Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1887 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOITRAIi. TUESDAY, NOYBilBER 29, 18ST.

THE AOEXATION QUESTION

Britons Would Fight Stubbornly to Re- . tain Possession of the Dominion,

And Wonld Bluster a Good Deal Even if the Provinces Toted for Annexation England Jfo Longer Solely Bent on Conquest.

fpecial to tit Indlsnesolis JoarnaL Washington', Not: 23. "Of coarse, if is were tbova, by a rote, that there were a majority of the people i a Canada who favored annexation fo the United States, England "would relinquish her hold on Canada without a straggle. Bat if this is not shown, and clearly, too, I give notice to the American people here and now that Canada will prove a dear morsel if they should conclude to reaeh out and take her in." "Do you mean to say that England would fight to maintain her control of Canada?" I asked. : "Oh! undoubtedly And even if it were shown that a majority of the Canadians wanted annexation of their country to America, Ensland would not yield without a good deal of bluster. I am not snre that there would not be war between Ecgland and America even then. This matter has been discussed a very great deal by the counselors to her Majesty the Queen, and the diplomatic committees of Parliament have frequently informally talked over the situation since the American press has mentioned annexation of Canada, in connection with the fisheries question. " The above is a fragment of a long conversation I had last July with a very prominent Englishman connected with her Majesty's government, and who begged that I should not disclose his name or title in anything I should write of our talk, which is made important by present prospe cts of Canada's annexation to the United States. We were passing over the Alps of Switzerland in a voitore, and the freedom of conversation which usually seizes fellow-travelers possessed my pewlj-made English diplomate. Continuing, he said: "Every phase of the ease had been discussed in England before the recent fisheries troubles arose. As long as ten years ago yes, a period of twenty years since our diplomatic officers in Canada reported organizations of malcontents who wanted the country taken in by America. At first such people as we deal with now in Ireland wanted to re beL Now the movement has the respectable form of 'mutual annexation' which means annexation by consent of England, Canada, America. I expect to see it some day, Yut it may be ten or twenty years. Just at this time I do not see how anything like immediate annexation could be made without war with Eneland." To this I replied that Senator Palmer, of Michigan, recently told me, after a tour of Europe and a careful study of tbe subject, he believed that America could go to and whip any nation on earth; and. further, that no two nations could come to and whip us. And, still further, that the United States couli put into 1 the field seven million soldiers, maintain them better than those of any other country,, and at the same time maintain the commercial and financial states of the country. I presumed this would be a surprise to the Englishman, and that he would deny the statement. After a moment's meditation be said: "I do not donbt tbe Senator's accuracy. But the English people are pig-headed and pugnaatic. They do not know when thoy are shipped, and will not know it if they could. Yon must not suppose, however, that England would for an instant hesitate about going over to America if she deemed it her duty to admin"iUft a castization. Da yon know the federal government of America came very near being inolfed in & wr with EnjUnl dnrine her rebellion, twenty-five years aeo? Well, it is true,

ana most 01 trie oiaer ana weu-inrormea or your countrymen will remember tbe details of tbe controversy. Only a beneficent act, at the proper moment, prevented it. I ''The tronhle grew out of the federal grovernI tnent refusing to permit either British or conf federate ships supplying our mills with cotton, j There was finally a cotton famine in England. ; At tbe time I lived in Manchester. That city ,' has the most extensive cotton consuming factories in the world, and tbe raw material comes from America. When, finally, the supply of cotton was shut eff by executive order in the United States, England made a demand that ehe should be permitted to do her own rarrying. It was refused. The federal government woold cot permit the continnance of foreign traffic with the Confederacy, because it was the design to cut off the supplies of the Southern States. Fiually the cotton factories of Manchester ceased to run. The proprietors had enormous canital invested, and this was idle with tbe tens of thousands of operatives, who thronged the streets and beeged for bread. "Well do I remember wnen the auarters of the Cobden Clob, the world famed free-trade organization at Manchester, threw open its great building and bil the starving operatives come in and make it their home. More, it furnished them with food as long as possible, and then funds were sent from all parts of England. Tbe Situation grew terrible, and the subscriptions to Manchester's starving spinners advertised the inexcusable action of the federal government of America over every foot of British territory. If only once the Manchester operatives demanded of the Queen that some retaliatory action must be taken, or a last demand made of the United States for cotton, of course we woold have been thrown into war with America, and that ehe could not stand, even had ehe received assistance from France, as was talked of. "At a time when the situation was alarming." continued tbe Englishman, "it came to Manchester that tbe federal government of America bad sent to n two ships loaded with food and clothing. These came, and the sympathy of the operatives for anti-slavery and . the cause of the Union was increased. Had it $ot been that the laboring element in all England strongly favored the abolition of slavery, war would have followed the refusal of the federal government to let us have cotton. In England then, as now, we believed and believe that tbe old South was the aristocratic portion of the United States, and the aristocracy of Eneland sympathized with slavery, while the laborers, being opposed to aristocraev, was in sympathy with the government fighting the institution of the South." "What about this feeling now this division of sentiment in England respecting America?'' There is a division, it is true, and in the event of a difficulty crowing out of a complication with the United States there would be dancer of an internecine war or division in our own country. I presume that, though reconstruction in America is not absointeiv complete, Jhe country would be solid for battle with a foreign power. Tbe British government would exercise great care in noting her exceptions to the annexation of Canada to the United States. Formal protest would probably ba made till the compact between the two countries was complete, ooai to mke tbe protest nation in it scope. We who support the Q'jen's administration, realize that if America could impress those in Ensland who oppose the aiministration that' it was a rebellion in Canada, for home or free role, then we wonld have a commune, an insurrection, and Ireland would be in arms, too, against us. "But, epeaking of Ireland, the administration, her Majesty, does not be ieve that the evidences of sympathy from America for the Uora-rulr8 represent the better elements there, or tbatthey amount to much. We believe that tbe American politicians and the Irish-Americans are talking, and that, in the event we should have a military manoeuvre with Ireland, the support from America would do Ireland but little good. The Queen, as do all patriotic Englishmen. conCiders the landlordism throughout the United Kingdom a blessing in disguise. Some day the people everywhere will acknowledge this. And tome time in America thore will be more landlordism than England has ever known." In various forms of language my distinguished diplomatist acknowledged that should .t be mutually agreed between the United States government and Canada, by a popular vote in the latter dominion and congressional etion iu tbe former, that there should be smalgamatton, annexation, and the question eras properly submitted to England for her consent, tbe conn a' etat would be accomplished without bloodshed. lie said, as a matter of jonrse, there would be a protest on tbe part of eer Majesty's government, and likely a bluff, a threat of war, but that when it came to sending the nsvy over to capture New York, etc., there would h no action. I learned further that the construction of a new navv in the United States is a matter of the keenest interest in Loudon, where I have been some time, and also in other porticos of the United Kingdom. And I cannot

believe that this interest partakes of curiosity, or has anvthing to do with the pride of England to bave the best navy in the world. I would not have quoted an unnamed person to this extent bad I not known tbe intelligence of the speaker and found the same sentiment in a number of qnarters in London. Several times in England I observed to administration men that as conquest seemed to be the principal ambition of their country, surely they would fisjht to the death for their bold on Caoada; and iu substantiation of my supposition 1 cited the sermon of the Rt Rev. Cannon Farrar, the Qneen's spiritual sponsor, on the Sunday following the jubilee of the fiftieth anniversary of her reign. I heard the sermon and noted tbe earnestness and pride with which certain portions of tbe compilation, which was a review of the accomplishments of the administration during tbe past half century, were uttered. There was a very noticeable elaboration of tbe eonqnests made. One by one, the eoontries which, through physical weakness, bad fallen the prey of England, were cited, closing with the statement that, begining with scarcely more than thirty million subjects, the Queen bad now more than three hundred millions of tribute-paying people. One gentleman, who has a potent influence in Parliament, and who supports the politics of the Qneen, denied that any longer there was a desire for conquest, and held tha tbe word "conquest" was a misnomer, or an improper term; that it was not gain, but civilization, that England wanted now and always wanted. And yet be held, as did the other administration men I talked to, that England would protest against the annexation of Canada to America, and if the protest could be put upon such grounds as to secure united support from home, would fight against annexation. England jost at this time is not talking so pugilistically as she usually does. She baa no surplus in the bank wortb speaking of, and is sadly in" debt. If the Queen was under the sod and her heir to the throne, tbe Prince of Wales, was at tbe helm, it might be different, for the one is opposed to war and only wants her salary of about a quarter million a year, while the other has more ambition, is pugoaoions and lees avaricious. England at present is undergoing a mild sort of decay. Her industries are not as thrifty as they were. There is little capital seeking borne investment, and things generally are at a stand-still. p. s. H. THE ECLE OF POWDEELI.

lie Will Brook No Interference by the Malcontents or Anyone Else. Philadelphia cpecf&l. Notwithstanding the rumors of secession in tbe order of the Knights of Labor, T. V. Powderly still stands at the head and front of tbe organization. He has already shown that he proposes to be the general master workman this year, and that without let or hindrance from those who grumble and growl at his administration. If the indications are not misleading, the policy of the administration from this time on will be a vigorous one with regard to the kickers. At tbe first meeting of the general executive board in this city, after the Minneapolis convention, where so much dirty linen was washed, a warm time was expected, but the members of the board kept their tempers fairly well. Barry

and Daily were kickers, and Carlton sided with

them in some things, but Powderly, Hayes, McGuire, Carlton and Aylesworth usually stood shoulder to shoulder. Some of the transactions of that meeting which displeased Barrv and Bailey got into the papers and added fuel to the flame of discontent already entertained. Bailev came to Philadelphia before the board met to keep a close watch cpon Secretary Hayes and the employes of the general office who are loyal to tbe administration, and he began at once to make notes. 'When the board convened, and Barry was

present, the spirit of opposition arose, but it was checked, the board usually voting five to two. The big fight which Litcbman had in the General Assembly to get control of the general sec

retary a office, with power to hire and discharge

bis clerks, was brought before the board, and it

did what the General Assembly failed to do, Barry and Bailey finding themselves powerless to prevent it. The first discbarge immediately followed, tbe victim being a Shawnee (Ohio) man, whom Bailey had appointed. F. F. Donnelly, tho stenographer, who made an affidavit against Powderly, which was read in the Gen

eral Assembly, was also discharged. This eml hatic action created consternation among the othr clrke and the consequence i that better service is expected. Following the meeting of the board, Barry and Bailey were sent off on long journeys, as also were tbe other members. The impression now seems to be that Powderly and his administration are not to be trifled with. As this is Mr. Powderly's last year in office, and as he has announced his intention of being general master workman to tbe end, the subordinates are cot likely to give further troubleNone of the general officers appear to place any credence in the rumors of secession. The carpet-workers who were illegally expelled are known to have many sympathizers, but the general officers say tbe reason for sympathy very often springs from the delinquency of assemblies who complain because they are asked to pa"y up. When threatened with suspension for default, or when actually suspended, the secession racket is resorted to as a convenient means of defense against tbe charge of delinquency. It places the small assembly in the position of kicking tbe order out, and anticipates the action of the order in kicking tbe assembly out. This is about the way the secession business is regarded by them. General Secretary Litchman was asked abont this matter recently, and while refesme to make any statement denied that he knew of any indications of secession from any source. It is admitted by the most hostile enemies of the administration there that the order is a good thing. They do not like the thought of trving to organize anew, nor does the American Federation of Labor suit them.

Miners Offerftd Work. Hazleton, Pa., Nov. 2& To-night A Pardee & Co. issued a notice that they desired to operate one or more of their mines, and that all who desired work should leave their names at the firm's pay office, and when enough have done so to warrant it notice will be given them when work will be started. As yet, no great nnmber of men have applied for work, but it is tbe general opinion that before many days enough will make application to enable the firm to run several breakers. It is tbe prevailing opinion that tbe strike is about over, especially so if a verv great number of Pardee & Co. 's former employes return to work. Tbe Knights of Labor, however, stoutly assert that they will not yield from their previous demands, and jnst how matters will turn out it is hard to conjecture. " . Strike of Havana Cigar-Makers. Havana. Nov. 28. Ninety-five cigar factories here shut down to-day, owing to tbe demands of cigar makers for an increase in wages. A committee appointed by the manufacturers will issue a circular to-morrow inviting the operatives to name a committee with a view of coLciliating all interests involved. About twelve thousand men are thrown out of employment by the shutdown. No disturbances are feared.

A StriRei Thnt Failed. Buffalo. N. Y., Nov. 2S. The strike at the Union ship-yards in this eity has been declared off. Tbe demand of the strikers for the discharge of six non-union men was refused, and the strikers returned to work without carrying their point. Insurance Latri to be Tested. New Obleans, Nov. 28. A special from Jackson to tho Picayune savs: An adjuster for the Sun Mutual Insurance Company, of New Orleans, against whom judgment was affirmed in the Supreme Court last Monday, sued out a writ of error to the United States, Supreme Court to-day to test the constitutionality of tbe Mississippi insurance laws in so far as they tssy to prohibit adjustment here under policies iosued in other Mates to citizens of other States

owning property in this State, the company issuing the policies not having complied with the

Mississippi law. To sustain this appeal it is

said the Supreme Conrt will have to overrule the celebrated case of Paol vs. Virginia, reported in 8 Waliaea

St. John Will Not Run for President. Chicago. Nov. 28. Ex-Gov. John P. St.

John, of Kaosas, is tn the eity for the purpose of attending a meeting of the national committee of the Prohibition party, to be held next

week. The meeting is called to fill the vacancy

caused by the death of the chairman, Ho j. J. B.

Fiocb. and to fix time and place lor ooiding tbe next national convention.

"Shall vou again be a candidate for Presi

dent?'' be was ask el.

"No, sir: emphatically no. Under no circum

stances will I allow mv name to go before the convection, and it is too early yet to tell yon

from where we may choose our standard-bearer."

BATES ON' DEESSED MEATS

The Intractable Grand Jrunk Mates Still Lower Figures to the Seaboard,

And the Other Lines Conclude to Partially Meet the New Rate Close of tb.9 Standard Oil Freight Inqairj Local Notes.

Chicago, Nov. 2a The Chicago & Grand Trunk opened the week to-day with another reduction in the dressed-meat rates, bringing them down to 2ii cents a hundred pounds from Chicago to Boston and New England points. The competing roads met, but the Pennsylvania line refused to reduce its rate below 42 cents, where they stopped on Friday last. The B. & O. also virtually dropped out by withholding its vote. Tbe Yacderbilt lines and the Chicago & Atlantic met the reduction of the Chicago & Grand Trunk, with tbe exception of Pittsburg, it being agreed that rates to that point should be held np to 23 cents, -which is on tbe basis of 42 cents to New York." There is an impression among the majority of railway officials here that tbe fiercest of the fight is over, and that rates will not go much lower. , An attempt was made to-day to induce the Chicago & Grand Trunk to agree not to put in lower rates on export business via Montreal to Boston, providing tbe Central Traffic . roads would allow it to make a difference in its favor of 3 cents on provisions and 2 cents on flour via Portland, Me. The Chicago & Grand Trunk would not assent to this, but stated that it would give association lines ten days' notice of any change in Boston rates. This wae not satisfactory, and tbe association roads referred the matter "to the Eastern trunk lines for settlement. New York. Nov. 23 There is yet no settlement of the fignt between the trunk-line pool and the Grand Trunk over the rates on dressed meats and live stock. Commissioner Fink today announced another reduction in rates to meet the Grand Trunk's last cut. This schedule is as follows, the rats being reckoned on the hundred weight from Chicago to New Yorfc. Dressed beef, dressed sheep and articles loaded in refrigerator cars with dressed beef. 34 cents; dressed hogs in refrigerator cars. 34 cents; dressed bogs in common cars, 314; cents; live cattle, 18 cents: live sheep. 21 cents. The new schedule goes into efleet immediately. Freight Rte on Standard Oil. Washington; Nov. 23. All the witnesses examined before the Interstate-commerce Commission to day in the Standard Oil eases had been sworn and examined before, and their evidence was, in great part, in explanation or elaboration of that already brought oat. Mr. Murray, the general freight agent of the Iron Mountain & Missouri Pacific lines, gave incidentally some interesting facts about cottonseed oil. Ten years ago, he said, tbe only demand for this product was from abroad, whence it came back to lis as olive oiL Tbe inauguration of the tank-car system of transporting petroleum to the Sonth afforded a cheap means of getting cotton-seed oil to the North in tank cars which wonld otherwise return empty, and the result has been tbe enormous development of crude oil production in all parts of the cottongrowing region. Other witnesses had testified generally that fnlly 90 per cent, of the tank ears sent Soutn came back filled either with cotton-seed oil or turpentine. Mr. Murray said that tbey now sometimes have even to send empty tanks Soutb to bring back the cottonseed oil. This material goes, Mr. Murray said, to Northern refineries, whence it comes to the marget as lard and table oil. It would thus seem to have given rise to new manufacturing industries in the North. Tne evidence in the Standard Oil eases is now all in. Tbe complainant seems to have proved conclusively that tbe railroads almost alwavs gave largely discriminating rates in favor of oil in tank cars, and that the Standard Oil Company is practically tbe ouly institution whose plant enables it to avail itself, to anv great extent, of the lower rates. The railroads have presented.

a number of apparently strong" reasons for viv ing lower rates on tank cars, such as convenience in handling, lesser risks, diminished reqnirements in terminal facilities and greater chance of getting back loads. It was averred on the part ef every railroad that the tank rates are open to all comers: that no rebates are paid to the Standard Oil Company, and that no special privileges are accorded to any institution or individual as against any other. The Standard Oil witnesses declared that they neither asked nor would accept any rebates, lower rates or discriminating privileges. All tes timony of this kind, however, was limited to tbe period since April 5, last, the date when the interstate law went into effect, and o-alyin some unimportant particulars, and for purposes of theoretical comparison, was the testimony permitted to go baek of that point. Further proceedings are postponed till Jan. 16, when arguments will be heard.

Freight Trafilo Falling Oft The train records of tbe week ending the 26th show that with every road centering here there was more or less decrease in business. With some it was quite marked. An examination of the records shows that 1,490 fewer cars arrived and departed at this point than in the week ending Nov. 19, but as compared with preceding years tbe exhibit is more favorable, tbe roads this year handling 7C1 more loaded cars than in the corresponding week of 1SS6, and 237 more than in 188a. The decrease last week, as compared with that of the week preceding was in

some measure due to the light movement on Thanksgiving day. Then tbe heavy rains of Friday and Saturday checked the loading of cars at tbe country stations. East-bound there was a lighter movement off express busmesss, while there was some improvement in shipments of gram to interior points. Live-stock traffic fell some 100 cars below that of tbe week preceding. West-bound the shipments of high-class freights is on tbe increase, while those of the lower class are falling off, unless it be on anthracite coal. As cars become more plenty east shipments of coal are on the increase, and of coke as welL Traffic over the north-and-soutb roads has dropped off considerably; that is, of a through character. Loral business with all lines is heavy, and will be until after the holidays. There is a good movement of live stock and a large movement of Indiana and Ohio coals. Hogs are coming to this market from many points which bave heretofore shipped elsewhere, and the shipment of bogs to the Louisville and Cincinnati markets cuts an important figure. Below is given the number of cars received and forwarded at this point in tbe week ending Nov. 26. as compared with the corresponding weeks 18456 and 1833:

Name of Road.

L., N. A & CJ. Air-line I.. D. & S I. & V , 0. .H.&I L. E. & W. Urd'polis div.).. C. I., St L. & a $ fe&innatL J., M. & I C..St.I.&P.iumbus::: Var. alalia .... 1. & St. L.. Hoe-line

Total Empty Cars..

Loaded'Loaded' Loaded

ears. ears. cars, 18S7. 1886. 1835. 2G2 216 18S 343 Stiti 413 5aS 523 500 CS4 587 558 40O 541 471 75 S17 1.24'i: 70 81i4 l.Ot.5 1,678 1,558 1.755 l.26 1,912 1,62:3 1,050 751 520 1,675 1,608 1,781 356 JUS 100 2.2SOI 2.07U 2.071 2,005' 1.900 2,033 2,213, 2,117 2.25U

...(16.8511

4.72U,

Total xnovemnt. 121,574 20,936:20.9 12

6 089 4.S97I

16.613 4,320

A Ceogh, Cold or Sore Throat Should not be neg'ectsd. Bkows's BroncbTAL Trocses are a simple remedy, and give prompt rtlisf. 23 cts. a box.

A Redaction in Live-8 tot c F;ates. Until yesterday the general freight agents of Innianapolis roads were of the opinion that the rate war on live stock between roads hauling the stock from Chicago to Eastern markets would be confined to Chicago, but Chairman Blanehard notified tbe agents yesterday, at this point, that the war had reached such a stage that it would be necessary for Indianapolis roads to reduce east-bound rates unless they were willing to lose tbeir business, as the tide from the southwest was turning in fa? or of Chicago lines; and, at his suggestion, the representatives of tbe roads carrying the live stock East met at the office of the local committee of the Central Traffic Association, and after a two hours' dis cusioo, voted to place the rates from Indianapolis to the Eastern markets on the Chicago basis. The Pennsvlvania and the Lake Erie As Western voted against making th reduction, while the Bee-line, tne 1., B- & W. and tbe a. H- & U- voted is favor. The Pennsylvania and tbe h. E, & W. will draw O it of the market so long as the pre tut low rar.ee prevail, asserting that tbey can use tbeir ears, to

better advantage than in hauling stock at such low rates. The reductions mad by tbe Chicago roads since the rate war was inaugurated amount to vwelve cents per 100 pounds. la the beginning some of the trunk lines, it is stated, were disposed, when the rate had been cut to an unprofitable basis, to relinquish the traffic entirely to the Chicago & Grand Trunk road, which commenced the fight. The objection to this was that such action wonld furnish a basis at which the shippers could determine the cost of carrying the business, and might interfere seriously with any later advance when the rate war is over. The T., C. & St. t. Litigation. The Bradford case came np at Marion on Saturday, before Judge St. John, on a demurrer to the defendants' answer. In thoir answer, the defendants, as to tbeir title to the. railroad of the Frankfort, St. Louis & Toledo Railroad Company, state substantialy the facts that are stated in the complaint, but in addition, they aver that Bradford participated in the stockholders' meeting that reduced the number of directors to five, and in the meeting that ratified the articles of consolidation that were adopted by the five directors, and as a conclusion, say that Bradford is estopped to deny the validity of the consolidation. The demurrer was argued by Messrs. Woollen and Henry for Bradford and for the defendants briefed by Messrs. McDonald and Butler, and argued by S. O. Bayless. Bradford, in his complaint, avers that he gave defendants, at the time of their purchase, notice of . the invalidity of the consolidation of the T., C -& St. L., and that he wonld content it; and this is not denied in the answer. This being so, it was argued for Bradford that since he did not stand by and, in silence, allow the defendants to purchase the property, and since he had not done or said anything upon whish the defendants had a right to rely, and since they were warned that the consolidation was illegal end that their title would be contested if they bought the property, the doctrine of an equitable estoppel did not apply, and that the answer was not a good defense to Bradford's complaint. The ruling upon this demurrer is regarded by all parties as decisive of who will recover in the case, and consequently will be looked for with a good deal of anxiety. Judge St John took the matter under advisement, and will probably announce his ruling early in January. IVocal and State Notes. J. Henderson has been appointed ticket and freight agent of the J. , M. & L road at Amity, vice E. Burnett, resigned. The Nickel-plate fast-freight line has made arrangements to work Indianapolis businesa ovr tbe Lake Erie & Western road, as well aB ov? the L, B. & W. There were transferred over the Belt road last week 13.464 cars, against' 10,203 corresponding week, 1886. Belt road engines last week handled L6S6 car-loads of live stock. The track-layers on the extension of the Indiana Midland road, west, were eight miles went of Ladoga, Saturday night, and within six miles of the crossing of thoL, D. & S. road. It is stated that there is a prospect of an early change in the ownership of the Terre Haute & Peoria road. Since tbe road was properly equipped the business has developed remarkably. The earnings of the L.. N. A. & C road the third week in November were $3U.G24, against $37,702 for the corresponding week 18SG. The earnings of the Chicago & Indiana Coal road were $12,369, acainst $4,572 for the corresponding week of 1886. Through the passenger-rate war east out of St. Louis, Indianapolis is benefited 23 cents. The rate from St. Louis to New York is now $18. j. and the roads here have been obliged to drop the rate to that figure in order to conform to the interstate-commerce law. Freight agents at this point bave been notified that there is a freight blockade on the southern routes to California and that no promises should be made as to time of freights until further notice. Shipments of furniture and machinery are very heavy, not only to ' San Francisco but Southern California as well. The local freight agents are much annoyed by some of the merchants of this city, who persist in shipping goods under a false came that they may come under a class that is carried at a lower rate. The agents threaten to create a black-list in which tbe merchants who engago

in this dishonest practice will be published. The Indianapolis car-works 'are fortunate in

securing orders to keep them busy, while other works are shutting down for want cf orders. Yesterday President Millard was given to understand that an Eastern road was about to award them a contract to build 1,000 box-cars, and they have 1.7C0 cars to build before they exhaust their present contracts. The projectors of the Evansville & Richmond road are 6till active in raising subsidies to a d in its constrnction on. Saturday last Shawswick, Indian Creek and Pleasant Run townships. Lawrence county, all voted a 2 per cent, tax to the enterprise, and it is understood that in the townships where the time the read was tn be built, to secure the subsidy voted, has expired, are ready to vote again on the question, and the projectors are sanguine that work will be begun in the early spring, on the line as surveyed some eighteen months ago. Steps are beiog taken to organize a passenger agents' club in this city, similar to those in Louisville, Pittsburc, Boston, and numerous other railroad centers. Tne membership will include general passenger agents, local ticket and passenger agents and traveling passenger agents, of whom there are a large number making Indianapolis their headquarters. Some sixty rasenger men have already placed their names on tho list of members, and it is believed tbat the membership will reach 150. They propose to rent the rooms recently occupied by the Elks in Claypool block, and fit them up attractively. ANOTHER BEECHER IN THE FIELD. A Niece of Tlenry Ward Heroines a Teacher of "Christian Science" New York Special In Pittsburg Dispatch. Miss Isabella A Beecher, a grand-niece of the late Henry Ward Beecher, is holding Bible meetings in the parlors of Plymouth Church, and her audience on Friday afternoon last numbered between thirty-fire and forty women and two men. The lecturer reads portions of the Bible and then comments on tbe passages read. Her interpretations are clear and she is an entertaining speaker. This latest debutante of the Beecher family is not more than twenty-three years old and a self-possessed young woman. She wore at her lecture a slouch wool sombrero. Guiltless of any trimmings, and simply crushed through tbe center of the crown, it gave to her face a masculine look. Her features are small and clearcut. Miss Beecher came East from Chicago very recently, for the purpose of practicing healing and teaching the so-called Christian science. She has lived with her invalid mother In that city all ber life, spending some of her time in Boston, where, for three winters, she was a pupil of Mrs. Eddy, who is the head cf one of the schools of healers. Brooklyn is a good field for this sort of practitioners and lecturers. Miss Beecher teaches that thought is a force; that it can be vitiated by tbe will, and then it can be sent foith to do . work. , Patients are to thirk and will themselves into a state of high bodily health. , She declared tbat tbe error of a belief tbat there is substance in matter baa stopped the demonstration of Christ in the world, and until people accept the spiritual interpretation of his' life and death tbey cannot know and be the truth. The young lady went on to say that there was no life substance or intelligence in matter, and that it was this false belief which crucified Cbrlst. She said tbat when properly understood the faculties of men could be used for higher service than at present. Tbe earth, she said, was an eternal expression of heaven, and if men and women would rule out all the evidence of each faculty, and nse only the good in them, tbey would be carried forward to a plane where tbe gifts of healing and prophesying would be as much a part of themselves as the senses of taste and of sight. Miss Beecher asked tbe women questions, and their interpretations of ber readings of Scripture showed very plainly tbat they were all, or nearly all,conversiit with the mind-cure teachings. She quoted St. Paul frequently as the teacher whose philosophy was of most value to students, because it was in advanee of the accepted teachings of orthodoxy. Miss Beecher is assisted by Miss J. S. Reynolds, who will remain with her in Brooklyn to teach and heaL If is verv possible that Miss Beecher will have a large following. . not only beeause she is a Belcher and ha permission to use Plymouth Chnroh, but for the reason that she is a clever vromao. Sho has an uncommonly bright way of putting old facts and caking praetieal illustrations. As a proof thar. Brooklyn ia a good field for this sort of thi'ig, it is said that one teacher on Greene avenue bad a class of sixty last winter, and that h'jr time will be fully taken up in this way. Another is said to made upward of $15,000 since she began work in Brooklyn a year and a baif ago. She got $150 a month out of one woman. Tne majority of tbe mina-bealers charge from $100 to 300 for a course of lessons ranging from twelve to twenty, and tbey have bad ciasses of from twelve to thirty. Miss Beecher' advent will aad to the interest on tbe subject. Her public instructions will be continued weekly. -

Fuchsia Buds Registered Trade Mark. The Greatest Remedy of Modern. Times. A specific of unquestioned merit for the cure of every derangement of the stonaeh and bowels, the NERVES, the BLOOD, the HEART. LIVER and KIDXEYS. Never known to fail in the care of constipation (chromo or habitual), indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, sour stomach. A nervine of superior excellence, toning up the nervous system, when all else has failed. FUCHSIA BUDS is a KING among the great remedies of the world. Price, 1 per box; by mail. sfl.Oti. LADIb.3 are requested to call on or address Mrs. M. J. Gaymon, eare this office, and get sample free of the celebrated Mexican Oereus Pollen, the most WONDERFUL THOROUGH and practical aelft 'eat merit known for the cure of all female diseases. Office hours from 3 to 5 p. m. Send 10 cents for sample by mail. Price per box of six treatments, $1; by mail, $1.06. F. S. NEWBT. Manaar. NATIONAL SPECIFIC COMPANY, Over 38 West Washington SL Opposite transfer car. Indianapolis. Ind.

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OAILT WEATHER BULLETIN. ludiCMtiutts. Washington. Nov. 291 A. M. For Illinois, Indiana and Ohio Fair weather; slowly rising temperature; light to fresh winds, generally shifting to east and south. For Michigan and Wisconsin Fair weather; slowly rising temperature; light to fresh, variable winds. Local Weather Record. iKDIAKAPOIilS. Nov. 23. 1837.

Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. 7 A. M...I30.G2 7 78 2 p. M...i3U.f7 IU 50 9 P. M... 29.70 16 C9

N'wsClear. Sweat Clear. South; Clear.

Maximum thermometer, 20; minimum thermom

eter. 4. tt . n : . . AAMnA.43wA Am..- nr fiik .mill.

ticn of temperature and rain-fall for Nov. 28, 1887:

0.13 O.C'O O.l 3 -0.31 12.90

Norm al. Mean. Denarture from normal--...--..-.. Total excess or deficiency since Nov. 1, Totalexcosi or de5ciency since Jan. 1

Tern.

, 3: 14 19 4 . 31

General Observations. Washinqtok. Nov. 28. 9 p. M.

Stations.

New York city.. Philadelphia, Pa... Washington City... Charleston. - C San Antonia, Ga.... Jacksonville. Pla... Atlanta. Ga ..... Pensacola. Fla..... Titus villa. Fla llon'gomerv. Ala.. Vicksburc;. Miss.... New Orleans, La.. - -Shreveport, La..... Fort Smith. Ark.... Little Rock. Ark... Oalveston.Tex...... Palestine. Tex Brownsville. Tex..

Memphis. Tena. ... Nashville. Tenn.... Louisville. Kv .

Indiauanolis. Ind. . . Cincinnati. O...... Pittsbure. Pa Boise Citv. I. T Osweeo. N. YT. ...... Calearv, N. W. T.... Toledo O Miunedosa. N.W.T. E scan aba. Mich. Prince Arthur's L'g. Chicatro.il!. Milwaukee. Wis Dolnth. Minn...... St. PauL Minn La Crosse. Wis..... Davenport. Ia...... Des Moines. Ia.. .... Concordia. Kan..... Keokuk. Ia.. .......

Cairo 111............. Springtield. IU...... St. i.oais. Mo....... Sprinzfield. Mo..... Leavenworth. Kan. . Omaha. Neb........ Valentine. Neb..... Moor head. Minn.... Bismarck. D. T. .... Fort Buford. Fort Custer. M. T.. Ou'Aoelle. N. W. T.

Deadwood. D. T. ... Cbevenne. Wy. T-. North Platte, Neb.. Denver, Col........ W.Las Animas. CoL Dodsa City, Kan... Fort Elliot, Tex Fort Sill. LT Fort Davis. Tex El Paso, Tex Salt Lake City Santa Fe. N. M Montrose, Col.....

Bar. 30.44

30.50 3J.o4

30.-8 30.48 30.18

30 40

30.32

30.112 30.40 30.52

30.33

30.52

30.56

30.60 30.42 30.54

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30. 5 S

30.62 I30.H8

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30.66

30.3 6 30.52

30.23 30.64

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3().34 30.58

30.56 30. 4 6 30.16 3O.60

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30 North 50 N wst 56 N'east 44 Neast 66 North 40, Nwst

46 North!

70 N'wst 42! North 51 1 KTa.cl

46 Neastj

36 N east 34!S'east

30 Neastj

46 North 36i Kast. 48;North aB'N'wst 24 ' North 22 i East. 10;. South 14 1 North

20I N'wst

iN'wst

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8 West. 12Swest Si West. 2 Swest 4 j East. O Calm.

16 s'east'

34 24 4 16

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10 24

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22! East. 22;South 24iS'ast 26:Seast 2: South 16: S'east

14!Swest

4 East.

12 Calm.

6! East. 16 North

16 Calm.

SO'Calm. 34'South

10 S'east

34 Calm. 14lWest. 28;South 38 i South 40! South 44 1 East. 50 1 East. 88: South 30!Neast 2iiSouth

.04 Clear.

.02iClear. .....ICloar. .....! Cloudy. .....! cloudy. .01 Fair. ; Clear. .....Clear. .....iFair.Fair. iFair.

Clear. 'Clear. jClear. 'Clear. .....IClear. .....iFair.

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98Fair.

Clear. Clear. Clear.

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Clear. Cloar. Fair. Cloudy. Clear. Olear.

.....IFair. (Clear.. I CI ear. Clear. ... . Clear. I Clear. ... ! Clear. 'Clear. ... .! Clear. .60;Fair.

Clear. Cloudy, Clear. Clear. Clear. Fair. Hear. Clear. Wear. Clear. Clear. . Hear.

.04 iFair. ....j Clear. ....''Cloudy. ....Clear. ....i Clear.

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ZOEMWE1SS CS3EA1Y1 j FOR THE TEETH 7 ma Is from J7no Material, contains no JUidi, Hard Grit, or injurious matter It is Pras, Kxpurro, Pxbfxct. --S Komnro Lixb It Em Kxonvzr. . From Senator Co tares all ""I take pleastire In recon-mending iioawei on accouat of Its eSicacy and purity." From Mrs. Gen. T.eean'e Dentist, Dr. E. Cavroll. Washlnfrton. 1. C "I r.ve had Zenwelss analyzed. It Is the most perfect deutlIrlce I have ever seen.' From Hon. ( bas. P. Johnson. Ex. IiC Gov. of Me. "Zonwelss cleanses the teeth thor ouffhly, ts delicate:, convenient very pleasant, and leaves no after taste. Cou bt aixskccoxstS. Price, 35 cents. Jomsoir & JoHxsoar, 23 Cedar Bt-, N.T.

The War Airainst the ClUcajro Ga Trast. Chicago, Nov. 28. The City Coancil to-night, by an almost nnanimons vote, adopted resolutions requesting tbe Mayor to write the Attorney-General of the State asking him to file a quo warranto for the purpose of forfeiting tbe charter of the Chicaeo Gas Trust. The forfeiture of the charter of every gxs company in this city was also demanded, eaeh of them being now controlled by tbe trust. Tue law department of the city was instructed to (jive all information and aid possible ia prosecuting the quo warranto. The resolutions denonnee tbe action of the trust in advancing the price of (raa 25 per cent., and declare that tbe quo warranto is necessary as a "notice to all desiring to imitate the example of the oririnators of this trust, tbat monopolies will not be permitted to exist under a republican form of government." Neat Trick of Irish Sympathizers. Camden, iJ. J., Nov. 23. Messrs. W. R Cremer and Ilaller Stewart, of the deleeation from the British Parliament on international arbitration, delivered addresses here to-night. Before the xneetincr hav proceeded far it was apparent that two-thirds f th se rreser.t were Irish sympathizers, and when the usual resolutions were road, the following was offered and adopted, along with the others: Resolved, That we earnestly urr that the price! pies ot arbitration be sdopte. by nrlaud in tbe settlement of tbe difl:eu'ties between that rooiitry and d )n-.rodden Ireland, believing, as we do, thnt the method will lesult in speedy correction of the sh&mefnl abuse that are being Leaped on defenseless Irish tecaats under cover of the iniquitous coercion law. The following preparation applied to the surface "will prevent any rust on plows or any other metM surfaces; Melt one ounce of resin in a gill of linseed oil. and when hot mix with two quarts of kerosene oil. This can ho kept on hand and applied in a moment with brush or ras to the metal rorface of any tool that ia not gains o b vused for a few days, preventing any rust, and saving much vexation vhen it is tj be -used again. ,.

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