Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1887 — Page 2

THLE mDIAKAPOIilS JOURNAL. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1SST.

nolds; Bernard Smith. Altoga; Walter Blakeroao, Colombo; John S. Huebes, Elwood; Lewis P. Stanton, West Nnwton; Calvin Houk, Lizton; Thomas D. Harding. LaPorte; R. R. Bright, FJora; B. T. Knight, Evansville; I loveless, Lafayette; T. J. Kennedy, Carthage; George Sarver. Bloom field; P. M. llardm, JUauckport; P. R. Lucas. Harmony. Reissued W. R. Hefner. Brinehurst; DaTid Parka, Bloomington; J. S. Newkirk, Tulip. Will Contest Compromised, fpecial to tbe Judlanaeoiis Journal Winchester, Dec 9. Quite aa important will-contest case, which has been occupying tbe attention of tbe Randolph Circuit Court for the last two days, was to-day compromised by the favored-under-the-will paying to the onts $3,000. William Green, the testator in question, died a few months since at his home near here (Winchester) leaving quite an estate. The eontstors alleged unsoundness of mind of tbe testator, and duress on the part of some of tbe favored persons in procuring tbe will to be executed in their favor.

Mr. Chamberlain Kntertalned. Washington Deo. 9. Secretary and Mrs.Whitney gave a handsome dinner, this evening, to Hon. Joseph Chamberlain. Covers were laid for twenty. There were present Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle, Secretary and Mrs. Faircbfd, Secretary Endieott, Mr. and Mrs. Angell, Mr. and Mrs. Putnam, Secretary Bayard, Mrs. Maealester Laugh ton. Admiral and Mrs. Franklin, Sir Lionel West, Sir Charles Tapper, Miss Hunt nd Mrs. Hitt General Notes. Ppecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec 9. Attorney-general Michener and Charles P. Griffin were to-day admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, and left the city to-night for Indianapolis. Hons. J do. C. New and J. N. Huston left Washington for New York to-night. The conference of wool-dealers and growers, which has been in session here for several days, adjourned to-day until Jan. 11, when it is expeeted that representatives of the wool manufacturers of tbe country will be present. It is the purpose to endeavor to agree at that time upon a plan of concerted action to be taken to secure protection for the wool industry. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Washington, Deo. 10 1 a. m. For Ohio Warmer, threatening weather, with rain; light to fresh, and on the lakes fresh to brisk southeasterly winds, followed Saturday night by winds becoming brisk to high northerly along the lakes, with a cold wave. For Indiana and Illinois Rain; followed by eolder clearing weather; light to fresh northerly winds, increasing in force, with a cold wave. For Michigan and Wisconsin Rain or snow, followed by colder clearing weather; winds becoming fresh, to brisk northerly, with a cold wave. Local Weather Record. Indianapolis, Dec. 0. 1887.

Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weath'r Rain. 7 a. M... 30.14 40 BO Neasfc Cloudy. 0.02 2 P. M... 3O.05 46 85 East. Cloudy. O.Ol 9 P. M... 30.03 46 )Z foist. Cloudy. 0.03

Maximum thermometer, 4.7; minimum thermometer, 35. Following is a comparative statement of the condition of temperature and rain-fall for Dee. 9, 1887: Tern. Rain. Normal 30 O.ll Mean - 44 O.06 Departure from normal.. 14 0.05 Total excess of deficiency since Dec 1. 34 "1.05 Total excess of daSciencv since Jan. 1. 9 11.1)9 Plus. . General Observations. Washington, Dec. 9, 9 p. u.

Stations.

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Losses by Fire. St. Thomas, Ont, Dec. 9. James Atchinsoo's hardware store burned to-day. Loss, $17,000; insurance, $11,000. McKeespokt, Pa, Dec 9. The City flourmills, at this place, bnrned to-night, caused by a defective flue. Loss, $60,000; insurance, $25,000. Pittsfobd, Mich., Dec 9. Fire early thi3 morning destroyed the furniture store of II. W. Gier, the jewelry store of O. E. Williams, and t&e tin-shop of George Newell. Loss, $10,000; insurance, $4,400. St. Loos. Dec 9. The machine shop belonging to the South St. Louis Foundry Company, of wnich Robert J. Kilpatrick is president, situated in South .St. Louis, burned to-night. Loss, $20,000; insurance unknown. Lafayette, Ind., Dec 9. Snyder & McConnel's general store and contents, and Jacob F. Allbaugh's meat market, burned at Oxford tonight. The loss is estimated at $10,000. Snyder & McConnel carried insurance of $1,800 on stock. Tbe cause of the fire is unknown.

Not Vilas, bat Viles. Eatj Claire, Wis. Dec 9. The Washington dispatch published in Western newspapers yesterday and quoting tbe New York Times editorial charging Colonel Vilas with direct connection, through a brother, with the alieged California redwood land frauds, embodies a serious error of tbe Times. The Joseph Viles, who was a purchaser of redwood lands is not only not a brother of Colonel Vilas, but bears no relation whatever to him. The name is spelled differently. This Joseph Viles is a wealthy lumberman whose home is at Augusta, this county, and who is now in Humboldt county. California, where he Is watching his redwood purchases.

Mother and Son Murdered. East Bernabd, CoL, Dec 9. Last night masked men draeged Mrs. Ki ties ton Brown and her eighteen-year-old son from their home, and murdered them in cold blood. Several suspecid persons are under arrest.

Steamship 'ien. New York, Dec 9. Arrived: Republic, from , Liverpool; Trave, from Bremen; P. Calacd, from notterdam. Two Potter Hands. Fsn Francisco Chronicle. Two old sports, accustomed to catch the tranger at poker, are playing against one aa&thtr. "I call yoa. What ye got?" "Four aces." "What's yer outside card? I've got four aces xnyself."

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of Various Kinds in the Two States,

A Murder Mystery Revealed by a Spirit Medinm A Will Case Compromised A Merchant Charged with Forgery Gleanings.

INDIANA.

A Murder Mystery Alleged to Have Been Cleared Away by a Spirit Medium. Anderson, Dec 9. The mystery of a remarkable murder case has just been cleared away through a spiritual medium. Some twelve years ago Samuel Lott disappeared, and a thorough search made for. him at the time proved unsuccessful. That he was murdered was quite evident. Further than suspicion the affair bas remained a profound mystery. The murderer was never apprehended nor the remains found. Finally interest in tbe fate of Lott died away. Last Sunday night, at a spiritual meeting at Chesterfield, this county, a communication was received purporting to be from Lott. It stated that he was murdered by one David Shaffer (now deceased). The communication also detailed tbe mode by which the deed was executed, present location of skeleton, and where victim was last seen alive. It was on the White river road bridge near Daleville, and Lott, in company with Shaffer, was seen going north on the fatal night. The place where the remains are located in the communication has been visited and the body found. Stra-ar .Board Factory at Rokomo. An establishment for the manufacture of straw boards has just been completed at Kokomo. Tbe plant cost $150,000, and the factory will give employment to about 100 men. The Kokomo Gazette-Tribune thus describes the process: "The process of manufacturing straw boards is somewhat complex, but full of interest. The straw is conveyed to the upper floor of the south extremity of the main building by means of the straw-carrier. Tbis carrier delivers it to the chutes through which it passes into the rotary boilers below. These boilers are immense, their diameter being fourteen feet. They are supported on substantial piers, and are adapted to rotary motion. Tbey are five in number, and their purpose is to cook and bleach the straw. This is effected by steaming it. Lime is used to facilitate the process, for which purpose 100 bushels are consumed daily. Tbe cooking process requires twelve hours. The material is then emptied out of tbe revolving boilers into another carrier, which transports it into three pits in the stock-room. From these receptacles it is carried over still another carrier into the beater-room. Tbe instruments ' for beating the cooked straw are called beaters. Of these there are eight They are curious machines and somewhat complex in their structure Their purpose is to reduce the straw to a fibrous mass suited to enter the straw board machine. This accomplished, tbe material passes through an ODenine into vats in the basement, whence it is pumped into four small stuff chests situated at the month of the great machine. From tbese chests the mass, now ready for the straw board machine proper passes through galvanized pipes to the rollers on which it spreads out into sheets. There are four of these large re vol vine cylinders which receive the mass and spread it into sheets. The straw board, now formed, passes between rollers which press the water out of it. It then passes over felt cloth to the dryers. There are forty of these machines arranged in a series. They consist of large revolving cylinders, so adjusted that the newly made straw board passes through tbe entire series, passing over one cylinder and under the next, and so on to the end. These cylinders are heated by steam, and so accomplish the drying of the board. At the end of the series of dryers is the liner, an instrument for lining tbe straw board with paper. This machine is used only in making the finer qualities of work, such as is need in fine box-making. Different colors of paper are in the store room to line the fine board with any color that may be desired. There is what is called a stack of calenders, five in number, a machine adapted to finishing the surface of the board and giving it smoothness and regularity of finish. The last machines to receive the product are tbe cutters. There are two of these. One slits the board lenetbwise of any width desired, and the other cuts crosswise into sheets of any size specified. These finished sheets fall upon a table to receive them, and are arranged for storage." Town in Possession of a Mob. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Cortdon, Dec 9. A dispatch from English, Crawford connty, to the prosecutor here, announces that a mob has taken possession of that town. No particulars are given regarding the trouble Business Man Charged wltli Forgery. Fairmont, Dec 9. N. L. Thompson, a prominent bnsiuess man of Danville, 111., was arrested to-day, charged with committing a $2,500 forgery. He admitted his guilt, and was committed to jaiL Minor Notes. Adam Stine was fatally injured on Thursday, at Nappanee, by falling on a buzz-saw. Adam Knoblicht, proprietor of the city brewery at Fort Wavne, assigned on Thursday, with, liabilities placed at $15,000, and assets at $4,000. On Thursday a bomb was found in a box of holiday goods sent from Chicaso to Al Quaelev of Logaosport. It caused considerable excitement and people flocKed in great numbers to see the deadly machine. Gas well No. 5, at New Castle, was shot on Thursday with ten quarts of nitro-glycerine, and the flow of gas greatly increased, makine it a first-class producer. The citizens are greatly elated over the find. Charles Alexander, a brakeman on the Midland railroad, fell from a train Thursday evening near Gadsden, and was rnn over. liis left leg was cut off and his head badly bruised. He is not expected to recover. A new bank has been organized at Ladoga, under the State law. W. M. Henry i3 presi-.. dent; I. N. Miller, vice-president; G. E. Grimes, cashier: Chas. Goodbar, book-keeper. This will make two banks at Ladoga, and a total of seven in Montgomery county. On Thursday, while at work in a saw-mill at New Lisbon, seven miles southeast of New Castle, James Lamb was caught in the saw and his right arm and side frightfully mangled, rendering amputation of the arm necessary. His injuries are very severe, and may possibly prove fatal. It is currently, and said to be truthfully, reported that the body of John Owen Snyder, the famous pedestrian, was resurrected by "sawbones" for some college at Cincinnati. It is asserted that physicians near Hartford City were the resurrectionists, but they enter a general denial. A new military company at Crawfordsville, numbering fifty, were mustered into tha State service on Thursday night, by J. W. Ramsey, who was authorized to do so by G. W. Koontz, Adjutant-general. Tbe following are the officers: Captain, Geo. W. Lamb; first lieutenant, M. V. West; second lieutenant, Jos. McDaniel; orderly sergeant, W. H. Morrison. Twentyseven of the company belong to McPherson Post, G. A. R. ILLINOIS. Places and Times at Which Farmers Institutes Will Be Held. The Illinois State Board of Agriculture has completed arrangements for holding Congressional Farmers' Institute meetings at the following places on the dates named. Meetings of this character will be held in all portions of the State with a view of stimulating farmers to obtain the best possible results in tha growing of crops and the breeding of improved stock: Pontiac, Jan. 10-11: Lincoln, Jan. 12-13; Edwardsville, Jan. 17-18; Whitehall, Jan. 19-20; Elorado, Jan. 24-23; Carbondale, Jan. 2G-27; Peoria, Jan. 31-Feb. 1; Joliet, Feb. 2 3; Freeport, Feb. 7-8; Dixon. Feb. 9-10; Shelby ville. Feb. 14-15; Albion, Feb. 16-17; Monmouth, Feb. 21-22; Havana. Feb. 23-24; Woodstoek, Feb. 28-29; Danville. March 12. Killed by Falling; Beam. Alton, Dec 9. At an ice-house near here, yesterday, while eight men were at work on a high scaffold raising a truss beam into position by means of a derrick, tbe beam fell, when about eighteen feet from the floor, crushing tbe scaffold and hurling the men down with it, instantly killing Fred Grosham, of Upper Alton, and seriously wounding tbe other seven. Several of them are in a dangerous condition.

Brief Mention. A special election has been called in Douglas county to electa State's attorney to fill out tbe unexpired term of the late Major Wright, whose death occurred Dec L The election will be held Dec 29. George II. nunt. a butter and cheese manufacturer, of Napervllle, has made an assignment.

The liabilities are about $7,000; assets, about $8,000. He is owing farmers for two months' milk, who, it is claimed, will be paid in fulL Sister Jarleth, aged thirty years, a member of the Dominican order, died on Thursday, at the St. Clara Academy, near Galena. Her worldly name was Julia Addason, and her home at Osakosb, Wis. Tbe store of S. Austin, at Ramsey, was robbed of jewriry and other goods worth from $600 to $800. The people of the town are scouring the country for the thieves. A party of tramps who were camped near town are suspected.

TEEKIFIED OFFICIALS.

Discovery of a Murderous Plot Among the Prisoners Confined in Chicago's Jail.

Chicago, Dec 9. The officials in the county jail are in almost a frenzy of fear and uncertainty over disclosures regarding the surreptitious possession of contraband articles by the prisoners. The finding of the bombs in Lingg's cell has never been traced to its depth. Neither has the person been discovered who furnished the several doses of poison taken by Engel. On Saturday last a forty-four calibre revolver and over one hundred cartridges were fonnd in the cell of Michael Lynch, who shot and killed officer Wm. S. Hallaran. in July, and this evening it was learned the latter discovery prevented the carrying out of a well defined plot to liberate half a dozen of the worst criminals in the jail. Immediately on the finding of the revolver and ammunition by Jailer Folz, Lynch wa3 taken from his cell and placed in solitary confinement for over one hundred hours, manacled to the cell door and fed on bread and water. All details have been suppressed by the officials, but it is known that tbe plan was to arm Lynch and a number of other prisoners, and. getting them in the lawyers' cage on some pretense, have them all make a combined break far liberty, shooting down the guards if necessary. TELEGRAPIIIC BREVITIES. Johann Most was yesterday released on $3,000 bail, Mrs. Ida Hoffman, his former bondsman, going security. Andrew Foggs at Natchez, Miss., Thursday night, shot and killed John C. Shaw, a painter. Foggs was actuated by jealously. The Toledo Oil Company, which has a refinery for coal oil. sold yesterday to the Standard Oil Company for $100,000. This ends the Toledo competition with the Standard. Five damage suits, aggregating $140,000, have been instituted against the Natchez, Miss.. Cotton-mills Company by relatives of those killed by Be explosion which took place in the mill in May last. In the suit of George M. Rogers, against the Binghamton. N. Y., Republican for $10,000 damages for libel, the jury awarded the plaintiff six cents. The Republican printed n article alleging that Rogers was a bogus pension agent. Miss Thersa Brennan a young lady engaged in the Englewood, I1L, telephone exchange, yesterday received official notification that she and her brother were heirs to $15,000 each. Tho money was left by an uncle. John Brophy, who died seven years ago ia California, and the cash has been lying in a Canadian bank drawing interest ever since. At Rockhiil, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in August last, August Leister shot his wife, vrho, however, survived and testified against him on Tuesday at Doylestown, the trial resulting in Leister being sentenced to imprisonment, for six years and eight months. On Thursday night Leister committed suicide in his cell at the Dolyestown jail by hanging himself with a toweL The sudden appearance of water in wells in southern Wisconsin that have been perfectly dry since the drought of last summer, has caused no little wonder among the people. Wells are filled almost to the top, streams run in abundance from side hills and from springs that have long been dry, and the creeks and small rivers, whose beds have been dry for months, are gradually rising and bid fair to become formidable streams. The phenomenon occurred during a night, and is similar to that reported from Sangamon county, Illinois, and at Mattoon and vicinity.

INGALLS'S SOVEL.

The Kansas Senator lias His Work of Flc Hon Planned. Washington Special. A close friend of Senator Ingalls says that his novel will not be ready for publication for some time to come. He has, however, the plan mapped out, and he has been preparing for it for years. The scene will, it is said, be laid partly in Washington and partly in the West, and the characters will be the well-known men and women of the epoch, under assumed names. The period will extend from the sitting of the Electoral Commission in 1876 and 1877 to the culmination of the Garfield tragedy. It will be diversified with description, narration and incidents of adventure, and it will contain the matured results of Ingalls's observations of the men and women, the manners and the morals, the passions and the tenderness of modern politics and of modern society. It will deal with conditions of success and failure in public life, but it will attempt to teach no distinctive, moral nor didactive lesson. Senator Ingalls is a very ready writer, and his vocabulary is a mixture of Carlyle, Addison and the best classics, interspersed with the characteristic phrases of Western life. He thinks by steam, and his brain works like a wheel of dynamo, striking off intellectual sparks at every turn. He gives you a new idea with every word, and every one tells. ' His sentences are a series of surprises. He delights in the pyrotechnics of language, and he has a greater power of invective than had John Randolph of Roanoke. His head is shaped like that of Randolph, and lie has many of the at-j tributes of that eccentric statesman of the past.' He, however, is better balanced and more brainy,! and his culture is superior to that of the famed' descendant of Pocahontas. Ingalls has no sympathy for Sunday-school statesmen, and his theory of politics, though he may not have confessed it to himself, is that it is a battle of the parties which should be waged to the knife. He does not believe in dilly-dallying and shilly-shallying with side issues or side parties; and I believe that he would rather slap the mugwumps and the other dilettante parties, such as the Prohibitionists, in the face than coquette with them. Senator Ingalls, however, has a high idea of the dignity of his position, and he is one of the allround men in public life. He will not do any-, thing that would seem derogatory to the President of the Senate, and tho public will probably have fewer speeches from him this session than it has ever had before. It will have less sarcastic ones, and the President and the other side of the Senate will rest easier from the fact that he is in the chair. His decisions will, as a rule, bo non-partisan ones, and Ingalls is nothing if not a gentleman. He has a keen idea of justice, and he is one of the honestest of our statesmen in his political utterances. He always calls a spade a spade, and never deceives himself as to his political belief, and he hates hypocrisy worse than he hates the devil. He is the best dressed man in the United States Senate, and though he is not like young Sir Pitt Crawley, in that he -would rather starve than eat dinner in anything else than a white necktie, he hasa high regard for the amenities of society, and his regard for a woman is that of the chevalier. Mrs. Ingalls, by the way, is one of the brightest women of Washington society, an,d the Ingalls home will be the leading senatorial society center this winter. The Senator is keeping house here for the first time in years, and he has rented a big white brick facing the CapitoL Mrs. Ingalls is noted as a conversationalist. She can tell a good story as well as her husband, and she has many of the popular attributes of Mrs. John A. Logan. She keeps posted upon politics and is much wrapped up in the success of her husband. She is a New York girl, whose father moved to Kansas when Ingalls was a young lawyer and was practicing near Atchison. Ingalls met her at the wedding of a friend when he was a groomsman and she was a bridemaid. The acquaintance there formed ripened into love and marriage, and tho two have grown up together. They have a numerous family of children, ranging from Ellsworth, who graduated at college a year ago, and who is now his fathers private secretary, down to a bright little girl of four or five, but Mrs. Ingalls is one of the youngest-looking women of the senatorial circle, and her eye is bright and her cheek as rosy as when she met John James Ingalls for the first time at their friend's inarriage. A Heartrending; Scene. JiewYork Sun.

'My dear," said a lady to her millionaire hus

band. 'I have some dreadful news to you. You must summon all of your for the sake of wife and little ones."

"Speak!" he said hoarsely. "The coal is out.'' "Great heavens, has it come to this?'' and millionaire bowed his head and wept.

break to fortitude,

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Oaeht to Work Both Ways. Pittsburg Chronicle. Tbe editor of the Butler Herald wants women to quit wearing bustles because Eve never wore one. As Adam never wore trousers, the Herald's editor baa doubtless discarded tbis garment. There is nothing like beinc consistent.

THEY LOOKED FOB VICTIMS

A Visiting. Sprinter Makes an Impression in Local Sporting Circles.

Ha and His Confederate Swindle the Shrewdest of the Fraternity Ont of Several Enndred Dollars and Escape.

For the past ten days those who take an interest in sprinters and their records have been paying attention to two very bright young men from Ohio. As far as any one knew they were strangers to each other until accident brought them together at the California House, where one registered as Thomas McClen, of Youngstown, and the other as Frank Brehm, of Akron. The latter bore an alias, that of Thompson, by which he was usually called by the frequenters cf barrooms with whom he came in contact. A few nights since he was in the Occidental saloop wanting to bet anywhere from $10 to $500 that he could find a man who could run 100 yards in ten seconds. If that did not suit he would bet any sum that he could do it himself.' He knew the record of all the professional sprinters and told them on all occasions when . he could likely make an impression. While Brehm, alias Thompson, was paving the way for a contest. McClen now and then would mention Cross, of Shelby ville, as a man whom he would back for a race against Brehm himself or anyone he might select. The latter concluded that his sprinting powers were equal to the emergency. Ed Niland, of the California House, also considered Brehm just tbe man to defeat Cross. An arrangement was then made for the race to take place at tbe Athletie Park vesterday aftercoon, Niland contributing $2o0 to Brehm's stakes, the sprinter himself putting np tbe other $250. as the raee was for $500 a side. On the same terms McClen backed Cross. The money was placed in the hands of a local sport, who

r held it until yesterday noon, when he turned it

over to McClen, who bad been selected as starter. About 3 o'clock the contestants with their backers and twenty other persons met at the park. In a few minutes Cross and Brebm appeared in the field ready for the race, and shortly after that McGlen gave the word to go. Cross took tbe lead at one, but Brehm had not gone thirty yards before he left tbe track and started after McClen, who had taken a beo-line for the west cut of the park. There was no necessity to tell Niland and Cross that they bad been "dumped;" as the slang of the sprinters bas it. Niland realized it soon enough to draw his revolver and send four balls in tbe direction of Brehm and McClen. Two of the balls went wild, but the others came uncomfortably close to Brehm, who was the last in this short race for life. Just as he passed through the partly-opened gate the fourth ball struck where then fleeing tnrinter was a half second before. Outside McClen and Brehm had a carriage in waiting, and into this they jumped. Ther were driven at a break-neck "peed around on Seventh street, ancLthen east until they took a southwesterly direction for the National road. Tbey drove out that road and reached the Belt, where it is supposed they left the carriage and walked to tbe nearest station, at which they took an east-bound train. None of the sports who had any knowledge of the affair were willing to talk about it. although some who were not at the park said that the match turned out as they expected. One of the shots, it was afterwards discovered, .struck a horse that was hitched to one of the carriages which had been hired by tbe sprinters, from Evans's livery stables, on Seventh ; street. The animal was taken to tbe stables, and Dr. Armstrong, the veterinary surgeon, who was called, said the wound would prove fatal. The horse, one of the best in the stable, was valued at $200. A chase after Brehm and McClen proving unsuccessful the losers sent a man out on the L, B. & W. train as far as New Castle.with the hoD that they would attempt to board the train for Ohio at some point bet ween here and that place. The man returned at 11 o'clock last night and reported that Brehm and McClen had cot been seen anywhere along tbe road. LETTERS FKOM THE PEOPLE. Mr. Baldock's Panper Votes. "To the Editor of tb Indianapolis Journal: Yonr short but rebuking editorial on Geo. W. Baldock voting the pauper vote to the Democratic candidate, and thus electing Turpie, has been greatly appreciated by tbe writer and Republicans generally in Jefferson ville. It was sharp practice that beat us out of the Senator from this district, and it was accomplished before the Republicans eocld prevent it Your paper is greatly appreciated in this part of the State, and we hone you still continue the fight for next year, so early begun. I hope to see Harrison for President, Hawley for Vicepresident, and Albert G. Porter for Governor. Harry B. Hamlen. Jeffebsonvillk, Dec 8. Condition of South. Illinois Street. To tire Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I desire to call the attention of Mayor Denny to the almost impassable and dangerous condition" of the sidewalk at the north end of the 'Union Depot. Several hundred people are compelled to enter and leave the depot each day.

?aad after eight there is little or no light, and

ladies or children are compelled to grope their

wy over slippery boards or thorougb the mud

and water, at the risk of falling. It is an outrage on the public, and almost everyone who is eempelled to enter the depot from the north end is loud in their denunciations of the contractors and Union Railway officials for their neglect.

it is not tbe fault of those people that some seri

ous accident has not happened beiore this. I he writer saw a lady, carrying a child and a gripsack, fall in the mud on Wednesday afternoon, by reason of the narrow plank she was walking on slipping. If it is not Mayor Denny's business to look after such matters, be will know who the proper officer is, and I hope he will see that the sidewalks on both sides of Illinois street, both above and below the tracks, are made safe and passable, and that substantial fenders are erected to prevent people from falling into the tunnel, and that sufficient lights are provided to enable people to see where they are goiDg after dark. H. B. v. Dr. Gillett's Indorsement of Miss Keely. To tbe Kditor of tha Indianapolis Journal: I have noticed in some of the public prints some severe and I think unjust strictures on the management of the Reformatory and Penitentiary for women of the State of Indiana, reflecting on the officers and especially on Miss Sarah Keely the superintendent As these censures come from an unreliable source, convicts or ex-convicts, it was supposed but little importance would be attached to them, yet in some quarters the public mind may cot be entirely satisfied, where the officers are unknown. As to the superintendent, Miss Keely, I have known her intimately from her childhood and was one year a member of her father's family during which I saw her almost daily. Such were her excellent judgment, energy of character, and pious and sympathetic heart, that some years since I spoke of her as suited for tbe foreign mission field. As she was then, such do I believe her to be cow. In managing a penitentiary some of the worst phases of human character have to be dealt with, requiring sound judgment, prompt decision, and nrmness in execution; these Miss Keely possesses, coupled with a patient sympathetic heart. When a good tree can bring forth evil fruit, then, and cot till then, will I give credit to the censures laid at her door. S. T. Gillet. Isdianapolis, Dec. 8. An Old Veteran's Views. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journaft As the year 1883 approaches the public mind is being stirred by the thoughts of the next presideotial election. There seems to be co question as to the Democratic candidate. But as to the Republican candidate there is no such unanimity of opinion. Quite a cumber of distinguished gentlemen are proposed, among them the Hon. J. G. Blaine. It is evidently the duty of the people to investigate the claims of tbese men and make their own selection, cot the partisan friends of any one to force a nomination. As one of the people, I have thought of presenting a few ideas as to tbe nomination of Mr. Blaine for the presidency in 1S88. For a great many years I have been a great admirer of Mr. Blaine. In 1876, when he was first named for tbe presidency, I was grieviously vexed that he was not nominated instead cf President Hayes. In 18S0 I was for him until General Garfield was nominated. In 1834 I was delighted at his success and felt certain of his election. He made a most gallant canvass, but failed again for want of a few more votes in New York. He has behaved himself handsomly since his defeat end appeared cot to feel it as much as tbe ReDublican oartv. and b,"' ""

of the Electoral College cheerfully. I feel rather more admiration for his sterling Republican manhood than I had before. But, I can't help feeling that it is bad policy to stick to a candidate thrice defeated. One defeat is likely to alienate some of a man's friends, but repeated once or twice more would spoil the chances of success. I would bale very much to have Mr. Blaine put np, or forced up, again. I would hate to see him beaten again, and hate worse to have the Republican party beten again, when I feel that success is certain with judicious management, and the nomination of some good man against whom no prejudices have amen. I ean very cheerfully vote for Harrison. Sberman, Allison, or any good man with a fair record. I have been in three national conventions. In Baltimore in 1814, Philadelphia in 185G and Chicago in 1860. I have voted for President fifteen times. If I live to give another vote I want to succeed. J. B. REXS3ALAEK, Dec. 7. Perishable Products and Tariff! To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: When it is objected that to take the tariff off of imported foreign goods would reduce wages in this country so much as the duty, and therefore destroy oar manufacturing industries, it is replied by free-traders that "if manufacturing won't pay in competition, let our people turn to pursuits that wilL" For answer to the inquiry, what would become of our home markets if the millions employed in manufacturing were driven to agriculture, the; answer has been, "Sell in foreign markets where manufacturing will still be done." Do these theorists never reflect that the perishible and con-exporta' ble products of tbe orchards, gardens and farms of this country annually amount in value t several times the annual sum of tbe entire tariff duties on imports. And these are the most valuable agricultural products of this country. It would seem to be important enough to maintain protection in order to provide a market for our perishable products, which cannot be exported, since they annually pay several times the tariff duties. Even on this single low ground of consideration there is abundant reason to preserve the principle of protection. But there are higher reasons, and they ought to be sufficient to every one who loves the genius of American institutions more than he loves those of Europe. From 50 to 103 percent, more wages in this country than in Europe dots the Nation over with school-houses, and fills them with millions of merry, bright faces, where the future genius of this land is unfolding, instead of grinding out their young lives in ignorance and dessolation in the smoke and factories, to keep soul and body together, as in Europe. Indianapolis, Dec. 9. Jno. B. Conner

COMMENT AND OPINION.

LABOR AND THE CUUKCII. Preparing an Organization Uuder the Wine of the Vatican. Mew York Elail and Express. According to reports that seem to be thoroughly reliable, the Catholic Church in the United States is going thoroughly and systematically into the matter of assisting in the amelioration of the laboring classes within its own pale, and to inaugurate a chain of organizations that will have for their objects the assistance of the workingman. The idea is new to America, but not to Germany or France. In Germany there are hundreds of workingmcn's unions, with readingrooms, libraries, night-schools, lecture lyceums, and even newspapers. They are also a powerful factor in politics, and it was largely to secure their supiort that Prince Bismarck made his peace with the Pope. In France these workingmen's guilds are even more powerful. The Count de Marr is the president of their central body. Their representatives recently visited Rome, where Pope Leo himself was at pains to give them a splendid reception. The Pope is known to be very much in favor of such organizations. Cardinal Gibbons, since his last visit to Europe, where he went out of his way to study the workings of the French guilds, has been a warm admirer of them, and has been in favor of their establishment here. The present is an opportune time for the movement. The Knights of Labor, which formerly filled the field for Catholic as well as non-Catholic workingmen, is" plainly disintegrating. Besides, Socialism, which the Catholic Church violently opposes, is rampant, and tho church would like to get workingmen into organizations where such principles would not be taught. Again, Dr. McGlynn and other agitators have asserted that the present heads of the church have no love for the laborer, and it would be a great move to prove the contrary. Tho ifioviment h?re has taken no definite thape yet, , and much preliminary work will be required, as Cardinal Gibbons and a few others are the only ones who are really acquainted with the system as it prevails abroad. "Cardinal Gibbons is now studying the project closely, and some definite action may soon be looked for. The plan of organization will be to have local guilds all over the country, which will be governed by a central body somewhat similar to that which rules the Knights of Labor. Although under the sanction of the church, the heads of the organization will be laymen, with some archbishop or bishop acting, probably, as honorary president of the central body. Each guild will have its own officers and its own laws and regulations. The objects aimed at include the following: "The promotion of temperance among workingmen. "Help for the unemployed by means of employment bureaus. 'Funds for life insurance and for the care of the sick. 'Night schools and lecture lyceums for educational purposes. "Circulating libraries, free to nembers, and regular debating societies. "The establishment of a traveling card system by which members will be recognized and assisted in any locality." These guilds, so-called, are to have no connection whatever with politics, and the church will have sufficient authority over them to prevent either Socialistic or Anarchistic propaganda from being preached in them. In short, while they will be for Catholics, they will be secular ana non-political in character. That it will be difficult to carry out this project in this country is recognized. Franco is a Catholic country and Germany is largely Catholic. Catholics here have invariably resented any interference on the part of the church in their affairs, and this prejudice will have to be overcome. It is hoped, however, that the several secular societ ies affiliating with the Catholic Church may be induced to assist in the proposed movement. There is a purely temperance organization in the United States under the patronage of Bishop Ireland, numbering upward of 100,000 members, and havin g local unions. There is a Young Men's National Union, of which Rev. John R. Grady, of this diocese, is president, having 20,000 members, and there are similar organizations that might all consolidate on the broader plan of a Workininen's National Union. The new body would, of course, exist under the auspices of the American hierarchy, while being a thorough business organization. The Knights of Labor, in the iargo cities at least, are largely made up of Catholics, and the founding of an organization such as that outlined above would weaken it fatally. Just who will take the first step in the inauguration of the new enterprise is not as yet known. It is very likely, however, to be Cardinal Gibbons. Winter Work on the Farm, Philadelphia Kecord. The winter season need cot necessarily entail idleness on the farm. Much valuable work may be done in winter; and by a proper and judicious division of farm duties the hurried labor of spring may be somewhat avoided. One great source of los3 in winter is allowing tbe shocks of corn to remain in the fields to be injured by the weather, as well as affording harboring places for mice and vermin, instead of hauling tbe same to the barn, there to remove the ears of corn, and husking them, under shelter, by whioh means the fodder will be brighter and better, while every portion cf tbe stalk may be conveniently made of some value. Tbe strawstacks should aUo be carried to the barn; there, along with the cornstalKs, passed through tbe fodder-cutter, to be reduced into very short lengths, and either fed to stock or used as bedding. This may cost something for labor, but wqen it is considered that unemployed help costs as much as that which can be put to service, tbe real value of the labor is but very little. Every ounce of food saved by careful preparation is a clear gain, and the winter work in that respect is but a continuation of that left over from the fall. Tbe manure heap. is another winter work-shop, as it is tbe most important material on the farm. No matter how cold the weather may be, there are certain times when the materials of tbe manure heap reqnire turning over, not only to prevenjt overheating, but to throw the coarser portions to the center, where they may, in turn, be reduced to a fine condition. Without entering into the details of the necessary repairs required for the farm buildings and fences, and for tbe inspection of tbe machinery and implements, tbe fattening of stock is a winter occupation, the work of which should be done completely before spring in order to be in readiness for the plow when tbe frost shall be out of the ground. Farming is an all-year-round business, and permits of no idle time, if rightly managed, as it includes the growing of crops during favorable seasons, to be manufactured on tbe farm into milk, butter and meat during the periods when but little ean be done in other respects, for winter can really be made a busy season if the farmer shall so de-

The President's idea seems to be a tariff for Cleveland only. Pittsburg Chronicle. Dakota voted Tprohibition into its Constitution at the late election. Dakota can not be ad' mitted into the Union, however, until after the next presidential election. Too many veteran soldiers there to be agreeable to those who wave the rebel flag. Indiana Christian Advocate. The short-sighted policy of surplus reduction which lets the internal revenue tax stand in order to get a hack at the custom duties in the interest of free trade, shapes its way straight toward the income tax, that most hateful an oppressive of all imposts. The surplus is a bad thing, but there are worse things than a surplus. New York Sun. At present the national bank currency rests on and is secured by United States bonds alone, and when these dissappear. to be replaced by state, county, city, school district and railroaa bonds, the character of tho system would - be entirely changed, and the United States government could not properly have anything to dc with it. St Louis Republican (Dem. ) Tiik decision in this matter, which reverses that rendered by Circuit Judge Brewer, closes one of the most interesting pohibition cases ever brought before the Supreme Court, and closes it too, in a manner which will meet the approval of thinking people generally, whatever their opinions may be regarding the advisability or practicability of prohibition ia the abstract. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The palladium of our liberties should be kept sacredly free from the taint of a broken oat hi of loyalty to the Constitution which depends upon that court for preservation and its integrity. The interpretation of that Constitution can only be safely trusted to men who have alwavs been loyal to it. The confirmation of Mr. Lamar would be occasion for . amazement and indignation- Kansas City Journal. The Blaine interview is timely and welcome. Independent of any consideration touching apossible presidential cpjididacy, the Republicans of thi3 country wi J. warmly applaud the ready promptness and robust ability with which Mr. Blaine takes up the gauntlet and accepts the issue. It is like him to "get there" without loss of time, and nobody can deny that this tilne he "got there with both feet." Chicago MaiL-r We defy any supporter of the administration to show any other motive or reason for England's deep anxiety and most earnest desire to see protection abolished in the United States. Her interest in this issue is purely a selfish and greedy one. She is anxiously waiting for this government to make the greatest mistake in its history, in order that she may reap large and rich rewards therefrom. Milwaukee Sentinel. An objection urged against Secretary Lamar's probable appointment to the Supreme Bench is that he is too old to take upon himself the duties of the offiee. If a man with Lamar's, record is to be appointed, which seems to be' demanded by one wing of the Democracy, Lamar is the man for the place simply for the reason of his mature age. He isn't likely to last as long as some other. Nebraska State Journal. It is clearly the duty of the Republicans in Congress not to wait for the adjustment of squabbles among their opponents and the possible patching up of a compromise bill founded on the satisfaction- of local interests, but to present a reduction bill of their own which shall command the approval of the people from its practical recognition of existing needs and its intelligent discrimination. Boston Ad-

that a combination of un-

"trust" is

vertiser. The mere fact

scrumilous speculators is called a

no reason why the people and their legislators should knuckle to them. The present speculative mania in all kinds of foods suggests the idea that it would be well to re-enact some of the old English common law provisions concerning forestalling, regrating, engrossing, etc. We must not allow the people to be delivered into the hands of the various gangs of speculators. Atlanta Constitution. Mr. Cleveland and his Cabinet may not care much for Pennsylvania or Ohio interests, as there is no chance of getting an electoral vote from either State, but by the time the growing manufacturing communities of the South are heard from he will perhaps begin to see that hi3 propositions are likely to prove as dangerous politically to his own prospects as they wouh be in a business way to those of the Nation if they were adopted which pretty surely they will not be. Pittsburg Dispatch (Ind.) The 29,700 votes cast by the Probitionists this year in Ohio did not prevent Foraker from getting one of the largest pluralities given to a Republican Governor in many years. The 16.000 to 18,000 votes cast by them in Pennsylvania did not prevent the Republicans from getting the largest plurality in fifteen years, except that for Blaine three years ago. The Republicans in these States have dealt courageously and firmly with this question, and the party in this and neighboiing States needs only to follow their example. New York Tribune. Neither the Hon. Don. 31. Dickinson nor any other man should be confirmed by the Senate as Postmaster-general of the Lnited States unless it is distinctly understood that he is pledged to abolish the present two-cent postage stamp of detestable and disgusting greeu and. restore the old color, which is demanded by the unanimous voice of the people and by all sound principles of aesthetics. The Democratic party cannot afford to go into the Presidential canvass of next year burdened with the responsibility of a refusal to rectifv the most tremendous and farreaching aesthetic blunder of the age. New York Sun-

How to Make Japanese Fans. New York Mi! and Express. "Where did you getthatlovelyJapane.se fan?" asked one young woman of another in an uptown flat. "I made it," was the reply. "How could you do that.'-' "I first visited several stores where they keep wall-paper, and. asked the salesmen for samples, and any small pieces they had on band. They refused to take pay for them- I took all kinds to make it look as odd as possible, for it is & species of crazy work. The reds are the most effective colors, and they make the fan look more like genuine Japanese work. I cut the wall-paper into various shapes. Then I took an old newspaper and spread it out on the tabid and pasted." "Pasted what?" "Pasted the pieces of wall-paper on to the newspaper. The effect when finished is astonishing. The different styles of paper contrast with some and blend with others, so as to make a novel design. When all the pieces are put on, and before the paste is entirely dry, the paper must be folded m the back and forward style, as you would make an impromptu fan from a programme in a warm theatre. Then put weights on the paper until it is perfectly dry.? "How do you use the fans!" . - "For ornament only. They are too large and too fragile for ordinary use. When they ges dry. one edge is tied with a large bow of ribbon, and the other edge spread out fan-shape. Then they are tacked on to doors, over mantels, ia front of fireplaces, or over bare spots on the wall. The folds give them a graceful look, and thev have a very pretty decorative effect." ''How long does it take to make onef "A good while for each person, but for two with nimble fineers. not more than an hour for each fan. But it takes a whole day to dry on thoroughly." It is Absurd For people to expect a cure for Indigestion, unless they refrain from eating what is unwholesome ; but if anything will sharpen the appetite and give tone, to the digestive organs, it is Averts Sarsaparilla. Thousands all over the land testify to the merits of this medicine. Mrs. Sarah Burroughs, of 248 Eighth street, South Boston, writes : "My husband has taken Ayer's Sarsaparilla, for Dyspepsia and torpid liver, and has been greatly benefited." A Confirmed Dyspeptic. C. Canterbury, of 141 Franklin st., Boston, Mass., writes, that, suffering for years from Indigestion, he was at last induced to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla and, by its use, was entirely cured. Mrs. Joseph Aubin, of Iligh street, Ilolyoke, Mass., suffered for over a year from Dyspepsia, so that she could not x eat substantial food, became very weak, and was unable to care for her family. Neither the medicines prescribed by physicians, nor any of the remedies advertised for the cure of Dyspepsia, helped her, until she commenced the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. " Three bottles of this medicine," she writes, 44 cured me." Ayer's Sarsaparilla, FltEPAKED BV Dr. J. C. Ayer Sc Co., Lowell, Mass. Price 1 1 ; six bottles, $5. Worth $ 5 a bottle.