Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1885 — Page 7

RAILWAY GOSSIP. The Bethany camp meeting trains will be discontinued after to-morrow. An old railroader says he never heard of a yard-master experiencing any trouble from hay fever. Tho local travel on the Pennsylvania railroad to Philadelphia has increased 30 to 40 per cent, over last year. In the year 1 >54, 1% persons were killed when treepassing on the rights of railroad companies, walking on their tracks. Within the last week 33,000 tons of steel rails ware sold at Pittsburg mills from $26.50 to S2B per ton—the latter price generally. Hie Illinois Railroader has been removed from Dt&aiar, 111., to Chicago, and is now published •emVmonthly by J. L. Chilson and M. G. Peak. West bound travel is heavy. Schoolmarms are vre&ding their way homeward. Hundreds of them have been spending their vacations “down Kaet* 2*dies on a number of the railroads kick up as awful row when they find that their dear <J#rfcijg pugs and pet poodles havo to be put in ib* baggage car. D 11. Roach, general freight agent of the Ohio Southern I’oad and C. SV. Ilindsdale, of tho division of the 1., li. Sc W., are spending tl Sabbath in the city. George K. Davis, the wounded express messenger sc the Ellettsville robbery and attempted murder, i.s at Chicago visiting friends. He is tUfidiy improving mentally. IX. R Dering, assistant general passenger agrat of the Pennsylvania lines, who has been jwttng for a couple of weeks in* the mountains of western Virginia, is expected home to-morrow. The Chicago, Rock Island Sc Pacific company ha* had notices posted along the line of the road •warning persons against walking on tho railroad ari thus trespassing upon the company’s grounds. JL A. Gould having resigned. A. H. Lander is attainted district operator of the Wabash, St. & Pacific telegraph line between Chicago ana Boment and Fairbury and Streator, with offiv© at Forrest, 111. Rngh Gray, who died in Chicago recently, in seventy-ninth year of his age, was for nearly grneration the master car-builder of the Chiec*£> & Northwestern railway, or of lines which became a part of that system. Boyd, assistant general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania road, is spending a ni'eith with his family at Crpsson Heights. Matters of importance are referred to him as at luimt-—ho mingling business with pleasure. A. E. Touzalin, who has been elected presides of the Chicago. Burlington Northern (rwr* St. Paul line of tho Burlington), and will bare charge of tho construction of tho line, will liars his headquarters at tho C., B. Sc Q. buildins in Chicago. The City Ticket Agents’Association of Cinciraati lias voted to close all up town ticket. ofire3 from Saturday evening until Monday wwiiing, under a penalty for any evasion of the agreement. It would boa wise move on the jaci of Indianapolis ticket agents to take similar action. Yh o 1., B. Sc W. excursion to Niagara Falls on Tuesday promises to be a big affair. The train vk-iS be run in four sections. One will leave Spring£ix3, Ohio, a second, Indianapolis, a third. Pwina. and a fourth will pick up the way busings. The two first sections will make no stops esaFpt for water and railroad crossings. The Fletcher-place Church will this week run a® excursion over the 1., B. W. road to Puttie Bay and Kelly’s Island, taking tho steamer Jv? Cooke from Sandusky. Tickets will be sold tfor $3.50, good going Aug. 28 and returning Sept. 1 The executive committee are doing all they cm to make the excursion usuccess, and a grand tme j* anticipated. There must boa special cause for the numerous strikes on what are called the Jay Gould 3i&e& In the nature of things there should be r-t more rc ason why there should boa strike on the Gould system than on the Vandalia. the Beelive or tho larger systems, the Pennsylvania or Reading, unless the men who work on the ■Wabash and Missouri Pacific are far more tisrluh-nt than those of the roads named, and it is cot fair to the men to presume that this is 60 Frederick Billings, on being asked about tho rpkUing Northern Pacific stockholders’ meeting, since liis return, early in July, from his tour of inspection of the road, he had boon most of tb>> time quietly at his home in Woodstock, Vt; ’that he had neither been issuing circulars nor soliciting proxies, nor scheming in any way About the election: that tho thought of the ocsnection of Mr. Villard with any movements far tho next presidency had never entered his tread The Philadelphia Press, in speaking of the threatened Wabash strike, says: The indicatians are that the strike will amount to next to nothing, which is the most fortunate thing jß*aibie for the men as well as for tho railroad. Company. Every condition was against the j>ces.3 of a big railroad strike at this time, and it is doubtless to the strong conviction entertained fcr reflecting workmen that it could not succeed a period so unfavorable to railroad finances that wo owe the failure to make a whole hearted and combined struggle. A reporter of the Pittsburg Telegram has made a careful canvass of tho many railroad offices in that city and finds that the freight business is beginning to take a boom. With the xwilroads there are different seasons for work, nod the months' business of one year is compared v.th those coincident periods of previous years. By inquiry it is ascertained that 1885 promises toifiistance 1884 in the amount of freight handled bf the lines having offices there. Tho greatest improvement is reported from roads having Southern connections, and the Western routes raxae in for a close second place. Northern and traffic is not so fair, but the future aeetns to have much more in store for those sections. But few general passenger agents are more •rtensively known and more highly esteemed in Tuilroad atid business circles than Percival Lowell, who has filled tho above position with so much ability for four years past. Mr. Lowell was bom in Newark, N. J.. Nov. 1850. Entered railway service Aug., 1870, to 1871, successively master mechanics clerk, and clerk general auditor's office Burlington A Missouri River rad way: 1871 to 1872. paymaster and cashier same road. Burlington, la. :* 1872 to 1873, secretary to general superintendent Chicago Sc Paducah amlCh ieago, Pekin A Southwestern railroad**.subsequently chief clerk general freight office; 1873 to 1874, general ticket agent and auditor Chicago, Pekin A Southwestern railway: 1574 to 1876, amlitor, secretary and general freight and ticket agent Quincy, Alton & St. Louis railroad: 1876 to 1877. assistant general freight agent and general ticket agent Burlington & Missouri River railroad, in Nebraska; 1877 to 188 b, general freight and ticket agent, and 1380 to 1831. assistant general manager same road; 1881 to date, passenger agent, as first above. John McLeod, who for many years past has been identified with the important enterprises of southern Indiana, has done himself great credit in undertaking and pushing so near to complet ion tbo Kentucky and Indiana bridge crossing the Ohio river at New Albany. Mr. McLeod, in whatever position he has been placed, has filled it with marked ability, and while Dot a pretentious man there is an integrity about his character and an honest way of doing things which commands respect. John McLeod, chief engineer Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Cos., office *n Louisville, ivy.; horn at Georgetown, District of Columbia, July 21. 1836. Entered railwav sendee Oct. 13, 1853; to March, 1855; rod man and levelman engineer corps, Fredericksburg Sc Oordonsville railroad; March, 1853 to October, 18G5, on location and construction Louisville Sc Nashville railroad; successively leygler, surveyor, resident and division engineer; October, lis, to April, 1869. principal assistant engineer Louisville. Cincinnati Sc Lexington railroad; April, 1869, to January, 1872, principal assistant engineer Elizabethtown Sc Paducah railroad; January. 1572, to Julv, 1374, chief engineer and superintendent wafatenance of way, same road; July, 1874, to August, i076, general superintendent Louisville, Cldc innati A Lexington railroad; Aug 4. 1876, lo July 15, 1878, receiver, and July 15. 1878, to Jan. 1. 1880, general superintendent of sains Jan. 1, 1880, to July 1,1881, general super-

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intendent Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway; April, 1881, to date, chief engineer Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company. ■ ■ GOSSIP ABOUT HORSES. J. W. Browning has bought of M. F. McHaffio, of Stilesville, a brown pacing gelding for SSOO. He can make 2:34. John Murphy beat all double-team running records with Ghost and Deßarry at Rochester, driving a mile in 1:51. Hickok is working St Julien, Elma, the pacer, Guy Wilkes, Arab and Garfield at the Bay District track, California. Gen. Jackson, Joe Lewark’s runner, who has been training at the Exposition ground, is lame, and has been sent to pasture. Mr. Bonner says it will probably be three or four weeks before Maud S. will be in a position to go against her record at Narragansett Fark. Flora Belle, the noted pacing mare, with a record of 2:132, is now only fit for breeding purposes. She is upon a Kentucky breeding farm. Some other city is now to be afflicted with a gate-money race between Harry Wilkes and Phallas. The arrangement that was made, it is said, was that there should be three races between them. The Sporting Life thinks the Phallas Harry Wilkes race at Belmont Park was a clear case of deception and robbery. Everything was done to cover up the outrage, but no sane person who knows anything about trotters believes it was an honest race. The old story about Maud S. being taken to a sale stable and put up for sale and but $33 being bid for her is going the rounds. The mare from tho day she was foaled) was never in such form, barring her racing and breeding qualities, but that she would bring SIOO or $l5O among tho veriest fools. W. S. Bradshaw, of the New York dry goods store, drives a blue roan pacing mare with black trimmings. Sho is fifteen hands high, well finished, with great vital power. It takes a 2:33 trotter to beat her on the road. She has a yearling colt by Grenadier that her owner expects to astonish the natives with in tho future. The summer lias been one of ease and comfor Jay-Eve-See. As there has been no satisfactory demand for his exhibitions this season, he has been permitted to rest upon his wellearned laurels. Ho has every apperance of being in the bloom of health. His coat is a deep black, a marked contrast to the faded black hair that covered him while in racing form last season. The Rochester trotting meeting wound up in brilliant style. After seven heats had been trotted Kenilworth won the 2:19 class; Joe Davis, second. Best time, 2:18*. In the free-for-all pace Gossip, jr., downed Westmont (an old Indianapolis horse), Richball and tho rest of tho cracks in three heats. Best time, 1:14. Butterscotch won the 2:25 trot in three heats. Best time, 2:21.). C. B. Paul, of Indianapolis, lumber dealer, owns a chestnut mare, sired by llambletonian Tranby. Bhe is close to sixteen hands high, with two white feet behind and white stripe in face. Although being used exclusively as a business mare, she can show great bursts of speed when given her head. It is no trouble for her to show a three-minute gait without preparation. If trained it is believed sbe would be able to show 2:40 in a very short time. Lena Swallow furnishes additional evidence that the Blue Bulls are rank quitters. At Albany, N. Y., in the 2:19 trot she won the first, seventh and eighth heats in 2:212. 2:22L 2:222, beathing Kenilworth, Tucker, Billy Button and Felix. Os course, these last named fashionablybred fellows were simply unfortunate, made slight mistakes just at tho outcome, and this representative plebeian Uoosier pacer took advantage of their errors and slipped in ahead. Maud S. was given a practice last week, at Narragansett Park, Providence. Robert Bonner was present, and witnessed the work of the “Queen of the Turf.” The first quarter was reached in thirty-five seconds, the half mile in 1:08, three quarters in 1:41). Down tho home stretch the mare struck a terrible gait, and landed under the wire in 2:121, making the last quarter in thirty-one seconds, thisfastest quarter ever trotted on the track. The performance was wonderful, as the track i3 as slow as it possibly can be, from the fact that Griffen is getting it softer for the mare for her practice. Mr. Bonner was much pleased with the performance of his mare, and fegls confident she will make a record at tho park when she goes to beat her best work. WEST INDIANAPOLIS ENTERPRISE. The Town To Be Lighted by Electric Light and Otherwise Improved. The Board of Trustees of West Indianapolis have adopted the proposition of the Jenny Elec-tric-light Company to light that town with eighteen lamps, of two thousand candle power each, for $2,800 a year, and an informal notice has been given by the company that the condition required by the board will be conceded. The board made it a condition of acceptance that tho company should enter into a bond of $.3,000 to establish in the town a manufactory of electric-light apparatus, with a forfeiture of a year’s rent of the lights in case of failure. The affair is now, complete, except the formal assent of the company to this condition, and the execution of a competent bond. It is the most important act of municipal legislation that the young town has attempted, and if it goes through fairly may be the cause of other considerable additions to the business of the place. Some time ago one of the active operators for the improvement told the reporter that there was a prospect, with adequate lighting facilities, for the transfer to ihe West Side of the Eagle Machine Works, which find themselves a good deal cramped in the location they have held for thirty-five years or more, and have been looking about for anew site on this side of the river for some time. This is all speculation, but still it shows that the way the board has started is the way in which growth and probable prosperity lie. TIIE CITY IN BRIEF. There were thirty-two deaths in tho city last week. County Clerk McLean has returned from his brief vacation at Lako Maxinkuckeo. Tho Dowling committee of the Council will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. A petition is be'ng’circulated and generally signed asking the Council to prohibit street peddling in the central part of the city. The Frazer Brothers and Colburn have brought suit in the Superior Court against Peter lioutier to recover $3,600 on three notes of SI,OOO each, dated Oct. 28, 1884. A petition has been filed with the Governor asking the pardon of John Watts, who was sentenced in November, 1884, to one year’s imprisonment in the Northern penitentiary, on a charge of petit larceny. The members of the Travelers’ Protective Association will meet this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the store of Severin, Ostermeyer & Cos. and attend in a body the funeral of Charles ltuckersfeidt, at No. 33 Fletcher avenue. L. W. Lyle, arrested on the charge of having personated a pension examiner and collected fees from pension claimants, waived preliminary examination in tho federal court yesterday and was sent to jail to await trial, in default of bail for $750. Mr. Milton Ponder and Mr. Wm. Meek, on behalf of the German Wholesale and Retail Butchers’ Association, presented the managers of the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum $43, the proceeds of a game of base ball played Aug. 13. for which they will accept many thanks. Two boys, David Breslow, aged thirteen, living at No. 131 North East street, and Samuel Steinbuch, about thesame age, ran off from homo last week, and havo not been heard from since. Mrs Breslow, who is almost distracted with grief over the departure of her son, is telegraphing all over the country for news concerning him. She says that the lad was afraid of his father. Comk and see the boy’s two piece suit we are selling at $1.98. Muujcl.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Reminiscences of the Prominent Men Who Composed It and Notable Incidents. The call just issued by the president and secretary, approved by several surviving members, of the constitutional convention of 1850, for a meeting of all the survivors of that body, on the first Monday of October next, the thirty-fifth anniversary of first meeting, will hardly fail to make one of the most interesting events in the history of the State. And the interest will not be confined to the participants by any means. There are many of the younger generation who know of that body and its work only a3 they know of the convention of 1816 or the assembly that made the national Constitution. It is all historical, or traditional to them, and to make it a sort of living event, by bringing its members together again, will be such a vivifyiugof history as has not often occurred in any land, and is not likely to occur again here. To the members themselves it will hardly be less prominent and probably more interesting than the first meeting. There are some, no doubt, who have never met any considerable number of their associates since, and some, possibly, who have never seen any of them. They may meet for the first time in thirty-five years on the first Monday in October. Some may havo removed and lived for a generation in remote settlements, and learned but casually and rarely of the welfare of those at home. Some may have become so absorbed in business as to havo little opportunity to continue or renew tho acquaintance of the convention. And, possibly—though very improbably—there may have been personal enmities that have kept separate some who will be glad of the chance to forgive what is already almost forgotten, in the first meeting after the effacing power of thirty five years has done its work. But most are in their graves. One who attended the sessions of the convention very frequently, aud knew every member by sight, and wrote a number of sketches of them and their “ways and works, 'after a closo examination of the roll in Fowler's official report, concludes that not so many as one- fourth are living. It is a striking coincidence that tho president and secretary should both be living after so long a time, when threefourths of their associates are gone. It may not bo uninteresting to note here the candidates for tho offices of the body, and the leading steps in the organization. Charles 11. Test, hut recently deceased, was Secretary of State, and called the convention to order, at 10 o'clock, Monday, Oct. 7, 1850, in tho hall of the House of the old State house. No opening ceremonies, no prayer, no forms of any kind were observed further than calling the roll, when it appeared that all the delegates were present except Jones, of Bartholomew, Conduit of Morgan. Colfax of St. Joseph, Ritchey of Johnson, Taylor of LaPorte, Hovey of Posey, and Blythe of Yanderburg. The oath was administered by Judge Isaac Blackford, of the Supreme Court. The Secretary of State announcing a qtflttttrn present and ready for business, Owen, of Posey, proposed to elect a president by a viva voce vote. John Pettit, of Tippecanoe, proposed that George W. Carr, of Lawrence, be chosen president, which, after some debate, was withdrawn, and Mr. Oweu’s proposition accepted. The “triggers had all been set,” so far as the chief officers were concerned, for Mr. Pettit said that the election of Mr. Carr would be the same result in any ease, as it was. The viva voce vote showed 134 votes for Mr. Oarr, who was nominated by Judge Borden, of Allen, proving the exclusion of party considerations from the case. Six members, all Whigs, “voted blanks,” Clark and Albert Cole, both of Hamilton, the latter brother-in-law of tho late Ovid Butler, Hawkins, of Randolph, Helm, of Rush, Howe, of Lagrange, and Todd, of Hendricks. For principal secretary there were eight nomr.ations, Wm. H. English, of Scott; Solon Turman, of Putnam; Geo. L. Sites, of Allen; Jus. * S. Buckles, of Delaware; Fraucis King, of Marion; Andrew J. Boone, John W. Spencer and Ben F. Myers. Mr. English was elected on the third ballot, by a vote of 76 in 143, a pretty close shave. Turman had 66. Sites, Buckles and Boone were withdrawn after the second ballot. Subsequently Robert M. Evans, of Fountain, was elected an assistant by 134 votes, James B. Ray, probably the old ex Governor, getting four votes. Herman G. Barkwell, of Perry, and George L. Sites, of Allen, were the other assistants—one elected by 124, the other by 120 votes. Samuel McKenzie was appointed sergeant-at-arms, and Samuel I. Johnson door keeper of the body'by resolution. Thus tho body was organized. There was hardly any manifestation of party feeling, either in these preliminary proceedings, or later in the proper work of tho convention. Tho Whig party was on the decline, and soon reached its fall. In this State it had been out of power for seven years—long enough to accustom it to the position of “second fiddle” in the political orchestra. The death of General Taylor and tho “finality of tho compromise measures” left it nothing to do in 1850 but “entertain its fate and die with decency,” and it (lid. Its great leaders had passed out of active life into hostility or indifference, and internal dissensions were helping it to die. The constitutional convention met in just this crisis. The consequence, was tiiat the Democracy did as it pleased. The only measure in the debate on which any party spirit was shown, was the proposition to admit aliens to the right of suffrage upon the declaration of intention to become citizens and a residence of one year in the United States, and six months in the State. This was a trick of party truckling to the foreign vote, which was then and on until after the war broke out. almost wholly Democratic. The Whigs generally opposed tne proposition, but made very little fuss about it The most suggestive, active, industrious and effective member of the body wa, beyond question, Robert Dalo Owen, then a Democrat, who had twice been a member of Congress from tho “Pocket,” and had long been noted for liberality of opinion and scholarly attainments. One of tho best remembered episodes of the convention whs the arraignment of his marriage, in the debate on one of his propositions touching woman’s rights, a cause in which ho had been a leader since his boyhood, when, with Fanny Wright, he had edited a paper making a specialty of it. Rev. O. P. Badger, of Putnam, a Chris-, tian (or Campbellite) preacher, still living and preaching, had found somewhere a copy of the marriage contract which he proposed to read, and not being allowed by the rules, he repeated it from memory, and it will be found there recorded in the official report. There is little in it that has not been made familiar by the prevalent agnosticism, and nothing that would offend the general sense as it did thirtv-five years ago. A personal collision between Alvin P. Hovey, then a very young man, and Phineas M. Kent, of Floyd, now of White or Jasper, was another marked deviation from thehumdrum of ordinary proceedings. A third, of a better bc-sceming quality, was the speech of John B. Niles, of LaPorte, on tho exemption of homesteads from execution. It was regarded at the timo as the most eloquent speech made in the convention. Another incident of the session was a series of lectures beforo the Union Literary Society by prominent members of the body, Robert Dale Owen, Prof. Daniel Read, of tho State University, John B. Niles, and the promise of one or two others that never came. The body met first in the State-house, but when the Legislature, met, Masonic Hall, then just finished, was taken, aud the session completed there at 6 o'clock on the morning of the 10th of February, 1851. ■ —s — Insurance in Indiana. To tho Editor of tho Indianapolis Journn!; Thanks for the exhibit in Saturday's issue of the business of insurance in the Stale for the first six months of the year. You do not, how Tever go quite far enough into the details, and on that account some of your conclusions aro a little misleading. You omit one element of the work, aud by so doing aro able to say “that while some companies paid out for losses more than they received in premiums the reports show that many did a very satisfactory business,” and further on you draw the final conclusion “that the surplus left in the hands of the companies amounts to the sum of $284,577.72.’

Now looking at the aggregate result as shown by you there would appear to be no reasons for the complaint on the part of the companies which you mention. Let us add to your figures the items of the account omitted by you and see if the result remains as stated. Gross Receipts $1,077,533.68 Deduct: Losses paid 792.365.96 Om tied items: Commissions paid to agents not less than an average of 18 per cent 193,836.06 Office and other necessary expense in addition, not less than 12per cent.. 129,304.04 Amount of taxes paid State tax, 8,537.33 Amount paid by way of fees to State Auditor, and county clerks, not less than 20,000.00 Amount paid newspapers for publishing statement, as required by lawn.. 3.500.00 t Total $1,148,153.39 Net loss to companies 70,619.71 Now. the foregoing figures are even more favorable to the companies than the actual would show, and since the Legislature is ‘not now in session it may not be amiss to consider the fact as brought out, i. e., that the fire insurance companies doing business in Indiana during the first six months of the year sustained an actual loss of not less than $70,000. and that they paid the State the sum of $32,090 for the privilege of enjoying the luxury. It is a fact that the business of firo insurance in Indiana for the past two years shows no profit, and that the percentage of loss is to-day rather on the increase than otherwise. The only hope ’of profit loft the companies is the same relied on in other branches of business, viz., that the serious commercial depression so long felt will soon end. Very truly, H. H. Walker. FRATERNITY NOTES. I. O. O. F. Three English speaking encampments of Chicago have consolidated. An encampment will be instituted at Shelbyville about the Ist of October. W. W. Curry, of Philoxenian Lodge,and Major Glover havo returned from Kansas. An effort is being made to organize an endowment association in Ontario, Canada. A lodge in Columbus, 0., has paid $3,320.59 during the past six months for reliefs. __ Grand Treasurer Haughey and wife have gone to Tennessee to spend a week rusticating, I. E. C. F. Harper, Wm. Slaughter and R. Berger were in tho city during the past week. More than three thousand lithograph pictures have been purchased by lodges and individual members. Grand Secretary Foster lias gone to Pimento to deliver an address at the picnic of the lodges of Terre Haute, Middletown and Pimento. The hall of Dalton Lodge at Dalton. Wayne county, was dedicated yesterday. The ceremonies were conducted by Grand Instructor M cQuiddy. A. J. Cory, P. G. of Philoxenian Lodge, but a resident of Tawawa, 0., has been in the city during the week visiting his lodge and encampment and friends. Grand Patriarch Porter is visiting his father at Naubuc. Conn. He is in poor health, and hopes the air of his native State will restore him to his normal condition. So far the railroads have not granted any concessions in rates to Baltimore in September. Other organizations obtain reduced rates, and why not the Odd-fellows? The Patriarchal degree was conferred by Metropolitan Encampment on Monday night. Three weeks will intervene beforo the next meeting, when the Golden Rule degree will be conferred. Fidelity Lodge, D. of R., will confer the degree to-morrow night, at the hall, foot of Virginia avenue. The costumes which have been in course of preparation are finished and will be used for the first timo. The Sovereign Grand Lodge meets in Baltimore four weeks from to-morrow. The unveiling of the Ridgely monument will attract a large attendance from the Eastern States, and a great many would attend from the West if any reduction in rates can bo obtained. The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts has confirmed the action of the grand master in arresting the cliarter of Woronoro lodge for not expelling two of its members who were members of the patriarchal circle. A petition signed by 100 members has been presented to the board of grand officers, asking a restoration of the charter to them, which will be doubtless granted. An answer to the following question has been requested: What is the difference between the colored Odd fellows and the white; is there any affiliation between the two? The lodges of colored Odd fellows in this country derive their charters from tho Grand United Order, while the lodges of white Odd-fellows grew out of the Independent or Manchester Unity order, both, however, of England. The first is the older organization. The last has been very materially improved since its introduction in this country and is now entirely separate and distinct from the Manchester Unity. There is no affiliation between the colored and white lodges of this country. Both organizations aro doing a good work for their I'ace and so far as known there is no desire or demand for a union. Tho work, while similar, is quite different, so much so that no recognition could be understood by tho members of either. Secret League. The programme of the first anniversary entertainment and social hop of Indianapolis Lodge No. 1, Secret League, to be given Thursday evening, Aug. 27, at 8 o’clock, in tho hall of True Friend Council, Order Chosen Friends, Bates Block, is as follows: Flute solo (piano accompaniment), “Hunter’s Call March,” W. P. Hill; Welcome address, P. W. Bartholomew; violin solo (piano accompaniment), “Potpourri, Martha,” Z. Alma White: essay, “Indianapolis Lodge, No, 1, S. L.,” A. I). Miller; piano solo, “Marche Briiliante,” J. May Miller; address, “Unity, Truth and Justice,” Col. Lewis C. Garrigus; violin solo, (piano accompaniment by Ida White) “Fantasie Italia,” Z. Alma White; poem, “The Secret League,” N. J. Clodfelter; solo voeale, “Robert le I)iable,”Miss Nora B. Dickey; xylophone and piano duet, Mr. Frank Myers and J. May Miller. Refreshments will ho served. The public is invited. Members of tfie Secret League from Ohio will be in attendance. The members of the Zionsville Lodge will come in a body. PERSONAL MENTION. A. A. Holmes, of Sullivan, is in the city. Lieut. W. P. Ray, U. S. N., is at tho Denison. Mr. Finley, editor of the Louisville Post, is in the city. Gen. George Lilly, of Mauch Chunch, Pa., is in the city visiting his brother, J. O. P. Lilly. Justin Butterfield, of Red Oak, la., is spending a few days in the city, the guestof his sister, Mrs. Merrick Potter. Mrs. Sylvanus Whelden, of Yarmouth, Mass., is spending a few weeks with her children, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Whelden. Dr. F. S. Newcomer, of thi3 city, was elected first vice president of the American MicroscopJ ical Society at its Cleveland session. The salary of Prof. H. 8. Tarbell, superintendent of the public schools at Providence, formerly of this city, has been increased to $3,500 a year. The Oontz Warriors Fiued. The trial of the negro oontz players, James Johnson and J. A. Meredith, who indulged in a shooting affray on the Bates House corner, Thursday night, took place before the mavor yesterday. They were fiued for carryiug concoaled weapons, and sent over to the grand jury on the charge of shooting with intent to kill. The Sentence of Iturris. Daniel Burris, the man whose assault upon two little girls, near Indianola, on Thursday, caused Perry Fishback to run to their rescue,’ was fined $25 and costs, yesterday, for assault and battery. He will have to appear before tho grand jury to answer the charge of shooting at Fishback with inteut to kill.

PERSONAL MENTION ELSEWHERE. [Concluded from Third Page.] divine, preached at the colored camp meeting last week. J. C. Kirley is in Ohio on business. The Shelby county fair begins Sept. 1. Mrs. Dr. Green is very ill at her home, in this city. Miss Minnie Veter has gone East to Niagara Fails. Will Dunn and Charles Stephans have gone West The public schools will open in this city Sept 8. John Beggs is in Chicago, attending the Distillers’ convention. Mrs. J. M. Brown and Mrs Dr. Clayton are at Bethany Park. Rev. Newton Wray is home from Manchester, N. J., on a vacation. The county institute begins in the High-school building on Monday. Mrs. George Gadd, of Indianapolis, is visiting her father, Sidney Robertson. F. C. Duran, civil engineer of Wayne county, was here this week on business. Miss Minnie Hackney visited Miss Birdie Williams at Edinburg, this week. Henry Doble has returned from Cameron Springs much improved in health. Frank Barton, book-keeper for Randall & Son, has moved to Wabash, his old homo. The daughters of Benjamin Peak, of Indianapolis. are visiting friends at Flatrock. William A. New, city treasurer-elect, will take his office the lirst Monday in September. Prof. Frank Bennett has boon elected principal of the Morristown, Ind., public schools. Miss Hattie Mason, of Lawronceburg, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Sorden this week. Z. B. Wallar left on Wednesday for Hot Springs, Ark., where ho will remain two months for his health. Prof. Mowrer, formerly principal of the Highschool, has accepted a position in the schools at Springfield, 111. The fifty-ninth birthday of William Branson, in this county, was celebrated on Thursday by a grand surprise dinner. Miss Nellie Havens, daughter of Hon. Bon Havens, of Terre Haute, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Horst this week. Marriage licenses have been issued to William Remasters and Katie E. Armstrong, Charles M. I take and Nancy J. Copeland, Albert F. Wickliff and MaryE. Shank. The German Club danced on Tuesday night. Among those present from abroad were Robert Ramsey, of Indianapolis, Edith Gordon, of Metamora, Kittle Noble, of Irvington, and Hallie Kern, of Franklin. Sullivan. Carl Hinkle is in Greencastle. Miss Cora Hoke is sick with a slow fever. Mrs. Peter Hill is visiting her father in Bloomington, Ind. David Crawley, county auditor, has been sick for several days C. E. Barrett made a business trip to Chillicothe, 0., last week. Mrs. Lee Goodman, of Terre Haute, is visiting Sol. Goodman and wife. Mrs. T. C. Williams and daughters are at West Baden Springs, Ind. The teachers’comity institute is holding a twoweeks’ session, with a large attendance. J. F. Hoke went to Ohio yesterday, to spend a week with his wife, who is visiting there. John T. Hays and wife and M. B. Wilson and wife have returned from their visit to Chicago. Miss Nellie Hoke has returned from New Albany where she lias been visiting some two months. Albert Long, of Danville, Ind., and Jesse Long, of Memphis, Teun., are visiting Arista Williams. Frank Stock and wife, of Centerville, are visiting their daughter Mrs. G. R. Dutton, Mrs. Dutton i3 sick with a slow fever. Winchester, Governor Gray was in town a few hours on Tuesday. Dr. Markle is at Marion attending the reunion of his regiment. Mort Miller has gone to New York to visit friends and relatives. Judge Colgrove, of Washington, D. C., is here on a twenty days' vacation. Mr. and Mrs. McCurdy, of Danville, have returned home after a two weeks' visit with W. O. Smith and wife. Rev. W. H. Sands, of the Presbyterian Church, will exchange pulpits with Rev. Geo. A. Little, of Muncie, to day. A. C. Beeson and wife were visiting their parents and other friends in Hancock and Rush counties this week. The social on the lawn of W. E. Miller was a very enjoyable affair, and was largely attended. The German band discoursed excellent music. Prof. F. S. Caldwell, of Lebanon, 0., and nowly elected principal of Winchester higlf school is here ready to enter upon the duties of his office. Rev. J. C. Murray, of the M. E. Church, w T as called to Knightstown, last Tuesday, to preach the funeral of Robert Scott, one of the old pioneers of Henry county. County Clerk R. A. Lovell and Recorder N. Brooks assume the duties of their offices on Monday morning, vice J. P. Watts and O. F. Luellen, retired to private life. The county institute meets in this city tomorrow. Prof. DeMotte, of DePauw University, and C. C. Coffin, of New Albany, and F. Trendly, of Union City, will be the principal instructors. F. A. Chenoweth, son of Dr. J. T. Chenoweth, of this place, who has made his home in Ness City, Kan., for the past year, is at home on a visit. R. J. McFarlan, editor of the Ness County News, Kansas, accompanied him. CHURCH SERVICES. Rev. F. M. Buchanan will occupy the pulpit at the Garden Baptist Church this morning. The usual services will be held at the First Baptist Church to-day, by the pastor, Dr. Jeffery. Rev. David Mac Dill, of Xenia Seminary, will preach at the United Presbyterian Church this morning. Services will be held at the Central- avenue M. E. Church to-day, both morning and evening, by Dr. Marine. The services at Roberts Park M. E. Church to day will be conducted by Rev. S. B. Town, of Crawfords villa. A lecture on “Evolution” will be delivered by Rev. Win. A. Alexander, at the Ninth Presbyterian Church, on Monday evening, Aug. 31. Rev. John Alabaster will preach on the subject, “Joshua, a Great Leader, and His Successor,” at Meridian street M. E. Church, this morning. The subject of the sermon by Rev. J. H. Doddridge at Fietcher-place Church, this evening, will be “Congo Laud; or, Bishop Taylor and the Dark Continent.” Rev. E. H. Smith, of Michigan City, will preach at Plymouth Congregational Church today. Morning subject: “Modern Thought, and Its Attitude Toward the Bible and the Church.” Evening: “What Is the Christian Religion?” The Travelers’ Protective Association. The Indiana division of the Traveler’s Protective Association met yesterday afternoon at the Grand Hotel, for the purpose of effecting a State organization, electing officers and appointing committees. James G. Pugh was chairman and Greenwood Preble secretary of the meeting. The following officers were elected: H C. Thornton, vice-president; G. Preble secretary, and G. W. Geiger, treasurer, all of Indianapolis. The board of directors appointed for the ensuing voar are: L. W. Brown, J. F. Jewar and William Morris, of Indianap-

olis; T. D. Olin, of Terre Haatob and Joseph Stuart, of Sullivan. The appointment of standing, committees was referred to tho board of directors, who will meet in th ffarly part of next month. The constitution and by-laws of tho national association were approved and adopted by the State division. An assessment of fifty cents annually was levied on each of the GlO members of the Indiana division, for the purpose of paying the expenses of thn national convention, hold annually. A request was made to the national board of directors that the action determined upon at the last convention in Buffalo, to remove ttie headquarter* of tho association from Cincinnati to Chicago, be deferred until after the next annual convention at Baltimore, where the matter could be mom fuliy discussed. Tho meeting then adjourned. THE PENSIONS INQUIRY. Small Clmnce for Mouey To lie Except to Rightful Pensioners. Louisville Commercial. In regard to the proposed inspection of tha pension offices of the country by officials from Washington. Col. K. M. Kelly, United Statoa pension agent here, said to a reporter last night “The carrying of the names of dead pensioners on the rolls has no fraud connected with it- No pension can be drawn except upon presentation in person by tho pensioner of his certificate. Even then- if not personally known to the pension agent the pensioner must be identified. When a pensioner dies hie wife or chiidron, under sixteen, can draw the pension upon presentation of the certificate and identification. Under these rules it is evident that no dead man's pension could he drawn except by false swearing and tho formation of * ring. Even then tho fraud will m tho end cortainly be discovered.” “What, then, is the effect of leaving the nama on the list?” “O. it gives a little more work making out vouchers, and as the pension is not drawn vm got no pay' for it. So it is to cur interest to drop the names as soon as it can be known that the pensioner is dead.” “Are t hese names reported to the government?* “Yes: when the report is made to the Commissioner of Pensions if names have not been dropped, as of dead persons, they go in with tha others and tho amounts of their pensions. So they count in determining the pension appropriation. But they could only add an amount insido a million dollars to the list, and for new pensions a margin of several million dollars is always allowed. So tho increase of the appropriation on account of dead pensioners is comparatively slight. And then it must be remembered this increase is not used, but at the end of the year, if not used to pay lawful pensions, is covered back into the Treasury.” The reported 380 names of pensions on Chicago books whose right to pensions has ceased, it is thought, are of dead pensioners. Mr. McKeen’s Jockey Son-in-I.aw. Chicago News. Mr. V. L. Shuler and wife (nee Mclveen) of Terre Haute, are at the Sliermau House. Tba two are principals in the alleged sensational e'lcpemont from the Indiana town. They disclaim any sensational intentions, but admit tho elopement. Mr. Shuler, who is well known in turf circles hero, has been employed in tho capacity of buyer and trainer of the horses of a number of wealthy Indianians, among them Mr. T. B. Buford, who m now in this city. Mr. Shuler claims to come of as good stock as the McKeens, and seems to think the latter one of the finest families in the State. He says he has boon on intimate terms with the McKeens for many years, being a distant relative. Mr. McKeen, he says, had several men in his eye for future sons-in-law, and did not look favorably upon Shuler’s suit. Shuler, however, did not regard that as a great obstacle, and when l:e got ready took his intended bride to a friendly minister and married her. He is here for tho purpose of training the Buford colts, and says ha is going to go right along attending to his own business, and hopes ocher eople will follow hi* example. w i■—im ■■■■miaMiani■■■■■!■miiiiii iiium—■— AMUSEMENTS. VAN AMBURGI Cheap prices and good shows are the motto of tba day.—Washington Republic. 1820 65th Season. 1885 American and Japanese CIRCUS, MUSEUM, AQUARIUM AST) MENAGERIE HYATT FROST .....Manager Thirty-ninth Year. Admission 23 Cents Van Amlmrgh and Keiche’s Circus and Menagerie has done a larger and more profitable business than any tent show on the road this season, because it affords a good, solid, meritorious performance. Their teats have been enlarged three times since they started out. lat spring, in order to accommodate the rush. —New York Mercury, June 27. WILL EXHIBIT AT Fort Wayne Aug. 2G Bluffton Aug. 27 Mancie Aug. 28 Cambridge City.. .Aug. 29 Richmond Aug. 31 Amieraou.... ....Sept, 1 K0k0m0..........5ept. 2 Logansport Sept. 3 Franks rt Sept. 4 Crawfordsville Sept. 5 Rockville Sept. 7 Terre Haute Sept 8 Brazil Sept U Indianapolis, Thursday, Sopt.lo Rushville Sept. 11 Connersvilfe. Sept 13 CHARLEa H. DAY, l>iroc Lor of J^ublic&tioiUL

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