Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1886 — Page 3

NEARLY EVERYONE Has heard of the great increase in the MODEL’S business, and of our renting the corner bank room formerly occupied by Fletcher & Sharpe. The alterations to make anew iron and glass front are progressing so fast that we expect in about ten days to occupy our new quarters, and propose to make the new room our ! HAT AND CAP Department. We shall stock the same full with a complete, new line of the finest grades of Men’s and Boys’ Hats and Caps ever seen in the State. Elegant genuine Seal Caps, Fur and Lap Robes, and all classes of the best goods in the Hat and Cap line, will be found in our new store. * ON THIS ACCOUNT, THE WILL TO-MORROW INAUGURATE A SWEEPING SALE Os our entire stock now on hand of all Men’s and Boys’ Hats and Caps. PRICE IS NO OBJECT TO US. We must dispose of the goods before removal.

FOR THIS WEEK Choice of many lines of Men’s genuine Fur Stiff Hats, regular price $1.75 to $'2.25, for only ®I.3S FOR THIS WEEK Twenty dozen Boys’ Winter Skating Caps, well made, worth 35c, for 19 CENTS.

FOR THIS WEEK! We will sell all Soit Hats at cut prices, and one line of Men’s Soft Crush Hats, regular price si, for 59 CENTS! The low prices we are naming on all grades of Men’s and Boy’s Clothing during our alterations are bringing us thousands of customers. This sale will soon be over, and then you will he ‘‘kicking yourself 99 if you have not taken advantage of it. If you want a > fine Suit or Overcoat, see our genuine ‘‘tailor-made” goods. You will get the same qualities of us, equal to the finest merchant tailors’ production, at a saving of sls to S2O on a Suit or Overcoat. received by express, anew line of those popular Astrachan double-breasted Coats and Vests. All railroad men want them. MODEL Lowest-priced house for Fine Goods in the West. ; HAYS & CO., Proprietors.

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FOR THIS WEEK Take your choice of the finest Fur Stiff Hats in our /lottse, all of them, whether regular price is $3.50, $4 or $4.50, for $2.55 FOR THIS WEEK 500 All-wool Cassimere Winter Telescope Caps for Boys, would be cheap at si, for 48 CENTS.

TARIFFTALKIN OLD ENGLAND An Issue That Will Play a Prominent Part in the Next General Election. Workingmen Organizing After the Manner of the Knights of Labor and Preparing to Demand Doties on Foreign Importations. The Irish Landlords Show a Disposition to Meet Their Tenants Half Way. Growth of Anti-Papal Sentiment in FranceMore Abont the Sebright Divorce CaseMiscellaneous Foreign News by Cable. TARIFF TALK IN ENGLAND. Workingmen Organizing and Preparing to Demand Protection Against Outsider#, Special to the Indiaeapcli# Journal. London, Nov. 14.—The tariff question will undoubtedly play a prominent part in the next parliamentary elections. The various tradesunions throughout Great Britain are being rapidiy formed into assemblies of Knights of Labor similar to those in America. Numbers of these bodies of workingmen have adopted resolutions favoring heavy customs duties on foreign importations. The pressure of foreign competition, particularly on the part of the Germans, has quickened the workmen’s yearning towards protection. In London it is astonishing to see how thoroughly the German is becoming naturalized among the Britons. In the omnibuses in the south and east of London it is almost as common to hear German spoken as English, though, for the matter of that, most of the Germans are adepts in the English tongue. Os course, the German invasion does not affect the working people as much as the lower middle class, hut national jealousies spread fast and a protection crusade is being fired by clamorous agitators alleged to be in the pay of Tory caucuses. Even before the cry for protection had attained its present dimensions, Lord Randolph Churchill, with his usual quickness, saw what was coming, and said that protection might do very well to float the Tory party into power. It is reported in Tory circles this evening, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is preparing a tariff scheme for the government which, when published, will seriously affect liberal principles among the working classes. This measure will be brought forward immediately after the new rules of procedure, in order to distract the attention of the working classes from the Irish question, and win them over to the support of tho Tory party at the next parliamentary elections, which many politicians predict will take place early in the spring of next year. Mr. Schadhorst has got fairly to work in his place as the “Carnot” of Liberal organization, and has turned his attention toward the threatened decline of Liberal principles among the working classes. Liberal associations all over the country have cause to be alarmed at the spread of the protectionist theory among the working classes, which received a fresh impetus by the results of the recent elections in America. Mr. Gladstone has also turned his attention towards the tariff question, and is preparing able arguments to offset any declarations Lord Churchill may make on the subject. The ex-Premier is receiving the views of a number of leading manufacturers, agriculturists and prominent officers of trades-un-ions in regard to the matter. It is said that Mr. Gladstone, in the event of the information warranting it, and the demand of the working classes being spontaneous, will even be prepared to go further in granting protection to home industries than Lord Churchill. Liberal leaders over the country are just now busily engaged sifting tho question thoroughly, and the indications are that the next Parliament will have to deal with the tariff question, in addition to the allotments bill, the land transfer bill, the local government in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wries bills, and the currency question. Notwithstanding the agitation for protection, Mr. Schadhorst continues to reoeive good accounts of the spread of the movement for educating the constituencies in the principles of home rule on the lines of the university extension which Professor Stuart set on foot last session. Work has been begun at Nottingham, Hull, Birmingham, Manchester, Salford, Darlington and Sheffield, at which places a course of lectures is being given. Other northern constituencies are also marked out for attack. The quality of the lectures is of the very highest, a number of able Liberals being engaged in delivering them. .

IRISH AFFAIRS. The Nationalists Gaining Ground—Landlords Willing to Make Farther Concessions. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. jOndon, Nov. 13.—The National sts are winning ground beyond their expoctatio.is. The rent question, which lies deep in the hearts of men like Mr. John Dillon, is settling itself with a measure of comparative ease which exceeds the anticipation of the most sanguine ’of Irishmen. Those Nationalists who predicted a black winter in Ireland are happy that their prophecies are not being realized to anything like the extent they hut recently so much dreaded. Information from Ireland indicates that Lord Clanricarde and a gumber of other landlords who recently made concessions, owing to low price of agricultural products, are preparing to go a little further and concede still lower rents to their tenants. Some prejudiced people say ihis news will disappoint the Nationalists, hut that is not the case. Mr. Parnell has recently done more than the English people have any conception of to induce the tenants to he moderate iu their demands, and to accept reasonable arrangements with the landlords. He is, of ail men, most anxious for a peaceful winter, believing that the absence of disorder will best retain the friendship and co-operation of the Gladstonian Liberals, and that it will tend to favorably impress the Liberal Unionists. THE BALKAN TROUBLES. The Austrian Prime Minister Talks In a Very Pacific Strain. Budda-Pesth, Nov. 13—Count Kalnoky, minister of foreign affairs for the whole AustroHungarian empire, today made before the delegations a declaration of the imperial foreign policy. The tenor of his entire address was pacific. In fact, Count Kalnoky’s speech was a re-echo of the sentiments lately expressed by M. Tisza, maintaining the latter’s declaration that the peace of Europe was for the present assured. His statement was substantially as follows: Austria’s m-

teresfc In Bulgaria will be the maintenance of treaty rights. It is immaterial how internal affairs proceed in Bulgaria if the essentials of the Berlin treaty are not ipfringed. It will be most difficult for Austria to avoid taking action daring the present excitement. The imDortance of General Kanlbars’s mission has been greatly overestimated. He has succeeded in making Russian influence felt in a most disagreeable manner, but he has also evoked the sympathy of Europe* for the Bulgarian people. General Kaulbars, by the course he has pursued, has attained nothing that is calculated to decide the political existence of Bulgaria. In the meantime, Austria will patiently await events, abiding by the principles embraced in the declaration of Herr Tisza, the Hungarian Prime Minister, which will remain a criterion of policy for a long time to come. If Austria is forced to interfere in order to vindicate the Berlin treaty, the sympathy and co-op-eration are assured of all the powers rosolved to protect European treaties. Upon receiving from the King of Denmark a telegram refusing consent to Prince Waldemar’s acceptance of the Bulgarian throne, the regents resigned. The Sobranje voted confidence in the regents, but they declined to withdraw their resignations. The Sobranje has adjourned, ail the members going to Sofia. A deputation will visit the European courts to pray the powers to nominate a candidate for the throne. GENERAL FOREIGN news. Facts Conclusively Showing the Existence of an Anti-Papal Feeling in France. Special to the Indianapolis Journal* London, Nov. 13.—The French Senate has not yet taken any action in regard to the very earnest and dignified remonstrance recently addressed to body by the Catholic Algerian bishops agaiust the proposed reduction of the grant for Catholic seminaries. That such a reduction should have been proposed shows how the current sets against the church in France, and the Pope cannot long continue to ignore it. He has, for the present, given way to the “eldest son of the church” on the Chinese question, but on the face of these continued affronts, he will not long regard French remonstrances, and a papal representation at Pekin would be a very great blow to tho national aggressiveness in the East. The Sebright Divorce Cane. LONDON, Nov. 13.—The hearing in the Sebright divorce case was resumed to-day. Several wit nesses testified to Mrs. Sebright’s worried and excitable condition during the period immediately following her marriage. Concerning the allegation made on the petitioner’s behalf, that one of tho means by which Mr. Sebright forced her to marry was a threat that if she refused he would declare that during their secret engagement he had obtained a surrender of her virtue, the judge said that no evidence had been adduced to sustain the charge. Mrs. Sebright’s counsel thereupon withdrew the allegation, which Mr. Sebright declared was a base lie. Lady Scot f , the mother of Mrs. Sebright, testified that when i'.3 heard of the alleged threat by the respondent against her daughter’s character, she had the petitioner examined by a physician, who found that the facts refuted any possible claim that Mr. Sebright might make against the young lady’s honor. The case has been adjourned until Tuosday next, when judgment will be rendered. Comfort for Catholics. Berlin, Nov. 13.—The North German Gazette quotes this 6tory from the Halle Gazette: “Crown Prince Frederick William, while inspecting, recently, the restored high altar of the Merseberg Cathedral, perceived the absence of a cross. In a moment of inspiration, the Crown Prince went to the sacristy, lifted a crucifix reverently with both hands, and carried it to tho altar, upon which he placed it. Then turning to those accompanying him. he exclaimed; ‘Do you not believe this sacred symbol will remain fore%r here?’ This action is taken to imply that the Crown Prince is prepared to combat all attacks upon the church.” The Fasting Italians. LONDON, Nov. 13.—Succi, the Milanese fasting man, on Wednesday last, at Paris, commenced his task of subsisting thirty days or so on a miraculous kind of liquor, which, he says, he discovered in Zanzibar. It is said to be a distillation of some tropical plant, and lie takes with it, at intervals, drinks of mineral and ordinary water. Several French doctors, who are testing him, keep continual watch over him. Merlatti, his countryman, is still going through his self-inflicted fast in the Rue Tronchet. Both the fastera are daily visited by crowds of doctors, journalists and other persons. Cuble Notes. Rev. Wm. Delaney, Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Cork, is dead. A landslide at Embrnn. Hautes Alpes, which was caused by the rains, buried eight persons, all of whom were killed. An Egyptian man-of-war has destroyed ships belonging to Massowah traders engaged in supplying corn to the Soudanese rebels, and has detained the crews. The Italian Governor of Massowah has demanded the release of the crews, on the ground that they are Italians.

TUE FIRE RECOKD. Heavy Losses at Louisville—Firemen Killed and Injured by the Explosion of a Cistern. Louisville, Nov. 13.—Three alarms at 8 o’clock to-night called out all the fire engines in the city to suppress a fire which began in the middle of a handsome block of business buildings in the rear of Robinson Brothers’ wholesale hardware store and spread rapidly to the surrounding buildings on the north side of Mam, between Sixth and Seventh streets. The flames originated in a defective flue, and had such headway that Robinson's store and that of William Cornwall, wholesale notions, were completely gutted before the fire was under control. It was thought the Louisville Hotel was on fire, and a great crowd gathered in time to see the large cistern at Sixth and Main streets explode and tear up the street. This was caused by foul gas. There was much excitement. Two fire engines were demolished by the explosion, and James Connell, engineer of No. 1 company, was killed outright. Charles Obst, captain of No. 9 company, had three ribs and a leg broken, and Dennis Hamilton and Samuel Scanlon, firemen, were painfully injured. The fire was under control by 9 o’clock, but not before it had spread, also, to the stores of L. L. Warren, boots and shoes, and Grauman & Sbuttleworth, wholesale clothing. These buildings were only slightly damaged by fire, but the stocks suffered by water. The following are the losses and insurance: Robinson Bros., loss on stock and building, $85,000; insurance SGO,OOO. Win. Cornwall, building and stock, $60,000; insurance $35,000. L. L. Warrep, loss on stocks, $70,000; insurance $60,000. The other losses will be about $10,000; covered by insurance. Dye-Works Burned. Stapleton, S. 1., Nov. 13.—A fire which started at 4 o'clock this morning, in the office of the Staten Island dyeing establishment, at West New Brighton. destroyed the press house, dyeing-house, frame-room and silkhouse, together with their contents and machinery. The loss is about SIOO,OOO. The fire was got under control at 9 o’clock. It is said to have been caused by a kerosine-oil lamp. The Sunday War at La Crosse. LaCrosse, Wis., Nov. 13.—The Anti-law and Order League, an organization of saloon keepers and others opposed to the enforcement of the blue laws, declares its intention of renewing its crusade to-morrow. The telegraph company has so far vlelded to the "anti” element as to order that no mess ages, excepting those on signal service and other government business, shall be received or sent to morrow. The names of all the street-car employes, paid singers in churches and newspaper employes who are found pursuing their regular vocations will be token and prosecutions begun next week. Despite the local ill feeling which prevails over this method of retaliation, the saloonists are apparently determined to keep it up. i 4m Death of the Oldest Locomotive Engineer. SEDALIA, Mo., Nov. 13.—William Warren Goodell, the oldest locomotive engineer in America, died at his home in this city at 2 o'clock this morning, aged eighty-three years. Ho first began running an engine in 1834, followed the business continuously for fifty years. Two years ago bis eyesight failed him, and since then he has resided with his children, who number eleven. Goodell was of an inventive turn of mind, and maiu- years ago numerous patents for various parts of a locomotive were issued in his name. The body was taken to Buckley, Mo., this evening, aud the burial will take plate te-uioxrewi i

UNCEBTAINTIES OF POLITICS How They Are Exemplified in the Career of Hon, Samuel Sullivan Cox, A Man Who Served Many Years in Congress Before It Was Definitely and Positively Ascertained lie Was a Great Statesman. Jersey Cow-Bells and the Effect They Exerted on Mr. Hewitt’s Early Career. The Country Clnb-llouses in the Vicinity of Washington and the Amusements They Provide—Gossip from the Capital. SUNSET COX. Democrats Announce that He Will Be Their Leader in the Hoo*e--Hls Political Career. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, Nov. 13.— Democratic Representatives arriving here from every part of the country announce with singular unanimity that Sunset Cox, of New York, the late minister to Turkey, will be the leader of their side of the House in the Fiftieth Congress. Os course, this expression must be ratified by a majority of those who will occupy seats on the east side of the next House, in December, 1887, but it is very likely that the old members will have their way and that “Sunrise” Cox, as somo one has christened hies since he arose again so unexpectedly in Congress, will be the leader of the Democracy. The career of Cox during the past few years and the general drift of the leaderships on both sides of the Houso show how uncertain is politics and how quickly men are made and forgotten in public life. Os late years men are leaders in both the Houso and Senate by virtuo of prominent chairmanships or the championship of prominent measures. Before the war the leaderships went to men of brilliancy, and only those who had the master minds figured in the proceedings. It was not till the Forty-seventh Congress—five years ago—that Sunset Cox was regarded as a man of great mental force. For years he had written fanny things, and made the House roar by his wit and humor, but he was not regarded as a statesman. He wound up a career in the Forty-ninth Congress which made him feel some assurance, and he asked for the complimentary vote of the speakership. He was given a setback, as he was when he wanted to be Speaker when Mr. Chrlisle first ran. One of the most serious objections to him was that he was too funny, and would not be sufficiently dignified in the chair. As chairman of the committee on naval affairs in the last Congress he led the movefor a reconstructed navv, and demonstrated his power to think and reason like a statesman. Aod bad not the proposition to revise the tariff been so prominently before the House, thus pushing forward Morrison and Randall as leaders of the two respective tactions in the party, Cox would then have gone to the fore front as the leader. He could hold the House better than any man iu it in debate, and had a way of ridiculing propositions very profound, so that his hearers wore unable to fathom his information, and concluded he had no limit of knowledge. But Sunset Cox is a close student. Like Reed, of Maine, he reads everything and forgets nothing; and he has a knack of throwing out in his remarks what he has read, which gives him use of it to the best possible advantage. He is proverbially good-natured, and has few personal enemies, because he is not vicious. His wife brought enough money into the family to place them beyond the danger of waut, so that he can be as liberal pecuniarily as he is in mind. Evidently the era for new leaders has come. Senators Ingalls, Harrison and Allison in the upper branch of Congress, and Messrs. Cox, McKinley, Reed, Browne, Henderson and other younger men in the House, come to the front with fresh blood, while Senators Edmunds, Morrill, Evarts, Butler, Brown, and Messrs. Randall, Holman, Kelly and other old leaders in the House go to the rear. Active work, earnestness and eloquence tell now, and slow brains and slow bodies are to be relegated.

HEWITT’S AIRS. His Dislike of Cow- Beils, and liow It Caused His Defeat by Jersey Voters. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Washington, Nov. 13.— “ Before Abram S. Hewitt moved to New York,” said ex-Governor Price, of New Jersey, the other day, “he lived in my district and ran for the Legislature. It was in the primitive days of politics, but the same sensitiveness existed among the people that creates surprises at elections nowadays. Hewitt’s campaign grew fierce and passion ran high, but he had a big majority on his side and did not feel alarmed at any time. He mado a personal canvass, and spoke at every schoolhouse in the out townships. Then, as now, he was pestered with insomnia, and had to exercise the greatest care to keep up his nervous system. A noise or any kind of excitement resulted in sleepless nights. “In those days the farmers strung a bell around the neck of every cow, horse, sheep and other animal running at large. A cow-bell was a terror to Hewitt, and made it impossible for him to sleep. After a few nights in the country, he was nearly worn out, and told a friend that he would be compelled to cancel his engagements and go back home, as he couldn’t sleep with those infernal bells tinkling around of nights. “ ‘I will fix them,’ replied the friend, *1 will go ahead of you and have the farmers take the bells off till you have passed the neighborhoods, and will explain the reason.’ “Hewitt consented to this. The bells were not beard at night, and be slept But he was defeated. He ran a thousand behind his ticket; and the losses were in the country. One day be met one of his old country friends in the city, and asked him what had caused the dissension against him in the out townships. “ ‘Well,’replied the farmer, somewhat embarrassed, 'to tell you the truth, the country people thought you were putting on too many airs when you went so far as to attack cow-bells.’ ” * GENERAL PICKETT’S WIDOW. Her Name Is Borne on the Rolls of the Department as a Laborer at 150 a Month. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 13.— Leaning over the railing at the panorama of the Battle of Bull Run, yesterday, was a lady so striking in appearance that she attracted the large audienee and the lecturer who explained the scenes of sanguinary conflict on the canvas. Tall and willowy, with a form divinely round and plump, a wealth of jet-black hair, large, piercing black eyes beneath long, silken lashes, and a complexion as fair and clear as a pure demi brunette can have, the lady looked both beautiful and intelligent, while she was affectionate and generous. People asked who she was. The lady gazed intently upon that portion of the battle which was fought oa the railroad, and where tho blood of

men is fisld to have run in streams over the ground. No one seemed to recognize the lady till the lecturer described the portion of the bat* tie she seemed to study. He said: “The conflict here can only be likened to features of the battle at Gettysburg, and the dash made at this point is said to have equaled the famous Pickett’s charge.” Instantly the lady's face was aglow with |excitement, and she turned twice around in full view of the audience. Then it was discovered that she was the widow of General Pickett, that dashing Virginian who lej} the confederate charge at Gettysburg which makes a chapter ia history. Tho lecturer did not know the lady, and hor identity was made known by Accident. Mrs. Pickett is now living here. She is borne upon the rolls of the Interior Department as 6 laborer at SSO a month, although she is assigned to clerical work. She ia a cultured lady and moves in the higest circles of society. Many of the relatives of renowned soldiers on both sides of the late war are in equal obscurity here now, COUNTRY CLUB-HOUSES. Fighting Chickens with Corks on Their Spurs—Horse Racing ou Private Tracks. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 13.—“ Come out to my place and I’ll entertain you with a boxing matefe between a pair of my game chickens —& regular old-fashioned scrapping,” said the proprietor at one of the leading club-houses in the northern suburbs to your correspondent this morning. “You have never seen roosters box?” Jae continued, showing surprise. “Oh! that is the most fashionable amusement I have. The swells come out almost every day, take a run on the race-course, call for a scrapping match between a pair of roosters, then get dinners for theiz ladies, and drive into the city in Jhe evening. 1 have some wives of Congressmen, occasionally the wife or daughter of a Senator, and often the ladies of department officials at my clubhouse to witness this sport. There is nothing cruel about It, and it is to the fashionables of Washington wh&t bull fights are to the ladies at the City of Mexico. We simply put corks on the spurs of the chickens, and let them thump the breath out of each other. It maxes a old rooster blind with rage to knock his antagonist down and see him up again and at it. with no blood iu sight and no apparent injury inflicted.” There are three or four of these club houses within a distance of four miles of the White House. All are north of the eity. Each has a race-course, where private spurts are made. When a couple of citizens get their blood up by dashing around each other out on those fine roads, they repair to one of the private clubhouse tracks to settle the question of speed. Frequently such men as Senators Butler, Beck, Vest, Eustis, Cameron, Blackburn, Representatives Wellborn, Robertson, Belmont, Blisa etc., are seen at these places, and large sums of money pass hands in settling a dispute over a couple of roadsters. A high-strung politician passes another with a dash on the road; a challenge follows, and the horses an hour later are on tho track racing. Generally, the road vehicle is used. The club-houses are popular resorts on Sundays. Men go there for a drive, drinks and a sociable time: No one not a member is admitted. The memberships cost $lO usually, and are for the purpose of keeping out informers and to evade the Sunday laws. Selling anything to members of club-houses is not unlawful here.

OFFICIAL PATRONAGE. Representative Kleiner Thinks Congressmen Should Be Relieved of Its Distribution. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Washington, Nov. *l3.— ln a lengthy interview, published in this evening's Star, Representative Kleiner, of the First*3fndiana district, advances the idea that Senators and Representatives ought, by law, to be freed from the distribution of federal offices, and says government patronage has been a great drawback to Democracy. He thinks most federal office* ought to be elective. When the last campaign opened, only one postmaster out of 134 in his district remained unchanged under (bis administration, yet he declares there has been great complaint. The Democratic members were kept so busy last winter, looking after places for constituents, that he does not think it any wonder that the House was charged with inefficiency. He himself found it impossible to keep the run of current business, although he was not a candidate for re-electiou, ahd could not, therefore, be charged with any selfish motive in distributing patronage in his district, MINOR MATTERS. Stonewall Jackson's Idiosyncrasies Not Positive Proofs of Insanity. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 13.— -General Belknap, who was President Grant’s Secrotarv of War, was today showu the mention made in these dispatches a week ago about tho idiosyncrasies of General Stonewall Jackson, in which the latter was represented as believing for many years that he was lop-sided. “I guess that is true,” said Gen. Belknap; “1 have been told that Jackson imagined that he could feel his food go down on the inside of his right leg as fast as he ate it. But I don’t think there was anything crazy about that; that is, unless lam crazy, too. Why, if I diink a glass of sherry I can feel it go instantly down my leg to ray great toe, where I have gout.” The same can be said of ex-Speaker Randall. He says that a glass of Bergnndy can travel down his leg in twenty seconds and start his gout in full blast. Land Aristocracy Among Red Men. Nsw Yohk, Nov, 13. — A Washington special to the Sun says: “One of the most striking passages in the annual report of Commissioner J. D. 0. Atkins, which has just been printed, shows the workings of an Indian landed aristocraoy under the present tribal system pf holding reservations. It appears that the chief cultivation of the tribal lauds is clone by a few rich and enterprising red men, who pocket all the proceeds and nay no rent to the tribe as a whole. Os course their plea ia that if any other members of thf tribe choose to till their lauds, they arp at liberty to do so; but it appears that in the Indian Territory, where some very large aggregate crops are raised on lauds held in common by partly-eivilieed tribes, the wealthier and more influential Indians have monopolized the best lands, and much more than would be their share under an equal division in severalty. Commissioner Atkins, accordingly, points out that the present system of land tenure among the red men *s working very badly, and that the government ought to intervene and divide the land held In the Indian Territory into lots of IGO acres for each head of a family, and half as much for each minor child. The general impression derived from Commissioner Atkins's report Is that the present system of Indian land-holding is very imperfect and unwise, ana that Congress should promptly substitute one which would be better both tor the red men and the whites.’ General and Personal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 13.—William E. Spears, inspector of public buildings, of tho supervising architect’s office, of tho Treasury Department, will leave here on Monday next, to inspect government buildings at New Albany, Fort Wayne, Columbus, 0., and otner place*. Ho will took into condition of structures and report as to progress of work and needed repairs. Gen. H. P. Hurst, well known throughout Indiana* arrived here to-day. ►Senator Sherman was at the Capitol to-day. giving some instructions as to the fitting up of the Vice-pvei-ident’s room. Representative and Mrs, Campbell, of Ohio, will or rive in tho city to-morrow. Senator and Mrs. Vooi Lees and Miss Voorhees are in the city, at 1503 Vermont avenue for the presont. The Missos Matthews, daughters of Justice Matthews, have returned to thoir father s house from Glendale, 0., where they spent the summer. Butter, Eggs and Cheese. CHICAGO, Nov. 13.—The members of the National Butter, Cheese and Eggs Association to day elected Mr. H. B. Gurler, of DeKalb, 111., president for the ensuing year. Tnoy had quite a spirited discussion over a resolution by Mr. Dutton, of New York, that all dealers and exhibiters of oleomargarine be boycottod. Everybody wanted tho floor at once, but the tempest was abated by the adoption of a substitute, to the effect that tho members of the association should hold themselves aloof from the Illinois State Board of Agriculture as long as that body encourage* those who manufacture oleomargarine. The couveaUoa La adjourned *tuo die.

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