Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1884 — Page 7

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Personal iuul Local. Thejmpexintejvlents and local shippers meet again to-day to further consider tUo change in ffie switching service at this point. A.mceHiig of the Middle atid Western States' Olassifleation Association will be held at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, to morrow. O- B. Skinner, traffic manager of the Bee-line, •nd. Edgar Hills, general freight agent, and D. S. Gray, of the Union line, are to bo in. the city to day. E. li. Ripley, general freight.agent of the C., t B. SsQ., who has bqen ill for some weeks, is rapidly recovering and expects to be at his post again by New Yew's, day. C. E. lifentlewon, manager of tho 1., B. Ss W., left last night for Springfield, O:. where he will meet Henry Graves, one of the largest bondholders, who, with Mr. Henderson, will give the property a looking over. It is officially announced that .T. H. Hiland has accepted the position of referee for tho new Western passenger agreement and that the roads had agreed, to his proposition. Ho will open an office at Chicago at once. One of the. heaviest of the Indianapolis grain shippers says he does not object to their turning his business over to the G., St. L. <fc P. Union line if the pool commissioner had only turned the Bam t rates over to them as shippers. John L. Truslow has been appointed general Western passenger agent of the Atlantic Sic Pacific Railroad Company, and will have charge of passenger business on the Pacific coast, with office No. 4 New Montgomery street, San Fran* cisco. W. LL Coleman, traveling auditor of tho Van dnlia, was yesterday appointed agent of the company at South Bend. A better selection could not well have been made, as. while very competent; Mr. Coleman makes friends of all with whom he comes in contact. His numerous friends will wish him much success in his new field. Chief Engineer Devore, of the Indianapolis, ,Eel River & Southwestern road, states that tho work of getting out timber for the bridges and trestles, on the lino, is going on as. well, as the getting out of cross-ties. The grading, just now, in running along rather slowly, but with the early spring, he says, the motto will bo ‘ 'Push things.'' Freisht business over the C., L, St. Tj. Sc C., continues to be heavy as compared with that of other roads. On "Sunday eighteen through freights were run over tho road, on Monday twenty-nine through freights; yet, owing to the low rates now prevailing, tho revenue derived from carrying’ the business is far from satisfactory. The following railroad officials are expected in the city to-day, to attend the Chicago & Ohio River pool meeting: Presidents Ingalls and Mc.Keen, Vice presidents McCullough and Waite, Managers Carson and McCrea. General Passenger Agents Ford. Egan, Stevenson, Baldwin, and Hill, General Freight Agents Page, McLeod, Geiger, McDoed and Forsyth. The Pennsylvania people, as usual, announce the sale of cheap excursion tickets to ar*d from all stations during the Christmas holidays. Tickets will be sold on Dec. 24, 23, and 31, 1884, and Jan. 1, 1885, and will be good for return passage until Jan. 2, 1885 inclusive. Tho rates will be low. affording everybody an opportunity to spend Christmas and New year among relatives or friends at any point on their lines. William A. Wallace, foreign freight agent of the Baltimore Sc Ohio, with office at Chicago, has been appointed Eastern agent of tho road at Baltimore He will be succeeded in tho first named position by Frank P. Morton, contracting agent of the Cleveland. Columbus. Cincinnati Sc Indianapolis. David Lee. roadnaaster of the Ohio division of this road, has been appointed Toadmasterof the main line, with headquarters at Baltimore, appointment to take effect Jan. 1, 1885. The “train agent’’ system of keeping a check on the cash receipts of the passenger conductors of the Wabash, but recently adopted, is laid in the shade by a system this week inaugurated on the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain roads. 15y tho new system the station agent is supplied with a blank form which he is required to fill out and return daily to the superintendent of transportation. To’gain the information required by tho transportation manager the station agent must ask cash passengers leaving tho company’s trains at his station their name and address, how far they traveled with the conductor and wheth cr they had tickets or paid cash faros.

Danger that the Trunk-Lines Will Become Too Arbitrary. Tho general tenor of the remarks of freight men is that the prospect for maintaining through freight rates between tho East and the West this ■winter seems good—bettor than it has been, at least. The Eastern trunk lines seem united and determined that the value of the business shall not be ruined. The West Shore and Lackawanna lines are the disturbing element with tho trunklines while W 7 esttlie greatest difficulty appears to bo with lines which like tho West Shore and Lackawanna are outside the pools. One is made east from Chicago over the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago, the freight going first southeast eighty-eight miles to Morion, and then due north forty-three miles on the Air line division of the same road to the Chicago St Grand Trunk At Haskell’s. Thus it goes 131 miles to reach Haskell’s, while the distance by tho Grand Trunk’s own line is sixty-three miles. Still Another is over tho Wabash southwest ninetytwo miles to Forrest, and thence over the same road, east by north, 319 miles to Detroit, making a line 411 miles long to Detroit, against 284 bv tho Michigan Central. But such lines depend upon the trunk lines and their Western con- . nections for their existence, and if the trunkaim© managers are united they can prevent their demoralizing rates. Some of those seem to have been established or permitted by trunk line managements for the purpose of enabling them to secure a traffic ic addition to their pool percentage, but as the almost inevitable resuit of any ■ such evasion of an agreement is a reduction of rates, and the destruction of a large part or the whole of the profits ou the business, it is not easy to believe that it will be continued, certainly not unless encouraged by someone or more of tno trunk lines. It is quito evident, however, that the trunk-line pool is tightening its grip, and tho weak places nave been grsntly strengthened of late. There is a possibility, though, that tho trunk lines will become too arbitrary, and that Western roads, which are practically at the mercy of the trunk lines in the pool will kick in the traces. Murmuring cau be heard quiiu-frequently among Western railroad officials of the unimportant figures they cut in the matters pertaining to tho pool The turn of tho case of the C., L, St. L. & 0. in regard to its traffic via Seneca and Kankakee has awakened a good deal of ill feel mg toward the roads cast from Chicago, owned by the trunk linos, and the question vemsiius ’ unanswered why Milwaukee, ninety miles from Chicago, should be allowed the same rate to the seaboard that Chicago enjoys, while Seneca, a point but seventy miles from Chicago, should take 108 of the Chicago rate, shippers choosing the Seneca and Kankakee routo because bettor time is made. Express Matters. Tho express people take exceptions to an article which appeared in tho Journal a few mornings since, to the effect that, while freights with railroads were carried at about, one-half of what they wore ton years ago, the express companies were still doing business at old rates. This they deny. Agent Folsom says they are . now 25 to 80 per cent, lower. For instance, they formerly charged $4 per oue hundred j onnds from New York to Jndianapols; it is now . ">fl per 100 pounds; $1.75 from Indianapolis to • Chicago and Bt. Louis; it is now $1.25; formerly -$L per 100 pounds to Cincinnati and Louisville; ; it is now but 75 cents, and similar reductions have been made in rates to all points. Wells, Fargo & Cos. announce by circular that they have exteruled their express service upon all main and branch ines of the North cm Pacific Railroad Company, to and from all points between St. Paul, Duluth, Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon, and are now r>**pared to do a general express business to and Loui points reached by the Northern Pacific

railroad, and the lines of tho Oregon Railway- and Navigation Company and the Oregon & California railroad; making connections by ocean steamers from Portland with San Francisco, Victoria, British Columbia aud Alaska, connecting overland from Portland to San Francisco by means of stage lines between the termini of the Oregon & California, and* the California & Oregon railway lines, also reaching by stage and steamboat many distant points in the State of Oregon, Washington and Idaho Territories. The Wells Fargo Company hae made an arrangement with the American Express Company whereby its franchise is extended to Chcago. The Northern Pacific Express Company pro poses to meet its competitor with a similar arrangement, and Superindent W. Footner is now in Chicago for that purpose. The plau, it is understood, is to extend tho Northern Pacific express to Chicago over the Chicago Sc Northwestern road. It is said that a lively fight between the companies will ensue. Unnecessary SpeculationSome of the newspapers are still speculating on the probability that the Cincinnati, Hamilton Sc Dayton and the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio roads are to be consolidated, which is about as probable as that the Indiana, Bloomington & Western and Northern Pacific will be. Should John King, at the coming election of tho C., H. & D. company, in June next, succeed IL J. Jew ett as president, it signifies nothing of such a character. The Erie, which controls the N. Y., P. Sc 0.. does not own the stock of the C„ H. Sc D., nor does it lease tho road. The facta are simply this: Tho Erie people wanted an entrance into Cincinnati. President Jewett proposed to a syndicate which held a majority of tho stock to pay them G per cent, dividend on such stock, providing they would allow the Erie people to appoint the officers and operate the road, which tho syndicate consented to do. C. C. Wait*?, vice president and general manager, has not only paid G per cent, dividend on the stock held by the syndicate, but has done still bettor; ho has paid 0 per cent, on the entire stock, and has a surplus to carry over toward paying the next dividend. However, so fur as the Erie goes, should the 0 H. & D. gain 15 per cent, on its stock, tho Erie would be no better off, as any surplus above the G per oenfc. dividend must go into improvements to the property, or be divided among tho stockholders. Should there be a deficit, however, the. Erie people would be obliged to make up a sufficient sum to pay the 6 per cent, dividend to the syndicate holding a majority of the stock. There is little danger, however, if the present management continues to operate the road, that there will be. any deficiency for the Erie to make up. Neither will the C., li. & D. stockholders allow the C., H. & 1). to be consolidated with a wrecked railroad like the N. Y., P. Sc- O. The Chisago aud Ohio River Pool. Several papers have fallen into the error of stating that tho Chicago and Ohio river pool has heretofore been operated on tonnage and number of passengers carried, and that when reorganized it will be with tire understanding that all settlements of overs and shorts shall bo made with money. It always has been a money pool, and that is where the shoe pinches. If strictly carried out Af. E. Ingalls, president of the C., 1., St. L. & G. would need to pay into the pool some $90,000. But there is evidence ample to show that it would bo unjust for him so to do. Former managements of some of the roads in the pool, whether intentionally or not, misrepresented the business they had done and which they expected to do, and thereby were a wardered per cents, they were not entitled to, while others have taken advantage of differential rates, etc., and thereby increased their per cents, in the passenger business above the natural per cents. It has been a big task for President Malott and Commissioner Richardson to arrive at what would be just and proper for them to suggest as a basis of settlement. Settling up the affairs of the old pool will be tho first business, then the Attention of the meeting will be turned to a reorganization of the new- pool, in which it is definitely settled; no differential rates will be allowed any road. It is just to President Ingalls to say that he expresses a willingness to pay into the pool whatever the committee say is just and equitable.

Travel Unprecedentedly Light. Within the last sow days passenger men from nearly all sections of the country have stopped over at Indianapolis, for a day or two, or a few hours, and the talk of all is that travel is unprecedentedly light. % An official who spent last week at Kansas City states that through trains that arrive at Kansas City in the morning, which usually bring 1,000 to 1,500 passengers, last week did not average to bring in 300 per day. The same complaint comes from passenger men located at St. Louis and Chicago, and upon inquiry of passenger agents at. this point we find that, with one exception, the fifteen Indianapolis roads carried less passengers in November, 1884, than in the corresponding month of 1883, and the earnings the last two weeks of November this year fell off, as compared with last year, $1,500 to $3 500 per week with nearly all lines. Not only is through but local business as well affected. Presidents and general managers are writing to learn what is the matter, and passenger men know not what to answer. President Ingalls Makes Auothor Master Stroke. M. E. Ingalls, president of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Lous & Chicago road, arrived in the city on the 11 i*. m. train, and is ouo of the best feeling railroad men iu tho country, so grand a success has he made of the Union Central Depot enterprise at Cincinnati. The Baltimore Sc Ohio having purchased a third interest iu the property, and with the money which the B. & O. has now agreed to pay for its third interest —having been so far a mere renter —added to that obtained from tho recent sale of SIOO,OOO of depot bonds and $150,000 of branch bonds, tho Big Four will now wipe out its floating debt. President Ingalls says thirty days from now the C., 1., St. L. & C. will not have a note out, and will still own one-third interest in the Union Central Depot, which is one of the most complete and grandest stations in the West, and he expects to be in shape by July, 1885, to resume the payment of dividends to stockholders. The 11. & O. and the O. & M. Baltimoak, Dec. 9.—ln regard to the rumor that the Baltimore S Ohio railroad has leased the Ohio A Mississippi railroad, the situation 4 and facts are that the London interests and the Baltimore & Ohio interests in the latter road have come to an amicable understanding. It is believed that all interests will work in 'harmony hereafter. The question of lease has been discussed of late, but no agreement was reached. Real Estate Transfers. Instruments filed for record iu the Recorder's office of Marion county, ludiana, for the twenty-four hours ending at 5 o’clock p. m., Dec, 9, 1884, as furnished by Elliott A Butler, abstractor!* of titles, room No. 8, /Etna Building: Elizabeth J. Newcomb and husband to James B. Payne wife, lots 20. 21, 22. 23 and 33. in North Euclid Place addition to Irvington $200.00 Prank L Ritzinger et nl. to John Grace, jr.. and wife, lot 1, in J. M. Myers’s resubdivision of lots 5(157, 58 and 59, in Drake & Mayhew's /coond additiou to Indianapolis 300.00 Austin Ballard and wife to Lewis Wallace, part of lot 13. in Coburn's subdivision of outlot 182. in Indianapolis 100.00 Lewis Wallaoe and wifo to Eliza Ballard part of lot 13. in Coburn's subdivision of outlot 18.2, iu Indianapolis 100.00 Edward Griffiths to Barbara Ueinken, part of lot 81. in E. T. Fletcher’s first additiou to Brightwood 100.00 C\>nve3 r ancos, 5: consideration SBOO.OO Mr. George Steadman, tho well known proprietor of tho Albion Hotel, Melbourne, Australia, writes to tho Argus: “I was suffering from a very severe epnnn in my knee, which caused excruciating pain, and was advised to use St. Jacobs Oil After one application tho pain entirely left and 1 walk as well as ever.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10s. 1884.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. THE SENATE. Senator Harrison Argues In Favor of the Admission of Dakota. Washington, Dec. 9. —Mr. Hale called up the naval appropriation bill, which, at the close of last session, was in the hands of a conference committee, and as to which that committee reported that it had been unable to agree. He moved that the Senate further insist on its amendments and order anew conference, which was so ordered.

Air. Sherman introduced a bill to provide for the erection of astatute in memory of Lafayette. Air. Slater called up the Oregon Central land forfeiture bill, but. the Senate, by a vote of 29 yeas to 30 nays, refused to consider it* It was then decided, by a party vote —yeas 34* nays 25 —to take up the bill for admission of Dakota, the Republicans voting in tho affirmative, and the Democrats ip the negative. Tho Dakota bill thus secured tho right-of-way for 2 o’clock. The Texas Pacific railroad land grant forfeiture bill was made a special order for Tuesday next. Tho bill to provido for the sale of tho Cherokee Reservation, in Arkansas, was passed, Tho bill to amend the sections of the Revised Statutes which prohibit the delivery of registered letters and payment of money-orders to lottery companies was passed. The amendment consists in striking out the word “fraudu lent,” so as to cover lotteries generally, and not rnorelv “fraudulent” lotteries. A bill was passed providing for ascertainment of the claims of American citizens for spoliations by the French prior to the 31st of July, 1801. The Dakota bill was then taken up, and Mr. Harrison addressed tho Senato. He said the movement for the admission of the new State had originated where such movements ought to originate—with tho poople of the Territory. A discussion of its admission to the Union could, of course, assume the shape of a party discussion but that was a shape unworthy so important a question. To considor the application of a people for admission to tho Union from the point of view of its relation to tho fortunes of a political party was to. consider it from, a level far below that of statesmanship. Me believed the feeling in the Territory was almost unanimously in favor of a division between the northern and southern sections, and uuanimous that tho admission of the whole Territory as a single State would not be acceptable. Judged by population and producing capacity, Dakota was entitled to admission. In 1870 tho improved lands and farms in the Territory comprised 42 G 45 acres; 1880, 1,150,413 acres; the number of farms in the Territory in 1870. was 1,720; in 1880, 17.439; the value of those of 1880. was $22,400,000, and tho total valuation of agricultural products for that year was $15,524,000. This was a groator valuation tliau could be claimed for several States. As to capacity to bear tlio expenses of State government, tho Territory was already defraying nearly all those expenses in a territorial form of government. With regard to the question of how much population should entitle a Territory to admission as a State, there had been no rule established by Congress. It had boon suggested that the population should be required to be at least equal to the unit of representation in the lower houso of Congress. which at this time would be a little over 150,000 people. Few of the State*, however, had had population enough at the tints of their admission to bring them within that rule. No State, since tho admission of Missouri in 1821, had had population enough to entitle it to a representative m Congress. It was, therefore, a matter in tho discretion of Congress; but even on the basis of requiring such population, he believed thft, with the naturally rapid increase of population in the Territories, the portion proposed to be admitted would, in a census taken at this time, show enough population to entitle it to a representative. Taking up the question of tho ratio of voters to population, and the bearingof that question upon the admission of Dakota, Mr. Harrison stated that the vote of Dakota in 1880 was 28.42 G, while in 1884 it was BG.OUO, an increase of 57,574 voters in four years. Os these 86,000 votes nearly two-thirds had been cast in southern Dakota, the portion seeking admission to the Union. Estimating only four inhabitants to the voter, southern Dakota would now' have a population of 230.000. In 1880 it had a population of 135,777, or a proportion of 4.82. inhabitants to the voter. If it were objected that the proportion allowed was too large, ho would look at some other States. Tho relation of voters to inhabitants in Florida in 1880, was one voter for every 5.22 inhabitants; in Georgia, one in 9.27; Mississippi, one in nearly 10: Louisiana, one in 9.G7; Alabama, one in 8.4 G; Missouri, ono in 5.45. . Tho average of those six States gave one in a little more than 8 inhabitants to each voter. Air. Harrison criticised the report of the minority of tho committee on Territories presented by Air. Vest, which strongly opposed the admission of the Territory, and which declares that if the statements of the advocates of admission arc true, the proposed State is already an elysium and its people enjoying every blessing of religion, education and prosperity. Mr. Harrison thought this no answer to tho demand of a large, active and progressive population, when they claimed tho right to elect their own Governor, and take part in making the laws by which Congress provides for their government. The Chair announced tho appointment of Messrs. Hale. Logan and Beck on tho naval conference committee. After executive session, the Senate adjourned.

THE HOUSE. Mr. Chalmers Wuuts a Republican Form of Government for Mississippi. Washington, Dec. 9. —Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill to restate a republican form of government to the State of Mississippi, which was referrod. Somo derisive laughter from the Democratic side greeted tho reading of the title of this bill. It provides that congressional and State elections shall be held on the same day in that State; each candidate for Congress shall be permitted to appoint, in writing, one inspector and one clerk at each voting precinct, who shall be permitted to witness all the proceedings. It is made a crime, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any person to assault, intimidate, threaten, or insult any inspector or clerk. Consideration of the interstate commerce bill having been resumed. Mr. Barksdale addressed the House in a constitutional argument in support of the right of Congress to legislate on this subject. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, supported the committee "fill, though he would have preferred a measure simply providing for a commission, as a first step. Tho appointment of a commission would accomplish more good than any iron-clad statutes. Mr. llorr favored the appointment of a commission of inquiry, with power to inquire into each particular case of injustice on the part of the railroads, and to oompel the companies to furnish all data necessary to investigate each transaction. There he would stop. Ho referred to the action of the committee on commerce of the Forty seventh Congress, in almost unanimously rejecting Mr. Reagan's proposition. Mr. Reagan accounted for this by tho remark that the committee had been selected in favor of tho railroad companies. Mr. Horr said he understood the present committee had been selected by the gentleman from Texas in order to report this very bill. Mr. Reagan denied this, and declared that ho had never named a man for that committee. Mr. Horr had no doubt that the statement was correct, but it was not more correct than that the commission of tho Forty-seventh Congress was not selected in the interest of railroads. Mr. Reagan—l know exactly what I say, and I know it from the highest authority. Mr. Horr—Well, the present committee was not selected in favor of railroads. Why is it not to-day in favor of the bill you advocate! Mr. Horr proceeded with his criticisms of the substitute, which, he asserted, discriminated in favor of the roads in certain States, and against thoso which necessarily went through several States. It would strike down all the cheap rates of the West and South, and the cheap transportation of flour and wheat from Kansas and Minnesota would be things of the past. It would put dear bread in tho months of the hungry mill ions of the East, instead of cheap bread. He had no sympathy with that class of men who

simply inveighed against railroad companies because they were corporations. It was a cheap kind of business for men to go about crying “monopoly.” The great wealth of Gould and Vanderbilt had not been taken from tho pockets of the laboring men of the roads; they built them and paid for them. They had made money by buying poorly-managed roads, putting braius in thorn, and making them profitable. Their gain was legitimate. They made money in another way—not from laboring men, but from men who went into Wall street and thought that they were smarter than “those old fellows.” If it could be proven to him that tho railroads were becoming prosperous by extortionate charges, ho would go as far as any man to correct the evil. Air. Boyle, after attacking the provisions of the substitute, criticised the committee bill and announced his opposition to the commission fcaturo as being altogether without value and amounting to nothing whatever. Mr. Weaver favored the substitute bill. Ponding further debate, the Houso adjourned. HUMOR OF THE DAY. ‘Tis sweet to bet, But, oh! how bitter To bet and lose— Well, we should twitter? —Bob to u Globe.. • A New Corn Story from Kansas. Lane (Jinns.) Enterprise. A Kansas man climbed to the top of a cornstalk before retiring, to inspect the state of the weather. His foot slipped and ho fell into a neighboring tree-top, where ho stuck till morning trying to die, and couldn’t breathe only thirty cents on tho dollar. After his rescue he kicked himself all the next day, and promised his wife and seventeen children that henceforth he would buy au almanac and keep himself posted without resorting to such dangerous methods of ascertaining the weather probabilities. _ Vat’s fttirewdness. Every Other Saturday, A gentleman traveling through Ireland with a very stout companion had occasion to hire a jaunting-car, and, having agreed with the driver for half a crown, stepped back to tho inn where ho was staying and called his fat friend. The driver, as soon as ho caught a glimpse of the enormous dimensions of his “fare,” walked up to the head of his horse, and holding up the tattered lappets of a worn-out jacket, said: “Whist, sir, get upas lightly as yo can, will ve?’ “What, is your beast skittish?’ asked the gentleman. ‘‘No, sir,” said Pat, with an inimitably shrewd leer, “but if ho saw the big gentleman he’d most likely say, ‘Whist, Pat, but it ought to bo five shillings.” A Serious Mistake. Arkansas Traveler. Tho other day old Simon Battlegill was arraigned before the United States Court, having *beou arrested on a charge of sotting up a small distillery tor the purposo of making illicit whisky. “You do not deny these charges then?’ said tho judge. “No, Judge, fur I don’t see nothin’ ter deny. Yer must reckolleck that I didn’t set up tho still tili airter I had hearn that a Dimmocrat had been elected fur President. You see that lets mo out o’ the charge o’ uaakin’ wildcat whisky.” “How sol” “W’y, ’case when tho Dimmoerats gits in, whisky’ll be free all over the country.” “Old man, you have been deceived. It makes no difference who is President, whisky will be taxed just the same as now.” “Then dad blame the Dimmocrat party. Here I’ve been workn’ like a dog for ’em without knowin’ that it wouldn’t do me no good. If thar’s a Dimmocrat in this house, 1 wish he’d go an' tell the gia’ral manager to mark my name offen his books.” m Flat Bats for Base-Ball. Philadelphia Ledger. Base-ball has lost much of the interest which attached to the matches between strong amateur clubs. It is now chiefly a battle of pitchers, but an amended rule gives tho batsmen a little chance. Instead of the round bats heretofore used, the players are to be permitted to wrap the handles of their bats and to flatten the sides for eighteen inches from the eud. This will make a bat approaching in style that used in cricket, and will encourage scientific hitting or “placing” of the ball. With the rouud bat there is a great deal of chance work, even with the best of players, but with a flattened face it will bo possible not merely to hit the ball but to direct it to parts of the field where there are no players. The new rule is very hkclv to add interest to the game, oesides making it a safer sport. Barker, the Reformer. Chicago News. Who is this man J. J. Barker who is attempting to enact a dynamite role in the United States Treasury Department? ho from Kansas? There was aJ. J. Barker in Kansas some years ago, and when last visible to the naked eye ho was headed for Washington wearing, a pair of patched trousers and howling lugubriously for an office. If this J. J. Barker is that same Kansas J. J. 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RICHMOND RANGES ARB THE BEST IN USE. You only need to use thorn to he convinced of their many good qualities. Call ami ace them at I. L. FRANK EM’S, 30 East Washington Street. Also agent for RADIANT HOME BASE BURNERS. STOVES and FURNACES. JOHN VLAN HOTEL RANGES and COFFEE URNS. MOTHERS! LOOK INTO THE .HEKITS OF THE SOLAR TIP ©SHOES l FOR VOI R BOYS. They will bo A 4J R EAT MAYING in MONEY, arid your boys will be pleased. None genuine without trademark and “John Mundell & Cos.” on each pair. Beware of imitation* with names sounding similar to Solar Tip. l HI.KI lS NO msAITOINTMENT with THESE SHOES,for they are rs good us we represent them, and your dculer will say so too. Takes no other J? v MW. _ ... nourishment, t? ■ M ™ A ]F I t ag ret s with Jr<T A £Jp 1/ him perfectly." e$ o m BXM W writes a ntoths M I # M m er Hundreds of -A similar testimonials, ns well as those irom reputable pbvsiciaDfl throughout tii© whole U. R, testify to tie* worth of HOKLICK’9 POOD FOR INFANTS AND INVALIDS. Requires no cooking. Beat food in health or sickness. -to and To eta. By all druggists Book sent freo. lIOKMIR’S I OOI> CO., Racine, Win. Jktir Sent by mail ou receipt of price in stamps.* <^jl Esi “fia ft STOPPED FREE SB n Marvelous success. ■ ■ a Insane Persons Kestored m 53 Dr.KLINE S GREAT ■ w Nerveßestorer all Brain Sc Nrrvh Dispases. Only sura ure for Ne>~i>e Affections Fits, FpHep'sy, etc. \LI.IBLB if taken as directed. No Fits after clay’s use. Treatise and $j trial bottle free to atientt. they paying express charges on box when ved. Sand names. P. (>. and express address of ted to F)U KUNli.qu Arrh St..Philadelphia.Pa. %so Druggists* BUhVARii OF IMITATING FRAUDS*

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The Indiauapolia Journal is better equipped than ever in its history to servo the public. With a fine mechanical outfit, not excelled anywhere, tho typographic appearance and arrangement of the paper will maintain for the Journal the deserved reputation of being ono of the best printed papers in tho country. Our arrangements for the collection of news from all parts of the world were never so complete, never involved, so large an outlay of money, while in all departments the paper is served with experienced and intelligent direction. The Journal is, first, a Newspaper. It will give all the news of the day, from every quarter, with fullness, entire fairness, and so edited as to make its columns free from impurities and allow them at all times to bo read with perfect safety by every member of the family. The Journal is a Republican paper, believing in the principles and general policy of the Republican party; but it recognizes that in. the work of parties there are and will be wrongs, possibly frauds and corruptions. These the Journal proposes to he perfectly free to criticise and to condemn without stint, but in a spirit and with a purpose for good, having a proper regard for personal rights and reputations. And the right to make this criticism will be,asserted and maintained without detriment to the political character aud standing of the paper. With no desire to be captious or fault-finding, in the interest of the people and of the party, believing that tho great glory of republicanism is that it permits freedom of thought and liberty of expression, the Journal will endeavor, in its editorial comment and conduct, to keep the Republican party the agency through which and by which the best thought of the people may find expression and the highest purpose of the people be executed. Other thun this, and less than this, will meet its most vigorous opposition. We hope to make the Journal the exponent of the highest and best, thoroughly sincere and earnest in whatever it says and does; a paper of the people and for the people, as welcome to one class as to another, expecting a continuance of generous confidence and support by the poople. Subscribe at once. JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers THE JOURNAL, Indianapolis, Ind.

STOVES. i No Kindling Required. No Coal to Carry. No Ashes to Remove. Prices from $2 to sl6. G-A.S ENGINES, From hj Horse-power up. We sell to las consumers in this city only. On exhibition and for sale by the GAS COMPANY, No. 47 South Pennsylvania Street. SCROFULA A girl in my employ has been cured of constitutional scrofula by the use of Swift’s specific. J. O. Mcl>aniKij, Allatoona, Gil (This gentleman is father of the Governor of Georgia.) Vanderbilt’s millions could not buy from me wbat Swift's Specific has done for me. It cured me of scrofula of fifteen years’ standing. Mns. Elizabeth Baker, Acworth, Ga. TETTER.—After suffering with Tetter for eleven years, and having all sorts of treatment, I was relieved entirely by Swift's Specific. L. H. Lets, Dawson, Ga. SNATCH ED FROM Tl t K G 1! A V E.—l was brought to death’s door by a combination of eczema and erysipelas. from which 1 had suffered for three years. Was treated by several physicians with iodide potassium, which seemed to feed the disease. 1 have been ourott sound and well by the use of Swift’s Specific. Mks. Sarah E. Turner, Humboldt, Teun. Swift's Specific Is entirely vegetable. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed freo. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga., or 159 W. 23d sfc., Now York TRUSSES Os evorv description supplied and accurately fitted only© ot tin* American Tiusn C0.,218 West 4Lti St.. Cincinnati. Guaranteed retainers. APo. deiders in Shoulder braces, Supporters, Clastic stockings, etc., Ac. Sole agents for the Common sense i’russ. the only tins; •* I opted by the I . '•o t, Send 2c. stamp for "ii utlaoon Rupture* l *

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