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printed. The management of the construction of tho monument was then turned over to a monument commission of five members, consisting ?? the President of the United States, the chief of engineers, the first vice president of the monument society, the architect of the Capitol and the supervising architect of the treasury. At the instance of the commission, the President, in June. 1878. detailed ('ol. (ftsey and Capt. George W. Davis of the engineer corns as engineer and assistant engineer. respectively, of the monument. In a recent interview, Col. Casey, the engineer in charge of the work, gave the following interesting facts: “We never had any casualties here,” said he, explaining the elevator and hoisting machinery. •'A crowbar fell from the top a year ago, but hit nothing but the woodon floor below. Ono of these elevator sleeves fell, striking from ono brace of the elevator to another; one barely missed a lady in a party waiting to come up. We stretched a net around the top to eatcli any of the workmen who might fall, aud twice it has saved life. Our men take all the chances up there, five hundred feet above the ground, that your brick mason would ten feed from the ground. Admiral Rogers climbed up to the highest course the other day and found a man walking along the narrow edge of a stone as unconcerned as if it were on the ground. The men seemed to have no thought of the height—work, elrnt, joke, and laugh as if they were on the ground. Sometimes stone-laying goes on when the etonds and fogs obscure the city below. ‘‘Every foot of this interior is familiar to us who have worked here so long. You can easily tell how high you are at. any trine by noticing the numbers on the iron beams of the elevator. We are passing No. .*l2 and are 320 feet from the ground. The beams are ten feet apart. The masonry on the lower part of tho monument was a coarse rubble. Some of the stones are ridiculously small —not four inches thick or a foot long sometimes. In order to make that wall look decent vre shall plaster it. This will keep the moisture that collects from running into the masonry, and so will protect the work. From where I began the whole interior wall is as nicely faced as the exterior, aud tho same marble was for the most part used. Some granite was used. “One of the most interesting things we have done has been to keep accurate data, every morning and night since wo began of any displacement in the walls of the monument, we suspended from various heights—l3o. 240, 320 and 400 feet —cords with plumb weights at the lower end. These weights hang in some slowly resisting substance like molasses or glycerine. With a straight-edge at night we note where the cord is. ajid again iu the morning. Thus tor six years we have kept data, in books for the purpose, of the movement of the monument. The only cause of displacement is the expansion and contraction of the walls under the heat of the sun. In the winter, for instance, the south wall shows greater movement than the other sides. You can see that there has been good stone-cutting throughout, from the fine joints and perfectly mathematical fitting of theso interior stones. The “bond,” as tlie masons call it. by which the inner and outer face of the walls are held together, is what is called in the books the Flemish bond —one stone lengthwise in the face of the wall, aud then, one stone running back through tho wall, binding it all together. This bond runs through the whole mwmment, and the result is tho strongest masonry attainable.” “We mark every stone,” said Captain. Davis, the assistant engineer, “so we know just where it is to go. For instance, the courses in the cap are lettered, and we are now laying H. The capstone is N. So vre have 1, K, L, and M yet to lay. In H there are two stones on each side of the square—eight in all. This one is the second to be laid in that eouise. It is cut to fit the corner, and is beveled, you see. There are fortyfour stones more to lay. If we have good weather and are ordinarily successful we lay four stones in a day. I think dial unless we have more difficulty chan I foresee in laying the capstone We shall lay every stone in ten days. Everything is ready to put the cap in place. We shall put a quadripod with legs sixty feet long, of timbers ten inches square, on the cap, each leg running down over the face of one of the pyramidal sides. Meeting at the top. they will form a very strong support, with which we can hoist the cap into place. We shall suspend the capstone, lay all the courses below, and then let the cap down into place to bind the whole together. There will be slight scaffolding around tho cap, which we shall cut away and take in through tho windows below. The onK way to remove the heavy timbers we hareused at the top of the monument is to saw them up and take them down on the elevator.” €olone4 Casey showed how lie should finish the windows: “That doorway there for the stones to pass out on the scaffold will not be there when we finish up. We shall set a stone in there. These windows on ouch side will be chiseled off smoothly, and put in the wall at the side. I shall set a strong iron bar, swinging in a socket like the old-fashioned cranes in our grandfathers' fire places. At the outer end of the iron bar will hang a marble slab, nicely fin ished. to fit into these windows. The slab will swing around, and shut snugly in, and close the window rain-tight- These windows are two feet wide by eighteen inches high. The sides, you see. are about five inches thick, so you can look out easily. It is not like reaching out through a brick wall. “Let me show you how we make joints,** continued tho Colonel. “Her© are two stones joining on the perpendicular edges, with about an eighth of an inch space between. Down the edges of each is a groove, an inch and a half deep and three quarters of an inch wide. When the two stones are put in place the grooves are exactly opposite, and form one channel down into the wall. Now we slip a tongue of phosphor bronze down into this double groove, and then calk in back of it with Portland cement. The bronze will not corrode, turns water perfectly, and the cement binds tho stones together firmly. Tho stones on the face of the monument are five Inches thick at the thinnest edge. At tho lower edge they are thicker, in order to be bound mio the wall. The horizontal edge 9 are beveled and grooved so as to sit firmly on each other. They are laid in type metal, which, as you know, is not affected by water." '{’here is abundant room at the top of tho monument The shaft is thirty-five feet square on the outside and about thirty square on the inside. Beginning thirty feet below the floor are huge stone braces running up eighty feet and minting iu a key stone up in the pyramidal cap. These braces are eighteen inches thick and swing upward in a graceful curve. At the widest place in the brace it is six feet from the inner face to the wall of the monument There .ere three braces on each side of the shaft, aud those next the corners form four snug little foursided rooms. At ono time there were 120 marble-cutters and laborers of all kinds at work on the monument A year ago the pay-roll monthly for labor on the monument was about $3,509. A three-story building adjoining the Windsor building, used by the War Department, is used by tho monument officers. Here are models of all sorts showing comparative heights of the tallest structurcs’in the world. Our monument will be 555 feet high; Strasborg Cathedral is IG8; Cologne Cathedral, 511. St. Peters, at librae, 448. The pyramids are 100 feet lower. One of the most remarkable things about the monument is the fact that Colonel Casey pat a new foundation under the pile when it wasr 174 feet high, before ho would begin stone-laying at the top. The earth was taken away and the old foundation, eighty feet square, was removed. Had'the monument been built on it the only result would have been that it would have sunk down into the soft earth underneath. Digging down, Colonel Casey took out everything but a core of earth forty-four feet square under the monument, having put timbers to hold the weight above. He then built a foundation 12G feet square and thirteen feet deep. The whole weight on that foundation now is 81.380 tons. It is a wonderful piece of engineering, that few men would have undertaken, and fewer still would have succeeded in. When tho monument is done there will boa good many contributed stones to be placed in the interior walls. They aro now in a building called the lapidarium. Some are tasteful in de sign and appropriate in language. Others are plain Yankee froth and impudence, advertising quarr.es. and not a few are puffs of public functionaries. whose names are cut big on their - face. Som** of them arc curious. Ono broad slab is engraved in Chinese; one is in Turkish, from tho Sultan. The Grecian islands of Paros and Ni.yos, famed for their marble, sent two stories. Tho most interesting is one big slab of granite, inscribed: “From Braddoek’s Field.” All the States and most of the Territories are represented. A stone for Montana is being cut now on Capitol Hill. All those that should go into the monument, says Calonel Casey, will be into places cut for them on the interior walls. Tito staircase will make it easy to read them, if tuyonc wants to spend half au hour iu aaceud-

ing stop by step. Tliis staircase is to be finished with iron risers instead of wooden, and. with incidental work necessary to be done, will cost #25,000. It is a noteworthy fact that in the work on the monument no person has been killed or seriously injured. The government lias appropriated in all #OOO,000 for the work. The total cost of the com pleted structure will be over* million and a half of dollars. BUSINESS AND WAGES. Additional Particular* of tlir. Failure of Kaymer, Graves & Cos. Toi.ki.o, Dec. G.—Tho Kaymer, Graves & Cos. failure is still a topic of much discussion, and many conflicting rumors are in circulation. The firm is proparing a detailed statement of assets and liabilities, which will not be ready for several days. The firm claims uot to have guaranteed loans made by them, but has corns into possession of large blocks of real estate which, under long continued business depression, now rate much lower than their real value, so that, while the real estate was ample security when the obligation was made, it is now insufficient, if forced on the market. Tire business public hero agree that the firm did a safe business, taking no extraordinary risks, and the opinion is ex pressed that if matters be so arranged as to avoid forced sales of the firm's holdings, the assets will be ample to cover all liabilities. They controlled one of the principal lines of street railway in this city, and a largo cotton mill at South Toledo. Wages of Glass-Workers. Whebi.xmi, Dec. 6.—Notices were posted today in the five flint-glass manufactories at Bellair e. tho two at Bridgeport and tho three at Martin's Ferry, to the effect that, Dec. 12, all work of pressers and finishers would be paid for by the piece and at the Pittsburg rates._ This amounts to a reduction of from 25 to 75 cents per 600 pieces of ware. The manufacturers say that, if the terms proposed to-day are not accepted by Dec 12, the bars will be drawn in all the fnnwes, and work suspended indefinitely. A meeting of the district! union flint-glass-workers. representing factories in eastern Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, was held here this evening, and it was resolved to resist the proposed reduction in tbe factories of Bellaire, Martin’s Ferry and Bridgeport. Assurances were received from unions in all parts of the country that assistance would be afforded the men in remaining out against the reduction. No strike or lock out is expected in this city, as the factories here refused to go into the movement for a reduction. Miners for the Hacking Valley. PiTfSßtntu, Dec. 6.—A. W. McCracken, superintendent of the Hocking Valley Coal Mining Company, is in the city for the purpose of securing men to fill the places of the strikers. Two hundred miners have already gone from this vicinity, and as many more will be sent within the next few days, fifty leaving to night. Superintendent McCracken says they have eighteen hundred men now at work,, and expect to have two mines running full before the end of next week. At the present rate he says the men average $73.50 per month. Relief from Unexpected Quarters, Nei.soxvii.i.e, Dec. 6. —Relief for the destitute miners is now coming from quarters wholly unlooked for. The cowboys of Texas have sent $l5O to the central relief committee. Frank West and Philip Smith have been arrested for assault with intent to kill George Bamieutt, one of the old miners who went to work against instructions. All is reported quiet Grier Bros. Will Resume. St. Lotus, Dec. G.—Grier Bros., who failed two or three weeks ago, will resume business on Monday next, under the name of the Grier Commission Cos., with a cash capital of $50,000. The new business will have no connection with the olu, but General Grier says he will pay all creditors of Grier Bros, one hundred cents on the dollar. Bayvlew Mills All Idle. Milwaukee, Dec. G.—The Merchant mills at Bayview were shut down, to-night, in consequence of overproduction and want of orders. The entire rolling-mill property at Bayview is now idlo, nnd will so remain until business warrants a resumption. Fourteen hundred men are made idla by, the shut-down. Too Free with Tlieir Indorsements. Mechanicsiujbo, o.„Dec. o.—John C. Baker and J. N. Shaul, leading business men, have as signed, in consequence of their indorsements for the Mechanicsburg Machine Cos., which has assigned with liabilities probably reaching $150,000, and nominal assets of SIOO,OOO. Failures in Canada. Toronto, Dec. o.—Clinton E. Brush & Bro., wholesale dealers in buttons and dress trimmings, have suspended. Liabilities, $05,000; assets, $30,000. Barber, Warner & Cos., wholesale millinery dealers, have suspended. Inabilities heavy. A Dry-Goods Failure. BavCitv; Micll., Dec. 6.—F. J. fifarontate, a dry-goods merchant of this city, tailed this morning. Liabilities, $35,000: assets, $25,000. A Relative Who Wants a Place. Pine Bluff, Ark., Dec: 6.—A petition is in circulation here requesting the appointment of Septimus Cleveland as postmaster of Pino Bluff, in the event of vacancy in the office. The present incumbent is ex-Congressman A A. Rogers, recently defeated for Congreßs in the Third Arkansas District by tho Hon. Clinton Breckinridge. It is thought President Arthur will reappoint Rogers. Cleveland is a cousin of the Presidentelect, and is a prominent merchant. _ Indications. War Department. i Office or the Chief Shixai, Officer, v Washington, Deo. 7. la. m. ) For Tennessee and tho Ohio Valley—Fair weather, lower temperature, north to west winds. For the tipper Lake Region—Cloudy weather, loeal rains or snows, lower temperature, northerly winds, higher barometer. State Woman Suffrage Meeting. Those attending the meeting of tbe Indiana Woman Suffrage Association, at Kokomo, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, will be passed over the Wabash, St: Louis & Pacific route at one and one-third fare. Full fare should be paid going, and certificates will be issued at the meeting entitling the ladder to, tlie reduction on return. Legislative work and other Important business will be considered at this meeting, and all suffragists are cordially invited to be present. Hospitality will be extended to all who can go. The convention will be welcomed by Rev. Mr. McCune, of Kokomo, and the response will lie given by Miss Mary D. Naylor, of this city. Senator Foulke, Mrs. Mary E. Ilaggort, Dr. Mary F. Thomas, Mrs. Z. G. Wallace, Mrs. Laura Sandefur, and other speakers and workers are expected to attend. Should Show the Cows Somo Attention. It seems to be well settled, that the County Commissioners have no objection to co-vs makings pasture of tbe court-house square, .and there are generally a dozen or more of them grazing about the temple of justice. It was quite unpleasant for them yesterday afternoon, on account of the incessant raiu, but in spite of this fact little attention was paid by tho board tb the suggestion of the reporter, that it would be a delicate attention on their part to detail some of tbe superfluous janitors about the building to go out and bold umbrellas over tbe cows, so that they might accumulate vegetable nutriment with comparative eomfotW

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1884.

A MARTYR TO THOSE HE LOVED. A Hitherto Unwritten Chapter in the History of Dr. I)e Castro, a Recent Suicide. On last Sunday night Dr. DeCastro, an Italian, committed suicide at Newark, N. J., and left a will which provided that his body should be dissected, and his skeleton sent to a museum, with tho skull inscribed: “This is the skeleton of Dr.F. De Castro, a great traveler and linguist, who died as a martyr to those he loved. ” To those who knew the man’s history that inscription had more than a passing significance, for he wae. a person who had suffered greatly, in the later years of his life, chiefly because of his own transgressions. He had bad a stormy life, and somo of the principal events in it were told to a Journal reporter, yesterday, by a gentleman of this city, who had accidentally come into possession of the facts narrated. De Castro was born in Italy about fifty years ago. Ho came of a noble family and was himself a baron. Ho came to America about twelve years ago and lived in various parts of tho country, finally settling down in Chicago. He was a man of striking personal appearance, fine address and extended attainments, and he was stum received in the representative society of the city. Etentually he married a Mis* Spencer, a lovely lady, whose father was then mayor of the city. Two children were born to them, and their domestic relations were tranquil and happy. Mr. nnd Mrs. Spencer lived in one of tho suburbs of the city, and about three years ago, one day, there came to their home an Italian woman, ragged and weary, who asked for Do Castro. “What do you want with him?" inquired Mrs Spencer. “What do I want with him? What should a woman want with a man who is her husband, and whom she has not seen for years?" She went on to tell that she had beeu'married to De Castro in Italy, and that eight years before ho had left her and come to this country, promising to come back when he bad made money for them to live upon. For eight long years, she said, she had patiently waited for his return, expecting him upon every steamer, for he frequently wrote that he would le hock in a few weeks. At lost she could wait no longer, aud she found means to come to America in search of him. When she had finished her story and showed her marriage certificate, Mrs. Spencer took her in the family carriage and drove to tho city, to De Castro's office. When the injured wife stood before him he turned pale, staggered and conld say nothing but “My God, it is no use, it is no use!” He acknowledged the truth, and not desiriog the scandal to become public, Mrs. Spencer did not prosecute him, but contented herself with quietly getting a divorce for her daughter. De Castro disappeared, and it was thought that he had gone back to Italy with his first wife. Many months elapsed, when ono jmorning a son of Mr; Spencer’s, who had occasion to rise very early, stepped out into the yard before it was yet light. He saw a man skulking about tho grounds,"caught him and demanded to know his business. It was DsCastro; but so changed as to be scarcely recognizable, for he was dressed in rags, and his face showed evidences of deep sorrow and suffering. “Kill me if you want to." he said. “I don't deserve to live and I don't care to. I loved your sister. I love her yet: and ever since I was driven away from her I have been walking around this house all through every night, watching the fight in her window and occasionally catching a glimpse of her face. Winter and summer I have been here. I did not dare to speak to her. I only wanted to see her and be near her, and now I suppose 1 must go away.” And he did. He was seen no more in Chicago afterwards His second wife died of grief, and he drifted to the East and earned enough to subsist upon by writing for the papers, for he was a learned man and spoke fourteen languages. He became very much dissipated, and nothing was-heard of him by his former friends until last week, and then they learned that, unable to bear his burdens longer, he had killed himself. “A martyr to those he loved.”' RAILWAY GOSBIP. John Maguiro has been appointed agent of the American Express at Attica, Ind. M. Mounts, trainmaster of tho C., H. & 1.,, isspending Sunday with his family, at Morrow, Q. H. G Diehl, general freight agent of the L, B. & W., is expected homo from New York this morning General Passenger Agent Baldwin, of the L., N. A. & C., is so ill as to be unable to attend to hi* usual duties Chief Engineer Gibbons, of tho Vandaiia, who has been away on a pleasure trip for somo thirty days, is at his post again J 1 R. Dillon, a; prominent railroad man and financier, says he doubts if,, three years hence, the system of ruilroad pools will bo in existence. Geo. Bender, general superintendent of tbKentucky Central road, came up from Cinch: nati last evening to spend the Sabbath with h.aged mother. Geo. S. Daniels, of Boston, Mass., secretary of the Dayton & Ironton road, is in the city conl-r----ing with Manager Henderson regarding the .n----terest of the road. “The United States Express Company,” says tho Attica Ledger, “On Monday l ist withdrew its agent at this point, after doing business here twenty-eight continuous years.” W. F. Snyder, who, for some time past. hs represented the passenger department of the Bee-line in the Southwest, has- been transferred to the West,, with heaqnartera at Kansas City. L. N. Andrews, agent of the Wabash at- Peru, Ind., was in the city yt Uerday, calling on oldtime friends, who hardly knew him when attired in the uniform ag- atsof the Wabash are now required to wear. The much slandered railroad oating-house, art Butler, on the Wal ash road, lias changed ownership. George E. Boots, an old railroader, has taken it, and already the change is being favora bly commented upon: On Dec. 1, C. C. Peirce commenced his twentyfirst year as agent of the Merchants' Dispatch. It is admitted, without hesitation, that ho is one of tho hardest-working,, square dealing line agents in the country. Lemuel Ward, American, Express messenger, has been running out of Indianapolis twentytwo vears and is now tbe oldest messengor running from this city. For twelve years -past his run has been between Indianapolis and Dayton, Ohio. A former general superintendent of the Wabash, who commanded* handsome salary, is now so short of funds that employes on the Wabash svstem are contributing money to make him up a handsome purse. On one of the shorter divis ions the employe* have contributed to the purse SOOO. Conductor A. S. Patton, who has been running a passenger train on the Illinois Central for thirty years, will bo seventy years old in March, 1885, when he expects to quit railroading. During Iris long career as a conductor not a single passenger on his train Has been killed or injured. Tho joint executive committee aud Arbitrator Cooley, of the trank-line pool, have been in session for the past three days. The Grand Trunk has been presenting its side of the case in the matter of. re-awarding percentages. This mat. ter is still pending, and tho other roads will present their sides. The management of the Pennsylvania road is no respecter of persons or departments. There are 720 employes in the general office, and 10 per cent, of this number will be discharged. It is furtner ordered that those remaining shall work an additional hour each day, or from !i A. m. to 5 i*. M., instead of from Oto 4, as heretofore. A Vandaiia trainman relates the circumstance of the killing of a brakeman named Black, at Crawfordsvilie, on Tuesday, in a thrilling manner. Black was braking on an 1., B. & W. train. While coupling cars the Vandaiia man sw him trip and fall under the: wheels, tho grinding monsters cutting off both hi*, limbs abonce. The poor unfortunate shrieked in agony, and exclaimed: “My, God, I will never be any good on earth again.” Then with a superhuman effort.

he cast himself under the still moving train, the wheels passing over his body and killing him instantly. E. D. Carter, Vandaiia master car builder, and his wife have gone to Los Angeles, Cal., where ha will spend the winter in quest of health, returning in the spring. Mr. Carter is ono of the oldest and most highly-valued men in the service of the Vandaiia, and’he takes with him the best wishes for his recovery of a large circle of friends, in addition to those of the officers and employes of tho road. The Grand Trunk Railway Insurance and Provident Society has elected officers as follows: President, Joseph Hickson; vice-president, 1,. J. Sergeant; secretary and treasurer, H. B. Moore. Tho rules provide that each member is to pay thirty-five cents per mouth, except conductors, train baggagemen, brakemen, enginedrivers. firemen, yardmen, couplers and switchmen, who shall pay forty-three cents per month. It is understood that 11. R. Duval, lato general manager of the Erie lines, has under consideration tlie accepting of an important position on the Baltimore & Ohio road. Possibly he will be successor to late Division Superintendent King, of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Mr. King is at present in Baltimore, where he is engaged in business connected witli tbe assumption of his new duties as second vice-president of tho Baltimore & Ohio. E. B. Thomas, general manager of t.’m Beelino system, his wife and two daughters, and Dr. Btreator, his father-in-law. have gone to California, to bo absent about six or eight weeks. Mr. Thomas goesfortho benefit of his health. Few railroad officials work as untiringly as has Mr. Thomas. For a few years past he lias been on the rood tine greater part of tho time, and has traveled on an average .)0,000 miles per year in the performance of his duties. Charles G. Lincoln, the newly-elected treasurer of the Erie, on the day after the meeting went to the Erie office, and, inquiring his way to the treasurer’s rooms, entered them and introduced himself. Ho spent the day in overhauling the securities in the treasury. He is a cold, sluggish, methodical man, never disturbed and always whirl of Wall street he may be picked out of tho throng by his slow walk and abstracted manner. The Union Pacific railroad people have arrived at the conclusion that they want a share of Pittsburg shipping business aside from what they get from the Middle States and Western railroad agents. The increased traffic to California by way of the competing Pacific routes lias induced them to become enterprising, and as a consequence John L, Gamer, chief clerk to Division Agent Shipley, of the Pennsylvania company, has been appointed their representative at Pittsburg. A. A. Talmage, general manager of the Wabash system, receives a salary of $25,000 a year, and baa a guarantee from tho owners of the property and tho receivers, as well, that he shall hold his position for five years. The chief reason for Mr. Talmage wishing a guarantee for five years was that he wished time to place the road well upon its feet before any change could be called. Some nine months havo now passed since he assumed the duties of the position, and already 75 per coat, of the main fine track is in as fine condition as 95 per cent of the Western roads, and before bis first year passes the entire main line will 1 be. Meantime marked improvement is notieeable on the less important divisions, and it is evident on all sides that before his term of service expires, the Wabash road will be second to none west of the Alleghenies Joshua Staples, formerly chief engineer of the Vandaiia system, and who is rather an eccentric individual, was asked by the Mc.Keen syudicate a few days before they purchased the then Logansport, Crawfordsvilie & Southwestern road, which was nearly three years ago, to make an inspection trip over it. Having heard so much of its wretched condition, he took tbe precautions to take out an accident policy of $5,600 before riding over the road. A few days later the McKeen syndicate purchased tlie property, and asked him to go over the road a second time and see what improvements were needed to make it a first-class road. This time he took out an accident policy for SII,OOO, and insisted upon his assistant taking a policy for SO,OOO, which he did. The en terprising syndicate which purchased the property has carried out Chief Engineer Staples's and Superintendent Hill's suggestions in improving the road-bed, and it is now one of the best 116 miles of track in tho State. It has also been extended sixty-six miles; and the improvements to the older portion of the road were made entirely of snrplus earnings above operating expenses. Ex Chief Engineer Staples now rides over the road without thinking of taking out a policy. THE CITY IN BRIEF. A marriage license was issued yesterday to Richard Wall and Margaret Sullivan. Judge Taylor has granted divorces to George W. Wiseman from Sidney G. Wiseman, and to Ruhama nail from Nathan Hall. Anew skating rink has been opened over Morgan's drug store, at 502 East Washington street. It is in successful operation, and is very convenient for skaters in the east part of the city. The rolling-mill company are furnishing to the State bouse contractors about six or eight car-loads per month of iron that is being worked into tho roof of the Stato-house as rapidly as possible. United States Marshal Foster yesterday began paying the deputies who were sworn in for special duty on election <ly. The total number in the State was about 205, and each will receive $5 for the day's work. The John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company has begun suit against Ann and George Vetter and others to foreclose mortgage given to secure eleven notos for $3,000 oil certain lots iu McCarty's subdivision. Tne residence of James Johnson, No. 192 Ash streets was damaged to the amount of $l5O last evening By a fire caused by a defective flue. While trying to save a lace curtain from the flames Mrs. Johnson’s hand was badly burned. Buck Farley, who was released on a ‘ ‘floater” a short time ago and givon orders to leave tho city, was arrested last night on tho chargo of being a fugitive. He is suspected of having burglarized a house at Broad Ripple a few nights ago. The trial of Gordon and Blue, indicted for using the mails for fraudulent purposes, cannot now be held before Jauuary, Judge Blodgett having written to the officers of the federal court stating that it will be impossible for him to come to Indianapolis to conduct the examination before next month. The Indiana Eclectic Medical College yesterday petitioned Judge Howe for an injunction to prevont further proceedings in the suit of Henry McCabe against the college, for the alleged reason that Justica .Smock refused to grant a change of venue in tho case. A temporary restraining order was granted. Judge Walker yesterday denied the petition of the Portsmouth Savings Bank, which asked that receiver Mothershead, of the Encaustic Tile Works, be made a party defendant to tho SBO,000 foreclosure suit now ponding against the works. The suit is in the federal court, but tho receiver is an officer of the Superior Court, and in the latter, Judge Walker thinks, the case should be tried. llutlding Up the City. City Clerk Bruenig has been making a comparison of the extent,of the'building of business houses and residences this year and last. In 1883, 815 permits were issued, calling for an expenditure of $821,150. In the first eleven months of this year, up to Dec. 1, 7G5 permits were issued, involving an outlay of #050,735, and by the end of the year it will probably exceed $1,000,00(1. This by no means represents the real investments made in improvements, for tho amount-i llumed in the permits aro generally no‘ more than 00 or 70 per cent, of tho real expenditure. DIED. MERRITT —At the residence of her parents. Dec. 6, Jeannette Grace Merritt, only daughter of George and Pauline T. Merritt. Her disease was biliousfevor. She bore her great sufferings with sublime, patience, aud passed away with her intellect unclouded. Funeral services on Monday morning at 10 o’olock at the family residence, 179 North West street. Friends of tho family are-invitod. Burial private:

LYON'S KOZOTHIUM A GIFT TO THE GRAY AND A BOM TO THE BALD. BEFORE USING. AFTER USING. Lyon’s Kozothiimi is not a dye, but a clear, fragrant oil, and acts purely as a tonic to the hair follicle and capillary circulation of the scalp, whereby it restores the natural action, and as a result, RESTORES THE NATURAL COLOR To the hair, rendering it softand beautiful. This wonderful remedy, unlike all its predecessors^ IS ENTIRELY FREE FROM SGLPHUR NITRATE OF SILVER, And all noxious and deleterious chemicals. It has fast friends wherever known and used; it deposits no sediment upon the scalp: does not stain the skin nor soil the most delicate fabric, and is an ELEGANT AND DELIGHTFUL HAIR DRESSING, And an indispensable article to overy lady's toilet. To middle-aged men who ate prematurely bald, or becoming bald, it is especially recommended, and, when fairly and properly used, wiu never fail in arresting tlie falling off of the hair and encouraging a vigorous and abundant growth of new and healthy hair. From Numerous Testimonials Wo Select tlie Following:

From a Well-Known and Prominent Clergyman. Shblbyville, 111., June 12, 1884. Messrs. A. Kiefer A Cos.: Gentlemen—A year or two since I began to lose my hair. A prescription by a barber temporarily checked it*, but after a brief time it attain began to come out by handfuls, and a prescription by a physician again checked it. During last winter and spring it. attain became dry and harsh, and finally left the top of my head bare. My attention was called to vour Kozothium. I was afraid to uo if, dreading sulphur, lead or nitrate of silver. But matters were growing worse daily, and the fly season was close at hand, so I procured a bottle of Kozothium. The result is an excellent crop of hair, iwid, strange to say, of its original color, soft and pliable, a clean scalp and no irritation, and this on the head of a man over fifty, t have no hesitation in saying it is the best hair restorer extant, and from trial I do not believe there is a particle of any thing dangerous in it. Yours truly, &ev. B. Mills. From a Lady of Clay County. Brazil, Ind., July 7, 1884. Messrs. A. Kiefer & Cos., Indianapolis: Gentlemen—Having but little faith in hair restoratives, 1 was, after much hesitation and with great reluctance, induced to try a bottle of Lyon’s Kozothium. My hair was gray, coarse and harsh, and so brittle that for years, whenever combed or brushed it would break off. Upon using the Kozothium a speedy and desirable change took place. My hair became live and lustrous, regained its natural color, ceased to break off, and is now as soft, elastic and glossy as any one noed desire. As a hair dressing I now find it indispensable, and indorse it heartily for all purposes for which it is recommended. Mbs. Fannie B. Walmslky.

Price, *I.OO. A.. KIEFER <Bc C O., General Agents, I mli<itriap THE “CHICAGO’S” SLIPPER DEPARMENT. For special HOLIDAY TRADE the Management of the CHICAGO SHOE HOUSE have assigned a separate department to be used exclusively as a Slipper Department, thereby facilitating selections and affording every advantage to purchasers. Being in the galleries of the salesroom, it escapes the noise and bustle of the regular department. TO MORROW (Mondav) this room will be opened to the Public. All are invited. None asked to buy, but to see what elegant styles have been designed for this season’s trade. Beautiful Silk Velvet Embroidered Slippers in ten different shades. Prices ranging FEOM SI.OO TO $3.00. To those desiring something rich and elegant, we desire calling attention to our fine Imported French Slippers—the only imported slippers ever brought into Indianapolis. Several patterns on exhibition at our salesrooms. CHICAGO SHOE HOUSE, No. 24 West Washington Street. § Bicycles, Tricycles and Sundries ft A THE INDIANA WHEEL COMPANY, j?Jt ■59 South niinois street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND., ■ - | jrrl Aeents for the COLUMBIA, RUDGE. BRITISH CHALLENGE, \ XTR \OKDINARY CHALLENGE and FACILE. Old Wheels for sale, ) , fujpill and taken in part pay for new. Bicycles sold on weekly and monthly ILI r U,' navmentsin the city. Repairing and Nickeling a specialty. P 1 } C. F. SMITH, Manager. !*■• OSTRICH FEATHER^ COLORED, CLEANED CURLED J. J. IRWIN’S, No. 22 South Illinois Street. IHTAH work GUARANTEED. PRICES LOWEK than those of any other establishment in the West.

lE,UTnStCO„!!i!MUS,IM, MANUFACTURERS OF SAWS THB FINEST AND MOST rnIBAET.E MAIWI. RAZORS. POCKET-KNIVES, Scissors and Plated Ware, KOLIEKLR SKATES CHRISTMAS' GOODS! Coal Hods, Fire Sets, Children’s Knives and Forks, Toy Tools

and Money Banks. BUILDERS’ mi MKELUffIOK HARDWARE. VAJEN&NEW 64 East Washington Street.

From a Popular Hardware Man. Indianapolis, July 1,1884. Messrs. A. Kiefer A Cos.: Gentlemen—l have an antipathy to all so- called hair restorers. A f©yv weeks ago, however, giving way to the persistent entreaty of a friend, I tried Lyon*a Kozothium. lam delighted with it. My hair, which Yvas very gray, lias been restored to its former natural color. It is no longer harsh and coarse, but is smooth, glossy and healthful, amd my scalp feels better than it has for years. I cheerfully bear testimony to the fact that Lyon's Kozothium is a true restorer of health and natural color so httiV, and heartily indorse it. It in not only a cleanly remedy, but it is an admirable hair dressing; and now that I know its virtues, I would not* under any circumstances, be without it. Yours truly, W. F. Quigley. From One of the Best Known Insurance Men in Indiana. Indianapolis, July 5, 1884. A. Kief or & Cos.: Gentlemen—For some time my hair has been falling out, threatening me with baldness. 1 used Ayer’* Hair Vigor, Jialfs Hair Renewer, and other remedies, with no effect. My scalp has always given me trouble* being covered with scales, the result of a scrofuloua affection. Recently I was prevailed upon to try Lyon’s Kozothium. The effect wAs wonderful. Not onV was the falling off of the hair promptly arrested, and anew growth of hair stimulated in its stead, but the scales were removed from the scalp, which is no longer feverish ami uncomfortable, but cool and healthful My hair, which was exceedingly gray, has resumed ita natural color, and is soft and glossy. lam now using it upon my beard, to which it is restoring the former natural color, though more slowly than to my hair. I recommend it with confidence as a medicine for the scalp,* hair tonic and a hair restorer. R. E. Beardsley.

Al FOR SALK OR RENT. IVI H. T. CONDE, Gen’l AG'T, 78 St 78 W. Wash. St., INDIANAPOLIS. | fe, COAL OIL CP^engines In operation at 31 West Maryland, Driven Well Store—l and 3-liorse power. Safer than coal oil lamps. R. R. ROUSE, State Agent. REMOVAL. REMOVAL— OP THE WHEELER & WILSON sewing machine office from 4ii North Pflna9 v hs. nia street to S3 North Illinois street. Wo will h pleased to see all onr old customers at our new roouu. WHEELER & WILSON MTU GO.