Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1885 — Page 5

jjjE MICROSCOPICAL FAIR. rioseof tlie Recent Meeting of the Glassjryed Men of Science, at Cleveland. The WoTiderful Display of Microscopic Objects 1 Shown at the Soiree—What Was Done bj the Workers in the Science. rroß pon.lenr of the Indianapolis Journal. CiKVKLAND. Aug. 22.—Tho American Society . closed a four days’ session Fri-.v-v afternoon. Tho meetings were held in the f, urt rooms of the City Ilall, and tho soiree at je Grande Rink, on Euclid avenue. The next meeting will be at Chautauqua, N. Y. Prof. T. j gurrill, of Champaign, 111., a well-known student of parasitic fungi, was elected president, Dr. F. S. Newcomer, of Indianapolis, one of vice-presidents; Professor Kellicut, of Buffalo, secretary, and Dr. George Fell, of Buffalo, treasurer. The soiree was of tho usual character—a brilliant display of fine microscopes and skillfully prepared objects on the one hand, and a curious and eager crush of visitors on tho other. The tables wore arranged in four lines, extending the length of the nnk. Each of the three thousand visitors had a programme, giving name of microscope, name of the exhibitor and of the objoct, with numbers corresponding to the tables. All was in charge of tho Cleveland society, the visiting members taking places at the tables assigned them, and explaining the objects and instruments. The throng was passing npand down the tables, from S until 11 o’clock. The old line of stock objects, which every one must see once at least in a lifetime, were trotted out and put through their courses—the sting of bee, circulation of blood in living frog, the head louse, itch insect, cheese mite, nose mite; gold, silver and copper crystals deposited by chemical decomposition of their salts, and always beautiful objects. There were insect scales, and beautifully arranged bouquets of them, which caused lore© one a world of patient work; diatoms arrangod in curious forms—a hundred or more an a spot no larger than a pin's head, and making patterns more complex than a Chinese puzzie. Os this kind of tatting and crocheting there is always a large exhibit, and nothing is more beautiful.

Erery department of nature was shown in “cross section"—the soft parts ot' plants and iniiuals, cross sections of eyes, baby’s fingers, woods, rocks, teeth, and the like—all beautifully thinned, smoothed, stained and stuck on the jlideß and immersed in Canada balsam or glycerine, or mounted “dry.” The rnicro3copist stops at nothing; all nature has to be cut, filed, smoothed, mounted and viewed under his “quarter inch,” and “B eye piece”—that is magnified two hundred to four hundred diameters. The Lord's prayer was shown through a pinhole; the 130 kinds of microbes in Cleveland lake water were “shown up;” the micro-photograph of the London Times sent by carrier pigeon post during the siege of Paris was made legible; the Sermon on tho Mount, written with diamond on glass with a degree of fineness such that the whole Bible may be written on the thumb nails: volcanic dust from Krakatoa—everything, in fact, except a “mounted slide,” to illustrate the contents of the witches’ cauldron In “Macbeth.” But when you come to a title like this: “Portion of the Contents of the Intestines if ono of the Greely Expedition Victims;” or, Igain, “Section of Twigs from a Mastodon's Stomach Exhumed at Jamestown, N. Y.,” you turn perchance away in wonder, disgust and alarm. You never can tell what you are to see, and some of tho objects you don’t like to ask questions about Here at the table of Herbert A. Spencer, the objective maker, of Geneva, N. Y., is a photograph of Psyche and Flora not larger than a pun point, which Mr. Bpencer has substituted for the “fodura scales,” need to test fine objectives. They are a nicelooking pair under a power of 100 diameters, and it is not at all necessary for Mr. Spencer to assure that young couple that it is a much finer “object" for young lovers than fodura scales. The young man goes off humming: 0 como, my love, and seek with me A realm by grosser eye unseen, Whore fairy forms will welcome thee, And dainty creatures hail thee queen. In silent pools tho tube I’ll ply, Wheie the green conferva-threads lie curled, And proudly bring to thy bright eye The trophies of the protist world. Where rolls the volox sphere of green, And plastids move in Brownian dance— If, wandering 'mid that gentle scene, Two fond amrebsp shall perchance Be changed to one beneath our sight By process of biocrasis, We’ll recognize with rare delight A type of our prospective bliss. Much interest is shown in pathological bacilli; thegennsof Asiatic cholera; tho tubercle bacillus; the bacterium of putrefaction, the yeast pi ant, which raises bread and ferments beer,are exhibited under high powers and attract much attention. The cholera bacillus is of doubtful origin: most of the ‘‘slides” going the rounds are probably made to sell. Prof. Lester Curtis, of Chicago, has been with Koch a year, and has made “cultures” in Koch’s laboratory. He was present, but did not show his slide or talk freely *bout it, and the general belief seemed t.o bo that his conservatism was founded on lack of faith that the comma bacillus is the cause, sui generis, of Asiatic cholera. Mr. W. 11. Bullock, of Chicago, showed through his SDlendid stands the different kinds of micrometers and test plates. This, to the mem Ws, is a matter of great importance; a common standard of measurement is needed, aud to make such a one is the work of years. Professor Rogers, of Harvard, not only rules bands of lines on glass up to 100.000, Aide by side, but also makes the standards tor measuring such rulings. These are on a compound of platinum and irridium. They must be compared with the English and French standards at given temperatures, and the work is one requiring the greatest patience, skill and knowledge. Mr. Bullock has one of Rogers' He also showed a photograph cene through the facets of a beetle's ey6, thus wing multiple images. Lie soiree was a success in every particular; snowed tho instruments, gave a chance to the P’Lic to ask questions, and gave some idea of ‘ e 6CO l’ and and object of microscopic work. THK WORKING SECTION. , Thursday afternoon was devoted to an exhibi bon of the methods of work and microscopical **oarch ol md successful in actual research in * " Moratory. It was an opportunity for each to pt the best methods and formulas of his brother gators. This, to the amateurs aud sci*n' * dents, was tho most interesting and foatrucfjya of all the sessions. The masters of n,? art were on hand, and probably 2,000 sections *Lecut, mounted and distributed during the * ternooc. In the biology section, Prof T. J. Vap n > B bowe<l the different methods of culti t*Jol*' various species of bacteria as be -r ',f fo p subject at Champaign, 111. Tubes colonies were “planted,” and _ . w h°le subject opened up at a cost for appa nil' 18 not excee ding fifty cents. Professor Bur t ‘ Bh y* that every college where there is a -ura, history department can and should study I?;. 8 ® or ®B D. 8. Keliieutt, of Buffalo Nor eho °j an< * A- H. Tuttle, of Columbus, 0., trout tbe ÜB6 °* livH growing cells, ti in. * compressors in studying k u “ animal forms. Professor Keliieutt the permanent secretary and a ln ? OWq ® n tomologist. The veteran travel Y ? .? lcr< * co Pht, E H. Griffith, of Fairport, N. •lide. o *** l ®*fooda of mounting and finishing r. Griffith is one of the most prolific

inventors, and, at the same time, one of the most genial of microscbpists. His “Griffith club stand,” made by Bousch & Lamb, was seen on many tables at the soiree. It is a full sized microscope, but packs, with turn-table and lamp. In a bex seven by nine, and three inches deer. Mr. Griffith presents the somewhat rare case of a commercial traveler who is also a stu dent and invrntor. He is known to every worker in the West, ami always brings the latest de vices and methods, which he dispenses so willingly that he has become a kind of foster parent to the society. Dr. J. O. Stillson, of Indianapolis, showed methods of general micro scot.ic work—mounting and finishing slides, etc.; Dr. F. S. Newcomer showed how to pick up and arrange diatoms with the “mechanical finger;” by this means using a cat’s whisker, or a thread of fine-drawn glass for a “finger,” the smallest objects, as diatoms, are picked up, turned over, cleaned out and arranged in complex patterns within a space not larger than the inside of a small pica o. But most interest is attached to the cutting of thin sections of soft tissues by the microtome. This is a comparatively new departure in micro scopy, and a good modern microtome costs as much as a good stand—say from S2O to S3O. John Coulter, of Wabash College, makes his students cut ail sections with a razor, and a sharp one, too. An old thin edged hollow ground one, which has come down as an heir loom through several generations of preachers, because of its virtues, i3 preferred. Sections of soft tissues must be hardened in alcohol, or chromic acid; they are also infiltrated with and imbedded in celioidin or in paraffin. Or they may be frozen hard and then cut. Btit whatever it is, fat, brain, gland, eye or pulp of fruit, it roust be made thin enough to let light through it, and to show its structure; il must be cut from one-three-liun-dredth to one-fifteen-hundredth of an inch in thickness. Suppose, for example, it is desired to study the grow th of an egg to a chicken. The fresh-laid egg is put in an artificial incubator and kept at “hen heat” for say forty-eight hours. By that time the egg is well on its way to be a chicken. The embryo is removed, is hardened in alcohol or acid, is embedded in wax and put in the microtome. The knife is set and the crank is turned. The entire embryo is not as large as a grain of barley, but it must furnish fifty or a hundred sections from head to tail, although none but amicroscopist at this stage could tell “head or tail” about it, And yet Dr. W. P. Manton, of Detroit, showed slides he had prepared at Heidelberg, on which, within an inch square, w r ere fastened and stained 125 sections of a two-days-old chick. The third, fourth and fifth days may be carried out in the same way. Dr. Manton read a paper on his way of making “serial sections" of embryos. This work was actively going on in the working section, and the two tables where E. H. Sargent and H. E. Summers (both junior students of Professor Gage at Cornell University) were at work with the Bousch & Lamb microtomes, were surrounded with intersted college teachers, doctors and others. Clip, clip, clip, went the keen-edged knife, and with each tick went a section of a brain tumor which had caused insanity and death, was dropped into the pan ready for examination. Next a lamprey eel, or “hag fish’ —a somewhat rare fish of our streams, which not infrequently fustaps on to the cat fish with his sucker-like mouth, gnaws through tho skin and coils itself up in the catfish’s flesh—was planted in tho paraffin, the guillotine set in motion, and within three hours the entire fish was cut in sections. These wero placed in order on a large slide two inches square, until it was full, and then another was used. When the sections wore cut from head to tail, they were freed from paraffin, stained, covered with “chloroform balsam,” and were ready for the glass. The spinal cord, the brain, the viscera, the muscles and skin were all in situ, and every single cell of the animal could be studied and its relations established, even to the epithelial and blood disks. So much for “serial sections and staining on the slide,” as done at Cornell. Very soft tissues were frozen by ether spray and then cut thin. Prof. Gage said his students, by practice, exccdled their teacher. He said also that the methods—the “technique,” as some love to call it—of tissue preparing for the study of histology and pathology was advancing so rapidly that no text book could keep up with the subject, and he should refrain from writing his “microscopic technology of the common cat”—companion to Wilder aud Gage’s “Anatomy of the Cat”—until both ho and the subject were older. Dr. Lester Curtis, of Chicago, operated B uHook’s microtome, and Dr. Geo. Duffield, of Detroit, the Schanzi microtome, and both did excellent service. Tho time has come now when every laboratory is compelled to have one or the other of those instruments. Thomas Taylor, of Buffalo, demon strated his method of examining butter, lard, beef taliow, spermaceti and Chinese wax by tho form of the microscopic crystals. The society seem chary of this method and do not propose to sanction it until it has been thoroughly investigated, which as yet has not been done. The only actual difference between the false butter and the pure butter is in the soluble fatty acids—butyric ad the like—and any method which does not take note of this chemical fact will probably fail in butter analysis. Palmitic, stearic and oleic acids, which compose most of fats, butter included, are substances of definite chemical composition and supposably crystallizing in definite form irrespect ivo of their deposition as fat of milk or in connective tissue. Outside of grass examinations and of chemical analysis to show the proportion of soluble and insoluble fats, all other methods have failed, as this method of Dr. Taylor’s is more than likely to do.

The exhibition of photomicrographs, and of the methods both by sunlight and lamplight, were a notable feature. They occupied one side of the rink wall. and were from the best workers in Europe and America. The structure of wood, of tissu?>s of animals, and of minute structures generally were shown as plain as print aud true to the object as photography always is. Dr. J. J. Woodward, of Washington, and H. L. Smith, of Geneva, N. V., Geo. M. Sternberg, U. S. A., and W. H. Walmsley, of Philadelphia, are all eminent in this way of making visible to all what the microscope reveals to the few. The use of the microspectroscope, the pobriscope, electrical and thermal appliances to objects in the field of the microscope were all demonstrated and discussed. Everybody had his note-book out and took such items as ho could use or needed. The session was of great benefit —a kind of microscopical institute, as teachers would say. It is a matter of some note that the American Society of Microscopists is almost entirely composed of Westeriv people. The shadow of Harvard College seems to have spread itself all over New England, and its microscopists are content to sit in its shade —at least there is no representative from New England whatever. Many think it a mistake to have gone as far East as Chautauqua, although all the New York State meetings have been successful. The whole subject of microscopy is assuming greater importance in education and in the arts year by year. Indiana, in which the society originated, has not been backward in the use of the microscope, aud many physicians have their own for diagnostic purposes. Some companies will not grant insurance unless the testimony of the glass has been included. Most schools have at least one, while DePauw, and especially Wa bash and Purdue, have made extensive and useful applications of the microscope in botany, zoology, physiology and allied subjects. It is also to be noted that the meetings of the society are very informal, as are also the members. Every profession is represented; even railroad engineers. They are genial and hearty, and no cranks, or perpetual-motion, or perpetualnuisance men among them. A. w. B. Lord Coleridge’s Bride. Philadelphia Tress. Lord Coleridge first met his new wife in Chicago. He mistook her for the daughter of the proprietor of a ham factory, proposed to her, was accepted, and only tried to sneak out of the engagement when he found that she was an English woman with a bald spot on the top of her head. Coleridge is learning a good deal in his old age. Not an Extinguisher of Babcock Fires. New York Graphic. Dr. Babcock, the inventor of the Babcock fireextinguisher. is, at the age of sixty-eierht. an inmate of the Sail Francisco almshouse, and in the last stages of chronic alcoholism. Evidently he ought to have invented a different kind of ex tiuguiaher. The Thief That Steals One’s Brains. New Haven News. A Norwalk factory recently displayed the following notice; ‘‘This factorv will hereafter be run without rum, or be closed. If any man employed here is seen drunk, he will be discharged without further notice."

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1885.

RECOLLECTIONS OF GRANT. An Indiana Man Recalls a Number of Events that*Occurred in War Days. A Frank Discussion of the Coming Struggle in 1801—Grant’s Ideas of Its Causes and How It Should Be Conducted. James N. Tyner, in Chicago Tim^s. Mr. Tyner’s paper begins by stating that his acquaintance with General Grant began in 1861, at Cairo, 111. Montgomery Blair had given Mr. Tyner a letter of introduction to the General, which, owing to Grant's absence, Tyner did not present. After discharging certain duties at Paducah, Mr. Tyner returned to Cairo. The General "was then in the city, and Mr. Tyner called upon him. Tyner intended leaving Cairo by a late train. General Grant pressed him to spend the intervening hours with him, and Tyner consented. What followed is thus told: As soon as I signified my willingness to remain with him, he inquired; “Do you smoke? Do you smoke a pipe?” “Yes,” was my reply. Then, going to a closet, he quickly returned with two pipes well filled, and, handing one to me, with a merry twinkle in his eye, said: “There, now. seat yourself and tell me all you know about the war—it won’t take you long.” lie was right: it did not take me long to impart my knowledge; but I found it a very different thing to extract from him all lie knew. But in the confidence inspired by the quiet of the night, he did tell me how “outsiders” had planned a campaign “for dislodging the rebels at Columbus and opening up the navigation of the upper Mississippi,” adding cautiously that “We have given very little thought to this subject, preferring to strike our blows at the right time back in the interior, while the enemy thinks he is crushing our commerce by choking up the river,” and among the various plans which he said had been presented was “an impracticable one, urged by politicians aud others, of sending a body of troops in boats down the river, to be landed above the town on the opposite bank, to surprise the enemy with a night attack in front, while the main body, under command of General Smith, should march overland frtfm Paducah to Columbus and make a simultaneous attack in the rear.” I at first thought that the “politicians” and the “outsiders" who had given the most thought to this plan was General Grant himself, but his pointed criticism of its impracticability, and the danger of making attacks from opposite directions in the night by troops whose movements could not be regulated by telegraph, and the certain defeat that would follow tho inability of either to unite in the attack disarmed my suspicions and led me to suppose that the plan under discussion had not been seriously considered. A few' days afterward, however, the disaster at Belmont revived my recollection of this interview, for the defeat there came of tho failure which the General seemed to anticipate. In our free and easy discussion of the war that night, including the causes which led to it, the efforts that had been made to avert it, the blunders already committed in its management, and its probable termination, the General did not express an unkind feeling toward our “erring brothers,” nor give utterance to a vengeful thought. lie spoke freely about the fraternal blood which had already drenched tho soil, and the unnatural estrangement of the sections. lle regretted the necessity of resorting to arms to defend the LTnion, but confidently declared that the speediest way to end the strife was to wage war and not to “play war.” “We must take the whole matter out of politics and prune it. with the sword, and dissect it in the blaze of the cannon," he said, which, in his judgment, would hasten peace. When I expressed the opinion that the South could not prolong the war beyond the winter or the following spring, he responded with evident sadness: “I fear that neither one nor two years will see it ended, and that the bloodshed will be frightful, for we are peoplo of one origin and of undoubted pluck, and thousands of lives will be lost in attesting this fact.” My next meeting with General Grant was in the White House, in March, 18G0, after his first inauguration as President, and seven and a half years after we parted at Cairo. I had just entered Congress, and I called, out of a sense of duty, to pay my respects to the President, not thinking that he would recognize me. He was talking with a group of gentlemen when I entered, and only glanced at me. As soon as they retired he approached in a friendly way and saluted me with: “Sit down and tell mo all you know; it won't take much longer than it did at Cairo.”

In the spring of 1871. during the first session of the Forty-second Congress, an opportunity was afforded me of seeing President Grant under circumstances somewhat trying to him. Congress then he’d short sessions, beginning with the 4th of March—sessions that had become necessary in the stirring period of the war and reconstruction—and the occasion for such assembling had, in the judgment of many leading representatives of the dominant party, become unnecessary. After the re election of Speaker Blaine an attempt was made to adjourn until the regular December session, without announcing the standing committees of the House or proceeding to legislation. Many gentlemen on the Republican side believed that the condition of the South—where murders and outrages for pplitical purposes by organized bands of Ku-klux, White-liners, etc. were being constantly reported, and where it was alleged that the lives and property of Unionists' were unsafe—demanded legislation for their further prolection. They opposed an adjournment, and asked that the committee on reconstruction, or a select committee charged with similar duties, should be announced and put to the work of maturing a “force bill.” There was a majority in the House, however, opposed to further legislation at that time, and they expressed their opposition by passing several resolutions at different times fixing various dates for adjournment. The Senate debated, and yet rarely voted upon these resolutions, for a large majority of that body preferred to throw additional protection around the people of the South by enlarging the jurisdiction of the United States courts so as to includes the crimes alluded to, and by the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, but they hesitated to take a decided stand on that side of the case; hence they did not generally vote down the adjournment resolutions sent over from the House, but allowed them to die by limitation. After these struggles had been prolonged for a month or more, the President was appealed to by a self-constituted committee of members to send a special message to Congress requesting further legislation before adjournment. Two or three interviews by ap pomtment were held with him at the executive mansion by tho gentlemen of this self chosen committee, in which he expressed grave doubts of the propriety of so acting, and the fear that tho message would be denounced as an evident attempt to interfere with the duties of a co-ordinate branch of the government. But a forcible presentation of his duty under the clause of the Constitution which requires that the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, aud recommend to their consideration such measures as ho shall judge necessary and expedient," seemed to overcome his objections, and he arranged to meet tho gentlemen the next morning and submit his message to them. At this point I became acquainted with the fact to which I now refer. The President, at the meeting agreed upon, had no manuscript prepared, and seemed but little inclined to discuss the object of th© meeting. Quietly, however, he annonced that he had thought the matter all over after retiring the evening before, and devoted time to its consideration that would otherwise have been spent in slumber, and had concluded that he could not properly transmit such a message. Pressing and urgent appeals thereupon followed, and a warning from senators, who were greatly interested in getting the paper in, that the impatience of the Senate could not be longer restrained, and that the House resolution for adjournment th3t day would soon be agreed to, when anew light seemed to break in on the President’s mind, and he announced his readiness to prepare the message. Seating himself at the table he wrote it; not a long one, but a concise and clear statement of the case, with a recommendation for prompt action—a creditable state paper, and he wrote it as rapidly as he could move the pen, and had the message on its way to both houses in as little time as it has now taken me to refer to the circumstance. Shortly beforo my last term in Congress bad

ended, Postmaster-general Jewell, on behalf of President Grant and himself, tendered me the appointment of Second Assistant Postmastergeneral, and said that the President desired to see me on the subject. I called at the White House, and the tender was repeated, whereupon I asked for some time to consider it. I was not averse to the acceptance, but I believed that I ought to abandon politics and turn my attention to private affairs, and so expressed myself to him. It was, however, agreed that I should communicate my decision upon the Saturday just preceding final adjournment, of which fact I asked the President to make a memorandum, but he replied that memorandums were rarely necessary to aid his memory—a fact of which I had frequent confirmation in our subsequent official intercourse. Two days before the time set for receiving my answer, he sent my nomination to the Senate, and the first intimation thereof which 1 received was the congratulation of one of the secretaries of that body upon my prompt confirmation. I went to the Wnite House the next morning to inquire if he had not forgotten the arrangement betweon us, when he answered: “No; it is seldom that I can find any one willing to receive an appointment, and when such a person turns up, I close the bargain promptly.” Sixteen months after the circumstance occurred to which I have just alluded, Postmastergeneral Jewell severed his connection with the department. He had gone to the White House on an errand, and returned to tell me that he had there tendered his resignation at the President s request. We were frieuds, and I was much grieved at this announcement. He had learned that the President intended to offer the place to me, and communicated that fact in close confiWhile we were talking a messenger trom the hite House handed me a note requesting me to call there. The President did not know that I had learned of his intentions from the retiring Postmaster-general. So, when I was seated, he turned abruptly with the remark, “I want your resignation.” “All right, Mr. President,” I answered, “you could not ask for anything I would more cheerfully give you under the circumstances." He eyed me closely and suspiciously, while I wrote out tho resignation, and holding his pen as if to indorse his acceptance of it, he said: “I accept this resignation upon certain conditions, the main one being that you will accept the appointment of Postmastergeneral.” There were other conditions, only ono of which need bo mentioned herein. That was that I should not remove a certain lady then employed in the dead-letter office of the department. “She is a furious rebel, I am told, and you would probably punish her by dismissal; but it must not be done,” ho added; and when I inquired tho reason for retaining her ho answered: “She is the only person,except Nellie's (his daughter’s) little baby, ever born in the White House, and she shall not be disturbed because of her opinions while I am President” Nothing ever occurred in our intercourse that gave me a greater insight into the depth of his feelings and the strength of his sentiments. The old hero’s eyes moistened with emotion when he referred so tenderly to the young life that had recently dawned under that historic roof, and announced that the place was so sacred to him that anothor whose eyes were first opened upon the light of day in that same place was his ward, and he her protector. Another instance of General Grant's devotion to friends camo under my observation. In fact, ho would throw the doubts of the law, and was inclined to enlarge his convictions of duty, so as to favor anyone to whom he was attached. In private life, such fidelity is worthy of all praise; in public life, especially in tho distribution of patronage, it sometimes becomes a serious fault. Ho would tolerate no condemnation of one whom he cherished as a friend, nor believe anything wrong of him, except upon the most conclusive proof. His charity was of that absorbing quality that he would condone almost, any offense except a certain and provoking betrayal of confidence. Whoever was once driven from the citadel of his love, ever afterward fouud its gates barred against? him. He passed sentence only upon unquestioned evidence and positive knowledge, and there was no subsequent pardon of the sin. Upon one occasion he seriously contemplated the appointment to an important place of one who had been sentenced for a crime and to whom a pardon had been extended. When remonstrated with he answered: “He is an innocent man, and his conviction was the sequel of a shameless persecution. Why should I not stand by him when I feel and know that he is innocent?" It required considerable reasoning as to the impropriety of such an appointment to persuade him from his purpose before he reluctantly yielded. General Grant would not tolerate insubordination. One p>roof of his severity in this regard come to me in this wise: Ho had appointed a friend of one of his Cabinet officers as postmaster of one of the leading cities, and had based the appointment upon the recommendation of this Secretary. Tho postmaster had celebrated his inauguration into office by dismissing an employe recently sent there and detailed to duty by the officials of the department. I remonstrated with him and ordered a reinstatement, upon the ground that the employe was an expert and the personal representative of the department, but the postmaster seemed to be immovable. When I presented this case to the President, to inquire if I could have his authority for the warning that if my order do reinstate tho employe was not complied with someone else would be promptly chosen a3 hi3 successor, ho replied, very sternly: “No, I want the name of his successor now. I never tolerated insubordination in the army, and I will not tolerate it in any official in the civil service.”

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STORIES BY HUGH CONWAY: SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATIONS FOR HUGH CONWAY'S LAST MANUSCRIPTS. * We have great satisfaction in announcing that the LATEST MANUSCRIPTS of the lamented HUGH CONWAY hava been secured by us for EARLY PUBLICATION in the columns of THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. They consist of three SHORT STORIES, and are the only unpublished Short Stories of the eminently popular author of “Called Back." Their titles are as follows: 1. At What a Cost. (In One Number —Already Published.) 2. The Story of a Sculptor. (In Three Numbers.) 3. Capital Wine. (One Number.) No. 1 was printed on Sunday. Aug. 23, and Nos. 2 and 3 will follow in succession. We may add that the stories are written in Hugh Conway’s vivid and graphic style, the situations are most effective, the current problems of social relations and varying phases of domestic life worked out in them are intensely interesting, and the characters leave the reader with distinct impressions such as are caused by people of striking persouality in actual life. The appropriateness of this intervention in the existing arrangements for our Serial Literature will be self-evident. The recent lamentable and all too early decease of the brilliant novelist naturally excites great interest in the work he has left behind, and calls for its publication as soon as practicable' We shall, therefore, defer the completion of the Octave of Short Stories by Distinguished Authors in order that the trio left by HUGH CONWAY may ba commenced in our columns at the earliest date. On September 27 the publication of the Octave of Short Stories will be resumed by WILKIE COLLINS, and continued by stories from the pens of RHODA BROUGHTON aud THOMAS HARDY. THE SUNDAY JOURNAL! \hf I CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND. Excellent advantage* ww wt/lHkCMtaf for Classical, Scientific and Preparatory education. The Museum of Natural History with lecture room, laboratories and large illustrative collections. Libraries 23,000 Vols. Location beautiful and healthful. Term begins Sept. 9th. 2nd term Jau. 6th, ISB6. 3r4 tarm March 29th. For catalogues address JOSEPH F. TUTTLE, President. THE INDIANA BICYCLE COMPANY, A . § 108 N. Penn. St., Indianapolis, Ind. j$ §| Have in stock full a3sortmont of the | A. ""■■T “Hyr# RODGE ANO EXPERT COLUMBIA BICYCLES, if HI Agents for the STAR. F.ACILTS, KANGAROO CLUB, SANS- J• ' '\UrlfL P ARIEL and THE IDEAL, the only first-class boys'wheel made. Vip [flip-L/ Di fioult repairin'* and nickelm?a specialty. Old wheels bought, sold or - taken in exchange for new. Send fwo-eont stamp for catalogne. ' 3 fjpr

AMUSEMENTS. ON THE WAY TO MEXICO. ENGLISH’S OPERA-HOUSE. ONE NIGHT and ONE MATINEE, Wednesday, Aug. 26. RETURN OF THE FAMOUS MexieanNat-ional Bant Under the personal supervision of Junius Hart, Esq. 80-MASTER MUSICIANS-BO CAPT. ENCARNACION PAYEN, Director, will give two more Grand Military Band Concerts, WEDNESDAY MATINEE at 2:30 p. m. WEDNESDAY NIGHT at 8:l5 p. m. I Night—2sc. 50c. 75c and sl. Matinee—2sc, 50c. and 75c. Sale of seats begins at boxoftice, English’s Opera-house, at 9 a. m. on Monday, August 24. THE ROLLERCOASTER Open Every Afternoon and Evening Except Sunday. One Admission and Two Hides, Sc. Ladies admitted to the grounds FKKE. WHEAT BAKING POWDER AWARDED GOLD MEDAL (First Prize) at NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION OYER ALL COMPETITORS. .-IGap/ : MAKES BREAD JsssKlk Dyspeptics can eat. MARVIN KALBFLEISCH'S SONS, Established 1829. NEW YORK. lor Sale By AH LEADING GEOOERS w—■Bmmiaßl IH !■! BlMH—i—g— Retail] in k Price of Gas! Notice to Gas Consumers and Others. Your attention Is called to the marked reduction In the price of gas, which took effect on the Ist day of March. The company is now furnishing gas to all consumers at SI.BO per I,ooocubio feet. Thisprice is certainly within the reach of all, for both lighting and cooking purposes. The convenience and comfort of cooking by gas, especially during the summer months, where a tire is not otherwise required, can only be thoroughly appreciated by th >se who have had experience in its useful application for that purpose. The company has sold for use in this city during the last four years a large number of gas staves and is fished, from the many testimonials from its patrons, at these stores “fill a long-felt want." Gasoline Stoves changed to Gaa Stoves at a small expense. and Gas Engines roR SALS AT COST. INDIANAPOLIS GAM A! COKE CO, No, 47 South Pennsylvania Street A D. FRAY, Secretary.

MASTER’S SALE OF THE By virtue of a certified copy of a decree issued out of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana, directed to the undersigned. Master in Chancery of said Court, in a certain causo pending in said court, wherein Henry H. Porter and others are complainants and The Chicago & Great Southern Railway Company and others are defends ants, the undersigned, Master in Chancery of said Court, will offer for sale, at public auction, at th* door of the United States Court-house and Postoffic* building, namely, the west door of said budding on Market street, in the city of Indianapolis, count/ of Marion and State of Indiana, on WEDNESDAY, THE FOURTEENTH (14th) DAT OF OCTOBER, A. D., 1885, at 10 o’clock a. m. of said day, the following da* scribed property and premises, to-wit: All and singular the lino of the railway of th* said defendant corporation, The Chicago & Great Southern Railway Company, constructed or to bo constructed, from Fair Oaks, in Jasper county, ex* tending through the counties of Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren, Fountain and Clay to the city of Brazil, in said county of Clay, all being in th* State of Indiana, together with ad lands, tenements and hereditaments acquired or appropriated for th* purpose of a right of way of said railway, including all side-tracks and rights of way for the same, and also all depots and station grounds, and all depots, engine-houses, car-houses, station-houses, warehouses, machine-shops, car shops, work shops, freight-houses, grain-houses and elevators, and other erections ana superstructures; all machinery, tools and implement* held or acquired for use in connection with said rail* way; and also all locomotives, tenders, cars and other rolling stock and equipment, rails, bridges, ways, piers, carriages, chairs, spikes, wheels, axles, ties, and all fuel and other stores and supplies belonging to, or that may from time to time belong to, or be provided for use upon or in connection with said railroad, with all and'singular the appurtenances, and the rents and incomes and profits of the same, and all the franchises and other rights of the said railway company pertaining to the said railway, being all the property described in and covered by two certain aeoas of trust made by Th© Chicago & Great Southern Railway Company to John 0. New, trustee, one dated November 1, 1881, and one dated Anril 9, 1883. Said property will be sold at public auction, to th* highost bidder, without relief from valuation or appraisement laws, and without tho right of redemption from such sale, and free from all demands, liens and incumbrances whatever. Such sale shall be for cash, and no bid shall be r* ceived for le r >s than three hundred thousand dollar*, one hundred thousand of which shall bo j>aul at th* time of sale, and the balance to be paid into court upon confirmation of th© sale, unless the coart shall at that time otherwise order. Upon the report of the sale of the property, fraa* chises, rights and interests described in said trust deeds, which the Master is required to make forth* with after such sale, and upon full compliance with the terms of such sale by the purchaser, and the ap* proval thereof by said court, the purchaser will b* entitled to a deed convoying to him absolutely th* said property, rights, franchises and Interests so soldi as aforesaid. WILLIAM P. FISH BACK. Master in Chancery, United States Circuit Court, District of Indiana. K. B. F. Pierce, and McDonald, Butler & Mason, Solicitors. C. E. KREGELO & WHITSEIT, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMBRI Telephone 50 k FREB AMBULANCE. For sale—only ons. dollar per ykab, the Weekly Indiana State Journal, bead fee

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