Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1886 — Page 3

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Flower Mission Prices. T<iih Editor of the Indianapolis Journal! Tbo protest of a business man, in last evenings News, against adopting so called “popular prices," meets with general and hearty approval. No further argurpcut seems necessary. A word to the wise is sufficient. Ladies, you have the Eerfect confidence of this community, and adero to your usual prices for tha evening at least. J. C. Brown. Rev. Mr. McConnell, l'o the Editor of the Indiannpol’n Journal! Permit me to add a few words to your review of the career of the Rev. I. H. McConnell, of Roberts Park Church, presented in your Sunday issue of this week. During his three rears’ ministry in Elyria, 0., the gentleman preached in the little brick church on Second street, lone since vacated for the new and eiegaut edifice fronting on tho squre; but Mr. McConnell was debarred by the inexorable laws of his church from enjoying this, one of tho legitimate fruits of his ministry. His sermons were the talk of the town. And unbelievers flocked to hear the “man eloquent," Members of other churches joined iu the popular throng, the obligations to their own denominations not proving a strong enough tie to hold them. The little church was always packed. McConnell’s sermons were models, and rich in scientific thought ■ —ail turned to the glory of God. Their influence for good is incalculable. That their pastor was destined to become one of the leading pulpit orators and thinkers of the country none of the congregation doubted, and they all rejoice at his rapid and deserved promotions The people of Roberts Park Church are to be congratulated on having so able a pastor, and that they appreciate him is proven by the increasing membership. H. F. llarkis. Wahash, Ind., Nov. 1. Governor Gray and the Insane Asylum. To Isaac l‘. Gray, Governor of Indiana: I f you are correctly reported by the papers, then you profess not to believe the charges of mismanagement and cruelty to patients now being publicly made against the Indiana Hospital for the Insane. Twice within the last two years I have called your attention to the abuses existing in that institution. Being myself a Democrat, and knowing by personal experience and observation that grave abuses existed in the Insane Hospital, it was my duty, not as a Democrat only, but ns a good citizen, to report the facts to you. I had a right to believe that you, and other proper officials, would investigate the charges and take measures to prevent the evils complained of. Instead of that, you. with other prominent officials ar.d our leading Derooufttic papers, are proclaiming to the world that my charges are simply campaign lies. If during a political campaign is not a projer time to agitate a question like this then why did you and others not give it your attention long before the campaign xas on, and make some sign that measures would oe taken to give our insane better food and kinder treatment. It would boa very easy matter, Governor Gray, for you to ascertain if I am a truthful man. One hour's inquiry among leading wholesale men on South Meridian street, who have known me for twenty years, would convince you that as the world goes, I am a truthful, hoDest man and not a common liar. Neitper am Ia political ringster nor a chronic office seeker. What motives, then, could I have fortrumping up a pack of falsehoods against our State benevolent institutions, now under the eare of a party of which I have always been proud to be a member? When or where did I ever write or utter a word against the better sentiment of the old party that you and other leading Democrats should disputo my statements? What harm could possibly come to the Democratic party were you and others to admit that grave abuses always have existed in our benevolent institutions as a result of partisan management, and that it would be best to take them out of politics? Such a course would certainly meet the approbation of all intelligent people.

Cutting down the extense for caring for onr insane is not the kind of reform demanded. It is not reform in a humane, Christian sense. These unfortunates should receive the kindest cursing, and the greatest variety and abjindauce of wholesome food, no matter how great the cost. The Christian tax-payers of Indiana are able and willing to foot the bills. All they ask is that the money appropriated for the purpose shall he honestly used, and not stolen. Let me say to you. Governor Gray, that every single charge I have made against the Insano Hospital—of wanton cruelty to patients, of beatings, kickings, choking* and cursings, of insufficient and inferior food—is true. Whenever you want it I will furnish you with evidence that will convince you lhAt it is true. I was twice an inmate of the Insane Asylum, and have had better opportanities than you have had to know whereof I speak. For over four vears I have spent both time and money, which I could ill spare, to place the condition of our Insane Hospital before the people. I believe that the better sentiment of both the Democratic and Republican parties approves ray efforts. 1 earn tny living by running a little wood-yard. I would rather pedal® wood all the days of my life than to be elected to the United States Senate by deceiving the public into believing that our insane are receiving such treatment from the State, of which you are the Governor, as accords with humanity, when they are not receiving such treat n.ent. If you have attended to your public duties as you should, you know that my charges are true. Do not, Governor Gray, affront the old soldiers of Indiana by pretending not to believe that grave abuses exist in our Insane Hospital. Too many Union soldiers have reason to compltin bitterly of the treatment they received when patients in that place. The Inhuman and wanton cruelties practiced against Cant. James Buchanan, an old citizen of Indianapolis. who went insane from a wound in the head, received in the war for the Union, the outrages iullict“d on him when a patient there, that alone is enough to damn all who try to dofend the present condition of the Indiana Hospital for the lusaue. Albert Thayer, No. 377 Massachusetts avenue. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 2.

HORRIBLE PUNISHMENT. The Cruelty of Which Civilised Races Have Bn>ii Sometime* Capable. The punishments to be witnessed eveu to this dav ?n the East are also most peculiar, and to European mind s vindictive in the extreme. The bastinado is dispensed on the soles of the bare feet. Vint it is not often carrieu so far as to cause death. The sticks used in Turkey are usually heavy staves, in other countries thin rattan canes ending in a fine tapering point. From the fact that the lower classes in the East go about everywhere barefooted, their feet become, as it were, case-hardened. As many as two thousand sticks have been broken over the feet of a criminal, and that would mean upward of 6.000 blows. Imprisonment is reserved for burglars, and maim imr is carried out ordinarily only on professional thieves. The method of inflicting this punishment is generally by cutting off the joint of a finger for 'he first offense and a hand tor the second. Sometimes a man will be lamed by taking away part of the main tendon of the leg. Blinding is scarcely ever resorted to, but occasionally tho ears are cut off, the criminal in ‘.his, as in other cases, being taken through a large crowd of gazers in the bazar to the place of execution. The punishment of death is inflicted in timet cases by simpiy cutting the throat of tha prisoner, much in the way that a butcher slaughters a sheep. In England there have been several verv very curious method* of punishment. Quartering and maiming the body was common in tho earlier days of British historv. Tue pillory was also used for tho exposure and ridicule of offend•rs. At times, too, "the cell of little ease*’ was occupied by some offender. This cell was constructed on the principle that no comfort shouid be given to the person imprisoned: there was neither sufficient room for standing, lying nor even sitting comfortably. But of all tho kinds of punishment, that of boiling to death was surely the most vindicitive and atrocious. It was made a capita! punish merit in England bv Statute 22. H-ersrv VIII, 1531. One Ruse, a cook in the service of the Bishop of Rochester, bad poisoned some soup, vhich caused the death of several persons, and

it was to guard ragainst each heinous actions that the punishment was enacted. This death penalty was not long in force, being repealed during the next reign by Edward VI. Burning was the usual punishment meted out to those changing their doctrinal faith. 'lbis method dates back to the first dawnings of English civilization, for our Druidical ancestors used to sacrifice to their gods by burning all the condemned criminals. Beheading with tue ax, maiden or guillotine long held sway in Great Britain; indeed, up to the year 1747, when Lord Lovat was the last to suffer this kind of death. This method was afterwards followed by the more humane plan of strangling, which, however, like the former kinds, was done openly. AH are aware that secrecy is now the great thing aimed at in such Kinds of punishment, a result, or more particularly a change, brought about by the advancing march of modern civilization. Witchcraft was very common four or five hundred years ago in Great Britain. Any person taken and accused of having occult dealings with “the realm of spirits” was punished by drowning, which, by the way, is said to be the pleasantest death imaginable. The French had also some curious punishments. Prisoners were chained to galleys which they were forced to row day and night Hardly any cessation of toil was allowed, and tho poor wretches held out simply to escape the driver's lash. To enumerate al! the methods is not our intention; suffice that we should mention the strangest of them all—viz.: wearing the iron mask for life. Into this mask the person’s head was placed once and for all; nothing was seen of his features save hi 6 eyes and mouth; death alone relieved the languishing victim. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Wap. Department, ) Office or thk Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, Nov. 2. la. m. ) Special Indications foe. Twenty-four Honrs from 7 a. M. for Indiana—Fair, weather, except in the northern portion, local rains; slightly cooler. For West Virginia and Ohio —Fair weather, nearly stationary temperature; southerly winds. For Indiana and Illinois—Fair weather, except in the northern portion, local rains; slightly cooler: winds generally southerly. For Eastern Michigan—Fair weather in the eastern portion; local rains in the western portion; cooler southwesterly winds. For Wisconsin and Western Michigan—Local rains followed by fair cooler weather; winds shifting to westerly. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Nov^l. Time, j Bar. 'Tker. Hum. Wind.(Weather Rain. 6A. if 30.22! 38 73 S west [Clear 2P. M...;30.13i 70 19 Sonth Fair. 10 p. M... 130.12; 56 28 SouthJClear Maximum temperature, 70; minimum temperature, 30. General Observations. 0 War Department, ? Washington, Nov. 1. 10 p. m. ( Observations taken at the same moment, of time at all stations. ?5i s a 1 S F “I t H 3 o- cr c; STATIONS. So : and = 3 ® 3 • 2 5' : • S ? ; g ! New York City j30.06i 56 N west; jOlear. Washington City...(30.13; 51 Nwestj | Clear. Vicksburg. Miss— 30.12 62 S'east |Clear. New Orleans. I^a... |30.14 00 .8 east Clear. Shreveport, La.. ...130.09 60 S east; ‘Fair. Fort Smith, Ark...[29.98 56 S’east IClear. Little Kock. Ark. ..)30.07 59 Calm Cloudy. Galveston. Tex 30.03 71 S’east Cloudy. Memphis, Tenn jt>o.ll 60 S’east (Clear. Nashville, Tenn 30.15 52 S east (Clear. Louisville.Ky |30.16 56 S'east Clear. lndianaoolis. Ind... 30.14 57;South (Fair. Cincinnati, 0 30.18 54 S’east Clear. Pittsburg, Pa 30.16 52,Calm (Clear. Oawego,N. Y 130.08 52. West j (Clear. Toledo. O 30.11 56 S west; Clear. Escanaba. Mich (29.90 52 Swest! (Cloudy. Marquette. Mich... (29.84 59 West I Fair. Chicago. 11l ; 30.01 j 01 'South j • Fair. Milwaukee. Wis 29.93 GljSwesti .(Clear. Duluth, Minn 29.80 52 Calm j Cloudy. St. Paul. Mian 29.761 58 S east) (Fair. LaCrosse. Wis (29.871 60 N west j IClear. Davenport, 1a... 29.941 62South| (Cloar. Des Moines, la ;29.30 62 S weat 1 (dear. Keokuk, la 29.94 59 South Clear Cairo. 11l 30.12 58 South Fair. Bpringf.old.ni 30.06 69 South lair. St. Louts. Mo 30.05 67 South iClear. Lamar. M 0..... 29.97 62 Surest (Fair. Leavenworth, Kan.. 29.86 64 Sonth Clear. Omaha. Neb 29 72 65 South (Clear. Yankton, Dak 29.53 64 South jdoudy. Moorehead. Minn.. 29.76 51,N’east Cloudy. Bismarck, Dak 29.84 43 North, Clear. Fort Buford. Dak.. 129.88 33;0a1m ) Clear. Ft.Assiniboine.M. T;29.92 43 S'oastj Clear. FortCnster. Mont.. 30.00 36 South! Clear. Dead wood. Dak I j North Platte, Neb.. 29.57 48 1 West 1 Fair. Denver, Col 29.90 35'Routhj ,12!Fair. W. Las Animas. Col 29.86 39 (Clear. Dodge City, Kan .(29.821 49|South (Clear. Fort Elliott. Tex... 29.781 54; West 'Clear. Fort Sill, Ind. Ter.. 29.90 (VI 8 west Clear. Fort Davis. Tex 25.87 j 58(Swest Clear. El Paso, Tex (29.90! 70jNwest' Clear. Salt Lake City. U. T 130.25 1 35 S’eaet| ,t>3 Cloudy.

A Perpetual Boom for Dickens. New York Commercial AdvertUer. A well-known book publisher remarks that he is compelled to sell sets of Diokeus’ works to the trade, numbering fifteen volumes, for $4 to $4 50. Th*y are printed from plates which cost him $20,000, The books are well bound and printed in bold, handsome type. He says that he sells from five to six thousand sets of Dickens’ every year, and he is puzzled to know where they go, in view of the thousands upon thousands of volumes of Dickens which have gone before. The same publisher says that the demand for Thackeray grows steadiiy year by rear. The Wrong Diagnosis. New York Sun. “Papa,” she said, softly and blushingly, “young Mr. Samt>son is in the parlor, and wishes to speak with vou." Then she sank into an easy chair, and her heart beat so fiercely that it made the gas fixtures rattle. Presently the old mau returned. “Oh, papa,” she said, “did he —was he—what did he want?” “He wanted to borrow 2 cents to get over to Brooklvn with,” said the disappointed old gentleman. A Genuine Man. Philadelphia Record. Professor Wiggins is more of a man than people generally supposed him to be. He now lays the blame of his uufortunate earthquake predictions to Mrs. Wiggins. Pushing Him to the Wall. Atlanta Constitution. Wiil Mr. Lowell deny that he said that her Majesty, the Queen of England and Empress of all the Indies, including Upper Burruah, is old and tough? The managing editor of the German Correspondent, of Baltimore, has presented to Secretary Lamar a pipe winch is said to have been smoked in many Indian councils presided over by Black Hawk, the noted Sac and Fox chief, and presented by him, in Springfield. 111., to Mr. George D'Alrnaiue, artist, as a token of friend ship and regard, and by Mr. D'Almaine to Mr. J. C. Clark, who in turn has presented it to ihe government through Secretary Lamar, who has sent it to tho National Museum. The former wife of the formerly Rev. W. H, H Murray (she is now one of the leading oculists and aurists of New Haven and of the country), being approached by an impertinent iuterviewer. told him, “For my former husband, Mr. Murray, l have only the kindest feelings.” Germans hold that potato salad without rariic si no potato salad at all, and beneath notica. Don’t! If dealer offers you a bottle of Salvation Oil without labels or wrappers, or in a mutilated or defaced packace, don't touch it —don't bny it at any price, you can rest assured that there is sornethine wrong—it may be a dan gerons nnd worthless counterfeit. Insist upon getting a perfect, unbroken, genuine package Drir* 25 cento.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1886.

LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES. Between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 are annually paid out in the United States as wages in the American pottery The demand for American plate glass is so heavy that the workers are unable to keep up with it by working night and day. The demand for tubing and piping for natural gas purposes is so heavy that prices has been advanced and mills are now sold three months ahead. The other day a steamer sailed from New York loaded with agricultural implements, hardware, machinery, nails, cutlery aod manufacturing iron for Buenos Ayres. This is the first extensive shipment to that country. Twenty-eight new divisions of locomotive engineers were organized last year, making the total number 321, and the membership over 20,000. The organization has paid to widows and orphans nearly $2,000,000 in benefits. A large amount of capital, estimated at SIOO.000,000, has emigrated southward during the past twelve months. Mechanics and workingmen of all kinds are in demand there, but the position should be studied carefully, as the demand is growing£lowly but steadily. Several Western railroad companies are preparing to build 2,000 miles of railroad next year in the Northwest, besides largo depots, docks, warehouses and bridges. The demands for all kinds of railroad and bridge iron next year will exceed anything ever known in the history of the country. There is a prospect that the industrial depression throughout Great Britain will come to an end at an early date. Already the demand for irou and steel products is improving, but there is still a feeling of apprehension grounded in a doubt over the question whether the British commercial policy is a proper one. The consumptive capacity of onr people is ab sorbing the entire production of the country, and although 200,000 laborers have landed on our shores from Great Britain alone within the past nine months, this great influx has not made any perceptible change in the wages of the employed. It is probable that during the next nine months no less than 300,000 more persons will land from Great Britain alone, to say nothing of an increasing influx from Germany. The general indications are that the winter wili be a much busier one than last winter; that strikes will be of rare occurrence, and that building operations will be conducted in a very lively way. The building trade prospects and the manufacturing prospects for the coming spring are believed by the best informed architects and builders, manutacturers and investors to be better than they have ever been m our history. Natural gas has already been found in half a dozen oities. and one large well has just been struck in Indiana. A project is on foot to pipe the gas to Chicago. There is another scheme on foot to pipe the gas over the Allegheny mountains eastward. Mechanics and chemists are endeavoring to solve the difficulties in the way of long lines. The Pennsylvania Natural Gas Company has seventeen wells connected on its line to Pittsburg. One of the largest gas wells in the country is four miles east of Springfield, O. They will bore 2,500 feet for natural gas at Cumberland, Md. A company has just been organized at Harrisbure, Pa., with a canital of $1,000,000, to supply twenty towns in eastern Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio with gas. Ah eighteen-mile line has been built from Washington county to the Ohio river to supply several manufacturing towns in that region with gas. European manufacturers are reading accounts of our natural gas with wonder and ndmiration, and even British manufacturers are beginning to count upon the possibilities of such reductions as will enable many of our manufacturing interests to enter into successful competition with them in the markets of the world.

NON-PARTISAN TEMPERANCES. Mrs. J. Ellen Poster, the Prohibition Orator, Scores the Third-Party Fanatics. From Speech at Minneapolis. In the turmoil of American politics it is impossible always to determine the direct or indirect result of any vote cast, tut this does not release the voter from the careful consideration of his vote, and if the tendency of a vote for party prohibition is to bring in the unrestrained sale of intoxicating liquor, such a vote is, in my estimation, offered, not at the holy shrine of prohibition principles, but is thrown away before the false gods of partisanship. The operation of this policy results in the defeat of prohibition men and prohibition measures. Examples: In the late election m Maine Hon. Nelson Dingley, among other good Republicans, was renominated for Congress. He is a life-long Prohibitionist and total abstainer, a model citizen, a faithful servant of the people. He has been Governor of the State, faithfully enforced prohibition laws, he has been several years in the United States Congress; he has always been faithful to the interests of temperance and prohibition there. He was vigorously opposea by the Prohibition party, and prominent prohibition leaders went to the State, or sent their money, to assist in his defeat—his only crime being that he was a Renublicao. That certainly is “offensive partisanship.” At the last national election a Representative from a certain Ohio district, a man unblemished in personal character and unimpeached in official record on temperance and prohibition, was defeated by men and women who, under the banner of God and home and native land, worked for the nominee of the Prohibition party. They gathered enough votes for their nominee to have elected the faithful Rervant who, by the lack of their votes, was defeated—a whisky man filled his place for Congress. That is partisanship. In the State of Now York, Hon. Senator Thomas was the nominee on the Republican ticket for Attorney-general of the State. I first knew him in the Senate chamber at Albany as the champion of constitutional prohibition at the request of the National Temperance Society. He made speeches in its defense, voted for it and did all he could to secure its passage. His record was so good that the liquor dealers of the State of New York published it in an official circular, printed m English and German. They entreated all lovers of personal liberty, whether Republicans or Democrats, to oppose Mr. Thomas and s|w>w the politicians of New York that a man could not fill any office in the rift of the people. Our third-party friends did not go to his rescue and vote fer him, but put a nominee in the field for whom enough votes were cast to have elected Senator Thornes. The practical results are plainly seen—the liquor man was elected, Senator Thomas was defeated. That is partisanship. In my own State of lowa, in a certain district, the Hon. Congressman Struble has been the nominee on the Republican ticket He is a faithful champion of prohibition, came home from Washington to prosecute saloons in his own town; had his barn burned and his life threatened; but he like the brave, true roan he is, went steadily on his way. doing his duty in the fear of God and love of the State. The Prohibition party is running a candidate in opposition to him. That is partisanship. Do you ask what ia non-partisanship? I answer, it is voting for a good man wherever you find him. It is a disregard of party ties when the holy cause of prohibition is involved. Will you have examples? In the late Rhode Island campaign at the general election, when the prohibitory movement was being voted on, there was nominated by the Prohibition party and the Democrats, for the office of Attorney-general of the State, a temperance man He was largely supported by temperance Republicans—was the only man on the Democratic ticket who was elected, and his opponent, a man who had been ur faithful in the discharge of his duty in enforcing the liquor law, was the only Republican defeated. That is non-partisanship, and is what 1 Approve. So, also, in lowa, in my own congressional disj trict, the larger part of the temperance people are supporting a temperance Democrat—even fusing with the Knights of Labor—thus hoping, oy his election, to defeat an outspoken opposer of prohibition and a friend of the saloons. There is also nominated a good Olu-line Republican, an honorable man, who would be a worthy representative of the State in all things except its policy of prohibition. He belongs to the “old school,” and has not yet received the new regime, i desire earnestly the election of the temperance Democrat, not so much for his own sake as because bv his candidacy we are most like to defeat the whisky Democrat. That is non-partisanship, in which I believe. All the victories ever obtained in temperance legislation in the last quarter of a century have tteen non-nartisan victories. Scientific temperance instruction laws in seventeen States, and, best of all* the national educational law. adopted

by the last Congress, compelling the teaching of temperanoe in the schools oi the District of Columbia, the local option laws of the South, constitutional prohibition in the four States of Kansas, lowa, Maine aod Rhode Island, all of the “no license” votes in the little towns and villages of the whole country, these are all non-partisan victories, and justify our claim that by these methods shall soonest be accomplished the desire of all our hearts, the annihilation of the liquor traffic. It is sometimes urged in advocacy of the thirdparty policy that this will unite the North and the South, and thus bridge the bloody chasm. To which we reply: The principle of prohibition with its sweet charity, grand philanthropy and warm Christian love will surely tend to do this, but that the Prohibition party will do it is a great mis taka hints for the household. Fish, Sir Henry Thompson says, is very much overestimated for efficacy as “brain food.” Lilies of the valley form a charming windowbox. To have them for the conservatory or parlor, plant the pips during November or December in shallow boxes or pots, with plenty of heat and water. They will flower in thirty days alter being planted. Canned fruits keep better in the dark, but It is well to place the jars where they can be easily inspected without moving them about. Tomatoes will soon spoil in glass jars if they stand in a bright- light, but these and strawberries, or anything injured by the light, can be easily covered by a piece of paper twisted like a cap to slip over the jar. A double handful of common sali thrown into the bathing water after the cleaning process has been performed is a beneficial addition. The saline particles are very penetrating, and no amount of rubbing will remove them from the skip, upon which they a most useful, though a very gentle,, stimulating influence, especially salutary in oases of sluggish livers. Shams, which need large pillows to tram them up, are going out of use, and there is a return to the oblong shape. The size nineteen by thirty-one inches, makes a comfortable pillow; it also allows the u. e of forty or forty-two inch cotton for slips. These should be made long enough to hang over and protect the end of the pillow tick but not of extreme length. The ends are ornamented, if liked, by linen or cotton laces. To make apple marmalade, pare, core and cut the apples into small pieces; put them in water with some lemon juice to keep them white; after a short interval take them out and drain them; weigh and put them in a stew-pan with an equal quantity of sugar, add grated lemon peel, the juice of a lemon, some ciunamon sticks and a pinch of salt. Place the stew-pan over a brisk fire and cover it closely. When the apples are reduced to a pulp stir the mixture until it becomes of a proper consistency, and put the marmalade away in small pots. The bulbs of the hyacinth, tulip and narcissus for winter flowering should be planted in boxes or pots during this mouth, leaving the top of the bulbs level with the surface of the soil; after potting, water moderately, place in the cellar or in a dark closet, covering with five or six inches of sand or sawdust. Leave them undisturbed for 6ix weeks, or until the pots are filled with roots, when they can be brought to the light, and a few weeks later will afford an ample recompense for the attention bestowed upon them by the beautiful spikes of fragrant bloom they will put forth. Cream almonds prepared as follows are said to be equal to those furnished bF the best confectioner: Take the white of one egg and beat it until it is a stiff froth; now add on© teaspoonfnl of milk aod confectioner’s sugar until you think the cream is stiff enough; the white of one egg requires little less than one pound of sugar. When of the proper consistency take out enough on a spoon to make a little ball, roll it in some of the sugar that you have put on the saucer, shake gome of the sugar over your hands, shape the ball of cream and put half a walnut on either side. Dust a plate with sugar, place the walnuts on it when made, and put in a cool place. In about two hours they wiil be ready for use. Flavor, with lemon or vanilla, whichever you fancy. Be sure and get confectioners’ sugar; pulverized will not do. An excellent fricassee of oysters is made by this recipo: Put twenty-five largo oysters, with their juice, in a saucepan on a brisk fire; let them boil once; drain them and put them in a hot covered dish and keep them on the back of the range. Mix three ounces of butter, throe and one-half tablespoonfuls of flour and one and a half tablespoonfuls of boiling hot cream -ugs4*l they are a thick paste. Stir this quickly into a pint of creari#in a saucepan on a quick Are; add one saltspoonful of maee, two scant saltspoonfuls of salt. and one saltspoonful of white pepper, and stir until thick. Then put iu the yolks of two eggs well beaten, and mix until smooth; strain through a fine sieve over the oysters; cover them evenly with half a teacupful of fine bread crumbs and brown delicately in a quick oven.

Where Sol Will Live. Chicago Herald. Mr. Sol Smith Russell says It is true that he intends to retire from the stage, but he has made engagements up to Jan. 1, 1888, “and so,” says he, “I have somewhat more than a year in which to make my farewell to the public.” Mr. Russell confesses that he has saved about $70,000 during his professional career. He is anxious to withdraw to private life, and to do something toward building up his health, which has bocome sadly impaired through his too close attention to work. It is understood that he will make his home in Minneapolis, where he has large business interests. He intends that his uncle, Lloyd Brezee, an actor of acknowledged talent, shall be his successor upon the American stage, and to Mr. Brezee he will give his extensive and costly wardrobe and his several plays. The Birthplace of Abraham. Jewish Chronicle. Not far from Aleppo is situated the little town of Orfah (the ancient Ur of the Chaldees).which is of great historical interest, it having been the birthplace of the patriarch Abraham. There are few Jews in the place, but the Arabs still poiut out a small building lying outside the town which they declare to be the honse wherein Abraham first saw the light, and which they therefore term Beit el Chalil (the house of the friend of God.) It is most improbable that the actual house should have stood for thousands of years; but the building in question is of greAt antiquity. By its present owner, an Arab peasant, as well as the Arabs generally, it is held in the utmost veneration —the more so since it is feared that within a few years it will fall to the ground. A Chance for the Girls. Washington Post Another good turn has been done for women by the eallant Secretary of the Interior. It used to be held that a woman making a homestead entry and subsequently marrying before completing the same forfeited her right to acquire title. Secretary Lamar reverses this frigid decision and rules that the marriage of a woman who had made a homestead entry will not defeat ner right to receive title to the land. Girls can now go right ahead, take up homesteads, build houses, and then get husbands to support. There is nothing to hinder. What We Are Here For. Philadelphia Record. The highest aim in popular government should be to secure to the citizen the largest share of personal liberty compatible with the general welfare and seenrity. Everyone who has once used Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup invariably resorts to it m subsequent attacks of colds, coughs, etc. Price 25 cents. THE CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER IS THE WEST, THE Weekly lilia State Journal (TWELVE PAGES.) ORE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS. MARTYN’S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, 313 Sixth street, Washington. D. C., provides practically useful business education. No terms nor vacations. Students enter at any time. Terms: Life scholarship. S4O. Twelve weeks’ course, board, etc., $75. Send for circular. FOR SALE. _ instruments, for use at JL mines, mills, stores, factories, private houses, etc., for sale. J. J. SAFETY, Room No. 1, Odd fellows’ Block. For sale-a furnace, used to heat the large counting-room lately. occupied by the Times newspaper. It has been used but one season; will be sold cheap. Applvto W. R. HOLLOWAY, McDonald & Butler’s Block, North Pennsylvania street. _ around Reagan's station, on the E. TANARUS., V. &O. railroad, about midway between Knoxville and Chattanooga, four miles south of Sweetwater, in the oele brated Sweetwater valley. Average price about $25 per acre. A great many things combine to make this one of the very best places to establish a ©olony and town. Address LENOER REAGAN, Box 19, Sweetwater, East Tennessee. IWDuL OFFER AT PUBLIC BALE, 70 TO 80 head of cattle, including Holstein cows, heifers, calves and graded stock, at the Upton Hammond farm, on the Millersville pike, on Wednesday morning, November 3, at 10 o’clock. A eredit of nine months will be given to acceptable parties, on bankable paper. JOS. A. MOORE. Convevances will be found at the end of the Collegeavenue street car line. SECOND-HAND TYPE FOR SALE.—THE TYPE and material lately used by the Indianapolis Times, including minion and nonpareil body tvpe, fifty fonts of advertising display type, long and short brass galleys, a Hoe proof-press, one pair of double chases for a seven-column paper, type for mail lists, double stands, cases, brass leads, etc., etc. Also, one small stereotype outfit, suitable either for a job or newspaper offieo. This material is almost as good rs new, and will be sold at a great bargain. Apply to INDIANAPOLIS ELECTROTYPE FOUNDRY, South Meridian street. ■J OOK! ENGINES. READ! Don’t buy an Engine until you have examined ours. See! A 20 H. P. Portable, on wheels, $1,150; on skids, $950. A 30 H. P. Portable, on wheels, $1,575; on skids, $1,130. A 20 H. P. Stationary Automatic Engine, $427. A 60 fi. P. Stationary Automatic Engine, SBOO. A 20 H. P. Slide-valve Engine, $37-6. A 40 H. P. Slide-valve Engine, $555. We have instock Engines ready for immediate delivery, and can furnish Automatic and SHde-vaive Stationery Engir.es from 6 to 500 H. P.; Vertical Automatic and Slide-valve Stationary Engines from 1 to 25 H. P. Also, Saw Mills. Saws, Belting. Inspirators, Governors and Steam Fittings. W. B. DePOY & CO., 100 Kentucky Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. WANTED^ WANTED —THE CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER IN the West, the Weekly Indiana State Journal. One dollar ner year. ANTED—THE POSITION OF CLOTHING salesman, by an experienced salesman with referenoe; city or country. Address A. C. STEPHENSON, Kimball, Ind. AET ANTED—A CAPABLE AND RELIABLE GIRL TV for general housework in a family of three. References required. Apply at southwest corner of Alabama and St. Clair streets. WANTED— AGENTS-TO HANDLE THE NE W liquid ink eraser; fastest selling article in market; removes ink in two seconds; no abrasion of paper; $2.50 returns $9. One agent sold $32 worth in six hours in LaCrosso; 200 to 500 per cent, profit. Sample by mail. 35 cents. Terms free. Address the MONROE LIQUID ERASER CO., 323 and32s Main street. LaCrosse, Wisconsin. FINANCIAL. Money to loan—6 per cent. Horace McKAY, Room 11, Talbot & News Block. ITINANCIATi— MONEY ON MORTGAGE—FARMS and city property. C. E. COFFIN & CO. S' Tx _ peiTcen ; p"on city property in indiana. Isaac H. Riersted, 13 Martindale "Block. NOTICE. __ A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLM ers of the First National Bank of Indianapolis, No. 2550, will be held at the banking house on Thursday, November 11, 1886, at 10 o’clock a. m., to take action in regard to the future policy of the bank, and the transaction of any business that may come before them. E. F. CLAYPOOL, President. STRAYED OR STOLEN. CiQr REWARD WILL BE PAID FOR RE•i*)o turn of brown mare, 6 years old, 15 hands, left front knee swollen; onen-end spring buggy, red leather cushion, to TALBOTT & THOMAS, 76*3 South Meridian street.

WROUGHT |1 IRON ill pipe FITTINGS. JPSgPßaaßrei Selling Agents for NATIONAL Tubs Works Cos. .EHi! Globe Valves, Stop Corks. Xn- —' EgNSU JSSgs rine Trimmings. PIPE TONGS, g 9 fUjg CUTTERS, VISES. TAPS, im Stocks and Dies, Wrenches, H§9 Half Steam Traps, Pumps, Sinks. lUf HIP HOSB. BELTING, BABBIT {Hi HEN METALS (25-pound boxes), Cotton Wiping Waste, white Sgf rSf and colored (100-pound bales), and all other supplies used ia Hfl |.S£ connection with STEAM, WAf§9 Mh Ter and GAS, in JOB or RE ffp TAIL LOTH Do a regular steam-fitting business. KgtiRfl mate and contract to heat Mills, lip! Shops, Factories and Lumber yK Dry-houses with live or exhaust | f® steam. Pipe cut to order by if 1 Knight & Jillson, Mi PASSAGE RATES REDUCED. ANCHOR LINE , STEAMERS every SATURDAY from NEW YORK to GLASGOW AND LONDONDERRY. Rates of Passage to or from NewY ork, G 1 asgo w, Li verpool .London derry or Bel fast CABINS, 845 and 855. SECOND CLASS, 830. Steerage outward or prepaid, 820. Anchor Line drafts, issued at Lowest Rates, are paid free of charge in England, Scotland ajid Ireland. For Books of Tours; Tickets, or other information, apply to HENDERSON BROTHERS, New York, or A. METZGER. 5 Oddfellows’ Hall, or FRKNZEL BROTHERS, Merchants’ National Bank,lndianapolis. ('IUT! CUT! J BARGAINS IN SUGARS. 4c per lb for dark 0 sugar. 43ic per tb for light C sugar. 5He per lb for white extra C sugar. 5*9C per tb for Boft A sugar. 6c per lb for confectioners’ A sugar. 6*40 per tb for standard granulated sugar. 7c per tb for cut-loaf sugar. 7c per lb for powdered sugar. AND TKAS. 25 different kinds of new-crop teas to choose from. Finest, 60 cents per pound. Second. 40 cents per pound. Third, 25 cents per pound. M. M. WILLIAMS, No. 299 South Illinois street. Telephone 675.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY. INDIANAPOLIS. ABSTRACTS OF TITLES. ELLIOTT & BUTLER, NO. 3 aETNA BUILDING. ATTORNEYS. JOHN COBURN, ATTORNEY, No. 11 Martindale Block, No. 60 East Market Streak. ~ SINDLINGER BROTHERS, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in FRESH AND CURED MEATS, 47 North Illinois st., 207 West Michigan st. and 467 South Meridian st. Telephone Nos. 860 and 602. A T'V’TMC E. 0. A CO., Manufacturers and A 1 IVI IN O Repairers of CIRCULAR, CROSSCUT, BAND and all other kinds of SAW& Illinois street, one square south of Union Depot. J. R. RYAN & CO., Commission Merchants and Dealers in FLOUR. GRAIN, HaY AND FEED, 62 and 64 East Maryland Street. - ■ ... INDIANAPOLIS OIL TANK LINE CO., DEALERS IN PETROLEUM PRO HOOTS. Corner Pine and Lord Streets. MACHINERY, ETC^__ C A Vi TO B E LTING ijAVVD And EMERY WHEELS W. B. BARRY SAW AND SUPPLY CO., 132 and 134 South Pennsylvania Street All kinds of Saws repaired. GAS STOVES c3 eg fB&SLISKSfK&e* 1 6 —■ *d Cr3 H t=3 ggj A CD BBH K2P> 4 NO KINDLING REQUIRED. NO GOAL TO CARRY. NO ASHES TO REMOVE. Prices from $2 to sl6. Gas Engines from l Horse-power up We sell to gas consumers in thia city only. On exhibition and for sale at the GAS COMPANY, No. 47 South Pennsylvania Street. I EXPERIENCE TEACHER jus that our Medicated Soft^ fe ''-jjf Pad Truss cures bad cases of--and scrotal rupture. Dr. A. M. Lewis, No. 600 North Illinois street, I M was cured of direct rupture of forty years ■ m standing, at the age of eighty-four, in twelve J month's time. He requests us to say to those similarity afflicted to address him for particulars. Nearly any truss will cure mild cases, but ours is the only one that has ever been invented that will cure bad eases. For circulars, price-list, rules for measurement and instructions for self-treatment, call orjaddress Sanitarium, 79 East Market street, ladl _ AUCTION SALES. L. HUNT, AUCTIONEER, 74 E. COURT ST, N. PERRY. GENERAL AUCTIONEER, 88 • East Market. _ FOR RENT. FOR RENT-ONE LARGE AND ONE SMALL room with nower. Apply at Bryce’s Bakerv. nlf U A T)T?Qm Advertising in the country vllljAr rjU 1 is amour the Want*, Ifor Sales, etc., of the INDIANAPOLIS DAI lA' FOURNAL, at only FIVE CENTS PER LINE each msertion. If you have any farms or property to dispose of this will afford you a very easy and cheap agency, i Try it.

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