Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1886 — Page 5

THE GOVERNMENT FINANCES IdYdy Scenes Expected When Secretary Manning Is Asked to Explain. Senate Finance Committee Determined to Hake an Effort to Ascertain What the Treasary Department Intends Doing. Dissatisfaction Among Ohio Democrats, Caused by Unpopular Appointments. Pitiable Condition of Some of the People Who nave Been Dismissed from Minor Places in the Yarions Departments. MANNING’S FINANCIAL POLICY. Lively Times Expected When He Is Called On to Make an Explanation. •Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. I.— Some pretty lively iKenes are anticipated when Secretary Manning is called before the Senate committee on finance rto explain his financial policy. There is a determination on the part of the Senate to ascertain what the administration proposes in the way of the management of the Treasury Department So far, the people have been unable to discover any definite plans in financial matters, and they have especially been unable to understand why the public debt has not been decreased f ]tfy bond calls. Mr. Manning will be subjected to the most severe but respectful cross-examination, And it is understood that members of his own party who are on the committee will feel an interest in seeing everything explained fully. This . will be the most severe test that Secretary Manning will, in all probability, be subjected to during his administration of the Treasury Department When before the committee he will have none of his counselors about him that advise, and those suggestions which have been afforded in faU office near the White House. The Senate committee on finance is one of the strongest that could be organized. D, poeed of Morrill, of Vermont,/^fJ^i ß chairman, end who is one of the oldest^ em b enß 0 f the Seniste; Sherman, of financial ability is world-wide; great m^ney-maker of Nevada; AHisomgfi owa; Aldrich,ot Rhode Island; Warner Migtt, of New York; Voorhees, of Indic, of Kentucky, who recently spoke his r,sentiments so forcibly in regard to the position of the administration on silver coinage; McPherson, of New Jersey; Harris, of Tennessee, who }is a leader of the Democratic side of the Senate, and Vance, of North Carolina, who has, for a • score and a half of years, been prominent before the country in a variety of political positions. Jt would be difficult, were the country to be {Searched from one end to the other, to find a stronger body f men, and a body with more casfjabilitiea and inclinations to get at the bottom <of the questions involved, than this committee. JU is probable that the proceedings will be secret, •as most of those before tbe finance committee j*re so kept; but should they be made public, will undoubtedly make interesting reading. OHJQ DEMOCRATS. Dissatisfaction Caused by the Uupopnlar Appointments of Senator Fayne. •special to ths Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. I.— The Democrats in Ohio seem to be getting into deep water. Their "representatives in Washington, at least,[report to rthat effect. Senator Payne has created most of difficulty by his unwise selection of men ffor appointments. He has chosen about a dozen rpostmasters who are especially offensive to the of the offices, and there is a most rabid l&owl being sent up. A Democratic member from ! that State saya that it is not improbable that some of Senator Payne's appointments will not be confirmed; further, that he himself would like to £*ee two or three of them defeated on account of trouble he has had with them since their nomination. The Democrats of Ohio seem to be as xnuoh spoilsmen as those of Indiana, and a great deal more so than the New Yorkers. The Ohio Democrats want everything, and they do not present good men for the places they demand. It appears that most of the positions have been distributed unfortunately for the party; that is, men who have done little effective work have /been rewarded to the exclusion of the deserving. This, however, is a characteristic of the present administration. The mugwumps and obscure Democrats have carried off the prizes. There ; are jealousies among tho leaders of the party in Ohio as represented in this city, and strife among Ahe masses. If tbe thing continues a little while fienger, and it is very probable that it will, there Won't be mnch of tbe party left

unfortunate people. (Pitiable Condition of Some of the Discharged Department Employes, flpeeiel to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 1. —Some of the people dismissed from employment under the government, in the departments here, present pitiable leases. In most instances these persons are discharged on the pretext of an overplus of help. It has been remarked that yearly all the menial positions in the departments have been, for many years, Ailed by persons in want, and who are helpless ■do make a livelihood in any other vocation. ■The charwomen who scrub the floors, sweep and dost things, have, in nearly every instance, been tin the most straitened circumstances, and wery often physically unable to do other work. A man was dismissed the other day in one of the departments who grew so old in the service that he could not make a living at any other work, ■unless It be very light He was a watchman, and was required only to sit at a door and discriminate against improper persons coming in at improper times. A scoundrel who wanted to enter the building after 2 o’clock in the afternoon, when the doors are closed against the •Tublie, decoyed the old man from his post of duty, then sneaked in. The interloper was discovered, and the old man was dismissed. There are always quarrels and jealousies among the lowest class of employes in the departments, and .frequently strifes arise, out of which numerous ■dismissals take place, and poor, deserving fellows and women are turned out in the cold. Nearly of the removal* made in the charwomen force jef the Treasury Department were on account of jgvii gossipers and jealousies, and in nearly every Instance the women dismissed were in the expoverty and want. THE HOLIDAY EECESS. Congressmen Who Are Afraid to Go Home and Who Haunt the Departments. Special. A Western member of Congress was describing to-day the ills attending "coming into £>ower.* He was complaining about not being able to go home during the holidays. "Why,* paid he, "it would be fatal to me to go home at this time. To do so would rain any Democratio ■Member; at least any Wn tern Democrat Thera taay be a'fbw members from Eastern mugwump

districts who can do as they please about it, but it wouldn't bo safo for mo, or any of the Democrats I know in the House, to let our constituents know that we are not at work in the departments after offices for them. A Democrat who would fail to stay here and watch the departments during holiday xecess had better not go before his people for re-election. That’s what keeps us here.” ‘•Many of the"folks out West,” he continued, “have got it into their heads that civihservice reform was a huge joke got up to help elect a Democratic President, ana you can’t get them to believe that the rules may not be, and are not violated right straight along with impunity. They are in the habit of winking when they taik about it They are a little impatient at the way Cleveland prolonged the ‘joke,’ but they are satisfied that now Congress is in session they will soon put an end to his ‘funny business.’ They think the law is being violated all the time, and if their member can’t do a little of it, they conclude that he is no account I never was so tired of anything in my life as I am of being ‘in power.’” The members and senators arc spending most of their holiday time about the postoffice department trying to secure fourth-class postoffices for their importunate constituents. Forty or fifty are generally banging around Mr. Stevenson's door during the day. MINOR MATTERS. Secretary Bayard’s Unpopularity and the People Who Complain of Him. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. L —A great deal has been said daring the past three or four weeks about the unpopularity of Secretary Bayafd. It has been stated that he was in bad odor with his party, with the President and other members of the Cabinet No especial reason has been assigned for this condition of unpopularity. One of Mr. Bayard’s closest friends gave a version of it to your correspondent to-day, however. He .said that Mr. Bayard had refused to make that clean sweep in the consular and diplomatic service which the masses of the party demanded. He said that there had been at least two hundred demands for every position under Mr. Bayard where a change had taken place, and that it required the highest order of diplomacy to make those changes without offending the entire body of Democratic representatives. The talk about the Secretary, therefore, comes from congressmen and others who have been disappointed in securing positions at the State Department Tbe gentleman did not believe that there were any strained relations between the President and Mr. Bayard, bnt predicted that the latter would have some trouble in procuring what he wanted from Congress. Charges Against Unconfirmed Postmasters. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Senate committee on postoffices and post-roaciS-said, to-day, that there had been so far no assignments of charges preferred against nominees made by that committee—that is, the charges which have been sent from different parts of the country to the committee, and to senators generally, had not been referred to the sub-committemen having the nominations to which they referred in custody. At the first meeting of the committee, in January, he predicted that there would be a classification of all charges against nominations generally, and that they would be properly referred, and that their actual work would begin. When asked if it was probable that any great proportion of the postmasters nominated would have to withstand charges, he replied that it would not fall far short of one fourth of the aggregate. Os this number he predicted that 20 per eent. would fail of confirmation. He believed that there were more charges preferred Against postmasters than any other class of appointees, because there was, as a general rule, more of local politics in the postoffices under consideration than of the personal qualities of the postmaster.

Ex-President Arthur. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. I.—A gentleman who is fresh from New York city, where he is actively engaged in business, says that the late President Arthur has almost dropped out of sight. Mr. Arthur has practically retired from political and business matters. He seldom goes out, except to dinner parties and small social gatherings, and has drawn the line closely around his personal friends. Mr. Arthur does not want to be a recluse, but it seems that the circumstances make him so. He feels that the dignity of the position he has lately occupied commands him to observe certain formalities and reserve. In social life he is pictured as more genial than ever and more fond of its whirl of excitement. Financially Mr. Arthur is able to retire on an ample competence. He will, of course, occupy numerous positions of social, political and commercial prominence, and in a quiet way continue to accomplish a good deal of work; bnt so far as buckling down to active business life or political life he may be said to have retired. A Claim Older than the Government. Washington Special. Representative Weaver, of lowa, has handed to the Register of the Treasury, on behalf of a constituent, an obligation of the colonial government, which he asks to have redeemed, with interest to date. The note is about three by four inches, evidently printed from wood, and reads as follows: “70936—570. The bearer is entitled to receive seventy Spanish milled dollars, or an equivalent sum in gold or silver, according to a resolution of Congress of the 15th of January, 1779. $70.” The signature is undecipherable. General Rosecrans has referred tbe matter to the Secretary of the Treasury for him to pass upon it. General and Personal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. I.—Senator Yoorhees is preparing an address on the late Vice-president Hendricks, to be delivered at the congressional memorial meeting, which will probably be held on the 25th inst. President Cleveland contributed SIOO to the Grant fund yesterday. Accompanying the contribution is the hope that the association will aucceod in its object Something Like an Infernal Machine. Chicago, Jan. I.—A mysterious piece of mechanism was found at the new office building of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, corner of Adams and Franklin atreots, about 2 o’clock this morning. It is believed to be an infernal machine. It is said to have been lying there about a week, partially covered with dirt, and in some way became revealed last night. Policeman Maddigan was called and the machine was carefully taken to the Harrison-street police station, where several experienced electricians looked at it. They were unable to decide the nature of the queer machine. There is a round piece of tin, about six inches in length, which it is thought may be filled with dynamite. This vessel is hermetically sealed, as are other portions. It will be turned over to experienced persons for examination to-day. Passengers Injured In a Collision. Gai.ve.ston, Jan. I.—A special to tbe News from Dallas says: “A collision occurred yesterday morning on the Houston & Texas Central railway, at Garrett’s Station, by which a passenger engine and caboose and three freight cars were damaged and set on fire. The caboose was full of passengers, most of whom sustained injuries. W. H. MeGraw and the five-year-old son of Mr. Darby, both of Dallas, were seriously iniured. The passengers were brought back to )allas, where they were cared for. River Steamer Sank. Evansville, Ind., Jan. I.—The Evansville & Cairo mail packet, H. T. Dexter, struck a hidden obstruction at the head of Diamond island, about twenty five miles below this city, at 2 o’clock this morning and sunk. Oiffy a few passengers were on board, and they, together with the entire crew, were landed in safety. Little or no baggage was lost The boat will probably be a total loss. She has no insuranoe. The packet line will start another boat at once. Purely vegetable, prompt, pleasant and efficacious,—Red Star Cough Cura.

A KING’S WIDOW. The Story of a Boston Girl Who Married King Ferdinand, of Spain. Boston Special. A private cable dispatch received here says that the widow of ex-King Ferdinand is coming back to Boston, her native city, to live. FerdiuiuS 1: the father of the present King of Portugal. He was buried with great pomp last Tuesday at Lisbon. A special interest attaches to the marriage of the beautiful and accomplished Bostonian to a “monarch retired from business,” who had won a great namo for himself in .the history of the country, from the position which she thereby attained at its court and in tbe records of European sovereignty. Her name appears in the royal red-book, the famous Almanach de Gotha, and it is an exceptionally romantic experience which brought a girl born in Boston and educated at its public schools into tbe select and fastidious circles of an ancient court-. The record of the career of the ex-King Ferdinand of Portugal in the Almanach de Gotha for 1885 closes with the statement that he was married on the 10th of June, 1869, to Elise, Countess of Edla, nee Hensler. A quarter of a century or more ago there lived in Boston Adolph Hensler, a musician, who had also practiced his pro session in Springfield. He had a daughter, a brilliant brunette, whose charming manners and melodious voice attracted the attention of persons prominent in the highest circles of taste and culture at the Hub. The girl had been educated at the public schools, and had profited by the facilities which her home afforded for her musical development. Among those who were interested in the young and promising singer were the late Thomas G. Appleton, Henry W. Longfellow and Dr. George Derby. They were influential iD having her brought out in concerts and in social entertainments. After singing with success in this country she went to Europe to complete her professional education, where she attracted the admiration of Ferdinand of Portugal, who wa3 widely known for his artistic tastes and accomplishments, and who had acquired a high reputation by the wisdom with which he had administered the affairs of Portugal during the minority of his son, Pedro V. Ferdinand not only allowed the Portuguese to govern themselves through their constitutional representatives, but he inspired his son with an earnest attachment to free institutions, and the latter’s brief reign of six years, was signalized by devotion to the higher interests of the people, for whom he may truly be said to have sacrificed his life, as he fell a victim to the yellow fever while exposing himself to save others. Miss Elise Hensler had received flattering attentions from society leaders in Europe during Jier musical career; her stately figure, her queen^^eSfiS2^i e 4 to the attractions of her fine voice. Ferdinand a fifty years of age when he met iff LiS? on the Boston young lady whom he prevailed upon ttr abandon her career as a prima donna for the position of his wife. It was an honor snch as might well have led her to forego the prospects of the highest success of an art in which success is proverbially uncertain and fleeting. • The family connections, the personal position of her suitor, were more exalted than those of the titled worthies who had before and since broueht brides from America to Eugland. He was also allied to the leading royal houses of Europe. He was by birth a prince of the House of SaxeCoburg, a cousin of the late Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, and one of his brothers married a daughter of Louis Philippe. His son, Dom Luis, King of Portugal, is married to the Princess Pie, daughter of the lata King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy, sister to the present King and to the late King of Spain, Amadeus I. His title is King Ferdinand Auguste Francois Antoine, King of Portugal, Duke of Saxony, field-marshal, general, etc. Born Oct. 29, 1816, Ferdinand was sixty-nine years of age when he died, and fifty-three at the time of his marriage to Miss Hensler, who became Countess of Edla before being elevated to her high position as his wife. His first wife, Maria 11, Da Gloria, Queen of Portugal, died in 1853, and it was after sixteen years of widowhood that he took his blooming Boston bride. The palace occupied by the late King and his Boston wife in Lisbon is called the Neoessidades, and tbe wits of the court, in allusion to his fondness for costly objects of art, styled it the Palace of the Presiocidades. At this palace the still beautiful Bostonian has been visited by her nieces, the daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Slade, of Chestnut Hill, a suburb of Boston, and she has taken a lively interest in the prosperity of her native city. She sympathized with the kindly feelings which her husband entertained for Americans, and officers of our navy and other citizens who visited Portugal were always sure of a kindly welcome from the happy pair. Besides the palatial style which tho ex-King Ferdinand kept up in the Povtguese capital, they had a charming retreat, fifteen miles away, to which they retired in the heat of summer. This is at Cintra, that lovely spot which has been so vividly pictured by Byron in “Childe Harold." King Ferdinand had an especial claim to tho regard of Americans from the powerful support which he gave to the Union cause during the war of the Rebellion. Now that Ferdidand’s palace is shrouded in mourning by the death of her beloved husband, his wife’s thoughts turn with a keener interest to the home of her childhood, which she has nover ceased to love. Changes have occurred since she left Boston, which will awaken sad memories. The deaths of her early friends and admirers, like Thomas G. Appleton, the poet Longfellow and Dr. George Derby, have made gaps not easily filled in her old-time social circle here, but with the society of a beloved sister and her family, the widow of a beneficent King will find much to enjoy in the city which, more than any other in tho country, retains the affections of persons born and brought up amid its liberalizing influence. Her royal husband left her about $4,000,000.

More About the King’s Widow.. Boston Special. The Boston Herald prints a letter from a friend of Miss Hensler, making some corrections in the story about her marriage to Ferdinand, of Portugal. He says that Adolph Hensler, her father, was not a musician, as some of her Beacon Hill friends now assert, but only a common, every-day tailor. In 1851 Hensler, pere, was a cutter for Clapp & Gavitt, corner of Beacon and Tremont streets. Afterwards he was one of the firm of Hensler & Grothusen, first doing business on Washington street and afterward on Summer street. Here the partnership was summarily dissolved by Mr. Hensler leaving the firm to attend his daughter when she went abroad to complete her musical education. When Miss Hensler comes back here she will be known as Mrs. Wetlin. Ferdinand was prince of the house of Saxe-Coburg. The Saxe-Coourgers’ family name was Wetlin. Queen Victoria’s name is also Wetlin, and in a suit at law brought in America either Queen Victoria or tailor Hensler's daughter would be designated Wetlin. A Murderer’s Confession. Gallatin, Mo., Jan. I.—John Smith, another of the Gladsom murderers, was arrested on Wednesday night, while returning to this town from the country, where he had gone after the body was discovered. Yesterday morning he made a full confession, saying he was coaxed into this murder on the evening of the 29th by Joseph Jump, who, he says, struck the fatal blow, robbed his victim, and then threw the body into the well. The coroner’s jury rendered a verdict: “W. C. Gladsom came to his death on Dec. 30, about 7 r. m.. by felony, at the hands of John Smith and Joseph Jump, who were the principals in said felony.” Tne verdict was signed by the jury. The prisoners waived examination and were remanded. There was an undercurrent-for .lynching, but it did not take sbape. Cremation of E. M. Itoberts’s Remains. New York, Jan. I.—The most satisfactory incineration that has yet been made in the Fresh Pond crematory took placo yesterday. Edward M. Roberts, actor and theatrical manager, and husband of Emil Leslie, an actress, who died on Dec. 23, expressed a wish that his body should be cremated. Yesterday morning the body was brought from the receiving vault at Evergreen Cemetery to the crematory. The incineration occupied about four hours, and it required two hours more to cool, sort, and pre-

sare5 are the bones. They will be forwarded to a [r. Patton, near Indianapolis, for bnrial. The weight of the ashes from the incineration of Mr. Roberts was four and a half pounds, and when crushed they filled a six-quart canister that was provided to receive them.* A VERY SALTY LETTER. What Col. S. K. Donavin Knows as to the Method of Senator Payne’s Election, Washington Letter. Col. S. K Donavin, a prominent Domocrat of v>hio, one of the leaders of the Thurman wing of the party, has written to Senator Payne a letter, which is made public to-night. It is very salty. The impression here is that it is part of the programme looking to an investigation of circumstances under which the coal oil Legislature elected Payne United States senator. Colonel Donavin writes: “It is a singular fact in the history of the State of Ohio, that they who have filled this honorable position (United States senator) with one exception, have been men eminently fitted for it, and, what is still more a matter of congratulation, were elected without corruption. This last expression compels me to meet an issue which I intended to raise. You, sir, are the exception. The place you now fill was not honorably nor honestly attained. In truth, sir, unfortunately for you, and still more so for the State of Ohio, yon are filling a place from which honor would stand aghast were it asked to assume it Let us go together into the campaign of 1883. Two paramount objects were involved. The one was the election of George Hoadly for Governor, and the other was the election of a Legislature which would return George H. Pendleton to the United States Senate. Both these objects were attained. The first found fruition in the inauguration of George Hoadly. The people were cheated out of the latter. During the canvass your name was not mentioned in connection with the United States senatorship, unless it was done in a whisper. The great public did not hear of it, otherwise it is altogether probable that tbe Republicans would have had a majority in the Legislature. A few weeks before the Legislature convened, a number of men, whose names I will give you when you ask for them, made mysterious visits through the State. The purpose of their visits was to corrupt the men who had been elected as Democratic members of the Legislature. They succeeded. In the early days of the week immediately preceding the meeting of the Legislature certain gentlemen presented themselves at the Neil House, in the city of Columbus, professing to be your friends. To your credit, sir. you were not present, but your close intimates were. Your son, Colonel Oliver, was there. Colonel Thompson and John Huntington were there. These gentlemen are, or were at the time, connected with a corporation known as the Standard Oil Company. I had never beon attached to the fortunes of Mr. Pendleton, but in a fight such as presented itself in January, 1884, in the city of Columbus, 0., I attached myself to his cause. Where else could I go? Your campaign, as conducted by your son and his intimates, presented a startling exhibition. Every essential to a great contest for snch a great honor was absent except one. ' ‘ The money. That qualitv your friends exhlotteu 111- the most lavish profusion. It is necessary to expena in almost every political contest. It should be used only for the absolute necessities connected with the campaign. Will you pardon a diversion? I have in my mind’s eye two campaigns which were made for Congress in tho State of Ohio. One was made by a young Democrat, named in what was known as the ThurmanChilicothe district That campaign cost less than S3OO. The other campaign took place in later years, in a district in the northern part of the State. If your memory is not dulled by years, you will remember it. I do not think that you made any expenditure in the canvass, but he who was the caudidate of the Democratic party had sons, and they were rich in themselves, and run elections for their ambitious father. It would surprise you were I to tell you of the fabulous sums that were spent to secure the triumph of the father. In extremely vulgar parlance, ‘the old man got there* after an expenditure of money compared to that of which I have spoken, the relation was as is the rivulet to the miehty river. Pardon the diversion. It seemed necessary, but indeed I do not there is any relish in it for you. Senator Payne, I must pause here. lam going to spare you the cruelty of a recital of the modes and methods which were used tq secure your nomination in the Democratic caucus. Neither will I recite the unutterable shame that fell upon the party when the decree of the caucus was confirmed by the Legislature. ” Colonel Donavin subscribes himself “see whom you have deceived not once, but many times.”

TEMPERANCE IN INDIANA. The Movement of Which Judge John H. Stotgenburg Is the Leader, New Albany Special. Judge John H. Stotsenburg, a leading lawyer and Democratic politician of this city, has come out in anew move in favor of temperance. His idea is to have a higher license law and to prevent the indiscriminate issue of liquor license to unprincipled men. Judge Stotsenburg is one of the commissioners that revised the Stntutes of Indiana, and ho has been frequently mentioned as a possible Democratic candidate for Governor or for Congress, The movement he has inaugurated is now being put in shape all over the State, and there is every reason to believe that as a political move it is liable to create some very serious complications, especially in Democratic counties. It is well known that while Mr. Stotsenburg is an ardent Democrat, he is likewise a temperance man of very marked ability, and there is no doubt that with his organization he may revolu tionize the politics of the State to some extent. His idea is to have a very high license, and not to vote for any membtr of the Assembly who is not in favor of the same thing. The following is the constitution of the proposed organization, which is now being worked up in every county in Indiana: “Article I. This association shall be called ‘The Voters’ Temperance League of precinct —, township, county, Indiana. “Article il. The members must be voterß of the precinct or voting place wherein the society is organized. The membership is open to all voters, whether Republicans, Democrats, Nationalists, Prohibitionists or Independents, and no member is to be asked or expected to surrender his party principles or to abandon his individual belief as to the proper legal remedy to suppress intemperance. “Article 111. The only conditions required of a voter desiring to become a member are that he shall sign this constitution, thereby signing the following pledges: “ ‘Without surrendering my party principles or my individual views as to the proper way of suppressing intemperance and restricting places of public tippling, I make this pledge as a voter: that hereafter I will vote for no candidate for the Legislature who will not publicly promise the people of the county and district in which he runs that, if elected, he will work and vote in the General Assembly for practical, advanced temperance legislation; and I will do what I can by my influence and vote, whether in mass convention, at tbe primary election, or special and general elections, to secure the nomination and the election of the candidate for the Legislature, whether representative or senatorial, in my county and district, who will publicly and squarely declare himself in favor of a more restrictive and advanced law than the present liquor law, as against any candidate for the Legislature who will not so declare.’ “Article IV. The object of this league is to ascertain: First, the number of voters in the State of Indiana who are in favor of advanced practical legislation to restrict public tippling and suppress intemperance; second, to unite them as brothers on the common platform of practical advanced temperance legislation,, so far, at least, as to secure, if possible, a majority of sincere and honest temperance legislators in the next and succeeding General Assemblies who will advocate and vote for practical advanced temperance legislation; and, thirdly, after victory at the polls, to aid in securing the passage of a a law which shall diminish tbe number of drunkards and drinking saloons in Indian, each member agreeing to waive his individual preference as to the details of sueh legislation." Political Pensioners. Philadelphia Press. We do not believe that the able-bodied men who fought to put down the rebellion want to be billeted on Uncle Sam as pensioners for the rest of their lives. The pressure for more pensions, which is reflected in the bills offered in every Congress—never more than in the present one—

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We Submit Facts In regard to Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for rheumatism, and ask you if you are afflicted with this dt lease to try the medicine which has so greatly benefit )d others. Hundreds of people who suffered th£ tortures of rheumatism, even in Its severest forme, have been perfectly cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla, On great blood purifier. It corrects the acidity of tbs blood, which Is the cause of the disease, and gireg strength and vigor to every part of the body. “My wife has trouble* * time with hh flammatory rheumatism, and was so bad last spring that U was hard work for her to walk. She derived more real help from taking four bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla than from any other medicine she has taken.*” Joseph F. Green, corner First and Canal Streeta, Dayton, Ohio. “I used Hood’s Sarsaparilla last spring, and esn truly say it helped me very much. To those suffering with bilious complaints, nervous prostration or rheumatism, I earnestly recommend it” Mrs. E. Oa*PENTER, Kalamazoo, Mich. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists; $1; six for $5. Prepared by C. L HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar. _ VDIGKSONBJf s^pOPEHAHPoIt TWO PERFORMANCES TO DAY! THIS AFTERNOON!—TO-NIGHTS Bartley Campbell's Grand Spectacular Production. “OLIO!” ORIGINAL MUSIC. POWERFUL DRAMATIC CAST, TWO GRAND BALLETS. CORN ALBA—PREMIERE ASSOLUTA! New and elaborate scenery, including THE EARTHQUAKE, the Greatest Scene ever put on a stage. B i } 10c, 25c, 59c, 75c and $1,911 Next Attraction-JOSEPH POLK in “MIXED PICKLES. BREATHING ROOM ONLY! PACKED TO THE DOORS! wm-m Has taken Indianapolis by storm. MATINEE TO-DAY, 1 TO-NIGHT, z i p!bob I^*People’s Popular Prices—loc, 25c, 50c, 75*. 'IT COMING: "Anoh THE' BEST ON BARTHL POULTRY and BENCH SHOW COMBINED, AT MERIDIAN RINK ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, And lasting ONE WEEK Doors open from 9 a. m. until 10 p. m. of each day. OnOTHEATEROnn / 1 1 II I Smith & Kelly, Prop’s. /. I I I LI U UJ.B.Smith,M g r. J.C. Kelly, Treas. LI U U Every Night this week, at the usual Matinees and at the GRAND HOLIDAY MATINEE Friday, New Year’s Afternoon, IDASIDDONS And her peerless Burlesque Extravaganza Company will be the attt action. The two beautiful burlesque operas will be given—“CHILPERIC the first three nights, “PRINCE FAITHFUL” the last three nights —in conjunction with a brilliant olio of noted artists. ORGAN REHEARSAL At PLYMOUTH CHURCH by WM. HORATIO CLARKE, This Afternoon at 4 o’clock. Admission, 10c. Pgpj ffl j 1 1 de 11 For Rale by all Leading Retailers. HEILNER A STRAUSS. Sole Agents and Importers, NEW YORK. GR A.NT3 HOTEL, INDIANAPOLIS. DTD. Passenger elevator and all modern conveniences. Leading Hotel of the city, and strictly first-claea. Rates. $2.50, $3 and S3.DO per day, the latter price ucluding bath. GEO. F. PFINGST, Proprietor

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