Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1889 — Page 9

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1889-TWELVE PAGES.

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KOI ENOUGH TO PASS BILLS

Senators Hold Xo Session, and the Representatives Were Few and Weary. X Paj Spent in Unconstitutionally Considcrin Bills on Second Reading The People Demanding a Hospital Investigation. The legislative halls were almost deserttd yesterday. Tho only occupants of the Kenato chamber were tho twenty-nine doorkeepers and fifteen clerks, who lounge around and draw their pay whether the body is in session o not. None of tho Democratic majority, who want no time wasted when one of their political measures is Up for consideration, wero in sight during the day. More than a dozen of them had gone on a junketing tour to. the southern prison, aud more went home, instead of remaining hero and advancing some of the needed legislation. The House attempted to keep up appearances by remaining 'in session all day, hnt it was unable to transact any business of importance The members begun going home Friday evening, and at the hour of coming together yesterday morning not more th an lifty members were in their seats. If the roll had been called the body would have had to adjourn for want of a quorum, bnt the Speaker was wise enough to avoid having it called. At times there were rot over twenty-titto members present, but the reading clerk kept on reading unimportant bills just the same. During the day forty or lifty bills were engrossed. They were all introduced by members who remained here to take care of them. The Representatives present thus had an advantage over the absentees in pushing forward bills that otherwise would have been pushed aside. Some of the legislators objected to the loose and unlawful manner of doing business, bnt their objections had no effect. Along in the afternoon, when there were fully seventy-live members absent, Mr. Eevnolds called attention to the fact that tho Constitution wa3 being violated; that it stated that neither branch of the General Assembly should transact business without a ouorum present and that it was made the duty of the presiding officer to ascertain at the beginning of each session whether or not there was a quorum. He maintained that the second reading of a bill was tho most important action upon it. and that it was putting tho House in a bad condition to be engrossing bills before they were read through, and without more than twenty-live members present. He 6aid that a bill could not be amended after it had passed to engrossment, and the loose method pursued was tho cause of much imnerfect legislation. Another point he made was that the engrossment of bills was doing an injustice to the absentees. Thy would come back and when theso bills wero called up foi passage they would vote for them because they had been engrossed, and with the belief that they had been properly considered and amended on engrossment. The remarks evidently put the few members and the Speaker to thinking, for it was not long after that until there was an adjournment. The only relief from the dull monotony of engrossing bills came with the opening of the morning session. As soon as Mr. Kevnolds had oilered prayer, Mr. Brown nsked permission to introduce a petition. He, of course, had to explain what it was before the kindergarten Speaker would allow him to present it. He said it was in reference to an investigation of the Insane Hospital. Thit was enough to put the Democratic members on their guard, ami several objected to its being received. "If it is a petition the member has a right to present it." said the Speaker, and Mr. Brown sent up the document. It was signed by several hundred persons of eastern Indiana, Democrats and Kepublicans, praying that tho hospital be investigated by the General Assembly. It was referred to tho committee on benevolent institutions. Mr. Brown has several more petitions of the saine kind on his desk, which he will offer this week. He says all eastern Indiana will petition for an investigation before tho session ends. As soon as the petition was referred, Mr. Mendenhall o tie red the following resolution: Reolvctl, That Governor Hovey bo permitted to retain his private secretary, and that this Democratic General Assembly do not force Green 8mith upon the Governor as his private secretary. The clerk had read through the resolution before the Speaker discovered its nature. There was immediately a protest from the Democratic side of the House, and the Speaker directed that the resolution be returned to its author. During the remainder of the day the business of engrossing bills was not interrupted. One of the bills of general interest engrossed was that of Mr. Willard providing that .twenty-live years shall menu a liio sentence in the State prison. It provides that when a prisoner sentenced for life shall have served twenty-live J ears he shall le released for live years on lis good behanior. If he conducts himself Sroperly during his parole he is to go free uring the remainder of his life. There was some opposition to the bill. The fee and salary bill introduced by Mr. Foster came un for consideration, but there was so much opposition to it that it was made a sncial order for Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. There was a report for, and against it. Mr. Foster in a brief speech charged that Mr. Hicham was a tool of the county officers, and that he was using undue influence to prevent the passage of tho bilL Mr. Bigham denied the charge and said he was opposed to . the bill simply because ho thought it was unjust. Another bill engrossed was that of Mr. fcchninck, fixing the salaries of the township trustees and assessor of Marion county at l,&00 per annum. Mr. Ouster's bill authorizing conuty commissioners to pay rewards for tho apprehension of persons guilty of a felony was also engrossed. The bill is of special importance to th3 county, and its introduction was prompted by John E. Sullivan's rascality; and the announcement that the commissioners could not offer any reward for his arrest. The bill to regulate the sale of medicine, providing that druggists shall take out license was discussed nt soino length, and then, on account of so many members being absent, was made a special order for Wednesday afternoon. The bill prepared by the Indianapolis Humane Society, looking to the prevention of cruelty to animals, was also engrossed, but not without being opposed. The only other bill of much importance engrossed was the one authorizing the levying of a library tax of 5 cents on the $100 in this city. It was introduced by Mr. fchmuck at the solicitation of the city school board. At 4 o'clock the twenty-tivo members present concluded it would be wise for them to adjourn, and they did so. It I a Constitutional lUght. In approving of the SenMe enrolled act No. 255, authorizing and directing tho Governor to appoint a judge. Governor Hovey used the following language: "In approving this act, I wish it to be respectfully understood that I do not concede that tho General Assembly has any power to 'authorize and direct' a Governor of this State to appoint a judge. That power is derived from the ISth Section, Article 5, of the Constitution." It is understood that this is but the beginning of a policy regarding the General Assembly which tho Governor proposes to uniformly maintain. LegUlatire Notes. A bill to allow Dye & Fihback, attorneys, $500 for legal Kcrrices on account of the provisional board for the additional hospitals for the inane,wa engrossed bjr the IIouso last evening. A member of the Uou.e suggested last evening that there would be a leas number of absentees the lat and firt of each week If the railroad companies would ceao issuing passes to members. A bill his been introduced in Loth houses which authorizes county commissioners to levy and collect a library tax of one-tifth of a mill on each dollar of proinrty. The object of the bill Is to help tho township libraries throughout the fctate. The tatcraent i now being circulated on good authority that the speech Wet-the rop (lirtis rend ou the Huprvine Court commission bill several dava asfo wo written by Jud'e NtuiaeJc. At the time Mr. Curti read the apeevb a good many members Hero wondering who wrote itforhlra. Annual Meeting of Florists. The third annual meeting of the Society of Indianapolis Florists will be held Friday and Saturday next, ax the State Agricultural rooms. On tho first day paper on floricultural topics will be read by E. O. Hill. Richmond; Fred lorBjr, J-alajfctte; J. 8. 6tuar, Anueraou; F, W.

Beach. Richmond; IMerre Vanlandigham, Lafayette; W. II. Lawrence, Indianapolis M. A. Hunt, Terre Haute. On the necond day there will be a chryanthenum exhibit, and at night a banquet to visiting florists and members.

A TMUVIXG BUSINESS. Large Commission and Tack in? Trade from Limited Operations & Few Years Affo. Indianapolis has twenty commission houses that handle articles which come under the head of produce, but no branch of traffic has had so many nps and downs. One of tho pioneers in the business says that he can recall fifteen local linns that have failed since the first commission-house was established in this city. But the trade is now on a stronger basis than at any former period. The first strictly commis-eion-honso was established here by G. G. Holman, in the year 1885, in a room near the present furniture house of Spiegel fc Thorns, on West Washington street. In 1S67 Vancamp &. Jackson opened the second house, and in 16CS Barnes & Williams, the third. The goods shipped to tuom came mostly by express or were bron it in wagons. In 18 a six bushels of blackberries wero sold in this market by commission men, but now. at the height of the w?a.ou, six car-loads a day are often handled. Holrnan received the lirst car-load of apples shipped here in 1809, and since that timet)) receipts of this fruit have steadily increased until as high as twenty car-loads have come hero in one day. The first car-load of bananas came hero in 1874, and the owner, after remaining in Indianapolis for three days, became discouraged, and sold tho load to Barnes & Williams for a mere song. The purchasers put tho fiuit in a back room to ripen, snd then sold tho bananas for 7 or S a bunch. Now, an average of six car-loads of this tropical product are shipped to this point each week during the season, and the fruit sells at from 50 cents to 81.50 a bunch. In 1SG5, Pat Nealo and Henry Horn formed a partnership to pack eggs and poultry, but on a limited scale. They bought and sold only three months in the year. Their honse was on Kentucky avenue. The year following, Budd &. Hinesley formed a partnership, and went into the business on quite an extensive scale. They were in the building now occupied by Albert Gall's carpet store, the building since that timo having been remodeled. At ono time Budd &- Hinesley had 1,000 geese in the second story, and the neighbors went into tho courts and declared the house a nuisance, but the judge did not think so, . as ho wished to encourazo business in Indianapolis. The complainants paid the costs. In 1877 Arthur Jordan opened a commission houso on East Market street with Evertsou & Deitz as a competitor, beginning the same year. Both houses bought and sold butter and cheese to a large extent. InlSTS J. E. Sullivan and Henry Syerup went into the business, the former engaging in packing chiefly. At this time the old commission men lost the advantage, as several packing-houses instead of allowing the shi ppers who had come tobe quite numerous, to ship their goods to tho commission men, they then turning the goods over to tho pacKing-houses, began to ship directly to the packers. About that time A. V. Lawrence, who was a packer, to a limited extent, enlarged his trade and became one of the leaders in . the business. The packers then sent out drummers and issued price currents. Tho first of tho latter being published in 1S70, when chickens wero bought by the dozen, the price ranging from $1.25 to $1.5o Now fowls of the same size are sold by the nound and bring from $4 to $5 per dozen. Good butter was then scarce, and the price current showed the prices to be from ri2 to 26 cents per pound. At some seasons of the year eggs sold as low as 8 cents per dozen, but on tho date of this Srice current they sold at 22 cents per ozen, it being midwinter. From this timo on Indianapolis grew in importance as a packing point and in the business of the commit8ion-honses. In 1870 fifteen carloads of dressed and twenty of live poultry were shipped to New York. Last year, which was not as good as 1887, there wero shipped frcm Indianapolis 416 car-loatfs of dressed and live poultry. The homo packers may have sold as much poultry and eggs for shipment East as ever, but under the- rulings of the interstate law the shipping points have become more numerous, ami in many cases the Indianapolis packer ships from those points. The local commission-houses handledmorer goods in 1888 than in any former year, but made less money, because all articles ofprodnee were so abundant. As a distributing point of produce, such as apples, potatoes, cabbage, bananas, oranges, etc., Indianapolis is yearly becoming moro important. Towns like Muncie, Anderson, Frankfort, Crawfordsville, Franklin and SShelbyville are all increasing in population, and this increaso is made up largely of mechanics, which enlarges the demand for the articles named, So far as Indianapolis proper is concerned, the worst thing ' the commission men have to contend with is huckstering, as the men engaged in it bring produce from thirty miles around, and parties who ship watermelons, apples and potatoes here peddle them out of the the car, paying no rent nor license. But notwithstanding this there is a healthy growth to the business. The fact that in the past so large a number of commission men and packers have failed, does not deter others from making similar ventures. The losses usually occur through a sudden drop in the market after the goods have been loaded and are on their way East. Last year one packer is said to have lost $7,000 by prices falling. On the other hand nearly as often advances in prices after shipments are made, but unless the packer is well supplied with money before the favorable reaction of tho market comes, he goes to the wall. Tho commission men proper, however, do not have so great a risk to run, and usually make a good living if they do not save anything lor a rainy day. - , Local News Notes MarriA (re licenses were issued yesterday to Harris Holowiti and Rose D. Wildoffsky, James Rosin and Susan Johnson. Yesterday morning, II. II. Ilanna's stable, In the rear of nis residence. No. 786 North Pennsylvania street, was burned, the loss being $100. The fifteenth reunion of the Indiana Veterans of the Mexican War will be held In this city on next Thursday, at the agricultural roorc-'s, in the State-house. , The Woman's Relief Corps, of George IL Thomas Post, will elect a president at its regular meeting Tuesday. All members are earnestly requested to be present. Articles of association of the Elnora Savin? and Loan Association, of L'lnora, tho capital stock of which is $200,000, were filed with the Secretary of State yesterday. Amanda Terhune attempted suicide by taking morphine, at her residence. No. 241 West Washington street, yesterday morning. Hhe was avod. however, by tho rrompt action of Dr. Eisenbelss. Building permits wero Issued yesterday to II. M. Talbott. repairs, 60 Weft Washington street, $1,000; J. W. Black, addition, 153 Massachusetts avenue, $25; John K. Ramltton, two frame cot)tatri !. btate street, between Ohio and Washington, $1,800. A few days ago an advertisement appeared In the Journal, stating that there had been an accident on the L. 8. & M. 8. R. It., and that a great quantity of goods had been destroyed and damaged. As a matter of fact there was no such accident on the road mentioned, and in justice to it this correction Is cheerfully made. Ex-Chief Webster's New Position. Ex-Chief J. II. Webster, of the Are department was yesterday selected as inspector for tho fire Insurance rouipanies represented in this city, which are Included in what is known as tho compact. The selection was made by J. M. DcCamp. WeMtern manatrer of the Londou. Liverpool and Globe company, who came here from Chicago to consult with Mr. Webster. Custom-Uouse Duties. Duties were paid at tho Indianapolis customhouse for the week ending yesterday us follows: Kipn Brothers, on twenty-four cases of playlnjrmarblea. $70; A. Burdsal, on fifty-four cases of Venetian red. $10; Kingan v Co., on l.OOO sacks of salt, $208.80; Kgan fc Treat, ou clotlis, $'J18.82. Ar You Going to Washington . If 60, yon would doubtless like to make the trip in solid comfort, quick time aud without change. A Pullman vestibule buffet sleeping car leaves indianapolis at 3:50 r. m. daily except Sunday) on the Cincinnati, Hamilton &z Dayton fast express, running through via tho C, Y. t B. and Baltimore fc Ohio roads, without change, to Washington and Baltimore in quicker timo than any competing line, reaching Washington at 1:55 and Baltimore at 2:a5 p. M. next day. Sleeping-car space, further information ami tickets at Union Station; at C, II. iV D. ollice, corner Illinois street and Kentucky avenue, or by addressing W. II, Fisher, jcneral aijcnt.

A NEW MANAGER EMPLOYED

Bancroft Is to Control the Men of tho Indianapolis Team This Season. He Thinks He Can Put the Club in a High Flace Spring Dates Arranged for the Home Players Base-Ball Briefs. Another troublesome base-ball problem in connection with tho local club has been 6olved, and the directors will now rest in peace, for a while, at least. Tho managerial question, which has been tho bourceof a great deal of annoyance for some time, has at last been definitely settled. President Brush having concluded to wait no longer for Glasscock to accept the offer, telegraphed, on Wednesday, to Frank C. Bancroft, at Springfield, Mass., to come here at once and confer with him about managing tho lloosiers in 1SSU, and that gentleman reached tho city on Friday night, registering at the Ncw-Denison under the name of F. G. Brown, for the purpose of keeping his presence a secret. This was done at the suggestion of John Martin, and ho alone can tell what necessity there was for so much secrecy and mystery. However, Mr. Bancroft met tho directors in President Brush's rooms, yesterday afternoon, and, after a star chamber session, lasting several hours, he was made manager of the team, and will assume control of tho club's affairs at an early date. Mr. Bancroft is what might be called an old-timer, and by many is regarded as a splendid man for tho place. He has been in the base-ball business for twelve years, and handled some of the best clubs in the League. He organized tho Detroit club in 1SS1, and remained there two years. InlS83 Bancroft managed the gilt-edged Cleveland team, in which Glasscock, Dunlap, McDonald and several other famous men played, tho club taking second place in the League race. He went to Providence in 1S84, and the team, of which Denny, Bassett, Daily and Hines, of the local club, were members, won the championship. At the close of 1883 tho Providenco team retired from the League, and since that timo Mr. Bancroft has been with no prominent club, barring the Athletics, which he managed for a few months in 1887. He is a gentleman of intelligence and good address. As a manager he is chiefly noted as a very strict disciplinarian, and for that reason is not popular with a certain clas9 of players. However, as Indianapolis has tried loose methods with poor success for two seasons, a change to tho other extreme can do no harm. Mr. Bancroft was seen by a reporter after he had been made manager and asked what he thought of the outlook for next season. He said, while Indianapolis did not have a championship team as now constituted, ho felt that the lloosiers were 6trong enough to capture fourth or lifth place, aud honed to land them higher than three of the other clubs. He said there would be no material changes in the team, bnt Getzein would be secured in all probability. Glasscock will be made captain if he desires the position. When asked regarding tho reported ill-feeling between himself and Denny he said he antic ipated no trouble with the great third basemen. 4If Denny will only do his dnty to the club," he continued, "we will get along all right. I shall nsk nothing unreasonable of him. No ball-player can drink and do good work, and if my own father was on the team I should expect him to keep in good condition, and if he did not it would cost him some of his salary. .As to Daily and ' Bassett, they never drank while they were in the Providence team, and they will givo os no trouble on that score next season." The new manager considers Boyle and Getzein both great pitchers, and thinks Ilealy has been doing excellent work with tho all-American team tnow in Europe. He is - unacquainted with liurdick and does not know what Shreve can do. In speaking of the club officials, he 6aid he considered President Brush one of the ablest base-ball men now in the business, and otherwise complimented him highly. Ho left at 5:10 yesterday afternoon for New York, and will not return to Indianapolis until early in April. It has not been iully decided when the men would be asked to report. The team has spring dates in Louisville, and possibly the players may report in that city. However, Manager Bancroft expects to meet President Brush at the schedule meeting, in Washington, on March 4. and all of these questions will then be decided. There was some fear that Glasscock would be dissatisfied if he failed to get tho management, but such a thing is hardly probable now. Pressdent Brush received a letter from him yesterday, in which ho said he wanted to see the team do well, and hoped a good manager would be secured. The very fresh and foolish young man who writes what he is pleased to call base-ball news for the Cincinnati Times-Star would do well to tako a vacation and give tho public a rest. For some unknown reason lie seems to have taken a great dislike to President Brush and the Indianapolis club, and, day after day, he devotes a certain amount of space to the affairs of the local organization. It is not very clear to the averaee' reader why so much of the oft repeated rot is admitted to tho columns of the Times-Star. Of course, the young man knows nothing about President Brush or the business of the lloosiers, yet ho keeps hammering away at both in the most rediculous and senseless manner. If he would give half the space devoted to abuse of the Indianapolis club and itsoiheial head to legitimate base-ball matter he would do his readers a service for which they would be thankful. Much of the stuff written about the home club is too absurd to call for contradiction. Secretary Braenig has arranged tho following spring dates: On April 2 and 3 the Indianapolis team will play its first games at Louisville. On the 4th and 5th, that club will play in the local grounds. Milwaukee will be here on the 11th and 12th, and the St. Louis Browns will appear on tho 15th and Kith, with Toledo following on the 18th and 19th. The Columbus, Toronto, Springfield, 111., teams will also play here, but no dates have yet been made with them. The Chicago and Ail-American clubs will come for one game about the 20th. The Indianapolis team wyi play all of its exhibition games at home with the exception of the Louisville contests. lase-Iall Briefs. Hoy has signed with Washington. Itcddy Mack will captain the Baltimore team. O'Dayand Keefe have signed with Washington. The Louisville club wants $2,000 for the roleae of Hecker. Robert Barr has 6igned to play with Rochester again next season. Cleveland has slimed four pitchers, and has two more to hear from. Trick McSorley is in St. Louis waiting, like Micawber, for something to turn up. The Cleveland league players have been notified to report at Ilot Springs, March 10. Jim Gilford has been offered the management of the Chattanooga Southern League Club. Pes Moines wants Monk Cline, and Kansas City will probably release him to that club. Traffley has signed with Des Moines and wiU be the principal catcher of that team next season. William Veach, of this city, has signed to play with the Sacrameuto, CaL, League club next season. Hartford, Conn., once a League city, has Jqincd tho new Atlantic Association and will put a good team into the Held. Jack Gleason, the old third-baseman, who has not played ball for several years, will try his hand again the coming season. McKean, Cleveland's short-stop, is again troubled with a lame shoulder and will go to Hot bp rings In advance of the team. President Hewitt, of Washington, says he does not want Becker and Cook, and that he has made no effort whatever to secure them. Columbus is worried by the failure of Dally to slcn and has sent a man out after him. The club will undoubtedly get another catcher. Comlskey la already clalndng the championship for the St. Louis r.rowns. Ho asserts that, with the addition of Cudworth aud Fuller, the team will be stronger than ever before. Alvord, the third baseman who Jumped tho reserve rule to go to California, has changed hi3 mind and now wants to Jump back again. With tills aim In view he signed with Toledo, acc-opt-

Ing$tOO advance money, but when he tried to leave the Golden State he was placed under arrest and is now between tho devil and the deep tea. Morrill may not manape the Boston team next season, but notwithstanding Mike Kelly's bluster, the former is now in charge of the club's affairs and Is arranging all of the spring dates. Eleven members of the New York club have signed for next season. They are Connor, O'liourke. Welch. Richardson, W'hirner.IIatneld, George, Brown, flattery, Goro and Titcomb. John B. Day, of the New York club, who has been seriously sick for some time, has recovered, sutticiently to go to New Orleans, where ho will remain un til tho schedulo committee meets,' on March 4. President Davidson feels sore at Cincinnati Btern not only for refusing to waive chum to Hecker and Cook, but for adding Insult to injury by offering a paltry few hundred dollars for buch a'battery. The general impression among base-ball men is that lioston will not get a better place in the liOaguerace than the team had last season, if Mike Kelly is made captain. A lack of harmony will be the stumbling-block. A great deal has been said about Donovan, of the London club, and his ability to hold his own in one of the big organizations. As a matter of fact, while Donovan i a good average batter, he can scarcely thrown a ball across the diamond. Iiteher Pprague, over whom Cleveland and Minneapolis have been wrangling, ha signed with the former, and the contract has been promulgated bv President Young. Sprague was formerly with the Chicago team, but was a failure, and Anson let him go. Patrick Tebcau, who will play third-bao for the Clevelands, will be remembered as havinsf 1een with the Chieagostho latter part of 187. He pf ayed two or three games with the team in this city, but was soon afterward released by Anson, lie was not a success as a League player. Billy Powders, of this city, who was very much dissatisfied with his classification, and threatened to retire from base-ball, has come down off of his lofty pedestal, and nsked the Boston management to forward him his contract. Solders received $2,700 last season, but it is nnderstfod that President Young put him in Class H, which means a salary of $2,250. Myrtle Hackett, who refused to sign with Indianapolis, in 1887, for the salary offered him, has never had a permanent engagement since. Hackett was a great player at one time, and would be now if he would exert himself. lie is too lazy and indifferent to give any club his best efforts, and on that account is unable to get Into fast company. He led the League catchers the year Boston won the championship. , Harry Spenee, says an exchange, has asked for the management of the Manchester club next season, and offers the backers strong inducements to engage him. When fcpence lelt Indianapolis, last fall, ho boa-sted that twoLeagno clubs were bidding tor his services for the coining season, aud in view of this fact it seems strange that he is now forced to offer extra inducements to secure the management of a minor league club. "I wouldn't give $1 to the Boston club for Deacon White's release,' said President Nimick, when nsked by a Boston Globe correspondent if he would accept Boston's offer of $500 to get out of the White deal. "In the tlrst place, Boston couldn't deliver the goods if we did purchase. I talked to both White and Rowe, in Buffalo, recently, and their talk would convince one that neither will play ball this year. The two players are trying to work the Detroit club for personal releases. I think the pair will in tho ppriDj; offer Detroit a1out $1 .000 for their releases. W ould I give the Boston club KXl for White if the good could be deliveredl Yes, I would give many times $500 for tho Deacon. This much I can safely say, however, neither Whitg nor ltowe will be ablo to get personal releases from Detroit. Negotiations will have to come through tho Boston and Pittsburg clubs. THE HOME MISSIONARIES.

Ladies Who Give Their Time and Means to Helping the Afflicted and Needy. Tho women of the city do most of the charitable work. Men do a great deal in the matter of giving money, but in visiting and attention,. and seeking out the poor, sick and needy, the hulk of the labor falls upon the women. They have more timo for such work and tako more interest Asido from the desire to help humanity bear. tho trials of poverty and disease, to ono engaged in tho work there is a love of the doing. The reward comes sometimes in tho gratitude of tho "recipients of good, but oftener in the inward satisfaction of tho giver. Some women devote their whole lives to . charitable or missionary work, and except for a few hours' necessary rest, are out on their errands of mercy, to relieve physical or mental wants, all the time. All of the churches have missionary societies, and each society has one or moro visitors who look after tho poor and sick of their own parishes. Theso make their roports to the head of the society, and the required relief is furnished at once. The ministers? wives: are generally angels of mercy to tho poor. This is considered ono of their duties, and whatever one of them may do is only considered what 6he is hound to do as a penalty for being a minister's wife. Theso ladies accept the duties cheerfully, and many anthour is spent in relieving the distressed, beside tho thousand and one other things that are expected ' of them. By them are tho mothers' meetings established and they have classes of the poorest children in tho Sunday-schools, and often an hour that they might have quietly to themselves, is spent in teaching a class at tho mission Sunday-schools. No call for relief can , go unheeded from the door of tho minister's wife, and 60 she always is a missionary. The good sue does no one knows. Mrs. Anna M ills devotes her time to the good of others. No case of want docs she leave unattended. A gTeat work is being accomplished by her in the benevolent institutions. One Sunday in each month she holds services at the Female Kefonnatory, and another Sunday she goes to the Home for Friendless Women, nor do her ministrations cease with tho service. Mrs. John Reauine is well known for her benevolent acts, not that she ever mentions them herself, but when a sick person is showered with blessings by some kind hand, the patient is tho ono who tells of it. Many a timo has she furnished the wherewithal to keep body and soul together, and built ""-hem up for a longer life in this world. Miss Daisy Burgess has given np her life to tho reading of the Bible and holding cottage prayer-meetings among those who need a spiritual charity. She has been all over the Eastern . States and held such meetings for the benetit of hundreds. After the temporal wants are supplied, the soul needs some sustenance to tit it for,life. Mrs. It. K. Rouse is. one of tho good women who assist their sisters in the battle for a happier existence, and by her work among the women of the JSouth Side a much brighter outlook can be seen. In the tsun-day-school labors, tho mothers' meetings, visiting of the poor and helping those in trouble, and teaching by example tho precepts oftthc King's Daughters, many a woman renews her strength for life. Mrs. II. McCoy is another whose name is familiar to the poor. In the church she works, and is a prominent member of tho Flower Mission, and through tho kindly gifts of a silent donor she has the means to accomplish great good among tho sick. In the southeast part of the city Mrs. George Sullivan has found a held for missionary work, and much of her timo is passed in performing friendly offices for the 6ick and poor. In the various benevolent institutions, among tho otiieers and helpers and on the board of managers are many earnest women Avorking for the salvation of those with whom thev are thrown in contact. Miss Sarah F. Keeley, now superintendent at the Female Reformatory, before assuming the position she now holds, was prominent in charitablo work, and the reason she accepted the place was because sho thought it such a t field for work. The women who assist her aralso indefatigable in their efforts to promote the welfare of those incarcerated there. Their work does not ceaso when the prisoner leaves tho institution, for they are fonnd good homes and a caref nl watch is kept over thorn. They are assisted, and bv the manifestation of interest in them a hold is kept upon those released, and it preventstheni from returning to their evil ways. Each Sunday in tho month someone interested in missionary work holds a service at the institution, and weekly visits aro also made by persons who debire to help on the work of saving women. Mrs. T. 1. HaiKzbcy, who takes great interest in all matters pertaining to missionary work, is president of the board of managers for the Home for Friendless Women, aud with her are associated women who do a vast amount of charitablo work. The Orphan Ayluuu and City Hospital a r places that are looked a ftr by women .vht endeavor to help mankind. Among

tho colored women, Mrs. Margaret Hill is known as a sympathetic friend to the poor, and a willing helper to those in need, and sho has been visitor, nurse, minister and provider for many a weary body and hungry soul. A cause which needs assistance is the establishment of a house for aged women. Many an old lady, who has devoted a large part of her life to the good of others, when in the decline of life is obliged to live anywhere she can, would feel that her life had not been spent in vain if, after her days of usefulness were past, sho had somewhere to go. This brief sketch docs not begin to name half the women who live so much for others, bnt is only an outline to give an idea of the work. Persons engaged in charity work generally heed the command, "Let not your left know what your right hand cloeth," and more missionary work is done that never will be known than there is done that is known. The W. C. T. U..is composed only of women who labor in a missionary cause. There are societies innumerable for the promotion of abetter spiritual and physical condition, and there is an illimitable Held for this work. BIGILUTS FIEE TRTCK.

That and the Fact of His Having a BrotherinLaw May Explain His little Bill. There are places all over tho country where the highways aro crossed by railways. At such places tho railway managers are sufficiently mindful, of their fellowbeings to have erected signs, big black letters on a white ground, tho warning: "Railroad crossing, look out for the cars." It may not be out of place to give similar warning concerning Ileyden S. Bigham's lire and police bill. Some time ago, long before 'Little Big" was elected to the Indiana Legislature, it was generally given out that he had considerable money invested in the Corbet lire truck, and tlmt ho tried hard to dispose of sonio of these patent affairs to tho city, but without success, as, after being tested by Chief Firo Engineer Webster. the machine was declared to be insufficient to the use demanded in the Indianapolis tiro department. Afterwards, it is said, with tho then allpowerful assistance of John E. Sullivan and his friend Dr. Thomas 11. Harrison, president of the State benevolent institutions, the truck rejected by Chief Webster and the committee that examined it was sold to the Hospital for the Insane. When it arrived thero an attempt was made to raise it, when it tumbled over and camo near killiug a number of able lookers-on. This truck, considered useless, is now piled up in a shed; the frame of the truck sprung out of shapo and the turn-table loose from the wood work a costly piece of old junk. Rut tho State paid for it. Oh, yes, it was paid for. It is also a wellknown fact that Bi chain has a brother-in-law in the Indianapolis liro department. This brother-in-law is John King, and it is understood that Mr. Bigham IS not averse to 6eein him chief firo engineer a turn that might bo accomplished under a new deal brought about by the philanthropic Bigham's little bill. Some Democrats can get almost anything they want through this Legislature. To tho man who has a truck to help him to shin up the ladder of ambition nothing need bo impossible. CULLING S FROM TIIE COURTS. A Real Estate Dealer Arrested on a Grand Jury Capias. Henry D. Stringer was arrested yesterday on a grand jury capias charging him with obtaining money under false pretenses from II. J. Cahill, of this city, in connection with a sale of land in Kansas. A civil suit has also been entered in tho Superior Court against Stringer, his wife and others for attempted clouding of a title to property taken on foreclosure by the Berkshire Life Insurance Company. s The method used by defendants, it is charged, was to hie a deed between the beginning of foreclosure proceedings and the sheriff's sale, which deed is alleged to have been valid beyond the lime at which it was really made, the notary's certificate of acknowledgement beinglikewise dated back to correspond to the balance of tho instrument. Sirs. Coy's Residence. Application for a receiver has been made by Mary L. Cones, wife of the man to whbm John E. Sullivan sold Mrs. Coy's residence, setting forth that the ownership of the property is in dispute and that some one should be designated to receive the reuts until the title Is settled. Judge Howe has the application under consideration. - To Settle an Estate. James 8. Thompson was yesterday appointed administrator of the estate of Anna Turner Winslow who died at the Insane Asylum on the 5th Inst. There is about $-1,000 worth of real estate to be divided among remote relatives of tho deceased. Two Six-Year Men. Frank Clark and William Higglns, convicted of highway robbery in the Criminal Court were h given six years each at the Michigan City prison ny Judge irvin ycateroay. Jesse Johnson's Property. A writ of attachment was sued out yesterday i in the Superior Court by L. S. Avers against ; Jesse Johnson on the ground that the latter was a non-resident Grobb Must Be Flung. The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed the Judgment of the court below in the case of Sylvester Grubb, whowas sentenced tobehanged for the mmder of his sweetheart in Knox county last summer. , An Alleged Illegal Voter. Omer Myers," of Walnut, Marshall county, was y arrested yesterday by Deputv Marshal Stein for .mc&a ivuuij. jiu guie uuuu ui row. i m First School for Mutes. Tho Kinder Block, on the south side of Washington, between Delaware and Pennsylvania streets, which was transferred under a commis . sioner's ileed to Sarah A. Kinder, yesterday, wa3 : the loeatlou of the nret deaf -mute school In this , city, William Willard, the founder of the State insuiuuon, beginning his wort there in lbia. A Vote of Thanks. 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I scratched 28 years. Body covered with scales. Scratch! all the time. Sunering endless and without relief. Cured by the Cuticura Remedies. Skin now as clear as a baby's. If I had known of the Cuticura Remedies twenty-eight years aro it would have saved me $200 (two hundred dollars) and an immense amount of suffering. My disease (Psoriasis) commenced on my bead in a spot not larger than a cent. It spread raridly all over my body ana got under my nails. The scales would drop offof mo all the time, and my suflericg was endles, and without relief. One thousand dollars would not tempt mo to have this disease over again. I am a poor man, but feel rich to be relieved of what somo of the doctors said was leprosy, some ring-worm, psoriasis, etc. I took... .and barsaparillas overono year and a ludf, but no cure. I went to two or three doctors and no cure. I cannot praise tho Cuticura Kemedie too much. They have made my hkin as clear and free f nm scales as a baby. All 1 ucd of them was three twxes of Cuticura, and three bottles of Cuticura Insolvent, and two cakes of Cuticura Soap. If you had been here and said you would have cured me for $200 you would have had the money. I looked like the picture in your book of Psoriasis (picture number two, "How to Cure Bkiu diseases"), but now I am as clear as any person cvir was. Through, force of habit I rub my hands over my arms aad legs to scratch ouee in a while, but to no purpose, I am all welL I scratc hed twentyeight years, and It got to bo a kind of second nature to me. I thank you a thousand times. Anything more that you want to know write me, or any one who reads this may write to me and I will answer it. DENNIS DOWNING. Watebburt. Vt., Jan. '20, 1887. Cuticura To cleanse the ekin and blood of every blemish and Impurity, no agency in the world of medicine is so speedy and iufatlible as the Cuticura Remedies. Cuticura, the great skin cure , Instantly allays the most agonizing itching dtfd inflammatiou, clears the skin and scalp of every Jtraee of disease, heals ulcers and sores, removes crusts and scales, and restores the hair. Cuticura Soap the greatest of skin beautiflers, is Indlsiiensable'JJi treating skin diseases and baby humors. It produ ces the whitest, clearest skin and softest hands, fret rfom pimple, spot, or blemish. Cuticura IlC6.olf.cnt, tho new blood purifier, cleanses the blood of PIM PLES, black-heads, red, roujrb. chapprtd ana oiiy sKin prevented by Cuticura. t-xai. Sneezing Catai'xlx The distressing sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, the acrid, watery discharges from the eyes and nose, the painful inflammation extending to the throat, the swelling of the mucous lining, causing choking sensations, cough, ringing noises in the heart and uplift headaches how familiar these symptoms are to thousands who suffer periodically from head colt!s or influenza, and who Uve iu ignorance of the fact that a single application of Sanford's Radical Cure for Catarrh wUi afford instantaneous relief. . - But this treatment in cases of simple Catarrh jrtves bnt a faint idea of wh? this remedy will da in tho chronic forms, where the breathing is obstructed by choking, putrid mucous accui nlation, the hecring affected, smell and taste gone,' hxxat ulcerated and hacking cough gradually fastening .'tse.lt upon the debilitated system. Then it is that the marvelous cura-. tire power of 8anfonVs Radical Cure manifest its If in Instantaneous and grateful relief. Cure begins from the first application. It is rapid, radical, permanent; economical, aafe. Kanford's Radical Cure consists of one bottle of the Radical Cure, ono box of Catarrhal Solvent and an Improved Inhaler; price a I. rOTTEIt DRUG CHEMICAL CO., Boston. I CAN'T BREATH E. Chest paius, soreness, weakness, hacktins couph, axthma, pleurisy, and lnflaniiitaTinn rruevMi m one mimut' annussisted to a speedy cure by the Cuticura. Anti-Pain Plaster. A now, instantaneous and infallible antidote to j.in, inflammation and wrakneu of tbe Chest and Luiikh. Theilrstaud only pain-killing plaster. All drucrcists. 25 cents; five for $-1; or postage free, of POTTER DRUU AND C1IEMICA1. CO., Boston, Mas. Subscribe for the Weekly State Journal

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Ercry night I scratched until the skia was raw. Body covered with scales !."k spots of mortar. An awful Spectacle, Entirely cured by th Cuticura Remedies In fire weeks. I am going to teU yoa of the extraordinary car your Cuticura Remedies performed on rae. About the 1st of April lat I noticed some red pLmpl like corning out all over my body, tut thought nothing of it until some time later ea, when it began to look like spot of mortar spotted on. and which came off in layers, accompanied with itching. I would scratch every night until 1 was raw, then the next night the scales, being formed meanwhile, were scratched o2f again. In vain did I consult all the doctors In tha country, but without aid. After riving up all Tiopea cf recovery, I happened to aee an advertisement la ( the newspaper about your Cuticura ricmedloa, and purchased them from my druggist, and obtained al in oat immediate relit f. I began to notice tlat the ocaly eruptions gradually dropped off aud disap peared one by one, ar.d have been fully cured. I had the disease thirteen mouths before I becan taking the Cuticura Remedies, aud in four or five weeks was entirely cured. My disease vas eczema and psoriasis. I reo ommended the Cuticura Remedies to all la my vicinl ity, aud I know of a great mny who hare taken them, and thank me for Uie knowledge of them, eP- ( cially mothers who hare babes wit a scaly eruption on their heads and bodies. I cannot express la words my thanks to to you. My body was covered with, scale and I was an awlul spectacle to behold. Now toy skin is as nice and clear as a bahj's, GEO. COTEY. ME EE ILL, Wis., Sept. 21, 18S7. i Feb. 7, 1SS8. Not a trace whatsoever of the di ease from which I suffered has shown itself since raf cure, GEO. COTE V.

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