Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1887 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOJTRNAI, TUESDAY, MAHUD. 8, 1887.

from Charles Needier, in Florida. They will be with the family as soon as possible. Bntletins are posted up in the St. George ITotel, on Clark street, hourly, and a larjie number of people congregate in the lobby to read them. Expressions of regret are heard on every side. Id the crowd in front of the house workingmen In blouses stop and talk with the merchant and the professional man aa they anxiously scan the bulletins. Tulilnjr Tetter from Mrs. Beeclier. Brooklyn, March 7. A meeting of the pariihionersot Plymouth Church was held in the lectur6-rorm, commencinsr at 8 p. M. The room was crowded v.ith male nnd female members of the congregation and not a few friends from other churrhes, and tnere was scarcely a dry eye to be seen from teeinning to end of the proceeding. Hev. Dr. Holiday opened the meeting with a tnnvinsr prayer, in which he desired that their beloved pastor mijrht not even be allowed to seern to suiler, but that he might speedily attain tintn the rest prepared for hira. After the sineine of a hymn Mr. Jacobsen offered prayer and the chairman then read the Ei.rtion of Scripture commencing, "Finally, eloved, b strong in the Lord and in the power of His might, which is able to keep you from fallinr." etc. If ceemed almost as if these words were a message to him who was leaving them, because it seemed as though he were born a warrior. In all tho past years he had had to fight and tostrugile; therehad always been something for him tnbattle with. And he had fought the fight: therehad never been any flinching, never any turning hack. He had been equipped of God to do a real and noble work, and now the time had come when be had to lay down the shield, and the helmet, and the sword, and there was to be no more battle. He was just enterine on a tide that would bear him to his home. They had none of them any doubt as to where he was being borne. It was said that all men are equal before God, but he thought that for snch a royal heart there would surely be a royal welcome. It was all well with him; then we would not call him back, for he was on his journey home. Other heartfnl remarks were made, and the following letter from Mrs. Beecher was read: To the lieloved Members of Plymouth Chnrch 1 ah not speak my thanks to each one of you for the ymjiathy, and the love, and the devotion manifested In these last, dark, sad days for your pastor. He can no loneer speak to you for himself. Then permit me ,todo it for hira, for iuyself, for my family. Each work of love from tho people so dear to your pastor's heart baa been a comfort and balm to a heart wrung almost to bursting. How he loved his church you will only learn in its fullness when you stand with him in Heaven. To each and every one of you my earnest thanks and most earnest blessing. Pray for his wife and chi'dren, soon to lose the truest companion, the tenderest father; and, if we must relinquish all possible hopes of his full recovery, oh beloved, pray that his departure may be speedy, that we may not be long agonized by this strugglfcttween life and death. Pray, if he must leave us, that before another day dawns he may receive his crown and be forever with hULiord. KrNlCKJT. Beecher. i A Tribute from Indianapolis Ministers. The ministers of this city, at their regular monthly meeting, held at the South-street Baptist Chnrch, yesterday morning, mads . feeling

allusions to the illness of Mr. Beecher, and, on motion of Rev. Dr. Jeffery, ordered that the following memorial should be spread upon the journal of the association: Resolved, That we express our profound sympathy with the sad event, thankful at the tamo time that his life has been spared to a ripe old apce, and that he has been enabled to continue in active service to the very moment when the fatal blow came upon him; that we recognize in him the peerless pulpit orator of the country a man of transcendent genius, and of commanding and beneficent influence upon the . .,,, . .... in vrnir.n nft tiu rumrpn n c.nn am nn mi siv tnat. wa regard him as a man who blended into the courage of bis convictions the fullness of a genial spirit and the wealth of a boundless charity; that the American people owe hira a lasting debt of admiring gratitude for the fearlessness and the magic of the eloquence with which he pleaded the cause of the country during the civil war, and with which he conquered the prejudice of European sentiment and converted it into sympathy with our struggle for national unity; that his name should be held in everlasting remembrance as the friend of the slave in the days when to espouse his cause was to invite obloquy and soorn; that he has lived a noble and grand life, and will continue to live in the hearts of the nation and the world aa one of the brightest gems in the constellation of the great men of our Nation, and whose service to mankind shall make his name illustrious while civili ratiou shall endure. That it is especially fitting that this association should pay him this tribute, because during eieht years of his early ministry he was a pastor in this city, and here laid the foundation of that fame which has made his name immortal. That we tender to his family and church our heartfelt sympathies, and join with the great and good of five continents in paying our tribute of love and admiration for a man who has so grandly impressed his age with the lessons of independence in thought, frankness of utterance, magio of eloquence and undying charity for all mankind. HE WAS NOT ORTHODOX, And Hence the Chicago Congregatlonalists Decline to Send Resolutions of Condolence. Chicago. March 7. An extraordinary scene took place at the weekly meeting of the Congregational ministers this morning. A topic which came up was the sickness from which Henry Ward Beecher is believed to be dying, and the statement of some of the pastors present took the shape of resolutions of condolence, which it was proposed to send Mrs. Beecher by telegraph. This was opposed by a number of the ministers, their opposition being based on the alleged heterodoxy of Mr. Beecher's Tiews regarding future salvation and punishment An acrimonious debate ensued, and finally the motion to adopt the resolutions was lost. Great excitement prevailed, and the utmost efforts were made to keep the affair from the newspapers. The resolutions were offered by Rev. E. F. Williams, of South Church. The principal ground for opposition was Mr. Beecher's views on the future state, and Dr. E. P. Goodwin, among others, contended that if the meeting, as a body, sent resolutions of condolence to the dying preacher their action might be construed into an expression of opinion favorable to his theological sentiments' This was not the only attack made, however. One minister arose and stated that he would not extend sympathy to a man who was charged with immorality and had never cleared himself of the charge. The. friends of Mr. Beecher hotly attacked the speaker, who had alluded to the scandal. The resolution, when put to an informal vote, received a majority, but was withdrawn by the , proposer, who asserted that it would be in bad taste to send resolutions that were not unanimous. The Rev. E. P. Goodwin, who opposed the resolution?, refused to make public his reasons. further than that he did not coincide with Mr. Beecher on matters of theology. "It won't do to make this matter public," Mr. Goodwin said. "I wish the resolutions had never been offered, or that I had not been there; but once they were proposed, and I was present, it was my duty to speak up against them. Mr. Beecher and the majority of Congregational ministers did not agree on certain questions, and those of us who, opposed the resolutions felt that if passed they would place us before the public in the light of sympathizers with Beecher's views. If necessary, I will make public at a future time all my reasons for opposing the message, but I cannot tell now. I know too much, and many facts have come into my family. Mr. Beecher's brother is a member of my church." Professor Wilcox favored the resolutions, and said: "I was deeply chagrined and mortified by the talk of a certain minister. Mr. Beecher is a member of tha Congregational body in good standing, and there was no reason for withhold- . icg sympathy with his wife in her bereavement." M1U BEECHER IN INDIANAPOLIS. Recollections of Ills Pastorate Here by Members of His Old Congregation. Yesterday afternoon a Journal reporter conversed with a number of old residents of the city who had known Mr. Beecher while here as the first pastor of tho Second Presbyterian Church. "My first recollection of Mr. Beecher," said Mr. John S. Spann, "was when I was a journeyman printer. A man named King came to me, and, with much enthusiasm, declared he had heard the greatest preacher he had ever listened to in his life a young fellow who was preaching, at the Marion County Seminary. I

went there and heard him for the first time in the spring of 1819, I suppose it was. I was, as everybody else, perfectly carried away with him. I soou formed his acquaintance, and, after he got to the new ehurch on the Circle, became a member in the great revival of 1842. I was a printer when he delivered those lectures to young men, and In the course of printing them (I was at work in the shop where they were published) I was much in contact with him. They were published by the old jobbing house of E. Chamberlain, who was afterwards a bookseller here. The Indiana Farmer was printed in the office where I worked, published by a Quaker named Willis. Mr. Beecher was really the life and soul of it wrote all the articles in it that were good for anything. I frequently assisted him in reading proofs. He had no practical experience as an agriculturist except that he was thoroughly alive to every new thing. Ho took great pride in raising flowers, and his garden was full of plants that had never been seen here before. During Beecher's revival meetings, I thiuk as much to test my sincerity and, earnestness as anything else, he invited me to come to his house at 5 o'clock in the morning and breakfast with him. It was a winter morning and before daylight Mrs. Beecher and the children were up, everything in perfect order, and breakfast ready. He called his wife and children together for family worship, and spoke and prayed in simple words. It seemed to me the most beautiful and touching thing I ever saw in my life. Mr. Beecher, I thought, was even then broad in his ideas and the most industrious man I ever knew. For a time he lived in one side of a little one-story house in the alley half a square north of Washington street between East and New Jersey streets, in the rear of where the Jewish Synagogue now stands. I think there were three rooms. At another time he occupied a house that stood near the southeast corner of Pennsylvania and New York streets. I mention this place to speak of his great will power. He has told me that during a malarial season he preached when he could hardly stand up, and making his way home would, on entering his door, fall from exhaustion. "Tilghman A. Howard was a deeply religious man. When in the city he was in the habit of coming to hear Mr. Beecher and of attending his prayer-meetings. I think Mr. Howard, for pure intellect and magnanimous greatness, was the most remarkable man I ever spoke with. He took great delight in all Mr. Beecher's services, and seldom missed one when in the city. "Mr. Beecher went double-loaded. Hugh O'NcJ, Charles Cady and John B. Dillon were among the men he fixed his heart upon having. Sometimes he would go to church with a sermon specially prepared for one of these or some other person he desired. If the person was not present he would preach a very different sermon. At other times, when the person would be there, when he bad prepared a general sermon, he would lay that aside and preach the other. I remember his baptizing Cary H. Boatright in White river, near the old wooden bridge. Boatright had been a very hard character here. He also baptized Thomas A. Morris, afterwards General Morris. Morris was then one of the finest men physically yon can imagine, and a splendid young fellow. The bridge was lined with spectators, and it was a scene long to be remembered. Robert Browning told me that Beecher painted his own house, and described him as coming to the drug store with an old horse and a shambling wagon after the material. As the paints were being irot out for him, Mr.

Beecher suddenly remarked that he had forgotten something, . and. jumping into the wagon, drove off, east on Washington street, making a great clatter. He soon after returned and got his supplies, explaining that he had forgotten an engagement ho had to marry a couple that morning. He found them waiting, tied the knot and returned for his paint" "1 came here," said Mr. William N. Jackson, "in 1834. The new church, I think, was formed in 1838, and my impression is that Mr. Beecher took charge in 1839. It was greatly a church for young people. He gathered good people together, but he got some as rough as could be, among them Cary Boatright, whom he afterwards baptized. Mr. Beecher went about the State a good deal, preaching, not lectunne. at Madison, Logansport, Lafayette, Terre Haute and Fort Wayne. He lived very happily here the happiest years of bis married life, probably. he spent in Indianapolis, lie attracted young men, who liked his openness and candor, his charming directness of manner. If he had anything to eav he said It, even if it hurt a little. He had no animosities. He showed me letters from Brooklyn, offering him the pastorate there. It was after his book, 'Lectures to Young Men,' was published that the trustees of the Brooklyn church wrote to him, sayine they wanted the author of those lectures. Mr. Beecher always said it was not the salary that took him away. He said he could lire anywhere, but he wanted to be where the field of usefulness would be larger." Said Mr. George W. Sloan: "I was a boy when Mr. Beecher preached here, but I happened to be with my father on the first train that left Indianapolis for Madison on the then first road entering the city. It was on a Saturday morning in October. 1847, and Mr. Beecher was on the train, on his way to Madison, there to take a steamer for Cincinnati, whence he would go on to Brooklyn to preach his trial 6ermon. My father aud myself also went upon the steamboat from Madison to Cincinnati Mr. Beecher had an appointment to preach in Cincinnati on Sunday morning. There was a fog upon the river, and the boat did not get to Cincinnati until after 12 o'clock. I remember Mr. Beecher nervously walking op and down the deck of the boat, much annoyed at the delay and the consequent disappointment When Mr. Beecher came to break nn housekeeping here, he divided his flowers and plants among half a dozen or more persons. I remember going to his garden, where he dug up plants for me to carry home to my mother. Beecher was the first person to bring rare plants and flowers to this city and give a taste for floriculture. "The first I knew of Mr. Beecher," said Mr. Simon Yandes, whom the reporter found at his office, "was in July, 1839, when I came back from law school. The Second Church had organized, bad called Mr. Beecher for their pastor, and he was here. They told me ho was one of the most promising of the sons of the celebrated Dr. Lyman Beecher, and when I came to see him I was favorably impressed. Judge B. F. Morris and my father were the senior ruling elders. The Second Church was a small fragment struck off from the first Church, lnaianapolis was then a village, not exceediug 2,500 in population. It was malarious, with muddy sidewalks, streets and roads. Mr. Beecher was then twenty-six years old, in the best of health and spirits, and was at once recognized as eloquent, witty, social, popular aud unfioancial. After meeting for a year in the upper room of the Old Seminary fthe site of the building is now maricea Dy a stone on University Square), the frame church building yet standing on Circle street was built (in 1840), and could seat about five hundred people. In those primitive times there was very little social style. Mr. Beecher and his Friends would meet and talk, not only at parties, but in stores, in offices and on the streets. Wherever they met all persons felt the leisure that is commonly felt in villages. He was a great deal in the company of the young members of his church and congregation, and among his admirers and chnreh attendants were Hugh O'Neil, Incian Harbour. Robert B. Duncan, John 13- Dillon, Uijah Chamberlain, David S. Beaty and many others who never became members of hi3 church. Besides these were Gen. T. A. Morris, William S. Hubbard, William N. Jackson, John & Spann, Lawrence M. Vance, myself aud others who did become members. Sis chnrch.

was well attended, but the building was seldom crowded. His style ot speaking was at that day

hardly as popular with the masses as the louder and more demonstrative style of some other Western clergymen. At that time he did not venture off from the doc trines of the standard of his church. and, conseauently. did not have the same elements of variety nnd interest tthich he afterwards had when he did not feel so restricted. At that time he was a very good Calvinist, and in November, 1840, I took notes of one of his sermons in which he said, among other things, speaking of the doctrine of election, that 'there are three steps in thi3 doctrine first, that all havo sinned and are worthy of condemnation; second, that therefore an atonement was provided for all, but that all have rejected it, and therefore are doubly worthy of condemnation; and, third, that men having so cut themselves off, no harm is done to any by the grace of God by His holy spirit saving some.' He illustrated by supposing men in a prison who are condemned and set their prison on fire. The keeper sets the door wide onen for them to escape. They ref nse to do so. He goes in. can only save ten and another ten perish. He said, 'God saves all He can.' He further remarked that at some future time he would show that this did not represent any odious partiality in God, and also said the doctrine of decrees could not destroy free will, for it was a decree which was free will. That is old-fashioned Presbyterianism and that was the way he preached then. I have it down, you see, taken at the time. 4 'Mr. Beecher's blood was Welsh; in other words, Celtic. He had the Celtic address, the wit, the brilliancy, the fervid genius, sentiment and oratory and to carry the Celtic suggestion further, he stuck to his friends, right or wrong. He was anti-Teutonic and was distinguished for the great number and felicity of his illustrations. Without clerical manners, and perhaps a little deficient in reverence, he had the most remarkable readiness and humor on all occasions, and was perhaps as much distinguished for conversational talent and ability as in the pulpit He was a good judge of human nature and had an excellent memory of persons. He was not a proud man, but a man of some vanity. I think he resembled Henry Clay in beine able to speak without any great amount of labor, and I think that what he wrote was also done with speed, and it remains to be seen whether in the future he is to be very much read. "A good deal has been said about the circumstances under which he went East Before going he consulted his members quite generally, and when he spoke to me 1 told him I thought he could do better in a city than here; that he had the ability; that he had already published a book his 'Letters to Young Men,' which had been well received that in the future he would probably be a writer, and it was not to be expected that a man out here in the West, especially issuing books here, could command the attention of the country like the same man living in a great city in the East There was an irapresbion in the mind of Mr. Clarkson, one of his friends, that Mr. Beecher left Indianapolis because he was to receive a larger salary in the East, and Mr. Clarkson published au article of that kind in his paper, the Brookville American. But this hurt the feelines of Mr. Beecher. He wrote to Mr. Clarkson Sapt 6. 1847, before leavlne Indianapolis. And here," turning to a scrapbook, "are a few extracts from that letter published thirty years after, June 16, 1877. in the Indianapolis Journal: "I am sure I do not leave the West for mercenary "reasons, since I am in fact better off now pecuniarily than I shall be in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn my salary for the first year is only $1,500. Taa whole reason of nay leaving is found in the low and declining state of my wife's health. 1 hope that a few years by the seaside will enable us to return again to the West. I do not believe that in the wholo East there is a place of greater importance or usefulness than that I now occupy, and every day adds to the importance of this field. "Mr. Beecher will be remembered by the people of Indianapolis with great kindness, for his demonstrations of kindness to them have always been very marked. In 1837 he visited here and published an article in his paper headed, 'Home Revisited,' which he afterwards republished, in 18G2, in his 'Eyes and Ears,' in which he speaks of his old members. He says: The kind citizens, rejoicing in the growth and prosperity of their city, naturally wished that I should see the new things. I turned away. It was the old things that I cared for. There waJfcjo tongue in the new, but the old spoke and told roe, if not all that ever I did, yet a good deal of it' In the same article he refers very kindly to my mother and three of ber children by sayine: 'The first children baptized in the academy that is in tho old seminary were twins. One is crown nearly to manhood on earth, the other in heaven. The mother that was broken-hearted haB gone thither after her children. The eldest daugnter nas mounted tnitoerwara rejoicing, too.' "When Mr. Beecher was last in the city one of our citizens invited me to join him in a call upon him at the Denison Housa. He wa3 very agreeable, in remarkably excellent health nnd spirits, and his faculties I thought to be in full force. Mr. Beecher volunteered a remark about his property, saying that if he should die now ail that he could leave his family would be his farm, a house and library, worth in all $100,000, and admitted that was a very email amount, considering the immense receipts he had had. The gentleman with me said that he had expressed the opinion, in 1847, to some of the members of Mr. Beecher's church that it would be very bad policy for him to leave here. To this I made answer that his coins in a very short time was a matter of course, as Indianapolis was not bier enough to hold him. That if a fonr-poutid bass in a freshet should swfm out of the river into Pogue's run it would not be long before he would go back. This amused Mr. Beecher very much. "I recall an anecdote illustrating, rs I think, Mr. Beecher's love of hnmor and drollery. He was naturr.'.ly cut out for a great actor. Once he was returning from Terre Haute to this city in a stage coach. Mr. Graydon, a prominent member of his congregation, cot into the coach at Greencastle. It wan dark, and after joeging along a little way in silence Mr, Beecher disenised his voice and began making inquiries of Mr. Graydon as to where he lived. When he learned it was at Indianapolis he began to ply his fellow-traveler with all manner of questions; inquired about Beecher's church and congrega tion and finally about lieecher himself. Mr. Graydon was loyal, and eulogized Beecher great ly. The hoax was discovered at the next stopping place," TIIE MAN AND HIS WORK. His Person h1 Appearance and Habits Ills In difference in Money Matters. New York Tribune. In personal appearance, Mr. Beecher was one of the most striking men about New York. He was of medium height, with broad shoulders and a heavy girth: so stont and fleshy, in fact, that he looked short in inches. His head was large, though not bulging or irregular. His forehead was high and his features were strong and full His color was high, his cheeks and neck being always full-veined and ruddy. His hair was gray, turning Ij white in recent years, and hung in loose locks down on his black coat collar. Ris face was always smooth-shaven. His eyes were of a grayish-blue, full of fire and exoression in his moments of feeling, always humorous and inquisitive. He never paid ereat attention to dress, though far from being an un kempt or slovenly man. He wore dark clothes usually, and a black slouch hat haoitnally. Ho never could be brought to put on a silk hat or a 'clawhammer" coat, wearing a Prince Albert coat on formal occasions. Even in the pulpit he substituted a turn-down collar and black necktie for the more conventional clerical "choker' and white tie. He was, in fact, unconventional and indifferent in most of the smaller details of life. Mr. Beecher was for many years a sufferer . i - . . L!. - irom nay-iever, nra spent ms summers tor a long lime in me vniio mountains, ua was a noted figure at the Twin Mountain House, and one of ths mountain pools near by, into which he fell one day, has been known in the guidebooks as "Beecher's Pool." In the last few years the bay-fever seemed to leave him, and he had spent most of his summers since 1880 at his Peekskill country house. From his fullness of habit and temperament apoplexy has long been feared by his physicians. Hut until the stroke came his general health had been exceptionally good. , Mr. Beecher's indifference in dress and other personal matters extended to his money affairs, He was undeniably careless about money, and his generous disposition often got him into tern- J porary financial straits. His salary had been increased from time to time until it was $20,000 at the time of the Beecher-Tiltoa trial That year his congregation rated him $100,000, oat of

which, of course, he paid the expenses of the suit After that he received $20,000 a year, as before. His lecture tours were in the main profitable, aud he got a good deal of money out of his books and newsptner articles. Some years ago he sold his house on C'.umbia Heights and went to live on his farm in the PeeksRill hills. He had a good-sized country house there, and the estate is now of congilerable value. In the last few years his time in Brooklyn was spent at the home of his son, Henry B. Beecher, in Hicks street Mr. Beecher did not change his legal residence in Brooklyn, of course, by his moving to PeekskilL He always voted in Brooklyn.

Ills Influence tJpou Free Thought Mark Twain. I shall not say anything about Mr. Beecher's sermons. They breathe the truest and purest spirit of religion: they are models of pulpit oratory, and they are proofs that the subject which is nearest to the interests of mankind can be put to nobler uses than the chloroforming of congregations. Mr. Beecher has done more than any other man, perhaps, to inspire religion with the progressive spirit of the nineteenth century and make it keep step with the march of intellectual achievement and the general growth of men's charities and impulses. It is such men as Beecher that persuade religious communities to progress to something better than witch-burning when the spirit of the time progresses from ox wagons to stage coaches, and by and by to steamboats, and who persuade such communities to progress beyond the indorsing of slavery with their Bible3 when the spirit of the time progresses to the subordination of the steamboat to the railroad and the discarding of pony expresses for the telegraph. lie has done as much as any man to keep the people from reading their Bibles by the interpretations of the eighteenth century while they are living far along in the nineteenth. His name will live. His deeds will honor his memory. He has set his mark upon his epoch, and years hence, when the people turn over the bales and bundles of this generation's ideas, they will find "II. W. B." stenciled on a good many of them. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Miss Amanda Greeley, sister of Horace Greeley, has been stricken with paralysis at her home, in Warren county, Pennsylvania. She is seventy-three years of age. A difficulty occurred yesterday at Memphis, Tenn., between Isaac Rosenstein and Jesse Harris, which resulted in Rosenstein shooting Harris five times with a pistol. They quarreled over the sale of meat to a negro. Harris died within half an hour after being shot Rosenstein was arrested. The mangled remains of Henry Baldwin were found on tho railroad track, near Washington, O., on Sunday, and the indications point strongly to murder, his throat having the appearance of having been cur. He was known to have considerable money with him on Saturday. His empty pocket-book was found near his body. A scaffold at the new Keystone market-house, in course of erection at Reading, Pa, fell yesterday, and fourteen workmen were precipitated to the ground, a distance of thirty feet Albert Dorbert was internally injurpd and will die. Several others were seriously injured, some of them having broken limbs, and others receiving severe internal injuries. Obituary. Baltimore, Md., March 7. H. Clay Dallam, jndtre of the appeal tax court, died this evening, aged sixty-two years. He served as an officer in the confederate army. Boston, March 7. Rev. William S. Howland died at Auburndale, near this city, to-night, aed forty-one. His wife died forty-two hours previously of pneumonia, and two of the children are now very ill with fever. Mr. and Mrs. Howland were both famous missionaries in India. The Man Who Is Supposed To lie McMnnn. Clrvklaxd, O., March 7. A dispatch received by the chief of police, this afternoon, from New Albany, Ind., states that a man arrested there yesterday answers the description of McMunn, the fur robber, and who is thought to be responsible for the death of Detective Hulligan. Superintendent Schmitt ordered the man held, and forwarded a photograph of MeMunn. ii it is iounu to ie a picture or the prisoner steps will be immediately taken to have him transferred hera Steamship New a. New York, March 7. Arrived: Aurania. Arizona, from Liverpool; Suevia, from Ham burg. The City of Chicago has arrived at quar antine. Southampton, March 7. Arrived: Fulda. from New ork to Bremen. Qurknstown, March 7. Arrived: Indiana. rrora rnwaneipnia. Mr. Iaegy' lleply to Leader" Jewe.tt. To the Editor of tho Indianapolia Journal. Please permit me space in your paper to reply to the charge of "willful perjury." Newspaper notoriety and controversy are very unpleasant, and are unsought by me; but I can not, in justice to myself, ana will not rest or re main quiet under the "question-of-privilege" re marks of Representative Jewett, in the House, as reported in the Journal of this tnornine, 3Iarcr o, ioa, under toe head ot "The Assem bly's Last Davs," wherein he alleges that '. "commuted wuuui perjury," etc 1 did not use the language therein reported; and if Mr. Jewett is correctly reported, then I do say ho knowing lv, purposely and malicionslv misrepresented mv testimony before the House committee on elections, ana ne aid it lor toe evident purpose of breaking the foiceof the testimony against himsett. And 1 again assert and affirm that mv testi mony before tne committee, as reported in trie Journal of Friday, March 4, 1S87 under the head of "'Tempting Robinson," is 6utstaantially correct and trne. And I consider the replv of Representative Roomson, to Mr. Jewett, at the time, as I understood it, to be independent and manly, which in substance was, that he did not was no temptation, want his money, tnat it that he was acting that it would be more so, for the for our man. than to vote for your man. time was, and I have from principle, and as consistent, or Democrats to vote for Mr. Robinson My impression at the no reason for thinking otherwise now, that if Mr. Jewett had labored under less excitement he would not have made use of such language, but that excitement may possibly account for the now apparent shortness of his memory. I deem further comment or explanation unnecessary, as the testimony actually given by me and the earbled "question of privilege" charges of Mr. Jewett in the House, wheu properly compared, carry their own explanations and convictions. William DAaar. Gbebncastlb, March 5. Air. Adams's Mishap. Mr. Bill Nye, who is temporarily sojourning in Asheville, N. CL, has been giving some attention to social happenings in that section of the town known as Hell's Half Acre, and, among other society events, notes the following: Abe Pilson and Emancipation Adams, two members of the Tar-heel Coon Band, got into an altercation last weetc wniie returning trom a colored germ an on the Bottoms at Freedom Beasley's place. From words they soon arrived at razors, and, when up near the Gap. Abe playfully asked Surrender Williams whether he would take some of the light or some of the dark, and thereupon carved Emancipation in an oblique manner, about north by northwest, as the crow flies, from the wish-bone to the watchpocket, in such a way as to hit the moonlight in on his works. Friends had to pu his vest on hind side before to keep him from making the frontis piece to an almanac or nimseit. At nrst it was thought that Emancipation bad been seriously injured, but Surrender Williams, who plays first fiddle, took a string from his instrument and sewed no Mr. Adams in a neat and tasty man ner, so that if the fiddle string had matched the goods in color you couldn't have told where the stitches had been taken. Adams is doing well. but will have to eonfine himself to coarse food till the wound heals. Lawrence Mail: Never in the history of poli tics has such an outrage been perpetrated on popular, constitutional government as that enacted and being enacted by the thirty-two Democratic Senators of the present Legislature.

SHOT TIIROUGH TIIE BRAIN.

A Quarrel Over a Girl at a South-Side Xeirro Dance Results! n a Murder. Abe Landers Shot Dawn in the Street Cesid Ills Sweetheart Escape of the Person Who "Fired the Bullet. Abe Landers, a negro twenty-two years of sge. was fatally shot in front of No. 12C South Tennessee street this morning, shortly oeiore i o'clock, but by whom is not definitely nown. There was a dance last night at the residence of Henry Baker, xso. 123 South Tennessee street, attended by forty or fifty young colored people. There was more or less drinking, and by the midnight hour a great many of the guests were dfunk enough to be troublesome. AH the evening there was considerable quarreling, mostly over who should dance with certain young women, and several rows had occurred before midnight. After 12 o'clock, when those present began to maKe arrangements to go home, the quarrels ot the early evening were renewed. There seems to have been among the young women present one who wss more of a favorite than the others. This person was Sibyl Barber. She bad at least three lovers in the compaur, and nearly all of the evening's quarreling was over her. When she was ready to go home, a few minutes before 1 o'clock, Mr. Baker says she left the house with Abe Landers, and so far as he or any of the re mainder of the company noticed no one else went out When Landers and Miss Barber had reached the street, those on the inside heard some loud words, but. as they say, did not go out for fear there would be trouble, and they did not desire to mix in it. John n. Grose, who resides at No. 126 South Tennessee, and was sleeping on the second floor near the front window, says he heard quarreling soon after Landers and Miss Barber left the Baker residence, and from the conversation thinks that there must have been at least three men and the girl, in front or his boose thev halted. One man remarked that he "would take her home, and another said he should not The third fellow then called out "banghim,"and mmediately afterward he heard the report of a revolver, and heard persons running south. He got up at once, went down to the street, and found Landers lying on the sidewalk in front of his gate. He notified the dancers in at Baker's of what had been done, and they seemed sur prised, claiming that they had heard no shot fired. All present claimed that no one had .left the house after Landers and Miss Barber went out. and asserted that some one who was not at the dance must have done tho shooting. When Mr. Grose reached Landers s he was un conscious, and. of course, could not tell who shot him. The bullet had entered the brain just above the left eye, and could be felt lodged in the rear of the sknlL Some difficulty was experienced in finding the police. When Sergeant Qaigiey and Patrolmen Slate and McMullen were finally found, at the ispencer House, all the reirroes who were at the dance, with the ex'ieDtion of one or two, had gone, and little could be learned. The patrol wagon conveyed the wounded man to the station-house and from thence to the City Hospital, where he was visited by Dr. Hodees. The few who remained about the scene when a Journal reporter arrived united in saving that the man who did the shooting is Dave Crawford, who resides at Belmont. They say he was around the bouse all evening, with two or three friends, for the purpose of making trouble. He formerly went with the Barber girl, and has made many threats against Landers since the latter began paying her his attentions. A night-watchman on the Union tracks, a half square below, heard considerable of the quarreling and heard the shot fired. He says just before it was fired he saw a carriacre halt in the shadow of a buildine just below the Baker residence. When the shot was fired he saw three men run. One of them jumped into the carriage and was driven east on Louisiana street very rapidly. The other two ran west on Louisiana street. The two who ran west passed near him, and he heard one of them say, "1 fixed the d d rascal." As to what became of the girl after the shootinc. no one seems to know. The dancers say she did not re-enter the house, and no one remembers to have seen her after the shooting occurred. The whole affair is somewhat mysterious, and the police were so muddled that they did not know where to begin work. They have every reason to believe, however, that several of those who were at the dance know who did the shooting, and they will eventually tell. The wounded man has been hostler at W. W. Jackson'u livery stables. No. 241 West Washington street, for several years. The police learned this morning that the other two men who were in the affair are Duliis Whitehead and a man named Reed. 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