Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1885 — Page 7

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC REVIEW. she Local Theatrical Attractions This Week —Notes of the Stage. Coming Attractions. The continued cold,weather told upon the attendance at the theaters the past week, and managers were most loud in their grumbling. The most noteworthy of the engagements was that of Mr. Nat C. Goodwin, who gave an inimitable imitation of Mr. Henry Irving. The management of English’s Opera house announce the engagement of Mr. George C. Miln, the tragedian, in a repertoire of Shakepearian and sterling tragedies, for Monday and Tuesday evenings. Mr. Miln will present **Tlie Foci's Revenge’’ and “Macbeth” on the nights mentioned, and in the order, respectively. The principal support of the gentleman is Miss Adelo Payn. Mr. Miln. it will be remembered, jumped from the pulpit to the stage, being at one time pastor of Robert Collier’s church, Chicago. It has now been three years since he has appeared here, and it is said that a decided Improvement, is to be seen in his performances. On Wednesday evening this theater will be occupied by the spectacular melodrama “Her Atonement,” in which there is ever present the frlitter of blue uniforms and the blare of the trumpet, a suffering heroine and a comic police man. Baker and Farron, a team of comedians well known here, will fill out the remainder of the •week, presenting their comedy, “The Emijgrants,” in which they introduce their specialties. At the Grand the week will be equally divided, end two farce comedies will be presented. “The Two Johns,” with Mr. John Stewart and Mr. John Hart in the title roles, will occupy the first half of the week. “The Two Johns” is a comedy founded on the same lines as thg “Comedy of Errors,” and tli© comedians are weighty gentlemen ©f considerable avoirdupois. The new comedy “Three Wives and One Husband,’ Adapted from the French by Col. Millikcn. has beenoneof the successes of the Union square Theater. New York, and also the petite drama “One Touch of Nature,” with which it is preceded. The company presenting it is headed by E. A. Sothern, the youngest son of the famous comedian, Miss Louise Boefe and other capable people. The Dime Museum will present throughout the coming week the following attractions: In Curiosity Hall, Isaac W. Sprague, Barnum’s living skeleton; Miss Jennie Quigley, the Scottish* Queen of Lilliputians; Papua, a cannibal chief from the South Sea islands;. Olivia, the enow white and pink-eyed wonder, and Charles D. Griffin, the illusionist. Also; Marsh Adams’s Magnots. among whom aro Perry and Lulu Ryan, sketch artists: Marsh Adams and Walter l*rov, comedians; William A. Huntley, ban joist; Dick Sands, torpsichorean artist; David Marion, mimic; Whippier Twin Brothers, song And dance artists; Jelte Sisters, operatic vocalists. and the Rinehart children. The next lecture announced in the Plymouth Ourch series is that of Mr. A. A. Willetts, entitled “Sunshine.” Plays and Players. Emma Abbott is “doing” the Texans. <*!ara Morris closed her season yesterday. Annie Beflein will star once more in a play •atitled “Under the Upas." Heavens! Bertha Wei by has announced that she will act again next season. “Delusion” is the title of H. C. DeValle’s play jat the Madson-squnre Theater. Emil Leslie is once more back in the stock company of the Mndison-square. Jeaunie Winston is singing at Portland, Orejpn. in a repertoire of comic opera, Frank Howard, song writer and baritone of the Thatcher Minstrels, is quite ill. Madame Hulskatnp-Schelllng wili be introduced in grand opera by Max Strakoseh. Minnie Maddern i$ playing “Caprice” in the Heath. She is due.at Now Orleans soon. Frank Oakes Rose is organizing a dramatic company to play the “Windward Islands.” J. H. Ilaverly is now engaged in the museum business, furnishing “freaks” to the museums. John Hickey is evidently managing a theater at .Wilkesbarre, Pa., from newspaper paragraphs. Wallace McCreery, the tenor, has shown up in Ban Francisco. According to him he is singing in whis key. Ainiee will soon play an engaeement in this city, and “The Rag Baby” w ill come befpre tho “Robins . ” Marie Wainwright has been offered $350 per week, as leading lady of the new Lyceum Theater. Now York. 11. C. Domillo, reader of the Madison-square Theater, has read 523 plays since his connection with that institution. The Eden Musec in New York presents wax figures in tableaux, representing the shooting of Rossa by Mrs. Dudley. Daisy Murdock, the eupid of the Orpheus and F.urydice Company, has taken Ida Mulle’s place in “A Bottle of Ink.” Henry Clianfrau is meeting with success in the roles assumed and made famous by his father, the late Frank S. Chanfrau. Carrie Godfrey, anew comic opera star, and who was the original Falka, will go on tho road soon with an opera company. The Windsor Theater, located in the Bowery, New York, will be rebuilt. John A. Stevens formerly owned this theater. “Sweet Innesfail.” Ben Maginley’s new play, will be produced in San Francisco, after the close of the “May Blossom” season. “Ixion” is drawing large audiences at the Comedy Theater, New York. Alice Harrison and Harry Brown are the principal artists. The management of tho Bijou Opera-house, New York, deny the engagement of Mrs. Seguin-Wallace at that theater in May. Pretty Viola Allen has been secured bv tho Lyceum Theater as leading lady for the* first production. She will appear in “Dakokar.” Itose Coghlan, leading lady of Wallack’s Theater, will star, next season, in anew play called “Our Joan.” Frank Farrell will manage tho venture. Nat C. Goodwin, in an interview while in this city, of future plans, said he thought ho would manage a theater in New York, and probablv the Bijou. Miss Harriet Jay, authoress and actress, will take a company on the road soon, in one of RobArt Buchanan’s plajs. Charles Crote will be leading man. Last Sunday night Lillian Russell made her re entree at the Casino and made a hit, an army of dudes with silver tipped canes tapping the floor, by way of applause. Ezra Kendall, the funny comedian with W. A Mestayer. has written a farce entitled “A I air of kuls, in which he will star. Haveriy is £:u 1 to be interested in the venture. * ,‘ a . r ] cs '' yndhatn, the English comedian, will probably return to this country in the sprin" presenting some new comedies. He will not be seen in the provinces until the fall. A private letter from India states that Emilio Melville has created a great furore in that remote i gion, and is doing a line business. ,Khe will t return here until the end of the current year. Daniel Frohmann leaves the Madison squaro ' heater March 1. Ho intends to build anew 1 tester in New York, end as he has two new j ays in which he has good confidence, ho is quite i neuine of success. ’ quelin, the great French actorof the Coruedie Fr.ncaise, will make his appearance in this •< entry, at the Fifth avenue Theater, New York, Jan. 11, 1886. The supporting company will come from Paris. When in Germany, Sonnentbal said to Conoid: “Edwin Booth is the greatest of us all. hare is but one Hamlet, and that is Booth’s, halvini is the greatest of Othellos.” Conreid has greed to pay Booth the same sum as Bonnenreceives lor their joint performance of - riio” a t It*© Metropolitan Opera house.

Poquelin wanted the German actor to play in Paris, and Wilson Barrett desired him to appear in London. John Parselle, the popular Union-square actor, died suddenly of paralysis on Tuesday night, in his sixty-fifth year. The funeral took place on Thursday, at the Little Church Around the Corner. Tho following gentlemen from the Unionsquare Theater acted as pall bearers: Sheridan Shook, James W. Collier, J. H. Stoddart, E. K. Tillotson, J. H. Barnes. Joseph Whiting, J. B. Mason and Owen Fawcett Mr. Alfred Thompson, the theatrical artist and designer, will start a satirical sheet on Saturday week, to be called Snap. It will run against Life and Puck, and its price is fx> be five cents. The illustrations are to be drawn by Thompson, who in England had-distinguished success as a cartoonist. The letter-press will be furnished by him and Valentine, who formerly wrote for Puck. The plan of Snap is similar to that of the Paris humorous journals. The deep snow in the West and Northwest has blockaded a good many companies, and has played havoc with dates. Among the sufferers have been the Amy Gordon Opera Company, Herne's Hearts of Oak, Thompson’s Beggar Student company, the Rcdtnuna-Barry company, the Lizzie May Ultner company, Mine. Janauschek’s company, the McKee Rankin company, Little’s World company. Flora Moore’s Bunch of Keys, Boston Theater Youth company, and others of smaller note. SECRET SOCIETY NEWS. Items of Interest to Members of Fraternities —Masons, Odd-Fellows and Pythians. Masonic. Raper Commandery, No. 1, K. TA NARUS., meets for work on Tuesday evening. Mystic Tie Lodge, F. and A. M., will confer the Entered Apprentice degree to morrow evening. Marion Lodere, F. and A. M., will hold a school for instruction on the Fellowcraft degree, on Wednesday evening. Willis D. Engle and wife have gone to Minneapolis, Minn., to witness an exemplification of the work by Minneapolis Chapter, O. E. S. Ohio Consistory, A. and A. Rite, holds its annual convocation at Pike’s Opera-house, Cincinnati, on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Adouiram Grand Lodge of Perfection, A. and A. Rite, will hold their annual election of officers and trustees on Wednesday evening. The annual reports of the secretary, treasurer and trustees, and other business of importance will also be disposed of. Oriental Consistory, A. and A. Rite, of Chicago, has fixed the same days for their convocation as those arranged for Indiana Consistory— March 24, 25 and 26. Heretofore they have been held on different dates, thus giving the members of the two consistories a chance to witness each other’s work. L O. O. F. W. R. Myers, P. G. M., is preparing an ad dress to be delivered at Fort Wayne on the 27th of April. The Mutual Aid Association has paid the widow aud children of Wm. Wimer, of Union City, $2,500. The grand sire has issued his proclamation for the usual observation of the anniversary of the order, April 26. J. W. McQuiddy, P. G. M., has received an invitation to deliver an address on Odd-fellowship at Lincoln, Neb., April 27. There are forty Rebekah lodges in Massachusetts, with 4,406 members, or an average of 111 to the lodge. Several lodges have over 300 members. The grand instructor held a three days’ school of instruction at Union City last week, ending with an exhibition on Wednesday night. He left Saturday morning for Pierceton, where he will drill the team of the lodge in tho work, and close the school with an exhibition on Tuesday evening. The meeting of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 10, D, of K., ou Saturday night, was one of the most enjoyable held for some time. The degree was conferred in beautiful form, for the first time, by the present officers. Each officer did well. There were over one hundred present, among them a delegation from Bee hive Lodge, of Greeneastle. The visitors expressed themselves much pleased with the work. The regular drill of the officers will be held Thurday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, in Grand Lodge hall. Miscellaneous. The Grand Army camp-fire will be held in Lyra Hall instead of Masonic Hall, on next Wednesday night. The Alton Quartet will oe present and furnish music for the occasion. Members of Chicago and Scaudia Divisions, Uniform Rank, Knights of Honor, of Chicago, 111., will give exhibition drills at the ball given by Indianapolis Division at Lyra Hall, on the 24th inst. The benefit tendered Center Lodge, No. 99, United Order of Honor by the “Three Wives and One Husband” company, at Dickson’s Operahouse the 26th, 27th and 28th inst., should be patronized by all members of the order. DIED OF HIS WOUND. John Twine, Shot by Warner Banks, Dies at the City Hospital. John Twine, colored, who was shot last week by his cousin, Warner Banks, at Hoffbauer's saloon, on Hill avenue, died last night from the effects of the wound. Banks claimed at the time of tho shooting that it was purely an accidental affair, and was released by the police on his own recognizance. Banks says that at the time he was proposing to go to Illinois with a car-load of horses, and took the precaution to provide himself with a revolver. Meeting with Twine at the aforesaid bar-room, they engaged in conversation, when ho (Banks) playfully put his hand in his coat pocket and pulled out a pipe and the revolver, saying “Look out, you might get shot.” Before he was aware, the revolver went off, and struck Twine in the leg, making a flesh wound. At first the wound seemed to be of a trivial nature and not at all serious, but neglect of treatment brought on gangrene. Twine was taken to the City Hospital, but all efforts to save his life proved of no avail. The coroner, who examined into the case, it is said has pronounced Banks a fit subject for the penitentiary, and the friends of Twine claim that the shooting was made with the intent to kill, as the two were quarreling at the time. At any rate, Banks is a hard character, and is considered by the police to be a desperate man. Banks was not found by the police last night **"•* '"* *" * - ■ PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. Geo. Rhodius is in New Orleans for a two weeks’ stay. Mr. H. C. Levi, of the Model, has gone East on business. Mr. Samuel Magner is laid up from the effects of a severe fall. President Martin and Dr. Gobin, both of De Pauw University, were in the city yesterday. Hon. Bay less Hanna, who has been in the city for several days, left for Washington yesterday afternoon. Austin 11. Brown, accompanied by his brother, Captain Geo. Brown, of the navy, will leave for Washington next Friday evening. Mr. Edward Powell and Mr. William Johnson, prominent gentlemen of Madison, passed through the city yesterday en route for New York, whence they will snil, in a few davs, for an extended tour of Europe. Miss C. L. Ilottsford, Philadelphia, Ind.; T. B. Glazebrook, C. F. McNutt, wife and child, Terre llaute; E. K. Sears, S. G. Ditchon, Crawfordsvillo: A. E. Steele, Marion; George E. Nichol, Anderson; R. C. Greer, Peoria; W. H. Gregg, jr., W. C. Frederick, St. Louis; E. L. Button, W. J. Dawson, A. W. Brownlee, W. F. Palmer, D. Hey man, I). E. Ti to worth, New York, are at the Bates House.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1885.

NOT ON THE PROGRAMME. Nat. Goedwin and His Brother Have a Brilliant Engagement with Stage Hands. Nat. Goodwin, the celebrated actor, has always beon regarded as one whose peculiar talents all lay in the direction of comedy, and his ability to tackle tragedy has never been dreamed of. Last night, however, during the performance of “Confusion” at the Grand Opera-house, he leaped from tho realm of comedy into the domaiu of tragedy with a suddeness and celerity that leaves no doubt of his superior ability in that line of the business. While the audience was being entertained with “Confusion” by the actors the players were, in turn, entertained by an exhibition of that article behind the scenes that knocked their own feeble efforts out of time. Wigs were doffed unceremoniously, beer glasses, bludgeons, knives and missiles filled the air, and paint and powder flew like flakes in a snow-storm. It will be remembered that the Maennerchor Society recently gave a series of performances of “The Beggar Student” at this theater, and on yesterday showed their appreciation of the valuable assistance of the stage hands in true Teutonic fashion, by sending them a keg of beer. This was “nuts” for the boys and the faucet was kept turning rapidly enough to have caused ignition by friction but for the constant lubricating result. By the time the curtain rose the whole gang of carpenters, property men and scene shifters were gloriously drunk. Two or three of them had taken offense, earlier in the week, at an order given by the stage manage of Goodwin’s company, and concluded that this was their opportunity to get even. Accordingly Harry Grace, stajee carpenter, and Pete Daily, propertyman of the theater, went at him in approved Marquis of Queensbury fashion, and proceeded to have three rounds and a wind up that would have done credit to Sullivan. The attacked individual reciprocated their little attentions and gore flowed with a degree of freedom that would have thrown Buffalo Bill into ecstasies. E. F. Goodwin, a brother of the star, undertook to separate the combatants, whereat Grace and Daily transferred their attention to him. Daily grabbed a heavy “screw-eye” and struck Goodwin several blows over the head. cutting his scalp badly, and knocking him out in one round. Nat Goodwin, who was just leaving the stage, heard his brother’s cries for help and rushed to his assistance. Recognizing the situation at a glance he made a savage onslaught on his brother’s assailant, raising a heavy cane which he carries in the part of “Blizzard” as a bludgeon. He knocked Grace down and then went at Daily, who dropped everything and fled precipitately, closely pursued by the irate Goodwin. Up the street went Daily, past the Denison and down Ohio street at a 2:10 clip, and a few feet in his rear went Goodwin. People on the street who saw the streak left by the pair as they split the air probably mistook Goodwin’s white wig as the nebulte of a comet. The actor, regardless of the fact that he was “togged out” in stage make-up, pursued Daily nearly to Delaware street before he gave up the chase, and returned to tho theater. Manager Dickson was entirely in sympathy with the Goodwins, and promptly ordered the discharge of the offending stage hands. E. F. Goodwin was quite seriously hurt about the head. At a late hour this morning the police had been unable to find Grace and Daily, and as the company leaves this morning it is not probable that any charge will be presented against them. ODDS AND ENDS. The reporter went out of tho city the other day. At 11:05 a. m. the train, pulled by No. 1728, of the Big Four, rolled out of the east end of the Union Depot It was a sublime spectaclo to see the . # * * The Odds and Ends man entered into conversation with a traveler on the next seat front. “I been a firin’ on the other end of this line —the Kankakee end; froze my feet, and I’m goin’ down to C'in’ to draw my pay any lay off. N-.ver see sicli rough weather in my life. I seo twelve injuns dead on the track between St. Ann’s and St. Marys. “Hinjuns do you mean? Hindians frozen to death? Hawful!” ejaculated a horror-stricken Briton on the other side of the aisle. “Naw, not Indians,” responded the brakeman, pulling his cap down over his ears and shaking his shoulders, “injins, locomotives.” The Briton gavo a sigh of relief and lighted a fresh pipeful of tobacco. * Lawrenceburg is calmly waiting to seo what depth of moisture the thaw will bring. The reporter walked along High street. It is called High, because when the floods come the water is not as deep there by sixteen feet as on some other streets. The first man to speak to the reporter, recognizing him to be a stranger, said, pointing up to a mark on the church steeple: “The high waters riz up to thar.” A little further along another citizen, pointing to a broken piece of iron on a second-story portico, said: “That was broke by a skiff, taking a family out in the high water. ” # Religion, politics, social life aro predicated upon “the high water.” There is no amiable feeling toward Congressman Holman, who lives at Aurora. The people at Lawrenceburg want a levee built to keep out the high water—proud as they are of it they have had enough—and want a government appropriation. They think Mr. Holman after his many yeirs’ service in Congress should have sufficient influence to get it, and denounce him for having obtained the title of the objector, feeling that the title somehow stands in the way of their getting the levee. # * No town in the State has as many colonels as Lawrenceburg. They are all Democratic, and all of recent creation. Most of them belong to the distillery, and all of them want government appointments. * * * Home again! Yes, this is Indianapolis. Here are Sim Coy, James Dowling, Capt. O’Leary, the Legislature, the Dime Museum, and the new police commissioner, Tom Cottrell. * # Mr. Cottrell, now that he is police commissioner, must fabricate some new stories. Those ancient mirth provokers are now chestnuts, and will no more bring responsive laughter even from the youngest and vealliest. * # “Did you ever hear of Hughes East’s speculation in hogs several years age?” inquired a gentleman. “No? Well, I’ll give it to you. Hughes and another gentleman were in partnership in the deal. They borrowed several thousand dollars of one of the Landerses—l’m not going to tell you which one—and claimed to be feeding a large number of hogs on the Holmes farm, northwest of the city. One day Hughes met his creditor. Hughes was wearing a very long face. ‘What’s the matter?’ inquired the backer. Mr. East groaned. Recovering himself, he said, ‘the cholera has broken out among those hogs. It makes me sick to see a big, fat hog, well in the morning, fall over and die before night’ He groaned again, left his creditor, and, turning a corner, disappeared. The creditor, alarmed, hitched ui) his nag and drove out to the Holmes farm. There was not, nor had there been, a hog on the place. The cholera was in the margin at Chica go, however, and the entire drove perished like tho host of Sennacherib.” *** lu the early history of the city two memorable fights occurred. Memorable for the prominence of the parties, aud especially for the mystery that concealed the results. Nobody but the parties ever knew which whipped. The first was about the time the late Daniel Yandes, one of the most enterprising and valuable of tho pioneers, and his brother in-law. the late Andrew Wilson, were building their mill on the

“bayou” near the limits of the present Belt road. Zadoc Smith and Mr. Wilson got into a quarrel and went into the bayou woods to settle it Nobody went with them. They came back together, badly licked, but they never told which “hollered,” or whether, as the old ballad of “Davy Crockett and Bill Crowder” says: “We fonght half a day, and then agreed to stop it. For I was badly lickea and so was Davy Crockett” The other noted and mysterious fight was between Captain Wiley, father ot the late Wm. G. Wiley, and “ Big Jim Smith.” Both were big men, however, and ugly men in a fight They quarreled one night over a game, and went down to the then vacant State-house souaro and fought it out But they never told how they came out. They made friends after the fight, and, like Wilson and Smith, kept each other’s secrets. # # # They came into the clerk’s office. He was evidently a mutual friend and a Celt, for a reversed halo of neck whiskers, like the gills of the succulent catfish, threw the face into a kind of chiaro oscuro that would have driven Rembrandt into ecstasies. “Um! Ist this the place where —may it plazeye —ye git the marriage papers?” “Yes, sir,” responded the clerk. “Phat ’ave I to do?’’ rising inflection and pulling of the gallways. “Take oath that the lady is over eighteen years of age.” He smiled pityingly, and glanced at the prospective bride. “Me God! Yis. Look at her! I’ll swear she’s over forty! They got their license. * # # “Is there anything on the outside?” a reporter asked a county official. coldP came back the fiendish reply. *■ Dannie Dobbins was the favorite Son of pai 'a’s boys—a score And his duties were to purchase Mamma’s groceries at the store. Well, he did it, angel cherub! And his papa ‘‘done” he too For his juvenile perceptions Saw commissions not a few. Butter bought he. darling Dannie When the market price was low; Kept the extra change and spent it In a way that wasn’t slow. But the cruel, smiling grocer To reward him for his trade Gave him cigars from his cases, You know the legend—how they're made. Oh my! (tears) he sought the shelter Os the sunny, warm barn-door And proceeded to inspect it— Gone is Daniel, and about this time he is doing the cherubim act at the heavenly grocery store. THE CITY IN BRIEF. Forty deaths are reported for the week by the local Board of Health. George Paine has been adjudged insane and was sent to the asylum yesterday. The habeas corpus suit of the State ex rel., Mary Miller against Sheriff Carter is still on trial by Judge Howe. The divorce suit of Mary Bly against John Bly was heard yesterday in the Circuit Court and taken under advisement. The following marriage licenses were issued yesterday: James Elmer Bragg and Luara A. Hollingsworth, Albert E. Pierson and Jennie McNeil. Receiver Rand, of the Indiana Banking Company, yesterday sold the block occupied by Cathcart & Cleland to William H. Talbott for $48,000. % George P. Buell Post. IGS, G. A. R., of Brightwood, have moved in the city, and are now located at Vansickle’s HalL Regular meeting next Thursday. The United Slates civil service competitive examination for all applicants to positions in the unclassified postal service will be held in the federal court room Feb. 28. Arises of association of the Traquair Wallpaper Company, of Terre Haute, were filed yesterday in the Secretary of State’s office and approved. Capital stock $2,000. Cora E. Ross, colored, swore out a warrant yesterday before Squire Pease for assault and battery against FLarry Lee, colored. Cora claims that Harry hit her in the eye with a bottle. Judge Walker has granted a decree of divorce to Maggie A. Jackson from George, on the grounds of abandonment, and also to Margaret Southern from Geo. W. Southern for the same reason. A compromise has been effected in the suit of the Attorney-general against the County Commissioners, for the recovery of interest on school bonds, and $1,187.54 has been given the State. William H. Hoover, a South-side citizen, while on his way home last night, about halfpast 11, was met by a footpad, at the corner of Maryland street and Virginia avenue, who jerked away his watch and escaped. The United States marshal yesterday had David Comer, a counterfeiter now serving a term in the Michigan City penitentiary, temporarily released to testify in the case of Hayes, pending in the United States Court at Louisville. A WRECKED MAN. An Old Indiana Editor Picked Out of a Chicago Gutter. Chicago Special. “Your Honor, I don’t think I have done any thing to warrant my arrest,” said A. T. Whittlesey to Justice Foote when, brought before him on a charge of drunkenness. “I am an editor, and was formerly secretary to Governor Hendricks, of Indiana,” continued the defendant. “I now publish tho South Bend Times, and intend to go to Indianapolis to interview Mr. Hendricks. ” “Do you want a Cabinet position?” asked the Court “No, sir. I have no aspirations that way,” replied Mr. Whittlesey. The officer who made the arrest said he picked Mr. Whittlesey out of the gutter, near the Union Depot, and took him into the waiting-room; but the editor would not remain there, and created a disturbance in tho depot, loudly proclaiming the fact that he was an editor and a friend of Governor Hendricks. “There’s a shorter way to Indianapolis, from South Bond than by way of Chicago,” said the court, “and Chicago whisky is fatal to strangers.” “I will change my route and go to Omaha, if your Honor wili allow me to depart.” “Hurry up and start, then,” said the justice, and the Indianian made fast time to the street, on his way to the West. Talk of the Little Ones. New York Tribune. Children get hold of pretty conceits sometimes. “WhiVdoes God send tho snow for?" asked one little girl of another. “Why, the snow-flakes are the umbrellas He covers his flowers with,” was th answer. The measles invaded a household where there wore many children. The first child to sicken was given a box of paints and some prints to color, to amuse himself in bed. “I wish I could get the measles,” said a younger brother, “then I could have a paint box. too.” In due time he caught the infection, and was also given a box of paints. “Poppa,” said tho little one, wearily, after being a couple of days in bed, “you can take the paint-box away. 1 don’t want the measles. ” • This wise little girl also believed that the stars were the children of the moon. Her mother wanted her to go to bed one night before she felt quite sleepy enough to go willingly. “But the moon hasn’t sent her children to bed yet,” objected the little astronomer petulantly. It so happened that a storm was brewing, and heavy clouds were eathering in the heavens. “Go and see it she hasn't," said her mother The little head was immediately popped out of the window, and the sky was scanned eagerly. “Well. I euess I've got to go to bed now,” she said after the survey: “the moon is covering up her children and tucking them in.” Tlie Virtues of au lowa Housekeeper. lows State Register. A good old pliilosonher In Des Moines, who has ideas larger than Ins vocabulary, never tires of telling that the pet housekeeper of the world, according to his notion, is “unscrupulously clean,”

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. MONEY AND STOCKS. Loas Activity in the New York Market, but the Demand Continues to Increase. New York, Feb. 21. Money, l®lj per cent; offered at the close at 1 j per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4 S>s per cent Sterling exchange quiet; 60 days, $4.83i; sight, $4.86*. Governments quiet State securities strong. The stock market was less active to day, but the business was well distributed, and dealers report a good demand for all classes of securities, including some which have been neglected f or many months past, especially the low-priced stocks, The liquidation which was a feature of late trading yesterday afternoon continued this morning, and still lower prices were recorded for almost every thing on the list, the decline ranging from i to | per cent During the forenoon the market was dull and irregular, but after the first half hour some of the weakest stocks on the list, including St Paul & Missouri PacAc, accompanied by Lackawanna, which gave promise of again being a leading feature for the day, l>egan to move upward, and by noon an ad - vance of 1 per cent for the stocks mentioned and for Delaware & Hudson had been established. In the same time, New Jersey Central gained 1} per cent, and the rest of the list showed fractional advances. Persistent strength, with moderate transactions, was the feature of the afternoon business. The gains over midday prices were not large, and the movement upward was somewhat erratic, and not steady. There was an advance of the whole column, and at the close of the board prices were about the best of the day, and from 1* to 3, per cent, higher than at the same time yesterday. The coal stocks were conspicuous for strength, Delaware & Hudson advancing, on small transactions, from 75*, itslowest price, to 79, and closing 2| higher than yesterday, at 78f. Only 300 shares of Lackawanna sold below par after 11 o'clock, and from that time until the close of the board the price fluctuated between 100 and 100f, and closed at 1002. It was claimed that Jersey Central’s condition would be improved by cancellation of the lease to Reading, and that such change was likely to be effected soon, on which the stock further advanced in the afternoon until it sold at 392, at which it closed —a gain of 12It was positively denied, during the day, that Vanderbilt had anything to do with the recent advance in New York Central and Lake Shore. Both New York Central and Lake Shore took a less prominent position in to day’s stock market. At the close, Lake Shore is at the highest price of the day, G 6&, a gain of 2; and Central is up *, at 94£, after selling at 94*. Northwestern gained 1* per cent., at 94, and St. Paul, the most active stock on the list, as measured by the number of shares traded in, is 2 per cent, higher, at 72f, after selling between 71*®72f. Business in railroad bonds was well distributed, but the trading was for comparatively small amounts in each case. Quotations for this class of securities continue to advance, very large gains being made to-day for several issues. Transactions, 237,000 shares, to-wit: 40,000 Lackawanna, 32,000 Lake Shore, 20,000 Northwestern, 11,000 New Jerse}’ Central, 61,000 New York Central, 41,000 St. Paul, 13,000 Western Union. STOCK QUOTATIONS. Three per cont.bonds. 11 iLske Shore 66)6 United States 4*48 112%' Louisville A Naabv’ie. 28 United States new 48,122)6, Louisville & N, Alb’y.. 26 Pacific 6s of 95 125 j Mar. & Cin. firsts pref. 10 Central Pacific firsts. Miu. & Ciu. seconds... 5 Erie Seconds 56ki Mem. A Charleston 34)6 Lehigh AW’k’b’e of’d 94)4! Michigan Central +64% Louisiana Consols 74 Min. & St. Louis Il‘4 Milsouri 6a 192 Min. & St. L. prefd.... 29*4 St. Joe 118 Missouri Pacific 94% St. P. A 8. C. firsts....llß)6 Mobile & Ohio 8 Tennessee 6s, old 46 Morris A Essex off and... 120!4 Tennessee 6s, new 45)41 Nashville A Chat 39 Texas Pac. I’d grants. 37 I Now Jersey Central.... 39*4 T. P. Rio Grande 58 Norfolk AW. prefd.... 24*4 Union Pacific fi5t5....111)6 Northern Pacific 18.4 U. P. land grants 10S)s Northern Pac. pref’d.. 43 U. P. Sinking fund... 118*4 (’hie A Northwestern,. 94 Virginia 6s 39 0. AN. pref’d 13olf V*.con.ex-mat.coop,. 41 New York (’•entral 94 Virginia deferred 5*4 Ohio Central „... 14 Adams Express „132 (Ohio A Mississippi 17)4 Allegheny Central 3*4'Ohio A Mies, pr- f’d.... 70 Alton A Terre Haute. 23%! Ontario A Western 110*4 AL AT. H. pref’d.„... 82 (Oregon Navigation 68*4 American Express.... Oregon A Transcon’l... 13% B. C. R. A N 60 (Oregon Improvement. 31)4 Canada Pacific 38*4* Pacific Mail 54 % Canada Southern 32%(Panama 98 Central Pacific 33%iPeoria, I). & E 14 Chesapeake A Ohio 6 i Pittsburg 136)4 C. AO. prefd firsts.... 11V Pullman Palace Car... 114 C. A O. seconds 6)4 (Reading 17 Chicago A Alton 131 I Rock Island 113*4 C. AA. nref’d ...... 150 St. L. A San Fran 1934 C. 11. A Q *20% St. L. A S. F. prefd ... 37)4 Chi., St, L. AN. 0.... 83 St. L. A S.F. firsts pref 83 C\. St. L. A P 734 0., M. A St. P 72% C., St. L. A P. pref and. 15%iC., M. A St. I‘. pref’d...lo7 C., S. A C 21% Ht. Paul M. A M 88 Clevel’d A Columbus.. 35 St. Paul A Omaha 27% Delaware A Hudson.. 78%;fSt. Paul A O. pref’d... 884 Del., Lack. A West.... 99)4 Texas Pacific 1274 Den. A Rio Grando.,... B)4j Union Pacific 484 Erie 13%;United States Express. 50 Erie prefd 27 (Wab., St. L. A P 4 East Tennessee 3*6 Wab.. St. L. A P. pref. 11-% East Ten. prof’d 64 Wells A Fargo Exp...... 107 Fort Wayne 122 VV. U. Telegraph 59 Hannibal A St. J0e.... 3s llomostake.. .... 944 H. A St. J. pref’d +BB*4 Iron Silver Harlem 195 (Ontario 17 Houston A Texas 18 ‘Quicksilver 4 Illinois Central 122%'Quicksilver pref’d 28 I. VV 14 (Southern Pacific... Kansas A Texas 16%jSutro 10 Lake Erie A West 16 I *Ex. dividend. tAsked, TRADE AND COMMERCE. Another Off Week—Business Drags—Unfavorable Weather Responsible. Indianapolis, Feb. 21. The week closing to-day will bo remembered as the off week in trade of the earlier part of 1885. Probably the volume of business done falls below that of any week in many years. Snow blockades and severe cold weather practically brought most of the railroads to a stand still, so far as moving freights is concerned, and this means a stagnation of business generally. The belief prevails, however, that with milder weather, which must soon follow the extreme cold for Indiana, there will be a general revival of busi ness, as the markets need the grain, the produce, the live stock, and have the money to pay for it, and this means a freer distribution than has been experienced in many months. The onane§§ ip prices of leading staples, in spite of the light movement, is a favorable omen. Coffees, sugars, canned goods and many other articles in the grocery line show no weakening in prices. Leather dealers, hardware men, all talk of prices as firm and tending higher. In the produce market, whenever there is a mild day trade is active. Poultry, butter, apples, potatoes, onions, etc., are all firm at quotations. Eggs are weaker, as they should be. Prices quoted for two weeks past have btsyi only nom inaL Hog products moving with more freedom. Prices firmer than ten days ago. GRAIN. It was rather an off day in the local market; attendance on Change slim; bidding lacked “snap.” So far as prices are concerned there was practically no change. The Board of Trade Price Current says of wheat: “Prices steady, with fair inquiry for cash delivery, but only small lots offered. Receipts light; futuros dull. We quote: No. 2Mediterranean, o. t 85Lj No. 3 Mediterranean o. t 84 No. 2red,o. t 83 No. 3 red, o. t * 78 Rejected o. t 63 Corn—We note an active local demand, but meagre offerings. All grades will bring full quotations. Shippers claim receipts would be larger but snow blockades on Western roads prevent free movement of thiscereaL We quote: No. 2 white, o. t 42 No. 3 white, o. t 41 Yellow, o. t 41 High mixed, o. t 40L No. 2 mixed, f. o. b 41 Rejected, o. t 39*2 Rejected h. m., o. t 40 Rejected yellow, o. t 40 Rejected No. 3 white, o. t 40 Reject ed No. 2 white o. t. 41 Sound ear, o. t 40 March 40 Oats —Steady at quotations. Local demand good. Light receipts and few offerings, We quote: No. 2 white, o. t 32 Light mixed, o. t 30k

Mixed, o. t. SO Rejected, o. t 90 Rye—No. 2. nominal. Bran—Nominal. Hay—Prime Timothy, nominal. GRAIN IN STORE. Feb. 20, 188& Wheat. | Corn. Oats. Rys. Elevator A 36,000 38,200 53.000 000 Elevator B 13.800 2,100 3,700 Capital Elevator 35,000 Elevator D 18,000 Total 1.. 84,800 40.300 ~75,300 900 Correspon’g day last year 120,000 46.000 53.000 19,000 RECEIPTS BY RAIL PAST TWKNTY POUU HOURS. Wheat, bushels 3,000 Corn, bushels 10,900 RAILWAY GOSSIP. President Joy, of the Wabash, will sail for Europe the later part of next week. H. W. Hibbard, general freight agent of iko Yandalia system, is spending the Sabbath in the city, the guest of his brother, Yank Hibbara. Ben Blanchard, the highly prosperous excursion agent of Terre Haute, expects soou to receive his new $25,000 private car from the Pullman works. Alexander F. Banks, general traveling agent of the Continental fast-freight line, will thiu week remove his headquarters from ladianapolhi to Peoria, 111. Capt J. B. Hagans president of the Terr* Haute car works, who has been at Hot Springs some weeks for the benefit of his health, is expected home to-day. Enoch G. Ghio, general superintendent of the Seaboard & Roanoke railroad, died Wednesday morning last. Mr. Ghio was for years on tho & & O. system, as master of transportation, Wick W. Ray, of the Vandailia train dispatcher’s office, has been given sixty days’ laatu of absence, and will occupy the time visiting old-time friends in the eastern part of the State. Commissioner Fink’s salary will go on white off duty. To the average man the way of thu pool commissioner doc-s 3eem hard, even if carpeted with a $20,000 salary and an unlimited TUr cation. E. C. Murphy, formerly superintendent of the Detroit and Indianapolis division of the Wabash, has accepted the position of superintendent of the Shenandoah & Humeston road, with headquarters at Clariuda, lowa. Superintendent Atherton and other railroad officials who were left out in the cold with President Mackey taking the management of the Terre Haute & Southeastern road, have been on this road ten years or more. W. S. Spiers, late dfivision freight agent of thu Wabash, spent yesterday in the city. Ho seriously contesmplates leaving railroading and engaging in the grain business. Should he conclude so to do the railroads will lose a very capable freight man. The Hon. Josephus Collett, of Torre Haute, has gone to California for several months, and this is the reason assigned for placing the Term Haute & Southeastern, in which he is largely interested, under the management of President Mackey, of the E. & T. H. road. James Brown, parlor-car conductor on the CL, L, St. L. & C., has been promoted to the position of a passenger-train conductor, and has charge of the Harrison Branch trains. James Eden, of this city, succeeds him us parlorear conductor. Both are gentlemanly fellows, and well liked by patrons of the road. The instant that J. W. Sherwood, superintendent of the C., 1., St. L. & C., who is aloe one of the best telegraph operators in the country, touches an instrument, operators all along the line recognize the fact. There is a positive- ' ness in the manner he slings lightning, say the boys, which invariably catches their ear. J. H. Devereux, president of the Bee-line, on Thursday last received a letter from E. R. Thonias. general manager, now in California, saying his health had been fully restored, and he was anxious to be called home for duty. Mr. Devoreux said he would not call him back unfctL the rough weather of February and March wan over. Vice-president Wadsworth, of the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul, leaves in a few days for a vacation until April. He will strike for his usual resting place—Florida. Mr. Wadsworth is a very able and busy railroad man, but has an idea that a railroad man should look somewhat after his health, as well as the interests of tho road with which he is connected. The experience of Conductor Baggs on ths Beeline proper, who is of Irish descent, in the recent wreck of the passenger train, was rather amusing. His first impulse was to cry fire, then hearing the screams of a woman he became more manly, and as the coach lay upon its side he hoard tho cries grow louder, and in a loud voice he said to her, “My good woman, I am her*!, and will see that you arc not hurted,” but when he got to her, ho found her arm broken and head bruised. John Martin, district passenger agent of the C., 1., St. L. & C., has at his office, on North Meridian street, quite an art gallery, which attracts tho attention of persons who call'at his rooms. He has a large collection of landscapes and views on the Denver & Colorado and in Mexican territory, as well. lie also has a col* lection of curiosities which he gathered while on his recent trip through Mexico. Among other; things, the various gods worshipped by different 1 tribes of Indians. Conductor John Weed, of the Lake Erie Western railroad, who, it is alleged, refused fee i stop nis train to take on Deputy Sheriff FarreU. of Ber.ton county, lying in a freezing condition i beside the track one mile this side of Oxford, danies the whole story in toto. Ho says he knew nothing of the affair until his train had Templeton Junction, where the colored porter of; sleeping car No. 51 informed him that he had seen a man lying beside the track at the plaoo designated. Immediately on learing this Mr. Weed claims he telegraphed tho facts to Trainmaster Brinson, of this city. To-day several changes take effect on tho Wabash system, eastern division. J. S. Goodrich is appointed master of transportation of theeastern division, except Cairo and Rantoul lines, with headquarters at Peru. He will represent the superintendent in all transportation matters, except such duties as properly belong to tho chief clerk, aud will, in addition, act as trainmaster of fifth and sixth districts. H. N. Coffinberry, train master, is relieved from the care of the seventeenth district, and will continue in charge of the third and fourth districts, with headquarters at Butler. He will also have charge of train-dispatchers and car-distribution on his districts. J. H. McEvoy is appointed train-mas-ter of the seventeenth district, with headquarters at Logansport, West Side. He will have charge of the car distribution on his district, and will be held responsible for Logansport, Week Side, yard, and prompt handling of fourth district trains while in that yard. .Senator Lamar’s Private Life. Washington Letter. Senator Lamar is a quiet, studious and shrinking man, to whom any conspicuous position is painful. He speaks seldom in the Senate, but when he does the chamber fills up and the cloakrooms are empty. He is a scholar, and his speeches are models of rhetoric, besides being rich in ideas. He never speaks extempore, ana makes no secret of carefully preparing his remarks before ho rises to speak. His domestic misfortune is one reason why he retires so much into himself. His wife, to whom he was much devoted, lost her mind a few years ago. Her dementia was mild, ana blio remained at home under the most affectionate care. At one time it was thought sho would bo benefitted by being aken to a retired place in tho mountains not far from her homo for a time. Senator Lamar had a plain but comfortable house built in the mountains, took her there himself, and spent the whole recess of Congress taking care of her. She died about six weeks ago. Senator Lamar, ever since his wife’s illness began, has had no taste for society, and has devot4d himself to politics and literature. He is a man of great gentleness of manner and amiability of temper, and is both liked and admired by his associates in tho Senate. ———————— Save Monty By buying a suit or overcoat now, when they are reduced to the lowest notch. We can save you from $7 to sl6 on a first-class suit or overcoat, ’ from what new spring goods would cost Model Clothing Cos.

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