Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1884 — Page 7

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Personal and Local. J. M. Hill, superintendent of the Baltimore & Ohio Express Company, is in the city on official business. Johnny Dowling, agent lor the Vandal ia at Greencastle, has gone to California on a healthpeeking and pleasure trip. C. C. Waite, vice-president and general manager of the C., 11. & D. lines, is expected home from California about May 20. F. W. Peck, of Chicago, was in attendance at the 1., B. & W. annual meeting yesterday, and left for New York last evening. The annual meeting of the Western Association of General Ticket and Passenger Agents Atill be held in Louisville, Ky., to day. The Barney & Smith car works are building a very handsome official car for Vice-president and General Manager Waite, of the C, H. A: D. lines. Ford Wood, assistant general freight agent, of the L, B. A: W., on Saturday next moves his headquarters from Springfield, Ohio, to Indianapolis. J. C. McQuiston. late general roadmaster on the C.j 1.. St. L. &C.. has been offered a good |N)sition on the Erlanger system, and has its ac <-optative under consideration. C. E. Henderson, receiver of the Danville. Olney & Ohio River road, has asked creditors of the road to send a statement of their accounts against Charles Howard, late receiver of the property. Tho admission of the Louisville. New Albany i & Cliichgo road to the Indianapolis east-bound !pool gives Indianapolis seven roads carrying easthound business, being only one less than Chicago has and really as direct. Wm. Jackson, secretary and treasurer of the Union Railway Company, was asked yesterday by a telegram from President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania lines, to come to Philadelphia, and be left last night for that point. The Bee-line people have built some fifty extra large size box cars to run on their through business, which are specially adapted to carrying light, bulky freights, such as lounges, which are being shipped daily from Indianapolis to New York by the car-load. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis is assuming considerable importance as a through line, both east and west. The Erie is throwing considerable west-bound business over it and eastward the through tonnage thus far this year has been treblo that of any former year. The earnings of the roads in the Florida Rail way and Navigation Company’s system, of which Major B. S. Henning is president, continue to show a handsome increase, the first five months of this year earning $354,175 against $297,235 corresponding period 1883. Increase this year, SSG,S4O. The Philadelphia Press says: “Mr. George W. Boyd, assistant general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railroad, will occupy his Cape May cottage this season.” His many friends in Indianapolis will be pleased to know that ho has so pleasant a summer resort in which to spend his few leisure hours. Major Rol>ert Emmett was yesterday promot cd to the position of district passenger agent of the Louisville, New Albany A: Chicago road, with territory in Indiana and Michigan. Major Emmett has been doing some good work for the road of late, and this promotion shows that his labor is appreciated by the management. The Cleveland Herald says that a represent.*! tive of the Pennsylvania claims that the West Shore has its tickets on sale with scalpers in that city. Well, what of it? Indianapolis scalpers are selling tickets reading over Pennsylvania lines, and no one believes that the Pennsylvania people place their tickets in the scalper’s hands. Secretary Hanger, of the Yardmaster’s Mutual Benefit Association, lias received notice from forty-two roads that they would pass delegates to their annual convention, in Atlanta, Ga., on credentials, and all other roads asked for transportation have expressed a willingness to issue jklsscs to delegates and their wives through the usual medium. A railroad man, who is a good judge of the value of railroad properties, and who is quite guarded in h:s remarks, said, in a conversation yesterday, that should the Wabash people allow Iho Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago division of the system to revert back into the hands of the Cutting syndicate, it would incur heavy loss to the latter, as the business of the road Las fallen off 50 per cent, in she last three years, and physically it had depreciated 33 per cent. The 1., B. & W. people are said to be the only stumbling block in the way of organizing the Indianapolis and Peoria pools and having them in good running order by Juno 1. An officer of a competing line is quoted as saying that Presi dent Corbin must have an enormous amount of cheek “to attempt to dictate to the great railroad system of the country with his little jerkwater line. However, in regard to Corbiu, he might as well accept the inevitable and join the pool, for with him it is only a question of coming in or being kicked in.” Such talk as this will not certainly tend to harmonize matters. The pamphlet published by the committe of the Cleveland, Columbus. Cincinnati Sc Indianapolis Railroad Company, giving the statistics upon which the recent returns of the directors was based in refusing to issue additional stock to represent betterments, is being favorably commented upon by the press, so full and fair are the statements made. This McHenry idea of watering the capital stock until it becomes intrinsically worthless, merely to carry out the theory or keeping income and capital accounts separate, is not one that commends itself to American railway owners. The better plan is iho one now followed, of investing surplus earnings in improvements, and thus making the property each year more valuable.

Tiie Yard in asters’ Mutual Benefit Association. J. C. Campbell, president of the Yard masters’ Mutual Benefit Association of tlio United States and Canadas, under date of May 10 issues a call for the tenth annual convention, which convenes at Atlanta, Ga., June 11, 1884. Arrangements have been made with the Markham House at special rates, and headquarters will bo at that place. All delegates are requested to wear badges with the number of their division and name of their city printed thereon, and in order to have uniformity, a blue badge nine inches long, one and a half inches wide, with gold letters is recommended. The annual report of Joseph Hanger, secretary and treasurer, will show: Number of members April 30, 1883 705 Number of new members since April 30 1883, to April 30. 1881 337 Number of members forfeited membership for of dues 123 Numbm* of members deceased 1) Number of members reinstated 2 Number of members voluntarily withdrawn 2 Total membership .....1)10 RECEIPTS. Cash in treasury April 30, 1883 $510.49 Cash received from admission fees 674.00 Cash received from assessments 7,254.00 Cash received from reinstatements 4.00 Total $8,442.49 EXPENSES. Paid out to widows and heirs of deceased membCr> in the year ending April 30, 1884, $5,523. Secretary and treasurer s salary and other expenses $853.3*2. Cash in treasury, $1,358.17. The Union Pacific Troubles. A capitalist who is largely interested financially in railroad properties, and who spends most of Ills time in New York, was in the city yesterday in attendance at a railroad meeting. When questioned as to the bear talk regarding the Union Pacific road, he said that the Union Pacific would not only pass its next dividend, but would pay uo more dividends for at least three years, and that in less than ninety days the property “would be placed in the lianas of an amicablo receivership. The dissatisfied New York stockholders are discussing the appointment of a committee to investigate the affairs of the road, that they confer aud co operate with the parties in Boston. That would avoid confusion, possibly two reports, and useless time and expense, while it would carry more weight with the public and the conclusion reached would be final. Stock heMcrs who paid 120 for their stock arc very se

vere in their comments on the government directors and say had they done their duty, stockholders would have known the condition of the road before they were involved in a loss of half the value of their stock, or would have been deterred from buying it at the prices at which the Gould party sold it while retaining control of the road. Animal Mooting of the 1., B. & W. Stockholders. The stockholders of the Indiana, Bloomington Sc Western road held their annual meeting yesterday, and elected as directors for the ensuing year Austin Corbin and Alfred Hully, of New York; J. R. Maxwell, Brooklyn. N. Y.; J. B. Edmonds, Washington, D. C.; H. W. Maxwell, Brooklyn. N. Y.? Joseph Dorr, Boston, Mass.; Ferd W. Peck, Chicago. 111.; G. E. Leighton, St. Louis. Mo.: F. W. Duntou. Jamaica, N. Y.; Robert K. Dow, Claremont, N. H.; Charles Stan ford, Schenectady, N. Y.; John L. Farwell, Claremont, N. H.: James K. O. Sherwood, Glen Cove, L. I. Os the 236,373 shares of capital stock, 146,691 was voted in favor of the above directory. President Corbins annual report is as follows: 1883. 1882. Earnings $3.0*22.366 $‘2,740,227 Operating expenses 1.912,674 1.787,903 Net earnings $1,109,692 $952,324 DISPOSITION OF NET EARNINGS. 1883. 1882. Interest „ $443,375 $327,738 Rentals 569.164 575.771 Taxes 73.173 63.673 Otlrer disbursements 20,752 28.456 $1,096.464 $905,638 Net balance .$13,228 surplus. $43,314 deficit. Net.increase, 1883 over 1882 $56,542 GENERAL BALANCE SHEET DECEMBER 31. 1883. Jiff* (7*. Cost of property $24,727,265.96 Supplies on hand for current use 244,809.56 Balances due from otherTailroad companies. etc 92.614.04 Due from United States government 15.396.92 Cash on hand, and in transit 260.933.20 Total $25,341,019.68 Liabilities. Capital stock $10,000,000.00 Bonded debt 14.137.300.00 Current vouchers 335.629.02 Bills payable 50.000.00 Accrued interest not due 222.21^5.67 Balance credit of income account 595,874.99 Total .$25,341,019.68 President Corbin states that the above exhibit gives an exact statement of their business and the present condition of the road. "We have had two very bad crops, and our earnings have been in consequence very light: but, take the two years 1883 and 1882 together, we are quite a good deal ahead—better than this statement shows, because our operating expenses cover a good many disbursements that would ordinarily go into a construction account, in case we had money for construction, which we have not. At the same time we have actually earned our interest charges for the last veaf, and the net increase in 1883 over 1882 is in excess of $50,000. There are some months, of course, during the year when we do not earn the full proportion of fixed charges, because, like all other roads, there are periods when the business is exceedingly light. Then, again, we have months when we double our fixed charges. Taking all the years to gether, however, we *havo never yet, with the exception of the one year, shown a deficit; and, if we have as good crops this year as we ought to have, and as we had in 1879, wo shall he a good many hundred thousand dollars ahead. Our property is in splendid condition, rollingstock and road-bed never better; we owe no floating debt and no car trust. All we want now is the business which ordinarily comes to us from the territory through which our road runs to make it one of the finest in this country. Ho far as its financial condition and credit are concerned, there is not a road anywhere iliat stands any better/* Plan for Keorgaiil/.ing the TANARUS., C. & St. L. New York, May 13. —The common bondholders of the Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis railroad, appointed to prepare a plain of reorganiza tion for the road, to-day submitted a report. It proposes to issue 6 per cent, first mortgage bonds on the road and its equipments, not exceeding SB,OOO per mile, from Kokomo to East St. Louis, 286 miles, amounting to $2,150,000; to issue preferred stock in exchange for the present first mortgage bonds amounting to $3,000,000, and for unpaid coupons on the same $270,000, for the mileage proportion of the debt due on bonds and interest, and also for the bondholders' mileage proportion of 25 ier cent, of the debt, and to Issue common stock for the minor securities as may be determined. The preferred stock shall have exclusive voting power until dividends have been paid on the same for three years, these dividends to he not less than 6 per cent, per annum. This plan places the control of the new corporation in the hands of the present bond holders. Mr. Austin Corbin said that his road connects with the Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis road, and he would be glad to make an offer for an alliance of the two roads, as suggested in the letter of the directors of the 1., B. Sc W. railroad. The report of the committee was adopted, and the committee authorized to prosecute the plan they recommended.

Commissioner Fink Anxious To Re Relieved. A railroad official, who returned, yesterday, from New York, states that it is generally understood in railroad circles East that Commissioner Fink will resign as commissioner of the trunkline pool, when he can do so without creating a general break in stocks. Had he carried out his intentions last week, the bears would, doubtless, have made a general onslaught upon stocks. Mr. Fink desired to sever his connection with the pool a year ago, because of his failing health, but not because of the difficulties of his position. Ho is a wealthy man. and desires to devote his time to his personal affairs. Whenever Mr. Fink's resignation is accepted, there will be some trouble in securing a successor, as the duties of the position entail eonstuut watchfulness and a temperament of unusual evenness to combat and reconcile the demands of some of the railroad gentlemen with whom he is obliged to hold official communication. The Path to Prosperity. One who is disgusted with carrying freights on the basis of 15 cents per 100 pounds from Chicago to New York, for the sake of holding intact the pool, says, in view of the inefficiency of pooling agreements, it is quite time that railroad managers should be looking about for some more effectual means of protecting their interests. And it might be well for them all seriously to consider whether they themselves are not the best judges of what their business interests require. When delegated authority, as is sometimes the case, fixes rates at a point which entails positive loss, the sooner railroad managers supersede it, and agree upon a policy which will result in giving a profit, or, at least, in paying expenses, the quicker they will return to the path of prosperity. _ Miscellaneous Notes. The New York Central is enforcing the request of the Railroad Commissioners, and are discharging all of its employes under the age of twenty-one years. Sorae’of the men who overstepped the bounds of prudence during the lute strike on the Union Pacific, and wrongfully interfered with the operation of the road, have been dropped from the rolls. The Frazer branch of* the Pennsylvania railroad was opened to Phoenixville on August 1 last. That mouth the business, freight and pas ger, was less than SI,OOO. Last month the freight and passenger business was over $112,000. A questiou in railway law was recently decided in Canada to the effect that where a railroad company has agreed for a valuable consideration to stop at a certain town, the courts will not compel a specific performance of the contract, but the town authorities may sue for damages. The Lake Shore Railroad Company has com pleted arrangements for the running of special delegate trains from Boston to Chicago. They will l>e composed of first-class Wagner sleeping and dining-cars, and will run through without clmnge. The Maine Republican delegation will havo a train to itself.-

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, ISS4.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. THE SENATE. Passage of the BUI Placing General Grant, on the Retired List. Washington, May 13. —The chair laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War recommending an appropriation of $20,000 for repairs on Jackson Barracks, New Orleans. A number of petitions were presented opposing any action by Congress that would load to the destruction of healthy competition in the telegraph business. Mr. Sherman presented a petition, numerously signed, in favor of placing General Fremont on the retired list of the army. Mr. Blair, from the committee on pensions, and by direction of that committee, reported unfavorably a bill to give a pension to General Ward B. Burnet, and submitted the dissenting views of the majority. Placed on the calendar. Nil*. Logan, from the committee on military affairs, reported favorably the hill to place General Grant on the retired list. Mr. Logan asked that the bill be put at once upon its passage. Unanimous consent was given, and the bill at once read a third time and passed without debate or remark, except that Mr. Logan said he presumed there would be no objection to it. The bill prorides that, in recognition of the distinguished services rendered the United States ty General U. S. Grant, late General of the army, he be placed on the retired list with the rank and full pay of General of the army. Mr. Harrison, from the coininittc-e on Territories, reported favorably, with amendments, the bill providing for the expenses of a commission for exploration of the Territory of Alaska. Mr. Slater, at his own request, was excused from further service on the committee on commerce, and the President of the Senato appointed Mr. Farley to the vacancy. Mr. Logan gave notice, in order, he said, that the pension committee might look into the matter, that when the Mexican soldiers’ pension bill came up for consideration, he would move to strike out the amendment of the Senate committee that provided no one should have -the benefit of the bill unless he was unable to make a living. This, Mr. Logan said, was treating them like paupers, and putting thora on the pen sion list because of their being paupers, lie was opposed to such an amendment. Mr. Williams gave notice that on Tuesday next lie would call up the bill referred to. Mr. Vance called up the resolution heretofore submitted by him, providing for an appropriation of $30,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. for the erection of a suitable monument to commemorate the landing of Sir Waltor Raleigh's expedition on Roanoake island, on or about the 4th of July, 1584. Mr. Vance said he offered the resolution in order to commemorate the landing of the first Anglo-Saxon colony on the American continent. He refused to consider the matter as one special to North Carolina. The three Stales. Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, forming the original colony of Virginia, were all directly interested, and the widening circle in the whole country. It happened, however, that the location of the commemoration Was in North Carolina. In the name of that State, therefore, always modest in matters involving self assertion, and always faithful to its duty, he asked the favorable consideration of the Senate for the resolution. .On motion of Mr. Ingalls the resolution was referred to the committee on library. Mr. Frye then called up the shipping bill. The question was on the appeal of Mr. Beck from the decision of # the Chair that a motion for a committee of conference was in order before specific disagreement by the House to the Senate amendment. Mr. Beck said the motion fora conference had been recorded in the journal in a form Somewhat different from the motion as he understood it to have been made, but the Senate having agreed to the journal entry, he thought there was not sufficient ground for an appeal. He therefore withdrew the appeal. Messrs. Sherman and Bayard opposed the mo tion tor a conference committee at this stage of the bill as a dangerous innovation. Mr. Frye defended his motion and cited precedents for it. The fact of a conference committee being appointed would not, he said, inter sere with full discussion of the bill in the House, but would put it out of power of any one member to control the bill by interposing objection to its consideration. There were 136 bills on the Speaker’s table to precede this, and unless the privileges of a conference committee could go with the bill to the House, the bill would be killed; with a conference committee a majority could move it on. It was an important bill, lie said, and he hoped nothing would be left undone that would enable tlie~ bill to be brought up and considered by the House of Rep resentatives. The motion for a conference was agreed to by a yea and nay vote—yeas 28. navs 17. Mr. Sherman was the only Republican who voted nay. Os the Democrats, Messrs. Brown, Garland. Gorman and Voorhees voted with the majority. The Chair appointed a^conforces on the part of the Senate, Messrs. Frye, Miller, of New York, and Vest. The Senate then resumed consideration of The Indian appropriation bill, and the provisions for education of Indians were debated at considerable length by Messrs. Dawes. Plumb and l>olph. On reaching the amendment proposed by the committee on appropriations striking out the $4,000 appropriated by the House for the Chero-, kees of North Carolina, Messrs. Vance and Ran * som expressed the hope that the amendment would not be agreed to. Mr. Dawes said he had no objection to the restoration of the item. Mr. Cockrell inquired how it was that the committee on appropriations came to make “such an infamous blunder” as to strike out a provision which they were willing to see restored without, a word of defense of their action. Mr. Dawes said that since the amendment had been agreed on by the committee further information had been received making it necessary to restore the item to the bill, which was done. On the question of agreeing to the amendment proposed ny the committee (striking out the item) considerable merriment was created at tlie expense of Mr. Ransom, who (the vote being viva voce) emphasized his dissent from the committee’s recommendation by announcing his vote twico in a voice of startling loudness. The President of the Senate laughingly an nounced that “somebody had repeated. ” The i- ys were declared to have it, and the Senate restored the item. The bill was proceeded with, completed and passed as amended, and the Senate adjourned. Before adjournment, the Chair laid before the Senate the Utah bill, and Mi-. Blair gave notice that after the morning business to-morrow he would call up the House bill to establish a bureau of labor statistics.

THE HOIT.SE. Passage of the Hill Hiving Alaska a Civil Gov eminent. Wash tso ton, May 13.—Mr. Post submitted the views of the minority of the committee on Pacific railroads on the bill to amend the Thurman sinking fund act. Placed on the House calendar. The House went into committee of the whole. Mr. Cox, of New York, in the chair, on the bill providing a civil government for the Territory of Alaska. After a short disenssion the committee rose, and the bill was passed without amendment. As it is a Senate bill, it now requires but the approval of the President to become law. The bill provides that the Territory of Alaska shall constitute a civil and judicial district, the temporary seat of government of which is established at Sitka. A Governor shall be appointed, with authority to see that laws enacted for the district are enforced, and who shall be, ex officio, commander in-chief of the militia, with power to call it out when notes sary to the due execution of law. A clerk, a district attorney and a marshal are also pro vidod for. and authority given for the appointment of four commissioners, with powers of jurisdiction of commissioners of 1 ’nitcd States circuit courts. The general laws of the State of Oregon are declared to be the laws of tlio dis

triet. so far as the same may he applicable. These officers shall be appointed for a term of four years, and shall receive the following salaries: Governor. $3,000; district attorney. $2,500; marshal, $2,300; judge. $3,000; clerk. $2,500. The next measure considered whs Townshend's bill providing that hereafter no Territory shall rorm a constitution, or apply for admission into the Union ms a State until it shall contain a permanent population equal to that required in a congressionsl district, in order to entitle it to representation in the House. Mr. Kasson criticised the hill as useless and in violation of the spirit of the Constitution, in that it denied to the people of the Territories the right of petition in its highest form. Mr. Cox, of New York, favored the bill, be cause it would have moral emphasis.and because it was nothing bnt a fair, just restriction on the right of popular or so natter sovereignty. Mr. Brents protested against the bill as working injustice to the people of the Territories. Mr. Keifer opposed it as unconstitutional. Mr. Hon* characterized it as nothing but buncombe. Mr. Hammond thought it an unwise and futile attempt, by this Congress, to bind another, and Mr. Potter expressed himself in favor of the bill. It was, he thought, time for Congress to announce that it was the policy of the country that the people of the great States were no longer to be overridden by the admission of States on the frontier when they had population insufficient to make one respectable town in one of the older States Air. Townsliend said the object of the bill was to inform the Territories that until they attained their majority they could not enter into their inheritance. Air. Hammond moved to lay the bill on the table, which was agreed to—lo 9to 105. A bill was passed extending the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in Wyoming and providing that hereafter the Legislature of Dakota shall consist of twenty-four members of the Council and forty-eight members of the House. Adjourned. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Senator Harrison in Ohio. To the Edit©** of the Indianapolis Journal: I believe the nomination of General Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, for President by the Republican convention in Chicago, HI., in June, would be enthusiastically ratified by the people at the polls in November. I had the honor to serve with General Harrison for three years in the army, and have watched his career for nearly twenty years since. lam not a politician, and have no personal interest in his nomination. I name him, because I think him eminently fitted to he President of the United States. The fact that his grandfather was President has had its influence in shaping his reading and thinking, and preparing him for the highest civil duties. He has enjoyed the advantage of a thorough college training, of wide reading, and of varied acquaintance of men. He entertains liberal and just views of national questions. He is. and has long been, recognized as one of the ablest lawyers in Indianapolis, a city noted for its legal talent. When Governor Aforton died the Republicans of Indiana turned instinctively to General Harrison as their leader. He has not disappointed them. He has served not only his party but also bis country well. His personal character is above reproach. A Christian man without bigotry, a gentleman of refined manners, ho will be able to carfy to the office of President the respect and the confidence of all classes of people. Arthur cannot cany Ohio, neither can Blaine. Edmunds, Lincoln, Sherman, nor Logan. General Harrison can carry his native State of Ohio by 40,060 majority, and perhaps double that number. The State of Indiana should furnish the next President. Hurrah for Tippecanoe, jr. James M. Jones. CirolevilLe, 0.. May 12.

Mr. Wesley and “Ilisliop w Coke. To tlic* Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I am requested by your correspondent, in yesterday's issue, to answer some questions concerning the ordination of Dr. Coke to the office of bishop by Mr. Wesley, to which I made reference in my sermon on American Methodism last Sabbath morning. First—“ When and where did Mr. Wesley ordain Dr. Coke bishop?” Tire following is the letter of ordination which Mr. Wesley gave to Dr. Coke: To all to whom these presents shall come, John Wesley, late Fellow of Lincoln Golloge. in Oxford, presbyter of the Church of England, sendeth greeting: Know all men, that I. John Wesley, think myself to be providentially called at this time to set apart some persons for the work of the ministry in America, and. therefore, under the protection of Almighty God. and with a single eye to his glory, I have this day set apart as a superintendent, bv the imposition of hands, aiid prayer (being assisted b\ other ordained ministers) Thomas Coke, doctor of civil law, a presbyter of the Church of England, and a man whom I judge to be well qualified for that great work. And Ido hereby recommend him to all whom it may concern as a fit person to preside over the flock of Christ. In testimony whereof T have set my seal, this second day of September, in the vCftr of’our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four. John* Wksley. The place of Dr. Coke’s ordination was England. The time is given in Mr. Wesley’s letter as Sept. 2, 1784. This letter is published in Wesley's works (Vov. vii, page 1311): also, in Dr. Bangs’s “History of the M. K. Church’’ (Vol. I, page 155). Mr. Wesley used the Word superintendent in preference to the word bishop, but the Methodist Episcopal Church prefers tin* word bishop. (See Discipline of M. E. Church, page 313, section 41>7.) Secondly—“By what authority did he undertake to ordain a bishop?’’ • According to a deliberate conclusion reached by Mr. Wesley, in mature years, that bishops and presbyters, or elders, were of the same order in the ministry. The episcopacy of Methodism does not maintain the apostolic succession Its simple idea is that certain elders are chosen from the body of the presbyters to superintend the church, and are called bishops, or superintendents. The bishops, in virtue of their functions, are naturally above their brethren. With regard to the ordinary functions of the ministry, they do not differ from other ministers, but extraordinary functions, such as ordaining, presiding in assemblies, and the like, are devolved upon them by their brethren, and exercised by them exclusively, and of right—right, not divine, but ecclesiastical and human, found ed upon the will of the highest representative body of the church. Accordingly, the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church are elected by the General Conference for life, and are ordained according to a special form. (See Discipline, chapter iii.) As the Methodist Episcopal Church does not believe in these orders in the ministry, in setting apart presbyters to the office of bishop the word consecration is preferred to ordination. Hence, we say that Mr. Wesley did not only “undertake” what he had no right to do, but that he did ordain Dr. Coke, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. There is hardly a fact in the history of our country that is supported by more conclusive evidence than that John Wesley, after mature deliberation, sot apart by solemn prayer and the imposition of hands, Dr. Coke to the episcopal office, and it is equally clear that Bishop Coke proceeded without loss of time to discharge the functions of that office with the approval and co-operation of the Methodists of the United States. Thirdly—“ Was Wesley a bishop? If not, how could he give an office he did not possess?” Mr. Wesley was not a bishop according to high church pretensions, but he believed himself to be a “scriptural bishop: as much so as any man in England or Europe. v lie was an ordained presbyter according to the New Testament, of equal rank in the ministry with a bishop; and as he did not regard bishops as the successors of the apostles, lie preceded by the authority of the Scriptures, as he understood them, to ordain Dr. Coke bishop. Ho had been educated to a belief in the doctrine of apostolical succession, but a careful examination of the Scriptures led Mr. Wesley to conclude that among all the fabulous theories which Romo has palmed upon the world there is hardly one that is more groundless than this claim of succession as taught by high church men ol England and the United States. A. Makink. Young Temperance Workers. The Young People’s Christian Temperance Union met in the Abbott Block last evening, with a good attendance, and held an interestinur meeting. Delegates were appointed to the State con-

vention, as follows: Miss Hay. Miss Sabine. Miss Eurich, Miss Cole and Mr. Gardiner. Arrange incuts were made, also, for a social to be held soon. Will Fill tlie Customary Want, The Journal Company, of Fort Wayne, formed for the purpose of publishing a daily and weekly Democratic newspaper, was incorporated under State laws yesterday. The capital stock is $6,000, anil the directors are C\ A. Zollinger, Fred C. Boltz, AI. V. B. Spencer, Samel Miller, J. B. Neizer, John M. Taylor and S. S. Null. Counterfeiters Plead Guilty. Three of the counterfeiters indicted by tho federal grand jury—John Sprague and James Hart, of Vincennes, and John Wilson, of Carlisle—yesterday pleaded guilty to the charges. They will be sentenced after the criminal docket has been disposed of. The counterfeiting cases will all be tried during this and next week. The Noble Ship. Stanch of timber, true of helm. Strong and grand and stately Into harbor sails the ship, Bravely and sedately. Storms have beat, and foes assailed But she rose .above them— Noble ships that sail our seas! Who can help but love them ? Thus through storms and thus through foes Sozodont has ridden. And to share her benefits, All the world is bidden. The Sea of Oblivion Would long since have swallowed up Sozodont in common with so many forgotten tooth pastes and dentifrices, did not the experience of a whole nation prove that it possesses signal advantages. It thoroughly cleans the teeth, dissolving and removing their impurities: it revives their fading whiteness and strengthens their relaxing hold upon their sockets: it renders colorless, ulcerated gums hard and healthy; and besides neutralizing an unsavory breath, invests it with its own fragrance. “Will tho coming man smoke ?" was settled by Prof. Fisk in hi a charming pamphlet. Ho says, moreover, that tlie rational way to use tobacco is through the pipe. All agree that only the best tobacco should be used. Which is the best! That to which Nature has contributed tho most exquisite flavors. Blackwell’s Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco fills the bill completely. Nearly tWo-thirda of all the tobacco grown on the Golden Tobacco belt of North Carolina goes into the manufactory of Blackwell, at Durham. They buy the pick of—the entire section. Hence Uji j Blackwell’s Bull Durham KBjLa Smoking Tobacco is the best of that tobacco. Don’t l|9Mr be deceived when you buy. The Durham Bull fm Blsckwell’s Genuine Bull Durham MB is the choice of all judges of

L** of PAIN RHEUMATISM and NEURALGIA have long enough ran riot in the human system. They have tormented the human family and defied the medical faculty; from time out of memory they ha ve corrupted the blood, demoralized the Joints, vexed the nerves, agonized the muscles and racked the brain with wearying pain. “Athlophoros” Is the enemy of Rheumatism and Neuralgia, repairs their damages, renews the Wood, eases the Joints, calms the nerves, soothes tho muscles, gives rest and jteace to the troubled brain, and ensures delightful sleep. “ ATHI.OPHORO3 ” is anew remedy, but it lias been abundantly tried. From far ami near come testimonials from well-known persons who had long been sufferers. It has turned their diseases out. It has cured thorn. That is all,—and that is enough. “ Atiilopiioros” can do for you what it has done for those sufferers. It can drive out your Rheumatism and Neuralgia, and will do so if you give it a fair trial. “ Atulophoros ” has by this time had such a Rood trial all over the country that its true work is known, and its true character proved. “ Atd nopHouos ” means “Prize-Bearer;" ** Victor; ” " Conqueror." 11 carries off the prize as Victor over the attacks of those terrible maladies, and Conqueror of the frightful agonies their victims havo endured. Not a mere teni|K>rary relief, but a permanent, enduring, and triumphant cure. If you cannotget Ath i.opho rob 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 ho hasn’t It, do not be persuaded to try something else, but order at once from us as directed. ATHLOPHOROS CO., 112 WALL ST., NEW YORK. Regeneration for 1 @2 EaV, enfeebled systems, UU3 1 kl 1 EKC-dcriug from a gen f|v CELEBRATES want, of tone, ami P usual c<->ueomi-w Mon of this grand re qnirennut which W O muke>. Uostetter’s gpgrfrf 5 g Stomach Bitters so B E WB " effective.as an iuvigorant For sale by all druggists U,l< l dealers generally. 23 West Mary laud street, Indianapolis. WWM—HMWHMTAii WiIWMiH i 11 W l I H'ImfBWRPS ■JJ'XITKD STATES MARSHAL’S SALE. By virtue of an order of the Circuit Court of tin* United Statos for the District of Indiana, made and entered on the lOth day of May. 1884, in the case of James Bon bright vs. Charles L. Ratliff et al., I will expose at public sale to the highest bidder, on Tues dov, the 2<th day of May. A. 1)., ISB4, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m. of said day, at Marion. Grant county, Indiana, the following described property, in bulk, to-wit: A stock of merchandise, consisting of dry goods, carpets, furnishing goods, jewelrv, etc., and the fixtures belonging t<> said Ratliff et al. Taken as the property of Charles L. Ratliff’ et al. at the suit of James Bonbright et al. Said sale to be made for cash, without any relief from valuation or appraisement laws. IIOBT. S. FOSTER. l r . S. Marshal. District of Indiana. Indianapolis, Tnd.. May 10. A. D 1881. Hooker A Hatch, Attorneys for Platutiff.

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