Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1884 — Page 7

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Personal and Local. George B. Shopman, general manager of the Bed line, is in the city, prospecting. J. R. Kendall, assistant general freight agent of the Vandal ia, is to be in the city to day. The Wabash stockholders moot in St. Louis to-morrow to tako action on the proposed collateral trust loan. H. R. Duval, of New York, general manager, of the Erie fast-freight lines, is West prospect- • ing He is to be in Indianapolis to-morrow. The Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company has just finished, at Terre Haute, a tank and water column which cost $4,200 complete. It is settled that George Reel*, of the Union railway ticket office, will, on April 1, take a position in the new Bee-lino office, Bates House corner. J. K! Lape, late master mechanic of the Beeline, has been offered the position of general master mechanic of the Toledo, Cincinnati & St Louis system. E. H. Waldron, late general manager of the lake Erie & Western road, is in the city. Air. Waldron still has a hankering for railroad service, and is a man of marked ability in this direction. W. E. Jones has been appointed general claim agent of the Missouri Pacific and Wabash railways, in charge of settlement for damages by fire, stock killed and personal injuries. His jurisdiction is extended to cover and include the Wabash. St. Louis Sc Pacific railway. The directors of the Jeffersonville. Madison & Indianapolis road yesterday authorized the transfer of the company's share interest in the Union railway property to the new Union Railway Company organization. The annual meeting of the J.. M. & I. Railroad Company docs not occur until May next. 8. D. Caldwell, former Red line manager, •who is well known in this city, on the the 15th assumed the general managership of the boats run in the interest of the Western Transit Company, which is the old Western Transportation Company reorganized. Their bouts ply between Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and Milwaukee. The directors of the Union & Bluffton road met in this city yesterday, and confirmed several contracts for grading the road-bed and furnishing cross-ties and rails. One of the directors states tkat by May 1 grading will be commenced at four points on the lino. Tlio road crosses the Grand Rapids and the Lake Erie & Western, and has good connections at both termini. Grinnell Burt, of New York, president of the Cincinnati, Van Wert Sc Michigan road, gives notice by circular that E. C. Dawes is appointed general manager and David R. Ennis, superintendent of the company, to take effect the 20tli inst. It strikes an outsider that this road is getting top heavy for one just peeping into existence, unless the officers are low-sala-ried men. The Vandalia is now bringing coal into this market from mines on the western division. It is forwarded here by the Abbey Coal-mining Company. The Indiana, Bloomington & Western is now bringing Ohio coals into this market at the rate of fifty to sixty car-loads per day; If the coal operators in Clay county keep up this fashion of semi-annual strikes, Indianapolis will soon learn to get along without their block coal. The trains to bo put on on Monday over the new route, the L., N. A. Sc C. Air line and C. Sc W. M., between Indianapolis and Grand Rapids, are to be known as the Grand Rapids & Michigan fast express. Going north the train will leave Indianapolis at 11:40 a. m., will pass La Forte at 6:10 p. m.. South Bend at 7 p. m.. reach Grand Rapids at 10:30 p. m. Coming south the train leaves Grand Rapids at 12:50 noou. and reaches Indianapolis at 11 p. m. The distance is 285 miles. It will be seen that it is to be a thirty-miles-per-hour train, stops to come out. Mention was made a day or two since that the L. N. A. & C. Air line would, on Monday next, put on two through trains both wavs between. Indiurapolis and Michigan City. Yesterday Di vision-superintendent Sala issued the time schedule. Coming south the first train will leave Michigan City at 5:30 a. m., reach Indianapolis at 11:20 a. m. : the second train leaves Michigan City at 4: 30 p. m., reaches Indianapolis at 11p. m.; going north the first t rain will leave Indianapolis at 11:40 a. M., reach Michigan City at 6:10 p. m.; the second train leaves Indianapolis at 5 p. m., leaches Michigan City at 11 p. M. It will be seen that by the morning train business men in northern Indiana can come to Indianapolis, remain five and a half hours, and reach nome the same day. The directors of tbo five roads which composed the old Union Railway Company, have authorized the transfer of their interests to the new organization, the action of the directors of the J., M. Sc I. and the C., St. L. Sc I*, perfect ing the organization. Only the Indiana, Bloom- ‘ ington Sc Western, of the roads outside of tho old lines, have yet become members. The directors of the L. f N. A. & C. Air line, the Wabash, and the Cincinnati, Hamilton Sc Indianapolis still have the matter under consideration. While the action they may take is still a question, thm-e is good au- ■ thority for the statement that the new Union Railway Company will proceed with the proposed improvements regardless of what they do. f However, President Roosevelt, of the L.. N. A. AC. and Vice-president Talmage, of the Wabash, are confident that their directors will . favor their roads becoming members rather than lecsees of the now Union Railway Company.

Annual Meeting of tlie C., St. 1,. A- P. The stockholders of the Chicago. St. Louis & PifUsburg Railway Company held their annual meeting yesterday. Tho first action taken was the approval of a consolidation of the Chicago, St. Louis Ac Pittsburg road, of Indiana, with the Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg road, of Illinois, tho Legislature of Illinois having enacted a law at its last session permitting such consolidation. To-day the stockholders meet in Chicago to ratify the consolidation. On the part of the U., St. L. & P. road, of Illinois, S. B. Liggett, secretary of the company, then read the retort for the nine months of 1883 which the road was operated by the C., St. L. & P. company, being the nine months ending Dee. 31, 1883, which wus as follows: Gross earnings, $1,944.875.73; operating expenses, including taxes, $3,307,553.55; net earnings, $837.333.18: miscellaneous items, gathered from all sources, $27,017.25: making total net revenue. $804,330.43; interest on funded debt, $752,085.70, which leaves a surplus of $111,053.05. The earnings for the year 1883, which includes the three months ending March 31, the time which the road was operated bv the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Company, $5,393, 910.95; operating expenses, Including taxes; $4,335,914.98; decrease in operating expenses as compared with those of 1882, SB3, 393.70. The stockholders elected as directors for the ensuing year aro Wm, L. Scott, Erie. I’a.; C. J. Osborn. New York city; George B. Roberts aud J. P. Green, Philadelphia: George Briggs. R. B. Roberts. George Williams, Win. BornerandF. W. Belz, Chicago. The uve last named arc new men on the board of directors. Os $23,000,000 of stock $16,820,000 was voted in favor of the consolidation, There were no dissenting votes. Tho stockholders also authorized the transfor of the company’s share interest in the Union railway property to the new Union organization. Propose to Increase Their Mortgage Debt. The Pittsburg, Fort Wayue & Chicago Railway Company has called a meeting of stockholders for April 3, to act upon a proposed issue of $20,000,000 fifty-year mortgage bonds, the proceeds of which are to be used from timo to time for betterments, etc. It requires a twothirds vote for the $20,000,000 bond proposition to carry, and this vote hinges largely on how two largo holdors (of 20.000 shares) in Holland and Scotland shall decide upon the subject If in their judgment the proposed issue of bonds is a wise measure there will be no difficulty, it is aid, in securing additional votes to make up tho two-thirds. A Compromise Effected. While James McHenry is characterized as being an English crank and scheming in his ideas of railroad management, he has a faculty of creating quite a muss when he visits this ■ountry, and on his recent. visit seems to bavo

accomplished something in a financial way. H.e threatened the Cleveland. Columbus, Cin cinnati Sc Indianapolis with legal proceedings L it did not pay 40 per cent, on the stock to represent net earnings taken for betterments, and. i*y a result, a compromise is said to have beeD made by which a 20 per cent, scrip or money dividend will be issued and net earnings in future paid over to the stockholders. It will be remembered that in the interview with Ale Henry, published in the Journal, he took strong grounds to the effect that the Bee-line manage ment had used their net earnings in improving the Indianapolis Sc St Louis road, and the stockholders whom he represented now demand ed to be reimbursed, either by a money or scrip dividend, and he seems to have carried his point. Wliat Will Commissioner Fink Do Now? The east-bound movement of grain over the Indianapolis Sc St. Louis, the Ohio Sc Mississippi and the Chicago & Alton out of St. Souia still reaches 100,000 bushels per day, a portion of which, it is claimed, is carried on old contracts, and the shipments from Peoria continue heavy by certain lines. Telegrams received at Indianapolis yesterday, based on good authority, showed that new business was being taken out of St. Louis at a three cents per bun dred pounds cut. and that the two-cent cut men tinned in Tuesday’s Journal is still made by certain lines at Peoria. By the by, it lias just leaked out that the presidents of the trunk lines voted, at their meeting last week, to erase tho clause in their pooling agreement that they, the presidents, would be responsible that their respective roads should maintain rates. President Roberts made the motion to erase the clause and president Corbin seconded it. Should He Taken with a Grain of Salt. An Indianapolis shipper yesterday remarked that the reduction of the schedule rates on grain granted by Commissioner Fink is a snare. Tho Eastern roads will never keep up to the 20 cents tariff per hundred weight, for they have secret outstanding contracts at 15 cents. It is said that clean bills of lading for grain from Chicago to Liverpool are now obtainable at 10 cents a bushel. General Passenger Agents. Cincinnati, Alarch 10.—At the session of the National Association of General Passenger and Ticket Agents communications were received from merchants of Rocliester. Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Y T ork, asking a reduction in thou-sand-mile tickets and an increase in tho allowance of baggage. Laid on tho table. The subject of the form of skeleton tickets was discussed, but no action taken. Appointments on tho executive committee were made as follows: George L. Conner, James Chariton, Hamuel Stevenson. To fill vacancies in tho general committee: D. J. Teale, C. R. Van Bentheusen, D. K. Kendrick. President Lucius Tuttle, of the Eastern road, Alassachusetts, and Secretary A. J. Smith, of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati Sc Indianapolis road, were re-elected unanimously. Adjourned, to meet in Boston uu tho third Tuesday in September next. Missouri Pacific Election. New York, Alarch 19.—At a meeting of the directors of tho Missouri Pacific, held to-day, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Jay Gould; first vice president, It. 8. Hayes; second vice-president, A. L. Hopkins; third vice-president, H. At. Iloxie; fourth vice-president, A. A. Tnllmage: fifth vice-presi-dent. D. S. H. Smith: secretary and treasurer. A. H. Calef. and assistant secretary and local treasurer, D. S. H. Smith. The Iron Mountain directors have elected the same officers, except for assistant secretary, for which post A. D. Barlow was chosen.

Miscellaneous Notes. The Lehigh Valley management has jrfst perfected an arrangement for a western outlet over tho Nickle plate. In the month of February the Pennsylvania road proper handled 203.431 tous of coal, an increase over 1883 of 37,971 tous. The Baltimore & Ohio management show more anxiety to protect tho business men of Baltimore than the pool interest, which is certainly commendable. Plans have been prepared by the engineer of the Lehigh Valley for anew yard for tho road at Hornellsville. There are to be nine tracks, 2,500 feet in length each. Should the Northwestern roads, as probably they will, show less earnings in March this year than in 1883, it should not be considered really unfavorable, as at this time last year these roads were doing an immense business. The statement of the equipment of the Michigan Central read shows that there are at present in use 120 passenger cars, forty-five baggage, mail and express cars, fivo dining cars, and sufficient freight cars to swell the total to 12,084 cars. The sleeping cars which have been running on the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy road between Chicago and Denver have been replaced with six new buffet sleeping care, just completed at the Pullman shop, and containing all modern improvements. Railroad men of genius say that a bridge across the Mississippi at New Orleans is a necessity, and therefore it is only a question of time until it is erected. Since New Orleans has become the terminus of an important branch of the Southern Pacific, the necessity of a direct Eastern outlet is more evident. The last yearly report of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, at Bruddock, shows that the cost of running the mills and furnaces for the past year amounted to $1,800,000. Os this sum, the cost of running the furnaces alone amounted to $700,000. This shows that an average of $150,000 per month is distributed among the employes. At a conference, last week, between a committee of the Baltimore Exchange and the officers of the Baltimore & Ohio road, regarding the question of differential rates, Mr. Spencer, on behalf of the Baltimore & Ohio company, gave distinct assurances that the differentials in favor of Baltimore shall be maintained, as against Philadelphia and New York, from all points in the West controlled by that company. TUe Sheep-Shearing Festival. The sheep-sheaving festival, under the auspices of the Indiana Wool-growers' Association, will be held at the Exposition grounds, April 23 and 24. It will not be an exhibition exclusively of Indiana sheep and wool, but sheep-owners in other States are invited to make entries. A small admission fee will be charged, but exhibitors will not be charged. The premiums offered are as follows: Best fine wooled sheep, $3; second beet, $2. Best long-wooled sheep, $3; second best $2. Best medium-wooled sheep, $3; second best, $2. Best fine-wool fleece, $5; second best, $2.50. Best long-wool fleece, $5; second best, $2 50. Best medium fleece; $5; second best, $2.50. Swiftest and best sheep-shearer, $10; second. $5; third, $3 The managers of the festival are: Galvin F. Darnell, chairman committee on arrangements; Cyrus T. Nixon, secretary; Charles A. Rowland, treasurer; Fielding Beeler, Isaac N. Cotton, Alex. C. Hanna. John E MoGaughen, Robert Mitchell, executive committee. G. A. K. At the regular meeting of tho Croorge H. Thomas Post, on Tuesday evening, there was an unusually large attendance. Five new ment bers were mustered in; five wore elected to membership, including Wm. P. Fishback, and four new applications were filed aud reported upon favorably by thcoommlttoes, including the applications of ex-Governor Conrad Baker. The Post is increasing rapidly, and it is expected that the membership will be largely increased in the next quarter. Special efforts are being made in that direction by the members. . James A. Reed, a comrade of the Post, died at 143 Pendleton pike, on Wednesday morning. On Tuesday lie requested, in case of his death, that the Post escort bis remains to tho depot. He will be buried at St. Paul. Ind. George 11. Thomas Post will moot at the hall, at 9 o'clock this morning, to attend Comrade Reed’s funeral.

THE mDIAXAPOLIS JOUiiNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1884.

GEOLOGY IN TJIE SCHOOLS. The Great Ice Ago and the Drift —Lecture at tho High-School by Dr. R. T. Rrowii. Dr. R. T. Brown lectured yesterday for an hour to tho class in geology at the High-school, taking for his subject the glacial drift in its geological and economic significance. Dr. Brown sa-id by way of introduction that while in human history tho further back we go the more mystical does the record become, the reverse is true of the geological record. AJarion county rests on three distinct geological members—two Devonian and one carboniferous. Over these is a deposit of drift or transported material from lift}- to 150 feet thick, which presents problems to the geologist more difficult than those of tho older rocks. These problems, he said, if ever solved will be so by tho study of thegreat plains of the Aliddle and Western States. The drift has been heretofore studied by the wise men of the East, and to great disadvantage, as in New England the glacial agencies have cut down the hills in their course and piled the eroded materials in promiscuous masses in the valleys. The eastern drift is, therefore, local in its origin and deposition, while the drift in our region is foreign in its character and general in its deposition. In New England the drift is, as described in the geologies—a promiscuous deposit of clay, sand, water-worn pebbles and bowlders. All of these are found in Alarion county, but instead of in disorder they present nearly as much regularity as we find in the stratified rocks that underlie tho drift, and the same order is seen throughout tho drift areas of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. What we know of the glacial drift in Alarion county is by the study of tho borings from artesian wells, and examination of the bluffs found on the west side of White river. These bluffs are from 50 to 200 feet high. The valley of tho White river is from a mile to four miles wide and the present river bed is on the west side of it. On the east side the descent, from tho table land, which is tho general level of the country, to tho river is a long, gentle slope. The average elevation is 175 foot above the river and 800 feet above tide water. Besides tho artesian wells and tho White river bluffs wo can also study the drift where the glacial action lias ploughed out valleys of erosion. We have such a glacial valley between Fall creek and White river. It is a mile wide and seven miles long. Another glacial valley extends from Glen's valley, fivo miles no rtheast. A third glacial valley lies south of this, mostly in Johnson county, auj between the two is a narrow ridge of sand and gravel, resting on a solid basis of blue clay. This ridge has the local name of Poplar Hill. The margins of these valleys are well defined, being composed mainly of gravel terraces. These are the great natural cuts or excavations through the glacial drift which make it easy of access and study. At the base of the drift we invariably find a heavy, compact, lead colored clay, which has in it few bowlders, and these of quartzite or trap rocks. Over our county this clay is from twenty to one hundred feet thick. This bluo clay is sixty foot thick at Irvington, forty at Brightwood, twentyfive feet at the University Park well, and eight feet at the postoffice. Between the blue clay and the underlying bed-rock we almost invariably find a bed, from three to six feet thick, of coarse gravel or silicious bowlders. It is this coarse gravel which contains the finest watcr;il is always free from organic matter: it may bo always known by its taste of iron, and its tinging vessels red that contain it. Wo may not know how this clay came here, but wo do know its useful purpose. Wherever this impervious clay is broken through, either by wells or natural fissures, it yields a pure water, constant in quantity, quality and temperature. There are several noted natural springs of it—one at Maywood, and tho Minnewa Springs, at Lawrence. Tho largest is on the farm of Fielding Beeler, two miles southwest of tho city, where it forms a marsh of several acres, from which a large stream of water flows. These springs are improperly known us sulphur springs. Everything in contact with those springs has tho character istic iron tinge. The springs about Lawrence are natural artesian wells, tho water rising vertically through the blue clay to the surface, which is one hundred and eighty feet above the water in White river. In this lower blue clay are no fossils. Its source is not agreed upon among geologists. At its base are frequently found tho remains of a cone bearing forest, probably cypress or hemlock. Dr. Brown said he had found a cypress log fifteen inches in diameter in a good state of preservation in the bottom of this clay. One was taken from a well in Fletchers swamp and deposited in Butler University. These logs are not broken or crushed as they would have been under the march of a mountain of ice. All the indications are that this blue day wag deposited from quiet water and deep water. Its material is fine, compact and solid. If you wisli to see a fine exposure of it go to the White river bank south of the Michigan street bridge. It is chemically an aluminous silicate In a very fine state of division, and is mechanically mixed with a fine sand of nearly transparent quartz. If you wash out the clay and pour it off half the bulk of it is made of just such white sand as we have about Michigan City. Its blue color is due to iron sulphide, and when it is baked tho sulphur is driven off and the red oxiue of iron formed, so that it make a red brick. Above this blue clay is usually found a few foot.of coarse sand or fine gravel, making the third distinct layer as you pass up from the bed-rock. The fourth layer is twenty or thirty feet of true glacial drift, having all the promiscuous character of the glacial drift described by Eastern geologists and text book-makers, who are onlyac?uainted with this kind of transported material n. and on this tree bowlder, or glacial clay, .we have large bowlders of granite, gneiss and traprocks, which are 'not found in situ nearer to us than the shores of Lake Superior. Some of these bowlders resemble the Quincy granite and contain upwards of 1,000 cubic foot of stone. In the central and northern part of Alarion county they are almost invariably granite, and in tho southern border of tho county usually gneiss, or trap. In this upper drift occur the gravel terraces which make the best of roads. In a few places in tho county these Lake Superior bowlders are so thick as to interfere with cultivation. The great mass of this fourth layer is made up of a yellow or orange clay, mixed with sand and enough lime to make the water percolating through it hard. The terraces of gravel taken with tho “second bottoms.’' bordering White river, on one side or the other, may be regarded as a fifth member of the transported material covering our bed-rocks. Theae are mound like elevations. They are from ton to fifty feet high. They are arranged in lines and lie nearly east and #i c-st North of them is usually a level space, and often swampy hinds, which Dr. Brown says indicated the position of a mass of ice under which the water rushed with great force, excavating the clay below, piling up the heavier sand and gravel to make tho gravel terraces, and carrying the lighter clay and finer sand on to tho south, distributing it over the country until to the south of us twenty-five or thirty miles, the bowlder and gravel clay disappears and we are at the southern limit of the drift. As tho ice disappeared the pits behind the gravel terraces were left as littlo lakes, many of which were ultimately filled up with the lighter and finer material borne from other terraces, forming still futher to the north, as the glacial area re treated in that direction. Above all is the alluvium or bottom lands, which are developed as a distinct layer along tho rivers, so that an ideAl section of the county realized, perhaps nowhere perfectly, would show: (1.) Alluvium or bottom land ten to twenty feet; (2.) terrace formations, gravel and sand, fifty to one hundred foot; (3.) true bowldor or glacial clay, forty to one bund red and ten feet: (4.) bluo clay (witn tho layer of sand above it, winch furnishes the second,but not the best, water), twenty toouu hundred and twenty feet; (5.) bowlders with gravel, containing tho best water, five to fifteen feet Under this transported material lies twenty-five feet of the knob e.mdstono of the carboniferous; about eighty Jeet of the Genesee slates, representing, with fifty feet of coruiforous limestone, tho Devonian rocks. As to dynamical geology Dr. Brown does not sympathize with the theory of elevation of the northern part of the continent, as the cause of the glacial cold, but thinks it due to some cause external to tho earth. Ho was more interested ia tho study of the drift itself thau in specula-

tions as to its cause; if we collect and study the facts the generalizations will grow out of them naturally. Dr. Brown charged tho class to study thought full j'. Geology, lie said, was of no use to an unthinking student. It is a field study rather than a book recitation. The opportunities to study the drift about Indianapolis are superior to those eujoyed by Harvard students or Eastern geologists. His lecture was throughout full of fart and interest, and was not so confoundedly technical as to confound or overwhelm a class of beginners, three-fourths of whom have never seen a stone quarry or gravel pit. and whose impressions of geology —really the most comprehensive of terrestrial studies — have been derived from a few brief lessons from “Dana’s Geological Story Briefly Told.” Dr. Brown remarked that things had not changed much. The old south science room, so soon to be demolished, looked as it did when lie taught iu the High'-school twelve years ago. The pupils who heard him will certainly bo impressed with the fact that geology begins at home, and we have a good deal of it in Marion county. AMUSEMENT NOTES. Airs. Lida Ilood Talbott, of this city, has signed a contract to be a member of John T. Raymond’s company next season. The sale of seats for the engagement of Aliss Fanny Davenport iu ‘‘Fedora" will begin at the box office of the Grand Opera house to-morrow morning. There will doubtless be a large demand. The engagement of Miss Sara Jewett and Air. Henry Leo iu ‘That Alan,” in the Baldwin Theater in San Francisco, has been a complete failure. This is the first decided fizzle at that city for a number of months, during which time California has been exceedingly generous to theatrical combinations. Aliss Lizzie Evans, a soubrette actress who has been decidedly successful wherever she has played, will make her first appearance in this city at the Grand to-niglit in Callahan’s comedydrama. “Fogg's Ferry." which will be repeated to morrow night, with “Dew-Drop”Saturday afternoon and evening. Pleasing performances nre anticipated. Miss Charlotte Thompson will play a return engagement at English’s during the remainder of the week, opening to-night in “Sea of Ice,” in which she plays Ogarltu, but does not double the part of Louise do Lascoure as is customary with stars. Aliss Thompson is supported by G. C. Qraig and a competent company, and tho play w ill be put on the stage in fitting style. Air. George K. Fortescue is to anpoar next season in a burlesque by Mr. Sydney Rosenfeld called “Well Fedora/ Air. Fortesoue is a per former whose comicality is thought to be largely dependent upon the affluent condition of his avoirdupois, and Air. Rosenfeld, it will be seen, has named his burlesque with a special adroitness. Mr. Rosenfeld's burlesques are often ud mirably named. Manager George A. Dickson lias had plans prepared for the residence he is about to erect on North Pennsylvania street. He is so proud of the plans tliat he is thinking of giving a copy of thorn as u souvenir to the lady patrons of his theater. Tho house will be a very viginal structure, having a double row of flats on the O. P. side, painted so as to imitate a rainbow. There will be a moth-proof room in the roar for his pkt goat “Myrtle/ The rinks were all well patronized last night. The Wigwam has changed Lands, and will have new skates and other improvements in a few days. To-night there will be a foot ball game and fancy skating there. The Park floor has been part ially relaid, and is now in excellent condition. Tlie Chicago Polo Club will play there to morrow and Saturday nights. The. patronage of the Light Infantry rink continues to be as large as can be accommodated New York Times: Air. Forepaugh's white elephant will be here to day or to-morrow. It has been the policy of the’Philadelphia showman to spring his animal suddenly upon the community, and to keen entirely quiet about it until it should be too late for Mr. Barnum to forestall him. So. while all the noise was being made over Mr. Barn urn’s elephant, and that worthy but, it is alleged, somewhat spotted beast was being exhibited in the London Zoolog ical Gardens, AJr. Forepaugh had his animal quietly shipped from Liverpool. Unless some accident happens at sea. this elephant will arrive at least ten days ahead of the Barnum sacred symbol. Mr. Forepaugh's emblem is called the “Light of Asia." and it will be met by a tugboat full of reporters. Surviving that, the elephant will be exhibited.

PERSONAL MENTION. J. W. Perkins, of Muneie, is at the Grand. W. N. Wirt, of Rockville, is at the Denison. J. W. Sproatl and son, of Oaktown, aro at the Grand. A. M. Morris, of La Porte, is at the Bates House. M. J. Voris, of Franklin, is at the Bates House. W. S. Cox, of Greencastle, is at the Bates House. J. E. Baker, of Bloomington, is at the Occidental Hon. Joseph I. Irwin, of Columbus, is at tlio Denison. Hon. D. D. Dykeman, of Logansport, is at the Grand. Colonel J. B. Kimball, of Kendallvifle, is at tho Grand. Major Geo. W. Grubbs, of Martinsville, is at the Grand. Hon. J. H. McCampbell, of Jeffersonville, isat the Denison. Hon. H. H. Boudinot, of Torre Haute, is at tlio Denison. Colonel I. N. Vail, of Now Carlisle, is at tho Bates House. J. E. Taylor and wife, of Richmond, are at tho Bates House. Senator J. P. Mclntosh, of Newark, is at the Bates House. Colonel Edwin Ellis, of Torre Haute, is at tho Bates House. H. W. Caylor and wife, of Noblesville, are at tho Occidental. F. M. Watkins and wife, of Lafayette, aro at tho Bates House. A. R. Colborn and A. G. Tillotson, of Michigau City, are at the Grand. L. A. Foote and J. R. Robinson, of Crawtordsville, are at tho Bates House. Hon. Win. Fleming and Sam B. Sweet, of Fort Wayno. are at the Grand. Mrs. Price is publishing tho autobiography of her father, Professor S. K. lloshour. J. D. Wedaman, H. C. Chapman aud Dr. J. M. Basil, of Warsaw, are at the Denison. Mr. Gus. C. Matthews, associate editor of Tho Current, the now literary weekly at Chicago, is in the city, on a brief visit. Mark Wilson, D. W. Johnston, Peter Ritter. F. H. Gordon, C. Ratliff, W. 11. Trindle, James Smith, Samuel Marlatt and H. N. Land, of Richmond, are at tho Denison. Colonel 11. V. Harris and wife, of Zanesville, 0., are the guests of Mr. Louis Reihold at the Bates House. Colonel Harris is proprietor of the Clarendon Hotel, at Zanesville. Geo. McCormack, Michigau City; D. P. Baldwin, Logansport; J. W. Morrison, Frankfort; B. F. Coddiugton, Union City; R. L. Bone. Franklin; J. B. Bobo, Decatur, Ind,; J. D. Leight-y, St, Joe, Ind.; Dr. J. T. Cross, llockvillo; J. O. Stillson, Evansville; G. W. Tate, North Vernon; Henry A. Pood, South Bend; J. C. Wingate, Wingate, are at the Grand. A Bewildered Jehu. The other night Lynn Martindalo arrived on a late train, and, taking a Herdic at the depot, started for his homo on North Meridian street. The driver was anew man in tlio city, aud that was his first day's duty. Lynn had scarcely set tied himself iu the vehicle, iu which lie was the

only passenger, when, overcome with the fatigues of the day. he fell asleep. He awoke about day light, to find the Herdic bowling around the Circle. It went around twice more, and then he puileu the check strap, and conversed with the driver. “Driving in a circle’ You don't say so?" said Jehu. “Well, I thought it was the blankest longest street I ever driv over in all my life!” THE COURT RECORD. Superior Court. Room No. I—Hon. Napoleon B. ’Parlor, Henry A. Stephens et nl. vs. H. N. Goo et al.; snit, to set aside conveyance. On trial by the court. Room No. 2—Hon. D. W. Howe, Jialge. Frank Eberle and George J. Meyers vs. 1., B. &W. Railroad Company; damage suit. On trial by the court. Room No, 3—Hon. Lewis C. Walker. Jtulsro. Mason J. Osgood, trustee, vs. The City et ah; suit to quiet title. Finding for plaintiff. James C Nicholson vs. James \V. lies*, sheriff, et ah; replevin suit. Finding for defendants. Josephine B. Hart vs. Alfred Mowery; suit on judgment. Dismissed at plaintiff's costa „ Elias Block et all. vs. Frank J. Arons; Suit on bills of exchange. Dismissed at plaintiff’s costs. George 11. Thomas vs. Annie Thomas; suit fr divorce. Dismissed for failure to comply with the order of court. Adam Slierer vs. John Yanstan: an appeal from justice of the peace. Appeal dismissed. John Kqppes et ah vs. Mathew Arbucklc; suit on account. Dismissed at plaintiff's costs. Charles H. Coffin <*t ah vs. Charles H. Talbott; suit on account. Dismissed at plaintiff's costs. Marion Criminal Court, Mon. Pierce Norton. JuUa. Btato vs. Clements Christie; grand larceny and receiving stolen goods. Tried by court, found guilty and sontenoed too three years imprisonment. nciei.iiniiiisaicnviihiitimursioi q Athlophoeos la a novel word to most w people who creak the English language. The g. Greeks need it centuries aye, meaning by it “THE PBIZK.BEAKEIt” • A YH l.oriiortos is the first and only medicine which has carried off the prize as the perfect remedy for Rheum mutism and Neuralgia. 9 Uke two relentless tyrants they have tor held their suffering victims in an irou 9 grip. These poor sufferers have been as slaves in the power of their oppressors. • Athlopboros has entered the arena, en- £ gaged in conflict with the mobsters, and won tho victory. Ah the competitors in the Grecian games of old could win only by the most severe trials of ability and endurance, so Athi.ophobos has wen the prize, not alupe by KivinK temporary relief, but by bringing an ondurimr cure, as well, to those who have suffered the excruciatinK agonies of Rheum*, tismand Neuralgia. Athlophobos is a novelty, not only a in name, but in its elements. It is unlike any preparation yet introduced. * Athlopboros acts on the blood, muscles • and Joints, removing’ the poison and acid from the blood, carries them out of the system. 9 ATHLOPHORoa Is put up with consummate m skill, anti contains nothing that can possibly harm the most delicate constitution. Now, do you want to suffer ou and on ? or do you want to be well 1 © u Athlophoros” WILL Cure You © If you cannot get Athivofhoros of your druggist, we will send It express paid, on receipt of regular price—one dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy It from your druggist, but If be hasn’t It, do not be persuaded to try something else, but order at once from us as directed. ATHIGPHOROS CO., 112 WAIL ST., NEW YORK.

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THE ■mis urn For ±884:. if and Weekly Editions. Ilic.list, Tin; Largest, llic Best Rfiiaii Hasp in Imliai, For tUe year 1884 the Indianapolis Journal is better equipped than ever in its history t serve the public. With an entirely new mechanical outfit, not excelled anywhere, the typographic appearance and arrangement oi the paper will certainly not be less satisfactory than it has been hitherto, and which has given the Journal the deserved reputation of being one of the best printed papers in (he country. Our arrangements for tho collection of news from all parts of the world were never so complete, never involved so large an outlay of money, while in all departments tho paper is served with experienced and intelligent direction. The Journal is, first, a 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 fteo from impurities, and allow them at all times to be read with perfect safety by every mem bor of tho family. The Journal is a Republican paper, believing in the principles and general policy of the Republican party, but if; recognizes that in tho work of parties there are and will bo wrongs, possibly frauds and corruptions. These the Journal proposes to be perfectly free to criticise and to condemn without stint, but in a spirit and with a purpose for good, having a proper regard for persona) rights and reputations. And tho right to make this criticism will lie assorted and maintained without detriment to the political character and standing of tho paper. With no desire to be captiour or fault-finding, in the interest of tho people and of the party, believing that the great glory of Republicanism is that it permits freedom of thought and liberty of expression, the Journal will endeavor, iu 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 tho highest purpose of the people be executed. Other than this, and less than this, will meet its most vigorous opposition. Municipal government is the great problem of the day, and no newspaper, standing for the people, can afford to permit abuses to continue because, pet-chance, they may intrench themselves behind party fortifications. While anticipating that, in the future as iu the past, the best interests of all tho people will be subserved through Republican administration, tho Journal will not blindly indorse everything that may be done in the name of the party, nor will it swallow every dose that may have tho party label. The tendency of tho times is away from this style of journalism, and the Journal will, for itself, assert tho right to criticise fearlessly and condemn unsparingly whatever is believed to bo inimical to the material prosperity of the city and county, in which Democrats are alike interested with Republicans. Wo hope so make the Journal the exponent of the highest and best, thoroughly sincere and earnest in whatever it says and does; a paper of the people and for the people, as welcome to one class as to another, expect ing a continuance of generous confidence and support by the people. Subscribe at once for tho year 1884 —the year of the presidential campaign and of the session of congress preceding the national canvass. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Terms Invariably in Advance-Postage I’re*. paid by tlio Publishers. One year, by mail ..?i2.09 Six months, by mail 6.00 Three months, by mail 3.00 One month, by mail 1.00 Per week, by carrier 25 Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers THE JOURNAL In-Uanav’lis, Indiana

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