Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1884 — Page 3

PROCEEDINGS OE CONGRESS. THE SENATE. Continuation of the Debate to Provide National Hank Circulation. Washington, Feb. 21. —Bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Cullom: To improve the navigation of the Mississippi river by adding to and strengthening Sny island levee: Mr. Garland called up and asked immediate consideration of the bill providing for the punishment of persons falsely personating officers and employes of the United States. Passed. It provides that an}' person who, with intent to defraud, shall falsely personate government officers or employes, or receive any valuable consideration or document by reason of such personation, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction be fined not to exceed SI,OOO or imprisonment. not to exceed three years, or both, in the discretion of the court. The Senate suspended further consideration of morning business in order to resume the debate on the bill to provide for the issue of circulation es national banking associations, and Mr. Morgan addressed the Senate in support of the amendment offered by him, permitting national banks to deposite bonds of separate States as security for their circulation. While Mr. Morgan was speaking, Mr. Herman intervened with a joint resolution, which was immediately' passed, appropriating SIO,OOO for the contingent fund of the Senate. Mr. Sherman said the resolution was necessary to enablo the committee on privileges and elections to continue the investigation. A long debate followed on Mr. Morgan’s amendment, participated in by Messrs. Maxey, Plumb, Butler, Beck. George, Harris, Allison, Ingalls, Bayard. Morrill, Aldrich, and McPherson. Finally Mr. Morgan withdrew his amendment, and the question recurred on the bill. Mr. George rose to address the Senate, but a motion for executive session prevailed, and the Senafe soon adjourned until Monday. THE HOUSE. The Military Academy Appropriation Discussed at Length and Passed. Washington, Feb. 21.—Mr. Dibrcll reported the agricultural appropriation bill. Ordered priuted and recommitted. The House went into committee of the whole (Mr. Bland in tbo chair) on the Military Academy bill. Nlr. Belford, in speaking to the formal amendments. said be might select the brightest boy in his State, have him examined, and send him to West Point Academy, and while his mind might be as bright as a Burnside diamond, the gentlemen at the institution would declare that unless he. answered some question in grammar properly lie would be rejected. What in the name of God had grammar to do with fighting a battle. Mr. McMillan offered an amendment providing that hereafter any student found guilty of ••hazing*’ shall be expelled from the academy. Mr. Keifer opposed the amendment, and it was ruled out on a point of order. Mr. Belford, in the course of his remarks, declared his belief that not a member of Congress would pass an examination at West Point. There was not a member of the House who could answer the questions propounded by the professors at the Military Academy any more than he could answer the questions propounded by the cranks of the Civil-service Commission, who were running their institution as a kind of government monopoly, whereby they got their friends in office and turned everybody else out. Messrs. Holman and Thomas supported the motion, and Mr. Ellis opposed it. The motion was lost. Mr. McAdoo offered an amendment reducing from $3,000 to SI,OOO the expenses of the board of visitors. The board went to West Point to indulge in a fancy ball, and this hall had degenerated into a vicious social matrimonial market, to which aspiring mammas brought their giddy daughters to palm them off on unfortunate students. Mr. Belford supported the amendment, and presented as a reason why the amount couid be reduced the argument that a ticket from Washington to West Point, with a bottle of champagne included, cost only sls. Here was an appropriation of $3,000 to enable the board to ouy kid gloves, patent-leather shoes, swallow-tail Coats and ruffled shirts. Mr. Dorsheimcr defended the West Point Academy. It had been said that “snobs’’ ruled at West Point He was sorry such an observation should have been made by bis colleague (Mr. Cox), and he would advise that gentleman the next time he made it, to do so to the face of the men whom he insulted, and not under the protection of the House. The snobbery at West Point was simply such as befitted discipline at a school where soldiers were taught the profession of arms. She had not only furnished officers in war, but in all the splendid achievements made in peace. West Point had no more than her share. He entered his protest against this criticism, and bore testimony to the manner in which, both in peace and war, the graduates of that institution had shown they deserved the good-will of the country which gave them education. The amendment was lost, and the bill reported back to the House and passed—yeas, 250: nays. 4. Messrs. Aiken, Alexander, Ballentine and Barksdale. A motion to adjourn until over Monday was lost—yeas. 111; nays, 154: but the motion for adjournment over Washington’s birthday was agreed to. Mr. Money, chairman of the committee on postoffices and post-roads reported the post route bill and it passed. On motion of Mr. Money the Senate amendments to the House bill declaring all public roads post routes was concurred in. Mr. Cassidy, chairman of the committee on Pacific railroads, reported back the resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for information as to when the line of the Northern Paeilic railroad, or any part of it, was definitely and finally located, and as to whether that railroad claims any lands on which homestead or pre-emption entries have been made prior to the time of final location. Adopted. The Speaker laid before the House the following message from the President: To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State of the 21st inst.. whereby your honorable body, and through you the people of the United States, may become apprised of the generous contribution made by her Britannic Majesty's government toward the efforts for the relief of Lieutenant Greely’s arcticexploring party by presenting to the United States the arctic steamship Alert. Chester A. Arthur. When the reading of the message was finished Mr. Randall called for the reading of the report in full. The offer was so generous, coming irom a friendly power, that it ought to bo treated with respect. The report of the Secretary of State was read ind several times applauded. Mr. Randall asked unanimous consent that the communication be placed upon the journal of the House as a mark of sentiment of the House. He further asked that the communica tion be referred to the committee on foreign affairs, with the object of having a more formal and appropriate recognition of the act of the British government. [Applause.] 4, 1 object," exclaimed Mr. Finerty. Mr. Randall then put his request in the form of a motion and it was agreed to, Messrs. Fin erty and Robinson, of New York, alone voting in the negative. “Can we not have ships of our own. without begging;" queried Robinson of tin? Speaker. “The Chair cannot answer that question.” responded the Speaker. Adjourned until Saturday. A Proposed Novel Attraction. New York, Feb. 21.—A company has been formed in this city, with a capital of $250,000, for the purpose of building at Coney Island a monster wooden elephant, 150 feet in length, 12' feet in height and 168 feet in circumference. The neck will be ten feet long, with a oireumfer enco of 108 feet: the legs forty feet in length, ■with a circumference of sixty feet: ilu* ear.-, thirty-four feet long and twenty fed-wide, will weigh 4,000 pounds: the trunk fifty-two feet long, and tapering from a diameter of fourteen feet t < three foot four inches, and the tusks thirty-tw* and a half feet. The eyes of the monster wil be four feet in diameter. A telescope will be <

placed in the center of the eye, through which the harbor and distant headland can be seen. The howdah on the back will be thirty-two feet square and thirty-six feet in height. The interior of the beast will be divided into rooms of various sizes. The main hall will have a length of eighty feet and a width of thirty-two feet. On the ground floor there will be a gallery 250 feet in length, upon which will open thirteen rooms. The structure will be of wood, iron and tin, and will be ready for public inspection on June 15. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department. 4 Office of the Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, Feb. 22, la. m. ) For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Slightly warmer, generally fair weather, winds shifting east and south, lower barometer. For the Upper Lake Region—Warmer, fair weather in southern portions, occasional snow in the northern portions, south to west winds, falling, followed in the northwest portions by rising barometer. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Feb. 21. Time. j liar. Th. ; Hum. Wind. Weather R'f.l 6:24 A. M. J30.01ia3.2l *SB I SW Clear 30:24 a. m.. M 0.1633.0 54 1 N\V (Clear 2:24 p. M.. 30.24 30.5 51 jNW Clear 0:24 I>. M. 30.24 28.0) 54 N iClear 10:24 P. m. [30.23 27.0 64 N |< Jlewr Maximum temperature, 38.5; minimum temperature, 27.0. General Observations. War Department, ? Washington. Feb. 21, 11:25 p. m. 5 Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. h 3 Si if--5 0 cc g. g g § P 4 -** Jr* STATION. % § ; | ~ ? *5 ; *p' : : ; ::: : * : Bismarck, Dak '29.91 14 NW , Clear. Cairo. 11l 30.22 39 SE| Clear. Chattanooga, Tenn j ! ! Chicago, 111 30.24 24 SW Clear. Cincinnati, O (30.28 34' E (Rear. Davenport, la. 30.10 23 S.— Clear. Deadwood. Dak 30.121 29: NW .01 Lt. snow Denver. Col 30.23 42! W j Clear. Des Moines. Ia 30.10 25 S “Cloudy. Dodge City, Kan.. 30.09 J3B E Cloudy. Ft. Assinibome.M'ta 30.171 2 Calm .—(Clear. Fort Buford, Dak j Fort Custer, Mont.. 30.08, 29 NE (Fair. Fort Elliott. Tex... 30.0(5! 40 S .Clear. Fort Sill. Ind. Ter ! f Galveston, Tex 30.13 C l SE Clear. Indianapolis, Ind... 30.24 27 N 'Clear. Indi&uma, Tex 1 | Keokuk,la 30.19 22 SE ,( tear. La Crosse. Wis 30.021 18, S Cloudy. Leavenworth, Kan.’30.13 28; SE Fair. Liltie Rock, Ark... j3O.12' 52 SE Cloudy. Louisville, Ky (30.23! 32' N iClear.* Memphis. Tenn 130.15 J 50; N Fair. Moreuead, Minn.... 29.80: G| SE Cloudy. Nashville, Tenn.... 30.20, 4-1 NE Clear. North Platte, Neb.. 30.00 38 W (Clear. Omaha, Neb 30.05) 27 S Cloudy. Pittsburg, Pa ! 30.28j 29; NW (Clear.* San Antonio, Tex.. l • Shreveport, La 30.04! 59| S 'Clear. Springfield, 111 30.23 25i E (Clear. St. Louis, Mo 30.22' 28 E Clear. Stockton, Tex 30.15 43 S Clear. St. Paul, Minn 29.94 16j S (Cloudy. Vicksburg. Miss 30.17 ; 54; SE (Clear.* Yankton, D. T ’29.881 30: W Clear. New Orleans. La . 30.20; 55 E (Rear. Las Animas, C 01.... j 30.08 39i W jFair. Fort Smith. Ark.... i ! I Salt Lake City, U.T. 130.43! 40 SE ■ (Fair. El Paso, Tex*. ;30.22j 56 Calm ( ,Clear. DISGRACED AND REPUDIATED. The Condition of Secretary of State Myers Because of His Little Letter.

A MOST FITTING REBUKE. Rockville Republican. We presume it is safe to say that Secretary of State Myers is now thoroughly convinced that he made the great mistake of his life in his vain attempt to injure tho reputation of ex President Hayes. On Monday last the Democracy of his county (Madison) met in convention, when resolutions wel*e introduced indorsing his official course, and instructing the delegates to tho State convention to vote for his renomination. To this loud and earnest objections were offered, so much so that it became necessary to refer the resolutions to a committee, in whose hands “they now sleej) tlie sleep that knows no waking.” Tins was, indeed, a most fitting rebuke to a malignant and blatant demagogue, and one which speaks well for the Democracy of Madison county. PROBABLY SICK OF THE BUSINESS. Sr oncer Republican. it is likely that Myers would be glad for the papers to drop the subject. Ho is probably sicker of tliat assinine performance than any other fool act he never did, and has heartily repented of his folly. But let the discussion go on and let him get sick enough to throw up his boot heels. That probably would teach him that the Smart Aleck business is not exactly compatible with the dignity supposed to belong to a State office, which he has disgraced. By all means let the discussion proceed. REPUDIATED AT HOME. Franklin Jeffersonian, In the Democratic county convention held at Anderson a resolution to instruct tflo delegates to the State convention to vote for the renomination of Capt. W. R. Myers as Secretary of State was defeated, as was also a resolution to indorse his every official act as a member of Congress and as Secretary of State. The introduction of the resolution produced the wildest confusion and disorder in the convention. WOULD DISGRACE A FISH WOMAN. Seymour Business. Poor Myers! Though Secretary of the great State of Indiana, he is the most despised citizen within its borders. And all because, in his zeal for party and his desire to hold another term of office, he gave utterance to blackguardism that would disgrace a fish-woman. Myers is not a had fellow at heart, and this was the mistake of his life. UNQUALIFIEDLY CONDEMNED. Steuben County Journal. Secretary of State Myers doubtless realizes by this time that he made a mistake by writing tinletter concerning Hayes. The newspapers of the State have given him unqualified condemnation, and his own party, in his own county, refused to recommend his renomination. A FULL-FLEDGED CRANK. Bluffton Chronicle. W. R. Myers, the full-fledged crank who signs himself Secretary of State, was refused an indorsement at the hands of his party in his own county, last week. A more contemptible squirt never disgraced the office he holds in lndiaua. THE BAD LUCK OF INDIANAPOLIS. Rich mo ml Item. Indianapolis is out of luck. Pogue’s run runs over it. its school commissioners have water on the brain, it is afflicted with foot-pads, it has tho smallpox and it is the present homo of W. R. Myers. KICKS VIGOROUSLY. Mtincie News. Bill Myers has rushed into print concerning his repudiation by tlie Democrats of his own county. He kicks vigorously, and seems worried. HE WAS A DEMOCRAT. Clay County Kntorprise. Secretary of State W. R. Myers is dead—oh. so dead. Rcquiescat! He was a Democrat. They Want Red-Hot Religion. Now York Mail ami Expn-KH. Most people do not go to church to hear about the disagreement between science and religion, nor to listen to a summary of (110 latest result, of rationalistic criticism. No religion was ever propagated by pulling it to pieces. Convert ire not made by critie il lectures, nor are souls nourished by negations. It is the 4 Hi Olivo n w hell ’ >;reachiug Hint has stirred the masses anbrought men to their knees, from the days o Paul to the days of Moody. It. is a good thin that st) many of our city preachers know thi and act upon it: and a great pity that a few <■ them do not. For Neuralgia, Pains and Aches in tho Bn< k. Kidneys, or Liver, use Hop Bitters.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, I'KIDAr, FEBRUARY 22, ISS4.

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Prohibition, Local Option, Etc. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: We ventured a few days ago to send an article upon temperance for insertion in the Daily Journal, which article you were kind enough to print. Wo would fain be heard through your columns upon another phase of the same ini portant subject, as indicated at the head of the present paper. And. first, we say that, to our view, the two are, in substance, identical. Prohibition is local option applied to a State. Indiana pleases to adopt the policy of prohibition, statutory or constitutional, Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio, one or all, decline so 1o do. This is “local option” pure and simple, with a State for the unit. Local option is prohibition applied to the smallest political entity, county city, township, town and village, one or all. Each (smallest or largest) unit may complete the work of exclusion for itself without waiting for its sister communities. This policy seems (to us) so clear and unquestionable, i. e., local option, applied to the smallest (and the largest) political unit, that wo fail to understand how any sincere and sensible Prohibitionist can ob ject thereto. They do object, indeed, but the reason is beyond our ken. The fierce hostility manifested (a few years ago and perhaps still) to local option by the “par excellence’’ Prohibitionist is (to us) utterly unaccountable. They would rejoice to see each individual State by a majority (large or small) wheel into line and lake up the temperance banner; and yet they seem to scout the idea that each individual city, county, township, town and village should be permitted to do the same thing, provided the majority desire it. If Indiana may and should “prohibit’’ by the action of a majority of her people, why may not or should not Randolph, or Wayne, or Hendricks,or Wabash county do the same thing if the people of each or all wish to accomplish it? To bring largo cities to the point of “voting down*’ the rum traffic seems, for the time, to be impossible. But many counties and other rural communities in Indiana and elsewhere arc fully ready to do the deed. And under the large adverse majority of a great and wicked town,the State maybe bound fast, as by the “green withes of the Philistines.” Now, can any man assign a sensible reason why any member of flourishing, and virtuous, and temperance counties, and townships, and villages shall forever be chained to the “chariot wheels” of the proud and haughty, but ungodly and drunken rabble of a rum cursed metropolis any more than Indiana should be obliged to wait the pleasure of the States surrounding her border? In the great cities is to bo found much that is good, and noble and grand, and excellent, and of good report; yet, on the other hand, there prevails also much that is vile, and corrupt, and wicked, and abominable; and moreover, the fact very often happens that the “bad” is able to “out vote” the “good.” And, besides, in case of the enactment of prohibitory constitutions or statutes, they could be made effectual only in these same localities which have tho strong and controlling public sentiment. Since the mere passage of either law or constitution in itself avails nothing, the “tug and grip of war” lies in the enforcement, and that can be done only by the power of a large and earnest majority. The fact seems to bo. hitherto, that in our metropolitan towns prohibitory or restraining laws are hardly ever properly enforced. We do not say that they could not. nor that they should not be, but only, that commonly they are not made effectual therein. And the same thing would be true in the case of prohibitory constitutions, as now proves true in the case of restraining or prohibitory statutes. Where laws of such a sort have not a strong, reliable public sentiment in favor of their enforcement, they arc only a dead letter anywhere. But this leads us to affirm that the trouble lies deeper than seems by many to be supposed. Prohibitionists say: “Pass tho amendments and the thing is (measurably) done.” Others say: “Enforce the present statutes while working and hoping for prohibition.” “No,” say the Prohibitionists, “our statutes are a farce and delusion. Time spent in trying to enforce them is wasted. But, pass the amendment, and then— ’’ Well, what then? Will that enforce itself any more than the statutes do? If the laws now in force, though less severe, are so strong that tho people leave them a dead letter, how will they enact or enforce sever -v ones? E. g. The present statutes of Indiana make public intoxication a grave misdemeanor, punishing it with severe, disgraceful and accumulating penalties, authorizing, upon the third conviction, SIOO fine, sixty days’imprisonment, and disfranchisement at the discretion of the court. And this law could be enforced with the utmost certainty, since tho very act itself is done in tho sight of the public: and not a few become subject to the penalty by frequent and constant public intoxication. But does anybody know of a single case of enforcement of this severe, this exemplary statute'? And why? Because its severity surpasses the average public moral sense, and public officers wink at public drunkenness, and public sentiment upholds them in so doing. But, as to penal statutes of the usual sort against the liquor traffic, there are great and inherent difficulties as to their enforcement, and these would not bo made less by any “prohibition amend mi nts.” Mark, we are not urging against “prohibition.” for we favor and uphold it. We would vote for it every day in the year and every hour in tho day: but we are simply laying bare the real facts belonging to the ease. The great, the drowning difficulty lies in these facts, to-wit: First, the almost utter impossibility to obtain competent and adequate proof of violation of the penal liquor statutes; and, second, the fact that a jury can almost never bo impaneled who will agree to enforce tho laws. In any considerable town where liquor is handled by retail as a drink at all the statutes are violated constantly, persistently, defiantly, and yet to prove such violations facts is practically impossible. Wo state this proposition as a sober and intensely important fact, as many ardent and enthusiastic philanthropists have many a time learn* and to their sorrow and cost. Unlawful sales are made, but who sees them? Who can swear to them? Men stagger home and play the fool and the madman; but who will testify where that liquor was obtained? And who can prove that the liquor was sold to them when drunk? And so on. Sober, temperate men cannot testify to the facts, .since they never go to those sinks of sin and evil, and the frequent ers of the grog-shops will not, one time in a thousand. And these inherent difficulties as to testimony and as to juries seem to belong to our entire legal methods in connection with the liquor traffic. But we must close, at least for tho present, repeating, however, our declaration that we are not writing in opposition to “prohibition” nor to legal restraints, for wo fully and heartily believe in both, hut are only undertaking to state certain facts that inherently belong to the matter in hand, and which, moreover, must never be ignored nor neglected in any proposed or attempted handling thereof. E. Tucker. Union City, Ind., Feb. 8. More About Text Books. To tfio Editor of the Indianapolis Journal* To parents and tax payers tho “battle of the books” is ono of more than ordinary interest, and they hope that it will continue until the whole course of study is revised and improved. The attention of the board is called to the spell ng book, arranged and compiled by*J. J. 31 ills. The words arc taken from tho readers, and if perchance one word from the dictionary is put in by mistake, tho teacher is instructed to omit that word. The system is so beautiful, so symmetrical, that “if any man (or woman) shall add unto these things,” the “plagues” of bis or . *ei* superior officers shall be added thereto. What is the practical yesult of this combined reader and spelling-book? Simply this: A child will read beautifully in tho Second. Third and !’ourtli readers, but you hand him the Journal t News and he stumbles over tho simplest words, because they are unfamiliar to the eye. t here were giants in those days" when spelling iiools and • .-p iling luatches” formcfl a large

part of the education in our common schools: but. these tilings have been refiuod away, until now we have “ten” simple words for children of ten and tw< lve years of age, and the time formerly spent so profitably is now given to music and drawing. This leads us to another monument of stupidity in the list of text-books. Ten or eleven years ago a ‘ Gauge in the drawing books was made for the benefit of some person or persons in tho school board, as we infer from the fact that at the time the drawing-teacher, a lady of large experience and rare artistic, ability, protested against tlie change. She said that copying natural objects, or, as the children say, making pictures.” is the best instruction for the average mind. It teaches per spective. quickens their perceptive faculties, and. above, all interests them in their work. But what have we in “The Prang Educational Sys tern?” A series of geometrical figures that have no inspiration for one child in a thousand. The designing of figures to fill an “octagon” or “hexagon” is too abstract and too technical for tho imaginative mind of an ordinary boy or girl. Here is one of the questions taken at random from book No. 4; “How do linos make a tangential union?” Such a question would be in keeping with a course of study in the Rose Polytechnic School, but it strikes tlie average parent as a waste af time and money in a com-mon-school education. In closing, we will, in justice to tho committee on text books, say that wo are uml* r the impression that the one member most influential in the change has left the city, but tin* evil that he lias done lives after him, and i< perpetuated in these useless drawing-books. We arc indebted to “U. L. See” for his timely words of admonition, and also to the Journal for its persistent efforts in correcting the evils and keeping the public in formed of the manner in which our much-praised public schools are conducted. Asa co-worker in the cause of popular education, the people will hold the press responsible fora faithful discharge of its duty. A Mother. Local and Interstate Drainage. To tlie Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: There are several questions of interest and of importance which tho Ohio river flood has brought forcibly before me. First: These overflows are becoming more frequent and greater. In February. 1832, the high-water mark at Cincinnati was 64 ft. 3 in. More than fifteen years afterward, in December. 1847, tlie river rose to 63 ft. 7 in. Twelve years later, February, 1859, to 55 ft. 5 in. Three years after that, January, 18G2. to 57 ft. 4 in 1865. March, three years, to 56 ft. 2 in. 1867, March. two years, to 55 ft. 8 in. 1870. Jan., throe yeacs. to . 55 ft. 3 in. 1875. Aug., five years, to 55 Ft. 5 in. 1882. Feb., seven years, to 58 ft. 7 in. 1883. Feb., one year, to 66 ft. I in. 1884. Fob., one year, to 71 ft. in. The above figures show that in twenty-seven years, from 183*2 to 1859, we had three floods, viz.: floods in 1832, 1847 and 1859. or one in nine years; also, that in the next thirty-five years, from 1859 to 1884, we have had eight floods, or one in every four and one half years; and three in the last three years, viz.: in February of ’B2, ’B3 and ’B4. ami two of these larger than any known in the history of the Ohio river. Tli>* above figures are pretty reliable evidence that the cutting away of tho forests increases the frequency of tlie floods, and the last three that the local drainage of farms by tile drains, and of marshy sections of country by ditches, also increases the frequency and the volume of these floods. 1 predict—l do more, I affirm—that the melting of the same amount of snow and of rainfall in February, 1885, as we have had this February will produce a greater flood, and for the reason that there will be an increase of local drainage in the States which empty their waters into the Ohio. Suppose, for instance, that tlie Kankakee ditch or river bed as surveyed is made this year, and its flood instead of taking a month to get out of Indiana leaves the State in two or -three days, or if not that, that a thousand new small ditches pour as much water out of the State within a week. Will not this additional water make greater even the Ohio? Tlie questions the consideration of the above suggest, are as follows: 1. Ought there not to he more legislation concerning interstate drainage—the deepening, straightening of rivers, etc. 2. The Journal has asked this virtually: Ought not river towns to be built on higher grdund? Are such places as Lawrcnceburg and Jeffersonville suitable for the building of large manufactories or as depots for any considerable storage? Are not inland towns better, because away from floods and as secure from lire? These and like questions are practical. Our rivers are much more dangerous, because of sudden overflows, than ever before. The disasters of this year will he repeated, but on a larger scale, if cities almost destroyed are rebuilt, it will be a sinking of money —the making of a floating capital which will flout away—to ignore the fact that the destruction of forests and lo -ul drainage is making more dangerous our crooked and shallow river beds. g. a. l. Muncik, Ind., Feb. 20. Democracy and the Liquor League. To tho Editor if tho Indianapolis Journal: The Liquor League, which embraces distillers, brewers and saloon-keepers, lias full control of the Democratic party, and if the Republican party will only espouse tho cause of tho people, of good government, the rights of humanity, the right of the people to control tlie traffic—to suppress it if they so will—and that the lawless distillers. brewers and saloon-keepers must obey the law, in less than a decade of years this same truculent party, now cringing to the liquor power, will be in advance of hundreds of officeseeking Republicans. 1 am not expecting tlie party to come fully up to tlie views of radical temperance work •••in, but the party ought to come near enough right to command tlie respect and confideu**e of the Christian people of the State on the liquor traffic. B. F. Spencer. Versailles, Feb. 20. TRAINING BLOODHOUNDS. A Story that May Have a Little Interest for lud iauajpolig Readers. Houston Post. “Yes. they are the famous bloodhounds —that is. as much bloodhounds as you will find in Texas. They are simply foxhounds trained to hunt men.” “Do you keep them shut up all the time?” “Yes: they would make it lively for the boys if they got out.” “Hew often do you have occasion to use them during the year?” “Not more than two or three times. Convicts will not leave when they know good hounds are on hand to catch them.” “Could you not dispense with the hounds and depend upon your guns?” “No, indued: you cannot hold convicts with shotguns, it is tho fear of the hounds which keeps them quiet Desertion is useless when recapture is a moral certainty, as is the case when good hounds are employed.” “Do you have difficulty in properly training your hounds'?” “Oh, no: that is about the only sport there is. Hero comes tho puppies. We w ill give them a run and let you see how it is done.” A trusty was sent down the lane and over the fence, through a large field, on a run for dear life. When he had accomplished about half a mile, or half his circuit, the puppies, three sixmonths old hounds, were put on his track, and they started, nosing the ground and yelping as they run. On they kept, over fences and through the stubbles and ditches, never ceasing their noise. Sometimes they would run over the trail where tlie trusty had made an abrupt turn, but soon they would return to the spot where they lost the scent and cautiously feel their way until certain they had the trail, when they would off again. The trusty was a long-distance runner, but the soft ground made his impromptu track heavy, and he lagged as he approached tho end of his run, evidently fatigued. The dogs gained on him rapidlv, and wore yelping close upon him. Ite w;\s ordered to run to a tree or fence get out of the way, so that they wc-uffi have to find him by the scent He first tried to climb a high gate post, but tbo dogs, with their noses to the ground, were upon him almost, and forced him to take shelter in a wagon which was standing in the yard, where he hid himself in the bed just as tlie dogs came to the gate. They looked up the gate post and smelled around a litth*, then without delay fid lowed the trail to etie wagon, and discovered their prey, lyin# panting like a tugboat. \ looked at the perspiring convict, and my bean smote me tor being the cause of his race, but

I soon found out that it was a great privilege, enjoyed by but. few. and giving tin* puppies a race was considered by them tinvery essence of pleasure. The convict took an old blanket in his hand and alighted on tinground. where the dogs fought, him fiercely, making vicious springs for him. 11'- repuls'd them by buffeting them with tie- blanket jump ing away and thwarting them in any manner . without hurting them. Finally one of tho dogs fastened his teeih in the convict's coarse pants, and, holding on with unyielding tenacity, was swung round and round wilh vigor until tired. Tho dogs were then taken by a guard, and tinconvict went away highly pleased with his sport. Impolite Mr. Arthur. Washington Post Liar. “Over the Garden Wall,” which is snug by the young lady when Florence is telling oiu? of his biggist lies in “Facts,” has heroine a very popular phrase to express polite doubt. The President used this exprcs.-ion at the recent dinner given to the diplomatic corps greatly to the mystification of an attache of the German legation who had not witnessed the play. This German diplomat related at ihe dinner a story about the size (and sometime-very large size) of the cigars made in Deutschland. He said it was a common thing to see them a foot and a half long, and from two to three inches in diameter. It was also common to the little children smoking these eigars without any ill effect. At this point President Arthur began losing “Over the Garden Wall.” and tin? German attache does not fully understand to this day why such an uproar of laughter followed, .shutting off further installments of Deutsch “facts.” The Proposed Newspaper Copyright. Pt. Louis Republican. The idea is to give a limited protection ex tending a period of twenty-four hours, and it is hard to see any good ground upon which such a guaranty of ownership can be refused. That some protection is not accorded by existing laws is simply duo to the fact that the business of col looting news, in its present magnitune and im portance. is something so comparatively recent m its development that it has grown ahead of legislation. Laws are not made before they are needed, but they come when the need is strongly felt, and that is tin* situation at present in respect to the copyright, of news. Newspapers and news associations spend thousands of dollars in the collection of news, which is invaluable property to them, yet the free spoil of any pirate who can find a way to steal. Tlie Sun’s Roomlet. New York Life. “I hear there is a book called the ‘doming Race.’ Is my name spelled correctly?”—Holman. Boom for the False Prophet. Philadelphia Press. The False Prophet appears to be a bigger man than old Gladstone. POLITICAL. Sheriff. Henry it. beville is a candidate for •Sheriff of Marion county, subject to tlie choice of the Republican county convention. j AMES r7r( )KS WILL BE A < A XDIDATE FOR ** Sheriff of Marion conntv. subject, to the decision of the Republican nominating comention. SOCIETY NOTICES. EORGE H. THOMAS POST, G. A. R., WILL ® T meet at. the Post Hall to-day. at 1 o’clock p. m., to attend the funeral of our late comrade, (.'apt. T. B. Wigh tin an. from the residence of J. A. Tavlton, No. 988 N. Illinois street. DAX’LM. RANSDELL, Commander. Chas. L. Holstein, Adjutant. ANNOUNCEMENTS. p O TO THE LION SHOE STORE FOR SPRING VJ styles and bottom prices. r j MIE RE PUR LIC AX PRIMARY OFT 1 1E S1 XT 11 1 Ward will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock, at 121 Fort, Wayne avenue, opposite Bacon’s Block. W. C. NEWCX m B, j Committeemea. riMXK KEPI*HIJcAXS OF TTIH TKviTf \VA Kl> 1 will meet at 7:30 o’clock this evening, at No. 226 North New Jersey street for the purpose of selecting delegates to tho forthcoming conventions. G. S. WRIGHT, Committeeman. r j 'HE REPUBLICANS OF THE I l ITEEXTJI 1 Ward are notified to attend a meeting thi evening, at 7:30. at No. 6 Engine-house, on \V<v-t V. ashing? m street, for the purpose of electing delegate, to ihe forthcoming conventions. TIMOTHY SPLAXN, Committeeman. nnHE REPUBLICANS OF~THE FIFTH WARD J will meet this (Friday) evening. Feb. 22, in primary convention, at No. 531 North Illinois street, for the purpose of selecting delegate.-, as per order of the county committee. JAMES L. FLETCHER, JOHN K. PEARSON. Ward Committeemen. 'VTOTICE—BY TIrTUKOF AN< >E I) Eli >F~ Ti i E i x Marion Superior Court, I will, from this date an til 12 o’clock, noon, on Saturday, March I. 1884. at my office. No. 26 North Delaware street, Indianapolis, receive written offers for 350 shares, or any part thereof, of the capital stock of the Fir-l National Bank of Indianapolis, of the par value of 8100 per share, payable in claims against the Indiana Banking Company. All bids to 1> submitted to said court for acceptance or rejection, the right to rcjcyt all offers being reserved. JOHN C. S. HARRISON, Receiver of Indiana Banking Company. WANTED. \\T ANTED—THE < HEAPEST NEWSPAPER IN it the West, tho Weekly Indiana State Journal. One dollar per year. \\T ANTED -AN EXPERIENCE I) BUS IN ESS n man desires a po ’tion as accountant, bookkeeper or assistant. Good references. Address AC! •< •: WYANT. .1 rnal (I e. \T7 ANTED—MEN AND WOMEN TO START A ff new business at their homes, easily learned in an hour. No peddling. 10c to 50<* an hour made daytime or evening. Send 10c for 20 samples to commence work on. Address 11. G. FAV, Rutland, Vermont. FOR SALE. I7OR SALE FARMS, CHEAP, JON LONG credit. Send for circular. Blue grass pasture for rent, cheap. FRANCIS SMITH. SALE —LOO BY 134 FEET SOUTHEAST corner of Tennessee and Georgia strvet -u $1 5.0M) cash in hand, balance on time. T. A. GOODWIN. 29 Th< >rpe Block. I7OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR -) THER PR< )P 4 erty—fine Norman Stallion: Y d>. i V hands high; weight 1,800 ff'- eight \ ars old t in I - JOO. F. I CUNNINGHAM, Hudson, Mb i . 17OR s \LE—SPECIAL BARL MS's iN SECOND I hand or new Engines. Boil* .<. Sawmill-.. Heading ami Stave Machiu-rv. HADLEY. WRIGHT A* CO., 113 and 125 S. Tennessee street, Indianapolis. 17 OR SALE—DWELLIN': MR U SE. WITH THREE i acres of ground; store wx ra U eked with oral merchandise, doing a good busino-*: satisfactory r* a sons given for desiring to s**ll. Situation, tin* <• •.- ingof thel.,B. &W.. St. Louis Division, and VanJulia. Logansport Division. Address 11A LEY V BRUIN. Guion, : 11. 17OR SALE -PHYSICIAN’S LOCATION W A thriving tow tin railroad, consisting of a valuable practice of tw.-niy years’ standing; nice residence property and all out buildings: nice drug store and tmiluings: office building, together with good will of busine*-:. Will remain several months with purchaser to in trod u<him The business is wort h from $3,000 to $*4,000 ami'K' lv. I will guarantee if. fa will take about SO,OOO '• take me out of it entirely; part cash, balance secured. Splendid opportunity for two vounjj physicians to go into partnership, aud a paying business. None ne-d answer unless prepared with cash etioi ' to pav at least half. Addiv-s. giving veal name and address. Dr. J R. CLEVELAND, care. A. Kie • r Cos., Ii lias Hs, Ind. ftMffttfffi-r.MWTBgx. rtwnmrK rawm-weav. FINANCIAL. Ti TONEY TO LOAN \T LOWEST RATE OF IN Jl tevest. E. B. MARTINDALE & SONS. Money at the lowest rates of inter- . e*t, J. \V. WIIiLIAMS to CO., 3 and4 Vinton Block. \ roNBY TO 1A >AN ON FIRST MORTGAGE OF 1• I <-itv hnd farm property in Indiana and Ohio. Low interest. JOS. A. MOORE, 84 East Market stree \\ T E WILL FURNISH MONEY <>N FARM RECUt \ rity, promptly, at tholowestratesforlongor short time. TIIOS. 0. DAY to CO., 72 East Market struct. I7OR RENT?—FIRST-CLASS BRICK \ ARD, NEAR S *m'\ everything complete, necessary to run a first-class Yard. Party taking \ar*l can make arrangements \vi: lus for 11.000.000 t . 13.000.000 brick for SLak-house. F*r further information call at office. ■ 1 . ■ rounds MOW YRD & DENIM, by E. F. Gobc). agent, Contractora Indiana State lv.mstj.

THE MANHATTAN FOR \1 A 1 1C I I CONTAINS: FRONTISPIECE. Ti,- Va.se. From a painting by Mariano Fortuny. Engraved by Frank French. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. By B. B. Vullentiue. Profusely illustrated from sketches made for the article, and photographs. TRANSFORMATION. A story. Concluded. Bj Harriet Prescott Spofford. A FARMER'S SORROW. A poem. By Sarah Oral Jewett. OUR FOREST AND TREE LORE. By Laura 0. Holloway. WHAT C YME 01’ A KIT OF MACKEREL. A story. By J. 11. Walworth. A WALK IN WINTER. By (•haries C. Abbott. RAFTING ON THE ALLEGHANY'. By William Wilh.l Howard. Pr<.finely illustrated” WIIAT WILL BECOME OF EGYPT? By Gen. W. W. Lorin, Pasha. THE MY i’ll OF FLNGALS CAVE. By Cope Whitehouse. Illustrated. TINKLING CYMBALS." Aster/. (Vutimied. By Edgar Fawcett CREATION OR EVOLUTION? By George Ticknor Curtis. POEMS by Gideon J. Tucker, James P>. Kenyon and others. Recent Literature. Town Talk. Salmagundi. $3 a year, postage paid. *25 cents a number. THE MANHATTANIIAGAZINE CO., Temple Court, New Y’ork City. &AWBOUGHT Jy|p IRON Mpipe PPI FITTINGS. 1 ff Selling agrrte for National Tube rejp 1L 1 Gli.bo Valves. Stop Cocks, EnV- gincTrimmii.PlPE TONGS, - :y l fc* CUTTERS. VISES, TAPS. 1 'vfc. ’ Stocks and Dies. Wrenrhe*Bl iSE •''team Traps. Pumps. Sinks &} I *j! HOSE. BELTING, BABlir METALS <25-pound boxes C<-it. n Wiping Waste, whit m |o' and colored (100-pound bales k & ami all other supplies used in eoi ...jJ U. nootinn will, STCAM. WATK. tils and GAS. in JOB >v RETAIL LOTS. Do a regular steam-fit-lSh CU ting business. K-timato and Vt rolJ teaet to heat Mills, Shops, |T Factories and Lumber Drv L, Houses with live or exhaust | : l| I* steam. Pipe cut to order by ( y J I steam power. | 1 KNIGHT&JILLSON U| 75 and 77 S. Penn. St. BUSINESS DIRECTORY INDIANAPOLIS. ABSTRACTS OF TITLFS. ELLIOTT & BUTLER, no. ;; jEtna bltldixo. MISCF.LLANEOUS. PATENTS, MODELS AND PATTERNS. JOIIXSOX fc CO., Corner of Georgia and Delaware Sts. BRYCE’S BAKERY. Only one quality of CRACKERS made, and that 1 i.o be-4. Wholesale price 6*2 cents, and retail 10 cents per pound. ¥ EE ILYXSHAW’S 1 j Windsor hVsiaurant and Tmm-h Rooms. 21 meals for $3.50. Open al all hours. No. 46 North Illinois Street. Hercules powder, the safest and . strongest powder in the world. Powder, Caps, Fuse, and all the :■■■•.;> for Blasting Stumps kept, by 0. H. .TENNE, S- ! • Agent, 29 South Pcnnsylvaniastreefc. Indianapolis Oil Tank Line Cos., DEALERS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCT’S. Corner Pine and Lord Streets. W. B. BARRY, SAW MANUFACTURER, 132 and 131 South Pennsylvania Si *et. Smith’s Chemical Dye-Works. No. 3 Martindale‘< Block, near Poslofliee. Clean, dve and repair gentlemen's clothing: also, ladies' dresses, shawls, sacques. and silk and woolen goods of every description, dyed and r-finished; kid gloves neatly cicam-d at fa* cents pc pair. Y*'ill do move first-class work for lets money than any h ■ c- • of the kind in tlie State. JOHN B. SMITH. COFFEE AND TEA HOUSE. We arc now receiving NEW MOYL’XK, IMPERIAL, GUNPOWDER and YOUNG HYSON TEAS; also, OOLONG and JAPANS. Would also cull the attention of dealers to the fact that we carry the largest stock and greatest variety ot COFFEES in this market. Consumers who love a GOOD CUP OF COFFET. should ask for GATES'B A No. 1 ov Blended Java Coffee in packages. A. B. HATES & CO. I’e are Iteiiij'lliitlr Iniporli'illiiU CALL AND SEE THEM. BOV/EN, STEWART & CO., No. 13 W. Washington St. lop; f. I OST—RED IRISH SETTER PLTPY, FOUil t j months old: white streak on tho nose. Finder will be rcA\: ’ led b j returning to Wils-m to Splanu’i Livery Stable, in rear of Brunswick llot.-l. AUCTION SALES. Ji l NT to M.iTKDY. REAL KsT VTK AND 4. eiul Auctioneers, 88 East Washing a -’•• v.;.

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