Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1885 — Page 7

TALKS WITH DOCTORS. Cresp and Diphtheria—An Investiguttonlßto the Ravages of the A earns Sea Wei. “Has there been much throat disease among children?” tho reporter inquired of Dr. L. D. Waterman. “i can only give my personal observation,” 'voaa the roply, *‘and so say that while there has Imb considerable sore throat, follieular tonsilm, with perhaps a mild diphtheritic tendency, fiMru has been little really serious throat affection. When tonsilitis goee beyond the tonsils it aasnmes a diphtheritic phase and has for its cause some poison. My reason for so thinking is the inflammation of the lymphatic glands as well as the occasional occurrence of the false WMonfarase cm the tonsils in conjunction with it. Besides this, the very profound impression on the nervous system, and aching, and fever which accompany it Fortunately this form of tonsiliti't is self-limited, in most cases, to three or four days of discomfort, and is more fruitful of alarm fltaa of actually bad results.” ••What is th* usual remedy?” “Small doses of quinine ns a tonic. There has Vea apparentlylittle true diphtheria. It appears also to bo more manageable, probably for the xuasou that it is now attacked more intelligently. Ja the second place all epidemics are milder at their close, and diphtheria has ceased to be epidemic. Doctors at first tried to burn off the fafam membrane, thinking that would get rid of the offending cause. It is now appreciated that it becomes a constitutional disease by absorption of the poison germs.” The reporter inquired concerning membranous croup.

**Membrauous croup is a rare thing. I have Been but two cases of it in as many years. The eroop we aro called to deal with is mostly catarrhal, though families fear it, and every time • child exhibits a hoarse, barking cough at night, waking up out of sleep, the older folks are in a state of alarm, and proceed to administer hive syrup or syrup of ipecac and then to wake up all the doctors in the neighborhood. The chances are immensely in favor of its being nothing but a cold with a little swelling of the larynx, where the vocal cords are situated. This yields promptly to whatever makes the child warm and perspiring. This may be brought about by giving the child a hot foot bath and wrapping it in a well-warmed blanket —without ipecac or anything of that kind. Iu such cases a few doses of quinine or naiacine given for two or three days breaks up the congestion aud the child is well. Os course, if this hoarse cough keeps on growing worse a physician should bo sent for. Operations for membranous croup in this city have been extremely rare. As i before remarked, nearly all tiw ailments that attack the air passages of children now are of a catarrhal character—'what vre call acuto catarrhs —tho basis being congestion from cold. Warmth, stimulants and tonics •ill bring tho blood freely to the small surface bmbls, and congestion will he dissipated. Tho •riser the fathers and mothers are, generally the less heroic medicine is administered in tho Way of emetics. ” •‘Just take a look in the microscope,” said a a country doctor to a Journal reporter who was off on a furlough, “if you want to see the itchmite that has taken posession of Louisville, and is bow invading Indianapolis, I am told.” The reporter glued his right eye to the glass and gave a prolonged whistle as he saw in bold relief, about tho size and shape of a common tortoise tho famous acarusscabiei, otherwise known tm the sarcoptes hommi or itch mite. The bug lied an oval body, a conical mouth and eight feet, tho four front ones provided with small suckers, and the hind ones With bristles half as long ad the body. ‘"That is a female.” said the country doctor. •The male is only half as large and neither sex scarcely visible to the unaided eye. They f- only from one-fiftieth to one-seventietli of au inch in length; the larVa has but six legs.” “Whore did you get them,” asked the reporter t.ott thoroughly itching for information. “Just cut it out from Its burrow with a pair of curved scissors. A patient of mine who runs on the railroad caught the itch either at Louis'viiie or your city, aid a young skin doctor whom lie consulted told him it was a very bad, contaIpiiu.s skin disease, with a worse Greek name, and if he would board in the city for a couple of •reek he could cure him for $25. But it being a hard winter, he concluding to consult his old country doctor. I just told him he had been a little careless in squeezing somebody, but I can cure him in a day or two, and $2 will cover the hill”

“A person sees between the fingers and on the bark of the hand, (and if it ie not stopped, on the arms, legs and abdomen, rarely on the face,) a number of small red elevations with white or watery tops. Extreme itching is always present s.ud often keeps the person scratching night and day. ‘The more you scratch, the more you it*h, and that’s the way you show it,’ the old sad ia, among the children. King James I, is said tb have described it as a pleasurable senatkrtt, and a disease fit only for kings, it was such a Hixttry to scratch—but such is hot the fcommon verdict.* “Hew 4o yeu find the mite?” feaid the reporter. “Easily Chough—that is, the female; the male is rarely’seen. Running from almost any of the little vesicles you may see a little red liue or track, at the end of which may bo found a slight elevated point: here you find your flatbellied, round-backed, turtle-shaped, eight-teg, blind-hhaded r&sc&l. The little Canals, at the blind end of which the female mite is still eating and burrowing, are just at the bottom of the epidermis, and often reach into the true skin. They are serpentine m form, and from a twelfth to a quarter of an inch long. Behind tie animal there may bo in the burrow frem twenty to fiftv eggs. These hatch in From three to six dafs; the young moult two or three times, but do nbt especially charge their form; they find plenty to eat, grow fust, and so multiply the misery. " “Is there more than one species?” “Not of the itch mite; the sugar mite and eheese mite are well known domestie species of the same group, as aTe also the Variots species of ticks on theloweranimals, dogs.cowsand thelike. There is another perfectly harmless parasite of the samei genus, the acarus follicularum, or pimple mite; which is found in the sebaceous giands of the face, chin, nose and forehead, and is very idtoily shown by pressing out the secretions of orte of the stopped-up glands of the nose. People fjqueefce <mt these masses of fat and call them *£tub9,’ regarding the black and dirty end as the head. But the true mite is only one seventieth of an inch long, and looks much iiko a fishing grub—as many as ton or twenty are often found in the contents of one follicle. Ti/by are very common; I have no doubt but I can show them to you from your own noso, if you will let me give it h tweak.” The reporter declined, as he did net care to be made into a microscopic museum. “But there is •more than‘one kind of itch. Is there hot? I remember at school we had school itch, and in the prray army itch, and again, in the hospital we called it hospital itch.” “All the same thing.” said the c. and. “There ■was Jackson itch, which was popular during his presidency: the seven year itoh gave the practitioner time for treatment. But They are allthe safae—thb same same grub, making the same btA-roW’S. Sometimes the army surgeons got -:ises'furlotttfhed and they Were sent home and ifed It worked great havoc on the march and in the field. where there was no ehhnfce for per- * bftl cleanliness, or to prevent boritagion.” “What is tho best way to treat the itch?” inquired the reporter as a last question and with 'in eye to the practical. ••Easy enough: First, tho underclothes should t>o Washed thoroughly; Contrary to general opinion, outside garments do not need treat menu in th great Vienna Hospital 1,'600 case*; are treated yearly and no attempt is made t& disinfect the clothing. The mite lives in the e kin; contagion comes from personal intercourse and especially from hand to hand, and so the tuost high-bred, prond and cieanly are not ea•fupt But filth and overcrowding are the main elements for the spread of the contagion. As the mites are stored away under the hard j'-yera of the scarf-skin, this must be removed ifii #tuor to expose them. This will require half au

hour's hard work, soaking and rubbing in hot water, using the strongest soap—soft soap is thebest- The more delicate the skin, the shorter the time. After the ecarf-skin is softened, broken down and rubbed off, the sulphur ointment is used to kill the mites. Sulphur is sure death) to them. The sulphur ointment is made of one ounce of flowers of sulphur to two ounces of lard, and should be rubbed in for haif an hour. If it does not produce too much irritation, it may be left on gver night, and removed by a hot bath in tho morning. If one application does not cure, two will be pretty ware to do so. If a few are left over fbr seed the ’treatment is lost. All the popular patent remedies contain sulphur. They are costly, but not as good as the sulphur ointment The itch thrives beet in winter, when people are most together and bathe least Aristotle knew the mite as tho cause of itch: it has been lost, and prizes awarded for its rediscovery, and cheese mites wero produced, and took the prize. The old women of Corsica used to pick out the mite seventy years ago with needles. Our knowledge of it has grown with tlve improvement of thfe ’microscope, and the advances in zoology, oT.parasitic forms, and now-every well-trained doctor ’recognizes it at once without the aid of a dermatologist, and cures it as sure as his patients obey his orders.” EARLY RACE MORS. Further Incident* of the Quarrels in theYoung Day* of Indianapolis.

Since the publication of the account of some of the early mobs in this city, especially of that for the punishment of the first case of miscegenation, the Journals informant has learned some interesting particulars from old residents still living here, who were present. The time was the year 1839, about the time the canal was completed from here to Broad Ripple. The wedding of the colored gentleman and the white female organist took place at Crowder’s house, at the ford of the river on the Crawfordsville road, just below the little village at the iron bridge on the same road. Crowder was for some years the keeper of the most fashionable restaurant, if not the first one in the town, in the room in Blackford’s frame block, Southeast corner of Washington and Meridian streets, where the present big Blackford brick block stands, afterwards occupied for the same business by John Hodgkins, who opened the first ice-cream garden here in 1842, where St John’s Cathedral is. Tho traditions of that time say that Crowder was the original oyster dealer and cook, though his goods were all of tho canned and pickled variety. fresh oysters not being capable of transftortation in Conestoga wagons in the days beor railroads. Be that as it may, he Was the most aristocratic darkey in town —a half blood of unusually good features, and more than average intelligence—and the wealthiest man of his race, except possibly the late Augustus Turner. After keeping his restaurant for some years, he bought this farm at the Crawfordsville ford, and moved out there. It Was there the hemp stacks wero burned in the spring of 1843, the light of which scared some of the Second Advent people of the time so badly. This colored Benedict and his brido met there to be married. Tho officer performing the ceremony was Squire Thomas Weaver, a pretty good shot at a turkey match, and a good fellow who “loved his lush.” A number of the young fellows in the town learned of the affair, and went out to Crowder’s, primarily for mischief, but later for a little ungentle admonition against the practice instituted by this enterprising couple, aud “honored in the breach” ever since. Dr. G. W. Stipp was one of the party and he was a leading Whig, as well esteemed as any man in the place. Several others, now among our most respectable citizens, joined, too, probably to interfere against extreme measures. So the demonstration bore nothing of a party character. The Crowders heard of what was coming, and the bridegroom escaped from the house anil hid himself in an outbuilding, where he remained a cood part of the night, finally escaping without discovery or injury. The bride was mounted on n horse before one of the leading business men of this day, and brought to town to her-residence on North Illinois street. There Dr. Stipp was called in to advise the lady, and the crowd, thinking he was needlessly long about it, made a demonstration on the house, whioh the Doctor resented in a fiery speech that, one of the leaders resented by knocking him down with a club; so that the only hurt of the whole affair was inflict ed by one of the mob on another. This ended the “show.” The man was gone, the woman was safe, by her sex, from violence, and there was nothing more to be done. The woman and her sister left, and so did some of the mob, nnd never returned. Some never troubled themselves about the matter. BASE BALL MATTERS. The Association Withdraws Its Protection from the Unsigned Indianapolis Players.

When the reporter saw President Schwabacher, of the Indianapolis Base Ball Club, yesterday afternoon, there was a look of mingled distrust and disgust on his countenance. Director Treat could not be found, and it was rumored that h* bad gone to Maywooo, or Some other seaport, to start a skating rink, Mr. Schwabacher had in his hand a letter from Secretary Wykoff, of Die American Association, stating that the association would withdraw its protection from all of the players reserved by the Indianapolis club who had not signed contracts by Feb. 10. “This next thing;* said Mr. S., “probably will be that they will withdraw their protection altogether, and then wc are wiped out. All our players, except Phillips and Poltz, are under contract, and they refuse to sign. Philips has already received S2OO advance money from Sullivan, of the old Kansas City Union club, and 1 expect it wb would make him a similar advance he would Sign with us.” “What about the proposed Western Association?” asked the reporter. “There is a good prospect that it will be organized, although I have heard nothing definite from Mr. Sullivan since he was here. If it is, I think we'can easily win the championship, and besides get plenty df good exhibition games from the league and American clubs. In fact we are better situated than any of the other clubs. My own opinion is that, if we can get recognition, and be allowed to play under the national agreement, we will form that association even if we only have four Clubs in it. “The fact is," continued Mr. Schwabaoher, ’“we have been treated very dishonorably *by the older associations. We put a large amount of money in base-ball and got together a strong club, and now we have no place to play. It is inst like picking up a good hand at poker and taving all the other players to drop out. Arguing a Technicality. The case against Casper ’Hoddericn, the saloon keeper, ffor violation of the 11 -o’clock law came up in the Criminal Court yesterday, and whatever may be the decision here, it is probable that an appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court The point at issue yesterday was merely preliminary, being a motion to quash the indictment on “the grounds that the language of the statute Was not sufficiently specific. The attorneys §for the defendant, Messrs. Bynum and Scott, *insisted that the words “between the hours of 11 P. m. and 5 A. m." were not sufficiently definite and the law should read “from 11 oVslock p. it. until 5 o’clock a. M. of the next day.” The court took the case under advisement pending tho filing of a brief. ■■ ' - - ■ ■■■ Trustee's Report for January. The township trustee’s report for January is as follows: Number of applications, 1,1197; applicants aided. 1,137; applicants refused, 260; total, 1,397. Expenditures: 632 grocery orders at $2, $1.264;-451 loads of coal at $2 39, 1,077.89; 97 half-cords of wood, average $2.25, $218.25; transportation, $60.30; "burial eosts, $33; total, $2,653.44.

TH® IMDIA^T JOURTSTAti* SUNDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1885.

AN OLD MAK S CAREER. Outline of the Busy and Successful Business Life es Mr. Alfred Harrison. Mr. Alfred Harrison has been a subscriber to the Journal from the first issue to the present time, a period of over si-xty-two years. For fully sixty years Mr. Harrison has been in active business, and knimihg that n outline of his experiences would be of interest and value to our readers, tho Journal ’requested from him a Sketch. In obedience to the request, Mr. Harrison has furnished the following: “MV BUSINESS LIVE. I was thirteen years old I was indentured to a dry goods merchant of Brookville, in this State, for a term of 6eveh years. At the nge of seventeen I was dent by that gentleman with a stock of goods to Salisbury, Wayne county. The eonfiity seat soon after removed to Centerville, I took the goods to that place, where I remained until I had disposed of them, returning then to Brookville. When my indentures expired I was twenty years old. The gentleman whom I had served gave toe an honorable discharge. “I was then employed by Mr. John Conner hhd ’Mr. Richard Tyner as clerk in a store they had opened in Indianapolis, receiving a salary of $l2O a year. I remainea with them from June, 1823, to the following February. “Two Connersville gentlemen, being about to establish a dry goods house at that place, offered me one-third of all the profits it I would go over there and take charge of it. I accepted the offer, bought the goods, fixed up a nice room and commenced business. “Very soon after this Mr. John Conner came into the store and told me that if I would return to Indianapolis and manage his business lie would, just as soou as he had finished a large mill he was then building, furnish a good capital, buy oat Mr. Tyner, send me to Philadelphia to purchase a fine stock of goods, and give me half the profits. This offer was so good that my Connersville friends agreed to let me go, if I would send them a young man to take my place. Mr. Austin Morris, then a very young man, carried out my contract, soon sold off the goods, aud closed up the business. “I nnd been with Mr. Conner but two months when he was taken sick in Indianapolis, on his way home from Washington City, and died. I had given up my Connersville friends, and as I was thinking what would be the best thing to do, Mr. William Conner, a brother to Mr. John Conner, called on me and assured me tlrat his brother’s contract should bo carried out He furnished a capital of $6,000 and I went East and bought the goods. We remained in business together seven years, when I sold out my interest to Mr. Conner and Colonel Russell. “As there was no prospect at that time that IndianApblis would ever be anything more than an inland mud town I moved to LaPorte, from which point I shipped wheat to Buffalo, bringing my goods around by the lakes. * I shipped the first wheat ever sent from Michigan City to the Eastern market.

‘ After the passage by our Legislature of the internal improvement act, I returned to Indianapolis and was elected one of the directors of the branch bank of the State. In this capacity I served for twenty years. How long the bank continued to do business before it had to suspend I cannot recollect. Its suspension was caused by its large discounts to stockholders, directors and merchants. I feel proud of the votes I gave against the large discounts which caused the trouble. The Legislature legalized the suspension for five years. Upon the reorganization Mr. William H. Morrison and myself were the only ones of the old directors retained on the new board. That board consisted of Calvin Fletcher, president; Thomas H. Sharpe, cashier; James Southard, teller; George Anderson, an old Scotch carpenter, Mr. Sponable, a shoemaker, James Sulgrove, a sadler, Julius Nicolai, who sold cakes, beer and toys, and W. H. Morrison and Alfred Harrison, merchants. At the first meeting of the board we oassed a resolution that no director should have a discount of more than S2OO, and that he should not have that without two good indorsers. At tho expiration of the charter Mr. Fletcher and myself contracted with the State board to redeem all the outstanding circulation, for which we gave bond, and were paid in advance the amount we had contracted to redeem it for. “I was a director in the Bellefontaine railroad from its commencement to its completion; and Mr. Daniel Yandes and myself agreed to finish the road to Union, lay the track, build the bridges, &c., and to take tho stock of the road as pay for our work. The first freight that came into Indianapolis over the Madison railroad was shipped by me. ‘•As agent for a Pittsburg iron firm, I did quite a large business, selling $20,000 worth of iron, steel and nails. Later, in connection with a friend in Philadelphia, I did a small but very profitable brokerage and exchange business, the capital being $20,000; and in the year 1836 I invested $16,000 in real estate for New York friends. “Mr. James S. Brown and myself were chosen by the Legislature to superintend the erection of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. I made all the contracts, hired and paid all the hands, furnished the materials, and stood an investigation when the work was done. For this I never received tv cent of compensation. During the progress of the building I borrowed, from the late Stoughton Fletcher, $20,000, on nay own responsibility, to keep the work going, as the appropriation was not sufficient. In all my ventures, such as I have named, I have been successful. My ruin has been brought about by a too exclusive devotion of time and attention to the tile factory. My whole thought and pride was to make it a great success, and I think I can say that when I left it it was as complete an establishment of the kind as there is in the world. “If this little history of an active business career shall prove of any advantage to young men just starting in life, I shall be glad. * Any one who is truthfnl, industrious, economical, and willing to be advised by men of experience, is sure to succeed. A. Hajkiuson.”

Not Fisk Commissioner for Fan. Mr. Enos B. Reed, editor of the People, the recently appointed Fish Commissioner, serves timely notice on violators otf the fish laws as follows. He does not propose -being Comnaiankraer “For the fun of the thing:” “Having been appointed Fish Commissioner of the State, we now’desire to give fair warning to ail seiners and dynamiters, or others who wilfully and maliciously violate the fish laws. We shall not be only Fish Commissioner in name —we design to earn our title. This thing Os dynamiting And seining in streams, particularly. has cot to be Stopped. The higher the Stan ding of those engaged therein, the greater shall bo our efforts to detect and punish them. A few examples made of some of the big guns will prevent the unlawful business. We intend, if 'possible, that -the fish in our streams—what few there is left of them—shall have protection for at least two years to come. The comparatively few whose hearts are set on seining have no right to murder the fish, depopulate the streams and make it impossible for a fish to be caught with a bodk and line. We desire it to be distinctly understood that in our efforts to protect the fish we shall be no respecter of persons.” Mr. Hendricks Goes to Albany. Hon. Thbmas A. Hendricks, Vice-president-dlect, received a telegraphic summons on Friday night to meet President-elect Cleveland in Albany, N. Y., a 8 soon as possible, and left immediately for that city. He was just preparing to go to Shelbyville to attend the funeral of the late George Thateber, which occurred on yesterday, but the summons to Albany was urgent and he left at the earliest moment possible. ‘lt is reasonable'to suppose that the object of the visit is to confer with Mr. 'Cleveland concerning the pdlicy df the party. The Legislature. The Senate and House were iu session yesterday until noon. The morning was occupied by both bodies almost'wholly with the introduction of bills. A resolution appropriating $4,000 for the •use of GeaeraFCarnahan, the Indiana Com-* tniseioner of the New Orleans Exposition, in preparing the exhibit of the State’s products, passed the House. Two military bills were introduced—one by Representative Moody, embodying all the-features of the bill that was defeated

on Thursday, with the exception that the pro- j visions apply only to white persons, and the pro-; posed appropriation is reduced from $25,000 to $5,000. Representative Helms offered a bill 1 which provides for an allowance of SIOO a year! to each legally organized militia company for! armory purposes, and sl2 to each member for uniform. SECRET SOCIETY NOTES. | A Proposed Statue to Mr. Colfax’s Memory —Work in the Scottish Rite. I. O. O. F. There will be work, in someone of the degrees, in all the lodges during the week. Morning Star Lodge, No. 9, D. of R., of Springfield, Mass., will hold a Colfax memorial service Feb. 3. To-morrow night Metropolitan Encampment meets in Grand Lodge Hall. The first rehearsal of the dramatic work will be held. V Jk*- < , • • Corinthian Lodge had visitors from Massachusetts and Ohio on Friday night. The work of the initiating and the third degree was rendered in good form. A delegation of daughters of Rebekah from Greencastle will visit Olive Branch Lodge of this city at tlib next meeting, Feb. 14. The degree will be conferred in beautified form, Vvith neW features introduced, greatly improving the work. A delegation of members of Olive Branch Lodge will visit Columbus, 0., on Thursday, to attend a social and exemplification of work by Naomi Lodge No. G2,D.of R. This is a return visit, and doubtless the visitors will be hospitably entertained. The Colfax memorial services at Terre Haute, on last Sunday, were held in the Opera-house, and were largely attended. James Hook, P. G. R., presided; Rev. C. C. Pierre, chaplain; music by the Oratorio Society, and a eulogy by Colonel W. R, McLean. Short speeches were’made by Hon. R. W. Thompson, Hon. D. W. Vouchees, Hon. "Nyilliam Mack, and Hon. T. H. Nelson; each of whom spoke in the highest terms of Mr. Colfax. Odd-fellowship from five members and one lodge has grown in sixty years to the following dimensions: One sovereign grand lodge, two independent grand lodges, (German Empire and Australia), forty-three £i*and encampments. 1,918 Subordinate encampments, sixtv-four grand lodges, 8,002 subordinate lodges, 91.491 encampment members and 522,318 sub ordinate lodge members. Last year $2,015,832.52 were expended for relief. From 1830 to 1883, $*36,742,136.75 were expended for burying the dead and relief to its members.

The grand instructor has gone to Rainsville on invitation of Dufour Lodge, and held a school of instruction iast night. Some time since. Oliver Dufour, or Washington, for whom the lodge was named, presented the lodge with a life-sized photograph himself, neatly framed, and the lodge reciprocated by presenting him with a goldheaded cane, Grand Instructor McQuiddy receiving it in the name of Mr. Dufour, which he will forward to Past Grand Master Dufour. A four day’s school of instruction will be held at Pierceton, Kosciusko county, commencing Feb. 21. The intimate connection of Schuyler Colfax with the adoption of the Degree of Rebekah and the interest he manifested in its behalf for thirty-four years, has suggested the idea of the members of that degree erecting a monument to his memory to be placed in University square, in this city, the Capital of his State. There are over ono thousand lodges of this degree and $lO or an average of $lO from each would accomplish the work. There are 50.000 members in these lodges. Twenty cents from each would erect a monument that would honor the dead and be a credit to the living. It is impossible to tell what will come of this proposition, but if tho women of the order undertake, with anything like unanimity, to raise the money for this object it will be done. It is to be hoped that this matter may be thought of and tho women of tho degree of Rebekah thus honor the memory of one who honored them, and labored successfully to break up the prejudices that existed in the early days of the order against woman being admitted to any part of j the ceremonies. He championed their cause, and singly and alone convinced forty-seven of the eighty-five representatives in the Grand Lodge of the United States in 1850 that it was right and proper to admit women to the order, and they voted for the adoption of his minority report, signed only by himself. The other two of the committee feared that women could not keep a secret. Mr. Colfax, in a meeting of the Daughters of Rebekah, held in this city in November last, declared from the rostrum that it was his pride to say that the Rebekah degree was the best kept secret in the order. Men had been expelled from the order for divulging the secret work, but that there was no instance on record where a woman had ever proved recreant to her obligations. Masonic. Ancient Landmark’s Lodge, F. and A. M., will hold its regular monthly business meeting tomorrow evening. 0 Thomas Milburne Reed soys of Freemasonry: “The strength of its influence is in the diffusion of its light, the enforcement of its precepts.* The regular monthly meeting of Queen Esther Chapter, No. 3. Order of the Eastern Star, will take piaco in Masouic Temple on Friday evening. Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection conferred tho degrees (4 3 to 9* inclusive) upon a class of eight candidates last Wednesday evening. Queen Esther Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will give an entertainment the last Friday evening in each month, to which members and their families only will be admitted. • The grand secretary has received returns from 200 subordinate lodges F. and A. M-, for the year ending Dec. 31, 1884, showing that Masonry in Indiana is in a prosperous condition. The February number of Voioe of Masonry contains an excellent engraving and well-written sketch of the life and masonic work of the late Charles Fisher, for many years treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Indiana. The sketch was written by William H. Smvthe, of this city. Marion Lodge, F. and A. M.. conferred the entered apprentice degree on Wednesday evening. In order to keep up interest an the work among its members, this lodge will hereafter hold a meeting on every Wednesday evening in the year. When ne other business is on hand it will hold a lodge of instruction. Hon. Albert P. Charles, of Seymour, is making a most efficient grand master, looking after the details of the work very closely. His position is no sincui'e. Besides almost constantly traveling throughout the State, he has to write between 2,000 and 3,000 letters a year ou matters connected with the order. Meetings for work in the various bodies of the Scottish Rite have been arranged as follows: Wednesday evening, Feb. 4, Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection. 10° to 14°. inclusive; Wednesday evening, Feb. 1.1, Saraiali Council of Princes of Jerusalem, 15° and Wednesday evening Feb. 18, Indianapolis chapter of Rose Croix de H. R. D. M., 17 J and 18 J ; Wednesday evening, Feb. 25. annual election of officers of Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection. Besides this there will be a regular business meeting for the reception of petitions, etc., every Wednesday evening. The Military Carnival. The committees having charge of the approaching carnival anil ball at the opening of tho new armor}- on College avenue are being pressed on all sides for definite information regarding this social event It is under the control of the ladies of the Orphan Asylum Board, the Richardson Zouaves and the Indianapolis Liglit Artillery. The carnival will last four days, and close with the ball. A list of the society pooplo of surrounding cities, as well as thir, is now being compiled for the use of the invitation committee. The ball will be on a much more extensive scale than any tiling before undertaken here. The evenings of the carnival ar. g carefully provided for. A change of vill probably be necessary on account of th- o uplated state of tho buiktiz g.

mmCIAL AND COMMERCIAL MONKY AND STOCKS. The New York Market Opened Weak, bat Closed at Defter Prices. Nw York, Jan. 31.—Money easy at 1 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4 5 per oent Sterling exchange steady; 60 days, 483i; sight, 4864. . Governments quiet. Railways steady. State bonds fairly active; Alabama, olass A, sold at 88; Georgia gold sevens at 1121, and North Carolina consols at 82f. There was a weak tone to the stock market at the opening of business this morning, when the “be&iV’ raided the coal stocks on reports that the Pennsylvania railroad intended to reduoe prices of Anthracite coal. Great pressure was brought 't6 hear against Lackawanna, and the; stock dropped 1} ‘per cent, from last night's closing price, to 87|, with large sales on ‘the way dofrii. The Delaware & Hudson made a still larger decline, selling oS 11 to 68, but the transactions werb Small. Jersey Central went off 14, to 324, and Reading declined only t<i> 15$. Simultaneously an attack was made on St Paul and some of the Pacific roads, all of which yielded for a time. St. Paul went off 1, to 70}; Canada Pacific, I}, to 37; Missouri Pacific, 1, to 04, and Central Pacific, |, to 26}. Outside the shares mentioned, the decline Was fractional and within I®! per cent. This decline was followed by Some heavy buying for ‘long” account, which started some of the “beai*3” to covering, and an advance of per cent ensued, the latter hi Delaware & Hudson. Lackawanna followed. With, a rise Os 1J per cent., and the remainder of the active shares advanced \ti>\ percent In this rise Western Union and Union Pacific were conspicuous, selling tip to 584 and 49|, respectively. During the afternoon the market became quiet, and prices sagged off per cent., but in the last half hour of business there was renewed firmness, and prices generally advanced, Which carried quotations higner than before for some Stocks, and about up to the host figures previously attained for most others. Tho late dealings were characterized by considerable spirit, and there was an improved feeling generally, which was stimulated by advices from the West that the east bound tonnage from Chicago this week, had reached tho unusually large total of 76,000 tons, and that, eastbound freight fates Were being firmly maintained. Erie declined to 12} on London reports that the Stock and bondholders would be asked to pay an assessment for the purpose of liquidating the floating debt The market closed firm. Illinois Central lent at 1-32; New York Central. Lackawanna. Union Pacific and Delaware & Hudson at 1-64, and the others fiat to 1-128 per bent. Compared with last night’s closing, prices are 4to f per cent, higher for Central Pacific, Northwestern, St. Paul preferred, Lackawanna, Delaware & Hudson, Louisville & Nashville, Lake Shore-, and Western Union, and 4to 1 per cent lower for Canadian Pacific, Canada Southern, St Paul, Missouri Pacific, Kansas & Texas, Erie, and Union Pacific; Oregon navigation foil off 4, to 60}, and advanced to 62. Tho ealoa of stock for the week were 1,426,360 sharea Transactions, 221,000 shares, to-wit: 100,000 Lackawanna, 48,000 St Paul, 11,000 Union Pacific, 13,000 Western Union.

STOCK QUOTATIONS. 3per cent, bonds 1Q154( Lake Shore 6154 United States 4%s 112*6!Louisville A Nashville 23*6 United States new 4b...’.21% Louisville A N. Alb’y- 17 Pacific 68 of 95 125 War. A Oin. lets pref’d 10 Central Pacific lsts...Uo Mar. & Cin. seconds ... 5 Erie seconds 5354 Mem. A Charleston 27>6 Lehigh & W’k’b’oof’d 88% Michigan Central 64% Louisiana consols 75 Min. a St. Louis 10% Missouri 65., I<>2 Min. A St. 1,, pref’d.... 26 St. Joe. 116 Missouri Pacific 94% St. P. AS. C. Ists 1174: Mobile A Ohio 7 Tennessee 6s, old 44 Morris A Essex 0i1’d...116 Tennessee 6s, new 43 Nashville A Chat 31% Texas Pac. I’d grants 33 New Jersey Central .. 33 T. P. Bio Grande 52‘4 Norfolk A W. pref 20 Union Pacifio firsts...Ul.% Northern Pacific I f>% U. P. land erants 108 Northern Pac. pref’d. 37‘4 U. P. sinking fund ...llt% Chic. A Northw 89% Virginia 6a 24 <J. &N. pref’d..... 125 Va. con. ex-mat. coup 3S Now York Central ... 87*4 Virginia deferred 454 Ohio Central 1% Adams Express 1&4 (Ohio A Mississippi 16% Allegheny Central 3%j0. A M. preferred 6.3 Alton A Terre Haute. 19 Ontario A Western 10h Al. A T. H. pref’d 70% Oregon Navigation.... 61 American Express.... 9t> Oregon A Transcont’l 11% 14., C., B. A N 55 Oregon Improvement 24 Canada Pacifio 37% Pacific Mail.... S$H Canada Southern 29 Panama 98 Central Pacific 27% j Peoria. D. A E 1254 Chesapeake A 0hi0... 6% Pittsburg 131 U. A O. pref’d lets 9% Pullman Palace Car... 111% Ci A O. seconds 6*4 Beading 15% Chicago A Alton 131 Bock Island I<>B C. AA. pref’d 150 St. 1.. A San Fran 17 0., B. AQ 118% St. L. A S. F. pref’d. 35 Chi., St. L. AN. O .... 63 St. L. A S F. Ists pf’d 80% C., St. L. A P 7% U., M. A St P 7154 C., St. L. AP. pref’d. 16 C,M. A St. P. prerd.lo2% C., S. AO. 24 St. Paul M. A M 62% Cleveland A Colnmb’e 32 St. Paul A Omaha 25 Delaware A Hudson... 69% St. P A 0. pref’d 55% Del.. Lack. A West... 88% Texas Pacific 12 Denver A Bio Grande 6 Union Pacific 49% Erie 12% if. S. Express 61 Erie pref'd..— 20 Wab.,St. L. A P 4 Eat Tennessee 3% Wab., St. L. Al* pf’d 1256 Kant Tennessee prf*d 6 Wells A Fargo Exp 106 Fort Wayne „..123 W. U. Telegraph 58% Hannibal A St. Joo ... 88% Homestako 10 U. A St. Joo pnef’d... SS%JIron Silver Harlem 192 Ontario 17 Houston A Texas 17 Quicksilver 3 Illinois Central 12254 Quicksilver preferred. 2 1> 1., B. A W !2 Ki>nth Pacific Kansas A Texas 14% Sutro ... Lake Erie A Western. 11% TRADE AND COMMERCE. Business in January Disappointing Yet an improvement Over January, 1884. I.vf>IANAPOLI3, Jan. 81. To-day closes the first month of 1885, so far as business is concerned. Without question the volume of trade has fallen below the expectations of a majority of merchants, yet several Meridian-street wholesale men state that a hasty glance over their books shows that sales aggregate larger this year than in January, ISS4, and that the profits on-such trade hue been m excess es last year, and certainly the outlook for business with the coming of milder weather is favorable, yet taking as rosy view of tho situation as it will boar, there is a sluggishness in trade generally nvhich the most oxperleacod merchants arc unable to fully explain, and the only thing, seemingly, which can be done is to patiently await the coming of better times- In tho local markets there is little calling for comment. The sugar market, while not quotably lower, is weak at quotations. Coffee 9teady with a fair distribution. more especially of roasted coffees. Canned goods arc selling a little more freely, and the fish market, shows signs of impro vein out. The produce markets arc only fairly active. Lower -prices for eggs may bo looked for next week. Poultry continues firm at quotations. Choice butter is in good demand. Tho domain! for hog products is only fair; prices firm as .quoted. Other branches of trade devoid of any new points. G&AIX. The local market was a little offish to-day; dealers bid-more cautious -and prices woro a shade weaker. The Board of Trade Price Current says of wheat: The effect of advancing freight rate has been to weaken local markets, and prices are ±0 ‘lower than yesterday. Receipts only fair, and milling stock in good demand. Futures rather quiet We quote: No. 2 Mediterranean o. t Sokl No. 3 Mediterranean o. t 86 No. 2 redo, t 88 iq No. 3 red o.t 77 Rejected, o.a 60 February, o.tt 83 Corn—--Local markets are very active at quotations, which, while lower, are yet firm. Offerings are a shade better. Receipts liberal. Futures quiot We quote: No. 2 white, o. t. 41 No. 3 white, o. t.. BDJ9 Yellow, o. t 40 High mixed o. t 40 Mixed, o. t 3) No. 3 high mixed o. t 39 No. 3 mixed o. -t yg Rejected No. 2 white, o. t, 40 Rejected No. 8 white, o. t 894 Rejected yellow, o. % 39*2 Rejected h. m., o. -t 39 Rejected, mixed o. t 88*3 bound ear o. t 89

February o. t ..... 38 February, first half, o. t 38Jp Oats—Firm and steady, -with light offering*. We quote: No. 2 white 6. t 32 Light mixed o. t 31 Mixed, o. t 30 February, first half, 6. t 30 Rye—No. 2 steady; 840 bid; no Sellers. Bran—Nominal. GRAIN IN STORK. Jan. 30, 1885. ) Wheat. Corn. Oats. * Rya. Elevator A. 51.200 O.POO {63.400j Elevator B lf>.ooO 000 4,1001 300 Capital Elevator 25.000 ElevstorD 18,000 Total ~7L700 9.6&0 85,500 1,200 Oorrespon’g dfty last year 41,000 32.000 39,000 19,000 ■■■ ■■ ■ - ■ ■■ - RECEIPTS BY RAIL past twenty-pour hooka Wheat bushels 6,409 Corn, bushels 27,000 Oats, bushels 900 RAILWAY GOSSIP. W. D. Wilsoh who represents tho Lacks want line, at this point, Saturday refnoved Mi office to 92 South Illinois street. General Freight Agents H. C. Diehl, of the L, B. &. W. s and H. W. Hibbard, of the Vandal!*, are expected home from New York to-day. Harry Haines, h former well known conductor on the C., 1., Si L. & C., wafi tnarried this week in Pennsylvania to a lady who is highly spoken, of. H. M. Bronson, general ticket and passenger agent of the 1., B. & 'W., has so far recovered from his recent illness that he was at his post yesterday. R. C. Herrick, of the Erie fast-freight lino Offices at this point, has resigned, and to-morrow takes tho position of private secretary to Governor Gray. A. V. H. Carpenter, goneral passenger and ticket aeent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul road, has been appointed a momber of tho fish commission by Gov. Rusk, of Wisconsin. T. W. Teasdale, general passenger and ticket agent of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road, received a haudsome gold watch, chain and charm from railway friends at St Paul. George S. McETicrum, late auditor of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis railroad, who on Wednesday {suffered a paralytic stroke, is no better, and there is but littlo prospect of bis hocovery. E. B. Phillips has been re-elected president of the Fitchburg railroad. Although a man of large railroad ability, the Toledo, Cincinnati dr St. Louis narrow guage ho was unable to lift out of the mire. A meeting o£ the Middle and Western State/ Freight Rate Association will be held at tho Grand Pacific Hotel Feb. 12. Thd executive committee of the association will meet in Cleveland Feb. 3. District passenger agents Charles Wardaugh, of tho C. M. & St. P.; F. T. Hendrey, or the A., T. & Santa Fe; Ben Tinney, oF the C., W. & 8., Saturday removed to their new quarters. 92 south Illinois. F. W. Catherwood, private secretary to C. OL F. Bent, master of transportation of tho L., N., A. &C. road, who is in poor health, has beea granted a leave of absence until May 1, and will spend tho timo in Florida. Joseph L. Dohorty. of New Albany, who has filled an important position on the 11, N. A.dr C. railway in that eitj r for several years, has been promoted to tho position of chief clerk is the auditor’s office, at Chicago. R. E. Ricker, formerly superintendent of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis road, now superintendent of the Denver & Rio Grande, is in poor health, and for some time past has been unable to attend to the duties of his office. It was definitely settled yesterday, that J. H. Woodard would go to San Francisco, Gal, to represent the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific road on the Western slope, his titlo to be general agent. He expects to assume the duties of his new position as early as Feb. 15. Letters roceivod the last week from E. B. Tnomas, general manager of the Bee-line system, who is now in California, state that hie health is much ituprovod in every respect Ho propose*, to remain on tho Western slope some weeks longer, should matters continuo to move smooth- j ly on the Bco-liuc.

East-bo and freight rates, yesterday, again went ail to pieces. Any of the fast-freight lines would take an 18-ceni per 100 rate flat, Indianapolis to the seaboard. Tho reason assigned for the sudden demoralization is that while Chicago roads restored rates to tariff on Thursday, St Louis roads did not. District Passenger Agent Tinncy of the C., W. & B. and the B. & 0. roads, headquarters Indianapolis, is already receiving numerous inquiring as regards rates and facilities these roads will furnish iu tho way of sleeping-cars, etc., to parties who go to Washington to witness tho inauguration ceremonies. It is intimated that Reuben Wells, general manager of tho Louisville & Nashville road, isjto oifor positions to a number of men in different departments of the service on the J., M.& I. road, whose ability he well understands through his acquaintance with them when general masher mechanic of the J., M. & L road. Mr. Thomas Taylor, who bas just been promoted from assistant roaster mechanic of tho Baltimore <fc Ohio shops at Newark, 0., to tho position of master mechanic of the shops of tho eanie company at Sandusky, 0., was, on ieevin* the Newark shops, presented with a jpld chain and charm by tho employes of tno shops at Newark. Michael Gilhooley, supervisor of the J., M. & L from Columbus, Lid., to Louisville, has been appointed roadwaster of the Short-liue division of the L. & N., to take offect Feb. 1. Mr. GHJUooley was presented on the evening of tho inst. with a fine watch and chain as a token of the esteem iu which he is held by hps friends on tho J., M. & I. John Gotisehall, late foreman of tho 0., St T*. & P. shops at this point, has been appointed general foreman of all car iu spec tors of the Pennsylvania Company at tho outer yards, the city yards, and the 'Union Depot This is a newlycreated position, as under the new rules each, car must bo iuspectcd thoroughly, not only the wheels and axles, but couplers, air-brakes, etc. John 3. Hensley, section foreman at Georgetown, on the Lonisvillo, Evansville & St Louis air-line, dropped deeui while euperintendiug work Thursday. Ho loaves a large family. The Lcra•isvillo Courier-Journal says: ‘•Tho employes of the road have strutted a subscription for tliwlr benefit All subscribed tram Receiver Evans down through all tho departments, and yesterday tho fluid had reached The Railroader, published at Toledo, 0., hi preparing to publish biographies of tho morn prorrrnenttrain-disp.Ytchors of the United plateau Their experience -in that position would doubtless nuko full ax interesting reading as sketches of their lives. The fear that their orders will be misunderstood, or the discovery that a wrong order has been issued, has givoa them anxious moments, und tho results of such mistakes would mako thrilling tales. The Lafayette Courier says: P. P. Garrett, ono of the train agents alleged to have been “licked” by Charley Carnahan, at Danville, Ills., tho Wabash passenger conductor, sonds us a lengthy communication accompanied by a chart, in which ho endeavors to prove that ho was not “licked.” After a careful perusal of the first and a close inspection of the latter with a pair of Superintendent Alexander's courthouse spectacles wo have come to tho conclusion that mayb* Garret don’t know what a “licking” really is. Where the Kent Boston Is To He Fouiut. Boston Kvcninjr Record. But of course Mr. James knows nothing about Boston. Tit© French have a saying tliat ‘fla France uo commence qua la quatriomit"-4'w> w does not begin until you get up to the fourth Moor, whero tho real peqple aro fouud in their unsophistication. Bostou is not to be seen at the Back Bay: yon might bp upon upon a little of it at tho South End, rs you ‘looked sharp and studied long in out of-the-wny corners, as Mr. James does not; and there is an occasional rare glimpse of it to bo had, as Mr. Howells has E roved, at the West End. Hut. Boston has mostly etaxeii itself to the suburbs and to tho houses Wvore that are to be had for *25 a month.

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