Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1889 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1889

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS

The Senate Spends the Day in Discussing the Tariff on Spool-Cotton Thread, During Whieli 3Ir. rugh Interject: the Question of Kace Supremacy in the South Filibusterinir in the House. "VA$nxxc.ToN Dec. n.The resolution "berrtofore offered hy Mr. Voorliccs, calling on the Secretary of the Interior for a list of nil homestead, timber-culture, and prermption entries to public lands, canceled after issuance of final receipt and certificate therefor, during tho present administration, for canoes other than voluntary relinquishment, was taken up and agreed to. Mr. Mitchell otlered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling on tho .Secretaries of War and Interior for copies of records and papers relative to the service of volunteers In Washington and Idaho Territories in tho Nez Pcrces war of 1S77. The Senate, at 12:120; resumed, consideration of tho tariff bill, tho pending question eing on Mr. Vest's amendment to Paragraph 313, to change the duty on cotton thread, yarn, warps, etc., valued at not cxfceeding 25 cents per pound from 10 cents Iex pound to S3 per cent, ad valorem. After a speech of some length from Mr. Vance, Mr. Vest's amendment was rejected ty the usual party vote yeas, 20: nays, 21. Mr. Vest called attention to other items In Paragraph .'U3, but said he would not offer any amendments or ask a vea and nay rcte upon them, but he would simply renark that the duty on these items was increased in order to exclude all foreign competition as far as possible, so as to enable ihe American manufacturers to hold tho market at whatever price they saw lit to impose. He moved, liowever, to amend Paragraph 314, relating to spool thread of rotton, by striking out "7 ceuts per dozen 6pools," and inserting 40 per cent, ad valorem. He quoted from statements made by spool-cotton manufacturers J. 1. Coates, Clark, and others before tho tariff commission, in 1S82, and beforo tho ways and means committee, in 18S4, to show that tjiey asked a less rate of protection in than in 1SJS5. Mr. Hawley said ho did not understand Hvhy the Senator from Missouri was criticising spool-thread manufacturers for their willingness to accept a lower rate. He did not understand that they were now asking any change in the existing law. Mr. Vest suggested that there was a good deal of money for them in the existing law. He proceeded to criticise the statement of a cotton-thread manufacturer (Mr. Ferguson) before the ways and means committeo of the House, to the effect that tha poor sewing-woman of tho United States was benefited by the superior quality of tho American thread, and ho contrasted her statement with extracts from Helen Campbell's book describing the condition of tlie 6owing-women of the city of New York. ' Mr. Aldrich said the question of tho duty on spool cotton had been so often discussed in the Senate and House in its sentimental, as well as in its practical aspects, that lie did not caro to continue that discussion, but some of Mr. Vest's statements, ho said, demanded attention. Prior to 18o7, when the tirst adequate duty was placed on spool cotton, it sold in this country (three-cord cotton) at TO cents per dozen spools, wholesale, and at 10 cents per spool retail. Now it is sold (six-cord cotton) at 45 cents a dozen wholesale, and 5 cents a spool retail. Prior to 1807, all the spool cotton consumed in the United States was made abroad, principally in Scotland and England; now ffl per cent, of it was made in the United States. The difference in the rate of duty between that provided in tho substitute and that proposed in Mr. Vest's amendment was but a cents a dozen spools, or l- of a cent per spool, and that difference would not go to the benefit of the working-women, but to the benefit of tho New York importer. Mr. Mcpherson characterized the duty on spool cotton as a tax on labor, and he read from the affidavit of a sewing-woman in Atlantic county. New Jersey, Mrs. Ellen Strickland, showing that sho worked lor a Philadelphia linn, which he must not namo lest it might interfere with the construction of tho new Cabinet, that for common shirts she received C5 cents per dozen, that a good quick needle?onan, working from 7 a. m. until 10 r. m., night be able to inako a dozen such shirts, but no morej thatshe was engaged in making tino shirts at 1 per dozen, that tho greatest number of such shirts that she can mako working from 7 a. m. till 10 p. M. is 6ix; that shp has to supply her own thread, and to pay expressage ono way, and that, therefore, her entire remuneration for two days work is but 75 cents, while tho manufacturer had the benefit of 40 per cent, on such shirts. Asthetarifl'billwas professedly in behalf of American labor, by what process of reasoning, Mr. Mcpherson asked, did the Senator from Khotle Island impose a largo dutj' on the thread which tho poor fcewing woman was forced to buy? Mr. Aldrich asked Mr. Mcpherson what rate he would propose on cotton thread. Mr. McPhersou I am voting with tho Senator from Missouri Mr. Vest to reduce it from the high place on which it is placed by tho Senator from Khodo Island and his associates. Passing from tho subject of spool thread, Mr. Mcpherson quoted from statements of Consul Schoenhof to show that the labor cost of a pair of shoes is onehalf less in Connecticut aud Massachusetts than it is in tho various comneting countries of Europe. Mr. Aldrich suggested that Mr. McPherson ought to give .similar information as to the relative cost of making pearl buttons in New Jersey and Austria, and heintimated that that Senator had been before tho finance committo this morning in the interest of pearl-button manufacturers. : Mr. McPher3on replied that ho would bo happy to givo information on that subject when the paragraph in relation to pearl buttons was reached. The meaning of the Senate substitute was. he declared, tho absolute prohibitioa of all foreign trade and tho absolute destruction of all local enterprises. After further discussion, the amendment was rejected yeas, 18; nays, 21. No further amendment was offered to Paragraph 314. nor was any offered to Paragraphs 315. 316 or 317, all relating to cotton cloth. Mr. Vance moved to amend Paragraph SIS (cotton cloth, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted or printed), by substituting "40 per cent, ad valorem," instead of 3 1-2 and 4 1-2 cents per square yard," and he argued in favor of his amendment. Tho statement was rejected yeas, 13: nays, 3. Mr. Vance moved to amend tho samo paragraph by reducing the rate on such cotton cloth, when valued at over 12 cents per square yard, from 45 to 40 per cent, ad valorem. Kejccted yeas, 17; nays, 22; ami no further amendment was offered to tho paragraph. Mr. anco moved to amend Paragraph S19 by striking out the rates "4 1-2. 5 1-2 and 3 3-4 cents per square yard'' on cotton cloth, not bleached, (according to classification) nnd inserting '40 per cent, ad . valorem." lJejeet d by a like vote. 3Ir. Pugh proceeded to address the Senate in a set speech on the tariff". In concluding his remarks, he adverted to race, supremacy in the South, aud said that as to tuat thero could be no concession, or no compromise, among the white people. Whoever was the friend of the white race in regard to supremacy in government was his friend, irrespective of politics, and whoever was "the enemy of the white race on questions involving race supremacy was his enemy. The fidelity of white men to each other on the race question had to 1m unfaltering, and had to prove itself in action on the side of maintaining the actual supremacy of tho white race in the possesion and exercise of all governmental powers. Not that any inferior race should suffer any' deprivation or detriment in the possesion and enjoyment of all personal and property fights, but that, in matters of civil government, tho white men alone must rule in all parts of this couutry. Such fidelity of white men to each other in the Southern States, for such purposes had been established under the dire necessity of self-preservation, ami white men everywhere might rest assured that no allurements of office and no difference as to tariff" laws could ever degrado them to r recognition of negro equality. Mr. Vance moved to amend' Paragraph S20, relating to stockings, by reducing the rate from :5 to 30 per cent, ad valorem, and asked for the yeas and na's. Mr. Aldrich annealed to Mr. Vance not to demand tho yeas and navs. as there was probably no quorum present, and as he vishca to get tlirougu the cotton schedule

to-day. but Mr. Vance would not consent, ns he did not want the cotton schedule finished to-day. . The Senate then.having disposed of threo and one-half pages of the bill, adjourned. The Houe Fritters Away the Day. Washington, Jan. 3. On motion of Mr. Toole, of Montana, the Senate amendment was concurred in to tho House bill appropriating $33,000 to enable tho Secretary of War to issue to the Governor of Montana military- stores for the use of tlie militia of that Territory. On motion of Mr. McKenna, of California, the Senate bill was passed appropriating $3,S00 for the relief of William Wheatou, ex-register, and Charles H. Chamberlin, exreceiver of the land office at San Francisco. Mr. Iicetl, of Maine, from the committee on rules, reported a resolution providing that during the remainder of tho present session of Congress there shall be no call of the States and Territories on the first and third Mondays of each month. These Mondays are what are known as busnension days, and the object of the resolution is to prevent the opponents of the Union Pacific funding measure and the Oklahama bill from filibustering against an attempt to pass those measures under suspension of the rules, by introducing voluminous bills under the call of States, and consuming tho day by the demand for their reading in full. Mr. Keed demanded tho previous question on tho adoption of the resolution, which called forth a vigorous protest from Mr. Ande rson, of Kansas, who has been one of the chief antagonists of tho Union Pacific bill. He asked that two hours' debate bo allowed upon tho resolution, but Mr. Keed declined to accede to the request on the ground that he had been instructed by his committee to demand the previous question. Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, a member of the committee on rules, stated that thero had been a division of the committee upon the resolution. Mr. Anderson demanded tho yeas and nays on ordering the previous question, when no quorum voted, the roll disclosing 114 votes in the affirmative and 28 in the negative, Mr. Randall being the only member of the committeo on rules voting with the minority. A call of the House was then ordered. The call showed the presence of 171 members, being eight more than a quorum, but the margin was too narrow a one, and the proceedings under the call were not suspended. The sergeant-at-arms was dispatched to hunt up and arrest the absentees, and tho House drowsily waited for him to make a report. As this was not forthcoming by 2:30 o'clock, Mr. Anderson, of Illinois, in a wearied voice, moved an adjournment. When tho question was put, a large majority of those present, desirous of escaping from tho bad atmosphere which always hangs over the chamber when the doors are closed, as they are when the House is under a call, responded with a loud aye, but tlie ayes and noes being ordered, the motion was defeated yeas 50. nays 107. Then Mr. Randall moved to suspend further proceedings under the call. This was defeated 53 to 57. Mr. Randall then suggested to Mr. Reed that, as the resolution was a privileged one and could bo called up at any time.he withdraw it until to-mbrrow, and allow the House to proceed to-day to the consideration of the river and harbor appropriation bill. This Mr. Reed refused to do, unless he could receive assurance that there would bo no filibustering against tho resolution to meet, and, as this assurance was not forthcoming, the suggestion ended in naught, and at 3:05 the House, on motion of Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, adjourned. GENEROUS GEORGE W. GUILDS.

Stories About the Ulg-Iieartetl 1'roprietor of the rhila1e1phla "Ledger." "Washington Letter in Chicago Tribune. G. W. Childs, the "two brothers Cheeryhle into one," of Philadelphia, is the happiest man in the world, lie is always happiest in, tho holiday season, which brings to him unusual opportunities for making other people happy. It is tme that Christmas this prince of givers gladdened the hearts of his employes with gifts which cost nearly $40,000. One of these employes, an assistant editor, found in his pay envelope, besides his usual salary, a crisp, new $500 note. The man was amazed. It was a great temptation to put that $500 bill in his pocket, for he is a poor man, with a large family on his hands. Put he thought the cashier had made a mistake, and with a pale face and resolute he fought off the tempter, and presented himself at the cashier's window, tho pretty new bill in his band. A mistake has been made; this bill does not belong to me," said he. "You had better go see Mr.' Childs," responded the cashier. So into the private office of Mr. Childs walked the assistant editor. "This is all right," said Mr. Childs; "merely a little Christmas gift, you know. After you have been here longer you will understand it better." "Rut, Mr. Childs," gasped the editor, "I've worked for you only six weeks, and this is a greater sum of money than I ever owned at one time in all my life. I can't take it. My short service is not sufficient to make it right that I should take it." "You are a member of our family," said Mr. Childs, "and tho time you have been here does not make any difference. Just you tako that bill and get out on Chestnut street and buy some Christmas presents with it as quick as 3rou know how." When Mrs. Cleveland goes to Philadelphia shopping sho lovesnothing better than to run around the corner into the private office and the "presence of "the two brothers Chceryble." The day I was there another nctablo young woman came in. Sho greeted him as if ho were her fat her she almost hugged him. And when I passed out of the office he followed me out and threw his arm on my shoulder, exclaiming: "That is Miss Drexel, the $15,000,000 bride that is to be. Hid you seo her? Isn't she sweetf " Rut this pretty young woman was not the only interesting caller Mr. Childs had that day. There was a Mrs. Curtis, her daughter and son, of Cambridge, Mass. After they had gone out Mr. Childs remarked: "I'll tell you a story about that woman. For a good many years her husband wroto a series of editorial articles of a peculiar sort for our paper, articles which attracted much attention. But his health was rapidly failing, and my editor often expressed the fear that he should have to give up the articles, as there was no ono elso.that could write anything like them, so peculiar was. their vein and so rare their merit. One day a letter came to me from Mrs. Curtis, saying her husband could write no more, and asking if sho might not try her hand at the articles. Without saying a word to anybody, I told her to try her hand. For years she wroto the articles her husband had been writing, and nobody detected tho difference. Finally, Mr. Curtis died, and my editor camo to me with a long face, saying it was too bad we hud to lose tho articles Professor Curtis had been writing. Then I told him that for three years Professor Curtis had been unable to write a line, and that his wife had written all the articles in that time. You may imagine that he was a surprised editor." "Theu you are a great admirer of the literarv woman. Mr. Childs" "NYhv shouldn't I be, after that? Was it not a clever piece of work? I have such a good opinion of her that I sent her, some time ago, a complete library. I educated her son at Harvard. I have told her she, too, will be compelled to give up writing some day, and as I want those articles kept in her 'family, sho must train one of her daughters to t write them. This she is now doing, and I have left orders in my will that these articles shall bo continued as long as there is a member of the Curtis family able to write them, if it is one thousand years. Ry tho wa3. I have put in writing my wishes as to the future conduct of tho paper. No employe shall be disturbed by my death. The retired list, for one thing, must be continued and enlarged." "Then you have pensioners?'' "I am glad to sav that 1 have, a dozen or more of them. When a man gets old or infirm in my employ I retire him on full pav. Once I had a foreman whom I liked well. He had a bad cough and I sent hiruto a physician. The doctor said he might livo a year or two if he would stop work. I told the man to take a rest on full pay, to continue to his death. That was twenty years ago and the man is still alive and drawing his salary, though he has never been able to work. When he retired he had been at work for me just seven months." As a cure for chapped and chafed hands nothing equals tho celebrated Salvation Oil. For sale by all druggists. Price only J.) cents a bottle.

THE COUNTRY'S RAILWAYS

Past Year Not a Prosperous One, though Less Discouraging than Expected. Extent of the Failnres Below That of Previous Years, but the Outlook for I8S9 Xot Altogether Cheerful Local Xews Xotes. Chicago, Ja n. C. 1 ho Railway Age, in its issue of to-morrow, will sav: "While the past year was not a favorable ono for the railways generally, in respect to earnings or to maintenance of rates, it makes a much less discouraging showing than many of its predecessors in the number of roads sold under foreclosure and also in the mileage and capital involved in such sales. This fact, however, does not prove that the roads are now prospering, because foreclosure sales are the harvesting of seed sown long before, sometimes several years." A table giving the names of the lines sold, their length, and the amounts of their funded debt and capital stock, is given, and the article continues: "Although nineteen roads, with almost sixteen hundred miles of lines and nearly tv,000,000 of bonds and stock, have thus been closed out for tho creditors during the vear, these figures are much less than those of any previous year since our record was begun, with tho exceptions of the years 1882, 1SS3 and lb&4. Compared with the next three years tho improvement is remarkably great, muicating that tho roads whose insolvency occurred in late years have mostly gone through the process of reorganization. It is gratifying also to observe that only two of the nineteen companies of the list are among the really important roads in tho couutry, these two being tho Florida Railway tfc Navigation, with 533 miles of road and over 12,000,000 of securities, aud tho Houston &, Texas Central, with S3 miles and representing nearly $25,(XX,000. Most of the other roads are quite small, and scattered through various portions of the conntry, and their failures resulted ehietly from lack of business." The essential features of another tabular showing are as follows: The fact that during the past thirteen years 432 railway companies, with 43,770 miles of rails more than 20 per cent, of the entire mileage of the country of to-day, and representing almost $2,545,000,000 in securities, over SO per cent, of the present railway capital have been seized by the courts for the benefit of their creditors and sold at auction, does not indicate that railways in this country are a profitable form of investment. It is truo that in several cases the railroad has been sold twice, or even three times, but this indicates still more stronglv the precarious nature of the business, when repeated investments of capital in a road fail to mako it self-sustaining. The number of railway recei Terships constituted during a year gives a better indication of tho present condition of tho railway system than do the foreclosure sales, and in this respect tho evidence of 1888 is not encouraging. Wo lind that during the year, twenty-two companies with 3,270 miles of lines and nearly 187,000,000 of securities, have became insolvent and passed from the control of their owners into that of tho courts. Compared with either 1887 or 1880 these figures indicate a very larjre increase in respect to number of roads, mileage and capital. Put on the other hand the totals are verv much smaller than for 1884-85, the year of 1884 being memorable for tho fact that tho thirtyseven roads for which, receivers were appointed, represented over 11,000 miles of lines and nearly 6715,000,000. The most important failures of the year are those of the Missouri, Kansas &. Texas, 1,611 miles and $93,000,000; Minneapolis & St. Louis, 354 miles, and $110,200,000; Dayton, Fort Wayne & Chicago, 258 miles, and nominally about $10,500,000, and Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore, with 281 miles and $41,240,000 securities, the last named company confessing its failure on the last day of tlie year. . At the present time the outlook for 1880, in respect to railwav insolvency, is not altogether cheerful. The heavy losses of 1887 have seriously affected the financial. iitand ing of many companies, and unless rate wars are prevented and legislation andpublic sentiment become less unjust toward railway interests, there is reason to fear that the list of receiverships for 1889 will be very much larger than for the year just closed. . Track Privileges Revoked. Altox, 111., Jan. 8. A controversy has been in progress here for several days between tho Chicago & Alton and the St. Louis, Alton & Springfield railroads, about laying tho track of the latter road into this city along tho river road. There was no way for the Springfield road to get into tho city except by moving some of the switching tracks of tho Chicago & Alton. This the Chicago fc Alton determined should not be done, and it kept a train of freight cars on the track as a blockade. The city authorities requested that the blockade be removed, and finding that the request was not granted, tho City Council met last evening and passed a resolution revoking all privileges heretofore granted the Chicago fc Alton on the levee front. Tho Mayor, chief of police, and some of the aldcrinen proceeded to tho place of the blockade, and, with a posse of nearly one hundred men, lore np the Chicago & Alton track, and began la3ing down the Springfield track. This caused great excitement throughout tho city. How Agreements Are Kept. Chicago, Jan. 2. A morning paper says that the discovery was made yesterday that the Missouri Pacific had sold, at ono of its regular offices at Kansas Cit', a firstclass ticket to Pueblo at 15, a cut of $3.25. Tho Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska railroad (Rock Island west of the Missouri river), m accordance with its notice issued last week, that it would meet any rate made by scalpers or regular agents at less than tariff over tho counters of its regular ottices, promptly issued orders to its agents at Kansas City to make a $15 rato to Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver. The agreement to restore rates throughout tho West only went into operation Jan. 1. Personal, Local and State Xotes. The office of the Empire line was yesterday removed to the Union Block, on West Maryland street. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton will be in the market next week forSOO box cars and 100 stock cars. Arthur Taggart, of Chicago, was yesterday appointed depot agent of the Adams Express Company at Indianapolis. Tho monthly meeting of the passenger department of the Central Trallic Association will be held in Chicago on Tuesday next. Captain May, of Philadelphia, who has been in tho passenger department of tho Pennsylvania road since 1854, is in the city for a tew days. Tho Ohio & Mississippi road has ticket agents oh all its passenger trains to assist tho conductors. Still it is one of the poorest roads in the country in a financial way. The earnings of the Lake Erie & Western road for the year 18SS were $2,150,010, which was an increase over the earnings of the corresponding twelve months in 1887 of $75,j&1.20. Railroad officials speak of the present as a remarkable winter. Up to the present lime there has been no lightening of trains or slowing of speed, so excallent a condition havo the tracks been in. F. II. Kingsbury, well known in Indianapolis railroad circles, on Jau. 1 went to Sew York, where ho assumed tho duties of his new position, that of Eastern superintendent of tho Union Star line. It is stated that D. Miller, general freight and passenger agent of the St. Louis, Arkansas it Texas road, is to be given an important position on the C, I., St. L. & C. under Oscar Murray, traffic manager. Charles Neilson, general superintendent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton 3L Dayton lines, who has been East several days watching by the bedside of a sick child, returned yesterday, the child being much better. The Lafayette car-works are delivering 100 refrigerator cars to the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road. They are of a very substantial build, and so painted as to attract as much attention as a well-painted passenger coach. niece i thnt. nf tho rnnin linA rf tli -TntVrormTMlltt Madison &, Indiananolis. In fact, it is said that thero are not 110 miles of track wcttof

The late inspections of the Pennsvlvania lines west of Pittsburg show that the best

ot track in tlie Pennsylvania svsteni

tho Alleghenies so free from grades and curves, and on which the track rests moro solid than it does on this. There is considerable speculation as regards the annual elect ion of aboardof directorsfor theTerre Haute & Indianapolis road, which occurs on Monda3' next. II. S. Ives is now ono of the directors, ami the quest ion is asked, will he be re-electedf The stockholders of the Belt Road and Stockyard Company yesterday held their regular monthly meeting. The only business of importance done was the declaring of a semi-annual 3 per cent, dividend. Tho anuual meeting occurs on tho first Tuesday in February. In the last twelve months the Lake Erie &. Western has carried within a fraction of 13 per cent, of the east-bound business out of Indianapolis. When tho Wabash controlled tho 1., P. & C. road it was contented with carrying 2 1-2 per cent, of the business. The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis it Chicago road has done considerable this year in the way of putting in new sidetracks. At Brookiield a side-track to hold fifty cars is just completed; at Iroquois another of the same length; at Kankakee, side-tracks to hold 175 cars have been laid, and at North Rend the capacity of the sidetracks has been greatly increased. Harry Crawford is in Louisville and has resumed the taking of depositions in tho case of Rreyfogle against the Kentucky it Indiana Bridge Company. Mr. Crawford says them will be no let-up in the prosecution of the suit. Mr. Crawford savs the purchase of the Louisville Southern by tho Monon will not in any way afiVct the pending litigation between the Kentucky fc Indiana Bridge Company and Dr. Breyfogle. Oscar Murray, traffic manager of tho Chesapeake it Ohio and the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis t Chicago road, is now giving almost his entire attention to placing the first named road on its feet. Then the Big Four will be looked after. It is proposed to make the Kanawha fastfreight line one of the most important lines running between Chicago aud the seaboard,-and St. Louis and Indianapolis business, as well, is to be looked after. The contraqtprs yesterday turned tho C. t O. cut-off, lino, over to the Chesaneako it Ohio syndicate which controls the property. President Ingalls andothermembers of the syndicate yesterday inspected tho property, and on Monday next local trains will be put on to run between Ashland and Covington, Ky., a distance of some 100 miles. As soon as the road-bed becomes solid tho link will be made a part of the new line between Chieagoandthe seaboard via Indianapolis and Cincinnati. J. T. Harahan, who has taken the general management of tho afi'airs of tho Lake Shore road is so far-seeing and aggressive that it is expected he will reform that road from some of its old fogy ideas. It is believed that he will see that to develop the Bee-line business it must be run as a Southwestern system and tho Chicago lino as a Northwest system. Such a raovo would build up both interests. For years tho Beeline has been handicapped by being subjected to the whims of the management of the Lake Shore road. WThat is needed, says one of the best railroad men in the Wrest. is to run trains of the Bee-lino through solid between St. Louis, Cincinnati and tho seaboard, as the Pennsylvania Company does, and not dove-tail tho business of the Bceliuo with that of the Lake Shore road as soon as it reaches Cleveland. It should make fast time and jjive its competitors some vigorous competition. Regarding tho rumor that tho Louisville, New Albany it Chicago Railroad Company is to absorb the Versailles & Midway railway and extend it southward, Col. Bennett Young says that the agreement was completed, and tho transfer would be made to tho Louisville Southern company and not to the Monon, as reported. The Monon may, and probably will, lease this road, but Colonel oung says that this has not yet been done. The line through to Lexington will soon bo completed, and before long there will bo a direct line to Midway. Versailles, Lexington, Georgetown and Paris. As already stated, ever since the deal of tho Monon and Southern thero havo been innumerable rumors of sensational developments to be brought out of the ostensible lease. Some persons firmly believed that the L. t N. was the real lessee, and others gave dark hints to the effect that there had een no lease, and in proof of this it was urged that no one had seen the alleged contract, and that while the transfer was announced. Colonel Young still retained his management and signed tho annual passes, as usual, for tho new year. AMERICAN PILGRDIS.

Catholic s Preparing to Visit the Holy Places of the Old World. Xew York Special. . Tho first American pilgrimage to Rome and to tho Holy Land will soon take place. Five years ago, Pope Leo XIII decided, in order to create an interest in the minds of the faithful for tho holy places made Racred by the presence as well as the toils and sufierings of tho Redeemer, to appoint what is known as a commissary for each of the countries of the old world, as well as for America and Canada, whose duty it would be to organize periodical pilgrimages to these places. In conformity with this idea, the Very Rev. Charles A. Vissaui was the man appointed by his Holiness to develop the plan iu this country. Father Vissaui has an office at No. 300 West Fiftysecond street. It is intended that thero should bo a pilgrimage each year, tho first to set out this y ear, on Feb. 21, in the Hani-burg-American steamer Wieland. George Eade, the manager of the system,' who is in daily receipt of tho names of Catholic dignitaries and Catholic laymen who mean to go upon the journey, told a reporter to-day -that arrangements for the trip had been begun as far back as March last, siiice which time steady progress has been made.' ' "It will cost $050 a head," said he, "and up "to the present wo havo the names of seventy-fivo persons enrolled. Of those already decided upon going, and whose names we have, thero are two Catholic bishops and twenty-nino priests. The others are lay people. They are from all over the United States. From hero wo shall go direct to Paris. From there wo shall visit Nice, Cannes, Florence, Pisa and other places before proceeding to Rome, when an audience will be arranged with his Holiness. On the way to Naples, visits will be made to Pompeii . and Vesuvius. Tho start for Egypt will. be made at Naples. Alexandria, Cairo, the pyramids, an excursion down the Nile and a visit to the historical battle-field of Tel-El-Kcbir will form some interesting features of tho journey. March 7 will see the party in Jafla, which will be the first placo touched in Palestine. After a visit to the Franciscan Monastery, they will bend their steps to Rainleh. Jerusalem will be reached by means of carriages. Bethlehem, the Dead sea and tho river Jordan are certain to call up the hqliest of memories." The entire journey will bo under the direction of Father Vissaui. An Incident in General Harrison's Life. Pittsburg Dispatch. Professor Case, the director of music 'at Chautauqua, who conducted the singing at Butler-street M. E. Church, on Sabbath, left Pittsburg jesterday. Ho had heard, the newspaper gossip about President-elect Harrison and the inauguration ball. It reminded him of a personal reminiscence of the famous Hoosier. "I Avas aiding Needham, the evangelist, in revival services at Indianapolis, several years ago," he said to tho writer. "Mr. Harrison was ono of the most earnest supporters of the movement. There was a deep religious feeling stirred up in the community. In the midst of it the news camo that Harrison had been elected United States Senator. Of course he was hardly looked for at the services that night, but in ho came, as usual, Bible under his arm, and there never was a more fervent prayer than ho made that night. His whole "conduct was modest, unostentatious and earnest. He camo night after night, and actually made people forget that it was a Senator of the United States who was working for their souls' salvation. Worse Than Suicide. Journal of Education. If, young women knew what desperate things young men will sometimes do under the influence of disappointmened love, they would be more careful hov they trifle with their deep affections. A B ston girl refused to marry a young man the other evening, and he went right away and proposed successfully to another girl beforo 10 o'clock. Denouncing Hi Own Party's Crimes. Chicago Journal. Every fraud ever perpetrated on the ballot-box was a Democratic fraud. The death of suffrage fraud would be the death of tho Democratic party. Governor Hill's denuncaition of election frauds is amusing.

A beauttftjt luk. A Merited Tribute to the Virtues of the tate Mr. Kleanor Sherman. Ponn Tiatr, in Eelford's Magazine. Died, at New York.2Sitli of November, 16S 8, Mrs. Kleanor Iioyle .Vhcrnian. Tho above simple announcement of a sad event was read through more tears than usually fall to the lot of one whoso unassuming, quiet life was passed iu the privacy of a purely domestic existence. This was not because sho was the wife of a noted cllicer, or the daughter of one of OliJo s most famous statesmen, but for the excellence of her character and the Christian spirit of her retired career that made her life one long-continuous deed of goodness. If ever an angel walked on earth administering to the sorrows and sickness of those about her, that angel was Mrs. Sherman. Inheriting much of her great father's line intellect, sho added a heart full to overflowing, with tho sweetest sympathy for alllictio;iin others. Self-sacrifice was to her a second nature. She not only carried in patient humility tho cares imposed upon her by our Savior, but cheerfully took up the woeful burdens of those whose failing spirits left thn fainting on their way. Her exalted social position was no bar to the poor, down-trodden and oppressed. Her hand, like her heart, was ever open. A , Tho heroism of private life is little noted among us. Acting out great deeds of sell-, sacrilice.in the silent, unseen walks of domestic existence, it lacks tho sustaining plaudits of a thoughtless public, and has no incentive to effort other than that found in the conscious presence of an approving God, and no hope of recompense beyond tno

promised approval of tne jiereaner " "j our heavenly Father shall say: "Well done, thou cood and faithful serv ant.77

No man. however exalted his position may be or distinguished his services, is ever loilowed to his tomb .by more real mourners than one carriage can convey. The crapecanopied hearse, the nldmK.pluin.es of woe. the wailing music of the lured bands, tho long procession of slow-moving coaches, the tramp of hundreds, tell only of human vanity. Vo mako our show of sorrow. Ono vehicle only holds hearts breaking man agony of grief hearts that know nothing in their woo of tho dear one's, greatness; know only that he has x gone from their household that his presence bad made so happy. In his death the dear walls of that home were shattered, tho lire upr.n the hearth is dead, and the hard world darkened down to desolation's nakedness. Could all who were favored in knowing thi3 beautiful character, and blessed by her very presence, have been called to form tho funeral cortege, real heartfelt grief would havo lived along the entire procession, andsobs,not6irainsof mournful n.usic, would have broken on tho ear. And iif this procession would havo been found, not on the rich and well born, clad in costly silks and furs, who had received from this gracious lady the divine influences of tho Christum spirit, but the thinly clad poor, the dependent orphans and helpless age. It is sucb a procession that does not disperse and disappear at tho cemetery, but follows in prayer the mourned-f or spirit to its home in heaven. It is not for us to invade tho sacred privacy of this lovely life. AVe owo an apology to her blessed memory for oven this mention of her name. Wo know sho shrank from such while among us, and it is only as a duty to the living that we venture on this tribute to her excellence. A Reasonable Ambition. Clay County Enterprise. About the only resolution, that we could recommend anybody to make at tho beginning of the new year would be to resolve so to conduct himself as that, at the end of the year, he will not feel like kicking himself. That is as good as can be expected of the ordinary mortal. "Quack, nuack. auack." said the doctor. when ho found Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup iu 1 - , A a A. A. 1- - - me nouse oi a iniosr every paiienr, nu. jus bills decreased, and tho people wero happy. Price 25 cents a bottle. TUTEWILER, UNDERTAKER 72 West Market Cyclorama Plac Telephone,216. ' a wtmmm WANTED MAMS HELP. "TTTANTED SUPERINTENDENT OR. FOREV man and two to live assistants, according to size and population of territory in charge. Foremen to select liis own assistants, and take entire charge of bnsiness. make collections, and superintend ditriljutUn of ad vert ising matter, relative to the Monthly Installment Tavmeut Dejuirtmentof the. California & southern Land Co., California Monthly Railroad Excursions, etc.; $G0 a month and esjnses to foreman, and $10 to assistants. Excuses advanced and salaries paid monthly through our Eastern Mice. Inclose. 10c IKistape for full specimen line of advertising matter, Hud address Eastern Office California fc Southern JmIuICo., 1 O. Box 825. Cincinnati. O. "1TANTEI-AX OVERSEER. OR CHIEF AlT vertiser, and two to live assistants (su'eording to size of county and population), $r0 a month salary and expenses to overseers, and jflO to assistants. Xo peddling, no soliciting. Pnties confined to making collections, distributing printed matter, putting up advertisements, etc., tor the two greatest fortunemakers in America the Farmer's $10 Firc-Pi-oof Combination-IiOCk safe (sold on monthly instaUments) and the wonderful Electric Fuel, for warming sleighs, carriages, etc., w hich bums without tiaiue, smoke or odor, and will heat any vehicle 21 hours for lO cents. Expenses advanced; salaries paid each month. Inclose 10c postage for full specimen line of advertising matter to tho J. E. STEPHEN'S CO., Lebanon, Ohio. WASTED-MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED LIVE MEN" AND WOMEN TO EN. cage in an easy, paj ing business at homes; can work iay time or evening and make 50c to $2 per hour; euro thing; sample and complete instructions sent for 10c. Address orld Supply Company, Rutland, VL "WANTED SITUATI OXS. iTTANTED-RY YOUNG MAN, POSITION AS assistant Book-keeper or clerk. Rest references. Address BOOK-KEEPER, Journal office, AgUXMg"j STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING. THE ANNUAL meeting of the stockholders of the "Snowstorm Mining and Milling CompansV of Durango, Col., will be held in the city of lndianajolis, Ind., on the second Tuesday in January, ISstf. at 10 o'clock A. M., at the onice of Charles W. Rrouse fc Co., Rooms 2 and 5, Thorpe Hluck, for the election of Directors and the transaction of such olher business as mav properly come before the meeting. CJIAS. W. BRoUSE. secretary S. S. M. fc M. Co. LEVI RITTER, President. FOR SALE KEAL ESTATE. J70R SALE-ELEGANT FIVE-ROOM COTTAGE . and lot, ssxi:c feet, Broadway, near Ninth street. Price, tl.730; small cash payment; ha lance monthly, like rent. For particulars see CUAS. BLYTIIE, 38 1-2 East Washington st. It ESIDENCE PROPERTY SOUTHWEST. Two-story frame, nine rooms; stone foundation and sidewalks; large stable; lot (30x120; iron fence iu front; natural gas in use. Improvements three years old. Fivnts south, being at the north end of another stm t. This is the most desirable residence property in this part of the city, and the cheapest in any part 3,000. GREGORY & APPLE, 9tt East Market street. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. -niCYCLF.8 YOU THE HOLIDAYS, AT II. T. HEARSE VS. U7 X. Delaware st. OJIltENT OR RENT-ROOMS WITH STEAM POWER. Apply at Bryce's bakery. 17OR RENT ROOM FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY . Hart, the English tailor, No. G3 S. Illinois st. STQLEu " STOLEN-BAY HORSE SLIGHTLY BUCKkneed, open buggy, lazy back, newly painted, and role, from in front of court-house, night of Jan. 3. Liberal reward if returned to J. O. MOORE, 70j Court street, Jndianaiulis, Jud. J. O. MOORE. FINANCIAL. F INANCIAL ROBERT MARTINDALE & CO. Loan Agents, 2 E. Maiket st. MONEY TO LOAN 6 PER CENT. HORACE MCKAY, Room 11. Talbot & NeWa Block. 1 MX A NCIAL M ON E Y ON Mn RTG A G E, F A RM 3 : and city property. C. K. COFFIN fc CO. SIX PER CENT. ON CITY PROPERTY IN IN. diana, ISAAC H. KIERSTED, 13 MarUndale Block. CKf nnTO LOAN AT fl AND 7 PERCENT. COU UU II ALEX. METZGER, No. 5 (Md fellows Hall, N. E. cor. Vashington and Pennsylvania. ONEY TO LOAN ON FARMS AT THE LOWet market rate; prlvilrgeH for payment before due. "We also buy municipal bonds. TIIOS. C. DAY & CO.. 72 i:. Market at.. Indianapolis. ATARRH CREAM BALM IS WORTH $1,000 TO ANY MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD p suffering from C A T A It It II f A particle is applied into each nostril and is agree. able Price son ut dru. riat; by mall, registered, ouc. LLYUI'.OTHLRS RS, tT Varrea bt. New York.

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