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THE RECORD OF THE COURTS Supreme Court—Jan. 3. Hon. George V. llowk, Chief Justice, PARTITION SAL.ES —LIEN HOLDERS. 10,831. Jesse Arnold vs. Noah Butterlmugh et al. Wabash C. C. Hammond, J. —In actions for partition all lienholders, whose liens do not extend to the ■whole of tlie real estate, are proper parties. (35 3 ud., 54; 73 id., 480; Work’s Prac.. section 150.) But this rule applies only to persons having liens at the commencement of the suit. The action is in Pern, and when it results in the sale of the land the purchaser acquires all the right, title and interest held by the parties to the action at the time of its commencement. Whf.e, after the action is begun, a party conveys his interest, or a lien is acquired against it, this does not affect the rights of the purchaser at a sale ordered in the partition action. Judgment affirmed. CORONERS—EMPLOYMENT OF PHYSICIAN. 10,032. Commissioners of Jay County vs. S. A. Gillum. JayC. C. Howk. C. J.—When a coroner, in the discharge of his official duties, employs a physician to make an autopsy on the body of a child found dead, such fact may be proved by the parol testimony of any person who has knowledge of the fact. The proof of such employment does not depend upon the record of the coroner. Judgment affirmed. RECOVERY OF REAL ESTATE—DESCRIPTION. 10,074. Benoni S. Roberts vs. Sarah J. Lanam. Brown C. C. Franklin. C. —Action to recover possession of real estate. The land is described in the complaint as ‘*the northeast part of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 17,” etc. This description does not fix the boundaries or shape of the land, and is insufficient. (80 lud., 421.) J udgment reversed. VOLUNTARY ASSIGNMENT—WIFE’S INTEREST. , 11.256. Ann Hall vs. Samuel S. Harrell. Franklin C. C. Black. C —The voluntary assignment made by a debt >r for the benefit of his creditors is not a judicial sale within the meaning of the act of iSsi). and does not entitle his wife to a third of the rents collected by the assignee previous to the sale of the real estate by the latter, although the wife did not join in the execution of the as pignment. (78 Ind.. 503; 83 id., 1; 85 id., 128.) Judgment affirmed. JUSTICE OF PEACE —VACATING JUDGMENT. 10.038. Henry L. Martin vs. John Pifer. Elk tiart <\ C. Bieknell, C.—ln a direct proceeding to vacate a judgement rendered by a justice want of authority to enter the judgment may be shown. (7 Ind., 488: 37 id.. 193.) The justice and constable are proper co-defendants with the judgment plaintiff in such an action. (52 Ind.. 101: 40 id., 69: 33 id., 192.) It is competent to show by the justice that the judgment was not entered until a week or ten days after the verdict of the jury ■was returned. (37 Ind., 193.) Judgment affirmed. CO-HEIRS —CONTRIBUTION. ' 10.219. Matt F. Cook vs. Lorenzo D. Cook et. al. Hancock C. C. Bieknell. C.—Whore one of several heirs pays the debt of his ancestor lie has a right in equity to contribution from his co-heirs. (8 B. Mon., 419.) Where one of two residua nr legatees incurs an expense in protecting the joint interest, and his act is beneficial to both, justice requires that he should be reimbursed by his co-legatee to the extent of the expense incurred oh his account. (15 La. Ann.. 025. ) Although partition % harl been made, the whole or the land of the decedent was subject to the payment of tho . legacies and costs of administration and the payment of such liens by anyone interested c.ouhl not be prevented by protest or objection. Legacies do not cease to be liens on the land of the testator because they are not filed as claims against his estate. Judgment affirmed. 10,250. John F. Cook vs. Lorenzo D. Cook. Hancock 0. Bieknell. C. C.—This case is decided upon the authority of Cook vs. Cook. (10,249, supra.) Judgment affirmed. EJECTMENT —GENERAL DENIAL. 10,341. Elbert Johnson vs. William Briscoe. Spencer O. C. Bieknell, C. C. —In an action of ejectment the fendant, under the general denial, cannot avail himself of a defense not existing at the comnioncemput of the suit. (42 Ind.. 4G2; 36 id., 320; 37 iu.. 4G5.) If the defendant has a defense which arose after the suit was brought, he should apply for leave to file a supplemental pleading, analogous to old plea puis darrein continuance, setting up tiie facts. Rehearing denied. Tlie following cases were also decided, abstracts of which will appear hereafter: Pavid M. Crumley vs. John H. Hickman. Blackford C. C. Affirmed. Hamqiond. J. Fred. Weik vs. David C. Pugh et al. Monroe C. C. Affirmed. Black. C. Hiram Hand vs. Ira A. Kidwell. Madison C. C. Affirmed. * Niblack. J. Noah Clodfelter vs. Henry C. Hulett. Montgomery C. C. Affirmed. Franklin. C. Eleanor Masters vs, John P. Templeton. Union 4?. C. Affirmed. Elliott. J. " Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Quincy A. Blankenship. Owen C. C. Affirmed. Bieknell, C. Federal Court Calendar. The calendar of cases get for trial in the federal court, during January, is as follows: Wednesday, Jan. IG.—Greer vs. Capital Elovatov Company. Ball & Gage Wagon Company vs. Aurora Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Thursday, Jan. 17.—Nash vs. Lake Erie & Western Railway Company. Richardson vs. Baldwin. Friday, Jan. 18.—Nalfuer vs. Baker. McCormick Harvesting Company vs. Scliwartzkopf. Saturday, Jan. 19.—Uambill vs. Duy. Ferguson vs. Pennsylvania Company. Monday, Jan. 21.—Thom vs. St. Joseph Manufacturing Company. Hutchison vs. Pennsylvania Company. Tuesday. Jan. 22.—Hines vs. Balch. National Car-brake Shoe Company vs. Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company. Wednesday, Jan. .23.—National Car-brake Shoe Company vs. Lafayette Car Works. Hood vs. Kenower. Thursday, Jan. 24.—Greer vs. 1., B. & W. Railway Company. Other cases which may be put at issue before ilie end of the trial calendar is reached will be set for trial on motion of parties, and tried before the jury is discharged. Circuit Court. Hon. Joshua G. Adams. Jndza. Barbara Streioher et al. vs. Jesse F. Johnson et al: suit to recover rents and for possession. On trial by jury. Room No. 2—Hon. D. W’. Howe, Judge. Indiana Magee vs. James Magee. Divorce granted on grounds of cruel treatment, failure ta proride. etc. Custody of children given to plaintiff. TIIE CITY IN BRIEF. ■Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Charles H. Slemmer and Mamie Shea, Levi Miller and Sarah Downing. C. E. Coffin & Cos. have issued the annual edition of the Real Estate Guide, which is neatly printed, and contains much information. Rev. W. G. Moorehead, of Xenia, 0.. will preach in the United Presbyterian Church this evening, to-morrow evening and twice on Sunday. A cheerful young man came to the county clerk’s office yesterday and wanted to borrow a blank marriage certificate "to play a practical joke.” He didn’t get it. Judge Howe yesterday divorced Indiana Magee from .Tames Magee, on proof of cruel treat Dient and failure to provide. . The custody of their children was given to the plaintiff. Thomas Harrington, who assaulted Conductor Barger, on the Panhandle. with a revolver, last summer, is on trial in the Criminal Court. The jmw found him guilty of assault and battery, and sentenced him to six mouths’ imprisonment in the county jail. Insane Hospital Commissioners. A meeting of the Insane Hospital Commissioners was held at the Governor’s office last night, for the further consideration of the plans for the construction of tho Logansport aiul Evansville hospitals. Nothing of special interest was done. The commission will continue in session to day,

and sealed proposals for the construction of the new hospitals will probably be solicited in a short time. PERSONAL MENTION. D. C. Duitow, of Peru, is a guest of the Denison. Hon. R. C. Bell, of Fort Wayne, is at the Grand Hotel. W. R. King, of Chicago, registered at the Denison yesterday. Mr. P. V. Jones, editor of the Evansville Trib-une-News, is in the city. Thomas O. Steele and wife, of Philadelphia, are registered at the Denison. Albert Trinler and C. W. DePauw, of New r Albany, are at the Grand Hotel. Captain A. J. Howard, warden of the North era prison, is at the Grand Hotel. T. W. Harper and W. Campbell and daughter, of Terre Haute, are at the Denison. Eb Henderson and Dr. R. H. Tarlton, of Martinsville, were at the Grand Hotel, yesterday. Edward Fitzpatrick, the southern Indiana editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, was in the city yesterday. He is a Democrat, pure and un defiled. Kokomo Gazette: Mrs. Steele, wife of Representative Steele, seems to he one of the leading society ladies of Washington. Yesterday she assisted President Arthur in entertaining the New Year’s callers, and in the evening assisted Mrs, Carlisle at the Riggs House. V. T. Lansing, H. M. Lusk, Brazil; Wm. T. Noble, Richmond; M. S. Barnett, Madison; T. C. Williams, Franklin; Charles G. Offntt, Greenfield: J. N. McCampbell, Rockville: E. H. Staley, Frankfort; Wm. Mitchell, Greenfield; Henry Maley. Edinburg; J. C. Wingate. Wingate, Ind.; Wm. Swint, Boonville; George G. Dunn, Bedford; A. W. Knight, Brazil; J. W. White, Knightstown; A. N. Higgins, of Veedersburg, were at the Grand Hotel yesterday. South Bend Tribune: Our young old friend, Ben D. House, who writes as sublimely as he fought heroically in the late war, brightens the pages of the [Crawfordsville] Journal with one of his choicest poems. How this soldier, with five wounds on his person, some of them as painful yet as when inflicted, nearly twenty years ago. can write so mauy poems of such genuine merit as he sends out to the Indiana press, is a mystery to his intimate friends who know so much of his physical sufferings. Mrs. Kohler’s Will. Avery peculiar will was that of Mrs. Sarah Rohler, which was admitted to probate yesterday. It bequeaths all her property to Mary J. Painter, except $1 to a brother, and SIOO to a sister. Other relatives are cut off and denounced on account of alleged unkiml treatment. The property bequeathed is located iu Lafayette, and the will will be contested, as for some time before Mrs. Rohler made the will she was of unsound mind and under tbe care of a guardian. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department. 4 Office of the Chief Signal Officer, ;• Washington, Jan. 4, la. m. ) For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley Decidedly colder, fair weather in the eastern portion, light local snows in the western portion, followed by clearing weather, winds shifting northwesterly, generally higher barometer. For the Lake Regious—Generally colder, fair weather, westerly shifting to northwesterly winds, higher barometer. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Jan. 3. Time. ! Bar. Tli. j Hum.!Wind. Weather. IR’f.l. ' • ' j 0:24 a. M. 30.04 0.5 02 j W ,Clear 10:24 a. m. 30.13 10.3! 04 1 W Fair 2:24 P. M. 30.20 ll.O, ! 40! W Clear 0:24 p. M. 30.27 10.0 58 W Clear 10:24 p. m. 30.281 5.0 52 W Fair Maximum temperature, 11.0; minimum temperature. 3.2. General Observations. War Department, Washington, Jan. 3, 10:25 p. m. > Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. ? 3 3 LPL '4 3 2 5 §I * s 33 C g. £ STATION. ? 1 . : ? f i \ 1 i x j *• t • t I, *+ j ; ! t oc : Bismarck, Dak '30.59 —29 NW j-w. •. i Hear. Cairo ,30.34' 27 S [ Clear. Chattanooga 1 ('hicago 1 30.27 —5 W ! ('lear. (’incinnati 30.34 14 W Clear. Davenport, la 30.42 —2 NW 1 Clear. Dead wood | - J Denver '30.271 44 NW Clear. Moines 30.47' —7 ST Dodge City 30.3,0 4 N j Clear. Fort Assiniboine... 30.03,—18 NW Clear. Fort Buford 30.05—32 NW j Clear. Fort Custer 30.53, —9 N .03 Lt. snow Fort Elliott 3Q-18; 27i NE Clear. Fort Sill ' 1 | Galveston 130.181 50' S ; Cloudy. Indianapolis 30.29: 0 W Clear. luJianola ! | 1 ' Keokuk 30.43 0 NW .01 Lt. snow La Crosse 30.321—17 NW Clear. Leavenworth 30.45 j 5i N .02 Lt. snow Little Rock, Ark.... 30.23 34 8 Clear. Louisville 30.31+ 19 NW Clear. Memphis 30.29; 30j SB 'Clear. Morehead 30.51—29; NW 'Clear. Nashville 30.33 J 28, SW 'Fair. North Platte 30.42 —1 NE Cloudy. Omaha...: 30.52 —7 N Clear.’ Pittsburg 30.13' 12 W Clear. San Antonio ! ' ! Shreveport 30.17 37 SE Clear. Springneld, 111 30.39; 2 N Cloudy. Sr. Louis 30.32 8 N ! Clear. Stockton 30.14 37 SW Clear. St. Paul 30.38 —l4 W Clear, Vicksburg 30.32 34 SE Clear. Yankton. D. T 30.55 —l3 Calm iClear. New Orleans 30.30 40i SE Clear. Las Animus 30.13 8 E Cloudy. Fort Smith 30.20 29 E Clear.* Salt Lake 30.21 30! SE 'Cloudy. El Paso, Tex 30.19 30 Calm Clear.* Out-Door Jackets. New York Evening Post. In new jackets for out door wear are shown some very trim and jaunty shapes made of heavy Indian cloth, in olive, maroon, myrtle, green, Burgundy-red and seal-brown, trimmed with bands of Astrakhan a deeper shade. Very heavy woolen Jerseys are also exhibited, trimmed with fur or feather-bands, the fronts decorated with silk cords arrayed Hussar-fashion across the bust. The ribs of the stockinette goods are coarser than was formerly the case, and it, is quite admissible to wear woolen Jerseys of this description in the streets without any additional covering, although on severe days a fur pelerine certainly looks more sensible and comfortable. The Woods Are Full of ’Em. Winchester Journal. Virginia was once called the mother of presidents, and Indiana may now be termed tho mother of presidential candidates—and she has a liousefull of them. The discovery of Atliloplioros as a specific for rheumatism and neuralgia was not an accident, but the result of inquiry into his own case by a gentleman of wealth, leisure and scientific ac complishment, who had been long a victim of rheumatism. His own cure proved his theories as to the nature of the disease, and the merits of Athlophoros as a specific for it. Then his friends tried it. and their friends. And so the circle widened, till now Athlophoros is recognized in every State as the surest remedy for rheumatism and neuralgia that has ever been discovered.

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY", JANUARY" 4, 1884.

A lIOOSIER IX DAKOTA, Agricultural and Other Resources of the Teritory —Eainfail and Temperature. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. Aberdeen, D. TANARUS., Dec. 30.—Being so far removed from Hoosierdom, and favored with only an occasional copy of the once so familiar Journal. I am ignorant as to whether or not any Indianaian has written you anything of our glorious country, and so at a venture, and prompted by philanthropic motives, is this epistle indited. Dakota's boom, inaugurated by the opening of that grand avenue of traffic and travel, the Northern Pacific railroad, and swelled by the great trunk lines of railway that pierced Dakota at her central and southern boundaries, lias been as successful as was intended it should be, and is calling the attention of the people not only of this country and Canada but of Europe as well, to the wonderful fertility of the -soil, and the resources of stream and mine, whose development has scarcely been begun and whose possibilities stagger the most fertile imagination. Going west from St. Paul and Minneapolis, on tlieC., M. & St. P. railroad, Dakota is entered at Big Stone City, beautifully situated on Big Stone lake, and a further ride of a few hours brings the traveler into the famous Jim river valley, which in extent and productiveness rivals the Rod river valley of the north. Aberdeen, the metropolis of this valley, is ten miles west of tlie James or Dakota river, and though but three years old, is fast developing into a city in fact as well as name. At this place is the United States land offiee. with a district subject to it comprising 3,500,000 acres. This land district is about 125 miles in length, by half as broad, and extending westward to the Missouri river, where begins the groat Sioux Indian reservation. Aberdeen being the terminus of the railroad, it has naturally built up a healthy jobbing trade in the country westward. Although the railroad stopped here it must not be supposed that immigration did, for long ago the government land was all taken in this county, and westward the hardy pioneers have gone, until the country in which a steam whistle has never been heard is thickly settled. That the land is being rapidly taken up is evidenced by the fact that during the month of November 300,000 acres were entered and 200,000 “proved up.” Still land is plenty, and when the railroad is constructed westward to the Missouri river and to Bismarck, in the spring, immigration is expected in larger numbers than ever. To subdue tlie wild soil of tlie prairie and prepare it to raise forty bushels of “No. 1 hard” wheat per acre is no child’s play, and it is the man who had some such idea who returns to the east defaming Dakota. Intelligent. well-directed effort in farming, such as one gives to ordinary business, tells in Dakota, where every acre of his quarter section can be put in cultivation. The great question of vital importance to Dakotans lias been that of fuel, but there can be no doubt that the coal mines now operated in a rude manner by the Indians on the great reservation westward, contain an abundant supply, and men of capital are only nqw waiting for that region to be opened for settlement to operate them on a large scale. Dakota has long been maligned as the mother of blizzards. and a synonym for a countrjt*hat was nine months winter and three montns late in the fall. But such reports are the legitimate offspring of ignorance. Little rain faHs here, except in the spring, and occasional showers during the summer. From the middle of October to the present, there lias been but one rain, and no more are expected until spring. So far this winter, the thermometer lias marked 30° below zero, and those spending their first winter here have had to be shown the instrument. so doubtful were they of the fact. A special fact of interest to us who had heard so much of Dakota blizzards, is an entire absence of anything of the kind. True, we anticipate some blizzards —high wind on a cold day—but they are not every-day pastimes of old Boreas in these high latitudes. A stinging reminder of the feeling winters you endure in Indiana, was an occasional damp, frosty morning, when, with the mercury at zero, it was more intolerable than our customary clear, dry. 3(P-below-zero mornings. Facts are facts, and in this case feeling is believing.^ With all her great natural resources, with all her wealth and intelligence and necessary population, Dakota must be denied the right of Statehood; must submit to pay a seeming tribute of respect to that corrupt gubernatorial Jumbo. Ordway, and not be allowed a voice in tlie selection of her own executive officers, not* those of tlie nation. A convention as able men as ever undertook the. important work of forming a State constitution assembled at Sioux Fulls in September, and brought forth a, constitution containing no experiments. but embodying tile tried and sufficient constitutions of long established States. Their appeal to Congress contains no sentiment of revolution, neither go they to the Congress of the United Slates as suppliants, but they go as men—men who know what is due them; and dare ask for justice. The responsibility now lies with the Democratic Congress, and, though party lines are not now closely drawn, tlie people us Dakota will know just why they are re - fused admission to Statehood, and will hold, the leaders to a strict accountability. f. LETTERS TO TIIE EDITOR. The Election of Bad 3len to High Office. To tl.c Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In James Anthony Fronde's Csesar (page 29, Harper’s Franklin-square edition), chap, xi., are found these words: **He (Antonins] had been expelled by the censors from the senate for general worthlessness; but public disgrace seems to have had no effect whatever on the chances of a candidate for the consulship in this singular age.” This quotation suggests the strange career of the late lc*a<4er of the Indiana Legislature. One dislikes to speak evil of the dead, but in this case those who committed that great wrjng are still on the stage of action. Tlie me is who made him their leader, who fawned at his feet, still live. It is as you say; the spirit of slavery still lifts, its head; tlie Republican party still lias a great responsibility to meet. As in Caesar’s time, aristocracy will not yield the reins of power; it still rages to oppress the poor. In tlie example alluded to the case at Rome is not so flagrant as is the case in Indiana. There is a strange parallel between the political situation at Home during the era that culminated with the Caesars and that of the United States during the slavery agitation, the end of which lias not. yet come. We recommend to all who feel an interest in the philosophy of the present political situation of our. country to read and study Mr. Fronde's book. w, w. m. Salem, Jan. 7, 1884. Relief for Our Courts. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: “Judicial reforms,” the subject of the editorial in the Journal recently, is one that the . people of the Slate of Indiana should be more interested in than, perhaps, any other. Something must be done to relieve our now overburdened courts, and that, too, soon, else the clause in our Stator constitution which says that “justice shall lie administered freely, and without purchase; completely, and without denial: speedily, and without delay,” will become the object of ridicule. To afford the needed relief in this matter will probably require a change in our State constitution, and furnishes an additional reason for calling a constitutional convention at an early day. In the county where the writer resides—Fayette —it requires at least a year from the time a suit is commenced, if it be of any importance, to get it tried, so overburdened is the Circuit Court with accumulated business. Then the case has to be ground through the Supreme Court, which takes another year, possibly longer, and quite likely comes back reversed on

some technical point, to be tried again below and once more appealed to the Supreme Court. No wonder that litigants get. disgusted with our courts and call them farces. It would require the patience of a Job to regard them otherwise. The celebrated ease of “Jarndyce and Jarndyee” presents a striking example of what the people of Indiana may look forward to who are so rash as to resort to our courts to secure their rights, if the present judicial system remains unaltered. Judges and prosecuting attorneys should be appointed by the Governor, subject to the approval of the Senate, a mode of selection, though not new, that would undoubtedly secure a much higher order of talent for these important positions. In Massachusetts, a State where the law’s are better administered than in any other State in the Union, the judges are appointed by the executive. The office of justice of the peace should either be abolished and a county judge, with probate jurisdiction, substituted in lieu of these numerous functionaries, or else the office should be raised to the proper standard of dignity by some means, so that men of ability and fitness could be induced to accept the office. It is not the intention of the writer to outline a judicial system that would answer all the needs of the people, but simply to call attention to the necessity of reform in this matter, and to express a hope that the Journal will continue to agitate the subject. J. H. Claypool. Connersville, Jan. 1. Christmas Gifts. To tlie Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The days of Christmas-tide produce such notices as the following in tlie daily papers: “Saccharine Jones, the grocer, on South Aristocrat street, was handsomely caned by his clerks;” “Dives Mercutor, manager of Plutus’s establishment on Wanderers’ street, received a valuable seal ring from the attaches;” “Dr. Pangloss Alienus, of the Insane Asylum, Prof. Mutus, of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, Rev. Caccus, of the Blind Asylum, Major Gallinipper McSquirtor, of the State prison, were the recipients of elegant presents at the hands of the employes of their respective institutions,” and so on ad nauseam. Os course all of these worthy gentlemen were completely taken by surprise, and were too full of emotion to respond. Now, Mr. Editor, doesn’t it make you sick at the stomach to print' such things? J am sure the old typo who sets them up lias to leave the case during the operation and get a glass of beer. Figure this down and cipher it out, sir, and the product is an infernal sham. Do these presentations prove the sincerity of the donors, or establish tlie popularity of the recipient! I can answer truthfully in the negative. There is this kind of a feeling: if such donations are not made , we may not retain the good will of the manager or official. For example, a presentation was to be made to a manager; one employe was assessed $lO as his share, lie did not dare refuse it. and tlie amount which he had saved for his wife to use for Christinas gifts had to go so a man who had no need of it. and the wife and children, were not remembered by St. Nicholas that year. A young girl, called upon for a subscription, fearing her refusal would be detrimental to her, gave what she had saved to purchase a Christmas gift for her mother. It may be said these kind of contributions are voluntary, and that the action of people in making such presents is the business of the donors and not mine or yours. They are voluntary in tlie same rfense that political assessments are. J hope that we may see every year these kind of presentations, becoming more infrequent. The influence is pernicious. I know some public officials and business men who have set their countenances against such. Lot their numbers increase and multiply. When 1 hear of a rich man presenting to each of his employes something which makes the life of those individuals happier and brighter for that day at least, then I and you and our dearly beloved brethren and sisters can lift up our hearts and voices and sing “Gaudeamus igitur” with move fervor and deeper feeling than when we marched around the University campus on class day. • Ni cod emus Noggs. Jan. 3, 1884.

NEWS IX BRIEF. Three-boys were seriously injured while coasting at Princeton, N. J. The thirty-seventh annual convention of the Zeta Phi fraternity began iu New York yesterdao. Robert Mooilo. & Cos., a very old house in the cloth trade at Baltimore, dissolved on Monday by limitation. Frank Bar. ;jr., postal clerk between New York and Port Jervis, has been arrested for robbing the mails. Edmund C. Steadman, who failed some time ago. Ims been readmitted to membership in tho New York Stock Exchange. The aggregate fire loss in New York during 1883, Was $103,000,000. There were 19t> fires whore tlie loss exceeded SIOO,OOO. Aaron Wessels, a prominent business man and large real estate owner of St, Louis. Mich., lias assigned. Liabilities estimated at SOO,OOO. In a quarrel at Hickman. Ky., Joim Jenningscolored, shot Charles Boyd, a negro desperado, tlie ball entering the brain, causing instant death. Governor Glick, of Kansas, has ordered a special election for March Ist to elect a successor to D. C. Haskell from tbe Second congressional, district. The Haytian consul at New York has authentic information that Jacmel, following the example of Jorenne, has surrendered. This virtually ends the rebellion. Some parts of Arkansas are flooded with counterfeit ruckles, made from a substance found ill the mountains, and the federal officials at Fort Smith are on the lookout. The New York police stopped a prize fight on Thursday morning, between Wm. L. Graham, a hrakeman, and Wm. Oliver, a saloon-keeper; The principals were arrested. On Wednesday night, at Zanesville. 0.. Mary Hube attempted to vindicate herself by shooting A. T. f 'assol, whom she charged with ruining her, in front of his house on Sixth street. The will of Calvin Ellis, of Boston, contains a conditional bequest of $40,000 to Harvard College for tlie establishment of scholarships, to take effect if certain legatees die without issue. James Carlin was found dead iu tho house of Enos Carver, at Laueville, Mass. Carver and Charles Staples, occupants of the house, have been arrested. Carlin's neck was found broken and bis skull fractured Off Cape Cod. after 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening a bolt of fire was seen slowly dropping toward the earth, and then moving rapidly upward After sailing the sky for five minutes it exploded into many-eolered fires. Mrs. Dan Holcomb, the daughter of old Mr. Crouch, who with several of his family was horrible murdered near Jackson, Mich., several weeks since, was found dead in her bed on Wednesday. She committed suicide. James B. Stewart, of Columbus, 0., was swindled out of $l2O by two confidence operators. He advanced them money on a draft of $1,700 on the “Fide” National Bank of New York. The swindlers protended to bo on route for New a'fk, N. J., Stewart’s destination. George Rothmuller, proprietor and editor of the New York Figaro, has been arrested iu a suit brought by Gustav Amberg, manager of the Thalia Theater, to recover $20,000 damages for libel- Amberg lias another suit against RothmuUcr for libel. Damages placed at SIO,OOO. The Manhattan Gas Company, of New York, threatened to cut off the gas from the residence of General Sickles unless lie paid the bill presented for the period during which the General was abroad. Tlie Supremo Court enjoins tlie company, requiring it to prove the claim in an action at law. A telegram from Rome announces the appointment of Very Rev. Domingo Manney, vicar-gen-eral, Brownsville, Tex., to be Bishop of Mobile, vice Bishop Quinlan, lately deceased. The new bishop was bom in St. Augustine, Fla., about sixty years agy, and was educated at Spring Hill College, Mobile. Tho colored citizens of Howard county, Arkausac. held a mass meeting on Wednesday for the purpose of securing means to procure a new trial for the negroes now under sentence for acts of violouce done during tlie riot iu that

county a few months ago, it being claimed that the prisoners were convicted unjustly. There are in all thirty-five of the convicted parties, three under sentence of death and the rest having terms of. from five to twenty years to serve in the penitentiary. A barber named Henry Dietzler, of Weiscr, I. T.. had an altercation with a saloon-keeper named Buck Beizelyj who drew a pistol and shot tbe latter dead. Weiser citizens organized a vigilance committee, took the murderer from tho guards and lynched him. The killing of Beizely is said to have been cowardly and unprovoked. Alexander Sullivan, of Chicago, president of the Irish National League, is in receipt of a telegram from San Francisco announcing tlie safe arrival there of Messrs. J. E. and William Redmond, Irish members of Parliament, who have been in Australia for several months, organizing the league in that country. They will remain a month in the United States, speaking iu leading cities. Hereford's Acid Phosphate. SPECIFIC VIRTUES IN DYSPEPSIA. Dr. A. Jenkins. Great Falls. N. H., says: “I can testify to its seemingly almost specific virtues in cases of dyspepsia, nervousness and morbid vigilance or wakefulness.”

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL For 1884. 1 Ofel, He laipt, Tlie Best Republican Newspaper in Haa For the year 1884 the Indianapolis Journal is better equipped than ever in its history to serve the public. With an entirely new mechanical outfit, not excelled anywhere, the typographic appearance and arrangement o£ the paper will certainly not be less satisfactory than it has been hitherto, and which has given tlie Journal the deserved reputation of being one of the best planted papers in the country. Our arrangements for the collection of news from all parts of the world were never so complete, never involved so large an outlay of money, while in all tho paper is served with experienced and intelligent direction, Tlie Journal is, first, * newspaper. It will give all the news of the day, from every quarter, with fullness, entire fairness, and so edited as to make its columns frea from impurities, and allow them at all time* to be read with perfect safety by every member of the family. The Journal is a Republican paper,, believing in the principles and general policy of tbe Republican party, but it recognizee! that in the work of parties there are and will be wrongs, possibly frauds and corruptions. These the Journal propose* to be perfectly free to criticise anti to condemn without stint, but in a spirit and with a purpose for good, having a proper regal'd for personal rights and reputations. And the right to make this criticism will he asserted and maintained without detriment to the political character and standing of the paper. With no desire to be caption* or fault-finding, in tbe interest of the people and of the party, believing that the great glory of Republicanism is that it permits freedom of thought and liberty of expression, the Jomnal will endeavor, in its editorial comment and conduct, to keep the Republican party the agency through which, and by which, the best thought of the people may find expression, and the highest purpose of tlie people be executed. Other than this, and less than this, will meet its most vigorous opposition.

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