Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1888 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4. 18 33.

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. lowtit Rates Err Known. Cmaiao, July 3. In accordance with general expectation tho rate on dressedbeef shiptststt to-day fell to 23o per hundred pounds, Cbieago to New York, the lowest rate Tr made by any railroad oa this article of freight. Oa Boston business the 2Ge rate was main tained. The rate on provisions was further reduced to 22 Jo to New York and 27Jo to Boston, wnile in order to maintain the authorized difference between the Hto stock and dressed beef rates a farther reduction was made on cattle in ear-loads, bringing the rate3 down to 12J cents to ew York, but leading it at UJc to Boston. Oa all ether articles, so far as couid bo learned, the rates remained nnchanjed from Monday's schedule. In view of the extremely low figures that bare been reached on the freights above tamed, it is not considered probable that any further reductions will be made on those particular articles. Nothing can be foretold with certainty, however, and so far es the tiressedbeer raU ia concerned everything will depend en what the Erie and the Chicago & Atlantic nay decide to da Consolidation la Illinois. SpsDJcriELD, 11L, July 3. At a meeting of thedht ctors of the St Louis, Alton & Springfield, and the St. Louis & Central Illinois railway companies, held here yesterday. It was derided to consolidate the two compaies, and the road hereafter will be operated under the title of the St. Louis, Alton & Springfield railway. The comnany ues the Wabash track: from this city to Bates station, thence using its own line to Grafton, where connection is made with steamers for St. Louis. The intention is to build an extension from Grafton to Alton, thence the use of some other linn may be secured to make an all-rail line to St Louis. rersonal, Loral and State Notes. J. V. D. Coleman has been appointed agent of the Vandalia at Rockville, Ind. . Wm. R. McKeen, president of the Vandalia, and Col. Horace Scctt were in the city yesterday, attending the Belt-road meeting. The sales of the outside offices of the Bee-line at this point for June were the largest in the history of the road, reaching at both ofSees $0,126. One of the Bee line officials states that the report that the new conductors are not paid as good salaries as thooe discharged Is Incorrect They are paid the same. To-morrow the work of replacing the old bridge oTer the Wabash river on the Vandalia line with a fine iWl and iron combination bridge will be commenced. The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago freight department has issued a new tariff of ratea which reduees them considerably to a majority of local points on their road. The Belt Road Company have several hundred tons of steel rails, weighing seventy pounds to the yard, s trans- along the side of their track, which is to take the place of present lighter rails. The passenger earnings of the Lake Erie & Western in June of last year were the largest of any month in 1837, yet the earnings of this department for June this year are $1,936 in excess of those of June, 1837. The Eee-line earned in May, gross, $580,632, an increase over the earnings of May, 1SS7, of (3,933. The earninrs of the road for the first fire months of the year were, gross, $2,833,253; set for that period, $632, 185. The Indianapolis car-works are now turning out ears for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fo road at the rate of twenty a day. Oa Monday a shipment of 100 cars was made, being the first shipment on the 2,000 car contract The stockholders of the Belt road and Livestockyards yesterday held their semi-annual meeting and declared a 3 per cent nemi-annual dividend. The report of Superintendent Ijams showed both enterprises to be very prosperous, and the property to be in excellent condition. General Superintendent Miller, of the Pennlyivsnia lines west of Pittsburg, and Division Superintendent Bennett were in the city yesterday, and the latter selected the room which he will occupy in the new Union station on removing his headquarters from Richmond, Ind., to this city. Said a general manager of some 400 miles of read, yesterday: "Outsiders have an idea that to many people purchase tickets before hoarding trains that conductors handle but little cash. The auditor's report of our road shows that in the last six months our conductors hare turned

over to na $47,264." The Indianapolis rolling mill has sold one hundred tons of steel rails to the Chicago & Atlantie road, which cleans up all the rails which they turned out while running. General Manager Morgan expects that in a day or two the directors will fix upon a date to meet and take some action as regards the future of the mill The Cincinnati, Indianapolis. St Louij & Chicago people will not commence using the North Bend cut-off to-day, as had been Intended, but will postpone the change until about the 15th of the month. By that date the track can be used for passenger trains without seriously interfering with the completion of the Improvement The Indianapolis weighing bureau continues to do a good work and one which yields a bandsome increase in revenue to the several companies. The report of Secretary Eckman for June shows rains through weighing car-load freight of 6.182,239 pounds; piatform freight gains. 748,812 pounds, or a total of 6,931,106 pounds. The discharged passenger conductors on the Bee-line system haveselected a committee to visit Cleveland and ascertain from General Manager Beach, if possible, the cause of the wholesale dropping out of conductors on the several divisions. As the order came from higher powers than the general manacer it is to be feared that their efforts in the direction proposed will bo futile. Within the last few years a lumber of Indiacapolitacs have purchased grounds at Cedar Lake and erected cottares thereon at a cost of $2,000 or $3,000. the understanding being that the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan would furnish tbem round trip tickets, good for the season, at $4. Thi season they have advanced this class of tickets to SO. 40, and there is a good deal of hard feeling over the matter. With the approval of G U Waite A. II. McLeod. general freight agent of the. Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines bae made the following appointments: II. G. Sriles, general gant in charge of their freight interests at Indianapolis and west thereof; F. IL Eosworth, contracting freight spent for Indianapolis proper; J. F. Youse, Western traveling freight agent, with headquarters at IndianapAt a meeting of the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, held at JeffersonTills, on Sunday night resolutions were passed demanding the employment of extra hostlers by the company a: the Louiuille roundhouse, in order to afford the men of the foot-board needed rest at that end of the line. It is believed that Superintendent Black will accede to their wishes, and that no trouble will come from such demand. The peneral msnaeer sf one of the Indianapolis line stated yesterday that be had taken the "spotters" off of his trains, as, after some weeks, he had found but one conductor who was crooked en on go in his returns to make It wj to dismiss him. With thirty others the crookedness was so trifling that it would be overlooked. He added that in many esses there were only slirht discrepancies in reports between the train checkmen and the conductor. The Evansville & Terre Haute road" has earned, .inra the 1st of January, $373,033, which is a decrease, as compared with the e-.rning for tha corresponding period last year, of SG43. The Evar.srilie & Indianapolis earned in the same period $101,106, a fnlling off as compared with last year of $670. The St Louis, Alton & Terro Haute main line has earned since Jan. 1, $SS2,436, which is a decrease of $20,450 this year. The troubles between the L-, N. A. Ss CL management and their employes at their shops in New Albany continue. There 115 men out, and they demand that their pay day shall be fixed on the 25th of each month, stating that it often tuns past that date before the paymaster eoynes around. General Manager Caron sticks to his first order, that the men should be paid off and ether men employed in their places, but many of the men refuse to aecept their pay, and matters are considerably mixed. Superintendent Woodard is quoted as saying that there has always been trouble with their workmen at New Albany, and he thought the company would cow remove their shops to some other point a matter which has been aritated several times. At one time it was thought that Lafayette wouM seeore these shaprf. The monthly report of Secretary Broadbelt hows that there arrived and departed at the Union depot io the month of June, a total of 3.553 trains, of which number 214 were special trains, being the largest number of special trains ever bandied at the Union depot in any one month. In May but ninety-six special trains were handled on the Union tracks, and this number wa large. Tbe increase was largely due laths national Republican convention and the numerous picnics io the month of Jane. On these trains were handled 23,455 coaches, which was 4,022 more coaches than were handled In the month of May. The largest number cf Coaches arrived and departed over the Bee-line,

nsxt with 2. 930; the C, H. & L third, with 2,573 eoaehes. The time record for June was very unfavorable. Many of the trains were heavy, . . . . . i 1-1. : .

and it was impossioie to mate acuvuiua tiuo, even with the regular trains. Miscellaneous Items. The third week In June fifty-eight of the lead ing roads made returns of earnings aggregating $3,413,473, at, increase of 6 per cent over the earnings of the corresponding week in 18S7. The extension of the Saline, Lincoln & West ern road, which the Union Pacific is now con structing in Kansas, will be completed this year. The road runs from Waldo to Colby, Kan., 135 miles, and is all the new construction the union Pacifio contemplates making this year. C- W. Smith, vice-president of the Atehison, Topeka & Santa Fe. tells the Boston people that just now the company is not building so much new road as it was at one time in the not far distant past and its poliey at the moment is one of conservatism. He was led to this rsmark by the statement that their road was to be extended at once to San Francisco. It is asserted that a eareful estimate has been made and that the gross direct and indirect cost to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road from the strike and rate-cutting, for both of whieh it is held responsible, is from $8,000,000 to $9,000,000. Granted that this be true, it follows that competitors of the C, B. & Q. must naturally entertain hostile sentiments toward the road. The Atchison's loss indirectly from the troubles are set down at $2, COO, 000. General Passenger Agent Charlton, of the Chicago & Alton, has made himself solid with the ticket agents the country over by the firm stand he took as regsrds the payment of commissions, and his work is the more appreciated now that the important lines are lifting the boycott on the C. cv A. road, and that the prospects are so good that agents will soon be receiving commissions, as in olden times, from all the important Western lines. LETTERS FROM TOE PEOPLE. General Harrison at Feaob Tree Creek; To the Editor of the Indlanaoolis Journal; Answering the request of CoL Levin T. Miller, of the Thirty-third Indiana, and yourself, I relate what occurred under my eye, at Peach Tree creek, on the 20th of July. 1864. In the fore noon the Army of the Cumberland crossed that stream some three miles north of Atlanta, at various points covering a length of some two miles, the Fourteenth Corps on the right, the Twentieth in the center and the Fourth on the left or east The Third Division of the Twen tieth Corps, Ward's, was on the left, next to Newton's division of the Fourth corps. Peach Tree crsek was at that time a deep and muddy stream; like Fall ereek, not fordable. Tempo rary log bridges were made. Ward's division, the Third, got over near 10 o'clock. Harrison's brigade on the right, Cobnrn's in the center, Wood's on the left; Geary's division of the Twentieth Corps, the Second, was on the right of Ward's. The creek bottom there was level some three hundred yards from the stream, skirted on the south by low hills, sloping up to a height of fifty or sixty feet a quarter of a mile awav. The Fourth and Twentieth corps on our left and right as far as we could see, moved up on this ridge. Our division, with a front of a third to a half mile, remained in the valley on a line in the rear of the other troops. some two or three hundred yards. There was heavy skirmishing along the whole front About noon a soldier of the Thirty-third Indi ana, Henry Crist gave me information that the rebel army was approaching iu heavy force. jnst over the hill. I at once went to General Ward's headquarters, having put my brigade under arms; on the way I weat through Harri sons brigade and told him what I bad learned. He also put his brigade under arms, saying that we ought to advance. I soon found Ward. ' He doubted the truth of the statement He said it was the order of General Hooker for the division to remain where it was. I insisted on bis moving up on a lino with the trmy to close tip the gap in onr front He admitted that we could not boldaposition there long, if the enemy came in force.. At length he said: "Go yourself and see ir the rebels are coming, ana ir tney are yon and Harrison may take your brigades to the top of the ridge." I wont to Harrison, told him the order of Ward, and that . if I found the enemy coming I would, without delay, order my brigade to advance. He said he was ready and anxious to move sinee it was perilous to stay there. - At once I went forward to the top of the ridge, and there saw the enemy coming, not over a hundred yarda away, in lull force. Galloping back to my com mand I gave the erder to mora Harrison ordered his men forward, the other brigade not moving. Our brigades had advanced cot more than half way to the top of the ridge until the enemy came over and the fight began furiously. The two brigades baited in the shallow ravine of a spring branch. Line after line came over the ridge toward us. On the left of my brigade they met no resistance till I rode to Colonel Woods and asked him to advance, which be did. losing very heavily and filling up the gap toward the Fourth Corps. About this time Harrison and his men on our right rose up and charged up hiil with terrific power. My brigade was cot slow to get up and ruh forward. The rebels came down bill into and through our ranks pellmell, dropping their arms and surrendering. Woods continued his advance on the left, and soon the ridge was ours. Harrison was the per sonification of fiery valor, with voice and gesture urging on the furious charge. IV e could see the divisions on onr right and left giving away in confusion, a regiment was surprised in the right, with their arms in the stack a battery was captured, and on the left a host of fugitives scattered toward the rear. But our advance seemed to give them encouragement they rallied and retook their linea Our sol diers all got a supply of new Enfield rifles on the field, the gun-straps were not soiled. I never saw on any battle-field dead and wounded in such numbers and so close together. It was a complete surprise to ns all. Hood had jest that day taken command with orders to nght and fight at once and all the time. Johnston, by his caution, had made us careless. Ve were cot looking for such a mad rush. No man in the army that night stood higher thsn Harrison for heroism. Had be been a West Pointer his promotion would have been ordered by tele graph. But he soon will be commander-in-chief of the army and nary.no doubt, well qualified to do his whole duty. John Coburn. Jostle and Fair I'My. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In pursuance to a printed notice from , the deputy city attorney, ordering me to remove my clock sign in front of my store, claiming that it was illegally maintained over the side-walk, I at once removed it, with the understanding that ali the clocks and signs On Washington street had to be removed or prosecution would follow. To my surprise and astonishment I notice by your paper, of July 3, that the Council of the night before had selected three favored ones and granted them the privilege of leaving their aigns where they were, while their competitors and neighbors were compelled to remove the signs they had pot oat. Where is the justice in such legislation. by make fish of one and flush of another!1 What right has the Council to discriminate between neighbors, and errant one privilegea above another! These clocks are placed on the street as a mr&ns of advertising business, just the same as any other sign is placed there, and one has no more right to maina lw a t v 1 m tain tnera tnan nis naignoors. e au pay taxes alike, and are, or should be. protected alike. Can the law discriminate between neighbors as to which sign or signs shall remain! If three clocks in one square (and one of them a dummy) are a punnc Denent, wny snouia not the same benefit extend all over the eitv! Let us have justice and fair play. v. T. Marct. , eae"eSJBBBBBBSwe""e'"eee The Issue Is rialo. San Francisco Chronicle. Make no mistake on this matter. There is one question before the people of the United States, and only one, and that is whether it is best for the country to abandon the protective system or to retain it Everything else is a side issue. The personality of the candidatea aink into utter insignificance when contrasted with this great this vital issue. The party whieh never did or would stand up squarely on this question, the Democratic party, is already straining every nerve to obscure and cloud this issue, and to hamper and eneumber it with irrelevant matters. It is emoloying and will employ every device it can to distract the at tention of the people from the main question. It will seek to stir up popular passion and prejudice, not against tbu doctrines of the Re publican party, but against its candidatea It will shift its ground a hundred times lastween cow and election time, but every change of base will be aeeorapanied with a discharge of mud and a volley of personal abnse and misrepresent ation. The people of the United States must be on their guard against this. They must remember alwars that they are to determine the fate of the Nation, and that the election of 18S3 is a momentous one from the questions involved in it If they do remember this they will cot be led away, oo matter bow skillfully it may be sought to arouse their prejudices or how often i

JULY MAGAZINES. , For some unexplained reason newspaper and

magazine writers have devoted far more atten tion to the government military school at West Point than to the Annapolis Naval Academy, and the publio Is comparatively misinformed concerning the latter, institution. This lack is sup plied, however, by July Harper, the opening article being an illustrated account of the life of the naval cadets and their course of instruction. Another illustrated paper is Frank IL Spear man "Great American Desert" this "desert as it was once called, cow including the far from barren regions known as Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas. The progress of civilization in those regions is very graphically deacrioea. Charles Dudley Warner covera Illinois, Indiana and Ohio in this installment of his "Studies of the Great West" and consequently gives but little more than the information which can be gleaned In any encyclopedia. H6 shows himself to have been deeply impressed by the possibilities of natural gas in the building up of the country. Lafcadio Hearne's "Midsmmer Trip to the West Indies." is attractively illustrate!. A chapter on the street trees of Washington. by Peter Henderson, is of importance to persons interested in street improvement elsewhere. A short story in negro dialect by E h. iviwards entitled, "Old Miss and Little Sweetheart," rather strained in effect and tiresome. Iothe opinion of agood many readers, the dialect species of literature is being overdone by tne magazines. A novelette by IL Rider Haggard, entitled "Mai was Revenge,n is begun in this number. Edward L. Wilson's description of "Sinai and the Wilderness," in the July Century, is made more vivid and interesting by the series of ex cellent illustrations that accompany it The publio apparently never tire of descriptive writ ing when it relates to the Holy Land. George Kennan's Siberian article does not touch upon any phase of prison life in this installment, but is merely the story of his journey from Tiumen to Tomsk. Incidentally it affords an. interesting view of the people and country, and the methods of life. Mrs. Van Rensselaer contributes a description of Litchfield Cathedral, which is charmingly illustrated. The Lincoln History.- treats of McClellans rapid advance to power, and of the Mason-Slidell capture and the consequent complications. Rev. J. M. Buckley has a chapter on "Dreams, Nightmare and Somnambulism, m which, however, be presents no new or original views. Other articles are "Disease Germs and How to Combat Them." "The Career of the Con federate Ram Albemarle," "Reunions of the Blue and Gray," and a short story by Brander Matthews, called "On the Battle-field." Among the poems of the number are two of martial spirit entitled "Waiting for tbe Bugle" and "High Tide at Gettysburg." the one by Thomas Wentworth. the other by Will H. Thompson. A pathetic negro dialect poem, "Gladness," by James Whitcomb Riley also appears in this num ber. The marvels of railroad building have never been presented to the understanding of the nonscientifis reader in a more clear and comprehen sive way than in the illustrated articles cow ap pearing in Scribner's Magazine. A contempla tion of the bridges, and viaducts, and tunnels. and euts, and "loops" of track, and a realization of the difficulties involved in building them, and the responsibility placed upon the builder, gives to the civil engineer an importance and dignity which that functionary has not possessed m all minds heretofore. Henry James's story, "A London Life," has m it some elements of real life not always discernible in his fiction. This comment has no cynical reference to the scandal which he foreshadows, bat to the sensations of the innocent young woman who is an unwilling but helpless witness of her sister's downward career. "An Astronomer s Summer Trip," by Charles A. Young, is an account of a journey to Siberia, last August, to observe a total eclipse of the sun and of the writers experience in Russian observatories. George Parson Lathrop's poem, prepared for this week's celebration at Uettysburg, appears in this issue. Al lan . Bo tta ford's lines on "Midsummer" have in them the real spirit of an idle, dreamy July day. In the Jnly Forum, Senator George F. Edmunds writes on "The Political Situation,0 Edward Atkinson on "How Can Wages be In creased!" Senator W. E. Chandler on "Our Southern Masters." This caper is a very strong presentation of the condition of affairs in tbe South as shown in the suppression of the cegro vote and the disregard of the Constitution by the confederate element in power. Other oontributions to the number are "Lnglish and Amerioan Manners." by T. W. Higginson; "The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of,77 by Dr. M. Clymer: "Moral Principle iu Public Affairs," by W. L. Treuholm; "Komscism and the Republic," by Monsignor Leon Bouland; "The New Battle of the Books," by George Pellew; "What Shall the Public Schools TeachF by Prof. L. H. Ward; and "The Bugbear of Trust," by Henry Wood, Belford's Magazine, or as it is more likely to be known, Donn Piatt's Magazine, is the latest venture among literary periodicals. Its apparent purpose is to promote free-trade interests, room being given to no less than four contributions in that line, besides an editorial. The writers in question are Thomas G. Shearman, J. S. Moore, Henry George and Frank Hnrd. The literaryfeatures are good. Tbe example of Lippiocotta Msgazine is followed, and a complete novel is made a feature of the number. "Old Man Gilbert" is a story of Southern life in war time, and is very well told and interesting. The author, Elizabeth Bellamy, is introduced to the public by Mra Augusta Evans Wilson. For a first issue the magazine is very creditable to its publishers. Some of the best fiction of the year is appearing in the Atlantic "Miser Farrell's Bequest, which is concluded in the July issue, is a singular and brilliant story, though somewhat diaappointing and inconsequent in its close, House's Japanese serial has tbe merit of novelty. Craddock'a "Despot of Broomsedge Cove" is a story after the magazine publisher's own heart, beingso arranged tbateach installment leaves she reader in anxious suspense. A good short story is "A Browning Courtship," by Eliza Orne White. Tbe more serious contributions to the number are of the high literary order which has come to he looked for in this magazine. The Yellow Snake," a novel by William Henry Bis O op, occupies the greater part of the July Lippineott It is a story of Mexican life, and is a more interesting tale than its rather sensational title indicates. "My Experience as an Adventuress," is a somewhat misleading title, since the story told is that of a woman who, as the saylne goes, "lives by her wits," but only by an honest exercise of them, and not by the means adopted by those commonly known as adventuresses. Tonrgee, in his serial "With Gauge and Swailow," has a chapter on clairvoyance. An article on "Toadstool s," an essay on "The First Person Singular," and two or three rather good poems complete tbe book. . Thomas Nelson Page's story, "Two Little Confederates," in St Nicholas, is very graphic and entertaining, and gives young readers a good idea of the state of affairs in the South during the civil war. To lovers of dogs all stories of dogs are interesting, but the sketches by Gertrude Wickham of "Dog3 of Noted Amaricaos" will be found particularly so since tbe noted Americans seem to have owned most remarkable animals. Boys will find IL Albert Johnson's "Recollections of the Naval Academy' interesting. The number as a whole ia above the usual high average in merit and interest. An essay on the "Aims of Art," by George Frederick Watts, R. A., in the July Msgazine of Art is a serious and dignified presentation of the subject, that might be read with profit by all artists and art-lovers. Other contributions are "A Personal View of Japanese Art," "Old Arts and Modern Thoughts." "The Forest of Fontainebleau," "The Crown, Its Growth and Developement," and "Charles Dickens and His Less Familiar Portraits. "All these articles are profusely illustrated. A portrait study by Ellen Welby forms the frontispiece of the July Art Amateur. Directions for its treatment in oil and water-colors are given in detail A double page Illustration is a study of poppies by Victor Daugon. Among the supplement designs are a classical decorative figure, "Hebe," pot-pourri vase decoration, bands for wood -carving and a colored plate, representing ferna. Montague Marks, publishsr, 23 Union square, New York. The Quiver for July carries on the story Tn Her Own Right," by the author of My Brother Basil," and rives the concluding chapters of "Not All in Vain. by Lambert Shields. There are two or three short stories and several well written artislea on miscellaneous subjects. The Quiver Is an excellent family magazine, handtsatU iUcsttttu. cxxelniij cdiul and uiiorm-

ly pure and healthy in tone. It is published by Casseli & Company, New 'York, at $1.50 per year. "Judge's Young Folks," a weekly Issued by the publishers cf Judge, iu something new in juvenile literature. Children, of course, enjoy colored illustrations, and that they have a sense of humor and folly appreciate the mixture of fun and seriousness is proved by the swift verdict of "good" which they give noon reading it Judge Publishing Company, 33 Park Row, New York. The Suppliant" is the title of the photogravure which accompanies the June Art Age. It is from a painting by H. Siddons Mowbray, and represents a young communicant in a white veil in a devotional attitude, A supplement portrait of the artist Mowbray is also given with this number, which completes the seventh volume of this very excellent publication. "Tid-Eits," the weekly humorous paper, has

changed its came to "Time," has slightly en larged, and promises that all who read it shall have a good time. New York, 14 Vesey staeet The frontispiece of July Outing is a portrait of four dogs, after a painting by Jadin, and is alone worth the price of the magazine to sports men and dog lovers. The Magazine of American History for Jnly contains a fine full-length portrait of the late Chief-justice Waite in his official robes. Written for the Indianapolis Journal.; A Campaign Song. Sy, wnite folks, hab you seen Grove Cleveland, "Wid de sadness on his face, Go roun' de White House mighty lonesome Like he 'spec's to leab de j lace"? lie's heard de shout "Ben Harrison's comin' And he knows he's had his day; His eyes he rubs wid de red bandanna, For he-'s gwire to go away. ' Chorus-Free-traders run, ha! ha! Protection wins, ho! ho! To de White House Genrl Harrison's comin, And Cleveland's got t3 go! Massa Harrison's good like his old grandfadJer, And hi head and heart am sound; He will pay de pensions to de sotjer And will pass de homesteads round. Wid de stars he'll chase de red bandanna, And when election's done, De Republican folks dey'll all shout glory, Cause our Benjamin has won. Chorus De laborer feels mighty tired of libbin On de vraces free trade pay, Iey ask do Nation for protection For to keeD de wolf at bay. De rich folks dey got plenty, no how, And de poor folks, der want some. Dey'id therefore vote for Mas&a Harrison When November sixth am come. Chorus De Democrats dey make us trouble, An it's time to break de spelL We'l clean de White House top to cellar, - And for Massa Harrison yell! Our platform's good, no plank is broken. Masa Harrison 's "built dat way." We'll shout and pray and vote together, An 'lcct him, election day. ' Chorus. J. T. L. JUMPING SAM PATCH. Interesting Reminiscences of an Old Paterson Farmer. JliddletownrX Y.) Special. A grizzled old farmer named William P. Drown was in town tho other day, and fell to giving reminiscences of Paterson as he re membered the place sixty years ago. 'I was born on Manhattan Island," he said, "when all the upper part was nothing but farm lands, and I went to work in a cotton-spinning factory in Paterson aa sweeper and errand boy when I was eleven years old. Paterson was a small place then, and the factory was a small affair, too. but one of the owners was 5 am Patch, who afterwards became famous as a high jumper. I saw him make bis first big jump at Passaic Falls. "Tho story of the jump is this: Sam Patch and a man named Bran ni can were partnera in the factory, and they failed in business. Sam was a Cape Cod man by birth, and had been a sailor from a boy up till be came to Paterson. He was a daring and reckless fellow and could swim like a duck. It was said that while he was a sailor he often exhibited bis skill and dar ing by jumping from the high masts of ships in to the sea. After the failure Sam Patch hung around Paterson with nothing to do until he got prettxhard up. Then, I suppose, the thought occurred to him that he could make a raise by jumping off the rocks of Passaic Falls. So notice was given that at a certain day and hour Sam Patch would jump oil the can at the falls into the river below, a distance ox about eighty feet, for a puree of $50, made up by some of tbe sports of the town. Few people believed that he would make the jump, but there was a big crowd on band to see it ali the same. "Sam came to the falls stripped tols undershirt and drawers. He showed no fear or nerv ousness, but his face was flushed, as I thought. by drink. He took a couple of small stones in his hands and went to the brink of the cliff and dropped them off, one after the other, and watched where they struck the water down be low, lhen he walked back a few yards and turned and took a little run to the brink of the cliff and jumped off, clearing the rocks about teu feet He went down feet first, but with his body inclining considerable to one side, and in this shape he struck the water and disappeared. A few moments later his head bobbed up at a point down stream, and he began paddling for tbe shore. Then the crowd gave him a big cheer. "Sam's jump at the Passaio FaIIs was consid ered a marvelous feat :n those days and made him famous the cauntry over. So be took to lumpine for money from the masts of ships, and from bridges and other high places, and went about tho country giving exhibitions. Unfortunately for him. too, he took no another prac tice that soon cut bis career short. I didn't see him make bis last jump at the Genesee Falls at Rochester, Nov. 13, 1829. but those who did see the tragedy tell me that when he approached the brink to make the leap of 125 feet into the eeethine pool below he was dazed and unsteady from drink. He made the jump to bunglingly that he struck the water natwise instead of feet first, the coneussion crushing in his breast aud sending his dead body to tho bottom like a atone. The St Louts Iirldge. Scrlbuer's Mncazine. The beautiful bridge built by Captain Eads over the Mississippi river at St. Louis, bold in its assign and excellent in its execution, is an object of admiration to all who visit it, but the impression of its importance would be greatly magnihed u the part below the surface of the water, which bears the massive towers, and which extends to a depth twice as great as the height of the pier above the water, could be visible. There are three steel arches, the center one having a span of 520 feet and each side arch a span of 502 feet- Esch span has four parallel arches or nbe, and each arch is composed of two cylindrical steel tubes, eighteen inches in extertor diameter, one acting as the upper end the other as tbe lower chord of the arch. Ine tubes are in sections. Cfich twelve feet long, and connected by tcrew joints. The thickness of the steel formine tbe tubes runs from 1 3-16 to 2 inches. These uppet ana tower tuoes are parallel ana twelve ieet apart, connected by a single system of diagonal bracing. Tbe double tracks of tne railroad run through the bridge adjacent to the side arches at tbe elevation of tho highest point of tne lower tube. The carriaee road and foot paths extend the full width of the bridge and are carried, by braced vertical posts, at an elevation of twenty-three feet above the railroad. The dear headway is fifty-five feet above ordinary high water. The approaches on each side are masonry viaducts, and the railway connects with the city station by a tunnel near ly a mile in length. The great tubular ribs were built out from each side of a pier, the weight on one side acting as a counterpoise for the construction on the other side of the pier. They were thus gradually and systematically projected over the river, without support from below, till they met at the middle of tbe span. when the last central connecting tube was put in p ace by an Ingenious mechanical arrange ment, and the arch became self-supportiog. What the Soldiers Prefer. Milwaukee Sentinel. If pension bills are to be scanned to deteet the undeserving applicants, tbe old soldiers of the country would prefer to have them inspected by an old soldier lik Ren Harrison, rather than bv a man who cevcr saw a military camp, to say . i : c - a. I. t.ii couuug vi m uauie-ueia. A Warm Weather Reflection. Hraaka state Journal. The African heathen who goes through the summer months with no other raiment than a large ring In bis nose is not in such bad ahape alter aiL Tne "Exposition Unlverselle de I'art Culinaire" awaraea tne nig nest Honors to ANGOSTURA IiITTEB3 as the most efficacious stimulant tn excite the appetite and to keep the digestive organs in 3 1 . t . t , 1 . , srooa oroer. ask tor um genuine article, manufactured by Dr. J. G, B, Siegert & Sots. &ai

Republican State Convention. Headquarters or the ) Republican State Central Committee, S IXDiiAPOLls, Ind June 11, 1888. ) The Republicans of Indiana and those who

will act with them in the approaching campaign will meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson Hall, in the city of Indianapolis, on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 1S33, at 10 o'clock a. m., to nominate candidates for the following office: Governor. Lieutenant-governor. Three Judges of the Supreme Court Secretary of State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Reporter of the Supreme Court Attorney-general. Superintendent of Public Instruction. Also, to select presidential electors, and for the transaction of such other business as may be necessary. Each connty will be entitled to representation on tbe basis of one delegate for each 200 votes, and each fraction over 100, cast for Colonel R. S. Robertcon for Lieutenant-governor, in lwO. as follows:

O K QO O QO A M P COUNTIES. COUNTIES. m3 j occs ! ODCrn H m c o - -1 a !- : r r- : ?r Adams.... 5 1,055: Madison.. 14 2,707 Allen 27 5,333 Marion.... f8 13,674 B'rthol'ew 12 2,470; Marshall.. 12 2,312 Benton.... 8 1,530: Martin.... C 1,209 Blackford. 5 1,011 Miami .... 14 2,886 Boone.... 1G 3,165; Monroe... 9 1,816 Brown.... 3 564!IMontgcmy 19 3.742 Carroll.... 12 2,447 Morgan... 11 2,255 Cass 17 3,441 Newton... 0 1,164 Clark 12 2.40S Noble 14 2,762 Clay 15 2.922 jOhio 3 682 Clinton. . 16 3,167 jOrange.... 8 1,685 Crawford.. 0 1,1 971 Owen 8 1,503 Daviess... 12 2,304 Parke...,. 13 2,599 Dearborn.. 12 2,385 ! Perry. .... 9 1.817 Decatur... 12 2,450 Pike 10 1,983 DeKalb... 13 2,511 Porter.... 11 2,179 Delaware.. 17 3,330! Posey 10 1,952 Dubois.... 5 1.021 Pulaski... 5 1,054 Elkhart... 21 4,237 Putnam... 12 2,353 Fayette.... 9 1,772 Randolph- 20 4,062 Floyd..... 9 1.852! Rusa 13 2,539 Fountain.. 12 2,487iRipley 11 . 2,259 Franklin.. 7 1,483; Scott 3 699 Fulton.... 10 1,980. jShelby.... 14 2,800 Gibson.... 13 2,610 1 Spencer. .. 12 2.467 Grant 16 3.154: Starke. ... 3 569 Greece.... 13 2.597! Steuben .. 11 . 2,123 Hamilton.. 16 3,299 j St, Joseph 21 4,282 Hancock.. 9 1.82H jSwitz'rl'nd 8 1,627 Harrison.. 10 1.992iSullivan. . 8 1.594 Henry.... 15 3,526! Tippecano' 25 4,993 Hendricks. 18 2,900 Tipton.. .. 9 1,798 Howard... 14 2,842! Union 5 1,019 Huntingtn 16 3,170! Vand rb'rg 22 4,439 Jackson 10 2,063! Vermillion 8 1,629 Jasper.... 7 1.309 Vigo 27 5,411 Jav 13 2.548 jWabash... 19 3,761 Jefferson.. 15 3,089 , Warren.... 9 1.789 Jennings.. 10 1,91 1 Warrick... 11 2,261 Johnson.. 10 1.993 1 Washi'gt'n 8 1,591 Knox 13 2,6J8 W.rne 27 5.402 Kosciusko. 18 3,578. Wells 8 1,529 Lagrange. 10 2.012: Wh.te 9 1,747 Lake IO 2,076j Whitley... IO 1,909 LaPorte.. 17 3,454 Lawrence. 11 2,119 Total... . 1.160,231,922

On the evening preceding the convention tho delegates from each congressional district will meet at such places as may hereafter be designated by the State committee, to select the following district committeemen, officers of the convention, and presidential electors: L One member of the committee on creden tials. 2. One member of the committee on perma nent organization, rules and order of business, which committee will nominate a permanent resident and secretary; also, two presidential electors, and two alternates fcr the State at large. 3. One district vice-president 4. One district assistant secretary. - 5. One member of the committee on resolu tions. 6. One district presidential elector, and one alternate. The county committees throughout the State will take such steps as may be necessary, regarding the selection of delegates to this con vention, and report at once the names of dele gates and alternates, with their respective postomce address, to the chairman of the State committee. By order of the State central committee, James N. Huston, Chairman. Fob a family medicine Ayer's Sugar-coated Pills are unrivaled. They root out disease. A Friend in Need. With what a'acrity Sjlnford's GixGrit responds to the cry of distress. No cramp or pain has ever made a de mand upon it for relief or care that has cot met with instant response. It is a delicious combination of Imported Ginger, Choice Aromatics and French Bran dy, totally unlike and vastly superior to all othar "fingers," pain cures, and nau seating nostrums. Unripe fruit, impure water, unhealthy climate, un wholesome food. Malaria, Epidemio and Contagious Diseases, Cholera Morbus, Cramps, Pains, Indiges tion, Colds, Chills, Simple Fevers, Exhaustion, Nerv ousness or Loss of Sleep, that te3et the traveler or household at this season, are nothing to those pro tected by Sanford's Ginger. Avoid cheap and dangerous imitations said to be the same," or "as good," or "cheaper" than SANFORD'S GINGER Sold by All Druggisty Grocers and Dealers, I1ED. DYE At his residence, 178 Brocdway. July 2. lbos, Isaae Dye, in tbe e gbty-nith year of his age. HAMLET Jame3 S., at his residercs, No. 108 Colleze avenue, on Tusiav. Julv 3. at 2. a. m. Funeral from residence, Thurf dsy. July 5, at 10:30 a. m. Remains wLl be taken to rlamheld, Ind., for burial. WANTED AGENTS. 1 TTT ANTE DM ANTO TAKE THE AGENCY e . ff (traveling or local) of our safes: size, 28x18x18 inhes; weight, 500 lbs.; retail price, $35; other sizes n proportion. A rare chanco and permanent business. These safes meet a demand never before supplied by other safe companies, as we are not governed by the safe pool. Abl'l SAt a (JU., Cincinnati, U. WANTED SITUATIONS. "I TT ANTED SITUATION YOUNG MAN. ANY. If thing in which there is opportunity for adTaneement. Hardware ta esman. packer or porter ia wholesale bouse. Have experience in hardwate and pack ing. Very best references. Addiess J, G. A, Jour nal omce. WANTED ROOMS. T70R RENT ROOMS, WITH STEAM POWERApply at Bryce's bakery. WANTEli-MISCELLASEOUS. WANTED - ALL EX-SOLDIERS TO SEND their names and address on a postal card and receive in return a sample copy of the Soldier's fam ily paper. AMERICAN TKIUUNE, Indianapolis, ind. Tfr HITE OAK STAVES AND WALNUT, WHITE f f oak and asu logs u anted, to contract with re liable parties for large quantities of staves and lops for retrular supply, delivered at any railroad. Apply, stating full particulars and points of shipment, to N. Y. EXrOKT T1MULK CO., 3D and 7 Uroadway, N. Y. """"T salami" T?OK SALE CHEAP, A WEBER SQUARE ITANO JL and a White sewing-machine, at 813 North Ala bama st. , F OR SALE A NEWSPAPER OUTFIT. COMplete and in eicfllect condition, for tbe publica tion of a aix-cdemn Quarto. As good as Dew. Address PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Indianapo lis. FINANCIAL. II TONEYTO LOAN WM. & IL M. HAD LEY, 70 IT J. East Market street. M ONEY TO LOAN 6 PER CENT. II ORACH McivAY. Room 11, Talbot & News Bloek. I s Jj and eity property IINANCIAL MONEY ON MORTO AO E FARVI3 a E. COFFIN A CO. S IX PER CSNT. OM CITY PROPERTY IN INdiana. Isaaa IL KUrsted. 13 Martindale Block. "at ONEY TO LOAN ON FARMS AT THE LOW. UX est market rae; pnrue?s tor renayment oetore due. We also bay manloipal boals. TUOd. 0. DAY &00M 72 E. Market street, Indianapolis. bTKAYKD. CTRAYED FROM HOME T. B. HOLMES LEFT Ik) b's home in Attica, on Jnne 23. He is subjf et to epileptic fits, and was probably labor in ar undr tem porary derangement when he left without tie kaol dge o tu parents, wuo wui tn&nkraiiy receive and ray for any information concerning his whrreabouta. lie is twenty-one years of ae, smooth fsee. slight in figure, dark hair, fire feet an d ten inches in he'ghtt had on plaid castimere suit, tlaek stiff hat. eonjrress shoes. He would possibly give the name of Thomas Burton. Information should be seal to ALfcift,

FROM FRANKLIN, INDIANA

Describing the Condition and the Eesnlt so as to Leave Xo Ilooin for Doubt, Mr. P. C. Halfaker, a Prominent Citizen of Franklin, Speaks Emphatically, Directly and to the Toint. Mr. P. C. Halfaker. of Franklin. Johnson county, Indiana, said to the writer a few daya ago: 'I have lived in Franklin for many years, and am probably as well known there as any tnan in that community. I an a blacksmith by trade, and, as you see, 1 am strone and welL" The writer had no reason to doubt bis asser tion. Mr. Halfaker is nesrly six feet tall, broadshouldered and has muscles like iron. Youne man." continued Mr. Halfaker, "would you believe that I, of my own free will, would have gladly laid down and died bat a few short months ago?" 'Explain yourself, replied the writer. It was four years aco." as near as I can recall now." said Mr. Halfaker, that I was first troubled with a disorder which I then under stood but little about. The flrtt symptom, as near as I can remember, were a pal a across the forehead, lost above the eyes. and an uncomfortable desire to sneeze. The trouble kept growing worse and extending until I thought, in this past year, I could stand the misery co loneer. 'I be terrible suSering J. P. C. HALFAKER, FRANKLIN, IND. endured is best known by my friends abd my own family. At night 1 could not sleep and tossed about all night. "In tbe mornine I arose unrefreshed, wltn a bad taste in my mouth, and it would take me a long time to hawk and spit up the mucuf which had dropped into and lodged in the BACK PAKT OF MY THROAT Durine tbe night. My eyes had a hot, burning sensation and watered freely. My ears had queer tonnes in thorn, like the buzzing 01 bees or hornets. My nose was stoped up, first on one side and then on the other. I had. to keep my mouth open in order to breathe. This caused my throat to become parched and dry. Jiy head had a dizzy, swimming sensation, especial ly when 1 would stoop over, and otten wane walking along the street I would reel LIKE A DRUNKEN MAN. My stomaeh felt heavy as lead after eating. My food would cot digest. 1 would leel a peculiar sinking or fluttering sensation at my stomach. and my bowels would rumble. I could cot go out in company, I was so miserable. I would blow large scabs from my nose and hawk up yellow mucus from my throat. In the last year X LOST TWENTY IOUNDS in flesh. I wonld grow tired on the slightest exertion. My pleasure in life was spoiled. I naa no amouion. i grew aesponueui casuy. At last I thought I must give up work entirely. It was at this time I heard cf Dr. Franklya Blair, of 203 North Illinois street, Indianapolis. I went to see him and went under his treatment. I commenced to improve at once. My worst symptoms gradually disappeared. I began to feel strong and weiL My cough soon left me and I did not give up my work, but kept at it and felt well able to. The swelling of my abdomen decreased until it was again its natural size. The fact is I feel better than I hare for years." The above cut is a fair likeness of Mr. Halfaker, who lives in Franklin, a thriving town about twenty miles from Indianapolis. KI V CATIQNALi. CAYUGA LAKE MILITARY ACADE31Y, Aurora, N. Y. Cot. C. J. Wright, B. S., A. M. fPHE PERRSRILL MILITARY ACADEMY I reekskill-on-iludton, N. Y. end for catalogue. 1 JOHN N. T1LDEN. M. D., M. A PrincipaL GANNETT NSHTOTB MSC The Thirty fifth Year. For catalogue. etc. address Rrv. GEO. Q ANN ETT D.D., i'J Chester sq., Boston, Mass. BOYS' CLASSICAL SCHOOL Thirteenth year opens Sept. 17. Prepares for all Colleges. Boys of eight received. Send for Catalogue, T. If. bewail, Indianapolis, Indiana. GIRLS' CLASSICAL SCHOOL Seyenth year opens Sept. 17. Prepares for all Colleges that admit women. Superior advantages in Music and Art. Fifteen teachers. Handsome accommodations for boarding pupils. Send for Catalogue. T. L. Sewall and May Wright SewaU, Principals, Indianapolis, led. CINCINNATI, Walnut Hills. JVTiss 3SToui?se3s English and French Family aid Day School Will reopen Sept. 20. Pupils may join special classes, or may talce the full course of study fitting for College Examination. Circulars and further information can be had daring ths Summer on application to tha above address. SXJliviKR SCIIOOI INDIANAPOLIS B)US!IiESS UiilVEuSITW 1 O) BLOCX, CPFOSITS rOST CFFICI J REDMAN, IIEEB& OSBORN, Principals and Prop?. Best plaee to secure a thoroughly practical Business, Shorthand, Penmanship and Fnlith Training'. Class and individual instruction. Expert teachers. Special low rates for Summer School- Enter uow. isitors welcome. (jpEiesant catalogue free. HEW ENGLAND CONSETQRT CF MUSIC Boston, Mass.' -i TITO I. 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