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dinners and receptions. As may well be imagined, it costs a very pretty penny to keep the establishment in order. The $16,000 for the honse in order for the next year, which became available on July 1, is not by any means all that has been spent upon the mansion since President Cleveland took possession sixteen months ago. Mr. Arthur left a large cash balance unexpended of thf last appropriation during his term, according to a time-honored custom that the outgoing President shall leave a lump s''ui for the incoming President to make any changes he may desire. frothing has been bought in the house since Mr. Arthur left it in sttch complete and beawtif ul order. It undoubtedly, though, requires a large sura to keep it in condition. The cleaning of the huge crystal chandeliers is a considerable item of expense. The whole lower floor is lighted by these enormous crystals, each one with thousands of pendants. There are no less than three dozen of these chandeliers in the East Boom, the Blue, Bed and Oreen rooms, the two dining-rooms and the corridors, and once a year each one has to be taken to pieces and every part carefully cleaned and put back in its place. The care of the carpets and curtains also requires the spending of money. The handsome lace draperies are torn at nearly every reception, and these have to be carefully repaired, to say nothing of the taking down two or three times a year to be washed and darned. Some people wonder how the President can pay out of his salary the numerous expenses attaced to his office. There are separate appropriations. Besides his salary of $50,000, the estimate presented to Congress this season asked tor $36,064 additional, to pay the salaries of his subordinates and clerks. His private secretary is paid $3,250, his assistant private secretary $2,250, his stenographer SI,BOO, five messengers (each $1,200), a steward SI,BOO, two door-keepers who each get $1,200, four other clerks at good salaries, one telegraph operator, two ushers, getting $1,200 and $1,400; a night usher, getting $1,200; a watchman, who gets S9OO, and a man to take care of tires, who receives $864 a year. In addition to this there is set down SB,OOO fpr incidental expenses, such as stationery, carpets and the care of the President’s stables. And further on, under another heading, there is a demand for nearly $40,000 more. Os this, $12,500 is for repairs and furnishing the White House, $2,500 for fuel, $3,000 for the greenhouse, and $15,000 for gas and the care of the stables. The White Honse, all told, costs the country, iu connection with the President, considerably over $125,000 a year, and at that rate it is cheaper, relatively to the work done, than the service of Congress. ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS. A Proposed Constitutional Amendment Prohibiting Their Manufacture and Sale. Washington, July 26.— Senator Blair, from the committee on education and labor, to-day submitted a favorable report from the majority of the committee, on a joint resolution proposing that an amendment to the Constitution, in relation to alcoholic and other poisonous bever ages, be submitted to the legislatures of the States for ratification. The amendment provides that from and after the year 1900 the manufacture, and sale, and importation of distilled alcoholic intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical and scientific purposes, and for use in the arts, shall cease. The report, which accompanied the proposed amendment, says the committee does not deem it necessary to discuss the evils of the use of alcohol, but believe the people have a right to decide what measures shall be taken for the regulation or extirpation of this trafle. “Why,” it asks, “should they be denied the opportunity to be heard in the only forum which can pass upon the question? When any considerable and respectable portion of the American people desire to plead their case in the great tribunal of sovereigns who, in a free country, decide every question of fundamental issue in the last resort, it is the duty of Congress to take such preliminary legislation as is here proposed, so that, under tlfe forms of the Constitution, they can be heard on the question of its own amendment. To deny this is of the very essence of despotism, and for Congress unreasonably to refuse the hearing is just cause for revolution. ”

OLEOMARGARINE AND BUTTER. Decided Difference of Opinion Between Two Experts. Washington Special. There is a decided difference of opinion between two savans of the agricultural department on the subject of oleomargarine. Dr. Thomas Taylor, the microacopist of the department, has been for more than a year studying fats under the microscope. He has done more than any other ono man, perhaps, to break up the sale of oleomargarine in the District of Columbia under the name of butter. He made a discovery by which he can infallibly tell pure butter under the microscope, and can as infallibly tell the moment any oils or fatty substance are mixed with the butter. Butter, he says, has a clearly marked St Andrews cross, while the fats have a stellar appearance. The Doctor was Senator Warner Miller’s sheet anchor, and testified before his committee several times. He claims that butter melts at the temperature of healthy human blood, while fats, especially tallow, must be heated to 114° Fahr. He says that a strong, healthy person may eat oleomargarine, perhaps, without serious injury, but that invalids and people with weak digestion will be seriously affected by it. For the past few months Prof. H. W. Wiley, the chemist of the department, has been busily engaged analyzing the various substitutes for butter. He says that his work is of a purely scientific nature, and he does not care to prove or disprove any theories. He has had a large number of samples from Armour & Cos., of Chicago, and he has carefully analyzed them. He says that the best imitations are as clean and as healthy, so far as he can see, as real butter. He thinks that it should be properly labeled, and the ingredients should be made known, as many of the leading firms now do, and then he can see no harm in such people buying it as wish to do so. Professor Wiley received five more samples to-day from Armour & Cos,, and will proceed with nis investigation. MINOR MATTERS. The Postoflice Department—Appointments, Removals, Etc., During the Past Year. Washington, July 26.—The annual report of Edwin O. Fowler, chief of the appointment division of the Postoffice Department, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1836, has been made and the details furnished for publication. The appointments which this division has charge of are those of postmasters only. The report is summarized as follows: Number of postoffices established during the year, 3,482; increase during year, 1,361: number of postoffices discontinued during the year, 1,120; whole number of postofflees June 30, 1886, 53,614; increase during year, 2,362; number of presidential postofflees, 2.265; increase during year, 32; number of fourth class offices, 51,349; increase during year, 2.326. Appointments have been made during the year as follows: On resignations and commissions expired. 9,112, sn increase during the year of 2,908; on removals and suspensions, 9.566, an in orease during the year of 175; on establishment of new postofflees, 3,492, an increase during the year of 1,361; total number of appointments made daring the year, 22,747, an increase during the year of 13,200. The total number of money-order offices at the close of the year was 7,356, a net increase of 227 over the previous year. Os these, Illinois holds the largest number, 590; lowa next, with 522; New York, 496; Ohio, 468; Pennsvlvania, 402; Nichigan, 344; Kansas, 342; Indiana, 315; Missouri, 213, and Wisconsin, 271. The greatest increase in any State is 25, in Kansas. Mrs. Sartoris and Her Husband. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, July 2&— Referring to a special dispatch to the Journal of a few days ago, in which it was stated that Mrs. Nellie Sartoris ‘'nee Grant) contemplated leaving her husband *n England and returning to this country with bsr children, this evening's Star says: *'‘Colonel Fred Grant is reported as denying the statement that his sister, Mrs. Sartoris, is about to leave her husband and come to this

country to reside with her family, saying that, so far as he knows, there is no truth in it This is not as comprehensive and specific as could be desired, but since Colonel Grant would be likely to know as much about the matter as any one, it may be accepted as conclusive, for the time being at least. There is, however, too much reason to fear that there may be some foundation for the report Those cognizant of Mr. Sartoris’s habits and manners in this city before and at the time of the marriage, would not be surprised nor sorry to hear at any time of a separation.

Representative Owen’s Health. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, July 2&—Representative Owen, of the Logansport district, has been threatened with malarial fever for nearly three weeks, and has been kept out of his seat in the House much .of the time in consequence. He has been and is now paired with Representative Spriggs, an administration Democrat from New York. Mr. Owen, upon advice of his physician, will go to Deer Bark on Saturday, if the prospects for adjournment of Congress are as bright then as now. He has made a painstaking, efficient Representative, looking carefully and promptly after every want of bis constituents, attending all of his committee meetings, remaining always in his seat when bis services were needed, and has worked himself beyond his physical strength. SabstHnte for the Morrison Resolntion. Washington, July 26.—At 6 o’clock this evening the Republican Senators assembled in caucus in the judiciary committee-room. The committee appointed at the caucus at Senator Sherman’s house to outline a substitute for the Morrison surplus resolution made its report, recommending that the minimum reserve be fixed at $110,000,000, and the maximum at $135,000,000. A proviso was added authorizing the President to suspend the operation of the resolution in emergencies. A quorum of the caucus did not wait to hear the full report, and when Senator Allison had finished reading and explaining it, it was decided to adjourn without action, leaving the resnlt to the finance committee, at its meeting to-morrow morning. Mr, Rounds Has Not Bought a Paper. Washington Special. Mr. Rothaker, the son-in-law of Public Printer Rounds, says in his paper, the Hatchet, to-day: “There have been a great many rumors throughout the country this week connecting the name of the Public Printer with the purchase of a newspaper in Omaha. Those who have the best reason for knowing have received no confirmation of these rumors. It is further stated that he will resign in a few days. When he does resign the news will come through regular official channels, and from the White House, and not in the form of irresponsible dispatches from indefinite quarters. Revenue from Oleomargarine Tax. Washington Special. If the oleomargarine tax bill should beccme a law it is estimated that the revenue to the government from this source, even at the reduced two-cenfe rate, will approximate $1,000,000 annually. Miscellaneous Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, July 26.—Alonzo Nebeker, of Williamsport: John B. Roberts, of Staunton; Henry C. Starr, of Richmond; Alexander M. Hardy, of Washington, and Thomas Roe, of Rushville, were to-day admitted to practice in the Interior Department Haugh, Ketcham & Cos., of Indianapolis, were among the bidders, to-day, for iron roofing on the public building at Council Bluffs, la. They bid $9,608; the Motherwell iron works, of Logan, 0., were the lowest bidders, at $6,964. The President has referred the oleomargarine bill to the Attorney-general for an opinion as to its constitutionality. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ended July 24 was 487,849; the issue during the corresponding period last year, 336,995. The President to-day returned to the Department of Justice the paDers in the case of Wm. Watts, the captain of a Maine vessel undergoing imprisonment at San Francisco for ill-treating his crew. In an aoeompanyißGT letter the President says he denies the application for pardon, for the reason that, since approving a similar application a few weeks ago, he has received information which has satisfied him that it is not a case for the exercise of clemency. The President to-day sent to the Senate the following nominations: Charles M. Thomas, of Kentucky, to be associate justice of the Supreme Court of Dokata; Ezra Baird, to be marshal for Idaho; W. H. Talbot, of Colorado, to be agent for the Indians of the Tul%li agency, in Washington Territory. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of B. F. Ellsberry to be postmaster at Ironton, O.

OBITUARY. Death of Hubert O. Thompson, Deader of the New York County Democracy. New York, July 26. —Hubert O. Thompson was found dead in his bed at the Worth House, Madison square, at 9:35 o'clock this morning. His room was visited at that time by his physician, Dr. Roberts, who had slept in the parlor adjoining Mr. Thompson s bed-room, which was room No. 3in the hotel. He had last seen Mr. Thompson alive at 4 o’clock this morning, the latter being in bed at the time. There was then no apprehension of a fatal result of the illness which had caused the ex commissioner to be under medical treatment for some months. Mr. Thompson was found lying on bis right side, with his knees drawn up. The pupils of his eyes were dilated and bloodshot, and his face and neck were livid. The immediate cause of his death was cerebral apoplexy. Coroner Messemer, who was summoned, said that death probably occurred at about 6 o'clock. Hubert Ogden Thompson was thirty-seven years and seven months old. He was born in Boston, Mass., but was brought to New York city by his parents when a child, and had ever since lived there. His education was acquired in the public schools, and he was graduated with honors at the Free Academy, now the college, of the city of New York. After ten years passed iu Wall street in brokerage and railroad business, he was appointed a clerk in the water-purveyor’s office by Allan Campbell, then commissioner of public works, and soon afterward was appointed deputy commissioner. He filled the latter position with credit for three years, resigning to accept from Governor Robinson the appointment of county clerk, in place of Henry A.* Gumble, removed. His term as commissioner of public works began in 1880 and lasted until the appointment of the present commissioner, Mr. Squires. Mr. Thompson first became active in politics in 1871, when he joined the Young Men’s Democratic Club and became an opponent of the old party leaders. In 1877 he was a member of Tammany Hall, but withdrew from it because of his hostility to John Kelly. His career since then as the leader of the County Democracy is well known to the public. Personally he was a man of winning manners and a genial companion. a John M. Brunswick. Chicago, July 26. John M. Brunswick, president of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, died at his home in Cincinnati yesterday. For several years Mr. Brunswick has suffered with pulmonary troubles, which were recently complicated with heart disease. His illness did not assume a serious nature until last Friday, when his daughter’s family iu Chicago were summoned to his bedside. Mr. Brunswick was born in Legrau, Switzerland, in 1817, came to America in 1836, and after working at his trade of carriage trimming several years in Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Cincinnati, began the manufacture of billiard tables, using as a factory a portion of a boarding-house of v.hich he was the host. His brother became associated with him and, subsequently, the J. M. Brunswick Company, with Mr Brunswick at its head, was organized and eventually absorbed its two rivals, the Balke and Collender companies. Mr. Brunswick served one term in the Ohio Legislature.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1886.

THE FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. The Senate Considers and Passes the General Deficiency Appropriation Bill. Washington, July 26.—Mr. Blair, from the committee on education and labor, reported back a Honse bill instructing the Commissioner of Labor to make investigations as to convict labor. Passed. Also, a Senate joint resolntion proposing an amendment to the Constitution in relation to alcoholic liquors and other poisonous beverages. Placed on the calendar. The resolution offered by Mr. Gibson, last Saturday, calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to progress made by the Surveyor-general of Louisiana in satisfying and adjusting land claims in that State, was taken up and passed. The resolution offered by Mr. Coke, last Saturday, discharging the committee on finance from further consideration of the Honse jointresolution directing payment of the surplus in the treasury on the public debt, was taken up; bat od a statement by Mr. Sherman that in all human probability the joint resolution would be reported to-morrow for action by the Senate, the matter went over. Mr. Ingalls offered a resolution, which was adopted, requesting the President to communicate information concerning the alleged detention of A. K. Cutting, an American citizen, by the Mexican authorities at Paso del Norte; also, whether any additional United States troops have been recently ordered to Fort Bliss. The Senate then proceeded to consideration of the deficiency appropriation bilL The reading of the bill was interrupted to permit Mr. Dawes to report, from the committee on appropriations, the fortifications bill. He gave notice that he would call it up as soon as the deficiency bill was passed. The House bill to increase the naval establishment was laid before the Senate and referred to the committee on naval affairs. The reading of the deficiency bill was resumed. An Item was inserted to pay Edwin B. Smith $2.000 for legal services rendered the government in the Guiteau case. The reading of the bill being completed -and all the amendments reported by the committee on appropriations being disposed of, the bill was open to general amenebment. On motion of Mr. Hale, an item was inserted of $248,000 for repayment to importers of duties paid in excess. Also, an item of $626,714 on account of mail tranpsortation over the non-subsi-dized railroads operated by the Central Pacific Railroad Company, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and prior years. On motion of Mr. Dawes, an item of $25,000 was inserted for the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, on account of damage to their lands by overflow caused by government dams. On motion of Mr. Wilson, of lowa, an item of $36,000 was inserted to pay the United States and Brazil Steamship Company for carrying the mails during the last fiscal year. The bill was then reported back to the Senate, aud all the amendments were concurred in and the bill passed. The Senate then, on motion of Mr. Edmunds, went into secret session. Five minutes later the officers of the Senate were sent to the corridors, committee-rooms, telegraph and newspaper offices on the second floor, all the occupants of which were promptly ejected. At 5 o’clock the Senate took a recess until 8, at which hour the consideration of executive business in secret session will be resumed. At 8:45 the doors were reopened, and the Senate proceeded to consideration of private pension bills which have been favorably reported. Fifty were passed, including one granting a pension to the widow of Gen. Durban Ward. On motion of Mr. Vest, a bill was passed authorizing the construction of a hotel on government land at Fortress Monroe. On motion of Mr. Teller a bill was passed to establish a land office at Lamar, Col. On motion of Mr. Mahone, the Senate proceeded to consideration of public building bills, when the following were passed: House bills increasing to SIBO,OOO the limit of cost of the public building at Readine, Pa; appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Haverhill, Mass.; increasing t 05160,000 the limit of cost of the public building at LaCrosse, Wis.; appropriating $350,000 for the purchase of additional land near Ohe public buildings lvn, N. Y.; appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Charlotte, N. C.: authorizing the construction of & public building at Owensboro, Ky. On motion of Mr. Sewall, a bill was passed appropriating $250,000 for establishment of a military post at or near Denver, Col. The Sen Ate then, at 10:30, adjourned.

Proceedings in the House. Washington, July 26.— Mr. Holman, of Indiana, from the conference committee on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, reported a disagreement. Mr. Holman stated that the real point of difference was the Senate amendment providing for Senators’ clerks. The other points of difference wore more formal than real. Mr. Oates, of Alabama, moved that the House recede from the Senators’ clerks amendment The motion was lost —yeas 96, nays 121, and a further conference was ordered. Mr. Henley, of California, from the committee on public lands, reported back the Senate bill forfeiting certain of the lands granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The committee recommend that in lieu of the Senate bill there be substituted the provisions of the House bill on the same subject. Mr. Henley stated that the difference between the two bills was that, while the Senate bill forfeited the grant from Wallula Junction to Portland, the House bill included also the forfeiture of the grant from Bismarck to the Pacific ocean. The House bill forfeited 33,000,000 acres more than the Senate bill. Mr. Van Eaton, of Mississippi, a member of the committee on public lands, supported the Senate bill. He took the position that, where the road had been constructed in accordance with the terms of the granting act, in time or out of time, the road examined, accepted and certified to, through the company, before any steps had been taken by government to declare it forfeited, the lands cotermiuous with road so completed, were earned lands. Mr. Price, of Wisconsin, could find nothing in the platform of any political party which could justify Congress in violating an express or implied contract, as was done in the House bill. He was not willing to bow so abjectly before the communistio cry of “damn the railroads,” as to break contracts, and to break the pledges of parties in national convention. It was demagogy in the lowest and meanest sense. Mr. Voorhees, of Washington Territory, favored the House bill, declaring that there were high reasons of public policy why the land grant of the Northern Pacific company should be taken from its control as far as this could legally be done. He pictured what he characterized as the oppression of the railway company as practiced in Washington Territory, asserting that it dictated the laws relating lo railroad taxation, and set at defiance every legislative action of the people. The history of the company was a chapter of broken promises, misrepresentation and double dealing. Mr. Gilfillan, of Minnesota, submitted a legal argument in opposition to the House bill, which, he said, was based upon a mischievous and misleading misconstruction of the granting act Mr. Oates, of Alabama, argued against the equitable and legal power of Congress to pass the Senate bill Mr. Payson, of Illinois, entered upon an ex haustive review of the case, but pending the conclusion of his remarks the House adjourned. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Police officer Walter Israel, of Detroit, was fatally shot by a Polish laborer named Spyeoja, who had been abusing his wife when the officer interfered. Pres Turner and Brown Ogden quarreled over a game of croquet, at Needmore, Ky., yesterday, and began shooting at each other. Turner was killed, and Ogden escaped unhurt after having four shots fired at him. In the federal District Court at Chicago, Judge Blodgett yesterday rendered a decision in the celebrated cattle-ranch suit of M. H. Bennett, of Caldwell, Kan., and Robert L. Dunham, of Colman City, Tex, va. Edward McGillan, of Cleveland, O. The dispute was in regard to the interpretation of a contract providing the method of payment for a ranch of about 260,000 acres in

the Cherokee strip, Indian Territory. Judgment was given against McGillan for $115,580. McGillan appealed. The damage to grain by Saturday’s hailstorm is estimated at 160,000 bushels in the country tributary to Argyle, and 100,000 bushels in the country about Warren, Minn., together with as much oats and barley. A St. Thomas, D. TANARUS., dispatch says that 10,000 acres of wheat in that section was destroyed in the same storm. On Saturday afternoon, while returning home from St. Charles, Mich., Ben and Hugh O’Hara, who were both drunk, got into a fight with Oliver and Andrew Rosecrans. The Rosecrans brothers pounded the O’Haras with clnbs and kicked them vigorously. A report of the disturbance brought a deputy sheriff, who found both men badly injured. Hugh O’Hara died on Sundar. Both the Rosecrans brothers were arrested yesterday.

OUT-DOOR SPORTS. Games Won and Lost Yesterday by League and American Association Ball Clubs. Boston, July 26.—8 y hard batting the Bostons were, to-day, enabled to win their first game this season from the Philadelphia club. Stemmeyer proved puzzling to the visitors, who only made four base hits. Poorman, Wise, Nash and Johnston excelled at the bat for Boston, while Farrar was the only one of the visitors to make more than a single base hit. In the fifth inning Ferguson ran against the fence and lamed himself. Fogarty took his place. Score: Boston 0 10000010—2 Philadelphia 2 2 2 0 4 4 0 0 o—l 4 Earned run—Boston, 10; Philadelphia, 1. Home run—Poorman, 1. Two-base hits — Wise, Nash, Johnston, Farrar. Three-base hits —Wise. Passed balls—Tate, 2: Clemens, L Wild pitches—-Stemmeyer, 1; Daily, 2. First base on balls—Boston, 1; Philadelphia, 1. Firstbase hits—Boston, 17; Philadelphia, 4. Errors— Boston, 6; Philadelphia, 10. Philadelphia. July 26.—The Athletics could do little or nothing with Hecker to-day, and the Louisvilles scored an easy victory. Hart, formerly of the Chattanooeas, was given a trial in the local club, and be did far better than any of the Athletics’ recent experiments. A backrunning catch by Mack was the only sensational fielding feature. Rain put a stop to the play during the first half of the eighth inning, when the Athletics had scored another ran. The game was called back to the seventh inniDg. Score: Athletics 0 00000 I—l Louisville 4 00000 3—7 Earned runs—Louisville, 4. Two base hit —Gleason. Three base hit —Werrick. Passed ball—Robinson, 1. Wild pitches—Hart, 2. First base 'on balls—MoGuire. Errors—Athletics, 6, Louisville, 2. Washington, July 26.—Twenty-two base hits with a total of 28, was the tune to which the New York giants pounded “Pony” Madigan today, and the home team suffered their usual defeat. Notwithstanding the terrific manner in which the Gothamites sent the sheepskin into the field, they only earned four runs because of chances which were not accepted to retire the side. Score: New York 1 0 1 1 4 1 0 7 3—lß Washington O O 1 O O O O O O—l Base hits—New York, 22: Washington, 4. Errors—New York, 3; Washington, 10. Earned runs—New York, 4; Washington, L Two-base hits—Hines, Madigan. Three-base hits—Gerhardt, Deasly. Wild pitches—Madigan, 2. Stolen bases —New York, 3. Struck out —By Keefe, 5. Toronto, July 26.—The St. Louis (Mo.) League team stopped here to day, on their way to New York, and played an exhibition game with the home club, which it took ten innings to decide, and was finally won by the visitors. Score: St. Louis 3 20000000 2—7 Toronto O O 0 O 2 O O 3 O o—s Batteries—Healey and Graves; Emslie and Humphrey. Base hits—St. Louis, 11: Toronto, 10. Errors—St Louis, 6; Toronto, 8. Staten Island July 26.—The Metropolitans were again beaten to day. The Cincinnati club played well Score: Cincinnati O 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 o—4 Metropolitans 0 0 0 0 1 O O O o—l Wild pitches—Mullane, 3. First base on balls —Cincinnati, 3; Metropolitans, 2. First base on hits—Cincinnati, 7; Metropolitans, 7. Errors— Cincinnati, 3; Metropolitans, 5. Rochester, N. Y., July 26.—Base ball: Chicago O 1000000 7—B Rochester 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—l Base hits—Chicago, 9; Rochester, 3. Errors— Chicago, 7, Rochester, 1. Baltimore, July 26. —To-day’s Baltimore-St. Louis game was called at the beginning of the second inning on account of rain. The score stood 1 to 0 in favor of the home club.

Maud 8. Goes a Quarter in 30 1-3 Seconds. New York, July 26.—John Murphy took his weekly trip up to Mr. Robert Bonner's farm, near Tarrytown, on Saturday, to give Maud S. a spin in the course of her regular work in preparing for the coming trial, in which Mr. Bonner expects she will be able to beat her own record of 2:082, the best in the world. Mr. Murphy jumped into the sulky, and after giving her a jog of two or three miles, said: “This mare is a-flying. I think I’ll have to let her out for a quarter, to take the rough edge off.” She was sent away trotting as true as a die. She flew over the ground, and made the quarter in the wonderful time of 30$ seconds, a 2:02 gait. Everybody present, including her owner, was delighted at her speed. The fact that she made a quarter mile a week before in 31£ seconds, a 2:06 gait, showed that she could trot a quarter in these low figures whenever she was called on to do it. Petrified Human Bodies. A Physician, in Chicago News. I remark on the editorial page of your journal a notice with the above heading. The writer of it, after casting ridicule all over the finder of thirteen petrified bodies in a cave in Indiana, goes on to affirm that a petrified human body has never been found, and, moreover,is impossible to find. So far as the Indiana case is concerned he may be right, but for the rest be certaiiily is in error. Many museums in this country and Europe have petrified human remains on exhibition. I shall not here attempt to describe the chemical process. It is to be found in almost every complete work on natural science; but I will tell where you can see a petrified body, or, still better, will give you the address of a man who will tell you of its existence by letter. Johu G. Curtis, M. D., professor of physiology of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, corner Fourth avenue and Twenty-third street, New York city. In the museum of that college there is in a glass case the body of a large-sized woman completely petrified. The body has been on exhibition there years out of mind. It is in a fair state of preservation, of an ashy color, and about the consistency of pumice stone. Besides this body there are parts of others, petrified arms and legs: in fact, enough to make tbo college’s fortune if, as your writer affirms, they could be disposed of at the rate of millions of francs to the cubic inch to a French academy. The Dead Monument Committee. New York Mail and Express. We had almost forgotten that there was such a thing as a “Grand Monument Fund Committee,” but are reminded of its existence by a request from that quarter to appeal to members of Congress to vote for an appropriation of $250,000 to the fund. The requests of the dead are sacred, and we comply with this. A Wise Move. New York Graphic. It is reported that Editor Murat Halstead has just had his life insured for another $25,000. In view of the present state of Ohio politics and of General Logan’s westward march, it cannot be said that the step is an unwise one. So It Would. Boston Herald (Mug.) The unanimous indorsement of the administration by the Vermont Democrats would haye been more impressive if there had not been so many postmasters and other federal officials in the convention. Strong Language. Philadelphia Times (Dem.) Theie is just as mneh chance for the Pennsylvania Democrats to go to heaven bodily in Elijah's chariot as there is to elect a Democratic Governor while flauuting eon tempt for civilsory ice reform.

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Is Local Option Constitutional? To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal The article in the Journal of the 23d from George W. Hunter seems to assume that the question of permitting or prohibiting the retail traffic of liquor mnst be decided by vote, as provided in the law of 1853. In the United States people can express their opinion either by vote, remonstrance or petition. Both modes have been and are recognised by the highest authorities in every department of the government. The Supreme Court of Indiana has recognised the petition in the decisions made concerning removals of county-seats, organizing new connties, changing county boundaries, purchasing grounds for agricultural fairs, changing and opening roads. Under the old Constitution, the form of petition was required as early ast 1818. No person should sell liquor in less quantity than a quart without license granted on certificate of twelve respectable householders. (Laws 1818, p. 296.) In 1821 this was changed to require the certificate to be signed by twelve respectable freeholders—showing the advance of public sentiment. In 1832 twenty-four freeholders were required to sigu the certificate. Under acts of 1838, p. 582, license should not be granted in a town or township where a majority of the freeholders remonstrated. See case Woods vs. Pratt, 5 Blackford, 377, where Judge Sullivan, delivering the opinion of the Supreme Court, says: “The law is that no license [to retail spirituous or strong liquors] shall be granted to any person residing within any town or township where a majority of the freeholders in such town or township shall remonetrate against the grantine of the same. The object of the law is to protect the public morals, and preserve the peace and quiet of society. Being designed for the ptfblic good, it should be So construed as to promote it * * * The evil which the statute puts in the power of a majority of the freeholders to remove can as well be suppressed by general remonstrance against all applications as by a remonstrance in each particular case.” Under the present Constitntion the Supreme Court has again and again held valid fpts of the Legislature providing that the will or option of the people should be manifested by petition. In no case more positively than that in Grosch vs. The State [42 Indiana Reports, p. 547], made twenty years after that of Maize vs. The State [4 Indiana Reports, p. 342.] The language of the court is: “Under the law in question in the Maize case (4 Indiana), the voters in each township determined the question whether any licenses should be granted or not by a vote once in each year. When the vote was in favor of license any one could obtain a license by filing a bond with security, as required by the act. If th s vote was against license, no one could obtain a license during the year. The question as to the qualification or fitness of the applicant to be intrusted with a license did not enter into consideration in any view of the case. Under the present [Baxter] law, however, the vote at the preceding election is assumed as fixing the number of voters, without any reference to the fact that all the voters never vote at the same election, and a number equal to a majority of that number must petition for the granting of each permit Thus the qualifications and fitness of each person, as well as the wish of the petitioners for the establishment of the business in their neighborhood, are at once settled by the voice of those most intimately concerned. If they do not thus open the door to the traffic the law provides that, so far as that applicant is concerned, it shall remain closed. This is a species of self-government which by the law is placed in the hands of the people to be exercised by a majority of them according as they may judge to be for their best interest.” The persons drafting the Baxter law were aware tnat the judicial as well as the co-ordinate branches of government recognized the petition as of equal force with a vote, and so placed it in the law. The Supreme Court said the law vas constitutional, and that is the status in Indiana of local option to-day. The best judgment of the bar was always against the Maize decision. Governor Hendricks himself said that a law uniform in its operation,under similar conditions, in every part of the State, was in harmony with the Constitution, and he signed the Baxter law believing it in accord with the supreme law of the State. So said the Supreme Court in 42 Indiana, and that is the law. to day, without the formal overruling of the Maize decision. The principle enunciated in the Maize case has never, it is believed, been so applied to any other subject of legislation except the liquor traffic. On the contrary, the Supreme Court has held valid subscriptions made for railroad subsidies, by townships, counties, etc., that were so ordered by vote of the people. So it seems that the subject matter controlled in the Maize case rather than the principle of local option. _ Jn q. W. Ray.

The Anti-Liquor Question. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal Since the meeting of the temperance Republicans in this city mueh has been said about the influence of the sentiments of this meeting on the success of the Republican ticket this fall, some assuming that local option, if incorporated in the platform, would make the defeat of the party almost certain, while others hare expressed an oposite opinion and contended that this step forward will add strength to our ticket. Now, sir, it is not nt all certain that the State convention will take local option into its articles of faith. Your correspondent is of the opinion that public sentiment demands of the party some unequivocal expression on this ever-recur-ring question; but he was one of the number who did not think it quite proper to express any opinion ns to what kind of legislation it was proper to specify. We are yet of the opinion that it would have been better to have only resolved that the temperance Republicans of the State of Indiana are opposed to what is called the “Liquor League” and an unrestrained manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks; that they are in favor of such legislation as will save our young men from becoming drunkards, and which will, at the same time, arrest the tide of dissipation tnat is sweeping the dram-drinkers into drunkards’ graves. This would be taking a position that every man could accept who is not ready to declare himself an enemy to sobriety, which no man who claims to be a citizen of respectability will do. This would save the party from the necessity of meeting any real or supposed objections that can be brought against local option, or any other legislation that has been made for the suppression of dissipation, and at the same time it would be contending for the principles upon which all such legislation is founded and by which it is authorized. Then leave the details to be settled aftor we have carried the election and have power to make such enactments as will consumate the ends wa have inviow. One thing is very evident in connection with any anti-liquor movement, which is that any campaign upon an avowed temperance platform is odious to a large number of voters who would sanction an anti-liquor and anti-sa-loon movement and who oppose dissipation and the Liquor League, but get excited whenever you mention temperance or prohibition. We are also quite confident that if the position here specified, or something equivalent to It, is taken by the Republican party and the question is canvassed thoroughly by competent speakers and by the many able Republican journals, the people will indorse it overwhelmingly. Whenever the liquor question is properly presented to the people, and its ruinous consequences is truthfully stated, the people will decide against it The anti drink sentiment is growing everywhere throughout the United States, and public sentiment will, in time, reach prohibition in some form of positive law. He who is not content to wait for this will fret away unavailing efforts and reap a fruitful crop of disappointment Indianapolis, July 27. j. w. h. Dr. Jenckes and the Y. M. O. Association. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal-. In your report of the remarks made by Dr. Jenckes on Sunday night, at Tomlinson Hall, when referring to the recent canvass for the building fund, yon report him as saying: “Tho Y. M. C. A. had admitted that the thing had not been properly managed.” I have called the Doctor’s attention to this statement of bis remarks, and he emphatically denies any intention to convey the idea that the canvass had been badly managed on the part of the Association. On the contrary, he believes it to have been wisely conducted. The remark

attributed to him was not made with reference to the canvass, bnt referred to instances in the history of the Indianapolis Association wherein it failed to reach the fall measure of success among young men, from the fact that it bad no suitable building or rooms to do its legitimate work, and therefore devoted its energies to outside work. The writer heard Dr. Jenckes’s speech, but did not understand him to say that the canvass had been badly managed. So far as those are concerned who have had the conduct of the canvass, while making no claims for higher wisdom than fails to the lot of ordinary people, we fail to see wherein we could amend our methods unless, possibly, some of us might have snatched more hours from our own affairs, and devoted more of our time to the business of urging our fellow-citizens to greater liberality ip behalf of this enterprise. Thos. C. Day. How Far Coaid the Earth be Seen? To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: M. R. Y. asks a difficult question, at least one which I do not feel competent to answer with much certainty, viz.: “What is the greatest distance at which the earth might be seen by an ob* server without an instrument?” Mars, when pretty nearly its furthest from the earth-two hundred million miles—can be seen as a rathe# dim star. Perhaps it could be seen twice as far. Now Mars's diameter is a little more than halt the earth’s diameter; hpnce its disk, or face, is somewhat more than one-fourth as large as the earth’s, so the earth would reflect nearly four times as much sunlight, which would make it visible nearly four times as far; only the intensity of light diminishes with distance. Uranus, much larger than the earth, can be seeu 1,700,000,000 miles. Suppose, however, vre conclude that the earth might be seen about half this far, say 800,000,000 miles. W. Dawson. Spicbland, July 28.

EDISOX’S LATEST IDEA. An Instrument for Utilizing Earth Currents in Place of Telegraph Wires. Philadelphia Press. When Thomas Edison, the whilom “wizzard’ of Menlo Park, brought his bride to his $80,00( residence on the Orange mountain, about two mouths ago, he also determined to bring his work-shop within easy access from bis residence. Carrying out his purpose the great electrician has been busy for a period of six weeks in putting up a work-shop in East Newark, and there he was found this morning, breezy, blue-e/ed, a little stouter than he was two years ago and a trifle more settled. “I am a workingman now,” he said, smilingly. “I bring my lunch with me in the morning, for I cannot afford to spare the time to go home to dinner. Os course, you know that # I have become a Jersey man once more. 1 have given up my laboratory in New York, and everything is now at the factory herein East Newark.” “Is it a permanent arrangement?” “No; I will bnild anew laboratory for my sell next summer at Llewellyn Park (the place of his residence). I have planned that it shall be done in one corner of my garden.” “Will it be an extensive one?” “Oh, yes, it will be a good deal bigger than my house,” answered Mr. Edison. “I expect to have within it physical and chemical laboratories, a blacksmith shop and other departments. I am going to have it a little more complete than any other in the country, if possible. I like Jersey. Almost all the success I ever had was at Menlo Park.” “At what are you working now?” “I am simply trying to cheapen the electric lamps and the carbons. I have had men almost all over the United States and South America looking for a vegetable or mineral substance from which carbon points might be made Professor Hedden, of Newark, a mineralogist, in traveling through the Southern States, failed to And what I wanted, but he discovered the ‘Hed denite’ and a fortune in North Carolina.” “Have you done nothing recently with electricity?” “You newspaper people,” said Mr. Edison, lanehing, “think that I always must have just comDleted some wonderful invention, which I ought to tell you about Why don’t you devour each other’s fiction? An American correspondent wrote to a Berlin paper, recently, a tremendous story about my having invented a wonderful shirt of gelatine, made transparent by electrical treatment This shirt was supposed to be built in layers of almost inconceivable thinness. Each layer was white and adhesive and could be taken off when soiled, and as there were just 365 layers and it was calculated that each sheet would last a day, a gelatine garment would last a year. Well, this marvelous tale went the rounds of the European press, and at last it was reprinted in Brazil. The gullibility of tbe South American may be appreciated when it is known that soon after the shirt story met their eyes the Brazilians began to send me drafts and checks for shirts. One idiotic diamond-dealer,” added Mr. Edison, mirthfully, “sent me a draft for £IOO on the Bank of England. He wrote that he didn’t know how much the shirts were, but he did not think they ought to cost over a hundred pounds apiece. “Seriously,” said he, drawing out a sheet of paper and a pencil, “there is but one idea I am thinking of that I care to talk about As soon as I can find time to go to Florida I am going to make some experiments with earth currents. I cannot do it here because there is too much mineral in the soli. In Florida it is all sand. There are currents of electricity passing all the time through the earth; their directions, however, are unknown. I propose to arrange eight currents, radiating in as many directions from a central point. I will place a roan at each circuit to test the power of the currents. It is well known that if an earth current crosses a wire at right angles there is but little if any appreciable effect made upon it. The greatest power is felt where the wire and currents run in parallel directions. In Boston I have run a wire six hours with the aurora borealis without a battery. If I had had a rod at that time running from New York to Boston I would have had electria power enough on it to run all the machinery in Boston.” “After you understand the earth’s currents, what then?” “Well, a knowledge of them may revolutionize telegraphy. It may revolutionize the meteorological bureau system, and make it possible to forecast the weather exactly. I have an idea that it may do something still greater, but I do not care to talk about it at present Telegraphic wires sooner or later will be a thing of the past, I believe. They are expensive and cumbersome, and why use them if you can make an instrument that will be sensitive to the natural earth currents?”

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