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inopportune, ard if the discussion was continued, it iwould lose the presidential election for the party. That argument was predicated on the theory that the American people were divided into two classes —those who are in office ami those who wish to get into office. 'The best way of government is the one which shall 'require from the citizens the least possible amount of taxation and furnish the most perfect and equal conservation ol rights. The farmers, mechanics and laborers of the United States are paying under the present protective tariff, more indirect and invisible taxation on clothing which they wear, on the implements which they use. on the glass, nails and sugar which they consume, than they are paying in direct tax for all the machinery of national. State, county and municipal government. He was willing to go to the country on the Morrison bill. Wade Hampton, in a letter of regret, dated Washington, says: I might, perhaps, have been able to express to some extent the feelings of the Southern people. They recognize as one ot the results of the late civil war the restoration of the Union and the supremacy of the Constitution. They believe that there can be no union of indestructible States unless the rights of those States which founded this Union, which gave it life, power and authority, are jealously guarded and socially protected. If we hope to preserved the Union indivisible, we must keep the States indestructible. Other letters of regret were read from S. S. Cox, G. M. Gliek, Roswell P. Flower, John Quincy Adams. Joint G. Carlisle. Joseph E. McDonald, George Hoadly, David A. Wells, A. S. Hewitt, Z. B. Vance, John H. Reagan. Gen. McClellan, J. C. S. Blackburn and Gov*. Cleveland. Hon. David Turpie, of Indiana, spoke upon “The Party of the People,” and in the absence Os Governor Hubbard, ex-Senator Doolittle spoke. In the absence of Congressman Hurd, Hon. Melville W. Fuller made an address. EX-SENATOR HENDRICKS. He Cannot Answer for Mr. Tilden, but Is Not Himself a Candidate. Interview in New York. Ex-Senator Hendricks had an interview, yesterday. with Mr. Tilden, and on his return from Gramercy Park a reporter asked him about Tilde ns physical condition. “Oh, well," said Mr. Hendricks, “he is not, of course, a very strong man, but I cannot see that lie has changed very much. He looks to me about the same as ho ever did. However, this is a line of questioning I do not care to answer or follow. The visit was purely a private one. I do not feel myself justified* in speaking about Hr. Tilden’s health just now. Those who are interested in that question must discover other means of having their curiosity satisfied." “Did any conversation pass relative to a possible renomination of the old ticket?” “Not a word." “Will Mr. Tilden decline the nomination if it is tendered him?” “I can not take upon myself to answer for Mr. Tilden. He did not enlighten me on the subject, nor did I desire that he should. The subject was not mentioned.” “Iu the event of his declination, at or before the assembling of the national convention, would you be a candidate for the first place on the ticket 1 ?" “I am not a candidate under any circumstances. and will not be in any event.”

Mr. McDonald’s Long; Voyage. w York San. Upou his return to Indiana Mr. Hendricks will Undoubtedly look for the boom of the Hon. Joseph E. McDonald. Perhaps he may even look for Mr. McDonald himself. Alas, where are the snows of yesteryear? Mr. Hendricks will have no little trouble in finding Mr. McDonald and the boom. While Mr. Hendricks was on the continent Mr. McDonald started upon a longer and more adventurous voyage. He made sail foi* Phoenicia. Ho took his boom with him. He has not returned. _ What Will He Do w Ith It? Lou is vi I le Commeroial. Now that Hendricks has returned from Europe with his sore toe in fighting condition, the Question is. what will he do when he reaches In uiana'f Will lie try to place the too under Uncle Joe McDonald’s coat tails, or will lie pool it with Til ken's palsied arm and fight it out on the lino of the old ticket? DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department. 'f Office of the Chief Signal Officer. / Washington. April 16, la. m. ) For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Clearing *nd fair weather, preceded by occasional rain in upper Ohio valley, southwest to northwest winds, slight rise in temperature, higher barometer. For the Upper Lake Region—Rain or snow, followed by clearing weather, northwesterly winds, slight rise in temperature. Local Observations. Indianapolis, April 15. Time. ’ Bar. ! Th. [Hum. Wind. Weather R'f’l. 6:24 A. u..'20.33:53.81 84 1 \V in. rain. .25 10:24 A. M. -i29.31 59.0: Oft | SW ;Cloudy.. 2:24 I*. M 20.-10 50.0 52 ! W 'Cloudy. .01 6:24 P. M.. 29.51,53.0i 01 W jThre'tng 10:24 p.m.. 29.58j49.0 76 ! W (Thre’tng .01 Maximum temperature. 64.0; minimum temper* fore, 49.0. General Observations. War Department. ) Washington, April 15. 10:24 p. m. ) Observations taken at the same moment of time at ell .stations. ’ ’ s h 5j ||f a ! 20 1 8 s | 3 P* g" S*! s--BTATION. | ; | • 5-j ® N ® * .s*l ’ ; I ® ; i :j : : Bismarok, Dak 29.99 33 NE Clear. Cairo, 111 29.77, 61. NW [Clear. Chattanooga, Tenn — 1 1 Chicago. 11l 29.48 42 NW .16 Lt. rain. Cincinnati, 0 29.60: 56 W .18,Cloudy. Coluumbns, O Davenport, la 29.63 44 NW .01 Cloudy. Deadwood, Dak Denver, C 01... 29.83i 57 Calm iClear. Des Moines. Ia 29 R 1 42 N Cloudy. Dodge City. Kan.... 29.97 57' NE Clear. Fort Buford. Dak .’ Fort Custer, Mont.. 29.66 47 E Fair. Fort Elliott, Tex .. 29.93 53. Calm Clear. Fort Gibson. Ind. T Fort Sill. Ind. T [ Galveston, Tex 29.90 70 SW Fair. Indianapolis, Ind... 29.58 49; W .01 .Thre’t’g. Indianaola, Tex Keokuk, Ia 29.72 441 NW jCloudy. La Crosse. Wis 29.66 35 N .05 Lt. rain, Leavenworth, Kan 29.94 46 NW Fair. Little Rock, Ark.... 29.83 63 NW .. Clear. Louisville, Ky 29.64 55 VV .07 Clear. Memphis. Tenn.... 29.78 65 NW [Clear. Morenead. Minn 29.93 34 N—i Clear. Nashville. Tenn... 29.73 64 SW ... . Clear. North Platte, Neb.. 29.96 42 E Clear. Omaha, Nob 29.94 44 NW Cloudy. Pittsburg. Pa 29.57 j 56, SW .06 Fair. San Antonio, Tex.. j Shreveport. La 29.81 67 NW ... . Clear. Springheld. 11l 29.69 46 NW .01 Cloudy. St. Louis. Mo 29.76 51 SW Cloudy. Stockton, Tex 29.92 60 SE i Cloud v. St. Paul, Minn 29.76 451 N |Cloudv. Vicksburg, Miss.. . 29.80 70 S Clear. Yankton. D. T 29.96 40 NW Clear. Now Orleans, La .. 29.89 72 SW .... Clear. Laa Animas,Col .. ,29.87 52j E [Clear. Fort Smith. Ark.... ,29.89 57’Calm Clear. Salt Lake City, U. T. 29.67 53 SE ... Thret'g El Paso, Tex 129.86, 64 Calm Cloudy. A Religious Riot. St. Johns, N. F. April 15.—The following special has just been received from ('arbonnear: ‘‘Sunday night when Protestants were returning from church, they were attacked by Roman Catholics with pickets and stones One man named Squibb was fatally wounded. The Protestants then collected, armed with pickets, and dispersed the mob. Yesterday morning a man named Brennan fired a revolver at an Orangeman. He was arrested. Later—A man named Hayden, now under arrest, shot at Jones, a brother of the Orange man murdered in the Harbor Grace riot, while standing at Hagan’s door. These outrages wore followed by a general turnout of Orangemen, all of whom were armed with guns and bayonets, who kept marching through the streets all night. The streets are deserted, save by the crowd in arms. The war shin “Tenedas” left last night for the scene of the disturbance. Santiago, pk las Vegas, Cuba. —Senor Serafm Costales says: “1 was cured of facial neural gia of six months’ standing by a few applications of Jacobs Oil, the great remedy.

WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES. Return of the Committee Appointed to Inspect Our Uncle Tilden. They Find the Old. Man in Good Condition, but Inflexibly Determined to Reject the Nomination. .Senator Vance Loses His Temper and Uses Very Unseemly Language, The Occasion Being a Session of the Danville Investigating Committee—Miscellaneous Washington News. THE TILDEN INSPECTORS. The Sage Is Sound Enough, but Declines To Bea Candidate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington. April 15. —Mr. Henley, of California. one of the delegation of congressmen who went to New York to see Tilden and had an interview with him yesterday, said, to-night, to your correspondent: “Our visit was a very pleasant one, but we regret it did not result as we expected. We thought he would consent to be a candidate. We assured him it was the unanimous wish of the entire Democratic party on the Pacific coast that he should be, but he told us frankly he would not consent to, and would not accept if nominated by the convention. He said he was preparing a letter which would be published soon, in which he would decline the nomination and give his reasons for so doing." Mr. Henley remarked that while Mr. Tilden's physical condition was not so good as he expected. he found him as strong and as bright mentally as ever, and he impressed the delegation very favorably. Mr. Lamb, of Indiana, as well as the Pacific Coast congressmen, had an interview with Mr. Tilden yesterday. He went iuto the house at ‘ the same time they did. He gives a different account of the coast congressmen’s reception by Tilden than they do. He said Tilden didn't give them more than one minute's audience. John F. Bigelow, who is looking after Tilden's house, as well as person, whisked the Western statesmen into Tilden's presence and whisked them out again in a very short time. They did not, according to Mr. Lamb, have enough talk with Tilden to be able to give anything positive about that statesman’s intentions. Mr. Lamb, by the way, did not gather anything material himself.

THE CONGO COUNTRY. Leasing Lands from the Natives—Other Business Customs of the Region. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 15.—Just at this time, when Congress has before it a proposition to take steps to bring this country into closer relations with the Congo regions of Africa, the State Department Ims issued a report upon the conduct of affairs on that river by United States Consul Du Verge, which will be read with interest by all those who have any curiosity in regard to this important new field. Consul Du Verge writes. “To settle at Congo, after having chosen a convenient location for one's affairs, the chiefs who are entitled to receive the duties or taxes are called. These taxes are in reality rents, as the negroes do not sell their lands and do not give them up except for an annual or monthly payment. The tenant has, therefore, a right to his land just so long as he pays his tax or rent, which consists, beside the payment of installation, of rations to the King, amounting to a gallon of rum and eight yards of cotton cloth at the end of every month: and the persons whom the King is obliged to supply and for whom be is responsible are: Lingster, translator; com prador. purchaser: mafuca, body servant, and four servants, mocas. The duty of a lingster in a factory is to attend to the payment for produce, serve as interpreter in communicating with the natives, and keep his employer well informed with regard to the business done by his neighbors. The comprador serves to measure the produce, settle all cliftlculties arising from such measurements and withdraw from each measure the countago (tax) going to the King. This countage consists of a plate of grain for every measure of the same, and about one or two gallons of oil to every measure of the same, which are set apart until there is sufficient to be measured, when the King goes to receive it. The mafuca oversees the work of the servants, and takes the place of the interpreter during the latter's absence. If one of these seven personages should, for any reason whatever, run away, the King is obliged to return him or replace him. or lose ail rights to his taxes, rations, etc., until he lias replaced the runaway, and paid the robbery, if the runaway be in consequence of robbery. “The manners and customs which have been introduced among the negroes by certain Europeans have rendered it impossible to trade with the natives without corrcdores. These act as couriers, who. for a certain payment and a supply of gin and spirits, lay in wait for the natives along the rentes they take when bringing in produce for trade, and conduct them to their employer's factory. It often occurs that the negroes follow these corrcdores of their own free will: but it happens, also, that the negroes, when they will not follow them, are forced to go to the house of the employers: or, when the eorredore knows there ianot a certain kind of goods at his factory and conducts or trades to another merchant’s factory, he is in like manner bound by the slaves of his employer: for, although slavery is abolished, there are any number of slaves to be found, some in chains, and others at liberty in the Portuguese houses, as well as in some foreign houses, so that the corredore becomes the slave of the white man unless his family is willing to nay an exorbitant price for bis liberty. These abuses and violences are very often the reason why the trade route is often closed, as the natives, alarmed at the constant violence of the kroboys straggling along the routes, who hinder their free movements, have almost abandoned the Congo, and go to sell their produce where they can move about freely, or they remain in their villages, where they cultivate only what is requisite and sufficient for their families This is the reason why the Con go, on account of violence and injustice, from being one of the most productive rivers ten years ago, has become, comparatively speaking, com pletely abandoned by the natives. “The purchase of slaves continues at the values of £5 or £0 each. When they cannot be bought they are obtaiued in tin* following man nor: An article or object of some kind is laid aside out of the way, but within reach of the negro, who at once steals it, and, being taken in flagrante delictu, becomes at once a slave. If he is a person of importance and is claimed by his relatives, or by the chiefs of the village to which he belongs, ho is sometimes given up in exchange for two or three slaves, who take his place and lose thereby the liberty they enjoyed, to become slaves in their village: these arc put in chains and made to work under the lash and the rod. Should any government, therefore, seriously wish to correct or avoid any further slavery in chains, bondage, and un just punishments, and secure free trade and make the Congo as productive as it was about ten or fifteen years ago, tbo following must be attended to: The corrcdores are the principal causes of the lack of trade, for. beside# the wages which they receive and which can be given to the native trader, they embezzle the funds intrusted to their w l . Some house* have more than two hundred coiTTdores? they receive a certain number of counters with lumbers corresponding to numbers with the name of the corredore, entered in a book expressly

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kept for the purpose at the fetiche (the place where the trade is carried on and settled). The corredore generally receives twenty markers and counters for each ease of gin or*demijohn of spirits. Each counter represents a measure. The corredore is present at the measuring and accompanies the native trader, who receives an order for every measure that he measures at the fetiche: the corredore takes notes of these orders and sends a counter with each one, which is kept in a drawdr until the number is complete. If the negro has done much trade, through the intervention of the lingster, who pays in the the fetiche, ho will embezzle so much per measure. If the white man does not consent to this robbery, the negro is robbed of like amount when passing through the village of the corredore, and the corredore pays himself by not giving an account of the goods which he receives to attract trade, and then goes to some other merchant. The kroboys are then immediately sent out. on different trade routes, and the corredore is, in a very short time, taken and put in irons. The chief of the village is then made responsible sos the corredore, and must pay for him. If the chief takes no notice of it. men or women belonging to the same village are tied and made to keep with the corredore, who is in chains. The king and chiefs of the village are likewise responsible for the kroboys of the white man if any of them run away. For the simple reason of the kroboys having passed through a village, the inhabitants thereof, although wholly innocent, are put in chains, and remain in chains until the kroman is returned and until the villages through which he passed have paid for him. “This is the way affairs are carried on at present on the Congo, and how slaves are procured at a moderate price, while it is publicly proclaimed at the same time that slavery is abolished." THE DANVILLE INQUIRY. A Session in Which Profanity and Personal Abuse Strive for Supremacy. Washington, April 15. —Congressman John S. Wise appeared before the Danville committee to-day, and, addressing the chair, said he represented Colonel W. E. Sims. Colonel Sims had received notice that witnesses were about to bo examined in respect to his personal character. Mr. Wise read a letter from Colonel Sims to Senator Sherman, stating that he knew not the nature of th3 threatened attacks upon him, nor did he care if he was allowed to show what prompted them. He had reason to believe the attempt was not for the purpose of throwing any light on the subject before the committee, but to blacken his character by innuendo. He desired, if the committee saw fit to go outside his character for veracity, to be allowed to summon witnesses touching the moral character of all parties, including Senator Vance, and Representatives George C. A. Bell and George I). Wise, who were, he was informed, .engaged in an attempt to blacken his character. After the reading of the letter, Mr. Wise said that since the investigation began he had. to some extent, represented the affirmative of the proposition that there was murder, and massacre, and outlawry in Danville, and he honestly believed it. Ho therefore wished that Sims had been examined here as to certain statements. If these were true, it mattered not what the private character of Sims was, except jis to his reputation for voracity. He gave notice that he should object to the investigation extending beyond Sims’s general reputation for veracity, un less the investigation was opened up. in which case he should assail the reputation for truth of W. N. Ruffin, and should produce the records of some of the signers of the Danville circular. Senator Vance—Well, Mr. Chairman, so far as this not ice is an intimation that my character is to be assailed, sir.— Senator Sherman —I think, myself, that that ought not to go upon the records, and I shall cer tainly recommend— Senator Vance—lt is unusual, sir; it is damnable, and I defy the whole hell-fired crowd to assail my character, here or anywhere else. I never heard such a proposition as carrying war into the comm ittee and making war against a member of the committee who is simply doing his duty as appointed and required of him by the Senate, of which he is a member. It is a threat, sir, which I despise, and defy, and condemn. Senator Sherman said there was no further necessity for argument. When the questions were raised by offering testimony, it would be time enough to discuss and decide them. So far as the threat, to involve a member of the com mittee personally as to his character and con duct was concerned, it was entirely improper. Mr. Sims—My character is as precious to me as that of any member of Congress. It has been reported as having been said before the committee that I was a dishonest man. Now, if he merely attempts to prove that, I have no objection at all. Senator Vance—l said it of you; with reference to the proof I had— Col. Sims, who is partially deaf, was proceeding, when Senator Sherman persuaded him to stop. Mrs. G. B. Rawlins, of Baltimore, was sworn. Governor Vance asked if she was acquainted with Colonel Sims. She replied that she had known him about seven years. She was asked to state his reputation for truth and veracity. Senator Sherman said he would not consent to turning the investigation into the channel pro posed, nor to open up an opportunity for bringing in personal quarrels without direction of the full committee. If there was any desire to controvert any of Colonel Sims’s statements as a witness he would have no objection. Senator Vance said it had been put in evidence that Colonel Sims was a man of good character, and that his defeat in the district was due to in timidation and violence. I propose to prove that this man is a thief; that he stole the bonds of this witness on tlio stand here, and that he is utterly unworthy of belief. He has blackened the character of reputable citizens of Danville, and we propose to show who he is. Nlr. Wise—l think it is due Mr. Sims that the proposition to show that this man is a thief, that he stole the bonds of this lady, and that he is unworthy of belief, should not be allowed to go unanswered: also, that Sims hurls back the insinuation into the teeth of its author, and at the proper time, and in the proper place, will prove its falsehood in whole cloth. Senator Vance—l make these charges, of course, not of my own knowledge, but 1 make them with witnesses here ready to prove them. Congressmen Cabell and George D. Wise had now arrived iu the committee room, and in their turn stated, with much earnestness, their willingness to submit to any investigation which might be proposed respecting their personal records. Senator Sherman still objecting to the introduction of the testimony proposed, Mrs. Rawlins was excused. After a comparison of views between the members of the sub-corn mittee, all the witnesses in attendance were discharged, and an adjournment taken, subject to the rail of tho chairman. It is not yet decided whether any more witnesses will be subpoenaed.

SENATE PROCEEDINGS. Routine Business—Further Consideration of the Bankruptcy Bill. Washington, April 15.—The Chair laid boore the Senate the joint resolution of the Califor nia Legislature, urging the passage of the amended Chinese restriction act. The following bills were reported favorably and placed on tbo calendar: By Mr. Blair, from the committe on education and labor: To provide a commission 011 the subject of the alcoholic liquor traffic. By Mr. Ingalls, from the committee on Indian affairs, with amendments: The bill for relief of the Nez IVices Indians, of Idaho. By Mr. M iller, from the committee on Finance, with amendments: The bill to provide for coinage at the branch mint at Denver. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution, which be asked to have printed and laid over, directing the committee on judiciary to inquire and report whether Paul Strobach, whose confirmation as United Mates marshal in Alabama has been rejected by the Senate, is now discharging the du ties of his office, and whether lie is entitled to do SOT. Mr. Sliormau culled up the House joint reso-

lutlon providing that certain hooks bo furnished by tho Secretary of tho Interior to the Cincinnati law library. Passed. Mr. Dawes called up the bill to divide a portion of the great reservation of the Sioux na tion of Indians, in Dakota, into separate reservations, and to secure relinquishment of Indian Title to remainder. Mr. Dawes moved to amend the bill so as to make the amount of land to be given in severalty to. the Ponca Indians onequarter section. Agreed to —40 to 2. Pending action on the bill, tho Chair laid before the Senate the unfinished business, this being the bankruptcy bill. Mr. Dawes remarked that he would to-morrow, after the morning business, call up the Indian bill for further consideration. Consideration of the bankruptcy bill was proceeded with by sections, and much progress made, the debate being confined strictly to the legal aspects of tho provisions read. Amendments of details as proposed, by Messrs. George, Bayard. Hoar, Wilson, Saulsbury and Slater were agreed to. The debate was participated in by the senators named, and by Messrs. Harrison. Aldrich, Garland, Cameron of Wisconsin, and others. The sections agreed to to-day provide, among other things, that any person owing a debt exceeding #SOO may voluntarily petition to be adjudged a bankrupt; any trader owing debts in excess of SI,OOO, who leaves his State to avoid his creditors, or conceals himself to avoid arrest or service of legal process, or fraudulently transfers his propety, or conceals or removes the same to avoid process; or. witli the intention to defraud his creditors, procures or suffers judgment to be procured against him; or who, being actually insolvent, suffers his property to be seized on execution and fails within twenty days to redeem it, or has suspended payment of his accounts for a period of thirty days after they were due and payable, .shall be deemed to have committed an act of bankruptcy, and may be adjudged bankrupt on a petition filed by three or more of his creditors. After executive session the Senate adjourned. MINOR MENTION. Comptroller Knox Will Not Resign Until He Is Vindicated. Washington. April 15.—Comptroller Knox says that lie was tendered and accepted the presidency of the National Bank of the Republic, of Now York, last February, and was to take the position the Ist of April, when the attack was made on him by Best and other Boston parties; but ho has not written his resignation, and will not do so until he is fully vindicated. He thinks the attempt to involve him in the Boston affair a matter of spite work, and is at a loss to know what lie has ever done to arouse the enmity of those who are engaged in it. A Point for the Civil-Service Hoard. Washington, April 15. —Commissioner McFarland, the venerable head of the Land Office, is a famous whist player, and the other evening he had one of tho lady clerks in his office for a partner. She played so well that the old gentleman won every game, and he complimented her by saying that she was the best whist player he ever knew. “Then you ought to promote me." she said. “I’ll do it,” ho replied; and he did. The next day lie raised her salary from SI,OOO to $1,200 per year. The civil service commissioners have not heard of this, but when they do they will undoubtedly haul the old gentleman over the coals. The Assault on President Barrios. Washington, April 15 —Seuor Batcis, Central American minister to this city, has received a telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Guatemala and Salvador, saying it is true that an attempt was made to assassinate President Barrios, but adding that no harm was done him, and he is perfectly well. The dispatch also says there is no disturbance of public order; that the attempt at assassination is universally execrated. and General Barrios is receiving the congratulations of all classes of people. A Shameless Trick on an Old Man. Special to St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ore of the most pathetic pictures of the presidential canvass is the sight of General Denver in the hands of his so-called friends being put through an ambling pace for the Democratic nomination. General Denver is au amiable old gentleman from Ohio. He was Governor of Kansas in border ruffian times, and has seen honorable service in both tho Mexican war and the war of the rebellion. He came to Washington after the war and acquired a large for tune in the prosecution of claims. He is rich, respectable, and was enjoying the comforts of an honorable old age when the one weakness of his life befell him—the fever of presidential ambition. Beguiled by a crowd of half-baked and hungry would bo politicians, he is regularly bled every four years to pay for the expenses of a campaign that does not exist except in his imagination. Nearly every day some new circular is gotten up lauding the virtues of General Denver, as if he wore a patent medicine. It is noth ing to the friends of this so-called boom that not one man in a thousand knows who Denver is. To-night anew circular was sent out., giving reports of a conversation with Packer, of Virginia: Cox. of New York; Wood, of Indiana; Roseerails, of California; Young, of Tennessee, and other amiable members, who, underpressure of the Denverites, have expressed kindly opinions of the good but misguided old gentleman, who is at present paying the expense** and hire of about as cheap and silly a lot of people as ever escaped from the obscurity of the lesser villages of Ohio.

Notes and Personalities. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 15.—Representative Stockslager left the city to night for his home. It is said his fences need another rail or two to keen Jason Brown in. Postoftices have been established at Mason, Wabash county, and at Vigo. Vigo county. Mrs. D. R. McKinney and Mrs. Burr Sweet* zer, of Marion, are visiting friends here. The time schedule on the star mail route from Cross Plains to Dillsborough has been changed as follows: Leave Cross Plains daily, except Sundays, at 7 a. m.; arrive at Dillsborough by 10 a. m: leave Dillsborough daily, except Sundays, at 7 p. m.: arrive at Cross Plains by 8 p. m. Charles E. Coon, of New York, will be nominated Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice John C. New, resigned. Mr. Coon is at present assistant chief of the loan division of the Treasury. Commander Schley has telegraphed from the Brooklyn navy yard that the crew of the sealer Fox was rescued from an ice fioe by the sealer Arctic, some four days since, and this undoubtedly gave rise to the rumor from St. Johns that the Greely party had been rescued. The Senate committee has reached an adverse decision upon the bill relating to vinegar manufactories. This measure had for its object the repeal of the statutes which authorize wliito wine vinegar makers to distil spirits used in their business without paying revenue tax. A Negro Murderer Burned to Death. Dallas. Tex.. April 15.—A dispatch from Brenham says that a negro named Gibbs brutally murdered the wife of L. P. Moore, a prominent farmer of Burleson county, on Saturday evening, because she would not allow him to sit at the supper-table with the family. Mr. Moore was not at home at the time, but returned shortly after. The whole community turned out. and on Sunday afternoon overtook Gibbs, ten miles away, and captured him, after a fight in which the negro was wounded. He was taken back to [Moore’s place, where the exasperated citizens chained him to a post and burnt and him to death. Gibbs was an escaped convict, and was eonsid ored a very bad negro. Possible Strike of Coal Miners. Pittsburg. April 15.—A shut down of alt coal mines on the Monongabela river is ct-nsid ered imminent. The acceptance of a reduction by the third-pool miners has caused general dissatisfaction, and a lively time during the next few weeks is anticipated. The operators of the first and second pools claim that the thin! pool coal Is as valuable as that mined by the lower pools, and will accordingly order a similar cut. IX -bey persist in tliU, the fourth pool operators

will reduce to 2 12 cents per bushel. The miners, who have already accepted two reductions, assert that they will not submit to further scaling of wages. Charles McLaughlin’s Estate. San Francisco Chronicle. Charles McLaughlin, the capitalist who was shot and killed by Jerome B. Cox. left an estate valued at about $4,000,000, all of which was willed to the widow. Miss Mollio McLaughlin, a niece, who had been receiving a monthly allowance from her uncle, was disappointed that she had not been remembered by him and decided to contest the validity of the will. Miss McLaughlin, who is not on friendly terms with the widow, accordingly placed her case in the hands of Reuben 11. Lloyd, who has since com promised the case upon the payment to the claimant, Miss McLaughlin, by the widow, of $50,000. Mollies mother is a teacher in the Hays Valley primary school. Conscience-Stricken For a Penny. Philadelphia Record. Twenty years ago. James Hutchinson, of Springtown. Bucks county, gave an acquaintance ten cents and requested him to bring a package of tobacco along from the store to which the man was going. He brought the package and the affair was forgotten until last week, when the man wrote to Mr. Hutchinson, inclosing twenty five cents and a postal card, which he said was in payment for one cent change which he had received and had failed to return twenty years ago, the tobacco being only nine cents. * He further stated lie had joined the Duukard Church, and his conscience would give him no rest until ho had returned it with full interest. Caution. No. 219 Grand Street, ? Jersey City, N. J., Feb. 28. 1883. S Two months ago I suffered with a very bad cough, which kept me awake all night. 1 was recommended to put on my chest two Allcock’s Porous Plasters. Unfortunately, my druggist persuaded me to try some other so-called porous plaster. I lost my money, for they we?e worthless and not of the slightest benefit. I then procured Allcock’s Porous Plasters, and they completely cured me. J. F McGinnis. Imitation Porous Plasters aro being advertised and offered for sale. Beware of them. “Allcock’s" is tho only genuine. Advice to Mothers. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should always be used when children are cutting teeth. It relieves the little sufferer at once; it produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as “bright as a button.” It is very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Twenty-five cents a bottle. In the absence of suitable materials or the time to prepare it, people often go without a dressing for salads. Buy Durkee’s Dressing, and you will never trouble yourself to make another. AMUSEMENTS. DICKSON’S Grand Opera-House. The Best Located and MOST POPULAR Theater in the State. LAST PERFORMANCE TO-NIGHT! Popular Prices—2s, 50 and 75 cents. F K A N 1C M A Y O In the everlasting success, ‘•DAVY CROCKETT.” Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and Saturday Matinee, April 17. IS and JO. The Favorite Young Comedian. Mr. ROLAND REED, Iu Fred. Marsden's Popular Comedy-Drama, “C H lv.” Popular prices. Sale of seats now progressing. Monday and Tuesday, April 21 and 22. DUNCAN C. ROSS. MATSADA SORAKK'HI, MERVINE THOMPSON. ( HAS. LANGE, and Others.

D A T)CD INDIANA PAPER COMP’Y, I A I 1 l\ MANUFACTURERS. A XJI JL JLJ A- U. ■ o. DkVAY, Agent No. 23 E. Maryland Street. paper upon which the JOURNAL is printed is furnished by this eomnauy. JAMES 11. EOBS & Co[ Wholesale Whisky Merchants, No. 184 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis. INDUCEMENTS! I offer 1,000 rolls of MATTINGS in white, checks and fancy colors at specially low prices, to make room for other stock. I 'nave just received an invoice of Body and Tapestry Brussels in New, Artistic and Beautiful Designs, to which I invite special attention. ijr Wanted —Two experienced carpet-layers.

MOW SKIN HUmSrS.H It is at this season, when the '•! 1 and perspiration are loaded v i ill impuri'.i*-- vliat. I )i.riguring Humors, Humiliating Eruptions, Itvliing Tortures Sa Rheti n or # Eozema. Psoriasis. Tetter. Ringworm Baby it -i mors. Scrofula Serot'uloiis Sores, Ahs-.*s-es anil Discharging Wounds and -v. rv species >\ itching. Scaly arnl Pimply Diseases of tin* Skin and Scalp aro most speedily aitd economicallv cured by the Cutieura Remedies. It Is a Fact. Hundreds of letters in our possession (copies of which may he had by retu-n mail) are our authority for the assertion that Skin. Sealp and Blood lltimors, whether Scrofulous, Inherited or Contagious, may now he permanently eur 1 hv Cutieura Resolvent, the new Blood Puri tier. Biuret ie and Aperient, internally, and Cutieura and Cutieura Soap, the great Skin Cures and Beautitiers, externally, in one-half the time and at one-half the expense of any other season. Greatest on Earth. Cutieura Remedies are the greatest medicines on earth. Had the worst case Salt Rheum in this country. My mother had it twenty years, and. in fact, died from it. 1 believe Cut ieura would have saved her life. My arms, breast and head were covered for throe years, which nothing relieved or cured until I used the Cutieura Resolvent internally and Cutieura and Cutieura Soap externally. J. W. ADAMS, Newark, O. Great Blood Medicines. The half has not been told as to the great curative powers of the Cutieura Remedies. 1 have paid hundreds of dollars for medicines to cure diseases of tim blood and skin, and never found anything yet to equal the Cutieura Remedies. Providknce, K. I. C'HAS. A. WILLIAMS. Cure in Every Case. Your Cutieura Remedies outsell all other medicine* I keep for skin diseases. My customers and patients say that they have effected a euro in every instance, w here other remedies ha.\ o failed. H. W. BROCKWAY, M. D Franklin Falls, N. If. Sold by all druggists. Price: Cutieura. 50 ets.; Re* solvent. $1; Soap. 25 cent-* POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO.. Boston, Mass. for “How to Cure Skin Diseases ” 1)1"! 4 I Tf|y\7" For Rough. Chapi>ed and Greasy I) 1j A U 1 V Skin. Blackheads. Pimples. Skin i Blemishes and Infantile Humors, use Cutieura Soap, a real Beautiffer. AMUSEMENTS. PARK RINK. ____________ To-night! To-night! and Every. Night this week Engagement of ROBERT E.MOR.XINGSTAR, The Skating Adonis, in his beautiful exhibition. Wednesday Evening. April 10. GRAND TOURNAMENT and FANCY-DRESS CARNIVAL. The Event of the Season. | BRILLIANT: BEAUTIFUL! DAZZLING! I Skating. Bicycling. Music. A genuine Diamond Ring to be given as a prise for the finest costume. SPECIAL NOTICE. Prices again reduced. Mornings—-Ladies, free; skates, free. Gents, 15o; ! skates, free. Afternoons —Ladies, free; skates, 15c. Gents, 10c; skates, 15c. Nights—Ladies, feee; skates, 15c. Gents, 15c; skate.-. 20c. Z GI L tfTi In Theatre 1 li One Week, Monday, April 14, I Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ! CASTLE’S KELLY & RYAN COMBINATION. "WIGWAM RINK. The management reserves the right to refuse admission and use of skates to all objectionable parties.

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