Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1886 — Page 7

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Personal and Local. The prospects that a sixth pool will be estab Oieiied in the Chicago & Ohio River pool combinations are decidedly slim. H. McK. Twombly was yesterday elected a diTectorof iheC., C.. C. & I Railroad Company in ijplaee of Wm. H. Vanderbilt. The Merchants’ Dispatch has reduced freights, 3Nfew York to Nashville, from $1.02 per hundred pounds to 70 cents. This business is turned over *o the J., M. & I. at Indianapolis. Three first-class passenger engines, weight about forty tons, Pittsburg build, passed over Ihe Belt road yesterday, consigned to the Chicago <fc Eastern Illinois Railroad Company. The output of coal on switches in Clay county, over which the T. H. & I. does the stwitching is now 320 cars per day; that of the Carbon mines on the I. & St L. 123 cars per day. There has been quite an improvement in freight traffic tne last two or three days, which $• evidenced by the increase in transfers over the Belt road, which are again up to 1,600 to 3,700 cars per day. At Altoona, Pa , the employes in the Pennsylvania Company’s boiler and blacksmith shops Iwve received orders to go on full time —ten /boars a day—until further orders. This will affect between 400 and 500 men. The partius opposed to the construction of the .Pennsylvania Southern line say the appeal of •the Pennsylvania railroad from Judge Simonton’s -decision will tie the ownership of the road up in . court for an indefinite period. The inspector of car weights of the Indianapolis Car-weighing Association will make Comxnissioner Dohertys office his headquarters. In fact, all roads are to report their car weights of freight to the commissioner's office. General Manager G. B. Sherman announces jthat,S in accordance with the decision A>t the auditors of the roads interested -in .the Red, White, and Midland lines, the next regular meeting for auditing line accounts will •be held at Buffalo, Jan. 27. Thomas P. Fowler has been elected president and the New York, Ontario & Western, in place <ot General E. F. Winslow, resigned. Anew board of directors, including a number of New York Central men, were elected. Mr. Fowler represents foreign interests. When the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago road 'will be sold by the trustees seems to be more a problem than ever. There are several complicated legal questions relative to the bonds, which the courts will be called upon to decide before the liabilities, which must be paid, can be definitely understood. The friends of the Chicago & Atlantic say that Jay Gould and J. F. Joy have an interest in this property, and when Gould gets back in the spring they will go into the directory and arrange for the construction of a new line from Marion, 0., to eonnect this road and the Wabash with the Lackawanna. There is some unpleasantness between the freight agents of the Western lines out of Indianapolis, recently. The agents of all Western linee entered into an agreement as to rales to Western points on machinery and other heavy freights, which agreement, it is alleged, one of the agents ie not liviug up to. Prominent capitalists met in Toledo Thursday and organized the Toledo. Saginaw & Muskegon railroad, to run through the rich western and northern counties of Michigan and connect with the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan road. David Robison, jr., was elected president. The road will be 140 miles in length. Trunk-line officials are of the opinion that the present differences between the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio roads will not in any • vent be other than a local matter. It cannot spread into general demoralization without the assumption by somebody of more grave responsibilities than any individual will dare to be accountable for. Work on the Chicago & Great Southern is going on rapidly. The track-laying is completed to twenty miles below Yeddo. At the 1., D. &S. a temporary crossing has been made and several large forces are now at work at the over-crossing. The surfacing force has been doubled, and the nntire work to Brazil ought to be completed •within thirty days. Fixing the date of the foreclosure sale of the Champaign & Western road has again been deferred. The fact is, that under a receiver, the road is earning operating expeuses, a sufficient •urn to pay the interest on the bonds and something of a surplus for improvements, and, under •neb circumstances, the bondholders who are in ■control are not disposed to hasten the sale. The C., H. & D. people are behind the age regarding train rules, still putting them on the back of time tables. One of the first moves of the new superintendent is to revise the rules and print them in book form. Officials of the several departments are now engaged in the work of revision on movements. Master of Transportation M. 8. Conners and Dave Shumway are to prepare the rules for the government of men in train service.

Mr. Craig, who represents the Baltimore & Ohio in Now # York city, is quoted as saying that during the past eieht days his road has sold over TOO tickets from New York to the West. A further cut in the rates from Boston has induced buying in that city. He regards the business as Altogether satisfactory. The Pensvlvania officials, he adds, are simply laughing iu their sleeves at the predicament in which the weak roads find themselves. These 700 Baltimore & Ohio tickets represent a gain to the Pennsylvania in passenger business of about $4,000. Iu the second week of January the Chieaeo & Eastern Illinois road delivered at Chicago 60,000 bushels of corn, leadine all Chicago roads in volume of deliveries. The Chicago & Rock IslAod delivering but 11.000 bushels; the C.. B. & Q. t but 30,000; C. &N. W., but 20.000. Right hero It occurs that Indianapolis roads have some reason for objecting to a Chicago road coming into itha territory of Indianapolis lines and hauling choir freights round through Chicago instead of Eaet over the direct lines. The C., 1., St. L. & C. has within the last sixty days got a couple of hundred car-loads of corn through its Seneca connection with the Chicago & Rock Island road, and Chicago has gone even so far as to enter a complaint with Commissioner Fink. The Bee-line people are credited with having, on the I. & St L. division, one of the most convenient and most economical plans of coaling their engines, at Fontanet, that is found in the West. Under the arrangement the miner's car, after reaching the surface, is run on a circle track over the bins, and the coal, without handling, is dumped by an automatic arrangement /rem the car into whichever bin it is desired to put it. The car is then returned to the mining shaft on the circle track, the same power which lifts the car up the shaft hauling the car over the belt track. The bins are close upon the railroad track. Some contain two tons of coal, others four tons. If an engine needs but two tons, it stops at a two-ton bin; if four, at a fourton bin. The fireman pulls a rope, too same as ihe does at a water tank, and the coal is dumped Into the tAnlc in a minute's time. Really, it is easier to coal-up an engine than to take water for it from a tank. Under this arrangement, which, by the by. was constructed on ideas suggested by E. B. Thomas, the late general manager of the Bee-line system, the cost for handling the coal after it is raised to the surface is a mere trifle, besides being very economical in the handling of the fuel. It is a great saving of time, which is quite a consideration when traffic is heavy. _ President Depew on Rate-Catting, Chauncey M. Depew, president of the New York Central, concludes an interview on rate-cutting in the following comprehensive manner: “There are six thousand million dollars’ worth of railroad securities in this country, and they form the investments on winch rests our whole system of corporate and individual credit. Railroad wars stop dividends on the strongest roads, stop payment of interest on the next class of roads, And throw the weakest ones into bankruptcy and the hands of receivers. This condition of jtffairs inevitably produces panic and business stagnation, locks up the factories, throws thousands of men out of employment, creates the most dangerous of labor troubles, A*d hides in safe deposit companies, trust companies and banks hundreds of millions of dollars whieb. but for distrust would be active in enterprises that produce universal prosperity, wealth, ADiploymeut, good wages and general content. Now, under these condition* 1 regard the management upon which can be brought home a willful breaking up of contracts either for the malnK nance of fair rates or for the submission of (Terences to arbitration as guilty of a crime

not only against the investors, whose savings Are imperiled, bnt against every pnblio and private interest After the frightful experiences of the past two years there can be no question that stockholders, bondholders and investors generally will hold railway managers to an account regarding the remedies. He says the efforts of railroad companies through pool commissioners and arbitrators to conserve their own interests could be wisely supplemented by a national commission, through which, in connection with their own commissioners and arbitrators, in a large and broad way, the interdependent interests of these great carrying companies and of the public could be protected. _ E. A. Ford Vindicated. The following correspondence, relating to certain charges made by A. J. Gesswein, managing editor of the Merchant Traveler, a paper published in the interest of the Travelers’ Protective Association and other kindred organizations, against E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, explains itself: LETTER —FORD TO GESSWEIN. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 17, 1886. To the Editor of the Merchant Traveler: In an issue of the Merchant Traveler, dated Jan. 9, 1886, you editorially charge, in substance, that at a meeting of the central passenger committee, recently held at the Burnet House, Cincinnati, while the ‘•week-end” ticket matter for commercial travelers was up tor consideration, I, E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, stated that commercial travelers are “liars, thieves, robbers, cut-throats,” etc. You dilate upon this charge in a most unjustifiable manner by printing various other defamatory articles. You further state that the information you have is “correct, reliable and authentic.” In answer, I beg leave to say: First—The charges you make against me are untrue in every resoect. Second—Your informant, whoever he may be, is a willful and malicious liar. Third—When the resolution referred to was read and laid on the table, I did not utter a word concerning it, nor make any remarks derogatory to commercial travelers. Fourth—ln confirmation of this denial, I herewith quote a resolution which was passed unanimously at last meeting of central passenger committee, held at Galt House, Louisville, Ky., Jan. 13. 1886, twentyeight (28) or more prominent railway companies represented, and which resolution will be (or has been) certified to you by the chairman and commissioner of that committee, Mr. George !L Daniels: “Resolved, That the commissioner be instructed’to notify the editor of the Commercial Traveler that the articles in his paper of Jan. 9, based upon the theory that remarks derogatory to commercial travelers were made by Mr. E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, are without cause in every particular, and it is the unanimous opinion of this committee that the most common rules of equity and justice demand the retraction of such article or articles. Mr. Ford made no remarks whatever on the subject under consideration, and no remarks were made by any member of the committee at that time, the motion having simply been laid on the table under the rules, to be taken up at some future time, with other unfinished business.” Fifth—l have never, in public or private, impugned the motive? or aspersed the character of any of the various commercial travelers’ associations of the country. The statements you have made do me and the large interests I represent great injustice. The expressions attributed to me are those of "a blackguard. lam too proud of my position and good name, and am too conscious of the value of the good will of all commercial travelers, as well as that of the public generally, to allow such language to pass my lips, or to permit such falsehoods to remain unchallenged. I, therefore, demand of you: First—The name and address of the author or authors of the slandor. Second—The publication and circulation of this letter, without alteration, in as many copies of the next issue of the Merchant Traveler as the various slanders were published and circulated. Third—A full and complete editorial retraction of all the libelous articles concerning myself, published and circulated in your issue of Jan. 9, 1886. Fourth—An immediate written apology and reply, addressed to mo at Pittsburg, Pa., as to whether these demands will be promptly complied with. I am, sir, respectfully yours, E. A. Ford. LETTER—GESSWEIN TO FORD. Cincinnati, 0., Jan. 18, 1886. Mr. K. A. Ford, Pittsburg, Pa.: My Dear Sir—Realizing fully the great and almost irreparable injury I have done you through the columns of the Merchant Traveler, I embrace this, my first opportunity since I have come into possession of the full facts, to tender you any and all amends in my power. Mr. John H. Garrison, of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railway, is the sole and only authority upon which our articles were based, and having had an acquaintance with him extending over several years, did not doubt his word, and consequently did not, as is my invariable custom, take the pains to substantiate his words. I am, believe me, deeply grieved that I should have done you so great an injury, and shall do everything possible in our next issue to place you right with the many thousands of traveling men who read the Merchant Traveler every week. Hoping that you may accept my apologies made in a most sincero spirit, I remain. Yours very respectfully, A. J. Gesswein, Managing Editor. TELEGRAM—FORD TO GESSWEIN. Cincinnati, 0., Jan. 19, 1886. A. J. Gesswein, Chicago: I have your letter, dated yesterday, retracting and apologizing for slanders upon me and the lines I represent, published in your issues of the 9th and 16th inst. Your letter and apology are entirely satisfactory to me, but I shall have to demand that you publish the name of the author, and ask him also to make a public apology and retraction. I also have to ask that you publish in full my letter from Pittsburg, leaving out the publication, if you desire so to do, the fourth and last clamand made in that letter, (it having been already complied with,) but adding to the third demand at close of letter, “your issue of 16th inst.” Your proposed editorial for next issue, copy of which has been handed to me, is also satisfactory; but I hope you will make the retraction as prominent, and give it as thorough circulation as you have given the various unfounded charges concerning me. Upon the establishment of the fact by yonr future issues, and in other ways, that you have done me the justice which your letter promises, I shall be glad to recognize for myself and among my railway associates the Merchant Traveler as an honorable and upright journal. Please definitely answer to-day by telegraph. E. A. Ford.

TELEGRAM—GESSWEIN TO FORD. Chicago, Jan. 19, 1886. To E. A. Ford, Cincinnati: Everything you have already requested, and anything more that you may request, will be promptly and gladly aoted upon. A. J. GESSWEIN. Trouble Between Commissioner Richardson’s Pets. The meeting of general passenger agents of the roads in the Chicago and Ohio River pool, held at Commissioner Richardson’s office in Chicago, on Thursday, was no tame affair. Chargee were preferred by the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western road against the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Daytou and the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago roads, and another charge filed by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois against the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road. The former case was one of irregularity that the commissioners will probably find some difficulty in handling. The latter charge was highly interesting, even amusing, and was quite novel in its details. It appears that last Saturday the Chicago & Eastern Illinois road was fined SSO for violating the agreement, the charge being brought by the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road. The former, therefore, decided to be revenged. Its general passenger agent, Mr. William Hill, had some letter-heads and envelopes printed for the purpose, bearing the name of Ketchum & Holaum, importers of drugs, No. 2G3 East Lake street It so happens that there is no such firm nor such a number as 263 East Lake street that |point being in the river. A bogus letter was written ou this paper and sent to the Mouon route, with a request for a shipper’s ticket from Chicago to Cincinnati, which was issued, contrary to orders, as those tickets ought to be sold only to bona fide shippers, upon formally worded applications. After the ticket was sold the Mouon people began to examine the trade-mark. They thought it must be Swedish, and called in a Swede to translate it. He declared it was not Swedish. Thursday Mr. Hill brought the usual charge of violation of agreement against Mr. Baldwin, of the Monon route, and translated the trade-mark in open meeting. Read it backward, and yon will find this: “The Monon will bite at this, sure.” Mr. Baldwin admitted the charge, and the case was taken under advisement by Commissioner Richardson. Meeting of the It. of 1.. E. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Mattoon, 111., Jan. 22.—The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will hold a largo meeting in this city on Sunday. Grand Chief P. M. Arthur, of Cleveland, will bo their guest. Preparations have been made to entertain between 300 and 400 visiting engineers, who are expected from Indianapolis, Peoria, Springfield and other points. Governor Oglesby has been invited to attend and address the engineers and the public in Dole's Hall in the afternoon. t

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THE RECORD OF THE COURTS. United States District Court. Hon. W. A. Woods. Jnilge. To-day—Delbold Safe and Lock Company ▼ a Board of Commissioners of Delaware County. On trial. Supreme Court. Hon. W. 15. Niblack, Chief-justice. The following decisions were rendered Jan. 22: 10936. Henry P. Barton ve. Wm. C. Anderson et aL Marion S. C. Reversed as to Indiana Banking Company; affirmed as to others. Niblick, C. J.—Where the holder of a tax title suffers a default in a suit to foreclose a mortgage which is a prior lien on the land he is concluded from assertine any interest in the property, and a conveyance of the title by him after the foreclosure decree carries nothing. (2.) Where property on the tax duplicate is described as “120 ft Washt st sw. cor. out 66,” parol evidence is admissible to explain the abbreviations. 11978. Albert W. Alexander et al. va. Elijah Schwackhamer. Marion S. C. Affirmed. Mitchell, J.—Nov. 12, 1883, Schwackhamer, a farmer, of Clinton county, owned forty head of cattle. A man calling himself Johnson, representing himself as a member of the firm of Fort, Johnson & Cos., who were general commission salesmen of live stock at Indianapolis, called at Schwackhamer’s farm, and proposed to buy his cattie for said firm. After a price had been agreed upon the owner was told by the pretended Johnson that he carried no money, and that he would have to give a check. This arrangement not being satisfactory, it was agreed that the owner should telegraph the firm’s bankers as to their responsibility, and that the cattle should remain his property until paid for. Schwackhamer dispatched, and receiving a satisfactory reply aeeepted a check. He turned over the cattle to the purchaser, who said, “If this check is not promptly paid, the cattle are yours until you get your money.” The cattle were shipped, and in the presence of the owner, a bill of lading was delivered to Johnson billing the cattle to Fort Johnson & Ca, in care of Zeigler. The cattle were shipped direct to the consignees. The check was returned unpaid, as a forgery. In the meantime, the pretended Johnson presented himself to Fort Johnson & Cos., as John Zeigler, and procured them to sell the cattle on commission to Alexander & Cos. Both firms acted in good faith. Alexander & Cos., in course of business, shipped the cattle East. Suit by Sebwacknaraer against Alexander & Cos., for conversion. Under tbe facts there was no contract of sale to the spurious representative of Fort, Johnson & Cos. He did not propose to buy on his own account, nor did plaintiff contemplate a sale to him. The plaintiff contracted upon the supposition that he was selling to Fort, Johnson & Cos., through the agency of a momber of the firm. No sale was made to Fort, Johnson & Cos., and as no other none was made. The contract was wholly void. By means of a trick, the naked possession of his property had been delivered to another by the plaintiff, while the title and ownership remained in him. When Fort, Johnson & Cos. sold the cattle to Alexander & Cos. for the benefit of the fraudulent possessor, they sold no better right than he had. When Alexander & Cos. sold the cattle to which plaintiff had a perfect title, and received tbe money, they received money of plaintiff. This amounted to a conversion of plaintiff's property for which they are liable. The fact that possession of plaintiff’s property was obtained by the fraudulent practices alluded to, and under the circumstances which did not affect his title, could invest the wrong-doer with no such apparent authority as to enable him by any means to communicate any right or title to another. 12100. Monoah Frank, administrator, vs. Jeremiah Grimes. Allen C. C. Reversed. Howk, J. —Where the transcript shows that interrogatories were answered by the jury, their answers over the signature of their foreman, were returned by them into court with their general verdict and recorded with the verdict, and that the attention of the trial court was directed to the special findings of the jury by the plaintiff’s motion for judgment non obstante veredicto, but is silent whether the court ever submitted such interrogatories or instructed the jury to an swer, the presumption will be indulged that the court did its statutory duty, and the special findings will be regarded as properly in the record. (2). The special findings and the general verdict cannot be reconciled, so tbe cause must be reversed. 12665. N. Y. &C. Railroad Company vs. Rebecca Doane. Kosciusko C. C. Motion to dismiss overruled. Elliott, J.—An appeai taken within a year from tho time of the overruling of the motion for anew trial will not be dismissed. 12520. L., N. A. & C. Railway Company vs. Albert T. Pedigo. Marion S. C. Motion to dismiss and continue overruled.

Superior Court. Room l—Hon. Napoleon B. Tayior. Judge. Yesterday—First National Bank of Indianapolis vs. the Indianapolis Bridge Company; notes. Judgment for $10,706 65 David McConnell et al. vs. Rebecca White et al.; partition. Dismissed. Henry H. Beville vs. Anna D. Davis; appeal. Judgment for defendant. Clara A. Aid vs. Charles K. Aid; suit for divorce. Divorce granted and custody of child. Abandonment. John L. F. Steeg, administrator, vs. the Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor; suit on policy. On trial by court. x To-day—Calls: Emley & Cos., vs. W. G. Wasson. A. L. Wright & Cos.; receivership matter. John Chambers vs. Chas. Ludlow. Room 2—Hon. D. ff. Ho wo. Judse. Yesterday—Janeway Company vs. Carl Moller; account. Finding for plaintiff for $153. Harry Drake vs. Peter Kealing; -judgment on verdict for $25. David K. Folsom vs. Indianapolis Bridge Company; note. Finding and judgment for plaintiff for $495.50. Salsberrv Stanley vs. Albert E. Fletcher; account. Finding and judgment for plaintiff for $665.62. William A. Farnsworth vs. Henry De Wolf et al.; foreclosure. Finding for plaintiff. John A. Harter vs. William T. Covert etal.; suit on patent. On trial by court. To-day—Same cause continues. Boom 3—Ron. Lewis C. Walker, Judge. Yesterday—Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company vs. Richard L. Talbot et al.; foreclosure. Tried and taken under advisement. Susan Roberts vs. Joel P. Roberts; divorce. Granted on grounds of abandonment and cruelty. The Bensinger Company vs. Harry McFarland et al.: account. On trial by court. To-day—Same cause continues. NEW SUITS. Room 1—34984, Francis T. lord va. Woolley Locomotive Eleetric Headligi Company et al.; note and for receiver. Room 2—34980, John Woch' r et al. vg. Louisa B. Twiname et al.; to reqa re application of judgment. Room 3 —34983, Andrew J Holman et al. vg. Frank B. Ainsworth; notes; demand $250. 34986, Caroline Holzwart vs. Gotlieb Holzwart; divorce; failure to provide. Criminal Court. Hon. Pierce Norton, Judge. To-day—No call. Silver. To tho Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: As the partisans of the silver-mine owners and the representatives of the defunct “Greenback Labor party” have had a pretty full hearing in your free parliament, it may not be amiss that the believers in honest money and honest financial methods should say a word. While the many self-elected advocates of unlimited silver who have been heard recently in your columns have not very materially erred in their statements of tho facts of our financial history they have frequently and glaringly erred as to some of them, and have erred yet more in their deductions from those facts. There is one recollection that always sends a silver man into a spasm—the recollection of the “demonetization of silver” in 1873. Now’, why should this old, oft-exploded lie, that the silver dollar was dropped from the coinage iu 1873 by the “gold-bugs’’ to advance the interests of bondholders and bankers live on from year to year! Probably it is because it is so easily proved to be false that tho friends of sound money have a habit of treating it with con tempt. There had beeu in all oniy eight millions of •Uver dollars coined previous to 1873. For lea

years the silver dollar had been at a premium and had not circulated here, but had been shipped abroad. Congress only recognized existing facts in dropping from the coinage a coin which was not in use. It was only after the Comstock and other Western mines had yielded their fabulous amounts of silver, and after the natural result had followed—a fall in the price of silver—that we began to hear of “the dollar of the fathers.” It was only when 371 J grains of silver were worth in Ihe market less than a dollar that we began to hear about “the poor man’s dollar,” as it is termed in this sickening, demagogic cant, and as the price of silver has fallen lower and lower the clamor for the payment of “the bondholders” in these dollars has risen higher and higher. Now that the dollar of the daddies is worth only seventy-nine cents, the idea of paying the bondholders in them at par is too much for the virtue of many men from whom we ought to have had better things. The prospect of cheating a creditor out of twenty-one cents on the dollar is very pleasant to very many people. That it is pleasant to any loyal man is one of the discouraging signs of the imes. The current clamor for the payment of “the bond holders” in silver is probably the gravest peril before us. It is not strange that the statesman who stained the record of many of our States with the stain of repudiation, half a century ago, should now look kindly upon this menace of partial repudiation; but it is shameful that we should be questioning and considering whether or not we will keep our promises, and pay our debts as we promised to pay them, and, as thanks to John Sherman and his successors, we have so far done. If we escape the peril before us, if we continue to preserve our financial honor by the payment of our bonds, principal and interest, in gold or its equivalent, it will be because the friends of honest money rally now to its support. The first duty of the friends of the good old business methods is to stop the coinage of the silver dollar. The men who led in the crusade in its favor are now, many of them, with us, in favor of at least a suspension of coinage. More than two hundred million silver dollars, of which only one-fourth circulate, are, in all reason, enough. The experiment of boosting the price of silver by buying it, coining it into silver dollars and locking them up (we have now 5,000 tons of them) in the vaults of the Treasury has failed. We must try soma other method. “Free coinage” of silver, as now coined, is not to be thought of. To give the silver kings $1 from tbe mint for each 79 cents in silver bars which they bring there woud be a grand thing for the mine-owner, but there is no shorter road to an exclusively silver currency and the demonetization of six hundred millions of dollars in gold than this. Some of your correspondents contemplate this prospect with equanimity, but to the reasonably well-in-structed reader there is no financial prospect more appalling than this. “There is no accounting for tastes,” but we prefer to believe that the men who choose Mexico and China for models do not represent a majority of the American people. The silver dollar is good enough in its place. Suspend further coinage until we nsed more silver dollars. Those we have will be absorbed into business channels and the menace of financial panic following the disappearance of gold will pass away. J. B. Lewis. Pendleton, Jan. 21,1886.

THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. [Everything relating to this department must be addressed to W. H. Graffam, West Scarborough, Cumberland county, Maine. Original contributions and answers to each week’s puzzles are solicited from all.] .♦ Answers to Puzzles. No. 1830—Bar. No. I&3l—Snow-ball. No. 1832—[Answer omitted. See answer to No. 1853 ] No. 1833—Civil-service reform. No. 1834 31—A CROPOD A—L A—U XILIAR L—Y U—N BEG OT T E—N D—E A L BA T I O—N No. 1835—Orange. No. 1836 E U G H UK A O G A WN HONE No. 1837 SEAL EASE ASPS LEST Original Puzzles. NO. 1854— DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 1. The commencement. 2. The native carbonate of lead. 3. To catch by artifices. 4. A. tree plucked up by the roots. 5. A large, shorthorned antelope. 6. Sounding alone. 7. An apparition. Primals—The god of the ocean. Finals —A large planet. Xoa. NO. 1355— HALF SQUARE. 1. A letter. 2. An abbreviation. 3. An accomplice. 4. A tree. 5. One of the Canary islands. 6. Pertaining to the interior of the hand. 7. Pre-eminent. Xoa. W. Scarborough, Me. NO. 1866— ANAGRAM. We met four men at close of day; “They are not Christians/' one did say. Os him I asked. ‘‘What are they thenl” “Only Jews,” he said, “wicked'men, Cheats they are, to honor cruel; See the near one, shy, no jewel; He, only coward, sneak and knave For money he no life would save.” “Your words/’said I, “cannot be true, It is not wrong to be a Jew. The greatest man since Paul hath taught, That Christ for all hath pardon bought” Salem, Ind. Dwight. no. 1857—octagon. 1. A kind of scepter or badge of office 2. A slave in ancient Sparta. 3. Orderly govern ment. 4. A crystallizable acrid substance, obtained from the gum of the olive tree. 5. A schoolmaster. 6. Denoting the final end or purpose. 7. Born. Oriana. NO. 1858— LARGE CITIES. Moses. 2. Shag-burr, sir. 3. Alion Hale rig. 5. Heel wing. 6. Torn too. x Derrick ten. 8. lax half. 9. Bi society. 10. To Sam Crane. 11. I am Poly. 12. Lone answer. Oriana. no. 1859—enigma. [Thirteen letters. J My 1,2, 6,7 is part of a fire-place. My 3,8, 9. 10 is sticky mud. My 4, 12, 11 is a kind of fish. 3ly 5, 11, 2, 13 is to kill Whole, a New York editor. Uncle Theo. Salem, Ind. [Answers in three weeks. ] Prizes for Puzzles. L We offer a pack of fifteen elegant cards for the best variety of puzzles received witbiu three weeks. 2. We offer a book for the next best variety. Foot Notes. Dora—Your address, please. A pack of address cards is due you. Hoosier Girl—A pack of address cards was duly mailed you. Hope you received them. Dwight —We trust the anagram will pass through the mill all right. A misprint in a puzzle is annoying. Two things whieh a base ball player needs— a bat and a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, When she became Miss, she dung to Castorla, When she had Children, she gave them Castorla, ft A A A HI TP P\ Men of ability with SB9 Uu ABV I CL Lr to SIOO capita loh agents W raw in good towns, to sell the Celebrated SuporW ior ClothesWrlnger on the Installment Plan First-class paying business. Piirticulars free. BAILEY WRIWOEW CO., St. Louis, Mo 231 (CC PRESCRIPTIONS ur( 7n uL fouod b ibILCb “Science r health,” for the speedy cure of Nervous Debility, Ixit Energy: Despondency, etc. A co pv of this book will be ses* Vee, sealed, Address SCIENCE of HEALTH, 130 West Sixth Street, CinekH*OUfe,

[OFFICIAL.] COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OB' THE FARRAGUT FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY On tlie 31st Day of December, 1885. Located at No. 346 Broadwav, New York City, N. Y. The am ount of its capital is $200,000.00 The amount of its capital paid up is 200,000.00 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons $42,961.21 Heal estate, unincumbered 6.000.00 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., secured as follows (market value): United States bonds, 3 per cent 115,020.00 United States bonds, 4 per cent 73,875.00 United States bonds, 4*2 per cent 56,375.00 Loans on bouds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 9,000.00 Debts otherwise secured 417.93 Debts for premiums 22.854.64 All other securities 107,750.00 Total assets $436,053.78 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due $108.43 Losses itnadjusted 6,175.65 Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof 6,786.53 All other claims against the company 3,200.05 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 106,253.28 Total liabilities $132,523.94 The greatest amount in any enmrisk, $15,000. The greatest amount allowed by the rules of the company to be insured in any one city, town or village; No rule. The greatest amount allowed to be insured in any one block: No rule. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State I, the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correet copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1885, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is row on file in this office. In testimony whereof. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this 18th day of January, [SEAL.] 1886. JAS. H. RICE, Auditor of State. [OFFICIAL.] COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE COMMERCE INSURANCE COMPANY On the 31st Day. of December, 1885. Located at No. 57 State Street, Albany, N, Y. The amount of its capital is $200,000.00 The amount of its capital paid up is 1 200,000.00 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in the hands oE agents or other persons.. $30,694.04 Real estate, unincumbered 35,000.00 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., secured as follows (market value): United States currency bonds, 1899, 6 per cent 262.000.00 United States cour>on bonds, 4 per cent 12,200.00 Albany, N. Y., bank stocks 77,300.00 Cohoes, N. Y., bank stocks 5,000,00 Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 10,000.00 Debts otherwise secured—loans on collaterals 16,500.00 Debts for premiums - 5,234.31 Ail other securities—rents and interest accrued, $780.66; .reinsurance on loss, $556 786.22 Total assets $454,714.5? LIABILITIES. Losses unadjusted $1,750.00 Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof. 10,150.00 All other claims against the company 400.00 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 84,240.40 Total liabilities $96,540.40 The greatest amount in any one risk, $5,000. The greatest amount allowed by the rules of the company to be insured in any one eity, town or villager No rule. The greatest amount allowed to be insured in any one block: No rule. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned, Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1885, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this 16th day of January, [seal.] 1886. JAS. H. RICE, Auditor of State.

[OFFICIAL] COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OP THE PHffiNlX INSDRANCE COMPANY On the 31st Day of December, 1885. Located at No. 64 Pearl Street, Hartford, Conn. The amount of its capital is. $2,000,000.0(T The amount of its capital paid up is 2,000, OOO.Otf THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand, in bank and with agents $513,478.03 United States and State stocks and bonds 176,845.81 Hartford bank stocks 64L970.00 Miscellaneous bank stocks 206,670.00 Corporation and railroad stocks and bouds 2,006,800.00 County, city and water bouds ’ 192[790i00 Real estate 168. 255.31 Loans on collateral 99,410.00 Real estate loans. 407, 880.00 Accumulated interest and rents ........ . 14121.55 Cash assets $4,488,220.70 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and due ] Losses adjusted and not due „ ; l __ Losses unadjusted { $231,473.72 Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof ) Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 1,334,932.36 Total liabilities $1,566,406-08 The greatest amount in any one risk (special cases), $20,000. State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned, Auditor of Stato of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of Deoember, 1883, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this 11th day of January. [seal.] 1886. JAS. H. RICE, Auditor of State. [OFFICIAL] COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OP THE SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY On the 31st Day of December, 1885. Located at 292 Main Street, Springfield, Mass. Capital stock 15... $1,000,000.00 Capital stook paid up is 1,000,000.00 ASSETS. Cash on hand and in hands of agents $276,556.36 Real estate, unincumbered. 96.528.00 Bonds and stocks owned by the company, to-wit (market value): United States 6 per cent, currency registered bonds 130,000.00 Wakefield, Mass., Water Company 6 per cent, registered bonds ** 53,000.00 Ann Arbor, Mich., Water Company 6 per cent, registered bonds *, &0]000!00 Railroad bonds and stocks j 205 984.00 National bank stocks 445 080.00 Loans on bond and mortgage of real estate, being first lien on unincumbered real estate, worth double the amount loaned 303,366.67 Debts otherwise secured J ’. 15,400.00 Debts for premiums 104,30478 All other securities .. .... 33.219.04 Total assets $2,803,436.80 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due $68,676.50 Losses unadjusted 41,114.40 Losses in suspense and waiting for further proof 33,157.31 All other claims against the eompany 25.363.50 Amount necessary to.insure outstanding risks 1,224,582.74 Total liabilities $1,392,894.4$ The greatest amount in any one risk, $15,000. The greatest amount allowed by the rules of the company to be insured in any one city, town or villages No rule. The greatest amount allowed to be insured in any one block: No rule. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of Stato. I, the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of December 1885, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. ' In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe ray name and affix ray official seal this 15th day of January, [SEAL.] 1886. JAS. H. RICE, Auditor of State. / A ONLY ®I.OO 3PJEIR YEAR. 'lie Indianaplis Weekly Jonrna (TWELVE PAGES.)

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