Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1886 — Page 3

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. The Temperance Question. To ih* Sdltor of the Indianaoolia Journal: Oita one discharge all his duties by serving his jowa conscience? Stripped of all verbiage, that is the question with which a class of temperance people era struggling. In a previous letter to the editor was pointed out the very palpable error, that the liquor traffic was created, or is now sustained or promoted by law. Bnt many still declare that their consciences forbid so much of the recognition of the traffic as is involved in what is termed “high license,” more properly speaking, tax, and therefore in all conscience they must oppose this and all other measures except prohibition, while knowing at the same time that the latter has been voted down utterly in Indiana. Now let us look briefly into this matter of con-science-serving and see whether or not it has limitations. An enlightened conscience is a guiding factor in a man’s life. It was the awakening of the moral sense which aroused the Nation to the enormity of evil involved in the slave traffic, and the institution of slavery in this country. Perhaps raoro than any other one thing, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” aroused the public conscience on this question. It is through a knowledge of the wrong that the conscience is awakened against it. And so it has been by tho educational forces that reforms in all directions have proceeded. At first a single voice is beard as a forernuner. Like the echo from the distant hills, it falls on the ears of others, and elicits a hundred other voices. Faithfully serving their own consciences, these go on multiplying till out of the single voice eomes the consensus, and then reform is achieved. These have been the steps and processes by which every reform the world has known has been reached. The conscience does not accuse one for the seeminf faults of the majority. If it seems to do so one may be sure it is not conscience, but an evil leader. Therefore, this service is limited in individuals to the sphere of individual possibilities. At the point where that ceases arises the consensus —the public conscience—a palpable factor in communities and governments, always reckoned to be relatively nearer right than the individual conscience. That is a fact borne ont in all history, the warp and woof of all forms of government. Force a republican form of government on Austria and you would commit a crime, though it would satisfy an American’s conscience. Bring Austria’s form here and it would be a crime, though it would be sanctioned by an Austrian’s conscience. One may always—ought always—voice the right as he sees the right. But one cannot always put his ideas in forms of law, organic or statute. On this temperance question thousands can in truth say that the wrong does not lie at all our doors. Harm came to the nation and army, though but one secreted tho golden wedge. We cannot get away from the fact that each individual is tho unit of a common factor at the hour of action, and that as he stands in the column, or skulks, so does he bring victory or shame, joy or grief to the public conscience, Though actingup to the ideal of his own cons cience, if by such action harm comes to the community and state, one does not serve his own conscience. The rnlo of action is the public conscience when the possibilities of individual action is reached, and that is as sacred as the duties of the individual within his sphere. To illustrate: All can see now that if Abraham Lincoln had issued his proclamation freeing tho slaves when certain individual consciences demanded he should, the struggle would have been a long and uncertain one. Again, if those whoso individual consciences against slavery had quit the army for the reason that Mr. Lincoln declined because the government thought the hoar had not come, then would the war for the Union have failed

utterly. Thus it is seen bow paramount the public conscience is over that of the individual. The limitations of the latter is the range of individual possibilities, while that of the former is bounded only by all the resources of the government, including all its units. If there were no limitations to individual action from the leading of conscience, then would all law and all authority to which the individual conscience objects he put at naught, and so would anarchy ensue where civil government prevails. The fact that a principle is concreted into law does not change the relation of the conscience to it. Nor is the application of the principle different when it is known that the division of individual opinion is as 3 to 97 per cent. Three per cent, may with great propriety urge their personal views to the point of action, but it is not a moral right to throw one’s influence with the wrong side, or to withhold it. Whoever has not learned that, under Providence, governments have consciences to be served sacredly, has not learned all that is iuvolved in citizenship in a government with a free ballot. The world and its affairs are not sentiment or idealism, but ponderous facts and realities. A few have had the temerity to aver that taxing the traffic, where it cannot be extinguished, encourages rather than represses it In a certain town in Illinois, under their local-option law, they voted for allowing the saloons to continue under the high-tax feature. The tax was put nt SI,OOO by the people. Two saloons braved it a while, bnt failed under the burden, and now that town has no saloon. Was the traffic encouraged and promoted in that instance? Any one ought to be able to see that a high tax is a discouragement—certainly these objectors would were they taxed out of existence. But the will is subject to the desire under conditions of prejudice and preconception.

Saloons and tho liquor traffic are an awful burden on any state and its industries. But so is taxation a burden. No one would for an instant claim that saloons must be maintained in order to raise revenue to carry on civil government, for most intelligent people know tbat they are themselves a greater taxation on civil government than any amount of revenue it would be possible to derive from them. But minorities cannot excuse themselves and wash their bands of the wrongs which majorities allow to exist, by refusing to take possible measures of repression against the wrong which they cannot wholly eradicate. Such refusal would he making the liquor traffic free and on oqual footing with legitimate pursuits. That would ho removing such badges of dishonor as it ia now possible to put upon it. and while it does now exist by common consent without law, as it originated before law, tnen it would have no law discriminating against it, and therefore appear honorable in the sight of all men. The issue which is Dresented in cities is the policy of putting the traffic under the ban of a high-tax law on the one hand, and free whisky and no law on the other. Tho liquor men demand that there shall be uo discrimination against them, and therefore free whisky. It is plain that, for the present, in the cities of this State one or the other of these policies must prevail. Hundreds of thousands of citizens who want and vote for the utter extinction of the whole traffic, ■feel in conscience and honor bound to stand for such repressive measures as it is possible to have, and maintain, in tho meantime, their individual opinions and work for the further development of the moral sense which shall in time bring the right end. As it looks to practical people, this is now all that ia possible for the cities, while with it may he coupled local option for such communities aa are strong enough to vote out liquor entirely, as was lately done under the local-option law of Georgia, in Fulton county, including Atlanta. Local option seems to be working admirably in tbat State. In this connection it may be stated that the prevalent opinion among some shat oar Supreme Court held the loeal-option feature of the Baxter law unconstitutional is a mistake. The court has never touched that question, by decision or otherwise, hut, on the othe.r hand, has incidentally more than once held the principle of local option sound law. There is no barrier to such legislation in this or any other State. It is under a local-option law that more than one hundred counties of Georgia have excluded the liquor traffic by the popular voto. Under such a law tbo question at the ballot-box is unmixed with party candidates and party action, and therefore treated on its merits by the people, ■o party shibboleth can turn aside a fair decision ia such a test. And thus we should reach ac an partis an treatment of the whole matter,

temperance voters of all parties acting without prejudice. It is the way reform most some on this question-separate and apart from all party action. John B. Conn kb. Indianapolis, Jan. 1, 1886. I Word for the Oppressed. To the Bditor of the Indianapolis Journal: Perhaps three-fourths of the misery of this world springs from a wrosg use of power. Men are constantly taking advantage of a weaker brother. “Might makes right” is a principle whieh rules too frequently in all the affairs of life. To this principle is due the continual antagonism between capital and labor—the constant contention between employer and workman. A relation between man and man, founded chiefly on money, seems almost inevitably inimical, and to have a hardening effect upon character. A blindness in regard to mine and thine then suddenly develops itself, and prevents each side from observing just and natural limits; each endeavors to obtain the greatest possible good for the least possible return. It is, indeed, considered a wise maxim in political economy to buy where you can buy the cheapest and sell where yon can sell the dearest But this maxim is not found in that old book whose wisdom most civil ized men regard, theoretically, at least, supreme. In it we find this rule for business: “Do unto others as as ye would that they should do to you.” This same old book has also much to say of the oppressor and the oppressed, and of the vengeance which will surely fall on the man who wrongs the helpless. It would scarcely be worth while to refer to scriptural roles and injunctions, were it not that so many merchants, manufacturers and capitalists are professedly Christian men. But in the name of common honesty, without regard to religion, what right has any man to wealth, a life of luxury, or even to daily necessities, while one who helps him to obtain these must thereby undergo almost unendurable fatigne, and at the same time does not earn enough to ward off cold and hunger! In short, what right has any man to coin money from the flesh and blood of his fellow-men? Yet this wrong is of daily occurrence, and the public looks apathetically on. Strikes, foolish and unjust as many of them are, have their foundations too frequently in a natural struggle against the oppressor. But strong men and skilled mechanics have weapons of their own. It is the women and children, forced to pass under the rod of a strong master, helpless and incapable of redressing their wrongs, whose rights all honest men and women should unite to protect When public opinion demands common humanity for these weak wage-earners, a great point will be gained. Unfortunately the heedlossness and indifference of comparatively good men and women has in this as in all other things proved the greatest hindrance to reform, nor can ignorance in this particular matter he pleaded, for those sometimes useful public servants—newspaper reporters—are constantly giving publicity to facts and occurrences showing the hardships of working women and children. Os late the “care of saleswomen” has been again brought to light and variously commented upon. We are reminded that these women are expected to stand behind their counters from morning till night, with slight intermissions for lunch, and occassional absences, which become finable offenses if prolonged. Every woman knows, though her experience may he limited to one all-day’s work for a church fair, that constant standing and running about are of themselves pain fully fatiguing, and if long continued must be dangerous to health. Again, the salaries paid to these saleswomen are in many instances wholly inadequate to their support, or what is perhaps even more to the point, are by no means equivalant to the work done. In extenuation of this it is said, “while five women are waiting to step into her shoes, the sixth cannot command fair wages.” But women in want of bread will grasp at that which seems nearest and easiest to obtaiu; and their hopes for the position of saleswoman are kept alive, doubtless, by what is said to he a common practice among merchants, of constantly changing their female clerks, without sufficient reason. New clerks, of course, are not entitled to as high wages as old ones, though they do almost as much work; change is therefore profitable to the employer. Every employer has a moral as well as a legal right to discharge employes, who, after a fair trial, prove idle and inefficient. Bnt no one can bo justified in accepting services for which he does not pay a fair price—that is a price which covers the time spent as well as the work done. The merchant who pays a girl little or nothing for a week’s work, and the manufacturer of cheap clothing who expects a poor sewingwoman to work all day for twenty-five cents or lees, are as guilty in the sight of God as the man who is sentenced to a terra in the penitentiary for house-breaking. The burglar is probably the better man. It is said, and truly, there is always room at the top, and if women would fit themselves for better things they would not be so often oppressed. But neither men nor women are always to be blamed for lack of efficiency and skill.' It is the ill-trained who is the most helpless, and thongh he may he little deserving, his feeble rights should be the care of the strong. In more barbarous times, the survival of the fittest hau a most literal acceptation—the rule was to simply let the weak die. In our days a different plan is taken; we permit the weak, if circumstances are favorable, to work themselves to death. We do not even heed the “cry of the children,” but go as serenely about our affairs as if hundreds of little men were not daily more than exhausting their feeble strength to earn a mouthful of bread for themselves, and perhaps also for their miserable parents, while they gain a handful of dollarsjfor their too-often cruel employers. We may close our ears to the wail of these infant toilers, but their blood will he upon our skirts, and their cause God will plead, and their wrongs he will surely avenge. Every person is in some degree responsible for the oppression of his fellow-men. It is simpiy shirking this responsibility to act upon the belief that one person’s efforts for good will of themselves avail little. It is the constant dropping that wears away the stone, and the accumulatiou of raindrops that makes the refreshing summer shower. There are two direct means by which every man and woman can aid the oppressed—by giving willingly a fair price for whatever is bought, and by paying all bills promptly. It is a specially shameful act in man or woman to withhold, purposely or negligently, money due to servants, washer-womem, sewing-women and small-salaried employes. A dollar the day it is earned means, to many of these poor people, bread and fuel for the day, warm clothing and shelter for themselves and their children. A fair price for manufactured articles means, as a rule, a fairer price to those who have done the work. To heat down prices, and to buy things which are marvelously cheap, are therefore not only in themselves generally mean and contemptible, but they also strengthen the oppressor’s hand, and make the customer a party to a crime against weak wage-earners. New Albany, Ind. Mary E. Cardwill. A Sad State of Friendlessness* Richmond Palladium. The fact that a Democratic senator makes a savage attack on the President and his Secretary of the Treasury in an elaborate speech in the Senate, and no other senator came to their rescue, is regarded as a humiliation of the administration never before witnessed. A state of friendlessness to which even Andy Johnson was never reduced. While Indiana’s Debt Is Over 96,000,000. Bedford Mail. When we look across the border to our sister State of Illinois, which is and has long been under Republican rule, and find that that State is not only out of debt, but has a large surplus in its treasury, it seems to us we can find plenty of food for serious reflection. A Florida paper is authority for the statement that a farmer living on the Ocklocknee river, in that State, claims that it is bilionsness that makes a man get out of humor and fret and swear. When he feels himself getting angry he swallows a compound cathartic pill. Last week he was driving oxen and swallowed thirty-seven pills in one hour. Postmaster Cos no kb. of Washington, D. CL, was promptly cared by Red Star Cough Core.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MON DAT, JANUARY 4, 1886.

YESTERDAY’S SECOND EDITION. [The following items of news appeared in our Second Edition of Sunday;} Sea Captain Charged with Conspiracy. Gloucester, Mass., Jan. 2.— Captain Jeffrey Gerrvir, master of the schooner Racer, wrecked off Portland on Monday last, was arrested last evening by a United States depnty marshal, charged with conspiracy to wreck his vessel and defrand the owner. Captain Gerroir had taken the schooner on shares, agreeing to defray all the expenses, and pay the owner one-fifth of the gross earnings. She had been absent thirteen weeks, and, in the meantime, the Captain had drawn upon the owner for S3OO, and, it is alleged, disposed of the catch of fish, converting tho proceeds to his own use. Gerroir, it is claimed, wrecked the schooner to cover his transactions. He claims that she had 35,000 pounds of fish on board when she went down, having disposed of 18,000 pounds at Cranberry island, for which he received $1,290 cash, which went down with the vessel, as did, also, a draft for S2OO. Captain Gerroir was taken to Boston, under arrest, from Gloucester, to-day. He was arraigned before United States Commissioner Hallett, on a charge of scuttling his vessel, and was held in $2,000 for examination. It appears that the vessel had a very successful trip, having taken 53,000 pounds of fish before she put in at Sydney, on her way home. At this point, Gerroir took on two female passengers for Portland. The crew say that tho captain stopped at several ports on the way home, and that all hands had a good time generally. At one of the ports it is claimed that the entire cargo of fish was sold for cash by the captain. One of the female passengers makes an* affidavit that she saw the captain cut a hole in the vessel with a hatchet, while the vessel was leaving port, and to overhearing the captain refuse to promise his wife to sail to Gloucester with him in the schooner because of the probability of her sinking on the trip. One of the crew, named Sherman, said: “I also overheard the captain’s remarks about the schooner sinking, and went to the captain, telling him he must not run the vessel on the rocks.” It is also said that Gerroir was heard to say that he would rather have the vessel sunk than not, as she was old, and the insurance on her would be satisfactory to him. Shortly after the veseel sailed from Portland, and when sixteen miles off Cape Elizabeth, it was discovered that she was rapidly filling, and she sunk in forty fathoms, the crew taking to the boats and reaching land after suffering intensely from exposure. It is asserted that the captnin has admitted that his affidavit claiming that 35,000 pounds of fish were lost with the vessel, together with the money received fora part of tho cargo, is false, and that the hold was clear when she souk. The extreme penalty of the crime with which Gerroir is charged is death. One Wing of an Insane Asylum Burned. Newark, N. J., Jan. 2. —Shortly after 3 p. m. to-day fire was discovered in the easterly front wing of the Insane Asylum, which is situated about two miles from the center of the city. The flames shot up the chute to the attic, and in a few minutes it was a seething mass of flames. The wing was 600 feet long, and a3 the interior fittings were of oiled pine, they ignited very readily, and burned fiercely. In this wing were 103 patients. The medical superintendent at once summoned his staff of assistants, and in a few minutes all the unfortunates were moved into the yard without accident. Os the patients taken out thirty-two were women and seventy-one men. Very little difficulty was experienced in controlling them. The entire fire department was summoned to the scene, but could render littlo service, owing to a scarcity of water. The flames spread rapidly to the third floor and along the eutire length of the wing in both directions, At the west end it wa3 stopped by a blank wall twenty-two inches thick, which prevented its spread to the center and other wings of the institution. By hard work the firemen kept the flames to the two floors, although the lower floors were badly damaged by water. The total loss will probably amount to $75,000, which is fully covered by insurance. The patients were sent temporarily to the City Hospital, hat were this evening returned to the asylum, *;Liere arrangements had been made for their accommodation. The cause of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to havo originated from the overheated steam pipe which surrounds the chute in the basement, which, like all the rest of the interior fittings, was of tho most inflammable material. The asylum is anew building and was erected at a cost of $350,000. It was first occupied last spring, and had nearly GOO inmates. TIo Knoch Family’s Bloody Record. Detroit, Jan. 2.—Mrs. Elizabeth Knoch, the mother of Frank Knoch, who was murdered in Springwells on the night of Dec. 15, with his entire family, and the house burned to hide the crime, died Friday night under circumstances which suggested poisoning. A post-mortem was held to-day, when, to the surprise of the physicians, it was found that her skull was fractured by a heavy blow, which had left no mark. It was suspected that she and a son, Gnstave, had had some connection with the former murder, and the officers had been expecting an ante-mor-tem statement from the mother, who ha3 been confined at home with nervous prostration, it is said, ever since she was on the* stand at the inquest on the remains of the late tragedy. This is the fourth suspicious death in this family. The father, Christian, was found in the barn some years ago, with cuts on his head, said to have been made by the kick of a horse. A brother, Charles, disappeared two years ago this wiuter, and his body was found in the river next spring, with marks of violence and a chain about the body, belonging to an unused pump on the Knoch homestead, and last month, another son, Frank, waß killed, with his wife and two babies, and the house burned with the dead bodies in it. Suspicion has turned toward Gustave, and it is now strengthened by the murder of the mother, though as yet no convicting evidence has been discovered. Another brother, Herman, is a half-witted fellow, who has been once confined in an insane asylum, and an uncle, Joe, has been for years a mild lunatic, though he has never been considered dangerous. Serious Disorders at Mataiuoras. St. Louis, Jan. 2.—The Matamoras,' Mexico, correspondent of the Globe-Democrat telegraphs as follows, under to-day’s date: “Yesterday was the date fixed by law for the installation of the new board of city officers. The Torres element, who, it is alleged were secretly supported by the military, were evidently bent on creating a riot and thus causing martial law to he declared in the city, and perhaps pave the way for the downfall of the State government under General Cuellar, who is favorable to ex-Preaident Gonzaies. At an early hour Torres and bis supporters took possession of the city hall. Mayor Heinajoso, although not approached, took his bat and went home, when the police were shut up in their quarters, with strict orders, under no circumstances, to fire. Villareal, commanding the artillery, had a cavalry regiment under arms at the barracks, around the corner, and 100 infantry at the jail. Torres and his mob had everything their own way, while Yturria. the candidate who received the most votes, and who had been declared elected by the State Congress, did not dare to appear and take charge. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon two drunken men drew knives on each other, in front of the police headquarters, and the chief of police, Amadeo Trevino, went out to separate them, when be was greeted with a storm of bullets from the mob. falling, shot twice through the right thigh. The firing was promiscuous, fix or seven of the Torres party being shot, one seriously through the lungs. The military then took charge, and heavy cavalry patrols were sent ont to prevent disorders. The city is without any legal government at present.” Coal Miners Vote to Return to Work. Pittsburg, Jan. 2.— The coal miners’convention at West Elizabeth, to-day, decided by a two-thirds vote of the delegates present to return to work at the operators’ terms. The convention was a representative gathering, delegates being present from nearly every pit in the four pools. Work will be resumed in all the mines along the river on Monday, or as soon as arrangements can be made to start them. The strike lasted four months, and was the most stubbornly contested struggle ever known on the river. Fully 6,000 men were engaged in it; of this number about 2,000 returned to work before the strike was decided at an end. The decision of the convention has caused general rejoicing along the Monongabela valley. The employesjof the Edgar Thomson steel works, of Braddock, Pa, accepted the firm’s proposition of a 10 per cent, advance, with twelve hoars a day’s work, and signed the scale

ior the ensuing year to-day. The mill will resume operations in all departments on Monday. The furnace men, to the number of 700, were paid off this evening and discharged, because they refused to accept a 10 per cent advance and work twelve hours a day. " The workmen wanted three turns a day, eight hours each. This was refused by the operators, and the furnaces ware banked. The Mellen Conspiracy. Philadelphia, Jan. 2.—A. B. Dennis was general clerk, last season, at the Stockton Hotel, Cape May, N. J., managed by Adrian L. Mellen, who is wanted in Boston on a charge of conspiracy to murder his son’s wife. In an interview, Dennis said that Edward Mellen and his wife went to the Stockton in July. Edward attended to the steward’s department, the bar and the billiard-room. He drank heavily. His wife was not a favorite. The wife of Mellen senior entertained an intense hatred for her. A woman supposed to be Amelia Coolidge, now in jail in Boston on a charge of conspiracy to murder Mrs. Mellen, jr., went to the Stockton and registered as Emma Long. She was followed by a rough looking man who wanted to be assigned to rooms adjoining those of Mrs. Long. Mrs. Mellen, _ jr. f was taken sick about this time, and Edward, her husband, was sent to Baltimore. Dr. Hoy, of this city, was called in. He found her almost dead. Mrs. Mellen, sr., refused to go to her. or to send any one to wait upon her. Dennis had the prescriptions filled and summoned the house keeper. Dr. Hoy gave the latter instructions to allow no one to administer the medicine but himself. The next day Mrs. Long and the rough-looking man left. From that time Mrs. Mellen improved, and in time regained her health. Dennis is a Washington man, and a hotel clerk by profession. He was a witness in the Guiteau trial. His father was a noted character in Washington for many years, and is now a court officer in Chicago. He is an armless man, both arms having been blown off in firing a salute to a Russian prince off Gibraltar, while serving on an American man-of-war, a few years before the rebellion. Dennis draws a pension from both the Russian and American governments of $125 a month. _ Inharmonious Methodist Brethren. Philadelphia. Jan. 2.— Tho following letter has been issued by Thomas W. Price, in answer to an open letter of Rev. Dr. A. J. Kynett: “Bev. A. J. Kynett, D. D., Secretary of the Board of Church Extension of the M. K. Church: “Reverend Sir—l have received from you a printed copy of your abusive speech before the general committee of the church, in reply to my address to your hoard. You have had more than six weeks in which to allow the violence of your rage to cool, in which timo your personal attention has been called to the fact that the official records of your board prove the falsity of your statements. Notwithstanding that, you have prostituted a journal of the church to repeat your falsehoods. I cannot hold a personal controversy with a man who proves himself as cowardly as he is false, hut will take the liberty of calling yoar attention to the warning to be found in the latter part of the eighth verse of the twenty-first chapter of the book of Revelations, and observe that there is no exception to the clergy. I am, sir, in all good work, “Your obedient servant, “Thomas W. Price.” Earthquake in South America. New York, Jan. 2.—There have been several shocks of earthquake recently in Valparaiso, Arica, Tacna and Serena, hut the most alarming have been at laniqui, of which the Chilian Times, says: “The first shock occurred at 2:40 A. m., Dec. 11, and it was an unusually heavy one. Buildings were shaken in an omnious manner. Five minutes after the first earthquake, a slight shock occurred, and ten minutes after tho second, a third was felt The third was followed later by two slight but distinct shocks, and it is believed that a continuous tremor, lasting for several consecutive hours, might have been detected with proper instruments. To add to the alarm, tho sea was extraordinarily high, and persons residing near the beach, and more especially those living at the Puntinella. left their bedß, ani watched the furious waves as they broke on the shore, and fear of an irruption of the oeean was uppermost in everybody’s mind. The agitation of the sea continued with gradually decreasing violence throughout the 12th Inst., untj/l nightfall, when it became calm. Tho Murder Mystery at Austin, Tex. Austin, Tex., Jan. 2.—A. P. Wooldridge, chairman of the citizens’ committee, to-day officially announced a reward of SI,OOO for the arrest and conviction of the persons guilty of the murders in this city of the following-named persons: Mrs. Eula Philips and Sirs. M. H. Hancock, both white, and Mollie Smith, Eliza Shelly, Mary Ramsey and Grace Fance, all colored. The first victim, Mollie Smith, was murdered Dec. 30, 1884. It is doubtful if James Phillips, who was found seriously wounded the night his wife was murdered, and who was arrested on Thursday night charged with being her murderer, will recover from his injuries.

Bishop Fabre’s Mandament. Montreal, Jan. 2.—Bishop Fabre’s circular in explanation of his maudament on the Riel question has been read in some of the Catholic churches. Besides these explanations, the circular refers to the costumes worn by ladies for winter sports, and tho dangers attending such sports. The Bishop denounces the costumes as quite unbecoming for the female :<, and considers both toboggannig and snoe-shoeing, as carried on, dangerously near the paths of sin. Speaking of the latter sport, he says that snowshoes were invented by the Indians as a necessity, and were never intended for civilized women. The circular has also some points against theatres. _ A Decision Against the Jesuits. Montreal, Jan. 2.—lt was rumored a few days ago that a decision had been received from Rome, giving Archbishop Taschenau, not the Jesuits, authority to negotiate with the government for the restoration to the church of a valuable estate which was confiscated from the Jesuits during the last century, and, if successful, to administer the estate, and employ the revenues arising therefrom for educational purposes. It is now stated, on good authority, that the distinguished prelate will immediately proceed to urge upon the government the justice of the claim, and will use all his influence to have the property handed over to the church. Oueen Victoria’s Proposed Retaliation. London, Jan. 2. —The Queen is irate because of the tacit refusal of the courts at Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg to recognize the right of Prince Henry of Battenburg, the husband of Princess Beatrice, to the title of Royal Highness. Asa responsive defiance, the Queen will admit the right of Count Gleichen to resume the title and rank of Prince Victor HohenloheLangenburg, which he renounced on marrying an aunt of the-present Marquis of Hertford. The courts of Europe are taking a lively interest in the quarrel. Eastern Cigar-Makers in San Francisco. San Francisco, Jan. 2. —The arrival to-day of the two hundred eastern cigar- makers was made the occasion of quite an imposing demonstration. They were met at the depot by delegations from all the labor unions, who escorted them through the city. The Eastern men made an excellent impression. Several cigar manufacturers, each employing over a hundred Chinamen, announced their intention to-day of discharging the Chinese and employing white labor. Merchant Steel Manofactnrers. Pittsburg, Jan. 2. —At a secret meeting of merchant steel manufacturers here, to-day, it was decided to call a national convention, to be held in this city next Thursday, to consider the advisability of advancing rates and to discuss the question of wages for the ensuing year. It is expected that fully nine-tenths of the merchant steel producing interests of the country will be in the city on the date of the national convention. _ Failures iu New York. New York, Jan. 2.— James D. Whitmore & Cos., stationers, to-day assigned, giving preference to the Whiting Paper Company, of Holyoke, Mass., for $3,343. The schedules of Link & Cos., provisions, show liabilities of $388,260; actual assets, $233,340. Frederick Link’s personal liabilities are $90,088; actual assets, $130,843. Uneasiness Among the Navajo Indians. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 2.— The Times’s Albuquerque, N. M., special says: ’’There is more or less uneasiness among the Navajo In-

dians on their reservation. There are about 5.000 of these Indians, and some of these manifest a disposition to go beyond the limits *of their reservation on hunting or marauding excursions. Cattlemen are determined to prevent this, and there is some apprehension of an outbreak. Ohio Legislative Caucuses. Columbus, 0., Jan. 2. —The Ohio Legislature will convene Monday. The lower House is ReSubiican and the Senate Democratic. The memers of each body met to-night and held caucuses for the nomination of offioers. John C. Entriken, of Ross connty, was selected by the Republicans for Speaker of the House, and Senator O’Neill, of Zanesville, by the Democrats for president pro tem. of the Senate. The Cotton Fire at Opelika, Ala. Columbus, Ga., Jan. 2.—The warehouse burned in Opelika, yesterday, was the property of Hndman Broa & Cos., and was occupied by G. P. Cole & Cos. Between 1.500 and 2,000 bales of cotton were destroyed. The loss is placed at $75,000, with $51,000 insurance. Business Block Burned. Binghamton, N. Y., Jan. 2.—Fire early this morning destroyed the Sheldon Block, consisting of four three-story frame buildings, a twostory frame building adjoining and a three-story brick building. Loss, $25,000. Church Damaged by Fire. New York, Jan. 2.—Fire occurred in St Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, on Hudson street, near Grove street, to-night, and caused a damage of $25,000. The church is one of the oldest in the city. _ Death from Excessive Whisky-Drloking. Cleveland, Jan. 2.—Patrick Caine, a lad sixteen years old, living on Mulberry street* drank whisky in such quantities on New Year’s day that he died to-night Prince Liechtenstein and other great landowners in Austria have resolved to make an attempt to restock the vast forests of Styria with elks. The Prince has ordered a well-known Hamburg dealer to provide him with three herds, which will be turned'out in the forests on his estate. The Emperor Francis Joseph, who is an enthusiastic sportsman of the genuine Tyrolean type, heartily approves of the project. An experiment of a somewhat similar kind is being tried in Bohemia by Count Czerniu Morzin, who has introduced chamois from the Tyrol and Switzerland on the mountain range around his hunting seat of Marschendorf. Possibly most of the people who are familar with the picture of the chocolate girl which Messrs. Walter Baker & Cos. have used so long as their trado mark, think it a creation of some artist’s fancy. On the contrary it is a portrait, the portrait of a very pretty Viennese woman, and has a romantic story attached to it. It seems that some years ago a young German student of noble birth fell in love with the pretty chocolate girl who served him with this delicious beverage in a Vienna case. She was a respectable girl and he an honorable gentleman, and he married her. He felt prond of her humble origin, and had her portrait painted by a famous German artist in the picturesque costume sno wore when ho first met her, and this portrait is now among the most valued art treasures of the government. —Boston Journal.

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MASTER’S SALE. In obedience to an order of sale issued out of the Circuit Court of the United .States for the Dist-iet ot Indiana, upon a decree rendered in a cause wherein H. Reiman Duval is plaintiff and The Western Equipr ment Company is defendant, the undersigned, Master in Chancery of said Court, will offer for sale at public auction to the h l ghest bidder, at the north door of the Postoflfice Building, in the city of Indianapolis, county of Marion and State of Indiana, on TUESDAY, THE 12th DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. 1880, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 12 o'clock noon of said day, all of the following described prep, erty, to-wit: All the property, goods, chattels, ears, rights, credits, effects and franchises of The Western Equipment Company as an entirety. Terms of Sale—The purchaser at such sale, by making such purchase, shall assume and undertake to pay the following indebtedness of said Western Equipment Company, to-wit: To the Bristol and South Wales Railway Wagon Company (Limited), of Bristol,’ England; the Union Rolling Stock Company (Limited),' of Birmingham, England, and William A. Adams, of Gains,England,the sum of sixhundred and twenty-nine thousand and sixty dollars ($629,000), and to the United States. Rolling Stock Company the snm of one hundred and fifty-nine thousand five hundred and ten dollars ($159,510.) Said sale will be subject to all liens now existing in favor of the said creditors above named, and all rights held by the same are to lie preserved. Said property will not be sold for lose than ttro-thirds of the appraised value. WILLIAM P. FISHBACK, Master. Indianapolis, January 1, 1886. Reeche ft Lam me, Solicitors.

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