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RAILWAY GOSSIP. {J.'E. Henderson, general manager of the 1.. p, A is expected home from New York this (morning. CoL FL C. Moore, formerly chief engineer of j4h*L r D. & S., has been in the city for a day or visiting old-time friends. M*. F. D. Waite, railroad editor of the Cievelland Plain Dealer, is off for a month's vacation, fwfeieh he will spend in southern California. The New York Central and West Shore injunction matter has been settled in New York. >Tbs legal proceedings have been withdrawn. J. T. McCailen has been appointed master car■feaiider of the E. &T. H. road. Mr. McCallen 4* as oid White line agent who was left out in -the late consolidation. G. G. Cochrane, general freight agent of the JN. Y., P & O. and C. S. Sawyer, general manjsger of the Continental line, were in the city yesterday on official business. It is stated that owing to the hostility of Geo. 2- Senoy. principal stockholder of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia system. President Thomas will soon tender his resignation. “The best sermon I know on the stability of rates and the general improvement in earnings,” •aid General Manager Beach, of the Bee-line, “is /lb** great demand for cars. Friday wo were 1,515 iCars short of onr orders.’’ Bya contract made with the Atlantic & Pacific Teeently, F. J. Lincoln and W. Staekpole have secured control of all the railroad hotels along (the Hr© from St. Louis to the Pacific coast, a of over 1,400 miles. Peace has its price. It costs the New York (Central just **2,000,000 a year to restore the noncompetitive state of local and through transporfiation that existed before the West Shore road rwas built, that being the sum that it guarantees 0M interest to the West Shore bondholders. A railroad official prominently interested iD the Beech Creek railroad, is authority for the •tatement that ,T. V. Williamson has finally agreed to accept the reorganization scheme proposed for that company. This action, if true, leaves only Mr. Gowen on the outside. The committee having the matter in charge will meet in New York next week. It is now stated that the position of district •.oassenger agent of the L., N. A. & C. is not to ie abolished with the retirement of Maj. Robert Krumett, but that I. D. Baldwin, brother of General Passenger Agent Baldwin, of the L., N. A. & C., will be appointed to the position, and that V. M. Gerard, of New Albany, will succeed Mr. Baldwin as Indianapolis agent. The Council Biuffs Railroad Reporter says: “The ballot-box is the only route by which rest from Sunday labor can be obtained. The great railway world knows no Sabbath, and if, by force of cirournstarces or through ambition, roads do violate the laws of God and man, they should pay for it, by allowing the men who sin for them extra pay for Sunday labor.” Surveyors under engineer George Ford yesterday began running a line for anew railroad from Akron to Chicago Junction, which is to complete ihe Baltimore & Ohio line from Pittsburg to Chicago, shortening the Baltimore & Ohio’s present route between these points bj r forty miles. The survey is taken up from the western terminus of the Pittsburg, Cleveland & Toledo road, in the northwestern part of Akron. An order reducing the number of brakemen on passenger trains on the Erie railroad went into effect yesterday. Heretofore, through express trains, as a rule, have had a baggagemaster and three brakemen, and local trains have had a liaggagemaster and two brakemen. Under the ibew order but one brakeman is allowed on local trains and two on the heavy through trains, ■which have as many as nine or ten coaches. What would New Jersey do without its railroads? The State realized from its railroad tax this year as follows: Pennsylvania, $400,857; Reading, $318,079; Erie, ’5104,807, and Lackawanna, $254,999. The aggregate valuation of these four systems is $158,259,050. and the total taxes paid by them is $1,084,742. These four companies control 85 per cent, of the entire railroad property of New Jersey, and pay 84 per cent, of tbo total taxes.

Grave cliarges were madp public recently ©gainst the management of the New York, Prov“flfPllCffA Boston railroad. “Indiguant stockholders” were represented as clamoring for an investigation •of the company’s concerns, and “sensational developments’" were predicted. The management says the attack on them is wholly Soundless and all the accusations trivial. For irty years, it is said, there has never been a dissenting voice iu the company's management. Being asked by a Buffalo Courier reporter what he thought of enforcing the penal code ©gainst the ticket scalpers who are so obstreperous in that city, Mr. W. R. Busenbark, of the Michigan Central, said: “As the law stands today wo could lock up every man on the street who is trafficking in tickets. There is nothing personal in the feeling of the passenger agents, ©nd they don’t want to go so far as that. But this demoralizing of rates and putting everything out of joint has got to be stopped.” On Thanksgiving eve thirty of the employes of the lowa & Dakota division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railroad, accompanied by their wives, called at the residence of George W. Sanborn, lAte superintendent of the division. When bo made his appearance (having retired for the night), Conductor Hoxie, on behalf of all the employes of the lowa & Dakota, presented him, in a neat and feeling speech, with a beautiful solitaire diamond stud. They then presented Mrs. Sanborn with twenty-four solid-silver knives And ferks, and then called for “Bonnie,” the only daughter of the family, and daughter of the division, and presented her with a diamond pin in "beautiful, chaste setting. John C. Gould, the New Haven, Conn., machinist and musician, has constructed a fullfledged locomotive which is twenty inches long from the cab entrance to the catcher tip, or thirty-three inches long with the tender. Goldmounted steel bands circle the brass boiler, from Which a steam pressure of 100 pounds can be developed. A miniature steam guage within the cab registered as high as sixty pounds of steam. By other signs the constructor can easily tell when his pet is laboring under a greater pressure. It took about odo year to build the locomotive, and, estimating the value of the small fools ho had to make to model the intricate machinery and the value of the material of which the locomotive is made, the cost of the whole thing was about S4OO. The heads of passenger conductors of the New York Central continue to fall in the basket, thir--ty four having already beon discharged and their places filled with freight conductors. It is said tht,twnty-eigbt more freight conductors are in -training for passenger service, and thatthat many more passenger conductors are to be relieved. Among the discharged men is Andrew Getman, who has been with the road twenty-seven years, Mid who gained considerable noteriety some years ago by receiving a vote of thanks from the United States Congress, in recognition of his heroie act in saving his train, with a heavy load of passengers, from being wrecked. Another of the discharged men is Philip Kinney, who had been in the service of the company for thirty jaunt.

Pec. I, Superintendent Toucey, of the New York Central, a significant order reading M follows. t onductors at terminals must report for dnty thirtv minutes before time of departare of trains. They must see that their passengers are comfortably seated and cared for, assisting those who noed assistance, and in such a maimer as to satisfy all and make them feel that they are in the care of one whose aim is to make their journey a pleasant one. They must kaow that their train is properly equipped and in good condition. After the train has started they must immediately proceed to examiue the tickets of passengers, correcting any errors that may exist to the best of their ability, collecting the proper fare from those who have not obtained tiekets, and making an entry of each fare collected before proceeding to the next paseenger, and obeying the rules of the company exptieity. The regulation suits must be worn when on duty and kept neat and clean. When off duty they should be changed for ordinary saita" In commenting on the article which appeared in Friday’s Journal suggesting a return to the o!4 methods of railroading, so numerous were teoKUsions nowadays, a trainmaster remarked /Hist it is not always careless train dispatcher* or reckless trainmen who are for collisions. He then remarked ‘ stoat a recent disaster was caused by hoodlessness on the part of a superintendent, and the matter bad been kept very quiet. There * had beeu an accident on the road which delayed

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train No. 4 about minutes, and train No> 3 coming in an opposite direction mm ortiered to ran to a certain point and report. Shortly after train No. 4 reached a telegraph station and was ordered to run to the same point regardless of train No. 3. Train No. 3 came rushing on, reached the point referred to, reported, but was not instructed to report for orders, and after waiting twenty minut#s and allowing three minutes for variation of watebes, started eff at a high speed. Three miles out it collided with No. 4. One engineer was killed and the equipment was damaged some $20,000. This disaster all resulted from the superintendent adding, in his order to train No. 3 to run to that point and report, the words “for orders.” He then related other Darrow escapes from severe accidents through seemingly as trivial neglects as in the case above mentioned. Burlington, Lafayette ft Western. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, Dec. 5. —The following board of directors of the Burlington. Lafayette & Western railway have been elected for the ensuing year Joseph Lederle and B. W. Child, New York; G. J. Henninger, Lafayette; Adam Blin, Carroll county, and Carl C. Winters, Danville, IIL G. J. Henninger was re-elected president. The capital stock of the road was increased to $2,000,000, at the stockholders’ meeting, and the road will be extended from Terr© Haute to Fort Wayne. The company is authorized to issue first mortgage bonds to the amount of $3,000,000, on 200 miles of main track and fifty miles of branches and side-tracks. CITY ATTORNEY DENNY’S SUCCESSOR. The Democrats Confident of Their Ability to Elect Him from Their Party. The night Mayor-elect Denny resigned the city attorneyship the plans of Democrats for electing one of their own faith as his successor went awry. They had it all arranged, with the'posi tive assistance of two and tho expected help of the third Republican vote, to make short work of the contest But a proviso was attached, and that depended upon President Rorisou’s action. If he, immediately upon the board’s acceptance cf Mr. Denny’s resignation, issued a call for a joint convention of aldermen and councilmen to meet at once and elect a successor, then A1 Beck was to be given the office. President Rorison did not call the convention, hence followed tho successful Coy motion to have the resignation and question of successor postponed until the first meeting in January. As the usual formality of reconsideration was gone through under that action, nothing can be done until that meeting, unless Mr. Denny renews his resignation, to take effect before Dec. 31. “I will hardly do that,” said the mayor-elect yesterday, with an accent suggestive of a reason, which is probably explained in the confidence the Democrats have of electing their nominee either before or after the first of January. Councilman Edenaarter was asked by a Journal reporter as to the probable successor of Mr. Denny. “It will be Al Beck, if his successor is elected by the present boards,” said he. “Why?” “We have enough Republicans to vote with us—two I know of who wiil not go into their party caucus.” “If the present boards do not elect, and the matter is left to the new, who then?” “Either By field, Beck or Holman.” “No Republican, eh?” “No, sir." Another feature of the Democratic plan is to contest the right of the mayor to vote in electing a ci%- attorney, and they also expect to have the Ripley-Pritchard issue decided in their favor by the clerk putting Ripley’s name on the roll.

THE CHURCHES TO-DAY. Elder T. N. Canfield will preach morning and evening at the Sixth Christian Church. A New York evangelist will hold services at the Virginia-avenue Rink this evening. Rev. J. Harrison Jones, of Ohio, will preach at the Third Christian Church this evening. “Another Appeal to Caesar:” Dr. McLeod, at the Second Presbyterian Church, this evening. Revival services will be continued at the Roberts Park M. E. Church, to-day, morning and evening. Rev. A. W. Mann, of Cleveland, 0., will preach to deaf mutes at Christ Church, this afternoon, at 4 o’clock. C. Styer will lecture to the Universalist society, at True Friend Hall, this forenoon, on “From Safed to Damascus.” Maj. George Hilton, the Evangelist, will conduct the services at the Fourth Presbyterian Church this morning; no evening service. Rev. O. C. McCulloch’s morning subject will be “I Shall be Satisfied when I Awake in Thy Likeness;” evening subject, “Parents and Children.” “The Chosen Vocation, or the Young Man Finding His Place Among Men,” will be Rev. Dr. Gilbert’s subject this evening at the Meridian M. E. Church. “Searching for God” will be Rev. R. V. Hunter’s subject, at the Seventh Presbyterian Church, this morning. Evening subject, “Wisdom the Source of True Happiness.” Stolen Goods Recovered. Night before last four colored prisoners— two men and two women—were brought into the station-house on a common charge. They were found in a house in the rear of No. 276 West New York street One of the men gave his name as George Washington. He formerly worked for John C. S. Harrison, and when the family moved from the elegant North Meridian-street residence assisted in the packing. When George Stout, who purchased the house and furniture, took possession, he found a tine damask curtain, one of a pair costing $350, had been taken away. Suspicion fell upon the servant, Washington, but Mr. and Mrs. Harrison regarding him as strictly honest, Detective McMillan, who was working on tho case, let go for awhile. After Washington had been sent to the work-house, yesterday, for thirty days. Officers Walker, Fickle and McMillan, under the power of a search warrant, went through the house where the arrest had been made. Upon one of the beds lay the valuable curtain that had been missing since last spring. It is said Washington has served one term in the penitentiary.

Receiver Cheney’s Report. J. H. Cheney, receiver of the Lake Erie & Western Railway, filed his report in the United States Court, yesterday, for November, showing that the receipts during the month, including a balance of $110,164.61, were $236,688.80, and the disbursements were $145,700, leaving on hand a balance of $80,960.81. Winter Has Come. The leaves have fallen On the ground; The white snow lies In many a mound. We grieve for golden Robins fled? We grieve for all The flowers dead. But one thing lives Through all the year, Sweet Sozodont Is ever near. When Other Charms Have Faded A sound, white set of teeth redeems the countenance. But they should be brushed with Sozodont to keep them in a healthy condition. The breath, moreover, is perfumed by this delightful toilet article, which has to a great extent superseded the old-fashioned powders and pastes. It is well named Sozodont, a word derived from the Greek and signifying a preservative of the teeth. No dealer wlio says that some other dentifrice possesses qualities identical with Sozodont, or superior to it, should be credited. A :'k for Sozodont

SECRET SOCIETY SEWS. Items of Interest to Members of Fraternities —Masons and Odd-Fellows. Masonic. Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. and A. M., will confer the Fellow-craft degree upon two candidates to-morrow evening. Adoniram Grand Lodge, of Perfection, A. and A. Rite, will commence work on a number of candidates from this city, on Wednesday evening. Fidelity Chapter, No. 58, O. E. S., of Logansport, will hold a public installation of officers on Dec. 15. The ceremonies will be followed by an entertainment and banquet Adah Chapter, No. 62, O. E. S., of Mattoon, 111., will, on Friday evening, Dec. 18, install officers for the ensuing year. An exemplification of the ritual will also be given, followed by a social and supper. Kendall villa Commandry, K. TANARUS., will, on Friday, confer the Red Cross, Knight Templar and Malta degrees, on several candidates. Henry C. Adams, grand commander of the State, and a number of others from this city will bo present. Elections for officers will be held by the fol lowing lodges, on the dates named: Indianapolis Council, R. and S. M., Monday evening; Raper Commandry, No. 1. K. TANARUS., Tuesday evemne; Keystone Chapter, No. 3, R. A. M., Dec. 15; Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 398, F. and A. M., Dec. 21. Indianapolis Chapter, No. 5, R. A. M., elected officers Friday evening as follows: H. P., Roger Parry; K., Chauncey Aldrich; S., Thomas Farley; C. H., Charles A. Bates; P. S., H. Weinberger; R. A. C., H. A. Hoffman; treasurer, Horace Parrott; secretary, William Weigel; guard, William M. Black. Pentalpha Lodge, No. 564, F. and A. M., on Thursday evening elected and installed the following officers. W. M., Martin 11. Rice; S. W., J. W. Staub; J. W., Charles Feller; treasurer, Joseph Staub; secretary, William H. Smytbe; S. D., Arthur Holliday; J. D., John Cryan; stewards, C. W. Hanson and Andrew Hagan. I. O. O. F. Metropolitan Encampment will meet to-mor-row night Anew encampment was instituted at Perryville yesterday. E. D. Farnsworth, P. G. S., is lying very ill of pneumonia, at his home, in San Francisco. Grand Representative Orendorf, of Illinois, was in attendance on the Hendricks funeral ob seauies. J. W. Jacobs, of Tabor Lodge, No. 92, Jeffersonville, is reported dangerously s.ck at his homo in that city. Michael Loran, of Waldron Lodge, says that Mr. Hendricks acted as conductor the night he (Loran) was initiated. The proceedings of tho Grand Epcampmentof Illinois are out. and contain an excellent picture of John C. Smith, grand scribe. Fred Harper, secretary of Washington Lodge, No. 11, Madison, returned home on Tuesday, after a pleasant visit of ten days in this city. Petitions for cantons at South Bend, Elkhart and Laport6 have been forwarded to General Underwood, at Covington, Ky., the past week. Corinthian Lodge conferred the second and third degrees on Friday night, and elected one new member, who will bo initiated next Friday night. The Uniform Degree Camp at Princeton will merge into a canton of Patriarchs militant. The initial steps have already been taken in that direction.

The team fever has at last broken out in Illinois, and henceforth the work will be done more in keeping with the improvements that have been made. The election of A. D. Sanders, grand master of Illinois, was a merited compliment to a worty and competent brother, and the Grand Lodge honored itself in his selection. The work of the degree staff of Metropolitan Encampment at the recent meeting of the Grand encampment is being highly complimented ail over the State by those who witnessed it. The officers of Centennial Lodge will be publicly installed in January. Samuel Tilford, D. D. G. M., and suite, will conduct the ceremonies, which will be more than usually interesting. J. W. McQuiddy, special aide de camp on the staff of General Underwood, has received from Duhme & Cos., of Cincinnati, a gold jewel of the Patriarch Militant, in the shape of a watchcharm. Indianapolis Lodge is doing more work nnd doing it better than any lodge in the city. Friday night the initiatory, first, second and third degrees were conferred, and two petitions were received. The Japanese wedding, on Monday night, by Olive Branch Lodge, D. of R., was very successful. The ladies and gentlemen taking parts did themselves credit by the dignity preserved throughout. The Odd-fellows’ Review, this week, contains a good portrait of Hon. A. Orendorf, just reelected grand representative for the second time for a term of two years, by the Grand Lodge of Illinois. Thomas Underwood, P. G. M., made a speech at Atwood on Odd-fellowship. The lodge paid his expenses and gave him $lO. This he has donated to the Colfax fund ;u the name of the Daughters of .Rebekah. The Christmas-tree festival to be given on the 23d inst., by Corinthian Lodge, promises to be vory popular, especially with the children, and will inaugurate anew feature in this city in lodge entertainments. The grand instructor will go to Sholbyville on Thursday and hold a school of instruction in the Royal Purple degree, which will complete the series. He will meet the ladies in the afternoon to con sider the propriety of resuscitating the Rebekah Degree Lodge at that point. Captain Harry Wysor, of Muncie Lodge and Muncie Canton, is one of the most enthusiastic Odd fellows in the State. He says he would rather see his canton win the first prize in Boston next year than be governor of Indiana. The Captain is in earnest, and other cantons must look to their laurels or Muncie will lead them. The committee on Colfax memorial will issue circulars this week to the lodges of this State, and it is hoped that they will respond promptly and liberally. The Rebekah lodges will be expected to contribute to the cause, and each lodge to appoint a committee to see that the matter is presented to the members of the order in their place. General Underwood has gone to Boston, and will be absent about ten days. On bis return ho will visit Richmond and "other Taints iu this State. At an early date he expects to muster in all cantons that have applied for charters. Muncie will probably be the first place visited, where other cantons in that neighborhood will be requested to meet him.

Fires in tne Country. Yesterday afternoon the house of County Commissioner Clinton, on the Brookville pike, near Irvington, occupid by Daniel Chapman, was destroyed by fire. A number of outbuildings were also burned, the loss altogether being about $1,500, on which there is S9OO insurance in the Continental of New York. Nitrht before last the residence of Dr. Sample Loftin, near Maywood, was slightly damaged by fire, which is said to have started from a wood-box into which a servant carelessly dropped a lighted match. Perry Tomlinson’s Punishment. Judge Norton yesterday sentenced Perry Tomlinson to pay a fine of S3OO, and imprisonment in jail for six months for shootine John Bridges. The attorney of Angelina Thomas filed a motion for anew trial, setting out that the verdict was contrary to law and evidence. It will be argued at an early day. The Police Wrangle.

An attempt is being made to revive the police commission wrangle, but without any very marked success, as it is announced that the State officers have decided to not disturb Commissioner Murphy, and the con-

elusion has been reached by those who are responsible for the management of the poliee that it would be a mistake to remove Superintendent Lang. It seems, therefore, that there is some danger of the public thinking as the Eighteenth ward statesman apprehended, that Mr. Coy “has been lying to the people” about the contemplated changes in the board. STATING THEIR CASE. Abstract Men Defend Their Right to Keep Their Federal Conrt Indexes. In the case of the United States against William C. Anderson, to enjoin tfie use of private indexes to the records of the federal court in making abstracts of judgments, with the consent of the defendant Judge Woods yesterday issued a temporary order restraining the use of the indexes until the suit is finally decided. It is the intention of the abstract men to unite in making the case a test of the law, and of their rights. It is claimed that the indexes were made for them by deputies employed in the federal clerk’s office, during the term of Mr. Howland, with his knowledge and consent, and that, as they paid for this service, the indexes are legitimately their private property, to use as they may desire. It is claimed, further, that Mr. Butler has refused to certify to abstracts of judgments, because he did not regard his records as reliable, and that for years their right to furnish information as a part of their business had been undisputed. The assertion that the business has been a source of large revenue, they say, is not true, although it is an essential branch in their line of work. It is admitted that the indexes were made for the abstract men by the clerks employed under Mr. Howland, but the deputies claim that the service was rendered outside of their regular duties, and the government received no fees on their work. THE CITY IN BRIEF. Thirty death returns were made to the health office during the past week. Matilda A. Wiley has been appointed adminis tratrix of Delaney Wiley’s estate. Sho qualified by giving bond in the sum of $1,400. The State Tile and Drainage Association will hold its annual convention at the rooms of the State Board of Agriculture in this city on next Tuesday and Wednesday. The Circle Park saloon caught fire last night, but the firemen at headquarters promptly responded to a still alarm and extinguished the before doing much damage. Strict orders have been given prohibiting the admission of visitors to the new State house building hereafter, for the reason, it is claimed, that their presence is an annoyance to the workmen,* The Indianapolis Bar Association will meet tomorrow morning, after the adjournment of the general term of the Superior Court. It is to be the auuual meeting for the purpose of electing officei’3. The Harugari Stengerchor will give a concert and bail this evening at Meeunerchor Hall. On this occasion the new banner of the society will be dedicated. An interesting programme has been prepared for the entertainment. The preliminary examination of E. G. Mosier and James Matthews, the confidence men arrested on the charge of robbing the Seymour postofiice, has been postponed bv r Commissioner Martindale until Wedneeday morning.

Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Robert F. Marsh and Emma R. Starkey, Frank Shaw and Rebecca Thompson. Allen Cline and lva Right, Philip J. Vidito and Anna Armstrong, Worthy Mollenkoff and Mary O. Dunn. The contractors were paid yesterday $37,694.05 for work on the new State-house building during November, in addition to which $2,500 was paid for electric-light wires which were put in the building. The architect also drew $808.52 in fees for srvices. The Governor yesterday commuted the sentences of George Robinson and Edward .Summers, who were convicted of petit larceny at Terre Haute on the 23d of last November, from imprisonment in jail to confinement in the House of Refuge during their minority. Robinson is seventeen years old and Summers is twenty. Building permits amounting to $12,575 were issued during tne week, but it was not until yesterday that the aggregate was increased by $lO,000 at one issue. Daniel A. Richardson took out a permit of that value, for a two story dwelling on Meridian street, between New York and Vermont. The residence will be ouilt on the lot located on the south side of the alley. The trial of a suit in foreclosure by the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company against Anna Vetter is on before Judge Howe. The defense is that Mrs. Vetter signed the note of $3,000 as surety, and not as principal. Interrogatories relating to this phase of the case were submitted to a jury, who returned answers favorable to the plaintiff. The trial will continue before the judge alone. The Msennerchor Fair. The arrangements for the Msennerchor fair, which was to have taken place last week, but was postponed on account of the death of Vicepresident Hendricks until next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, are now being completed. Some important chauges in the decoration of the hall have been agreed upon. The fair is supposed to take place at Dresden, in the park, surrounding the palace of August the Strong, King of Saxony. A beautiful drop curtain, which has been painted especially for the occasion, will occupy tho rear of the stage. It will represent the paiace of the King, and will be beautifully illuminated. The auditorium will represent the paik, and leading down to it from the palace will be a broad and spacious terrace, occupied by the refreshment booths. Distributed about the park will be the different booths in Gothic, Greek, Roman and Moorish designs. The costuming of the attendants of the booths will be in keeping with the rich and tasteful decorations. From this it will be readily understood that the scene to be represented will be both novel and attractive, and that the fair will differ greatly from all former entertainments of the kind.

Objector Holman’s Economy. The report comes from Washington that the congressional committeo which attended the funeral of Vice-president Hendricks were deeply disgusted over their experience with Mr. Holman. who kept up a continual protest against the expenditures, which were made from the beginning to the end of the trip. He regarded the luxury of a chair car as unjustifiable extravagance, and insisted that if the members of the committee must travel in that way at least two should alternately occupy the same section. On the return trip he was “guyed” unmercifully by all kinds of ridiculous objections to trivial expenses, and it was seriously suggested to the great economist that the committee ought to walk back t.o Washington to save railroad fare. Minister Hanna’s Credentials Accepted. The Standard, an English paper published at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, under date of Oct 27, contains an account of the reception, by President Roca, of Hon. Bayless W. Hanna, the new Minister Resident of the United States to that country, which occurred Oct. 15. Mr. Hanna presented the President with an address, expressing the good will of the people of the United States for those of the sister republic, which was responded to in similar vein by President Roca. There were no formal ceremonies. Mr. Hendricks’s Death Certificate. At the Health Office the cause of Vice-presi-dent Hendricks’s death has been recorded, on the return made by his physician, as paralysis, and duration “perhaps about eighteen months.’’ For Caps At just about one half regular hat-store prices. Modku

THE NEW STATE-HOUSE. A Description of Indiana’s New CapHcl—A Handsome and Elegant Structure. Work upon the new State-house is so far advanced that it needs little exercise of the imagination, more than to fancy the scaffolding and rubbish cleared away, to form a pretty accurate conception of the completed structure. On each side of the dome the errand colonnade opens up clear to the skylight roof, showing three stories of polished granite columns, with all the accompanying architectral features in perfect keeping. On each floor the colonnade extends nearly the whole length of the building. On the first it reaches entirely from end to end. The third, however, will strike the average visitor as the most attractive, probably because it is less obstructed by the work about the dome. It is certainly one of the finest colonnades in the world, and is so pronounced by an observer who has seen many of the finest in Europe. It is about 450 feet long, and its granite columns are polished till they reflect like mirrors. The arches connecting them are of iron lattice work, covered with plaster, and give it the effect, without the weight, of marble work. The floors are all of hollow tiles, arched and filled up with concrete, on which encaustic tile is to be laid. The stairways are of iron and as wide as alleys, and so lightly sloped that it would be no great task for a horse to pull a carriage up them. There is nothing that can be burned in the whole building, except the furniture, and a bonfire of all of it, on the floor of either corridor or in any room, would burn out as harmlessly as if it were in a furnace. The treasurer’s safe is a room, a dozen or fifteen feet square, lined with inch and a half steel plates, and protected against damage from fire as well as the chance of burglary. All the joists are of wrought iron, with flanges to hold the edges of the tile arches. The plan of the bunding admits light directly into every room, and at some time during the year the sun wiil shine into every room more or less at some time during the day. Committeerooms of ample proportions cover both sides of the third story corridor, and the legislative chambers are provided with gallery-rooin hardly less 'ample than that made on the floor for the members. The hall of the House is in the center of the east side, fronting Tennessee street, and is some fifty feet or so square. At each end, occupying half of its extent, is to be a room—one for a cloak-room and the other fora smoking-room. Over these are galleries, and all along the west side of the hall, next to the corridor, is the main gallery. The arrangement in the Senate chamber is just the same, except that the room is not quite so large. It is west of the dome. The first intention was to set the Speaker’s stand between two of the windows on the east side, but this would put the light in the faces of the members and be inconvenient in writing. On the west side are the entrance-doors, and they spoil the position. So, at the suggestion of General Morris, it is likely the stand will be put on the north side, under a cross light, and away from interruption from the doors. The same arrangement will probably be made in the Senate. The heating will bo done by steam pipes, and the work is now so far completed that fire was started in the furnaces on Wednesday. The wires for the electric lights are all down, heavily protected with insulated casing, and laid in the concrete of the floors, and held against the walls by insulating clamps to be covered with plaster. There are to be 4,500 of these lights in the building, and the same number of gas lights, each supplementing the other—a gas light and an electric light on every chandelier, or globe —so that if one should fail the other can he used, or if an especial brilliance of illumination should be desired, both can be 'lighted, and the structure set blazing with 9,000 lights, each equal to sixteen candles, that is an illumination equal to 144,000 candles. Lighting, heating and ventilation have all been provided for with equal care and comprehensive vigilance. The Commissioners mean that our State-house shall be at once the best building of its kind in the country in material and work, in beauty and durability, and that it shall be the cheapest ever built for the money, not because it cost less, but because nothing in it is poor or second-rate, and nothing done that is not done as well as it could bo done. The walls have been growing for five years, and now the full weight is upon the foundations, but not a crack has appeared yet in any part of the walls or foundation, a most complete proof of the solidity of the structure and the honesty of the work.

To make the State-house a sort of “Valhalla” for Hoosier heroes, the board has provided in and about the dome some forty nitches for statues, and places for the pedestals of a great many more. Os course, all the State offices are given abundant room, with due preparation for the preservation of records, as in the Supreme Court and its library, the State library and the Geologist’s museum. All the service of the State will be done in that single building. The only thing to bo regretted about the whole enterprise is the lack of ground. The building fills so much of the nine acres that what is left of the park will look like a rim of grass and trees, rather than such an ample frame as the picture deserves. This maybe partially remedied by the purchase of the two halt squares north and south of Market street, east to the alleys, and vacate Tennessee street. This will add a breadth of 300 feet the full length of the building, and will very greatly improve the now inadequate grounds.

A Good Suggestion. It is suggested by a citizen of benevolent disposition that the mourning drapery about the city should be taken down and given to the charity organizations. It is being torn by the wind, and will soon be destroyed if not taken in out of the weather. The black goods ean be made into clothing for destitute old women, and the white muslin can be used in various ways. Paying Pensioners, Colonel Zollinger, the new pension agent, is passing through the ordeal of his first quarterly payment since he succeeded General Knefler. The federal building has been crowded with pensioners since Friday, and the total amount which will be disbursed this quarter is $900,000, of which SIOO,OOO is arrearages on newly-allowed claims. The Christmas Independent. The publisher of the Indianapolis Independent proposes to have a sixteen-page paper on the week preceding Christmas, to which a number of local and State literary people will contribute. It is intended to make the issue a particularly brilliant one. Boiler Explosion at Sullivan. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Sullivan, Ind., Dec. s.—The boiler in Eaton & Park's flouring-mill burst to day, completely wrecking the mill and badly injuring Michael Ambrose, the miller, and slightly injuring C. A. Parks, one of the proprietors. The loss is probably $2,500. Be on Your Guard. Benson’s Capeine Plasters are widely imitated. That is a fact. Now, why are they imitated! Because they are the only porous plaster in existence that is really trustworthy and valuable. Benson’s Plasters are highly and scientifically medicated, ami cure in a few hours ailments upon which no others have any effect whatever. The public are therefore cautioned against plasters bearing the names of “Capsicin” “Capsicum," “Capsicine” or “Capucin,” which are meant to pass for "Capeine ’ (please note the difference) and also against plasters bearing the names “Benton’s,” “Burton’s,” etc. When buying ask distinctly for Benson’s Plaster, and protect yourself by a personal examination. The genuine has the word • Capeine” cut or poroused in the body of the plaster and the “Three teals” trade mark on the face cloth. FOR SALE. 17*01* SALK—FRENCH ART DESIGNS CHEAP . at 302 Park avenue. SALE—PIANO-FISOHEEt UPRIGHT. Bargain. Party going South. No. 130 North Meridian.

A TAEEL TRIAL IN TEEBE HAUTE. The nineteenth century is said to be ih# age of skepticism, and so perhaps it is at regards religion, but its practical spirit inclines it to look favorably on everything tliat promises immediate benefit and it ia always ready to give everything that seems useful a fair trial. The West especially has ever been open and cordial to all new ideas, and this may partly explain why Athlophoros, the sovereign remedy for rheumatism and neuralgia, has secured 6uch a strong footing in Terre Haute. A well-known citizen whe has the moat implicit faith in it is Mr. R. Forster, the furniture dealer at No. 320 Main street. Mr. Forster, when recently asked at hia w arerooms as to the benefit he had derived from Athlophoros, answered as follows: “ Yes, I have used Athlophoros with the very best satisfaction. I have had neuralgia for many years, and,could not hud any medicine that would give me relief until I commenced using Atlilophoros, and I can teil you I had used about everything." “llow did you first get confidence enough in Athlophoros to try it?" “ Well, it was just in this way. I was suffering very much at the time from my neuralgia. One Saturday evening Mr. Mallette, a manufacturer of wire mattresses, who is in business in Chicago, and lives at Elgin, ill,, came down to spend Sunday with me. Finding me suffering as I was he said: “‘Get some Athlophoros. It is good, my wile used it and was cured of her neuralgia by it.’ “Without waiting for me to say much about it he went out and bought a bottle of the medicine. I took some that night and the next day 1 was as free from pain as if I-had never had neuralgia. I "spent several hours in a walk that Sunday with Mr. Mallette, which the day before would have been misery for me. During the summer months I am never troubled with neuralgia, but if I should be again I would certainly use Athlophoros, for I am fully convinced of its merits. “I have recommended Athlophoros to several persons and have yet to learn of an instance where it did not accomplish itg mission. Among others I recommended it to Mrs.. Richards, who lives in Casey, 111. I saw her in the city a few days ago and asked her if she had used it. She said that she had taken two bottles. It was helping her, and she said that she was going to get some more." Mrs. C. A. Armstrong, of No. 123 South Second street, is another resident of Terr© Haute, Ind., whom Athlophoros has cured. “I used it for neuralgia," she says, “and it cured me. I had been troubled for about three years with what seemed at times neuralgia, and then again rheumatism. I was never free from pain. The very first dose of Athlophoros I took gave me relief and after using only two bottles my soreness is all gone and I am feeling much stronger. My daughter was also cured of neuralgia by it.” “Yes, I can say Athlophoros did everything for me," is the daughter’s statement. “ I was so sick with neuralgia that I could not sit up and suffered the greatest pain. Mother sent me a half bottle of Athlophoros, the first few doses of which gave me relief. All I used was the half bottle and I have not had any neuralgia since." If you cannot get ATHi.opnor.os of your drug* gist, we will send it express paid, on receipt of regular price-one dollar per bottle, We prefer that you buy it from your druggist, but if he hasn’t it, do not be persuaded to try something else, but order at once from us as directed! Athlophoros Cos., 112 Wall Street, New York.

llcr'S ram *tiogo"siphoK -T- SOLtMBMUFACTUr.ER . f INDIANAPOUS.IND.™ * This closet cistern is operated on the siphonic principle (and does so easily and without noise), therefor# has no valves to trouble and vex by constantly being out of order, as is the case with all old-style closets. Every one tested and guaranteed. Samples in working order can be seen at S8 North Pennsylvania St. 76& 78 W. Wash. St., * INDIANAPOLIS. ; typewriters' ( PURCHASERS OT TH* TMffSTANDARD REMINGTON May return C. O. D. within thir days if unsatisfactory. Machin . jJHi.rented. All kinds of snpplies. Sc: i for pamphlet. WYOKOFF, SEAMANS & BKNi-. DICT, Sole Agents, 84 East Market st„ Indianapolis. tMfcii—wi— Miiasn we iwmii ■■w rs* ~~ ANNOUNCEMENTS. Dr. a. w. brayton. office, 19 west oiu > street. Residence, 4, Ruckle street. TTENTTON LABORERS—BY CALLING AT M North Meridian street, the party of workingmen who are going to Charleston, S. 0., will liud something greatly to their advantage. 7 1 OSPEITsERVICES (D. V.) WILL BE HELD 7n \ T Virginia avenue skating rink to-day, Sunday. 1 cember ti, by Rev. J. S. Hutchinson, a New York evangelist. Morning service, 10:30; afternoon service, 2:30, at which a Bible reading on Christian obsecration will be given. Evening service, 7:30. All are welcome. maammmmummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnr:- j WANTED— THE PARTY OF LABORERS W 1 > are going to South Carolina to call at 10 Nori h Meridian street. ANTED—23 PLASTERERS—WAGES $3.50 per day; steady work all winter; building inclosed and heated. Address LAWRENCE GRACE, Hamilton County Cincinnati, Ohio. FOR RENT. ' Tvoß RENT—BANK ROOM, WITH FIXTURES complete. Fire and burglar-proof vault. Yolm Block; beat business location in the city. JAMES 0. YOHN. MMBBBMBBIMWSBnnBBnMMnBP h M LOST. lOST-GOLD BANGLE. MONOGRAM IN RED J white and blue enameL Return to Journal oil id and receive worth of bangle. ■ I II IIiIIIMBBMWtMMSBM—M—MWHMWM———MSXfgaW FINANCIAL. SIX PER CENT. MONEY TO LOAN ON INDb auapoiis real estate, in sums of SI,OOO and upward*. ' HENRY COE * CO., 13 MarLudaU-Biook,

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