Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1889 — Page 5

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1889-TWELVE PAGES.

TRUE TO HIS LINE 'OF DUTY

The Story of a Young Englishman Who 1 Served Faithfully in the Union Army. Little WW Known of His Antecedents, Int His Military Training 3rde Ilim Helpful and Sccnred Prompt and Merited Promotion, Some of the most entertaining stories connected "with the war of tho rebellion have relerenco to tho help given the Union army by 6oldiers who had served in tho armies of other countries, and gave them the benefit of Yalnablo experience. CoL Henry Jordan recently gave an interesting account of an English soldier, who began Lis service in this country with the Seventeenth Indiana Infantry, and subsequently became adjutant of the Twenty-first Indiana "Of tho thousands of young men." said Colonel Jordau, "who entered the federal service as officers at the beginning of the civil -war few-were as ignorant of military atiairs as I was. It is not too much to say that I knew nothing whatever about my duties as an officer nothing about drill, nothing about discipline, nothing about the organization and equipment of military bodies. I could say. 'shoulder arms but I could, neither execute the command myself, nor show another hbw to do it. Elected captain of a company composed of splendid young men. mv ignorance of my duties was most painful to me, and I shuddered when I contemplated tho possibility of some of these young men losing their lives through my incompetency or blundering so deeply was I impressed with a sense of my unfitness for the position I had been called to fill, that I gravely proposed to select a suitable man from one of the few well-drilled militia companies of the State, and make him captain of the company, while I myself should go out as a lieutenant. To this my men objected. They refused to serve under a strange commander, and insisted that I could learn ray duties as readily as any other inexperienced person, and be ready for duty before we reached the field of active operations. I recall an incident which fairly illustrates my ignorance. Soon after reaching Indianapolis I was ordered to report with my company at the arsenal to receive our arms. 1 reported accordingly. After each man had taken a gun from the stack, it occurred to me that they would have to be brought to the position of shoulder arms before they could be moved, and I realized that their captain was unequal to the task of telling them how to execute the command. Under the circumstances, I felt it important 'to conceal my ignorance, and in my extremity a happy idea suggested itself to me. I would turn over 'the command to my lieutenant, under some pretext or other, and let him struggle with the problem as best he could. Accordingly 1 turned to the lieutenant, who was as ignorant as I was, and said "Lieutenant have the men shoulder their arms and march them back to camp, I have some matters to look after in the city." The dismayed lientenant turned towards me and, in a whisper, said: "Captain, I don't know how to shoulder arms, how do you do it!" 1 was equal to the occasion, and assuming a look of surprise and indignation. I fairly wilted the young subaltern by saying to him with great emphasis: 'Sir, you have been in the camp three whole days, and if you have not yet learned how to shoulder arms, you had better resign your commission and go home,' and thereupon I turned and left him alone in his agony. "That lieutenant never forgave me. "After we had been in camp several days a stranger called at my quarters and introduced himself as Sergeant Latham, late of the British East India service. He was a Somewhat above the medium height, erect. splendidly developed, graceful in every movement, with an open countenance and an address which betokened high breeding, he stood before me, my perfect beau ideal of a soldier and a gentleman. His story, told in a straight-forward, soldierly way, strengthened my first impressions and increased my admiration for tho man. He had been, he said, a sergeant in the British East India service, loved tho profession of arms, and felt that he was unfit for any other calling: that he had done all ho could in his subordinate position to make himself master of the art of war, and felt that among inexperienced men who . had lweu called to arms from the' pursuits of civil life ho could make himself of some service. He frankly said that he was a stranger in a strange I l : a. 1 a i i laiiu, wiiuuiii. nieuus iu ictuniuit-iiu iiiui. and with no letters of introduction or other credentials; bat. strangerind alien as ho was. hn felt a profound interest in the success of the Union cause, and desired to be of service to the government in the war upon which it had entered. He had but one ambition. And that was to be ai adjutant, declaring that he would rather be adjutant than major of a regiment. He realized that, uuder tho circumstances, it would bo presumptuous to ask for'such a position, but ho dared to hope that his qualifications would attract attention and possibly lead him to the goal of his ambition. Having said this, he took up a musket and gave me au exhibition of his skill in the manual of arms, which astonished mo beyond expression. I had never seen anything like it ' before; I have never seen anything like it Kince. His ' dextrous and graceful handling of a gun, once seen, could never be forgotten. But if his handling of a gun was matchless, what shall J say of his performance with my sword, which he took up after he had thrown down the gnn. For full live minutes ho held m spell-bound by the wonderful exhibition of his skill in the use of the sword, and. before ho laid down that weapon, I had almost persuaded myself 4 that I was standing in tho presence of a great magician. But in all that he did. nothing, perhaps, astonished me more than his graceful movements. It seemed impossible for" him to be ungraceful, and the more difficult tho performance tho inoro xioticable was this peculiar feature of his work. Take him all in all, ho was the most perfect model of a soldier I'cver saw. I confess I was completely captivated by this remarkable man, and I felt that he was neither an adveuturernor an impostor. 'His frank and open countenance, manliness and modesty, alike forbid the idea of iiiiposiuro. and our interview ended by my inviting him to make his home at my quarters until he could find the employment ho desired. Ho would gratefully accept my hospitality, he said, upon one condition, ana mat was mat ne . should be allowed to ttrill tuy men, and im part to me ana my lieutenants an mat no knew that would ho of service to us in tho profession upon which wo had entered. I objected to attaching any condition to my. invitation, but he insisted upon the condition. and4 agreed to it. Sergeant Latham remained my guet for two weeks. He proved to be as proficient as a drill-master as he' was in the performances with gun and sword.. And he drilled my men from morning till night, until the tired fellows almost roso in rebellion against him. I knew, however, that his severe drilling was making good soldiers out of good men, and I sustained him against the men, de- ' 6pite their protest. But his labors did not cease with the day, for at night he gave my lieutenants and myself a little experience of the kiud the men enjoyed, or did not enjo3 during the day, and imparted to us information that was of the very greatest importance to ns in our service in the army. Tho importance of Latham's services to my coinpanr was incalculable, and in recalling the fact that that company furnished all its own officers from the beginning tothe close of the war, gavo the regiment a lieutcnant- . colonel, major, quartermaster ana an assistant surgeon, besides furnishing another regiment with a surgeon, and the regular army two captains, I ascribe the praise mainly to the drill and discipline we reeivea from Sergeant Latham in tho early days of the war. And it is a pleasure to me to remember that I wns. to some extent, instrumental in securing for this splendid soldier, the position he longed to obtain. A few days after he took charge of my company, I called the attention of Col. Milo H. Hascall, then commanding my regiment, to this remarkable man. and invited him to witness ohe of his drill. Colonel Hascall promptly complied with my request, and, after look- ' Jng on for awhile, declared that not even fat West Point, where he had been educated, had he seen a moro accomplisht-d hohlier. The result was that Colonel Hascall. who . e uuvu jor ms rrauinesa to rewaru deserving soldiers, took tho Sergeant's case in hand, and by his hearty recommenda

tion secured for him the position of adjutant of tho Twenty-first Indiana Volunteers." "The fortunes of war carried him far away from the field of my operations, and of his subsequent career 1 know but little. Tho men of the Twenty-first Indiana, however, vie with each other in praise of his soldierly qualities and splendid achievements, and tell how gloriously Adjutant Milton S. Latham died in the very hour of victory upon the field at Baton House. It remains for them to complete the history I have given you of that brave English boy, who died upon the field of battle in a foreign land, in defense of the noblest cause that ever enlisted the sympathy of mankind. Sergeant Latham neverspoke to me of his parents or mends. Whether his later coraraden knew anything about them I do not know. Perhaps his lips never opened to tell tho 6tory of his life, and the news of his death may never have reached his friends beyond the sea. Bat I have a vision of an English mother weeping for her long-lost boy, and refusing to be comforted, until at last the angel of mercy whispered in her ear; It is well with the child. He fell beneath the banner of the great Kepublic. freely yielding np his young life that the dream of Abraham Lincoln great soul might be realizedthat all men everywhere might be free,'" THE OPEN SEASON FOR QUAILS.

Preparations of Hunters for Attacking the Birds on Tuesday Bob White and Ilis Habits. At midnight to-morrow the protective statute, specially enacted to permit Bob "Whiteto roam unmolested for ten months in tho year, will bo Withdrawn, and the sportsman will enter his haunts with murdrous intent. Until tho 20th of December this most plentiful of Indiana's game birds will be the prey of shotguns and hunters of ll snides and castes, and then the law will again throw its protective arm around j tho remnants of tho broken and scattered coveys. Quails were never 60 plenty as they are this year. Last winter's mildness and the absence of deep ( snows enabled them to find food easily and survive the hardships that usually decimate their ranks more than the leaden hail docs during tho "open" beason. Deep snows and zero weather are Bob "White's greatest enemies. It is then the pot-hunter sallies into the fields and returns laden with emaciated birds. He finds a covey crouching nnder a bunch of weeds or long grass, and ruthlessly fires into their midst, bewailing his lack' if he does not bag them all with one shot. Sometimes whn the weather is extremely cold dozens of quails can be found lying about the fields or orchards frozen to-death. Occasionally a farmer will be found who provides shelter for the birds and scatters food in accessible places, bnt this is a rare exception. The reporter knows one doctor in tho city, who never fails in 'the dead of winter to visit his favorite shooting ground and sprinkle it liberally with small grains. The act is not wholly an unselfish one, for the Doctor knows that if the quails survive many of their brood will grace his table the following October. The quail is very prolihc. The mother bird lays between fifteen and twenty-five eggs and hatches nearly all of them. It is not unusual to see a Hock of twenty little ones trying to hide under tho wings of their mother. It frequently happens in wet seasons, howover, that the mortality among the brood is great. If they should aji die the mother proceeds to raise another family, and this acconnts for the faet that sometimes the sportsman will find a covey of birds, even in the last week of October, that is hardly able to fly. Quails are found in every county of the State, but they are more numerous in the central portion than elsewhere. They can often be 6een in the fields adjoining the city, and frequently invade the outskirts, sometimes even visiting the resideuco portion. Last week a covey spent three or four davs in the back gardens adjoining Holy Innocents Church on Fletcher avenue, and would probably havo stayed longer had not tho ubiquitous llobert ritle, iu the hands of the . small boy, threatened to exterminate them. In the north part of the city they have also been found as far down as Third street. There is no doubt that if unmolested their pleasing call B-o-b W-h-i-t-e" would minglo with the harsh chirp of the sparrow, and probably in timo take his place, not in tho streets, house-eaves and trees, but in the more secluded yards. The quail does not thrive m conrinement and there are few instances on record where they have laid eggs and hatched young in cages. They become quite tame, but if tho opportunity is given they will lly away to liberty at once. They are sometimes seen in parks inclosed in wire netting with igeons. but they always look and act as if iome8ick. Quails are esteemed as a delicacy second only to the dainty woodcock. Their flesh is white and sweet, and if properly broiled is hot dry, although lacking in the peculiar wild flavor that marks the larger members of the partridge family known as pheasants, or improperly, called so by many sportsmen. They are not so easily shot as tho bunches found hanging at the commission houses would indicate. Wrhen flushed they rise with a whirr of wings that is really startling to a novice, and often before ho recovers from his fright they are out of shooting distance. When a covey is once shot into the birds become wild, and it is then the skill of the marksman is tried. They have a "habit of scattering after tho first fire, and often do not come together again until nightfall, when their calls can be heard all over the field. To be successful a well-trained dog is a necessary part of a quail hunter's outfit a dog that will retrieve as well as locate. The shorter may mark closely the place where he saw a bird alight, but nine times out of ten it will not be there when he tries to raise it. They have a habit of running through the grass or stubblo that is provoking, and thoir speed is almost marvelous. A good dog will trail along carefully until he finds tho scent becoming warm, when he will straighten out, with hisnose pointed toward the bird and his tail rigid as a piece of iron. Then the sportsman advances with his gun carried at a "ready," until tho quail becomes alarmed and seeks toescapo by llight- Sometimes the noise made by one bird rising will cause another to get up. and then tho shooter has an opportunity to make a double, which means to kill the first with ono barrel and the second with the other barrel, without taking the gun from the shoulder. This is a very difficult feat to do, considering to speed with which the quail Hies, and wheu you hear a man tell about making six or eight such shots in an afternoon, 3ou can satelv class him with the tisher who claims to havo caught two big bass with each cast of his fiies. Nearly every sportsman in tho city has made arrangements to take a vacation on Tuesday, the opening day. Guns which have lain in their cases for months havo been taken out and overhauled, ammunition boxes replenished, and the spare moments for the past week have been occupied in loading shells. Nearly eWry man has his ground located. . Some will go to fields within an hour's walk of the city, others will drive to the neighboring townships, while many will take the cars for Sointa in Johnson, Hancock, Shelby, Henricks, Hamilton, Morgan, Boono and other counties. The Musical Festival. he affairs ot the Musical Festh Hi Association will be looked after by tho following standing committees during the ensuing year; MusicJohn II. fitem, Clarence Wulln, Prof. C.'irl Barus, John Chlslett, M. If. Spades. Finance Albrecht Klpp, Herman Llebcr. E. C Miller and E. B. l'orter. Iress-Johu U. Hollldsy, I. N. Walker and 8. A. Fletcher. Hall A. A. Barnes, WlUum C. tiraock and Henry 8. Fraser. Tbe flrit chorus rehearsal will take place Nov. -11, and for Its work the oratorio of "Elijah" and Verde's Requiem" have been ordered. Negotiations have been begun for the soloists ami orchestra. Applicants for admission to the chorus can meet Profesaor Barus every Monday afternoon, at No. 243 North East street : Th Sons of America A camp of Tatriotio Order Sons of America was Instituted. Friday evening, at O. A. It. Hall corner of Tennessee and Wa-shlnston streets. The charter roll Is quite larjre. Tbe ceremonies were In charge of District President H.T. Ellis, of Concersville. Thin organization has for Its objects the inculcation of pijre American principles, and reverence for American Institutions; the cultivation of fraternal affection, amonc American freinen; tLe opposition to foreijro Interference with tbe United fctates of America, and to any form of organized disregard of American law and customs.

IN SUPPORT OF HIS AUTHORITY. - Jndfje Woods on tho Question Arising Out of the Appointment of a Receiver. Tho questions arising from the appointment of R. B. F. Peirco receiver of the I., D. Sc. S., by Judge Woods, and the setting aside thereof by Judge Greshara, are occupying some space in the legal press. Judge "Woods, in the Chicago Legal News of Oct. C, publishes a five-column article in which he sets forth the reasons why a receiver was appointed, and refers to Judge Gresham's authority in the matter m the following words: "The District 'judge holds the Circuit Court in hisx district, not as a deputy of the circuit judge, but by direct authority and requirement of law, and when sitting alone in that court is clothed with all the powers and jurisdiction which could be exercised therein by the circuit judge or circuit justice or by both of them sitting together. Growing out of this equal authority of tho threo judges in the court when sitting alone it has become the rule of practice mauifestly essential to the orderly conduct of business that a judge who has entered upon a case shall continue in it to tho end unless he shall choose to quit it or to invite one of the other judges to sit with him, and when, for any reason, a case passes from ono 1 judge to another, rulings already made are not reconsidered, unless upon request of the judge who made them, or of all parties concerned, it being deemed better that any question of error in such rulings be left for the Supremo Court than that a rehearing should be had in tho Circuit Court by a jud go possessed there of no higher authorit than tho judge who acted in the first instance. " ; k "Tho facts of thematter arc these," said Judge Woods to a reporter of the Journal last night, " the case was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff, on Aug. 31, and on Sept. iJ there was received at tho federal courts hero from Judge Gresham an order dismissing the case, 'ihis was accompanied by his opinion. But the case having already been dismissed, Judge Gresham's order and opinion were not riled but held by the clerkN until he should give further instructions as to' what should be done with them. But in tho Inter Ocean, of Sept. 2, his opinion appeared iu print, and in the next issue of the Legal News, on tho 7th, it also appeared. Thereupon I prepared my opinion, and placed it in the hands of the clerk with instructions that it should be kept with, Judge Gresham's opinion, and placed with it upon the tiles if the former's opinion ever went there." "Has Judge Greshara any right to annul your appointment of a receiver!" "Well." was the reply, "in a caso reported in 1st Dillon, Judge Miller declared that the judges of the Circuit Court, the district judge and the Justice of the Supreme Court, when sitting in the Circuit Court, should have equal, powers, and that it was improper for one to overrule the action or order of another. In another case, reported in 1st Sawyer, Judtro Field ex-, presses himself in substantially. the samo

way. in yet another case J udge McCreary, of the Eighth circuit, ruled in . a similar manner. Tho uniform practice of tho courts, so far as I know, has been in this manner, and there is no precedent before this one judge undertook to refute the action of another in the same court. After putting my opinion in the hands of tho clerk, I learned that Judge Greshamiiad published his opinion, and 1 sent a copy of mine first' to Judge Gresham,'with a request that he forward it to the Legal News, and asked him, before be did so, to make suggestions and such corrections that he wanted, or that ought to have been made, and then forward it to the Legal News, in which his opinion had been published. Judge Gresham returned my opinion, declining to do this, but naming some objections both in relation to law practice and . matters of fact. In matters ot fact I made some alterations that I thought fit, and proper to make and ' then forwarded the opinion .as corrected to tho Legal Newsi It was published ' in that Journal on the 5th ult. Judge Gresham was not asked to take auy action in the case at all, and though ho denounced the bill of procedure as fraudulent in this respect, and favoring the bondholders over the labor claimants, immediately on setting aside my appointment ho offered to make an appointment of a nocciver himself if certain amendments were raado in the petition in respect to the fraudulent character which he had attributed to it," ODD PARAGRAPHS. Observations and Gleanings of Reporters in the Rouuds of Their Daily Work. "Did yon over notico that the most of our .advertising appeals to curiosity?" asked a close observer of a reporter, recently. "Look at the cards that aro put np in the street-cars, and tho advertisements that appear in the papers, and you'll see I'm right. I got into u car on' College avenue, the other night, and my attention was drawn to the street register in the front end of the car. It noted Homo avenue, and right below the name wcro the words Don't miss the next curtain Several passengers with me noticed the sign, and there we sat, all of us, staring at a little pieco of paper, and our imaginations all wound up in our efforts to guess what startling '.piece of information tho nect curtain would contain. Wehadtoridoa block before it fell, and then all we saw was 'Go to B for fancy soaps.' I remember a notico that struck mo as rather unique and effective while I was in a Cincinnati street car. It . was an advertisement for an advertising agency, and simply contained these words. "Kem ember, if you read this sign others will do the same.' There is as much ingenuity in the way advertising is done nowadays as in auy other line of business." "In my opinion," remarked an undertaker, "there ought to bo some law to provent medical colleges from taking possession of dead bodies that aro not claimed within twenty-four hours after they aro found. We have recently had an examplo of the injustice of the present system right heroin Indianapolis. . The man who was killed by farmer Wright was never positively identified, and for a while-, several people claimed him as a relation of somo 6ort. I think tho bodies of all who die under such circumstances should bo kept in- a public place for1 a certain number of days, and then, if one is unclaimed, a photograph should bo taken and an accurate description recorded in a special book for that purpose. In that way wo would be relieved of seeing people mourn for tho supposed loss of a friend, and afterward witness tho astonishment of that friend when tho supposed do:?d man comes into the city alive and well." Tho almost universal tobacco habit among men induced a citizen recently to gather some statistics. 'T took a seat in one of the hotel lobbies by the main entrance," ho said, "and took out my watch. Within ten minutes 107 men and twentyono boys passed either in or out that door. Of the men, ninety-two were smoking cigars, and out of the twenty-one boys sixteen wero smoking cigarettes, while threo held cicars in their mouths." "How do you manag to remember tho owners of all those hats?" asked tho reporter of a porter standing in front of a hotel dining-hall, the other day. "How do I remember themt" ho repeated, by way of reply. "Why, it's as easy as learning your ABC's. Look at that rack there. Probably there are fifty hats on it, and if I can't pick out the right one the very instant a guest Comes out I'm no good at all. It is all in the memory. Yon see every hat has some peculiar mark about it. May bo the liuing ii a peculiar color, or there is a hole in it, or one of a thousand things, by which it cpuld be picked out among the resr. A man comes un and hands me his hat. The tirst thing I do is to take a good look at his face, and net at his hat. Both of them are fixed in my memory bv some striking peculiarity, and I wouldn't, forget tho man or the hat if 1 was sound asleep. My position depends upon my ability to recognize and remember tho odd and striking in men and their belongings." The conversation was on tho power of the saloon as a political factor. T remember well," said an old citizen, "when first

tho name saloon was attached here to a liquor store. In early days, of course, liquors were sold in the groceries, but later on the houses where the business was confined exclusively to the sale of intoxicants, with, perhaps, a restaurant attachment, were called coffee-houses, a name that came to us from England. On the ground now covered by the Bates House, about the spot on which Knox's barber shop is located, ' formerly stood a two-story frame house which had been occupied as a tavern. In 1S47 or 1S48 DoWolf & Ganson opened a drinking-shop there, and put up the sign. Saloon.' It ,was a new word, with a strange, foreign air about it, and, at first, the opposition the coffee-house men were disposed to ridicnlt it as too pretentious; ,highfalutin, was the word they applied to it. People came from a distance to see the word with their own eyes, and many of them could not frame their mouths to pronounce it. That was the beginning; now there's no more familiar word in the lan

guage. , INSURANCE RATES. The Effect of an Efficient Fire Department in Reducing Premiums on Riski. Complaints have frequently been made that in neighboring towns and cities where protection against fire is far less ample than it is here, insurance rates are lower. "This is not true," 6aid a well-known insurance agent, yesterday, to whom this complaint was mentioned. "There is a standard rate fixed by the boards of underwriters, and this is increased in proportion as the protection against fire in a particular community is diminished. I can show you risks in Indiana towns that have no organized ' fire protection, , where tbe premium on framo buildings, built in rows is 4 and 5 per cent. We have few applications for risks of that character here, because the fire limit ordinances tend to make such hazards infrequent, but wherever . such applications are made the increased protection against lire is taken into consideration. I want to say, moreover, that the premiums on mercantile risks here are lower than they are in any of.the Western cities and a good deal lower than they are in St. Louts, Cincinnati or Chicago, while tho. difference in the insurance on residence property, if any, is in favor of this city. There was a local effort inado on tho part of insurance men to stiffen rates after the retirement of Chief Webster, but they havo become satisfied long since that the fire department, under his successor, was in good hands, and there has been no desire of that kind manifested since". , . Another insurance man, who has given up his active interest in tho business, was not sO sure that the discrimination against towns where no lire: department was 'provided was always preserved, especially in communities where tho board of. underwriters' system Was not established. VI t would certainly bo easier to' get a low rate in such towns," he said, "than in one where, as here, the business is largely under t he control of an association of com-, panies that fixes rates." Prominent real esta to owners carrying large lines of insurance, who were interviewed on tho subject, stated that they were not advised as to the dirlercnces between the insurance rates prevailing in this city and those furnished in neighboring towns having less protection against fire, but,as a rule, they professed themselves satisfied with the rates asked here. "Tile only fault I have to find," said ouo large-owner of improved city real estate, Vis that under- the board system. tho rate is fixed by one man who is not, as a rule, iuclinedjto take into consideration theadvautagespossessedby onebuilding oyer another in the matter of probable immunity from lire, and vary the insurance rate accordingly. The local rate on residence property is low, aud it ought to be bo. Our streets are wide and well shaded, as a rule, aud there is hardly an instance on record here where a fire has extended across a street, from one residence to another. . Y. 3L C. A. Entertainments. The annual meeting of the association' will be held to-morrow evening and the work of the year will be fully set forth in tho reports of the various committees, , The annual election of officers Mill also' be held.7 On the 12th of next month the tar lecture course of tho association begins with Recca's Castiliftn Troubadours. This entertainment will be followed by a lecture by Frederick. VillierF. the London Graphic war correspondent; a mouth later George Kcnnan, who explored the Siberian prisons, is down for a second lecture, and the Boston Symphony Club and other attractions are included in the course. The I5otou Symphony Orchestral Club will be the February attraction, and the Impersonator, Lelaiul T. Powers,' will clote the course, April 1. All the entertainments will occur Tuesday evening, thus avoiding the various attractions that come later in the week. Tickets for the course, including reserved seats, will be $1, while the single admission will be 50 cents. The sale of tickets has been placed in the hands of the Woman's Auxiliary, and they can also be obtained at tho office of the association. The City Clerk-Elect Qualifies. City Clerk-elect" Swift was the last of the 'newly-elected Democrats to qualify. He n"led his bond yesterday, for $5,000, with Sample Loftin, Jackson Landcm, James Johnson, John J. Cooper and 1. C. Backus hs sureties. Mn Swift has appointed Samuel V. Perrott, secretary eft ho Democratic city central committee and formerly a deputy In the oilice under Shields, as his chief deputy. . f x Sons of Veteran Headquarters. Korae 3 In the State-house will in future be used as the headquarters of the Sons of Veterans. On Monday next the interior will be decorated with flags, imiekets, cavalry sabros, and other war-like implements. This will not necessitate the removal of the clerk of tho Printing Bureau, Book waiter, who will still be found at his desk in this room. , Contagious Diseases Iucreasing During thd past week forty-eight births and thirty-two deaths were reported to the City Board of Health. Contagious diseases are on the increase, thero now being twenty-three ck6es of diphtheria and twenty-one of scarlatina in this city. Five of these were reported yesterday. Monday, and Jlonday Only, Wo will place on salo two hundred dozen 4ply nrst-clasj linen collars (no seconds). Choice of four of tho very latent styles in turn down and standing, at 5 cents each, and cufts at 10 cents a pair. Not more than five collars and three' pairs cutis to any one person. Inkw Yoinc Hat Company, Jos. JSciiloss, Manager, Corner Washington and Pennsylvania. i im AxniONT JoiiX!ox, natural-ga fitter, 49 South Illinois street. Scientitic sto ve-titting a specialty. Indianapoli Target Shooting Attociatlon. Shooting tournament and closing festival of the season. Sunday. Oct. 13. Admission free. Invitations can be procured of members; $200 will be awarded in prizes to the best shots. AU the German societies have been invited to attend. Trains leave Union Depot over Big Four at 1, 2 and 3 o'clock, returning 5 and 6 p. iu. Reduced Fare ria Vandal ta Line, Special low-rate excursion to St. Louis, Oct 15. tickets Rood to return until Oct. 20. Fare for round trip .". St. Louis, Mo., and return, Mondays and Thursdays, each week, until Oct. 17, tickets good five days, $10.25. . Jose" Sunday Dinners Speak fo themselves. Sunday suppers are the best. Ice-cream served with . dinner; fruit with supper. Oysters in all stylos, at Victor Jose's restaurant, IS North Pennsylvania street. Valltnan Dining Cam, , VIA PENNSYLVANIA LINKS. Commencing Tuesday, Oct, 15. and daily thereafter. Pullman dining carswUl be run between St. Louis aud Columbus. O.. on the popular Pennsylvania special, leaving Indianapolis at y p. m., ana between coiumDus rl a ot. xuis on train No. 1, leaving Indianapolis at 11:55 a.m. These cars are elegant, provided with every convenience and fully up to the standard. Change of Time on the 3Iunei Jlone,n Trains of the Big Four, leavintr Indianapolis at 4 a. in.. io:4. a. in. ana at 2:iu p. m. make con nectlon at Muncio with the F. W.,fi & L. tor Fort ayne ana Michigan points. , Iullman Sleeptng-Car Now Manning Reg ularly Dettceen Indianapolis and Chicago, VIA. PANHANDLE ItOUTK, Stands At weat end of Union Station, and Is opn every evening to receive paweners from b:30 until departure of train. 11:20 n. m. On arrival frmu Chicago passengers can remain in car until v:jo a. m. Couldn't Kxcit llcr. Philadelphia Inquirer. An aged woman in Charnbersburg was told by an excited neighbor that her house

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Suits in plain and fancy Worsteds and all-wool Cheviots and Cassimeres that cannot be matched anywhere, in this country under $18 to $20. Overcoats in fall-weight : Kerseys, Cdssimeres and Worsteds and in winter-weight Chinchillas, Cassimeres and I Meltons that are positively superior to anything ever offered at the price. Samples of j many of these goods can be seen in our main show window. You need hut look at' them to be convinced that it is dollars in your pocket to buy your fall and.winter Suit or7 Overcoat this week.

MONDAY

From In our : Boys' Department we shall offer 200 Cassiraere and all-wool Knee-pants Suits at - All sizes, from 4 to 14. The real values of these Suits are 4, $4.50 and 5. 4i Oil 1K1 u Ji

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was on tire. "It is!" she said; rising calmly and dropping her knitting into her nocket, after she had carefully wound the loose yarn. 'I thank thee for thy information, and now if thee will just go and sound the alarm, I will take my pies out of the ovenand be ready to tell the people what to carry out first." ITCHY .SCALY SKIN Every night I scratched until the skin was raw. Body covered with scales like spots of mortar. An awful Spectacle. Dctors useless. Cure hopeless. . Fntirely cured by the Cuticura Remedies. CURED BY CUTICURA Iamjpoingto tell you of the extraordinary change your Cuticura Remedies performed on me. About the first .of Ayril last I noticed some red pimples like coming out all over my body, but thought nothing of it until some time later on w hen it bepan to look like apoU of mortar spotted on. and vrhich came off in layers, aocom panicd with Itching. I would scratch every night until I was raw. then the next night the scales, befrig formed meanwhile, were scratched off aain. In rain did I consult all the doctors in the country, but without aid. After giving up all hopes of recovery, I happened to see an advertisement in the newspaper about your Cuticura Remedies, and purchased them from my druggist, and obtained almost - immediate relief. 1 began to notice that the scaly eruptions gradually dropped off and disappeared one by one, and have been fully cured. I had the disease thirteen months before I began taking tho Cuticura Remedies, and in four or five weeks was entirely cured. My disease was eczema and psoriasis. I recommended the Cuticura Remedies to all in my vicinity, and I know of a great many who have taken them, and thank mo for the knowledge of them, especially mothers who have babes with scaly eruptions on their heads and bodies. I cannot express in words the thanks to you for what the Cuticura Remedies have been to me. My body was covered with scales and I was an awful spectacle to behold. Now my skin is as clear as a baby'a. ' . GEO. COTKY Merrill, Wis. Bept. 21,1887. Feb. 7, 18S8. No trace of the disease from which I suifered has shown Itself since my cure. ' G. C .' CUTICURA RESOLVENT. The now Blood Purifier and greatest of Humor Remedies, Internally, and Cvticuba, the great Skin Cure, and Cuticura Soap, an exquisite Bkin Beautifler, externally, cure every species of agonizing, humiliating. Itching, burning, scaly and pimply diseases of the skin, scalp and blood, with loss of hair, and all humors, blotches, eruptions, sores, scales and crusts, whether simple, scrofulous, or contagious, when physicians and all other remedies fail. . Sold every whera Price. Cuticura, 50c; Soap, 25c; Resolvent, $1. Prepared by the Pomis Dhi o & Chemical Corporation, Boston. rSBcnd for "How to Curo Pkin Diseases, 64 pa?es. 50 illustrations, and 100 testimonials. FBI1 PLES, black-heads, red, rough, chapped ana ouy sKin preventea py uuticura soap. I CAN'T BREATHE. Chest pains, Soreness, Weakness,' 'Ilackinc Cough, Asthma, Pleurisy. and Inflammation relieved in one minute by the Cuticura Anti-Tain Plaster. Nothing like it for weak lungs. CONSTITUTIONAL CATARRIL No single disease has entailed more tufferin or hastened tho breaking up of the constitution than Catarrh. The sense of taste, of smell, of sight, of hearing, the human voice, the mindone or more, and sometimes all, yield to its destructive influence. The poison It distributes throughout the system attacks every vital force, and breaks up tho most robust of constitutions. Ignored, because but little understood, by most physicians, impotentlv assailed by quacks and charlatans, those suffering from it nave little hope to be relieved of it this side of the grave. It is time, then, that the popular treatment of this terrible disease by remedies within the reach of all passed intn hands at once competent and trustworthy. The new and hitherto untried method adopted by Dr. Panford in the preparation of his. Radical Ccbk has won the hearty approval of thousands. It Is Instantaneous in affording relief In all head colds, sneezing, snuffling and obstructed breathing, and rapidly removes the most oppressive symptoms, clearing the head, sweetening the breath, restoring the senses of smelU taste and bearing, and neutralizing the constitutional tendency of the disease towards the lungs, liver and kidneys. Banford's Radical Cure consists of one bottle of the. Radical Cure, one box Catarrhal Solvent and one Improved Inhaler, neatly wranied in one puckage, with full directions; price, $1. Potter Drug & Chemical Corfob atiox, Bostoru " NoRheumatizAboutMo n)'f In one minute the Cuticura Autl1 .Pain Plaster relieves Rheumatic, 1 V7iVci:!tic, Sudden, Sharp, and Nervous Pains. Strains and VNeakness. The flm aud "only pain-killin Plaster. A new I nUU lUlaiiAUlC KUIHAUVO A9 i'Aiu iuuamiuonuii ouv weakness. Utterly unlike and vastly superior to 1 ail other plasters. At all druggists, 25 cents; live lor 91; or, JHtttlAKO lrc"-. ni runr.n ibiu au CiiEiUCAL CoRroBATiox, Boston, Mass.

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In our Furnishing Goods Department we shall offer ono caso of Fall-weight 13albriggan Shirts and Drawers at

In our Hat Department we Bhall offer 150 Men's Scotch Caps at

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For a few days I will offer handsomely carved, solid Cherry, Largo arm rocliers, with upholstered seats, at $8.50; former price was $15. These arc, ) without doubt, tho greatest bargains that have been offered. See then in tho windows. 1

WM. Li 43 and 45 South FANS!

A fine line of Opera and Party Fans, to be closed out at less than half price. The largest lino of Opera-Glasses ever shown, at auprioirigly low prices. - t '-sSee our East Show-window. 1 ' CHARLES MAYER & CO , Q9 & 31 West Washineton Street.

BEDEOOM SUITES AN ELEGANT LINE, , AT

SPIEGEL, THOMS & OOJ 71 & 73 West.Wasliington St. 3STATITBAL G-AS SUPPLIES1 Tubing, Cwlng, Pipe, Corta, Rig Iron. Drilling Tooli, Brius Ooodi, MalleMa. QlTtaixl al Cwt-lrca Fittings. Complete Hue of Uotue-FUttngt for Natural lio. , GEORGE .A.. EIOHAEDS.

FINE PIANO TUNING AND' REPAIRING. The Importance of bavins your piano tuued or repaired by a practical and tkillful workman cannot be ovcredlmated. as the tone of the finest piano would poon be destroyed by allowing an Inexperienced tuner to tone it. We have recently tccured the services of Mr. Win. Rader, who is considered to be au artUt in lii line, bavin held the reion&lble position of fine tuner and repairer of helium te'Pon' celebrated piano lactorr of New York. Ill charges are moderate; $2 for nquaref, 2.50 for upright pianos. No charKe for ehtlmate for repatrn. Orders by potal card -or telephone, S2. promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. Addreta PEARSON'S MUSIC HOUSE . 82 and .84 N.: Tenn. St. Artificial Teeth Without a Plate Should interest every one that has been unfort tin ate enough toloao any of their teeth. Ehonld you be ono of the unfortunate ones, will yon Vindly inveatipito thoroughly tho rinciples of restoring all lost, decaj'ed, or iroken teeth without the use of an unhealthy plate, at my oilice. which is located a30 EAST WASHINGTON ST.,, OrrosiTF. New York Stoue. JLJ. MOKP.I?. DentUt.

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Overcoats at Tho workingroen wil ho interested in 50 dozen Striped Overalls and Waists that wo shall offer at C2 all over Apiece, 75c a suit. They are really worth 50c apiece. BAjE&M3' ELDER, Meridian Street. J FANS! 1 T FIRE INSURANCE, COMPANIES REPRESENTED IIOMT. OF NEW YOnTC. PJKENIX. OF JIAKTJOr.p. TKATKKH. OF C1IICMKJ. . LONDON AflbR , OF lMtDOV. KinKlYlTY ASD CANITAI.T , 0? !7. tV " JkrNA ,ur MAHTFOKIl. LIDERTy, OF NEW YOnTT. NORWICH UNION OK K.TCV . UNION. OF CALIFORNIA. ' ' J-CANKLW, OF OHIO. CHAS. r. sayl.es, INSURANCE, LOANS, REAL ESTATE, 73 and 77 F-t Market trt. KREGELO, Hacks to Crown Hill, 2Z South-m Yards, 2. ' LEAGUE VASSOCIATION. KANSAS CITyy8TlNDIAAP0Lin. Tuesday and U'eal,-,! Oct. 1ft and in. CTAdmlsioa-2i ccsU. ome CiUei tt 3 cr

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