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THE RECORD OP THE COURTS. United State* District Court. Hon. W. A. Woods, Judge. To-day—No calls. Supreme Court. Hon. W. K. Niblack, Chief-justice. The following decisions were rendered Jan. 5: 12791 Tobias Morris vs. The State. Perry C. C. Affirmed. Niblack, C. J.—lndictment for rape. Defendant's motion to quash was sustained, and the grand jury being in session returned mother one; and it being about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, defendant being in oourt upon bis own recognizance, mored that the trial be postponed nntil the next morning, to allow him further time to prepare for his defense. The motion was overruled. The motion to postpone was net supported by affidavit or other affirmative showing, and hence the presumption is that the court rightly refused to postpone the trial. 12462. Michael Johns vs. the State. Clay C. C. Affirmed. Zollars, J.—(l.) The statutes requiring, in affirmative terras, an arraignment and plea in criminal cases do not apply to proceedings in justices’ courts. Aside from any express statutory provisions, a proper practice requires that before proceeding to trial in these courts the accused should be given the opportunity and-be required to plead guilty or not guilty, so as to form an issue. Especially is this so where the justice has jurisdiction to dispose of the case upon its merits, and is not sitting simply as an examining magistrate. The failure to arraign an accused in one of these courts would not be such an omission as to justify a reversal here. It would be a safer practice for the iustice to enter the plea upon his docket, but that not being a statutory requirement a failure to do so will not reverse. A justice must require a plea, and the record here being silent whether it was given, the presumption is in favor of the validity of the proceedings. (2.) Section 1811 providing, in prosecutions for obstructing a highway, that it shall be sufficient to prove that it was used and worked as such, means that such proof in the absence of countervailing proo. ? is sufficient to sustain the charge that the way is a public one. 12739. John W. Wisehart vs. The Btate. Hancock C. C. Affirmed. Mitchell, J.—lndictment for misdemeanor. An appeal from the judgment of conviction by the justice of the peace to the Circuit Court operates os more than a mere stay of the proceedings before the justice, bu transfers the whole proceedings to the appellate court. After appeal the case is within the jurisdiction of the court and must be disposed of as other criminal cases are. There is no statute authorizing such an appeal to be dismissed. 12680. Albert Garmire vs. The State. Lagrange C. C. Affirmed. Elliott, J.—lndictment for forgery. The instrument reads: “Lagrange, Ind., June 19,1881. Mr. Allen—Please let A. Garmire have team to go to Mongo and charge same to me. T. Hudson.” This instrument is within the provision cf the statute defining the crime of forgery. It is not merely a request for the delivery of property, but a writing obligatory promising to pay for property. The fact that the date appears to bo 1881, instead of 1885, cannot avail a an objection, the indictment charging that the paper was uttered oa June 19, 1885. 11868. David Lowery va Wm. Carver, administrator. Hamilton C. C. Affirmed. Howk, J—(L) Tho long hand manuscript of the evidence was not incorporated into the bill of exceptions when it was signed by the judge, and it is therefore no part of the bill. (2.) Where no {>laee in the bill is marked by the words “Here nsert,” for the insertion of such manuscript, the clerk has no authority to incorporate it therein. (3.) The long-hand manuscript, to constitute part of the record, must be incorporated in the bill. 12486. Samuel *M. Mitchell vs. Thomas W. Bray et al. Morgan, C. C. Motion to dismiss overruled. 11597. Stoughton J. Fletcher et si vs. Robert C. McGill, MarionS. C. Rehearing gr^pted. Superior Court. Boom I—Boa. Napoleon B. Taylor. Judge. Yesterday—Thomas P. Mills et al. vs. Robert Coaly, jr., etal.; for sale of real estate. Dismissed. W. J. Turner vs. the J., M. & I. Railway Company; snit for damages. Dismissed. Joseph G. English vs. Adolph Harder et aL; to quiet title. Title quieted. Emil Wulschner va John M. Birk; note. Judgment for 362.03. Oliver W. Voorhis vs. George W. Hardesty, et al.; abta. Judgment for slls. 33. Charles Brinkley vs. Tho Indianapolis Chair Manufacturing Company; damages. On trial by oourt To-day—Call; 34333. Charles Brinkley vs. The Indianapolis Chair Manufacturing Company. Boom 2—Hob. D. W. Howe, Judge. Yesterday—Vincwt D. Urso et al. vs. Joseph M. Kinney; replevin. Plaintiff dismisses'at his cost. Citizsns’ Bank of Noblesville, Ind.', vs. Chauneey Butler, surviving partner, etc. Plaintiff dismisses at his cost. Wesley Black et al. vs. Barbara Murphy et al. Plaintiffs dismiss at their cost Fred Myer et al. vs. Henry Kahn; chattel mortgage. Finding for plaintiff. To-day— Calls- 34487, Bessie Cool vs. Theodore Ceo); 34418, James N. Mead vs. Massachusetts Life Insurance Company et aL Boom 3—Hon. Lewis 0. Walker, Judge. Yesterday—Charles A. Baylor va. George C. Spencer, notea Judgment for $170.50. Wm. Marshall vs. Samuel Schuch et al.; for possession of goods. On trial by the court Wm. Needham et al. va. John C. Wright et al.; motion that the court act on affidavits for change of venue. Taken under advisement. To-day calls: 33720, Wm. C. Denny et aL vs. August M. Kuhn et al.; 33788, Frederick Bremer v& August M. Kuhn et aL NEW SUITS. Room 1—34891, Albert Fraue’r vs. Will D. Booker et al; note. Demand SBS. Room 2—34889, Edward L. Jones wg. Eliza Jane Jones; divoree; abandonment. 34892, George K. Schofield vs. Robert H. Hurles; notes on account. Room 3—34893, Elizabeth M. Tyner vs. Harriet P. Van Sickle et al.; note; demand S3OO. 34890, Margaret Van Dorn vs. Wm. C. Van Dorn; divorce; oruel treatment. Criminal Court. Ffon. Pierce Norton, Judge. To-day—Calls; The State vs. Hill and the State vs. Smith; destroying ballots. The State vs. George Morton and the State vs. Buck Leddy; burglary. W 1 1 ■ 1 1 1 Real Estate Transfers. Instruments filed for record in the Recorder’s office •f Marion county. Indiana, for the twenty-four hours ending at 5 o’clock, p. m., Jan. 5, 1886, as furnished by Elliott A Butler, abstracters of titles, room No. 3. JStna Building: Noble Judd to Sarah A. Moore, part of northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 17, township 14, range 3 east, containing 4 acres $46.50 Providence Sballenberger and husband to Mary E. Bourke, part of lots 11 and 12 in square ‘22, in Drake’s addition to IndknADolifi i nan no The Western Electric Com pan vto Thosu ’ Madden, block 12. etc., all in Cavern and Rockwood’s East Woodlawn subdivision to ludiauapslis, 14,500,00 Hannah J. tattings and husband to Ida B. Petty, lot 182 in E. TANARUS., S. K. and A. E. Fletcher s n oodlawn suburb to Indianapolis 277.00 A aarew Dickson and wife to William Nealy, lot 3 in Mary C. Master’s subdivision, of blocks 49 and 50, in T. C. Harrison ft Co.’s addition to Indianap- „**• 100.00 HitniHot: Bailie and wife to Louis Hella an, tot (ki in Elliott's subdivision of outk-t 156, and, also, lots 22 and 25 k, John Caren's subdivision of outlot 150, all in Indianapolis 1,600.00 Elijah W. Knapp and wife to Thomas Hayes et al.. lota 4 ands in Downey's southeast addition to Indianapolis 100.00 Jacob W. Ford and wife to Tsaiah Hawkins, lot 4 in block or square 13, in Hubbard, McCarty and Martiudale's southeast addition to Indianapolis 15.00 Eswry Q. Potteraon to John 8. Spann, lot 83 m Bright et al.'s subdivision of outlet 155, m Indianapolis 940.00 Conveyances, 9; consideration .818,578.50 The Aldermasslc Trouble Compromised. The plan of division of offices in the Board of Aldermen baa been ratified. The Democratic and Republican member* of the board met together last night and reached a conclusion that

will probably prevent any serious misunderstanding at the organization Friday night. It ia irranged that the Republicans will name the president of the board, who, it is understood, will be Alderman Endley, and the Democrats the vice-president, Isaac King. The chairmanships will be divided the financial and judiciary committees going to the Republicans. A CREDITABLE EXHIBITION. The Poultry and Dog Show Has an Auspicious Opening, and Promises Success. The Central Indiana Poultry Association opened its exhibits, at the Meridian Rink, yesterday. There was not much of an attendance during the afternoon, but when chicken and dog fanciers learn that a very good show is at their command they will not be slow in seeing all that can be seen. “Even at this eariy hour of the exhibition,” said one of the officers yesterday, “we are far ahead of the late Chicago affair, which was the best ever held in the country.” Avery general support has been given the enterprise by fancy chicken-breeders throughout the State. Off in Ohio, too, are a few so greatly interested in its success that they have sent several coops of the most popular breeds. This is due to the liberal scheme of prizes. An excellent arrangement of the coops has been made, and the visitors can inspect, admire and comment on the fowls without having their attention confused at the lime by collections equally as worthy of praise. “We have in use all the exhibition coops that were at the State fair,” remarked Superintendent Wilson, “and are compelled to show many fowls in the coops in which they were shipped. Entering the rink, the first division to the left demands attention. Here is displayed a very largo collection of Light Brahmas. This breed has many fine fowls to show the qualities that make them so popular among a certain class of fanciers. This line of coops begins with the collection of Eva D. Thrasher, of Shelbyville. It is exceptionally good. But as one goes down the exhibit he finds it hard to choose when there is so much to admire. Sydney Conger, of Flat Rock, puts to the front a superb coop of Plymouth Rocks and one of Wyandots just as meriting of praise. He sold to a gentleman in Illinois a pain of Plymouth Rocks for S2OO. Meiar & Drake of Mount Lookout, Cincinnati, confine their disday to Wyandots, arid a good one it is. F. A. Corry, of Morristown, Ind., also enhances the value of this breed's exhibit by a large collection. His Wyandot broods are more extensive than any in the country. B. S. Meyers, of Crawfordsville, has Plymouth Rocks as well as Wyandots, to exhibit, and W. M. Howell, of Edinburg, is represented by a fine variety of Langshans, Dark Brahmas and Partridge Cochins. C. H. Johnson, of Rushville, a large importer of Buff Cochins, has an excellent display of this class. Dugan, of Waldron, has a coop of Leghorns worth admiring. Dorsey, of Marylaud, sent a large collection of blackbreasted and duck-winged Bantams, also a coop of pigeons, fan-tails and pouters. George Ewald, of Corryville, Cincinnati, has also on exhibition a beautiful collection of doves and pigeons. This is what a hasty glance at the exhibition reveals, but there is enough to call for an afternoon’s close inspection. “We will have over 1,200 birds on exhibtion,” said Secretary Elliott. “These are to come from 100 exhibitors. You will find here every popular breed, even to the best species of the bantams.” On the right are fifty kennels for the dog side of the show. “There are enongh entries in this department,” explained Superintendent Wilson, ' ‘to occupy every stall, and it is possible we will have to add to them. The dogs are not all here, but will be to-morrow.” The exhibit, as it stood yesterday, showed several fine English and Irish setters, pointers, St. Bernards and spaniels of the best blood. The exhibition will continue throughout the week.

THE CITY IN BRIEF. Last night burglars entered Nos. 46 and 48 Indiana avenue, but got very little for their trouble. Dr. Allison Maxwell will lecture to the Nightingale School of Nurses this afternoon, at Plymouth Church. Subject: “Diseases of Children.” * The executive board of the South Side Benevolent Society will meet this evening at Rev. Hunter’s, No. 308 East South street. All interested in the work are invited. Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Thomas P. Hessong and Rebecca J. Mustard, Charles Shirley and Emma Pool. Pomp White and Dora Smith, Andrew Shipley and Ida Weathers. A few of the picture® of the New Orleans gallery, to be exhibited here in April next, are fine specimens of the nude in art. Two are beautiful and immense pictures by Gustave Wertheimer, a young man. a pupil of Makart. He received medals at Paris, London, Amsterdam and Vienna. Both of these pictures have marine backgrounds. One illustrates the German myth of the Lorelei, and is indescribably beautiful. Wertheimer lately received SIOO,OOO from the Bavarian government for one of his pictures. A Reported Cincinnati Suicide. Night before last a person picked up on the Cincinnati and Covington suspension bridge a hat and folded papers. He carried the articles to a newspaper office in the first-mentioned oity, from which an able reporter built a sensation of double suicide. It was represented that a man and woman together jumped from the bridge into the water. The paper was filled with writing purporting to be letters to different persons from the man, John A. Gibson, a Cincinnati saloon-keeper. He directed how his affairs should be arranged, and went through the usual formula of a suicide’s grief. He said his wife, Mamie, was in this city, stopping at the St. Charles Hotel. She was sou id there yesterday, and gave but little credence to the story of her husband’s suicide. It is her belief that he wrote the letters and left them on the bridge with his hat for effect. She left him about two weeks ago, on account of his ill-treat-ment, and did not propose to return to him. Woman’s State Fair Association. The Woman’s State Fair Association held a very enthusiastic meeting yesterday. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: President, Mrs. A. M. Noe, city; vicepresident, Mrs. F. M. Adkinson, city; secretary and treasurer, Miss May R. Heron; disbursing committee, Mrs. Fannie B. Shideler, Mrs. Louise Hawkins, Mrs. Josie Swift and Mrs. A, N. Taylor. The members of the association attended the afternoon meeting of the Delegate State Board of Agriculture in a body. The Rill-Smith Caeee. In the Criminal Court, yesterday, the case relating to the alleged destruction of the Eighteenth ward ballots was called, but the defense seeaTed a continuance until to- J ay. It is the opinion of some that Hill and Smith, who are charged with the offense, will not be tried, as the question of proceedings by information upon facts once discarded by the grand jury remains to be settled. The Roberts Park Revival. ’ The revival in progress at Roberts Park Church, under the leadership of Mra L. O. Robinson, continues to grow in interest, and large congregations listen to her discourses. Btorn Signals. As the coming of a great storm is heralded by the display of cautionary signals, so is the approach of that dread and fatal disease, consumption of the lungs, usually announced in advance by pimples, blotches, eruptions, ulcers, glandular swellings and kindred outward manifestations of the internal bleod poison, which, if not promptly expelled from the system, attacks the delicate tissues of the lungs, causing them to ulcerate and break down. Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” is the great remedy for this, aa for all diseases having their origin in bad blood. It improves the appetite and digestion, increases nutrition and builds up tho wasted system.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1886.

PERSONAL ASP SOCIETY. Judge W. A. Cullen, of Rushville, is at the Grand Hotel. Hon. W. C. DePauw, of New Albany, is at the Bates House. Miss Emily Alien, of Terre Haute, returns home this week. Mr. Isaac Herr, of the Lafayette Journal, was in the city yesterday. Hon. John Overmyer, wife and daughter, of North Vernon, are at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. Ella Nare spent yesterday in the city, returning to her home in Danville last night Mrs. Hermann Tuttle gave a Newmarket party last night at her residence, on Michigan street. Miss Jessie Hamilton, of Greenfield, who is attending DePauw University, visited friends in the city yesterday. Mrs. Frank Hesse and Miss Lillie Williams will entertain their mute friends this evening by a social and supper. Miss Josephine Brower, of Cincinnati, 0., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Werner P. Craft, of 005 North Tennessee street. Mr. Illeg, of New Haven, Conn., who has been in the city for the past few days, left for Lafayette this morning. Miss Jnlia Ball, of Terre Hante, who has been the guest of Miss Stewart, at 357 North Illinois street, returns home Thursday. The beautiful and accomplished Miss Mering, of Richmond, who has been visiting Miss Anna Wright, returned home yesterday. Mr. John Geiger will give a progressive euchre party to a number of friends to morrow night at his home, on North Meridian street. Mr. George Arnat left, yesterday, for Hamilton, 0., where he is engaged in business. His wife and little son have taken rooms at the Occidental Hotel. Mrs. E. F. Hodges will give a reception, on Friday afternoon, from 4 to 7 o’clock, at her residence, corner of Meridian and New York streets, in honor of Mrs. C. B. Fletcher. Mrs. Jane Taylor, wife of Architect Isaac Taylor, who was stricken with paralysis in the left arm, in November, suffered a second stroke Jan. 2, in the right side, which, it is feared, will result fatally. Bishop Knickerbacker has accepted an invitation to preach before the young men of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, under the auspices of the Hobart Guild, on the third Sunday in February. Mrs. Frauk T. Short, formerly of s city, is visiting her mother and sister at Detroit, Mich. In the early spring she will take up her residence in Argyl Park, Chicago, where her husband is building a handsome residence. The members of the Art Association are requested to meet at the house of Mrs. Joseph Moore, 612 North Pennsylvania street, at 3 o’clock Tuesday, Jan. 12. Papers, with illustrations, will be read on Phidias and Praxitiles. Mr. Wm. H. Clark has signed a contract with a wealthy church in New York, accepting the position after a unanimous and repeated call, to become the organist and director of music, to enter upon bis duties the first Sunday in April, closing his engagement atf Plymouth Church the last Sunday in March. Hotel Arrivals. Bates House: Ed Patterson, E. M. Kemp, Wabash; Sid Conger, Flat Rock; N. S. Weed, Bloomington; C. H. Anthony, Muncie; J. C. Hadley, Rochester; F. L. Snyder, Ross Cohoon, J. R. Duncan, Crawfordsvilie; F. M. Webster, H. C. Tyler, Lafayette; A. W. Hempleman, W. H. Kendall, E. H. Swayne, Richmond; W. J. Rigg, Knoxville; F. W. Okey, Columbus; W. M. Pennington, Terre Haute; I. F. Jordan and wife, Crete. Grand Hotel: Sand. Hargrove, Greeneastle; P. C. McWilliams, Rockville; Elisha Little, Pine Village; H. M. Cockrum, Oakland; J. F. Harwood, Cameron; Mrs. W. B. Caldwell, Spencer; Will Cumback, Greensburg; J. G. Ibach and wife, Huntington; Mrs. E. E. Smith, A. Henderson, Lafayette; J. M. Davis, Frankfort: W. H. Ragan, Greeneastle; Jesse E. Stevens, Richmond: Thomas Nelson, Bloomington; J. E. Coleman, W. W. Stader, J. A. McGregor, Columbus, Eli Ogle, Vincennes; W. H. Goodwin, West Lebanon; J. T. Lowe, Perrysville; Benjamin B. Beeson, I. F. Beeson, Dalton; I. Ward Walker, Greeenfield; J. F. Byers, Lafayette; F. B. Van Nuys, Lebanon; R. Johnson, Madison; R. H. Walls, Greeneastle; J. E. Mellett, Mancie; W. T. Ferguson, Perrysville; J. M. Boggs, Lafayette.

Republican Organization. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The programme of the State committee completes our party organization on Washington’s birthday. The work, under the committee’s fiat, when supplemented by a platform and ticket, will constitute the party’s appeal to the voters of the State for ratification. The voting unit must act or speak on or before the 30th inst. or bold bis peace on the matter of organization. For the “wheelers,” I speak now, in the “nick of time.” If the journals of the party machine be oiled with the sanction and love of the voting masses it will run well toward the honor of success. Ido believe the old State, county and precinct committeemen can and should reach the voters in the manner of creating new committees. The strong young Republicans should be enltsted as party servants in the precincts and neighborhoods. When a trust and confidence is voluntarily voted to and assumed by a man on behalf his neighbors he will try his level best. Call a meeting in each school district and neighborhood on Friday evening, Jan. 22, 1886. The Republicans present can elect a member of the precinet committees, make such recommendations as they deem wise, and report to the precinct mass convention to be held on Saturday, Jan. 23, 18S6, at 2 p. m., which convention ean transact business as follows: First, receive reports of neighborhood meetings and provide for a complete precinct organization; second, recommend to the county convention a choice of delegates to the district convention; third, recommend & member of tho county committee and the manner of county organization; fourth, transact other precinct business of a partisan nature and report to the eounty convention. This preliminary work will in no manner conflict with the present programme, and. I believe, will bring into the organization good men who will have the confidence and assistance of all their fellow-partisans in the conduct of the campaign. Aa organization thus built and founded on the possible consent of a majority will be strong and active. Give the “wheelers” a chance to have a “say.” Our party is out of power, and our appeal must be on the ground of merit alone. S. P. Thompson. Rensselaer, Jan. 4, 1886. MONEY FOB I’RAYERS. A Decision of Great Interest to All Members of the Catholic Church. New York Timeß. The Court of Appeals of this State recently decided, in the case of Gilman against McArale, that an agreement made by a party, prior to her death, for the saying of masses for the repose of her soul after death was a valid and legal agreement The decision excited considerable comment at the time. In that case it was not directly decided that a provision in a will for the saying of masses after the death of the party for the repose of his or her soul would be valid. A case has just been decided in Brooklyn, however, where that question is disposed of by the opin on and judgment of the court Thomas Gunning, who died in New York, March 6, 1882, left a will in which, after making legacies to his relatives, he bequeathed the residue of his estate to his executors, one of whom was Recorder Smyth, to be applioi by them for prayers to bs offered in a Roman Catholic church, to be by them selected, for the repose of his sou), for the souls of his family, and the souls of all others in purgatory. At the time of the making of the will, in 1878, the amount which would be applied to this purpose was not very large, but during the years between the makine of the will, Gunning's death, and the settlement of the estate, the sum had Increased to upward of $7,000. Under the direction of the will the executor selected the Cathedral as the place for the offering of these prayers. A number of the legatees under the will brought an action to have this provision of the will declared invalid. This nation was tried before Judge Cullen, in the Supreme Court of Kings county, on the 31st of October last, Mr. David McClure, of Turner, Lee A McClure, appearing for Recorder Smyth, tho ex-

ecutor. Judge Cullen has just filed his opinion, directing judgment in favor of tho defendant, thus sustaining the provision of the will directing the money to be used for the offering of prayers. Concerning the question of provisions in wills with regard to monuments and expenses of burial, the court said: “Provisions for monuments and expenses of funerals are common in wills, and while in most cases they have been assumed to be good rather than the question of their validity discussed, still, whenever the question has directly arisen they have been upheld. In a Pennsylvania case, the testator directed his whole residuary estate to be expended in a monument. It was held that the executor had a right to apply all the estate remaining in his hands for that purpose. In answer to the claim of the next of kin the court says: ‘We will not consider the wisdom or folly of thiu Imposition. He had a right to make it. He did make it. We see no cause to set his will at nausrhi or impair its force.’” Judge Cullen also cites a casein New Jersey where the testator directed his executors to erect a monument at a cost not exceeding $50,000 nor less than $40,000, in which case it was held that the trust was valid, the Chancellor, in his opinion in that case, saying, “to hold otherwise would be to deny the right of the testator to dispose of his estate.” Judge Cullen, in his opinion, citing other cases where the same declaration was made as to the will, said: “It follows that there is a certain class of testamentary dispositions the object of which is solely the benefit, real or supposed, of the testator, or the gratification of his desires, which, if trusts, are not charities, nor do they have any beneficiary, yet, nevertheless, are unquestionably valid;” and further said: “I think a provision for masses for the benefit of the testator’s soul is exactly akin to a provision for his funeral or monument, while decent burial is given by the law out. of even an insolvent’s estate. I think the monument is no more an adjunct or concomitant of burial than the masses. One testator may direct his whole estate expended in the pomp of a funeral pageant, a second in a monument to commemorate his name, a third in religious services to benefit his soul. It is a matter of taste and of religious faith. I think all of the directions are of the same general character and equally good in law.” DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, i Office of the Chief Signal, Officer > Washington, Jan. 6, la. m. j Special Indications for Twenty four Hours from 7 a. m., for Indianapolis and Vicinity— Fair weather, slightly colder. For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee —Generally fair weather, nearly stationary temperature; northerly winds, becoming variable. For the Lower Lake Region—Generally fair weather, northerly winds, becoming variable, slight fall in temperature. For the Upper Lake Region—Generally fair weather, variable winds, slowly rising temperature. For the Upper Mississippi Valley—Fair weather, variable winds, generally shifting to southerly, stationary, followed by slowly rising temperature, lower barometer. For the Missouri Valley—Slightly warmer and fair weather, winds generally southerly. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Jan. 5.

Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 6A. m.. 29.74 26.0 90 S’w’at Lt. snow 0.03 10 a. M.. 29.81 28.0 88 West Lt. snow 2 p.m.. 29.82 28.3 82 Nw'st Lt. snow 0.01 6P. M.. 29.95 25.5 88 Nw’st Lt. snow 10p.m.. 30.04 23.0 90 Nw’st Lt. snow 0.03 Maximum temperature, 29.4; minimum temperature, 23.0. General Observations. War Department, ) Washington, Jan. 5, 9 p. m. J Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. | 4 f b | f* rg f* STATIONS. | S : 2 Z ? ; ? : : a :.• • • # • • c* • New York City 29.62 35 West Clear. Washington City 29.76 34 Nwest ..... Clear. Vicksburg, Miss.... 30.19 33 East Clear. New Orleans. La 30.14 45 1 Nwest Clear. Shrevepoi-*, La 30.18 39 Nwest i Clear. Fort Smith, Ark... 30.22 30 North 1 Clear. Little Rock, Ark... 30.16 31 Nwest I Clear. Galveston, Tex 30.20 47j North j Clear. Memphis, Tenn.... 30.14 29lNwest Clear. Nashville, Tenn j 30.11 29 Nwest Cloudy. Louisville, Ky 30.04 32 West Cloudy. Indianapolis, Ind..- :30.03 : 24 Nwest .03 Lfc snow. Cincinnati, O 29 96 27,Nwest .OliLtsnow. Pittsburg. Pa 29.75 30 S west! .01 'Lt snow. Oswego, N.Y. 30.59 34;Wst .01|Ltsnow. Toledo 0 29.92 16 North Cloudy. Escanaba, Mich.... 30.17 12 North .03Lt snow. Marquette, Mich.. 30.20 10 North .OliLtsnow. Chicago, 111 30.09 21 Nwest Iciondy Milwaukee, Wis.... 30.13 14 North iCloar. Duluth, Minn 30.29 12 S’east .01 Lt snow. St. Paul, .Minn 30.20 15 Calm jCloudr. LaCrosse, Wis 30.18 15 North .Fair. Davenport, Ia 30.19 19 Nwest Clear, Des Moines, la 30 2-t 14 Calm Clear. Keokuk. la. 30.18 18 Nwest Clean. Cairo, 111 30.19 28 Nwest Cloudy. Springfield. 11l 30.14 26 Nwest .....iCloar. St. Louis, Mo 30.18 29!Nwest iClear. Lamar, Mo j 30,25 20 : North j Clear. Leavenworth, Kan. 30.27 20,Calm !Clear. Omaha, Neb 30.23 11 South .....jClear. Yanktou, Dak 30.12 25 South Clear. Moorehead. Minn... 30.18 10 North j Cloudy. Bismarck, Dak 30.22 1 N’easfc ...... Cloudy. Fort Buford, Dak.. 30.22 0 East !Cloudy. Ft. Assiniboine.M.T 30.18 7 North iLtsnow. Fort Custor,Mont. ! T)oq/1 UTAOf] North Platte Neb:.' 30.13 '*23 South I"" 6w"' Denver, Col 30.09 14i.South! Clear. W. Las Animas, C01i30.04 3, West j Clear. Dodge City, Kan... 30.12 22! S’east 1 Clear. Fort Elliott, Tex... 30.19 28jS’east< Clear. FortSiil, lad. Ter j Fort Davis, Tex 30.08 33: West Clear. El Paso, Tex 30.09 33 Calra I Clear. Salt Lake City, U. T 30.17 23! Calm I j Fair. Congressman Browne’s Electoral Bill. Philadelphia Times. The bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Thomas M. Browne, of Indiana, proposes such an amendment of the constitutional provisions for presidential elections as will remedy one of the evils at least attending presidential elections. The Browne bill continues the Electoral College, with its present ratio of one member for each senator and representative, but provides that no presidential candidate shall get more electoral votes from any State than the number found by dividing his popular vote by the aggregate popular vote of the State and multiplying the quotient by the number of electoral votes, running the fractions as far as three decimals. The bill is a somewhat roundabout, but at the same time a fair plan for dividing theelectoral vote according to the popular vote. Asa matter of fact, there is nothing to prevent any State, or every State, from adopting this method of casting its electoral vote by the act of its own Legislature, except the probability that no State would be willing to reduce its absolute and its relative influence in determining the result in this way. This, however, is motive enough to make it reasonably certain that such legislation will not come by way of the States themselves, and the needed relief must be given by Congress, if at all. Under the present electoral system a State’s influence in determining the result is measured by the size of its electoral vote and by the closeness of the popular vote—circumstances that always give someone or more States more than a fair share of power to decide an election. The experience of all States which have had October elections has proved, even to themselves, that it endangers the purity of elections to have a great deal depend on the voice of any one State when the rest of the country is concerned. This discovery led to the end of October elections, and as like causes produce like effects, it will probably force the modification of the presidential electoral system sooner or later. It ia greatly to be desired that Congress should give the Browne bill careful consideration. Rheumatism is primarily caused by acidity of the blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla purifies the blood, and thus cures the disease. SOCIETY MEETINGS. MASONTC-A. AND A. SCOTTISH RITE—SARAiah Council, P. of J. Meeting this (Wednesday) evening, at 7:30 o'clock. Work, 15® and 16°. a H WRIGHT, RI.S.M. C. F. Holliday, Secretary.

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