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many members of Congress were severely bitten. At least three fourths of them lire dabbling; in clocks in one way or another, and most of them had been going long on the market, so that when the tarn came they were all caught Some of the losses were quite severe. lam told of one member who lost $40,000. and another who is $20,000 out There is a member who made his first experience in the street a short time aco, and who realized quite a comfortable sum in Reading. So firmly convinced .was he that the market was going up that he not only invested his profits in this speculation but also hypothecated his salary for the balance of the session, and nut the whole amount in Lackawanna. Os course he got cleaned out. I koow one real estate acent who dropped $13,000 in Lake Shore, and another business man in town who suffered to the extent of $17,000. Os course there are a good many victims of whom I know nothing, but sfmnly tell on those that have come to my novice.” • INTERSTATE COMMERCE. A Letter from a United States Senator Who Sees Many Hangers in the Bill. Washington Special in Philadelphia Press. A prominent Republican United States Senator has written the following letter on the effect of the interstate commerce bill, should it come into force. lie has consented to its publication, but prefers to have his name withheld until after the mAtter is discussed. It ia fair to state that the author of the letter was not a member of the conference committee: fiobert P. Porter, the Press Washington Bureau, Washington, I>. O.: My Dear Sir: The bill as reported to the Senate by the conference committee is quite a surprise. The Senate committee, after traveling over the United States i and taking testimony among business men aud railroad men, reported that they were unwilling, with the information then possessed by the committee, to revolutionize the business of the country by an arbitrary provision prohibiting pooling. They therefore recommended an investigation by the commission contemplated by the Cullom bill into the subject of pooling, and the commission to make a report within a given time. What new testimony has been in the recess furnished upon the subject, or what new ’aght has dawned upon the committee; or whence it tomes, is a matter of conjecture only. The pool of to-day is pot what the railroad pool of ten or fifteen years ago was, either in its structure or in its puroose. Once its object was to stifle competition and ■suable competing lines to pat rates too high and to ipep rates too high. The paralleling of railroads in ater years and the wild strife between competing ■oads for business have made it necessary to the debility of rates, in the interest of the people as well ts in the interest of railroads, that some agreement should be entered into for maintaining rates. This las been done by pooling, and the rates have gone tteadily downward. What effect the sudden revolution in the manner of transacting business which will e wrought by the prohibition of pooling, if carried, gill have, no mar can tell. The committee also reports a stronger provision ipon the long ar.d short haul—practically the absolute ro vision of the Reagan bill. This can hardly fail to kp productive of anything but evil to the shippers of he country. Those who live at the end of the long laul must suffer. The farmers and cattle-raisers of ihe West, and the dairymen and all whose products must seek the seaboard for market or for export, will quickly feel it. The low through rates which have ouilt up the West and the East will be a thing of the oast. If the low through rate must be the maximum f the local rate, it needs no argument to show that he low through rate must be abandoned. It will be >ut up and the local rates will not be lowered, so that shippers at the end of a long haul will be injured, and shippers at the local points will not be benefited. The great export cities of the East—New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, etc.—will suffer. The manufacturers. dry goods, grocery and other merchants who have heretofore been accustomed to sell in the Eastern market to merchants and dealers in he West and far West will suffer. The products of the West, as far as possible, will find a Canadian outlet. Canada has already furnished the money to build railroads from Minneapolis to connect with Montreal. This legislation will, I think, in the long run, not essentially injure railroads, although it will lead to consolidations and to the absorption of the smaller roads. If enforced, it will be a curse to the people. If not enforced, it will be a calamity that it was enacted, for it will stamp as a failure the attempt, after a long effort, st intelligent regulation of interstate commerce. It is amazing that in legislation which is an experiment, and which deals in such a vital way with three-fourths pf the commerce of the country, men who have never had any experience in the transportation business should be so daring and be willing to go so fast and so ibntidently. United States Senate. Dec. 17, 1886.

, MINOR MATTERS. & Few of the Friends of Mr. Hewitt Give a Farewell Dinner In His Honor. ipscial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 19. — ' The farewell dinner f the Democratic members of the New York songressional delegation to the Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, to mark his retirement from Congress, prior to entering upon his duties as Mayor of Sw York ou Jan. 1, took place last night at Chamberlain’s. Besides the fourteen members of the delegation, there were a half score of guests present, among them Speaker Carlisle, ex Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania; Representatives Morrison, Collins, Mills, Breckenridge and Herbert, and Mr. Powers, M. P., of London. The occasion was entirely social and informal. By common consent politics were subordinated to prandial and fraternal courtesies. The menu was superb in selection, but lot especially elaborate. Terrapin and canvasbacks were sandwiched between enticing provocatives, and, with bubbling charm* .rngne, formed the only anti-Democratic slement of the occasion. The party sat down at 7:30, and at 10 the light-bine circles of cigar •moke gave the signal to Mr. Cox, who briefly old of his regret that one who so adorned the Souse of Representatives had to leave a circle ;hat would be truly incomplete without him for .he more conspicuous, but not more important, honor of the mayoralty of New York. Mr. Hewitt feelingly responded, saying that if the choice were his he would not leave his present rnuclf loved surroundings; but a higher command had come to him—the loud call of a great party and a great city. The iron hand of duty summoned him away from a life that would ever have for him memories the most charming and grateful. Brief speeches, happily dashed with wit and bits of pathos, were made by many of the others. Good-nights were said as the clock chimed 12. Manners in President Jackson's Day. filppencott’e Magazine. President Jackson’s table manners were as Jemocratic-as could be desired. He had at each plate two forks, one of which was of silver and ;he other of steel. The President used a steel fork for himself, and after his dinner he always imoked his tobacco from a long-bandied corncob pipe. Andrew Jackson entertained lavishly on the night of his first inauguration. The carpets f the East Room were r-iined by the orauge punch and lemonade which were served to the srowd which came to his reception. Barrels of this punch were made, and it was brought nto the room in buckets. At last the people began to rush for the waiters as toon as they entered the room. Glasses frere broken and ladies’ dresses ruined. Tubs of punch were finally taken into the garden, nd in this way the throng was drawn off and it iras possible to serve cake and wine to the ladies. At Jackson’s farewell reception a monsiter cheese, as big as a hogshead in circumferevice and nearly a yard thick, was cut with saw.Mades made into knives and served out to the ?aests. Each guest received three pounds of sheese. The event was the talk of the Nation, tnd when Van Buren became Presidenr bis New ifork friends, emulative of Jackson, sent him a pig cheese. It was cut up in the East room. The greasy crumbs, falling upon the carpet, ivero trampled into it, and the rnination of the furniture during these two administrations led ihe later Presidents to discontinue the practice pf serving eatables at general receptions. Now no guest comes to a dinner at the White House inless invited.” Wrathful Maginnis. Washington Special. There are a good many prominent men from ;he Territories here just now. Their remarks ibout the administration are pointed with a Western vigor which would not appear well in print, having altogether too much brimstone. Ex-Delegate Martin Maginnis, of Montana, when tsked about the appointment of a Kentuckian for Governor, a position for which he was under* tood to be an applicant, replied: “A mac meat ->o mighty hard up when he will accept an offic* from this administration. No, air: they could aot give me anything if it wason a gold platter.”

Thi* eema a little like the sour grapes and the fox, but as a fact the residents of the Territories, without reference to party, are antagonistic to Cleveland and his associates in the management of government affairs. Maginnis save about the never-ending topic of cattle-growing, that while it has been depressed, the industry is certain to recover and become greater with each succeeding year. A Big Man Proves To Bea Big Orator., Washington Special. Representative Barnes, of Georgia, the successor of Alexander H. Stephens, and hy far the largest man in the House, electrified the House this morning in his maiden speech, on the Oklahoma bill Barnes has, daring his service in the House, attracted considerable attention on account of his size. No one supposed he was an orator, as he never before had as much as ad dressed the Speaker. His speech this morning has made him a reputation as an orator second to none in the House. For oratorical honors he is crowding the silver-haired and tongued Breckenridge, of Kentucky. The President and the Mormons. Philadelphia Press. Is the administration temporizing or bargaining with the Mormons! There are three facts which give basis and warrant for this inquiry, namely: The complete silence of the President’s message on the Mormon question; the presence of a powerful Mormon lobby in Washington and the sudden appearance of the Governor of Utah in that city. What does it all mean! General and Pergonal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 19.—E. P. Ferris, of Indiana, ia an applicant for the United States judgeship in Dakota, made vacant by the appointment of Church to be Governor of that Territory. Representative Wm. D. Hill, of Ohio, is an applicant for the place. C. C. Palmer, of Painesville, 0., is here. The President has recognized Olaf Rye Wulfsberg as vice-consul of Sweden and Norway, at Des Moines, la.; Eugene Bioneti, vice-consul of Sweden and Norway, at Port Townsend, W. TANARUS.; Juan L. Boras, vice-consul of Spain, at Pensacola, Fla.; Erastus Brainard, consul of the Republic of Paraguay, at Philadelphia; Ricardo Villafranca, consul of Costa Rica, at San Francisco, Cal., and Juan Antonio Peroz Bonalde, consul-general of Salvador, at New York. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Washington, Dec. 20, 1 a. m. Special indications for twenty-four hours from 7A. M.: For Indiana—Light snow; warmer. For Ohio and Indiana—Light snow, southerly winds, warmer. For West Virginia—Lieht snow, southerly winds, lower, followed by higher temperature. For Illinois—Fair weather, followed by rain or snow, warmer, southerly winds. For Wisconsin—Fair weather, followed by rain or snow, warmer, southerly winds. For Michigan—Snow, warmer, southerly winds. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Dec. 19. Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weather R.ain 6A. M... 30.19 23 86 SwestLtsnow. .01 2P. H... 30.22 23 83 West Lt snow. .01 10 P. M... 30.34 12 82 West Clear * Maximum temperature, 27; minimum temperature. 12. *Melted snow too small to measure.

General Observations. War Department, l Washington, Dec. 19, 10 p. m. 5 Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. W Hi -5 td si 5 g* s oog. $ o ® 2 0- - s“ R H • o 2* CSTATIONS. S § ; § & ? 9 B ; 2 a- ? j r* : : £ : New York City 30.17 32! West Clear. Washington City... {30.22 35 North Clear. Vicksburg, Miss 30.38 42’Calm Clear. New Orleans. La... 30.36 48{North Clear. Shreveport, La 30.40 42 Nwest Clear. Fort Smith, Ark 30.35 SliCalm Clear. Little Rock. Ark 38 Calm Clear. Galveston, Tex 30.40 54lNorth Clear. Memphis, Tenn 30.38 32 Nwest Clear. Nashville, Tenn.... 30.32 27 Nwest Clear. Louisville, Ky 30.34 25(West .01 Cloudy. Indianapolis, Ind... 30.35 14 West Clear. Cincinnati, 0 30.30 26 Nwest .02 Cloudy. Pittsburg, Pa. 30.20 31 West Cloudy. Oswego, N. Y 30.15 28iSwest .01 Cloudy. Toledo, 0 30.24 17 S west Clear. Escanaba, Mich 30.06 15 S west Clear. Marquette, Mich... 30.02 13 Swest Clear. Chicago, 111 30.26 12 Swest Clear. Milwaukee. Wis.... 30.18 8 West Clear. Duluth, Minn 29.98 7 Swest Clear. St. Paul, Minn 30.07 5 Calm Clear. LaCrosse. Wis 30.19 11 South Clear. Davenport, la 30.28 4 Swest Clear. Des Moines, la 30.19 16 Swest Clear. Keokuk. Ia 30.32 12,West Clear. Cairo, 111 30.38 25 Nwest Clear. Springfield. 11l 30.33 17 Nwest Clear. St. Louis. Mo 30.34 24 Swest Clear. Lamar, Mo 30.34 24 Swest Clear. Leavenworth, Kan.. 30.25 22 South Clear. Omaha, Neb 30.12 24 South Clear. Yankton. Dak 29.92 19 South Clear. Moorehead. Minn... 29.79 9 Calm Clear. Bismarck, Dak 29.67 20 South Clear. Fort Buford, Dak... 29.50 41 West Cloudy. Ft.Assiniboine,M.T Fort Ouster, Mont.. 29.76 46 Nwest Cloudy. Deadwood, Dak 29.79 43 Swest Clour.y. North Platte, Neb.. 29.98 30 West Clear. Denver, Col 29.98 40 S’east Clear. W. Las Animas, Col 30.11 27 Calm Clear. Dodge City, Kan... 30.16 35 South Clear. Fort Elliott. Tex... 30.18 33 West Clear. Fort Sill, Ind. Ter.. 30.35 83 (West ..... Clear. Fort Davis, Tex.... 30.34 42'Swest Clear. El Paso, Tex 30.33 40,N’east Clear. Salt Lake City,U. T. 29.99 58,S'east ..... Clear. Losses by Fire. Armada, Mich., Dec. 19.—The fruit evaporator of John Stumph burned last night. Miss Elizabeth Stumph, aged twenty-two, a sister of the proprietor, was asleep in the building at the time. When Stumph arrived on the scene he raised a ladder and heroically tried to rescue her, bnt was beaten back by the flames, which burst through the window, throwing him to the ground. He was picked up insensible with a fractured hip and a terrible out on his head. Notwithstanding the efforts of the workmen the building was completely consumed. This morning the body of Miss Stumph was taken from the ruins, burned beyond recognition. Loss, $20,000; uninsured. New Orleans, Dec. 19.—A fire broke out at midnisrht iu Hopkins’s printing works, on the third floor of No. 20 St. Charles street The fire is confined to that building and is now apparently under control. The loss is estimated at SIO,OOO. The Victims of the Steamer White Disaster. New Orleans, Dec. 18.—A special to the Times-Democrat from Bayou Sara says: The wrecking boat George F. Root, and Captains Burriss and Buck, experienced divers, have eone to the wreck of the J. M. White. Every effort is being made to recover the bodies of Capt. Wash Floyd, Miss Agnes McCaleb and the Stafford family. The crew of the steamer Beverly Harris to-day recovered the bodies of Captain Stafford and wife, of Vandalia; Albert Brown, colored; Wm. Bailey, Chas. Morgan, colored; Gleason Allen, a colored preacher and an unknown colored man. The badly burned body of an unknown white man was also found. When the Masons of this place heard of the recovery of the body of Capt Stafford they made arrangements for the care of it and will ship it to his relatives at Memphis. Steamship News. London, Dec. 19.—The City of Richmond, from New Liverpool, passed Browhead at 11am. to-day. The Servia, from New York Dec. 11, for Liverpool, arrived at Queenstown at noon to-day. The Manitobian, from Boston Dec. 5, for Glasgow, passed Kildonan on Dec. ia New York, Dec. 19.—Arrived: State of Nebraska, from Glasgow; Werra, from Bremen. Halifax, N. S., Dec. 19.—Arrived: Peruvian, £root Liverpool. ♦ Thy 00m bination, proportion, and process in preparing Hood’s Sarsaparilla are peculiar to this medicine, and unknown to others.

THE INDIAKAPOLIS JOTnUSTAI,, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1886,

A STARTLING EXPOSURE. Alleged Inside Work of the Knights of Labor —Signals, Grips, Signs and Passwords. New York Special. The Amsterdam Democrat publishes what it alleges is an exposure of the inside work of the Knights of Labor. It asserts that the instructions to the local assemblies contain these instructions, signed by Mr. Frederick Turner, the general secretary of the order: We give herewith the official and correct secret work for locals. If there is any sign or part of a sign, grip or part of a eric, words or symbols in use in your local different from what you find laid down here, discard the same at once, no mAtter where or from whom received. The work is here given for the sake of convenience in the order in which it occurs in the instructions of the Venerable Sage: Entering signal, inner veil—Three raps given in this peculiar manner: One, a short pause, two in quick succession. Sign of Obliteration—Place the palm of the right hand on the left, both hands in front of the body at the height of the elbow, elbows close to the body, rieht band uppermost, then separate the hands right ard left as if wiping off the left hand, with the right elbow still touching the sides, rieht palm down, left palm up, then drop both hands naturally at the sides. Do not bring the hands together with a slap or noise; do not hold the hands higher than the elbows in separating them; do not throw them out sideways beyond a body line with the body. Grip—Extend the hand with the thumb parallel with th* forefinger and close to it: clasp the hands with the fingers, without locking the thumbs, with a side pressure of the thumbs on the outside, thumbs still extended parallel with each other; then end by locking the thumbs and an ordinary shake of the hand. Sign of Recognition—The sign is made with the left hand; the thumb and first two fingers of the left hand take hold at the end of the right sleeve of the cuff at the right band; thumb on the outside of the two fingers inserted on the inside, make a motion as if to turn up the cuts; the

language of the sign is: “I am a worker.” The answer is made in this manner: Draw the right hand open across the forehead from right to left, back of the hand to the front. The language of the sign is: ‘T, too, earn my bread by the sweat of my brow.” Verbal challenge—The following words are used where a member might be seeking for work or information: “I have come.” A member replying to the challenge, “Worx vour way.” Any words can be used after the word “come" and ‘■way,’’ so as not to attract attention, such as “I have come to look for work.” Cry of distress, (to be used in the dark or when the sign of recognition cannot be used) — The words are “I am a stranger,” giving emphasis to the word “stranger.” Any member of the order hearing this will answer: “A stranger should be assisted.” Caution: As the value of the cry of distress foi- practical use depends entirely on the accuracy of wording, great care should he exercised in instructing candidates. The words given above are of the official work, although members are allowed to supplement the words given with others, so as not to attract undue attention from those not members, as, for instance, “1 am a stranger, and need assistance.” Answer: “A stranger should be assisted, and I, for one, am willing to help you.” Any similar addition to the words can be used. Sign of caution—Close the last two fingers of the right hand, leaving the first two fingers extended. Place the two extended fingers on the left side of the forehead, back of the hand to the front; then draw the fingers across the forehead towards the right and down over the right side of the face; then across the mouth toward the left, the thumb under the chin in a careless manner. The test—The master workman and worthy foreman are the only officers of a local assembly allowed to be instructed in the test, as the worthy foreman has to act in the absence of the master workman and must be competent to ex amine a visiting member or give the proper instruction to a member who has received a traveling card. It must never be given to candidates as part of the instructions, nor to any member until a traveling card has been granted except as hereafter provided. The master workman of a local assembly is authorized to instruct in the test and communicate the annual traveling password to a visiting member of the* order upon the presentation of a traveling card and a written request over the signatures of the master workman, recording secretary and financial secretary of the assembly to which the visitors belong. The master workman may also instruct in the test and communicate the annual traveling pass to any member of the local who may have been elected representative of the general assembly. The General Assembly at Philadelphia decided to return to the old form of initiation. An unknown Kuight administers the pledge, after which he proceeds with the candidate to the master workman for instructions, and then to the worthy foreman for his addresses, and finally to the venerable sage. The password issued by the district master workman fs changed semiannually. These instructions by the general master workman as to the proposed manner of opening a local assembly are hereby officially promulgated: When the master workman has taken his stand at the capital and says: “All persons not entitled to sit,” etc., the worthy inspector takes the globe and lance and proceeds to make an examination of the outside and inside veils with them. Previous to these proceedings all persons are at liberty to enter the room, but the veils are then closed, and none can enter without giving the password. When the worthy inspector goes to the outer veil to put up the globe in its place the outside esquire also takes his place in the ante-room, and when the worthy inspector enters the inside veil, the inside esquire takes his place. A member of the order is not required to give the password at the veils until the proper symbol is in its place. If these are not in place while the worthy inspector is taking up the password a shrewd person can slip in without giving the password, and at the same time elude the vigilance of the worthy inspector.” The Democrat says it obtained its expose from Philadelphia. The matter has created much comment hereabouts. The ritual of the Knignts of Labor is in the hands of only one person in each local assembly, and he is generally the master workman. The organizers usually carry a copy with them. If a person is caught giving away the secrets of the order he is expelled. Altogether about one thousand persons have been expelled for giving out the secrets of the order, but no one ever before published them in a newspaper. Many of the expelled members undertook to initiate men into the noble order of the Kniehts of Labor in bar-rooms and were reported. The Knights of a year or so have been fighting W. J. Kline, owner of the Democrat, in which their ritual has just been published. The Knights in the city say that this publication is to be greatly regretted, but that it will not involve their fixing up anew ritual right away.

Grands Denies that He Confessed. Chicago. Dec. 18.—A special to the Inter Ocean from Sioux City, la,, says: The confession attributed by the published reports to Granda and his wife, who were captured at Kansas City, for the murder of Rev. G. C. Haddock, issweepingly denied hy them. They reached here in charge of the sheriff to day at noon. At the jail Granda sullenly asserted that the whole report was a falsehood and that he never made any confession to the officers at Kansas City. With a good deal of nrofanity he declared that he could have made no confession, because he had nothing to confess. lie asserted that he knew absolutely nothing about the murder and had nothing to do with it. “I was down town drinking, that afternoon,” he said, “but went home early in the evening, before 9 o’clock.” One theory in regard to the denial is that the Grandas are angry because the confession failed to secure them immunity. One Hundred and Thirty-Six Years Old. St. Louis, Dec. 19. —A letter from Sassakawa, Seminole Nation, Ind. TANARUS., gives an account of the death there, on the sth inst., of Mrs. Susanna Warren, perhaps the oldest person in the United States, if not the world. She was born in the old town of St. Augustine, Fla., in 1750, fifteen years before the Americans conceived the idea of national independence. She was born a slave, and was the property of Spanish masters until 1818, when she, with other Spanish slaves, fled from the town of Pensacola, when it was taken by General Jackson. She lived in the Seminole country from then until the second treaty of peace with the Seminoles, when she was regarded as their common property, and was removed with them to the Indian Territory. She leaves one daughter living, who resides ia Aus-

tin, Tex., and is in her ninety-seventh year. She leaves many grandchildren here, some of them nearly seventy years of age. LABOR MATTERS. A Report Which Will Oppose Government Ffc.tronage of Convict Labor. Special to tlio Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 19.—Representative Bragg, chairman of the committee on military affairs, has submitted a report to the House criticising severely the employment of prison labor in the manufacture of boots and shoes in the military prison at Leavenworth. The report says: “The committee find that for the last fiscal year there was drawn from the clothing fund by the management of the military prison at Leavenworth $160,815, and that the boots and shoes of the army have been and are being manufactured at such prison by military convicts. The committee are satisfied that the boots and shoes manufactured at the prison cost more than if they were made and furnished upon contract by manufacturers. There is, of necessity, that lack of skill and aptitude in a convict which are found in the professional workman. The committee cannot forbear from expressing their conviction that the United States government should not build up a manufactory to be run by convict iabor iu competition with the honest artisan who supports his family by the product of his labor. It is also the belief of the committee that a sentence to the Leavenworth prison for desertion, followed by an education as a shoemaker, a harness-maker, a chairmaker, or a broom-maker, good quarters, good living, a suit of clothes at the expiration of the term of sentence, transportation to his home and $5 to refresh himself with, has no such terror in it as to tend to suppress the crime. In a humanitarian point of view much can be said in favor of it; but as an aid to military discipline the committee think it too weak. The committee, as a step in the procriess of reformation, have put a limit of $125,000 upon the amount that can be expended out of the clothing fund at the military prison for the current year, and express a hope that in the near future the business of shoeraaking as a penalty for desertion will be abandoned. Reorganization ot Glass-Blowers. Philadelphia, Dec. 19.—The Eastern Division of Green-glass blowers was reorganized in Camden, N. J., last night Thirty-five delegates were present, representing over six hundred workmen. The following officers were unanimously elected: President, F. S. Tomlin, Brooklyn, N. Y.; vice-president, Samuel Berry, of Millville, N. J.; secretary, William Lancer, of Glassboro, N. J.; treasurer, Eli Marsh, of Williamstown, N. J.; chaplain, Stow M. Mullen, of Bridgeton, N. J. An official circular will be issued in a few days to all the assemblies of the Knights throughout the country, and to all the bottlers, druggists, liquor-dealers and glass dealers of the United States. This will contain a statement of the position taken by district assembly No. 149 on the apprentice question, and will request that those to whom the circular is sent refuse to purchase bottles made in those factories of New Jersey where the blowers have disobeyed the rules of the organization. A number of prominent liquor dealers, it is said, have already signified their intention to discontinue the use of glassware blown in New Jersey. A Trouble Tided Over. Chicago, Dec. 19.—There was an unusually large attendance at to day’s meeting of the Chicago Trades’Assembly, on account of a seemingly inevitable collision between the Knights of Labor and the trades-unions elements, owing to the failure of the two national organizations to reach an understanding at Columbus, O. The expected fight did not materalize. Leaders on both sides showed a decidedly conciliatory feeling, and, with little or no discussion, action on the report of Edward Mulraney, delegate to the Columbus congress, was postponed until the next meeting.

A Labor Ticket lor Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Dec. 19.—Workmen’s Hall was filled to overflowing this afternoon, the occasion being a* mass meeting to decide whether there should be a labor ticket in the field in the municipal election next April. The matter was thoroughly discussed, aud finally resolutions were adopted declaring it expedient to nominate a separate ticket for local officers. Four committees of five men each were appointed from the United Labor party, the Central Labor Union, the Henry George Club and the meeting. These committees will meet and arrange the preliminaries for a labor convention. Opposition to a Street-Car Strike. Special to the Indianatxtlis Journal. Chicago, 111., Dec. 19.—The West Division street-car conductors and drivers held a meeting, last night, which lasted into the small hours. The grievance committee reported that there was little basis for the complaints of the men, and that such things as the men complained of would be remedied in the course of a few days. The report was deferred for final action. The sentiment was overwhelmingly against anything bordering on a strike. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. New York’s $15,000,000 capitol is about ready to tumble down. The supposed discovery of silver mines in Searcy county, Arkansas, has created great excitement. Searcy county, Arkansas, is all aglow with silver excitement, some mines having just been discovered. The new Catholic church of St. Wenceslaus was dedicated yesterday, at Baltimore, by Cardinal Gibbon. Henry C. Kingsley, for twenty-five years treasurer of Yale University, died yesterday, aged seventy-one years. The Cherokee Council has extended the time for allowing cattle to be driven in their country to May 1. This extends the time one month. The Walt Whitman starvation story, circulated so widely in Scotland, has resulted in the collection of £6O in Glasgow, which will be sent so as to reach Whitman Jan. 1. . The Cherokeas have sent a delegation to Washington to look after their interests. Among other things they will ask the right to tax railroads passing through their territory. Thieves entered the house of a miner named Gribbell, at Champion, Mich., Saturday afternoon, severely wounded Mrs. Gribbell, whom they bound, and got away with $2,500. At Greenfield, 0., on Saturday night, George Hackett, a barber, shot and severely wounded Hattie Graves because she refused to marry him, and then fatally shot himself. The parties are colored. Rev. William M. Barbour, D. D., has tendered his resignation as pastor of Yale University, to take effect in June next, when the ten years to which he limited himself on accepting the position will expire. The striking stitching girls at Sells, Schwab & Co.’s shoe factory, Chicago, will return to work to day, their grievances having been settled Saturday evening. The firm concedes the wages as paid in other factories there. A counterfeit S2O silver note is said to be in circulation. It is of the series of 1880, letter “C,” is thick and creasy, and one-eighth of an inch shorter than the genuine. In the left r ice. in the word "certificate,” the letters "r,” 5 t” and “£" are ingraved upside down. The St. Louis Election Fraud Cases. St. Louis, Dec. 18.—The arrest of persons indicted yesterday for committing election frauds at the >ate election, continued last night, and at, 10 o’clock eighteen of them had been brought to the United States marshal’s office. Fourteen of these were released on bonds ranging from SSOO to $3,000. Four were unable to furnish bond and were confined for the night in the marshal’s office. The arrest of others will follow as soon as the warrants can be served, and they will all be brought into court to answer to the charges brought Against them. What effect this action of the grand jury will have upon the various election contests, among others that of Mr. Frank for Mr. Glover’s seat in the House of

Representatives, is not known, but the evidence, which will he submitted when the indicted persons are tried, will, if it proves important, be brought before the House. When the United States Circuit Conrfc opened, thie morning, a crowd of persona indicted for the commission of various frauds at the State election were present with their attorneys. Al of the judges of election so far arrested who are charged with receiving illegal voter, pleaded not guilty and were released on bond. The United States deputies are still searching the city for the purpose of serving those warrants which were not served last night, and up to noon about twenty-five additional arrests have been made, among them that of Clerk-elect Kenefick, of the Criminal Court RAILWAY POST AI, CLERKS. Pennsylvanians More Fortunate Than Those in Indiana and Ohio. Pittsburg Chronicle. “The railway postal clerks are more fortunate in Pennsylvania than those in a number of the other States/' said one of the railway clerks this morning. “Why? Well, there have been but comparatively few of our number removed from the service by the Democratic administration. In Indiana and Ohio men have been dismissed from the service so systematically that the force in those States i9 at present composed largely of new men. The present administration may disguise the reasons for these dismissals under whatever excuses they choose, but it is very evident that they are made for political effect. There is that uncertainty about the politics in Indiana and Ohio that makes it specially necessary for as large a number of Democrats to hold government positions as possible. In Pennsylvania, however, it is different. The State is so largely Republican that there is no effort being made to increase the Democratic vote. A postal cierk considers himself lucky when he has a Pennsylvania run. There is no work in the government service where a constant changing of the employes causes more annoyance and inconvenience. The public especially has to suffer by these charges, as the mail matter cannot be as expeditiously handled by new men. People generally bave but little idea of how long it takes a man to become expert as a mail clerk. Anew man is put on a run and for several months he does little else than watch the other men. The old clerks consequently have just that much more work to do in a certain limited time. Even if a man is apt at learning he must study several hours each day when off duty for several years before he can become familiar with the different routes and thousands of postoffices." If any special legislation is needed that would particularly benefit the public, it is the passage of a law for retaining the postal clerks iu office during good behavior.”

The Democratic Steal of an Office. Saturday Peopie (Pem.) It does seem that the Democracy is placed in a bad light in sustaining Senator Smith in his contest. In the first place, Attorney-general Hord decided that an election for Lieutenantgovernor was essential—that a vacancy had occurred in the office. This decision was accepted by both parties. So far as the People knows there was no objection raised thereto and both parties selected candidates —indeed we do not know but that candidates were nominated by other than the two dominant parties. It is said that Senator Smith was a delegate in the convention that nominated the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant-governor, and instead of making any objections to a nomination, promised his support to the nominee. If he thought that he was de facto Lieutenant-governor, and the mantle of the venerable Manson had fallen upon his shoulders, there and then was the time to have proclaimed it. But we hear of never a word that he uttered. The candidates went before the people, and we must say that contrary to the sanguine expectations of the Democracy and Eb Henderson, Mr. Robertson was elected Lieutenant-governor by a considerable majority. A Better Time Coming. Philadelphia Press. Maybe Minister Foster, of Canada, is right in his assertion that “being an American is no protection,” but he should bear in mind that this administration will be in power only a little more than two years longer. Things will be different after we have returned to an American administration Improved Style of Hair-Dressing. Detroit Tribune. Jeff Davis is said to be delighted at the cordial reception given his daughter at the North and is half persuaded'to come North himself. Should he come he would be surprised to find that the “Yanks” have a way of combing their hair now so as to completely cover their horns. . The Better Monument. Philndelphia Record. The friends of General Hancock have bought a house iu Washington for his widow to live in. This is better than putting up a stone heap on his grave. If the dead soldier could speak he would be swift to say so. Advance in Window-Glass Rates. Pittsburg, Dec. 19.—The card rate on win-dow-glass has been advanced 10 per cent., to take effect at once. This is an increase of 30 per cent, over last year’s prices. The advance is as agreeable to the workmeu as it is to the manufacturers, as their wages are on a sliding scale. His Usual Position. Cincinnati Sun. Mr. Morrison is once more horizontal. It seems to be his natural position. For throat and lung difficulties, Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, when seasonably taken, is a certain specific. Absolutely Pure. Thfsnowder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength andwholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, anti cannot he sold in competition with the mnltitudeof low-test, short-weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 Wall Street. N. Y„ CUREmDEAF PECK’S PATENT IMPROVED CUSHIONED EAR DRUMS fertkctly RESTORE the hearino and perform the work of the natural drum. Invisible, comfortable and always in position. AH conversation and even whj.pers heard distinctly. Send for illustrated book with testimonials, FREE. Address or call on F. HISCOX, 853 Broadway, New York. Mention this paper. CONSUMPTION. I have a positive remedyfor the above disease; by Its use thousands of cases of the worst kind and of long standing have boen cored. Indeed, so strong is my faith in its efficacy that I will send TWO BOTTLES FREE, together with a VALUABLE TRE ATISE on this disease, to an y sufferer. Give express * P. 0. address. DR. T. A. SLOCUM, ISI Pear ISA M. Y BOYS’ CLASSICAL SCHOOL Eleventh year. Prepares for Harvard. Yale and all other Colleges and Scientific Schools. Send for catalogue. Special instructors in Gymnastics, Voice Culture and Drawing. Primary department. Careful attention to individual pupils. T. L. SEWALL, ladianapolis, lad. Separate school for girls*

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