime Minister of the first country in Christendom. There is a rebellion among the telephone subscribers at Terre Haute. They demand a reduction in the terms to $3 a month for business-houses, and $2 for residences. If this concession is not granted, nearly uil the users have signed an agreement to throw their phones out on the Ist of January next. The telephone company offers a compromise at $4 a month for business-houses and $3 for residences. In Indianapolis the charge is $ a month, whether for business or private houses. The inquiry is provoked how Terre Haute can be profitably served at * and $3 a month, while Indianapolis, with a much larger number of instruments, and presumably a reduced ratio of expenses, is charged $5 a month all around. The telephone is but in its infancy’ as a convenience, but it is very full grown as to cost. The absurd story as to the tripartite alliance between Messrs, Blaine, Grant and Conkling, in which the principal offices of the country were parceled out between the interested parties is authentically denied. Os course, no sensible person for one moment believed it But it afforded one or two “Smart Alecks" an opportunity to fill themselves with the east wind, and to belch upon the public a lot (A unmannerly and uncalled- | for abuse against these men, who certainly j have dune enough for their country to euti- : tie them j.o respeclful treatment. We be- j lieve there art but few who think General '

Grant, James G. Blaine and Roscoe Conkling to be arrant fools, which the story as told presupposed. If tiiese men have made up their personal differences it is well and proper, but it is an unwarranted impertinence to treat them as public ene-' mies. All three are private citizens at present, and are conducting themselves becomingly. General Grant is certainly attending to his business quietly. Mr. Conkling is practicing law, and if hisclients are satisfied we know of no one who has a right to complain. He certainly is not obtruding himself upon the public in any way. Mr. Blaine is writing his book, which will be a most valuable contribution to American political history. Why these men should be made the target for indecent attacks we cannot imagine. If they re-enter public life, or so 6ar as their acts or utterances relate to public affairs, they are proper subjects for legitimate critixsm; but we submit that ibis is not unstinted abuse and defamation.

t The Chicago Inter Ocean notices a paragraph to the effect that IndianaDOlis margin speculators have contributed one million dollars to the Chicago gamblers since last spring, and, with a chipper air, says: “It must have been ‘futures’ by which our Indianapolis friends were bitten. It is represented that in consenuenoe of the local failures incident to this kind of ‘deal,’ the money market around Indianapolis is tight, and it is even intimated that $1,000,000 has been left in Chicago by Indiana speculators. The best advice we can give to our Ihdiana friends, under the circumstances, is that which the matured matron gave to her charming daughter on the interesting question whether the former would allow the latter to go out to swim: Oil yes, my charming daughter; Just liang yonr clotfce9 on a hlokory limb. But don’t go near the water. “If the people of Indiana want to speculate in grain they had better come to Chicago and get an inside knowledge of the markets. By knowing in advance exactly how the nrice will go they will avoid these petty discomfitures.” It is not uncommon, we believe, for gamblers who play with marked cards and loaded dice to laugh at the men they have willfully and criminally robbed. So we might very properly expect just such brutal comment as this from Chicago. The Inter Ocean acknowledges that the Chicago “dealers” know in advance how the prices will go, which is the same knowledge in k,ind as is possessed by the dealer in brace faro," the dealer of loaded dice and the dealer in three-card monte. This fact is what we have endeavored to impress upon the minds of the silly fools who bny Chicago “futures” on mnrgins. They are dealing with dishonorable scoundrels, in no whit more honest than the brace faro man and the monte gamblers, and the Inter Ocean furnishes proof of it. The time is coming, and is not far distant, when Indianians will heed the advice of the matron, and will not go near the disreputable hell-holes in which Chicago “futures” are sold, be they the palatial Board of Trade or the less pretentious “exchanges” and bucket-shops. But it might be well for the Inter Ocean to save some of its sneers for its own defaulting city treasurers, who have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars, and for the presidents of banks and the vice-presidents of the Board of Trade, who have died by their own hands because of disgrace and ruin growing out of “futures” and margin gambling. Not nil the losses, or the misery and the crime of this infamous thievery, called “business”.in Chicaeo, is confined to outsiders. There are victims by the scores and-hundreds in Chicago itself. We commend to the Inter Ocean the task of looking them ud. We find the following paragraph in the Shetbyville Democrat: “Every few days we see a foolish statement in the Indianapolis papers that the police commissioners have met to consider a policy to be udopted touching the saloons. This is supreme nonsense, as we have a statute on the subject which cannot be amended by the board. We have seen enough of this ‘higher law’ tomfoolery. If the liquor law, for prudential reasons, is not to he strictly enforced, the superintendent should sav so without these nightly meetings being called. Tne liquor law never was enforced in that city, and it never will- be: then why all these meetings, unless they are for the purpose of putting clubs into the hands of the Republican papers to beat Democrats over the head with. We would advise the superintendent j to pay less attention to saloons and more to thieves and criminals who infest that city.” The comment of. the Democrat is a wise one, from a party point of view, as well as upon general principles. It is to the last degree demoralizing to see the police board, composed of three of our very best and uiojt prominent citizens and business men, men wbo have registered oaths that, so far as they may be able, they will see the laws executed, meet solemnly together for consultation as to how the statutes may be evaded with the greatest ease and certainty by persons engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquors. There is no law that we know of that compels a liquor saloon to close at 11 o’clock or on Sunday; the prohibition is against the sale of liquor after 11 o’clock and on Sundays. We appreciate the great difficulty any police force would meet in a city like Indianapolis, with four hundred saloons, in preventing the sale of liquor after 11 o’clock, and we recognize the difficulty there is in making a case against a saloon man for a violation ot the law, in view of tne decisions of courts, which have construed every possible doubt and technicality in favor of the law-breaker and against society. But the point we make is that there is absolutely no color of law whatever for the 12 o’clock order, or the “higher law” of the ex-superintendent of police, which is still in vogue by permission of the board. This means that saloonkeepers may not only keep their saloons open, but that they may sell liquor until 12 o’clock, which is a square, uuequivocal vio- 1

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lation of the law under the authority and by the permission of those who have been sworn to enforce and execute the law. This is the demoralizing, the outrageous, the criminal thing. If by any means the saloons can be closed at 12 o'clock by the police without the color of statutory law, they might be closed at 11 o'clock by the same power, which would be a fair and liberal interpretation of the statute—for no saloon-keeper would care to keep open his saloon and pay for gas and fuel if he were not allowed to do business during the extra hour. What the police board should do is to peremptorily stop this official violation of law, and instruct every officer and patrolman on the force to do whatever is in their power to prevent the sale of liquor after 11 o’clock and on Sunday. Either this, or give the saleons free course. ■ The Ohio wool-gnowers who aided in the election of the Democratic ticket, because of a pique toward certain Republicans who incurred their displeasure because of a modification of the tariff on wool, are probably beginning to think that they threw themselves away without sufficient reason. It Is absurd to expect any praotical aid from the Democratic politicians of that State who promised so confidently to stand by the wool-growers’ interests. Tlie election of Mr. Carlisle to the speakership commits the party to a steady assault upon the tariff, which means a regular and important reduction of all protective duties until free trade is reached. Already a bill has been pretntred reducing the tariff on wools bj’ 25 per cent, to take effect on the Ist of July, 1884, and another like reduction to take effect one year later. Their resentment has made fools of Ohio sheep-raisers, and they will soon begin to realize the first adverse dividendson their Investment. The incantation of hoodooing the ignorant is akin to the process of Hoadlving Ohioans. But it will hardly succeed the second time, and Ohio ■may safely be set down as Republican next year.

The “moral of the whole case is” that the American people want an administration at Washington that will be as firm as Great Britain is in protecting the rights of its citizens in ail pArts of the world, and that will* have the strength and courage to compel respect and consideration for its just official requests.—New York World. to O’Donnell. On general principles we cordially agree with the World, and call attention to the foul murder of J. P. Matthews by Wheeler, the chairman of tne Democratic central committee of Copiah county, Mississippi. Here is a citizen of tlie United States deprived of his life without the least semblance ot the forms of law; by nothing more nor less than cowardly murder. Wheeler has been'elected marshal of Kazleburst by r the Democratic party as a reward for his crime. Let the administration at Washington try its hand in protecting the rights of its citizens in the Southern States. The Indianapolis Journal inferentiaily admits that some good can come out of South Carolina, in advising the Hoosier State to follow tlie example of tlie Palmetto State in prohibiting divorces and declaring unlawful all contracts for the sale of articles for future delivery. This is a great concession on the part of the Journal. —Cincinnati News Journal. It gave the Journal much pleasure to make this juit concession; and it would give us even more joy to be able to acknowledge that a man could vote the Republican ticket in South Carolina without incurring the danger of being murdered by a Democrat. We hope to live to see the day when we can make this “great concession.” The romanoes of the war ore not oil ended yet. Over twenty years ago Margaret Z-li lived with her husband and six suns in u little New Jersey town. The husbaud aud four of the sons enlisted In the army, the fifth went away from home to seek work, nud the youngest was left with his mother. Ha did not remain long, hut ran away, afterward sending word to his brothers that their mother was dead. Tin- father was killed soon after his enlistment, and after tlie war closed the. boys heoaiua scattered far and wide. Mrs. Z, unable to bewr from her sons, and not knowing that any were alive. Game to Jersey City, where for years she has earned a scanty livelihood by sewing. She seemed wrapped up in her own affairs and sorrows, and her neighbors knew litt’e about her. Last week a middle-aged man, witu the appearance of bciug respectable aud well to do, came In search of her. and proved to bo one of the six sons. The youngest one, who had told the story of her death, had written from the West, lu a fit of repentance, that she was probably living, and search for the lost mother was atonee.oeguD. The other sons are all alive and prosperous, and the last days of the old lady will !be those of peace aud plenty. ♦ ■ ~ Mrs. Kii.oork, a lawyer of Philadelphia, has been refused permission to praotice in oue of tlie courts of that city on the ground, as slated by thejudge, that marriod women under the laws of that State are permitted to carry on so many frauds in ordluar.v life that It is Inadvisable to extend their privileges by making lawyers of them. This ruling probably exasperates Mr-. Kilgore,but she may congratulate herself that none of tbo extraordinary arguments were brought against her wtach prevailed to exclude Miss Lydia Poet from the Italian bar. Mias Poet was duly Qualified, but was refused admittance to the roll of advocates at Turin for the reason, among others equally ponderous and convincing, that “t he sight or the toga worn over the strange and whimsical dress which fashion otien imposes upon womea would Imperil the gravity of the judges. Every time the balanoe of jnsttoe leaned to the side of a prisoner defended by a pretty female advocate the judges would be exposed to susplolon and -oalumny.” The Italtau Judges areevldoutly giddy aud weak' brethren, . Moorksvilt.k, N. J., is striking at the foundation of the public-school system. An order has been Issued against the playing ot any kind of kissing game by tbo soholars. It was froip this btunbls bt gtnutug that, the idea of popular education sprang. , New Jersey Justice, generally so quick to strike and so unerring, haw made a bnd break Sleveral weeks ago a man killed his wife, while Hisving croquet on Sunday. He has been found gjuilty of niaustaugtiror, aud the prisoner has beeu remanded, :o await sentence. If tills mis.

carriage of Justice bo allowed to Rtand, what reoourse linn the putilie against the insidious encroachments of this garnet If husbands and fathers are not permitted to kick their wives to death when beuten at. croquet, when may *> hope for domestic peace and tranquillity? Ristori furnishes anew idea in the business of erecting statue sin nonor of living people. Her native town undertook to pnt up a monument In her honor, but failed to secure the necessary funds. Asa happy thongbt, the authorities appealed to her, when she gracefully came forward and made good the deficit. This may fairly he termed a Ristoritian ot etatues. * -- South Carolina iatlie only State in the Union wliieli has no aivorce law, death the only means of untying the marriage bond in that Commonwealth. No wonder people from some of the Northern States, Illinois and Connecticut for instance, refuse to go to South Carolina to grow up. The business of the countisy Is prospering. All of the late sewing-machine Singer’s wives and their respective families, exoepfc oue, have been settled with. A good many attorneys will soon be out of a job. Matthew Arnold is said to resemble Rev. T. DeWltt Talmage when he smiles. Rev. Talmage’s countenance resembles the mouth of tbo Mammoth Cave w hen he smiles. “A female ourang-outang in Philadelphia dearly loves a little dog, £ud refuses to be sepparated from it.” Is this then the origin of the “lap-dog” species of ladies? It is about time to prepare for an accident on the Cincinnati incline railways. The official inspector has pronounced them in perfect condition. , A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says that five comets are visible at that place. Kentucky whisky tiuds ready salo in South America.

ABOUT PEOPLK. Senator Zkbulon Vance, of North Carolina, is a handsome, jovial story-teller, whose good nature makes friends for him in both parties. Mn. Huntington, the railroad millionaire,.is put down as worth $50,000,000. He is sixry-ti ve years olcl and lias no family of his ow n blood. An adopted daughter is the solo heiress. There Is said to be less formality at the receptions given at the Freiinghuysen mansion than at those tfiven by any othor hign official's family in Washington; and they are accordingly popular. The largest observatory dome in the world is now being made in Cleveland, 0., for the University of Virginia. The dome weighs ten tons aud measures forty-live feet four inches at the base. One purpose which Mr. Kasson has in retiring from public life is to devote himself more'closely to literature. lie finds It impossible to do this and to properly attend to the duties of a congressman. Mb. Bennett, the owner of the New York Herald, is said by persons who have seen him in Paris lately to have bebome “perinarurely old. His hair is turning gray and lie is as slow and’precise in movemeut as an old man.” Miss Ellen H. Arthur, the President's daughter, is president of the Children’s Christmas Club, of Washington, an organization whose object is to provide poor children with food, clothes and toys at the holiday season. Whittier is colorblind. Afire having damaged the wall paper in his residence, he undertook to match it with anew piece, which whs neatl}* pasted on, to bis great admiration and the amusement of the family. He had used a green vine with one of orimson. Baron Rupektswood, the richest man in Australia, is worth $200,000,000. His father, Mr. Clarke, went to New South Wales with a few thousand pounds ami bought land where the city of Melbourne afterwards was built. The little ball of gold increased in size lino the traditional suowball. A man of the nape of Colas, who hail the monopoly of rat In Paris, has just died. He used to feed exclusively on the produce of his sport. Eight or ten times already be had nearly diod of indigestion; this time he expired after a heavy meal oT rats before the doctor could be called in. It Ip alleged tiiat Vanderbilt wanted a prosoe nium box in the Academy of Music, but August Belmont, who owned the house, objected. Mr. V., who has a hundred and ninety millions more money than Mr. 8., went straightway and built the Metropolitan, in which Mr. B. can’t get a proscenium box, neither can any of the little B.’s. Carlo Lkander Clark was the name of a late lamented eighteen-year-old black-aml-tan of Philadelphia. His bereaved mistress had his remains embalmed, and they will repose, in the family vault in Woodland Cemetery. The dear departed’s demise was duly recorded, with poetic. attachment, in the obituary columns of the Public Ledger. Mgr. Capel sees, in regard to marriages, betrer results of the Freuch husines-i idea Mian the English sentimentalism. Referring to England, he says: “Nowhere else do we see dukes and marquises marrying their servants, ladies marrying their coachmen, and old women of threescore and ten marrying youths scarcely twenty. The system ripens out iuto divorces, until today the courts cannot do the work they are called upon to do.” The Council General of the Seine have ordered the removal of the large portraits of the Emperor Napoleon I and of the Empress from the Court of the Tribunal of Commerce. The same are to be relegated to the municipal cellars in the Boulevard Morland, whore are stored once famous portraits and statues of Louis XV, Louts XVIII, Charles X, Louis Phitlippe, Napoleon 111, and other royal personages which, from political reasons, have at various periods beeu put out of sight. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Beutsell Montagsblatt says that the Princess Dolgourouki, widoW of Alaxander 11, recently had a personal interview with the present Czar conoerning the education of her son, Prince George. Alexander 111 wanted the lad to enter M. KatofTs gymnasium, at Moscow, but Hie royal mother would not consent to this, insisted on retaining for the Priuw the private tutors selected by bis father, and left the presence of the Czar in a state of greAt excitement. Mary Clemmer complains of finding, on entering the Capitol, that the beautiful corridors, given to cleanliness and silence for nine months, had been seized by the Philistines and bo smeared and defiled by the tobaoeo-chewing politicians. During the sessions of Congress, she says, the Internal condition of the Capitol of the nation is a perpetual insult and grief to every refined American. Moreover, she lielieves that the Huns of Attila, when they swooped down from the north, did not look half so dissipated as * those men do, ••infna? sort o# ft man is Uncle Itemtis?” T asked of a Georgia friend, writes a Washington correspondent. “Joel Chandler Harris,” he replied, smiling. “He’s a little, red-headed, freoklefaced farmer’s boy from Putnam county. Just about as handsome as a burnt shoe. He’s a good fellow, though, and bright, but indolent. Sort of a singed oat. He has been very well treated by the Atlauta Constitution people. They give iilm a good sa\arv for writing an hour or two every day, In addition to a very nioe bouse, which they gave him outright as a Christinas gift, f think. Ho he has plenty of time for literature and a pleasant place to write It in.”

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