Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1888 — Page 5

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JO OENAIi, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1888.

MESSAGE FROM THE MAY OK

The City's Tax Rate and Iroperty Valuations as They Touch the Kevenne. Legislation to Increase Hnnicipal Financial Eesonrces Recommended Spirited Discussion Over the Street-Car Question. Lest night's session of the City Council, the last cf the year 1653, was of more than ordinary interest. The feature of the meeting ww a lengthy message from Mayor Denny, offar.'ng recommendations with reference to various m ittera to which tho municipal bodies are expected to give attention. After some routine business of minor importance, had teen disposed of tbe message was read. The Mayor, ia tho beginning, corrected some figures relative to the city's taxation and income. lie had stated in lis message at the first of the year that the assessed Talce of property in the city at the time the 00ceut limit law was passed, in 1377. was $G0,45G,2C1, and that redactions in assessments for taxation had gradually been made', until, in the year 1SSG, the total valuations were but S43,73G,GG3. "I now hold a certificate of the county auditor, under date of Nor. 21, 1833." he continued, "showinc that the total assessed values of 1877, amounted to $G3,533,700, and that the figures given for 1SSG, were correct. The valuations cow stand at about SoO.500,000. It will, therefore, be seen that the city's income from property taxes, ia 1877, at tho tine the 'English bill' passed, (the rate then being ?L13 on the hundred,) was $774,905, while its Income cow on the same account, is but?4S4,CC0, or a reduction of over 41 per cent. It must also be understood that several square miles of territory have been added since the tax limit was fixed, thus largely adding to the cost of fire protection, street lighting, water supply, etc.1 These facts, he thought, oueht to relieve Council from criticism in not voting larcely for street improvements or sprinkling to be paid format of tbe public treasury. lie has been frequently asked why the city cannot keep pace with other cities in this respect. His answer was that, while these cities have large incomes, Indianapolis has the lowest rate of taxation of any city of 100,000 or more inhabitants in tbe country. Some go as high as $2. 94 on the hundred. Tbe special committee op legislation, at one of its reeent meetings, had the benefit of an opinion from one of tbe largest tax-payers and most influential eitizens on the question of tbe propriety of increasing the tax rate on property, and also as to the pro feci of securing the passage of such a bill this winter, if asked fo. by tbe city's representatives. lis opposed such t. measure, and gave it as bis opinion that not one cf the Senators or Representatives from Marion county would favor it. "I do not suppose there Is a member of this body," the 3Iayor continued, "who is in favor of an increase of our property tax, if it can possibly be avoided without injury to our credit, or witbout lsyiog ourselves and our citizens liable to humiliating criticisms from our neighbors. And jet, in view of the fact that an increase of tbe rate of taxation which would simply equal the reductions made in the assessed values of our city property sine 1877, would be no increase whatever over the burdens imposed by. the act of that year, it would seem that the subject of an amendment to the limit act referred to is at least worthy of the consideration of our legislators; particularly, if a special vehicle tax and an increase in the saloon tax cannot be bad. I shall, if permitted by my associates on the legislative committee, simply lay the facts on the subject ct our financial condition before our Senators and Representative, and there leave the matter, deeming it to be as much tbe duty of the tax-payers and legislators to make a chanee In the law now, if needed, as it was in 1877, without reference to the views of tbe city officials. I have deemed it proper to invite all of our Senators and Representatives from Marion county to meet with oor legislative committee during the present week, so that all tbe facts here referred to may be fully discussed and understood by them before the General Aisornbly convene. w Tbe Mayor again expressed the hope that the General Assembly, at the approaching session, will favorably consider the propriety of purchasing or condemning the ground in front of the Capitol, as far east as tbe first alley, so that proper approaches may be made to that magnificent building. lie also renewed his recommendations concernine tbe location and regulation of hack stands. He thinks it would be better to require all express and haes-men to locate att stables maintained for that special purpose, ' if ' possible, and rather than allow the present condition of things to continue indefinitely, such a system, he said, ought to be enforced. " He thinks, however, that the proprietors of hotels should be permitted to authorize the standing of hacks in front of their premises, if desired. In referring to tbe markets, he said many complaints are made by marketers at the East market, from time to time, concerning tbe rules governing the same. He.therefore, recommended that a careful revision of the old ordinances be prepared by tbe proper committees, as soon as possible, so that the same may be passed before the next annual sale of stalls occurs. Regular market gardeners, occupying street stands, should be compelled to buy their spaces by the year, and tbe payment of daily market fees should be forbidden as far as possible. As to streets he said complaints still continue concerning their bad condition. Much work in making repairs has recently been done under the imperative orders of the Council and Board of Aldermen, but it is cot likely that this will prove as satisfactory as it would if the repairs had been made In the summer and fall, when the natural-gas contractors in laying mains were first ordered and expected to do this work. It will be the plain duty of the city's representatives to require all tbe streets and alleys to be put back in as good condition as they were in before being opened; and as the city's right to require these repairs made after a year bas expired from tbe date of tho openings, respectively.! woold no doubt be questioned under tbe terms of tbe natural-gas ordinance, steps should be taken in the early spring looking to the thorough repair of all such streets. "Oar citizens," it was stated in the message, "are to be congratulated on the recent improvements made in our street-car service. While the officials of public corporations, under ordinary circumstances, deserve no special thanks for doing what the law requires of them, I feel that a word of commendation is due to J. C Shaffer, superintendent, and the other gentlemen who have controlled the Citizens' Streetrailroad Company in this city for tbe past seven months. It is not necessary for me to enumerate the improvements made in that time by the new management. These are matters of e very-day comment and congratulation on our streets. The cost of new extensions and improvements made by the present owners during that time, amounts to more than a quarter of a million dollars, as I have been informed. But with all the satisfactory eonditions surrounding the new service, it is by no means perfect; and 1 would cot be understood as saving that the present management have done all they oueht, or will be required to do in the future. "But consiaerinz tbe voluntary action of the company in paving out a latge sum in the improvement of Washington street, which tbe old company always refuted to do, and the friendly spirit in which the present management have, at all times, met tbe city authorities on all questions cf improvements, I do not approve of too great haste in requiring unusual and unnecessary expenditures on the part of the company. Feeling that the city can get all improvements desired by our citizens with reasonable rapidity by exercising a friendly spirit toward the new management, I disapprove of all attempts at unfriendly and spiteful legislation, wbieh bas been threatened or may be attempted. 1 reserve the right to withdraw all I have here said, whenever 1 find tbat tne street-railroad company ceases to show a friendly and enterprising spirit toward our citizens. But until that time comes I mnst be allowed to observe tbe golden rule toward this company, even at the expense of beioK criticised by tbe minority of people who do not understand the meaning or observe the spirit of tbat rule." On motion of Councilman Thalman the message was referred to the committee on rules and ordinances, with instructions to see that the recommendations contained therein are carried out It was also ordered that the message be printed in the proceedings of the body, , and extra copies be prepared for distribution among the members of the coming Legislature. The Mayor then announced tbat the legislative committee of the Council and Board of Aldermen would meet the Marion county members of the General Assembly in conference Saturday evanio?. when the proposed legislation in the Interest of the eity will be considered. Followio this Cur Civil Engineer Shearer reported tbe total eost of tbe new Washingtonitreet pavement as $74,438.03. Of that amount the Citizen fctreet Railway Company paid H5,3G3.2d City Treasurer Loftin submitted a financial statement for the month of November, which showed a balance on hand. Nov. 1, of 141,312; taxes collected, 30,100; miscellaneous

receipts, $17,214.11; expenditures, eity orders redeemed, $72.214. 11: balance. Nov. SO, $GG.82G. The committee on railroads, to which ordinances giving the L., N. A. & CL Railroad Company a sisht of way into the city from the northwest were referred several weeks ago, presented a report recommending that the old ordinances be stricken from the files, and tbat one giving the company the right to come in from the northeast be passed. Tbe ordinance provides that the company shall come down to the Massachusetts avenue depot alongside the the Lake Erie & Western road, and the remainder of the way to the Union Railway Company's tracks alongside the C, C, C & I. railway. It pledges that in ease tbe right of way is granted the company will never attempt to come in by any other route. Councilman Elliott filed a remonstrance against the passage of the ordinance signed by cine property-holders in Bruce Place. Councilman McCleilen offered an amendment prohibiting the company from laying tracks on the weit side of Massachusettsavenue depot. but it was tabled. The ordinance was then passed, Councilman Johnson alone voting in tho negative. By suspending the rules, an ordinance was alio passed granting Jonathan C. Armour, of Chieago. the right to lay a switch track across Georgia street and sidewalRS at its intersection with Missouri street The track will reach the new warehouse which Mr. Armour is about to build in that locality. The finance committee presented an ordinance, which waa passed, providing for a loan to be used in paying tbe city's obligations. It authorizes the borrowing of $100,000 at G per cent., to run one year from Jan. 1, 16S0, and is a substitute for a resolution of like import passed at the previous meeting. An ordinance was also passed appropriating $02,000 with whioh to pay the interest on city bonds falling due Jan. 1, ISi'J. The committee on railroads reported a resolution requiring tbe Citizens' Street-railroad Company to take up its tracks on Noble street, between Washington and Massachusetts avenue, or run cars 07r them. Councilman Gasper stated that the track cot being used was a nuisance. The resolution was adopted. A resolution was also passed requiring the same company to run cars on the English avenue and Irviogton line as far as the city limits every fifteen minutes. With reference to the conditon of Greenlawn Cemetry, the judiciary committee submitted the following report, which was adopted: "In a conference with the Board of County Commissioners they agreed to bury tne pauper dead of the city. Legally, the city bas no pauper dead; they belong to the county. Therefore the county should not only bury the dead, but should and will provide a burial place therefor. The city can, and ought to regulate all burial grounds within its corporate limits. We recommend that all contracts between the city and any other parties for burial of paupers be rescinded. ' We have examined the resolutions adopted by the Board of Health ordering the owners of vaults in Greenlawn Cemetery to bury all bodies therein within thirty days from the passage of said resolutions, nod we are of of the opinion that said action of the Board of Health is strictly in pursuance with their powers and duties as defined by statute." There was an hour's spirited discussion over Councilman Darnell's resolution to require the street-railroad company to put conductors and double-end platforms on its cars. When tbe call of the roll for tbe introduction of miscellaneous basiness was reached. Mayor Denny, on account of illness, left tbe chair, and Councilman I'earson presided. Councilman Darnell, when his name was reached, renewed the resolution referred to. and fol

lowed it up with a criticism on the Mayor. He produced the records of the Council showing when the resolution requiring conductors and platforms was passed and who voted for it Councilman Thalman hoped the resolution would cot prvail. He believed there had been a great change in the system since the new company took possession He believed it was doing everything possible to make itself popular with the citizens. Furthermore, he could see no need of conductors, and be did cot believe they were demanded by tbe people. Councilman Hicklia coincided with this view, after which Councilman Darnell took the floor again and renewed his criticism on tbe Mayor. ( He charged that tbe Mayor had criticised him in the message read at tbe beginning of the session. Chairman Pearson found it necessary to call the Councilman to order, and the latter claimed the Mayor bad "fired a shot at bim and then tied." The debats grew very warm, and several councilmen went so far as to become personal. Finally, Councilman Truster moved that all resolutions referring to the Citizens Street-railroad Com pany be held for action until May 1, and moved the previous question. The previous question was ordered, and Mr. Truster's resolution passed by a vote of IS to G. Those who voted against the resolution were Darnell. Dunn, Gasper, Gaul, Long and Stuekroeyer. Following the disposition of this question, Councilman Darnell. offered a resolution requiring the company to extend its tracks on Mississippi street to Twelfth. After some discussion, it was laid on the table. The question of who has the right to appoint the assistant janitor and engineer forTomlinson Hall, was discussed at length. The market master aud head janitor of the hall are each claiming the right to distribute the patronage, and an ordinance offered by Councilman Wilson proposed to give the authority to the former. The matter was treferred to tbe rental and market committees and city attorney, with instructions to interpret the original ordinance governing the appointment of the two men and report at a future meeting. The Democratic members of the body, through Councilman Hicklin. introduced a buncombe resolution bringing up the renting of Tomlinson Hall during the campaicn, and directing City Attorney Taylor, to bring suit against City Clerk Bowlus for $1,500. The Republican majority promptly tabled it, and directed that it be not printed ia the proceedings of the body. Councilman Thalman took occasion to criticise Councilman Hicklin severely for continually alleging as true statements about the campaign renting of Tomlinson Hall which he knew to be false. Councilman Long introduced an ordinance prohibiting peddlers and huckster from selling, or offering to tell, articles of any description on Washington, from Alabama to Mississippi street An attempt was made to suspend .the rules and pass the ordinance, but it failed. It wax then referred to the proper committee. Among other resolutions passed was one extending sympathy to Alderman Rail, whose fatber died yesterday, and one requiring the brass sign in front of the saloon at No. GO East Washington street to be removed by the city attorney. Council then adjourned. AT GENERAL lURiaSOVS RESIDENCE. Visitors Bearing Invitations and Memorials to the President-Elect.

Among General Harrison's callers yesterday was a delegation of Grand Army men from Brooklyn, N. Y., consisting of CoL W. R. Barker, Col. Geo. A. Pierce and H. W. -Knight, who came to seeure, if possible, the General's presence in that city on next Memorial day, to review the parade of the veterans and accompany them in their annual visit to the tomb of Gen. Grant. No direct promise was secured, the most General Harrison could say being that he woold like to attend and would keep the request in remembrance. Other callers were ex-Congressman Horace B. Strait, of Minnesota; ex-Governor Reed, of Florida; James Koooey, of Brooklyn, and Cob Geo. W. Friedley, of Lafayette. Several Southern visitors are expected to-day. CoL James Atkins of Savannah, Ga., who was collector of the port under General Grant, is already in the city, and a delegation from Birmingham, Ala., representing the manufacturers of that section is expected. They propose to present General Harrison with a memorial, congratulating him upon the success of tbe principles which eaueed his election, and expressing their belief that a protective tariff will not only aid the development of their material resources, but will become an issue free from sectional feeling and prejudice upon which tho people cf the South can decide according to the dictates of reason and conviction. On the second Tuesday in January, after tbeir meeting in Springfield, the Illinois electors will, in a body, accompanied by their wives, visit the General. The General has received a proof of a very excellent portrait of himself from Gen. James Grant Wilson, tbe engraving being intended for a new edition of a biographical encyclopedia. Other recent presents are a sheep from some unknown donor and some handsome handkerchiefs from a lady friend of Mrs. Harrison. An Incorporation Election. The people of Mount Jackson will vote on the question of incorporation Jan. 5. The election will be held in Bailey's store. Those who favor the movement claim tbat about two-thirds of tbe property-holders want the village incorporated. Social Statistics. Returns made to the State Board of Health show that tho marriages in this State daring the year ending Dec. 1, 15S3. number 13,195. The deaths throughout the State during the same period were 1G.&21, and tbe births 33,473. !

EADICAL ACTION NEEDED

Letters from Lawyers Regarding Plans for Relieving the Supreme Court. Responses Cominjr in Rapidly to the Circnlarg Sent Out by the Committee of the Bar Asking for Expressions and Suggestions. The Indianapolis Bar Association will meet in the Circuit instead of the Criminal Court room to-ni?ht, the latter having been previously engaged for another meeting. Among the lawyers there is objection to the present method relating to appeala from the Superior to the Supreme Court. As it is now tbe appeal must go to the general term of the Superior and thence to the Supreme Bench. When the Bar Associa tion held its last meeting a committee was appointed to draft a bill to be presented to tho General Assembly abolishing the general term of tbe Superior Court Lawyers regard that division of judicial duties as unnecessary and an obstruction to justice. They say it does not save the supreme judges from any labor, as nearly all appeal cases go from the genersl term to the Supreme Court, and hence a great deal of delay could be avoided by abolishing the system. The meeting to-night is for the purpese of discussing the proposed bill, a draft of which tbe committee will submit. The project for adding to the strength of the Supreme Court is bringing out many interestinc letters from attorneys from all parts of the State. All agree tbat radical action is needed promptly, but widely different plans are proposed, as may be seen by a perusal of tbe letters. Out of all, certainly a practicable plan may be obtained. Tbe letters will be publisbed as they are presented; other! will follow those presented to-day. The Hon. John IL Baker, of Goshen, writes, as follows: Your favor of the 1st inst., advising me that I had been appointed upon a committee to make some recomendations to a meeting of the members of the bar of the Supreme Court of thi3 State on the subject of the proper method of adding to the efficiency ot our appellate judicial system, came seasonably to hand. The need of such added strength to our court of appeals as will result in the prompt determination of the rights of parties litigant is so apparent that it needs no discussion. How can the needed relief be best ob tained, is the question for solution. 1. There can be no relief at present bv adding to the number of the judges of the Supreme Cotsrt. To effect an increase ia the judicial strength of the Supreme Court would require an amendment to the IState Constitution. To procure such an amendment would require a considerable period of time, and the result of an effort to accomplish tbe necessary change in the Contitution would be doubtful as well as remote. It is, therefore, vaia to look for relief ia this direction. U. It has been suggested that relief might be obtained by giving authority to each judge to employ a rrlvate stenographer. This would not, in ray jndznent, afford the necessary relief. The judges would still have to examine the record, briefs of eounsel and the authorities cited, and after study and deliberation,. reach a eonclusion as to the law applicable to the case in hand. This labor does now and would.were a stenographer employed, necessarily consume the jrreat pare oi we umu expenueu. oy eacu 01 nts juura m preparing an opinion. The actual time spent in writing out an opinion over that which would be fpent in dictating the same to a stenographer, would not, in my judgment, be sufficient to give the needed relief. And, besides, if the judges, by such extrinsic aids, should prepare an appreciably larger number of opinions than they do now, there would be danger that the quality of the opinions would depreciate ia the ratio of their increase. 3. The court micht be relieved by a Supreme Court commission. This method of aiding tbe Supreme Cocrt is a questionable evasion of the Constitution of the State, and at most can only be temporary in ita character. Such a commission, in my judgment, is unsatisfactory and undesirable. I should be opposed to the renewal of such a Supreme Court commission. 4. Another mode of relief would be found in or ganizing in each Supreme Court district an appellate court, to be composed of three judges, giving such court appellate jurisdiction in all causes tried in the several counties composing such district. Such appellate courts should hear and determine all appeals in the first instance; and their decisions ought to be final in' all cases of misdemeanors, and in all cases where the judimcnt is for the recovery of money, and the amount of the recovery is for $500 or under, exclusive of costs. When the population of the State and the volume of business in the courts becomes aueh as to justify it, this system, in my judgment, would be the most convenient and efficient. - The time, however, has not yet arrived when the pcblie interests would justify tho creation of five appiil-ite' courts. 5. It seems to me that, for the present, an appellate court, composed of three active judges, holdiug its session at Indianapolis, would be the wisest method of relief. This court should be given jurisdiction of all appeals in cases of conviction for misdemeanors, and all cases growing out of the settlement of estates of decedents, of all assignment.! of insolvent debtors, of all guardianship matters, of all highway and drainage cases, and of all civil cases for the recovery of money where the amount of the judgment, exclu sive of costs, is $500 or less. Tho judgment of the appellate court in all such cases bhould be hual, unless the decision of the case involves some question of constitutional or statutoty construction. Cases of this character now pending in the Supreme Court should be transferred to such appellate court. It seems to me that an appellate court vested with substantially the jurisdiction above indicated, to be composed of three or five judges, would tor many years to come afford the neJed relief to the Supreme Court. I have not undertaken to go into details, but in a general way have pointed out my views as to the best method of obtaining present relief. I have sent you the above outline of my views liecause I shall be so engaged at the time ot your next meeting that I fear I cannot be present, although it would afford me great pleasure to meet and confer with such members of the bar as may be present at your meeting. The evils of our present system are becoming in tolerable, and the delays in the Supreme Court often amount to a denial ot justice. A prompt coirection is imperatively demanded, and the united and vigor ous action of the bar may move the Legislature to give the needed relief at its coming session. The Bon. Samuel B. Voyies, ot Salem, says: The circular letter sent out to obtain the views of lawyers concerning the proper methods for relief for the Supreme Court reached me. It has been before me prior to this time, and espe cially in 1331 and 18S3, when I was a member of the Indiana Senate. The only practical relief is to form an auxiliary commission, aj before. An intermediate court of appeals will only Ferve us with a route arouud Uobin Hood's barn to the Supreme Court, and the lodgment in such "half court" will surely add to the delay that we hope now to avoid. Ite-etablUh the commission and start a resolution on the road to amend the Constitution! increasing the number of juds. and fix the maximum number high enough that the Constitution will not thwart the necessities of the public. In my opinion all other propositions for relief are full of useless toggery, expense and increase of pres ent evil. Mr. George A. Bicknell, of Xew Albany, writes: I received, this morniog, your circular about the fcupreme Court. A few days a;o Stotsenberg had a letter from t oburn and gave it to me, and at his re quest 1 prepared and handed to him a bill to establish an appellate court and its necessary onieers. 1 have not seeu him since. That bill contemplated a Chief-justice and: four associates. Changing Chief-justices every six months. as our Supreme Court does, look like child's play. I he bill provided for a clerk, reporter and shenlf, and that one of the five should be in each Supreme Court district, but all elected for four years, with a salary ot S-l.UUU each, tbe court to bold at Indianapo lis three terms a year of forty days each, or perhaps two terms would be enough, say third Mondays of Januarvand July; to be elected at tho general elec tion in 1889; oflicial term to begin Jan. 15, 1S90; no original jurisdiction, except in habeas corpus; appellate jurisdiction in all civil cases appealed from Circuit cr Superior courts in which the amount In controversy is 2.000 or less, proviso that all civil causes appealed to the Supreme Court may be sect by that court do the appellate court, where the matter iuvolved does not exceed S'J.OOO. I think such a court would meet tbe emergency, but really we ought to have nine Supreme Judges instead of five. This would require time and an amendment to the Consti tution. In the meantime a eois mission with five commissioners, with less than half the expense of an appellate court, would probably bring up the arrears as the last commission did. INAUGURAL RECEPTION AND BALL. Arranging to Give Governor Elect' Ilovey a Beany Welcome to tho State Capital. The executive committee having in charge the arrangements of the inaugural reception and ball in honor of Governor-elect Ilovey, held a meeting at the New Denison, last evening, and practically settled most of tbe details of both entertainments. The reception, which is free to the general public, will be held at tbe State Capitol building on the evening of the 14th of next month. It is expected that General Ilovey will receive in the Governor's parlors, the visitors enteriog from the rotunda and passing through the parlors and offices to the main corridor. The Supreme Conrt judges, State officers and the members of tbe executive committee, together with their wives and families, will aid Uensral tiovey in recetvinc. For the ball, which is to follow, elaborate preparations are to bo made. It will be given at lomlioson Hall, and it is proposed to iesus 0,000 tickets for the floor and galler ies, oco thousand of these being intended for the floor admissions and the remainder for tbe Tse of spectators in the galleries. The price of floor tickets has been Hied at $2, and that of

gallery tickets at 50 eents. No person will be admitted to the floor except those who have been specially invited, and the management will be placed in the hands of careful and experi

enced committees who will spare no pains to make the ball a brilliant success. An old sol dier suggests that as General Ilovey, during his term In Coneress, did a great deal for the sol diers, it would be a just tribute to him for his Indiana comrades to have a grand parade on tne day of the inauguration which could be reviewed by him from the south front of the Capitol. CULLINGS FROM THE COURTS. Trial of George Turnag, Who Assaulted Wm. McGUl. George Turn age, colored, charged with the murder of Wm. M. McGill, on the night of Oct. 20, wa3 brought to trial in the Criminal Court yesterday. McGill came from Iowa to attend to some business here, and about 12 o'clock, cn the nipht in question, he was found lying on the sidewalk at the corner of Alabama and Washington streets, unconscious from a fracture of the skull. lie was removed to the City Ilospital, where he died tbe following day. The evidence brought out yesterday showed that the accused and a companion were accompanying a couple of young women, home, and had left them at the corner named a few minutes when McGill came up and insulted one of the women. About that time Turnsge and his friend appeared and McGill was knocked down. In the fall he struck his forehead, causing the injury from which be died. Most of the evidence was heard yesterday, and the case will probably go to the jury by noon to-day. A Faltbfnl Watch-Do. The entire population in the neighborhood of Seventh and Illinois streets were aroused about 3 o'clock, yesterday morning, by the fierce baricing of a blood-hound that Leek & Co., who have - a grocery at the corner named, keep at night in their store. Burglars entered the store, and, after removing the dog to the outside, blew open the safe, and removed the till and seme pan era. The explosion excited the dog, and he made an attack on the burglars, who shot him. Even after he had been shot, the dog resumed his attack, and tbe burglars were compelled to abandon their booty and flee. The dog was badly wounded, and he died soon after crawling to the home of his master, on Ninth street Suit Over a Wind-Mill. Tho suit of Simeon Flint against James W. Cook is on trial before a jury in the Circuit Court The case came here on a change of venue from Hancock county. It was begun in 1830, and after being tried in the Hancock Cir cuit Court was taken to tbe Supreme Court, where the decision of the lower court was re versed. The cause of complaint is tbe refusal of the defendant to pay for a wind-mill he purchased of one of the plaintiffs agents, on the ground that there was a defect in the ma chinery. The Mayor's Heavy Docket. The Mayor had a lengthy docket to dispose ot yesterday morning, but it was made up princi pally of misdemeanors. John Thompson, who was euspected of burglary in entering the resi dence of C. L. Turner, Saturday night, was fined for loitering and held for further investi gation. There were a few prisoners in the "dock, who were anxious to get out to the work-bouse, where there is a good fire and noth ing to do, but the Mayor saw what they were after and dismissed them. An Award for Damages. Mrs. Bertha Pettit, of Fort Wayne, has been awarded $G,000 in the report of Master Commissioner Fishback, to whom her case against the Wabash Railroad Company was referred. The report states, upon tbe evidence of physicans and others, that she received injuries in a rail road collision near West Lebanon, 111., last January, that bave made her permanently an invalid. Declared Insane. Mrs. Eliza Trump, who makes her borne with her son-in-law, at the corner of Meridian and McCarty streets, was declared insane yesterday by a commission composed of Drs. Cunningham and Sure, and Justices Smock and Feibleman. She is seventy years of age, and recently has rderelopel a suicidal tendency in frequently tnreatecmg to jump from a second story window. Stockholders Partly Reimbursed. An allowance of 22 J per cent, was made, yes terday, to the stockholders of the Shaw Carriage Company, who, in the settlement of the affairs of the company, paid in an amount in excess of their liability. Ine proceeds were derived from a sale of the real estate and personal property oi tne company. Jury Commissioner Appointed. Judce Alex. CL Ayres has been appointed jury commissioner of the United States Conrt in place of John It. Wilson, resigned. The Court Record. SUPERIOR COCRT. floom 1 lion. K. B. Taylor. Jndce. John Raugh vs. Indianapolis Union Railway company et bl, irom Aiiord, J. r. Trial by Jtoom 2 lion. V. w. Howe. Judje. John Bridges vs. Perry Tomlinson; damaces. On trial by jury. Thomas V. Urennan vs. W. F. A. Bernhamer guardian, et al. to set aside deed. On trial by a jury. Aew Suit FiM. Charles E. Bauer vs. Ella Bauer complaint ior divorce. Allegation criminal treatment Martha B. Kinsey vs. Henry Kinsey: com plaint fr divorce. Allegation, abandonment. CIRCUIT COURT. Hon. John V. Uadley, Judce. Simeon Flint et al. va. James M. Cook: on ac count, un trial by jury. CRIMINAL COURT. Hon. William Irvin, Judue. State va George Turnage; murder. On trial by jury. A I 0ST-CAMPAIGN LIE. No Money Stolen and 31agee Raised None in Tittsbarr for Indiana Republicans. The lie a morning paper sought to support by a fictitious interview concerning a theft of $40,000 by two young Republicans, in whese care it was represented the money was sent from Pitts burg to the Republican committee of this State, was too absurd to obtain any credence, except in circles where such a lie would be thought to be serviceable. Wm. Wallace, treasurer of the committee, said he knew nothing of any such thing, and Attorney general Michener characterized tho statements of the paper referred to as a tissue of falsehoods. The money was said to have been raised byMr.Magee, of Pittsburg. Yesterday the New York Mail and Express published an inter view with Russell B. Harrison, who said the story was untrue. "In reference to myself," Mr. Harrison continued, MI did not visit Pittsbure during tbe campaign, nor bave I been there since. At a meetiuc of tbe Indiana State cen tral committee, after the election, a committee ox prominent business men was nppomtel to audit its accounts at the head of which was the Hon. W. R. McKeen, president of the Vandalia railroad. He told me, after his work was completed, that be bad examined and checked off the vouchers for every dollar received and expended, and found them correct. He also informed me that every aonar was expended for legitimate and proper campaien expenses. Tbe New York Evening Sun yesterday pub lished a Pittsburg special, saying Chris Magee returned from the East yesterday roornine. and on being interviewed on the subject said, "Tbe story bas absolutely no foundation." He said the Tariff Club, as an organization, contributed nothing to tho general fond; tbat the iron, steel and glass manufact urers raised $40,000. which was sent to the na tional committee, and that afterward Attorney general Miebener came to the city for the pur pose of securing money. IVIagee did not state what Miebener secured, if he knew, but Micheners collections were conveyed by him personally to inaiana. Indian Comriliutiniif. Missouri gets two efficient public officials from ibis State this week. CoL L. D. Drake, a former assistant at the Plainfield Reform School, takes hold as superintendent of tbe Misouri Reform School, and John F. Hack, a former florist at tbe Indiana Deaf and Dumb Institute and Reform School, bas accepted an appointment as florist and agriculturist at tbe Missouri State Agricultural College at Columbia.

THE VIEWS I1E ADVANCED.

Dr. Jeffery's Ideas That Caused Some of Ilis Hearers to Regard Thern As Unorthodox. Dr. Jeffery delivered a sermon Sunday morn ing which some of his hearers regard as being hetrodox, relative to future punishment The Doctor was asked by a Journal reporter, last nieht, as to what he said that would cause his hearers to question his orthodoxy. "I made use," he said, "of scien tific words and reasoning which may have left the orthodox question open to discussion. Dr. Porter, Joseph Cook and many other dis tinguished biologists held very strong views on future punishment, and hold, on scientific grounds, to the threefold nature of man, or what St Paul calls body, soul and spirit I accept that view." The Doctor then defined the organic force as being that mysterious, impal pable something tbat resided m tbe soul from which tbe psychical manifestation proceeded. This principle, said he, finds illus tration in ail forms of animal and vegetable life, man having it in a higher degree in intelligence and will-power. Tbe body, therefore, consisted of these two properties tbe organise force and the psychical organism proceeding from It, and tbe countless varieties of psychicial organisms were to be accounted for by the differentiations in the orgauific fcices of the different conditions of each psyche, or soul. Accordingly, the function of the ptyehe in man was to work out a psycnicai organization aiier the law of its own life; consequently tbe natural or physical body and psyche were identified with each other as in the case of a grain of wheat "Now that crain of wheat must die." said he. "in ordor to fructify, hut what dies in tbat case? Simply the husk and albuminous substances. while the vital force survives aud absorbs unto itself new material, which makes the product of the harvest Held. There is no resurrection of the original substance that constituted the kernel, but there is a resurrection of the orgamno force, manifesting itself in a new physchical organism. Now, two things are possible in regard to this vital force: it is pos sible to be utterly destroyed, as in grinding a grain of wheat into flour; it is possible to survive with suitable environments; but if yon destroy the vital force it can never be reproduced. Scientifically speaking, therefore, it is conceivable that in tbe dissolution of the physical organism of man the psyche may share the fate of that dissolution, or it may escape and take on new conditions of existence, as in the e ase of the caterpillar. In one sense tbe cater pillar dies: that is, the caterpillar husk, but at the same instant the butterfly, which has been forminc within it. escapes and survives under the law of caterpillar life, but is not n caterpillar. If, there fore, psyche escapes at deatu or tbe dissolution of the physical organism, it is scentific to say that it will make for itself a new body: but will continue nnder tbe original law of its psychical life and its body therefore will be a natural or psychical body. Now, then, what sort of a new body will the psyebe take on at tbe dissolution of the present organism? Necessarily an or ganism which will be a suitable vehicle of the characteristics which have dominated the earth ly psyche. If tbe psyche in this life sell out to the demands aud appetites of the flesh, whether they be gross or sensnously esthetic. or purely intellectual, its moral character will abide in its future destiny, and' experience teaches us tbat tbe dominant characteristic of the psyche i3 selfishness, therefore, science affords no consolation to the theory of the fut ure progressiveness of the psyche toward holy affection and a sinless existence. It must abide I, under tbe law of its own life and its form of manifestation may be devilish, that is the love of evil for its own sake." The Doctor took the position that while science recognizes the possibility of the utter annihilation ot tbe psyche at what is called death. or the possibility of the survival of the psyche in the future state, it does not demonitrate that either is a fact Tho apostles teach that if the psyebe lives after tbe Hesh it shall die. The Scriptures also tc&ch that the spirit principle m man has in itself no generative power or property of self-propagation, but tbat the Holy Spirit quickens the spirit of man with the organic force of its own divine life and begets a new man or creation ot the I maze. This it regeneration. The Scriptures also teach that this new man brings over to its own side the psychical nature and identifies it with spiritual nature. This spiritual organise force begets for itself a new environment, vuich is called tbe spiritual body. The Doctor quoted passages of Scripture in support of this view. He left it to be inferred, or. in fact, intimated, that instead of sleeping unconsciously until some future period, or entering into some intermediate state. the Christian at once passed into tbe presence of the Lord. "These are mv views.77 said he; "let them be orthodox or unorthodox." COMPANIONS IN WAR AND PEACE. Organization of the State Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. A very notable meeting of companions of tbe Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States will be held here to-morrow, when tbe formal organization of the Indiana Com mandery of the order will be earried out by exPresident Rutherford B. Hayes, the Legion's commander-in chief. The organization will take place in the assembly-room of the Bates House, at G P. 21. on that day, but previous to that hour there will be a meeting at headquarters, at 12 m., and during the afternoon companions will be received at the homes ot General Harrison and Dr. H. R. Allen, on North Delaware street, and at Major Clinton Comly's residence. United States Arsenal grounds. At 8 o'clock in tbe evening a banquet will ba given at the Bates House for companions or tne order, when the programme of the evening will be placed on each plate. The charter members of tbe new commandery are Maj. Sigourney Wales, Terre Haute; First Lieut, and Adjt Cbsrles S. Millard, Indianapolis; Mai. Wm. H. Calkins. Indianapolis; Col. Eli Lilly, Indianapolis; Maj. -Gen. Lewis Wal lace. Crawfordsvule: Capt. .lames It. Carnahan, Indianapolis: Maj. Clifton Comly, United States Arsenal, Indianapolis; Maj. William Cumback, Greensburg: Capt. Dudley II. Chase. Logansport; Brevet Maj -Gen; R. S. Foster, Indianapolis; Capt. L. R. Jackson, Union City; Brevet Brig.-Gen. Fred Knefler, Indianapolis; First Lieut. G. W. H. Kemper, Muncie: First Lieut. Thomas II. Kirby, jr., Muncie; Capt. David Lostuetcr, Aurora; I3ig.-Gen. George F. McGinnis, Indianapolis; First Lieut. James S. Ostrander. Richmond; CoL Oran Perry, Indianapolis; Lieut. Stanton J. Peello, Indianapolis; Lieut. B. B. Peck, Indianapolis; Col. R. S. Robertson, Fort Wayne: Maj. CL L. Wilson, Indianapolis; Maj. J. R. Weist, Richmond. As to tbe visitors from abroad, Recorder B. B. Peck, of this city, has advices that Chicago will send a delegation of seventyfive, Cincinnati fifty, Des Moines twenty-five, Detroit twenty-five, Milwaukee fifteen, and various other points fifty. Individual visitors expected in addition to ex-President Hayes are: Colonel Joel Barlow, Nashville, Tenn.; General J. S. Robinson, Columbus, O.; Colonel D. P. Dyer, St. Louis; Colonel C H. 'Grosvencr, Athens, O.; Major George W. Steele, Marion; Captain J. IL Insley, Leavenworth, Kan.; Colonel E. A. Scoville, Cleveland, O.; Majors 11 C. Davis and H. P. Lloyd. Captain A. H. Mattox, Major W. P. Chamberlain, Captains A. R. Warnick and J. W. Wilshire. Cincinnati; General R. N. Wood and Captain William Rule, Knoxville, Tenn.; Major Y. T. Headley, Bunker Hill, 111.; Major F. G. Cross, Captain Eugene Cary, Chicago; Captain A. S. Frazer, Xenis, O.: General George B. Wright, Columbus, O.; MajT W. D. Bickham, Dayton, O.; General A. C. Voris. Akron, O.; Capt. W. A. Hegley. Cedar Radids, Ia.: Gen. Warren Keifer, Springfield, O.; Col. W. C. Stair, Capt. J. II. Lindley, and others, from Terre Haute. Crawfordsville, Warsaw, and other places will bo represented. Gen. Lew Wallace, of the first-named city, is tbe commander of the State. Commander-in-chief Hayes is exoected to arrive this evening, coming over the Panhandle road. He will be received and escorted to his quarters at the New Denison. Tbe comttittee on invitation, reception and entertainment, cone'.sting of Col. Oran Perry, Gen. Fred Knefler. Lieut Stanton J. Peelle, Col. C. S. Millard. Maj. CL L. Wilson and Lieut. B. B. Peek, suggest tbat it will be a compliment to the legion tbat will be heartily appreciated if flags and other decorations are displayed during the stay of tbe visitors in the city. Eager for Minor Offices. There are indications of some very interesting rows over the patronage the coming Democratic Legislature will have to distribute. Some of the leading members of the party are already beginning to talk about tbe condition of affairs. "The candidates," said one of them yesterday, "are coming in droves with probably an average of ten applicants for each position. Party fealty does not seem to be a tst in this scramble, as one, at least, of the more prominent candidates, it is ruuored, has been anything but a "true blue" and has been severely denounced by the prominer,: party men in the near past and hie appointuent to a minor federal position

revoked on their complaint. The effect a little spoils" will have on the average Democrat it shown in the fact that the principal backer oi this man now was tbe leader of tbe opposition wbea he wanted alittle job with no places under him. There is a loaded cannon in this race but just who holds ths f ase is a thing past finding out." a A cheap and convenient wav to supply the hogs with charcoal is to burn the corn-cobs that accumulate about tbe feeding places aud about tbe barn. Rake or deposit them in a pile, burn till well charred, then extinguish the fire, sprinkle salt over the heap, and it will be a pleasure to see how the hogs will relish this cheap neutralizer of gasscs.

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