Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1884 — Page 3

IN BEHALF OF GEN. GRANT. satisfactory Results Expected from the Movement in His Interest. |*he Work Slightly Delayed Because of Certain Legal Difficulties—An English Opinion on the General's Unfortunate Condition. LEGAI. DIFFICULTIES. Wliat Is Said by Cyrus XV. Field—Tlio Geueral Is Not Afflicted with Cancer. New York Special. After a brief consultation with Stephen B. Elkins to-day, Cyrus W. Field said to a Tribune reporter: “I have little to say about the efforts for the relief of General Grant. When the matter was brought to my attention I went to see Mr. Vanderbilt, who said that if General Grant’s friends would raise SIOO,OOO he would throw off the balance, of about $60,000, necessary to satisfy his judgment. I have just- been talking with General Sherman and Mr. Childs over the wire. I can not say that anything has been done, but I have no doubt that the mQney will be raised. Os course it will be placed in such a way that it will not fall into the hands of the creditors of Graut & Ward. If General Grant was a partner in that concern, as I am told, anything we might do would only open the doors to sther judgments against his property. We wish to keep for him his war relics and the valuable presents he reccl ved while abroad. It would be a disgrace to have these things sacrificed. The money which may be given will be devoted to the keeping of them in General Grants possession. Whatever course the lawyers may recommend will be adopted. The judgment may be assigned by Mr. Vanderbilt to someone of General Grant's friends or to some other trustee. I do not kuow what course will be decided on. 1 have not seen General Grant personally.” General Grant's health was the subject of many anxious inquiries, owing to reports that bo was afflicted with cancer in the throat. Mr. Elkins, who spent several hours with him on .Sunday, making inquiries about his financial affairs, said today: “You can deny that story emphatically. The General's illness has been a complication* of troubles. He has never fully recovered from the fall he had a year airo, and the injured limb is still painful at times. He has been afflicted somewhat with rheumatism. Lately he had a 3evere cold, which settled in his throat. It refused to yield to ordinary treatment until his physician * shut off his smoking. Now ho is getting better.” From another source it was learned that the General's throat difficulty is in the nature of nicotine poisoning. An Finbarra.Na.ii!g Possibility. Philadelphia Special. The committee of three, after placing themselves in communication with some of the foremost lawyers in New York, learned that if the judgment upon which Mr. Vanderbilt seized all Mr. Grant's belongings were satisfied and the goods removed they could, in all probability, be once more taken possession of by Ward’s creditors. This, therefore, compels tho friends of the ex-Puesidcnt to proceed very carefully. Tho debts of Ward are so many and of such a large amount that the committee do not feel prepared to see General Grant's property rescued only to be again levied upon by some other individual to whom the estale owes money. As the case at present stands, it looks fw? if the property could be seized again and again until the that might be got against it by all Ward’s creditors were satisfied. Os course, there is a difference of opinion among the law yers as to whether this could bo done, and, until it is settled. General Grant's home must remain in tho possession of the deputy sheriff placed in it by Vanderbilt. The fact that an official of this kind has been employed to prevent tho escape of the property was only communicated to Mr. Childs yesterday, to his great surprise. An inventory of the articles has been taken, and posters announcing that the sale would take place at an early date may at any moment make their appearance on the dead-walls and fences of Now York city. This was an additional incentive to the three gentlemen to complete their arrangements for rescue as quickly as possible. Gen. Sherman will remain in Philadelphia all the week, at the house of his son-in-law, Lieut. Thaekara. He had many callers to-day, but he was hardly in the mood for the interchange of social courtesies. Every morning until Saturday he and Messrs. Childs and Drexel will come together and discuss affairs as they develop. The General was to proceed to Washington to arouse further interest in ex President Grant’s trouble, but to-day he has almost given up the idea, and in all probability will not go. The hearty reception he got in this city, and the assurance that Gen. Grant’s friends need not go outside of Philadelphia for all the help the veteran soldier wants to save his trophies and medals led to this determination on the part ot Gen. Sherman. Although there has been no formal subscription here, both Mr. Drexel and Mr. Childs have said enough to warrant the statement that, if necessary, they will between them, make up the required sum. • A Satisfactory Result Expected. Philadelphia, Dec. 30. — The measures for relief of Gen. Grant's personal effects, trophies, etc., are in favorable progress, with the expectation of an early and satisfactory result. Consultations upon the legal aspects of the business are still going on, and Mr. Childs goes to New York to-morrow on business connected with the subject. AN ENGLISH OPINION. A British Editor Who Thinks the South Feels Grateful to the General. London Telegraph. Os those Englishmen who are old enough to remember the American war and its varied fortunes few, if any, will hear without regret that General Grant, its conquering hero, is almost in the position with which many writers of fiction have —falsely, as it is now believed—credited Belisarius. the great and loyal soldier, to whom the Emperor Justinian was principally indebted for the glory of his reign. Belisarius, according to Marmoiitel, was cruelly deprived of sight in life’s last stage, and was reduced to beg his bread in the streets of Constantinople. The French novelist, followed by a far more serious writer—tho late Lord Stanhope—represents Belisarius as having suspended from the sill of his window a bag, upon which were inscribed the pathetic words: ‘•Give an obolo to Belisarius. who rose by merit and was cast down by envy.” No contemporary writer, however, who lived in the sixth century before the Christian era has confirmed this sad story; and, although tho fiction has Supplied a fine subject to the French painter, Gerard, it is little probable that the great and unselfish soldier who refused to accept the crown of Italy when offered to him by the Goths ever lived to be a mendicant in his old age. Be this as it may, tho well-known words: “Give Belisarius an obole,” will be upon many lips wheri it is known that Gen. UlySses S. Grant is in such necessitous circumstances that President Arthur recommended the concession of a pension to his gallant predecessor in George Washington’s chair. Despite the proverbial ingratitude of republics, we Entertain no doubt that President Arthur's tec ©mmendatiort would have met with a heafty Fo gponse from the American Nation had General Grant been willing to avail himself of it. “This is the anniversary of the battle of Busaco,” writes Sir Charles James Napier in his diary, “and ray jaw still aches ffom the bullet which Shattered it on that terrible day. How I love the olrl Comrades who shared with me the dan pers of that hard-fought field, and next to them how I love the enemies whom we routed.’’ Strange as it may appear, in no part of the United State?, will there be more sympathy with Die great Geh©ral who has falleti upon evil days

than in the eleven “rebel States” which took up arms against the Union in 1861, and which, more than any other individaal, General Grant contributed to bring back to their pristine allegiance in 1865. The war bad scarcely ended before President Lincoln died in the track of duty—a martyr ruthlessly murdered by the hand of an insane and fanatical sympathizer with rebel lion. But a few days previously General Robert E. Lee had surrendered his sword to General Grant at Appomattox Court-house, and the delicate manner in which the victor received from his humbled adversary that token of submission will never be forgotten in the Southern States. The gratitude of those who fought for the “lost cause" was still further augmented when General Grant stood firm in his opposition to the outrageous popular demand that General Leo should be tried for his life as a criminal accessory to the murder of President Lincoln. It was as a soldier, urged General|Grant, that General Lee surrendered his sword to another soldier; and, thanks to the indomitable firmness of the man for whom President Arthur is now pleading, the escutcheon of tho Republic received no stain. Ulysses S. Grant was born at Point Pleasant, in Ohio, on April 27, 1822, and is now in his sixty-third year. His life has been of a nature to expose him to many dangers, and to lay upon him great responsibilities, nor can it be expected that bearing more than three score years upon his his head he can, with the versatile adaptability and elasticity which have always characterized his compatriots, take to commercial pursuits, for which he never showed any aptitude before ho became famous, “When the civil war broke out Grant,” says General Badeau, his biographer, “was a private citizen, earning his bread in au insignificant inland town. He was of simple habits and tastes, without influence and unambitious. Having never been brought in contact with men of eminence, he had no knowledge of great affairs.” He had failed as a farmer in the neighborhood of St. Louis; ho could find nothing profitable to do in California when the “gold boom” was at its height, and ho was dependent upon, rather than of assistance to, his father and brother, when he joined them as a leatiier-eurer at Galena, in Illinois, just before the war. In 1861 came the great opportunity of his life, and no man could possibly have turned it to better advantage. Alone among the federal generals lie never experienced the bitterness of defeat. He saw from the very commencement of the fratricidal strife that victory could only be won for his side by hard fighting, and his grim tenacity, his invincible strength of will and the confidence which he inspired carried him and the great country which he served sately and successfully to the end of the stupendous crisis. We know, however, on the authority of Napoleon, that “men grow’ old quickly on fields of battle,” and the stern ordeal through which General Grant has passed, followed by the agony of mind which he has endured since the failure of the firm in which his son was a partner, can hardly be expected to leave him unshaken at the age of sixty-three. He was, of all others, the man whom the great Republic most needed in the hour of its crisis, and he boro bis subsequent honors so meekly that none would have grudged him the provision which it was proposed to prepare for his declining years. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, ) Office of the Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, Dec. 81, la. m. ) For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Local rains, followed by clearing, colder weather, southerly shifting to westerly winds, rising preceded in eastern portions by falling barometer. For the Upper Lake Region—Sleet and snow, followed by colder, clearing weather, variable winds, generally shifting to northwest; falling followed by rising barometer. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Dec. 80. Time. Bar. jTher Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 6:24 a. M.. 30.17 53.6 93 SE Lt. rain. .05 10:2-1 a. M.. 30.12:56.0 83 S Lt. rain 2:24 p. M..'30.02,59.3 81 SW Cloudy. .08 6:24 P. m . 80.00 57.3 83 8 Threat's 10:24 P. M. . : 29.M6,58.0 84 SE Cloudy. .01 Maximum temperature, 00.0; minimum temperature. 53.2. _ General Observations. War Department, \ Washington, Deo. 30, 10:24 p. m. > Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. - - £ 5 - oos. J b a o* & ? STATIONS. S- § i g p 5 S I : “g- : t & t ; i : ? : ; s : Bismarck, Dak., 30.59—11 NW .01 Fair. Cairo. 11l 29.89 61 S .07 Lt. Rain. Chattanooga, Tenn. Chicago, 111 29.68 57 S .20 Lt. Rain. Cincinnati, 0 30.01 61 S Cloudy. Columbus, O Davenport, Ia 29.68 40 W .59 Cloudy. Dead wood, Dak 30.46 0 SW Fair. Denver, Col 30.28 9 S Cloudy. Des Moines, la !29.91 9 NW .45 Cloudy. Dodge City, Kan.... 130.37 —1 W Clear. Ft. Assiniboine, Mta:30.59; —30 SW Fair. Fort Buford. Dak.. 30.71 —2B W Clear. Fort Custer, Mont.. 30.(51 —22 SE Fair. Fort Elliot, Tex 30.38 j 3NW Fair. Fort Sill, Ind. T -I Galveston. Tex 29.98! 69 SE .02 Lt. Rain. Indianapolis, Ind. - - 29.86] 58 SB .01 Cloudy. ludiauola, Tex ! j Keokuk, la 29.79 34 W .75 Cloudy. La Crosse, Wis 30.66 34 N .17 Sleet. Leaven worth, Kan.. 30.12 9 NW .15 Cloud v. Little Rock. Ark... 30.03 54 NW .341 Cloudy. Louisville, Ky 29.93 63 S (Cloudy. Memphis, Tenn [29.97 64 SW .23 Cloudy. Moorehead, Minn...(30.34 —9 N .05 Cloudy. Nashville, Tenn 30.03 62 SE .... Cloudy. North Platte, Neb.. 30.40 —5 NW .01 TA.Snow Omaha, Neb 30.1(5 0 N .05 . snow Pittsburg, Pa 30.12 50 Calm [Clear. Shreveport. La 30 10 51 NW .16 Cloudy. Springfield. 11l 29.80 54 W .47 Clearing St. Louis, Mo 29.84 58 SW .56 Cloudy. Stockton, Tex 30.18 47 NW Cloudy. St. Paul, Minn.... 29.83 1 9 N .32 Lt. snow Vicksburg, Miss 30.05 68 S .02:Cloud>. Yankton. Dak 30.24 —4 N .05 Lt. snow New Orleans. La.... 30.05 68 SE Cloudy. I as Animas, C 01,... 30.34 —l(> NW Clear. Fort Smith, Ark Salt Lake City,U. T. 30.39 14 N Clear. El Paso, Tex 30.19 34 W Fair. Punishing Elect ion-Law Violators. Cincinnati, Dec. 30. Sage, of the United States District Court, to day sentenced a number of prisoners, most of whom had been convicted of violation of the election laws at the recent election. Robt. Berry, Jag. Usher and Jas. McLaughlin, convicted of illegal voting, were sentenced to six months in the Hamilton county jail, and Shannon and Ferdinand Noth, for the same offense, sixty days in jail: Henry Shaeffer and Daniel Kinney, for hindering citizens from voting, six months in jail; St. George Best, a young man hitherto favorably known, convicted of depositing in the United States mail obscene literature, was sentenced to three years in tho penitentiary. Shortly after sentence was pronounced he swallowed the contents of a phial, supposed to be poison. An emetic was immediately administered, and he recovered. His wife and sisters were present. A Lay Priest's tJnliappy End. St. Louis, Doc. 30. —The inquest to day on the body of Father Rupplin, who took strychnine in a saloon, terminated in a verdict of suicide. Tho deceased left a letter and certificates, saying his name was Rev. Ferdinand Baron Von Rupplin, a lay priest. One of the letters rends: “I commit suicide on account of poverty ami incurable sickness. I had no shelter, no bread, no home, no meand. God help me!*’ Another letter states that ho was born at Fravenfeldt, Switzerland, March 7, 1841. He was a son of Baron Joseph Von Rupplin. and he was ordained a Catholic priest at Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1870, by Bishop Stephen Vincent Ryan. The body Will he buried from the morgue. 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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1884.

THE GRAM) ARMY AND THE CHURCH. Au Extraordinary Feud Between a G. A. K. Post ami tho Church People. Stoughton ( Maps. ) Special. The feud between the churches and the Grand Army post in this town has assumed a serious phase. The drawing of tho $5,000 in prizes for the benefit of season ticket holders at tho recent fair, instead of being abandoned as was announced, took placo privately last evening, and tho arrest of all concerned in the lottery is said to be sure to follow. The actual drawing of the prizes was done by several prominent citizens not connected with tho Grand Army, who as sumed tho responsibility. The excitement and bitterness engendered by the affair have become so great that anonymous sympathizers with the Grand Army men have defended to a crime that will bring serious consequences upon the authors if they can bo detected. Within a day or two the parish co mini tie of the Univer salist Church in the center of the town received the following letter: Gentlemen: 1 am very sorry to be obljgod to write this note, but unless you instruct your minister to stop the proceedings against the Grand Array your church will be burned just as often as you see fit to rebuild it. This is not done for any scare. I mean every word of it, and have plenty to buck me up in it. Perhaps it would be well for you to take warning before it is too late. Yours truly, There was, of course, no signature to the cowardly missivo. Rev. C. R. Tenney, pastor of the church, to day read tho letter from his pulpit with appropriate comment A similar letter was received by Rev. C. H. Ewer, pastor of the Methodist Church. The writer threat ened also to burn the parsonage in which Mr. Ewer and his family lived. Rev. Mr. Ewer does not desire to have printed the communication at present, as it might defeat the ends of justice. The State police will use every effort to trace tho anoymous letters. Rev. Mr. Ewer states that ho will at once co-operate with others in prosecuting all in any way connected with tho prize-drawing of last evening. To day’s developments, the threatening letters especially, have naturally created no small sensation in town. While on tho question of interfering with the prize-drawing there is a division of opinion, there is nothing but condemnation of tho cowardly threats of incendiarism and arson. The members of the Grand Army post, of course, repudiate the crime. The Stoughton Sentinel of Saturday contains a letter from Rev. C. H. Ewer, replying to certain reflections upon him, and charging tho post with dishonorable dealings with the several clergymen. He asserted that his church was practically a unit iu opposition to the lottery. He writes: “The Methodist Church in Stoughton does not exist by permission of the gambling fraternity, and asks no favors of them for the future.” Continuing, he said: “I do publicly charge that Post 72, G. A. R., has acted disloyally, dishonorably, and with intent to deceive, and to such an ex tent as to forfeit tho confidence and support of the community.” To support this assertion he reviewed the course pursued by the post in arranging for the lottery alter they were warned of its illegality. Ho claimed that when the post found itself foiled in its plan for a lotlottery a yearjj ago. “A committee of the post waited on two of the clergymen in Stoughton, and iu the name of the post requested them to read notices of the fair to their congregations, with the distinct understanding that all objectionable schemes were to be eliminated from the programme. These assurances were received by the ministers in good faith, and the notices were read as requested. Having done all this tho post did make use of lottery methods, the prize tickets only excepted. Tho ministers found that their confidence was gained by false pretenses, and then betrayed, and one of them was further insulted when lie visited the fair by being solicited to take a chance in a fivo-dollar check. The G. A. R. has no warmer friends than the Stoughton clergymen. We do not believe that the end sanctifies the means. Hence, while we approve of all charitable purposes, we disapprove of all illegal and immoral methods. We propose to keep the churches above reproach, if personal influence and earnest, persistent work will do it We mean to be true to the best moral interests of society, believing that there can be no permanent material prosperity on any other basis. If the G. A. R. post or any other organization does right, we will be with them to the extent of our ability iu every good word and work. If they do wrong, we shall be against them every time. In a very important sense the moral interests of the community are committed to our keeping, and we intend to be true to tho trust.” A THREAT OF SECESSION. What Dakota Thinks of Doing if She Is Not Admitted as a State. Fargo (D. TANARUS.) Letter to St. Paul Pioneer Press. There has been great disappointment to Dakotans in the work done by Congress in the past three weeks, and where once was the hope of immediate statehood and consequent great ness in both North and South Dakota, now is vexation of spirit and the complete and entire lack of enterprise which could only be brought on the Dakota statesman by the total subversion of his hopes. No longer i3 there any expectation of immediate or remote statehood, and the increased excitement to be derived from managing a sure-enough commonwealth. There has been some talk of taking action for tho establishment of a provisional government, and asking Manitoba to unite in forming aNorth western republic, and while this view has gone so far as to get an elaborate indorsement by some of the Territorial papers, still the entire hopelessness of success of any such effort will no doubt have the effect of preventing any action of that kind. But it is safe to say that if there was as much prospect of success now for secession in Dakota as there was in 1860 for South Carolina, this country would be treated to the spectacle of another civil war, and one that, in consideration of the surrouudings, would be entirely justifiable. This question is one that may cause dissension before it is determined, and thero is no doubt that a continued refusal on the part of the United States to make some recognition of the vast growth and population of the Territory will have the effect of causing trouble, tho amount of which will be a surprise to tho Senators who, by their lack of consideration for the interests of tho Northwest, have pretended to believo that Dakota Territory was peopled by wild bands of cowboys and marauding redskins. Dr. Luring Changing His Politics. Washington Special to St. Louis Republican, The Massachusetts friends of Dr. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, are watching him with keen interest. Some of them think that they already see signs of a political revolution. During the Doctor’s long and olegant career he has always been in sympathy with the party in power in Washington, with the exception of the four years constituting Lincoln’s first term. He was a very ardent Blaino man during the late canvass. He was under obligations to Blaine for his appointment as Commissioner, and ho displayed his gratitude in responding to Blaine's requests for clerkships in the Bureau of Agricfflture, and in ardently supporting the Plumed Knight for President. But the Doctor, like the big sunflower of the agricultural grounds, is always disposed to turn his face to the sun, and some acquaintances flatter themselves that they have detected indications of a budding disposition on his part to look upon agriculture and tho Bureau of Agriculture with more cohesive affection than that at present bestowed by him on tho Republican party. But these signs may be delusive, and the Doctor may be fully determined to retire to his English estate in Massachusetts not long after the 4th of March. Mrs. Foster's Views off the Next President. Now York Tribune, Monday, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, a stout woman from lowa, caused a little sensation, in Chickering Hall, yesterday. She was speaking on the evils of the liquor traffic before tho American Temperance Union, and, toward the closo of her ad dress, said: “When 1 look ahead to the 4th of March next, and to the White House, and think of the change that is to occur there, I am ashamed that it was possible for a man with such a character to succeed. [Cheers and applause, followed by hisses.] Who is not ashamed 1 ? | Renewed cheers, and cries of ‘I am not!’] Now, friends, I want you to cheer at what lam about to say. It was the rum shop that made it possible for this man to bo chosen to the highest office in the land. * * * This thing was necessary to bring the good women who aft shocked at the result to help us itijour flight against intemperance. # * * We have been a factor in tho outcome of tho national election, that the eyes of the people might be opened to the blighting curse that rum is.” The speaker grew defiant toward the manifesta-

tions of disapproval at. her remarks concerning the future President, from a portion of the audience, and hurled her anathemas forth in a remarkably loud voice. Then she grew pathetic in telling of drunkards, their wives and children, and finally said, concerning the temperance laws in lowa, that, although they sometimes “got left,” in three quarters of the State there was no open saloon, and the efficacy of prohibition really surpassed her expectations. Many people lett, the hall during her assault npon “the man" who is to succeed Mr. Arthur, slamming the doors as they went out. BEECHER’S WILD FIGURES. Mr, Shearman Explains the Meaning; of One of the Preacher’s Famous Sayings. New York Special. “My understanding of the disaffection which existed in our congregation,” said Mr. Thomas G. .Shearman, a prominent member of the Plymouth Church, this morning, “is that the persons who wore dissatisfied did not complain of Mr. Beecher for voting for Cleveland. They were angry or grieved because of some expressions of his in regard to Mr. Joy, and also because of the statement by Mr. Beecher that if every man in tho State who had broken the seventh commandment voted for Cleveland he would have 200,000. Now the secret of that2oo,000 statement is just this: Mr. Beecher has no appreciation of figures. He habitually talks of doing a thing ten thousand times, when he has done it only fifteen times. Ho doesn't seem to be able to finish a sermon without bringing in a lot of big figures, which ho only uses and understands as figures of speech signifying indefinitely great size or quantity. When lie said 200,000 the words meant just what he would have meant if he had said 100,000 or 1,000,000. He expected Cleveland to carry the State by 50,000 majority, and wanted merely to express size. I think that the outcome of all this trouble will be that the pew rents will fall off $4,000 or $5,000 this year. Then people will get over the little bad feeling they now have and will understand that Mr. Beecher is not a man of logic and figures, and will not expect strict accuracy from him. One thing about Mr. Beecher’s mistakes is that they are all made before the public, and, again, they aro all taken down by reporters. If he says a foolish thing, that is precisely what tho report ere very naturally select to print, because he is such an eminent man that a mistake by him is of public interest, especially as there is always so much point and humor in his sayings. Mr. Beecher never said a foolish thing yet that was not published all over the country; yet how few these mistakes are.” “Beecher didn’t know if New York State cast one or five million votes,” said Mi*. Thomas Tilney. “He has absolutely no idea of the value of figures. Yes, I was a Blaine man during the last campaign. There was very extensive dissatisfaction over Beecbor’s course. His right to vote for Cleveland was not ques tioned; it was tho spirit he showed. Members said he was bitter. Over 50 per cent, of the congregation was dissatisfied. The feeling was not anger; it was grief. No one wanted Mr. Beecher to leave Plymouth Church. There was no organization age.inst him or movement to leave in a body by those who were dissatisfied. All love Mr. Beecher at Plymouth Church. He's got his arms around tho whole congregation. A few would have left, but no one would have heard of his leaving. His explanation of yesterday makes everything all right again, I think. I feel this way about the matter: I have sat under Mr. Beechers ministrations for years, and have heard in that time teu thousand things which have done me good. Compared with these the offensive sentences are too small to be noticed. Professor Raymond feels the same as I, and so do all the Blaine men I have spoken to since yesterday, oxcept one. Still there will be an immediate loss, followed by a reaction. I expect that pew rents this year will go down to $20,000. Last year they were $32,000; afterward tfiey will become greater again. The diminution of the rents will not cause any difference of arrangements in the church. The funds will be forthcoming, no matter from rents or not.” New York’s New Aqueduct. Brooklyn Union. The new aqueduct with which New York hopes to supply itself with water is the “biggest thing” that city has yet undertaken. It will co9t not less than $25,000,000, and is an enterprize of truly gigantic proportions. The calculation is to provide facilities for delivering 500,OCTOCO gallons of water daily from a point some forty miles away. Practically the new aqueduct will be an enormous tunnel, longer than the combined lengths of the three greatest tunnels in Europe—the St. Gotthard, the Mount Cenis and the Arlberg. The greatest part of it will be excavated through solid roek at an average depth of 220 feet below tho ground surface. In some places it will be 500 feet below. Instead of crossing the Harlem river on a bridge, as the present acqueduct does, it will bo cut through under the river. Largest Dry Dock in the World. Ottawa, Dec. 30. —The Graving dock, which was formerly opened at St Johns, Newfoundland, on the 10th inst., is tho largest dry dock in tho world. The Erie dock, in New York, is nearly as large, but with this exception there is none other in tho world approaching it in size. It is 600 feet long at the top and 558 feet upon the lino of keel blocking. Its breadth is 132 feet at the widest part, and 85 feet at the entrance. The draft of water over tho gate-sill is 25 feet at higli water. It is built of wood and cost $550,000. The contractors who constructed it have leased it from the government for a term of ten years at an annual rental of $15,000, or $9,000 less than the annual interest on tho cost of building. It is believed, however, that after ten years it will be self-supporting. Suing the Knights of Labor. Toledo, 0., Dec. 30. —A caso that will have wide interest was placed on file in the Common Pleas Court to day. Henay B. Glovor, a bricklayer, brings suit to recover $5,000 alleged dam ages from tho Brick-layers’ Union, member of the Knights of Labor. The petition sets forth that on account of that organization, of which he is not a member, defendent has been unable to procure work; that when he was at work ho was ordered to quit because he was a non-union-ist, and is unable to support his family by reason thereof. It is understood that the union will act on the mode of procedure in the matter to-morrow night. Sale of tho New York “Star.” New York, Dec, 30.—The New York Star has been purchased by Mr. W. 11. England, who is understood to represent a syndicate including his father, I. W. England, publisher of the Sun, and t paper manufacturer, whose name is not learned. Tho price paid is about $170,000. The new owners tako charge Thursday. The paper will remain Democratic, but will be independent of any faction. The necessity for the sale grew out of Mr. John Kelly's illness and tho death of Mr. Sidney P. Nichols, a large stockholder in the concern. Hacen’s Book. Bt. Lonis pot-I>iffPtoh, Hazcn is wilting a book, but. not to correct or apologize for his false weather reports, if he will only explain how ho mysteriously disappeared fgom tho perilous edgo of battle at Shiloh, and as mysteriously reappeared when tho battle was over, his book will lil! a long-felt want. The Rille Team Practice. Burlington Free Prose. A Massachusetts woman sold her washtub to a party of riflemen for a target. They paid her $1.50 for it, and after they had gone homo she went out in the field and brought it home as good as it ever was. Envious of the Colonel. Philadelphia Prune. The identity of tho False Prophet of tho now administration seems to bo pretty well established. The gentleman's name is El Mahdi K. McClure. A Good Advertisement. Philadelphia Times. Private disnatch from Randall to Watterson: “Keep it up, Ilarry; keep it up. It’s doing me lots of good.” What Animates Watterson. Philadelphia Press. Wfttterson’s attacks on Uncle Randall have a sort of Whisky Ring about them. The surest means to rid yourself of that distressing cough is to rase Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. Price 25 cents a battle.

HUMOR OF THE DAY. A Mean Little Joke. New York Sun. “Did you hear that Jones lost his wife last night?’’ he said as he entered an undertaker's shop. “No,” exclaimed the undertaker, starting up. “Is i hat sol’ “Yes, poor fellow! She ran off with another man.” The Pyramidal Ages. Yonkers Statesman. “When were the pyramids of Egypt discov cred?” asked tho teacher. “In the middle ages, ” replied the scholar at the foot of tho class. “What do you mean by the middle ages?” further questioned the pedagogue. “Why the pyramidal ages, of course.” The boy is at tho head now. That is to say, lie is earning board and washing iu a barber shop. JFatal Competition. Chicago News. “There,” exclaimed Mrs. Talkmuch “that’s the kind of brutes you men are,” and she read an account of a wife-murder by a Georgia barber yesteid.ay. “You say he was a barber, my dear?” “Yes, he was, and ” “Oh, well, it is all for the best. A 'barber and a woman can’t live happily together, anyway. ” “I'd like to know why not. I can't see ” “Too much competition, my dear. Neither of ’em could get a word in edgewise.” One "Way to Remedy It. New York Pun. “My friends,” went on the temperance lecturer, “do you realize when spending your money for whisky how little original valuo you get for it? Do you know that you pay ten or fifteen cents for what costs the producer less than one-sixth of a cent?” A look of horror swept over tho faecs of the audience. “Now,” he went on excitedly, “I ask you, as sensible and reasonable beings, as men upon whom the support of wives and little children depends, what ought to be done?” “The tax ought to be abolished,” was the indignant reply. AU the Same. Arkansas Traveler. A well-known railroad lawyer, while accompanying several ladies on a tour of inspection through the penitentiary the other day, stopped in front of a cell where a grim looking fellow sat and said: “Ladies, here is an excellent specimen. How are you?” addressing the convict, j “Sorter slow at present.” “You don't find life iu here very enjoyable, I presume?” “Wall, it ain't as full o’ fun as it might be.’’ “What were you put in for?” “Wall, podner, you an’ mo was about in the same business. I know you.” “In the same business? What do you mean?” “Same business, that's what I mean. You are are a railroad lawyer, ain’t you?” “Yes.” “Wall, I am a train robber. ” Florida, “The Land of Flowers” Is a paradiso for the invalid, and the “Fountain of Youth” was once thought to be hid in one of its forest glades, lt is now tho haven of many consumptives, who find benefit in her genial warmth and fragrant flowers. The consumptive invalid neods not necessarily go so far from home and friends to get relief. For if not in the last stages of the disease, Dr. R. V. Pierce's “Golden Medical Discovery” will restore to perfect health. For all chronic, throat, bronchial and lung diseases it is a most reliable specific. By druggists. DIED. 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Administratrix’s Sale of M Estate Notice is hereby given that, by \ irtue of a decree rJf the Marion Circuit Court, on THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1885. At ten (10) o’clock in the forenoon, at. the law office of Baker, Herd & Hendricks, No. 23 South Pennsylvania street, in Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana, the undersigned, as administratrix of tho estate* of William H. Morrison, late of said county of Marion, deceased, will sell at private sale, to make assets to pay the debts ot’ said estate, and for not less than the appraised value thereof, the following described real estate, in Marion county aud State of Indiana, to-witt Lot number twol . e (12), in square number sixty five (65), in the city of Indianapolis, tho interest to I*4* sold is the absolute title, including both the interest Os said estate and the widow’s interest, and to be sold us free of incumbrance. 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Persons desiring to purchase all or any part of tlio property, or desiring further particulars, should call upon or address the attorneys above named. MAUY MOKKBSON, Administratrix.

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