Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1890 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1890.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS

Messrs. Edmundsand Butler Lock Horns Oyer a Report on Pacific Kailroads. Undelivered Land Tatents the Cause of a Short Debate House Democrats Exhibit Soreness Over the Election Bill. Washington-, July 3. Messages from the President as to Indian lands in Kansas, as to postal and cable communication between the United States and the Latin-American states, as to the celebration of the fourth centennial of the discovery of America, and as to the agreement between the Cherokee commission and the Iowa Indians in the Indian Territory, were presented in the Senate to-day and referred. Mr. Allison moved that tho adjournment to-day bo till Monday. Mr. Edmunds and Mr. Sherman opposed the motion, and Mr. Plumb and Mr. Gorman advocated it, and 4 it vras agreed to. Mr. Plumb ottered a resolution which was agreed to calling on tho Secretary of War for information as to whether articles aro being manufactured at any of the national military homes that como in competition with private enterprise, and if so the reason and authority therefor. Mr. Plumb also ottered a resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to in-, form the Senate whether he has knowledge of the guarantee, actual or proposed, by the Union Pacific Railroad Company of the bonds or stock of any other corporation, more especially those of the Oregon Navigation Company ana of tho Denver fc South Park Railroad Company; whether the Union Pacific Kailroad Compaq has paid out of its surplus earnings or otherwise the indebtedness or any part thereof, or those of other companies, and if so, "Whether such guarantee or payment is in accordance with law and consistent with the obligations of thn Union Pacific Railroad Company to the United States. Mr. Edmunds suggested to add to theresolution tho words, and that tho Secretary of the Interior communicate all information in tho possession of his department on the subject. . . Mr. Plumb accepted the amendment. Mr. Butler I would suggest that the Secretary of the Interior also report, if he has any knowledge, why. tho Senate does not proceed to the consideration of the ; report of the select committee on the Pacific railToads. I would like to have information on that subject. That select committee epent a good deal of time and work in getting all the data, and in agreeing on a report. For some cause, which I am unable to understand, the Senate does not consider it I suppose the caucus has acted on it. Mr. Edmunds Responding to the cross observation of the Senator from South Carolna, I say that the caucus has not acted on it. Mr. Butler The Senator speaks of my being cross; I am as amiable as a May morning. Mr. Edmunds Certainly. But when the Senator is the most amiable he is generally the most cross. To tho best of my knowledge and belief no assemblage or other arrangement or discussion of Republicans has had any relation to, or consideration of the subject to which the Senator refers. Speaking as one Republican, now. and not for the rest of our gradually diminishing numbers, 1 wish to say that I think the trouble has been that Senators on this ide have not stood by caucus action in the Senate, in spite of endless talk on the other side, and, perhaps, some coLsiderable talk on this side, and got on with business. As to this particular resolution I wish to say that I would be glad to have it embrace a call on the Secretary of the Interior, to know whether or not his department is in possession of information and papers, showing that at least one of those government railway companies, as they are called, has not. ever since the passage of the Thurman act. again and again deliberately disobeyed the plain and positive injunctions and prohibitions of the act in respect to increasing its obligations and making dividends, under cir cumstances which the law forbade. I should be glad to know all this, but I will not interrupt the resolution of the Senator from Kansas at this moment by proposing that further inquiry. After further aebate the resolution was agreed to. The subject of the bill passed by the Senate yesterday as to land patents remaining undelivered in the General Land Office, and as to the facilities att'orded to a firm of Washington attorneys to take a list of them, was again brought up by Mr. Berry, who sent to the Clerk's desk and had read a letter sent by these attorneys, II. W. Combs & Co., to tho clerk of Columbia county, Arkansas, offering to supply patents in that county for 4 each, of which fee the clerk was to retain $1; a letter from Wm. Stone, assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office, then acting Commissioner, to this firm, extending such facilities to it; a letter from Cyrus Bussey, Assistant Secretary of tho Interior, certifying to tho reputable character of the firm, and a dispatch to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from Vandalia, 111., on the subject. Mr. Berry said that if any explanation could be given of that transaction or any excuse for that most scandalous conduct on the part of those otticers he would be glad to hear it. There were 250,000 of these undelivered patents, and this firm would, at the low rate mentioned in its letter to tho county clerk of Colombia county, wrench a million dollars from citizens unjustly and without authority. lie understood that one member of the firm, Thomas II. McKee, was an officer of the Hone of Representatives. ' Messrs. Teller, Paddock and Cockrell participated in the discussion, the formor stating that the possession of the patent was not essential to a man's title; Mr. Paddock stating that, under the present administration of the General Land Office, the number of undelivered patents has been reduced by some seventy thousand, and Mr. Cockrell denouncing tho attair as a mere specnlatir g, blackmailing scheme. The Senate bill to establish a United States land court and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories was taken up on the motion of Mr. Edmunds, who explained, and vocated it. Senators feller, Stewart and Plumb also spoke in favor of the bill, and Senators Reagan and Morgan bitterly opposed it. The bill was discussed until 2 P. M. when the unfinished business was taken up, being the two postal and ship subsidy bills, which were debated at length. Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution, which "was agreed to, instructing the committee on appropriations to prepare and report to the bena te a statement ox the gros amounts already appropriated, and proposed to be appropriated, in the several appropriation bills of tnis session. Mr. Allison said that he hoped to be ablo to make such a statement on Monday morning. The conference report on the agricultural appriation bill was presented and agreed to. The Senate then adjourned till Monday. Totirliy Over the Klectlon Bill. Washington, July 3. In tho House today. Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts asked for a reprint of the federal election bill us passed, with marginal notes. Mr. Rogers of Arkansas demanded the regular order. Mr. Lodge suggested that there was no necessity to get cross about the matter. Mr. Rogers retorted that the House had had enough of the bill, whereupon Mr. llouk of Tennessee suggested that the Democrats micht get more of it. The request was not acceded to. Mr. Dorspy of Nebraska asked consout to otter a resolution, requesting the President to return to the House the bill extending the timo of payment to purchasers of land of the Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska, but objection was made. Mr. McComas of Mnryland presented the conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill. After debate, and pending a vote on tho conference report, the House, at 1:4 i. m., adjourned till Monday. A Census Enumerator' Complaint. To the Editor of th Iuilian polls J'lurual: Can you give me any reason for the vindictive attacks of the News on the census enumeratorsof this citjf Is it because Mr. Conger has not consulted It, and taken Us dictum in everything? An article in its. columns to-day says, in effect, that since Mr. Will C David announced that enumerators would get no pay for work don

after the allotted time, they had not attempted to perform their sworn duty. It is the first I had heard that Mr. D. made any such assertion, and 1 ought to have known it if such was the cane, as I - am one of tho much-abused individuals, and have no fear but that tho government will pay tho regular stipend for about two weeks extra work. The News to-day discredits tho thoroughness of the enumeration, and yet has not a name of an omitted person to back np its malicious aspersions, it has heretofore published about fifteen localities houses in my ward that have not been taken. All but two were in a part that I had not yet got to; one of tho others was a family out of town, whose names I had, but was waiting for their return to get the balance of the information required. The other was of two lodgers in a house where the landlady told ine she had given me all. There is not a building in my district where I have not asked whether any other persons lived or lodged there, aud if 1 havo been misinformed lam surely not in fault. I believe this to be true of moxt (if not all) of the enumerators. Certainly a large number whom I have talked with have seemed equally desirous of getting a full count, and I hazard tho guess that there are not one hundred persons omitted in the corporation. If fo. it is the fullest and most complete work ever done in so large a city. Indianapolis, July 3. Enumerator.

A NEW TENSION SCANDAL BREWING. Government Employes in the Pension Tureau Feathering Their Own Nests. Washington Special to New York Tribune. The clerical force of the United States Bureau of Pensions appears to be sedulously engaged in preparing for their unsuspecting Commissioner, as well as for the Secretary of the Interior, an embarrassing oflicial and political scandal to which the recent "rerating" imbroglio will be but a petty and insignificant attair. It is understood that over a hundred applications under the act of .June 27. 1800. conimonby known as the 'disability pension act," have already been tiled by clerks in the Pension Bureau. Many of these thoughtful but enterprising patriots are, it is true, already drawing comfortable salaries from the Treasury of the United States salaries much larger, in fact, than they ever earned in their lives before, or would be able to earn if they were relegated to tho shades of private life, but, with an eye single to the prompt repletion of their respective wallets, they rush gallantly to the charge upon the public crib to pick up such unconsidered trifles as a pension of $12 per month with an unchastened ardor worthy of the stirring days of 1SG1. Indeed, it is stated t hat in a single section of one of tho smallest divisions in the bureau there were over half adozen claims tiled by clerks on Monday last, the first day upon which such filings wero made possible by President Harrison's signature of the bill. Tho ordinary and unofficial mind would naturally suppose that the civil-service employe, already paid by the government for his daily labor as its salaried servant, 'and who was neither wounded, injured nor disabled during or by reason of his military service, could not, under any combination of circumstances, bocome a beneficiary under the recent law. Unfortunately, however, the law itself makes no exception to that large class of persons now employed in the public service. It provides, under Section 2: All persons who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the late war of tho rebellion and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and who are now or who may hereafter be suffering from a mental or physical disability of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, which incapacitates them from the performance of manual labor in such a decree as to render them unable to earn a support, shall, upon making due proof of the fact according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide, be placed upon the )Ut of invalid pensioners of the United States, and be entitled to receive a pension not exceeding $12 per month and not less than $6 per montb, proportioned to the decree of ina bility to earn a support; and such pensions shall commence from the date of the tiling of the application in the Tension Ofllco, after the passage of this act, upon proof that the disability then existed, and shall continue during the existence of the same. Under the official "rules and regulations." published on Friday last, moreover, the "noble array of martyrs" under consideration found a further incentive to rapid and concerted action, as saidrules proporly designed for the benefit of the pensionable classes who are atiectcd by tho law all over the country gave them in a nutshell not only brief and succinct sailing orders toward the newly discovered "treasure island," but showed them that, by the use of "due diligence," they could get their claims in ahead of their less-favored competitors at a distance. Among those who have rushed forward to stake out their claims in the new El Dorado is one well-known pension clerk who not only draws a "fat" salary already, but boasts of being(worth over .$100,000 and some time ago bespoke the sympathies of his follow-clerks upon the ground that he had made some $5,000 within a few hours in a real-estate speculation. The spectacle, held up before the country, of these greedy claimants rushing forward with itching palms outstretched for national alms, while they elbow from the pathway tne lame, the halt and the blind those very persons, in fact, whose cases they are paid and employed to adjudicate is by no means an edifying one and must necessarily give rise to considerable scandal. The famous congressional "salary grab" of 1S74, and the excitement which it caused, driving its beneficiaries to return the money in frantic haste; and the more recent ferment stirred up by tho bare accusation that trusted government agents in the settlement of of tho Oklahoma lands so far forgot their boundeu duty to the settlers they weie sent to aid and connsel as to chatter for choice entries and corner lots themselves, aro cases in point which show tho unerring drift of public sentiment in similar oihciul derelictions. Many old soldiers now serving in Congress, as well as certain wise and patriotic government officials, are. in view of these occurrences, seriously considering the propriety of having re-enacted the old repealed law by which the pensions of government employes were withheld, except in cases of maimed soldiers and those -who have certain specified classes of gunshot wounds. The act referred to ran as follows: lie It enacted, etc.. That no invalid pensioner, now or hereafter in the service of the United State, shall be entitled to draw a pension for any period of time during which be is or shall be entitled to the full pay or salary which an ablebodied person discharging like duties to the jrovermuent is allowed by law. Act approved March a, lb05. This law was repealed, however, in the ensuing year by Section 5, act of June G, listifi, and the pensions withheld undor it between March 3, lWo, and Juno i, 1800, wero restored by a still later act of Congress, approved March 1, 1S79. There are, however, now serving in the Pension Bureau many widows and daughters of soldiers who are struggling hard to rear families of their own while they have mothers aud others to whoso support they feel in honor bound to contribute, although they aro manifestly unable to do so, while these relatives can, under the now law, olitain some adequate support. The tiling of applications under such circumstances as these tan be made none too rapidly to please even the most exacting and invidious critic, but, as regards the class of would-be beneficiaries abovo referred to, there remains much more of abiding interest to be said. 11111 and lieudricks, Cincinnati Times-Star. The idol of Indiana Democracy was a spoilsman, a time-server and a crafty man of talent. His public career was tortuous. It is charitable to say no more. Governor Hill must have admired tho political qualities of the Indiana leader, and found instruction in his views and methods. Gov. Hill is a dodger, a quibbler, a trickster. Like Mr. Hendricks he has excellent personal traits, lacking the culture, but not the suavity. Like Mr. Hendricks, he aims at the presidency, dreams of it. works for it, plots for it; and, like Mr. Hendricks, ho will fail to get it. Didn't Put It In Those Words. Kansas City Star. Governor Hill is Indianapolis to-day. It is presumed that ho will honor the memory of Hendricks by privately repeating that statesman's celebrated apothegm: "Gentlemen,! want your votes audi want 'em bad." It-you want to enjoy your meals strengthen your digestion with bimmons Liver Regulator.

AFFAIRS OF TIIE RAILWAYS.

Switchmen Demand Pay for Time Lost While Kngaged in a Strike. A coramitteo of the freight switchmenwho were in the recent strike on the Illinois Central road, on Wednesday afternoon called on General Superintendent Sullivan and asked for the payment of regular wages the days they were out on the strike. Mr. Sullivan Teplied that there was no principle of equity by which they could make such a demand, and that the sum would not willingly be paid. He added that the amount would be paid only in. case that future trouble was threatened, and then only to men who would sign a written demand. The committee left to consult with their organization. Later in the evening Superintendent Sullivan said: "This demand is merely highway robbery. They hav.e us in their power and take un-; lawful advantage of the reliance of the employer on the employe. They do not show a business-like spirit, and if we are forced to pay the men for work they refused to do, it will be like monoy paid to a bandit with a loaded revolver placed at a traveler's head." The sum.amounts to $300 or $G00. being the pay of about fifty men for four days and seven hours at an average rate of 2.70 a day. The Outlook Promising. General freight and general passenger agents, almost without exception,' express the opinion that the business of the rail roads this month will be in excess of that of July, 18S9, and that it is quite safe to' look for increased earnings from week to week, as has been shown for several months past. The Boston Transcript of July 1 says: "More potent than all the talk of silver inflation, is the solid, substantial fact of the magnificent railroad business of the country. People have become so used to increasing earnings that they are apt to tako them as a matter of course and aro liable not to give them their due weight. For two years now we have bad a grand, railway traffic, despite rate infelicities and annoying legislation. Nature is doing her utmost for this favored land, and another year of bountiful harvesto is in prospect. While railroad earnings havo been used as a bull argument, time and again, it nevertheless is true that they are a grand factor, in the situation, and increased dividends are beginning to tell the story. Less legation and moro attention to business would be a good thing for the commercial an d railroad interests of the United States. Personal. Local and General Notes. Tho railroad to the top of Tike's Peak will be completed by Aug. 1. Chairman Walker has gone East again to aid in smoothing over the rate troubles. M. Jones has been appointed traveling freight agent of the Elgin, Juliet & Eastern road. The twenty-seyenth international convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will be held Oct. 15, in Pittsburg. The citizens of Michigan City are much encouraged over the prospects of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern being extended to that point. The outside ticket offices will be closed at 10 a. M. to-day, the cify freight depots will be closed the entire day, and no local freight trains will be run. jCharles L. Colby, formerly with the Wisconsin Central road, aud a party of Eastern capitalists haye gone to Alaska in the interest of a gigantic railway scheme. W. P. Ijams, president of the Belt Road and Stock-yards Company, who has been in Colorado for two months for the benefit of his health, will be home next week. 8. L. Riley, formerly in the freight department of the Lake Erie &. Western, now with the Milwaukee & Northern road, is pending the Fourth with friends in this city. It is stated that the Louisville & Nash ville Company has leased the Georgia State L. & N. was forced to take it for self protection. A New York exchange says that within the next thirty days the Pittsbnrg, Akrotr & Western road will pass into the hands of the syndicate owning the Lake Erie & Western. H. C. Mordeau. chief clerk of the Louisville &. Nashville road at East St. Louis, has accepted the position of freight agent of tho Louisville. Evansville & St. Louis road at Louisville, Ky. There seems to be a general overturning in the official roster of the Jacksonville, Tampa fc Key West road. D. F. Jack, the general manager, was tho first to retire, and now four other general officers have 6ent in their resignations. It is rumored in Wall street that the Vanderbilts have determined to enter the Southwestern railroad field, and are about to purchase a controlling interest in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Atchison officials in Boston state, however, that the story has no basis whatever in fact. On July 1 tho Columbus & Cincinnati Midland road passed under control of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, and its passenger business has been put under tho supervision of O. P. McCarty, general pas senger agent of the B. & O. Southwestern As the novelty of the thing wears off, the passenger conductors of the Chicago division of the Big Four are disposed to look with favor on tho ticket collectors, put on thirty days ago. It relieves them of all responsibility, except as to tho running of the train and the proper treatment of passengers. The Cincinnati. Hamilton fc Dayton, and the Louisville. New Albany & Chicago, rather regret that they entered intothearrangetneutto make the time common between Chicago and Cincinnati over the three competing lines. They say that the run could as well be made one hour quicker without dangler from high speed. PresMent Thomas, of the East Tennessee, Virginia fc Georgia road, says: "Tho Louisville Southern, about 138 miles from Louisville to a connection with the Cincinnati Southern, has been leased to tho East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia. This gives it a Northern outlet, both to Cincinnati and Louisville, which is necessary to complete its system." Persons who are good jndges of track, and who have rode over the Indianapolis division of the Louisville. New Albany & Chicago road lately, are greatly surprised at the improvement. Rough places are bocoining fow, and there is a solidity which shows that a trood deal of work has been done on the road-bed since tho new management took hold. More chances on the Chicago, Burlington fc Quincy were announced yesterday. C. G. Wilson, superintendent of freight terminals in Chicago, has been appointed super intendent of the Iowa lines of that road, to succeed W. C. Brown, who takes W. F. Merrill's place as general manager of the Hannibal fc St. Joe, Mr. Merrill having been appointed general manager of the "Q" propor. Fred A. Delano, now assistant in tho general manager's office, is to succeed Mr. Wilson as superintendent of freight terminals. t u The Western roads yesterday agreed to advanco freight rates from Chicago to the Missouri river and St. Paul 10 ceuts per one hundred pounds on first claRs and proportionately on tho other classes. The Chicago &, Northwestern, the only road that had opposed a change in the ratt?s to St. Paul and Minneapolis, was induced to withdraw its objections, and it was unanimously voted to adopt a scale of rates on the basis of 70 cents, first class, to Missouririver points- and 50 cents, first class, to St. Paul. It was left with the chairman to fix the date on which the advanced rates are to become efiective, and the rate clerks will bo called together next Monday to revise the tariffs. As the fact that the Indianapolis fc Vincennes and the Little Miami divisions of the Pennsylvania lines, in its Southwestern system, are not included in tho Chicago, St. Louis As Pittsburg consolidation has caused considerable comment, the statement of an official of the company will be of interest. The. Indianapolis fc Vincenncs and the Little Miami roads are owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company proper, no outsiders being interested, while the roads which go into the consolidation are owned as distinct properties from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The latter has enough of the stock and bonds, however, to control the lines west of Pittsburg, as is evidenced in the consolidation. An official of the Pennsylvania lines writes that an item which appeared in the Journal of June 25, regardiug passenger conductors giving bonds, was misleading.

In the circnlar addressed to the conductors

is a clauso which reads as follows: "lou will recollect it is optional with agents and others whether they lilo a personal bond or a bond guaranteed "by the American Surety Company, the Guaranty Company of North America, or the Fidelity and Casnalty Company of New lork, when the penal sum of the bond is less than &5.C00." The American Surety Company, the Guarantee Company of North America and the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York charge 75 cents per 100 per annum premium. ihe Pennsylvania lines agree to , pay one-halt the premium on the excess of penal sura of bonds over $5,000 in cases where tho employe has filed a bond of eithor of the above .named companies. TENSIONS FOtt VETERANS. Residents of Indlarife and Illinois Whose Claims Ilave Been Granted. Pensions have been issued to the follownaraed residents of Indiana: Original Invalid Samuel Doss, Stone Bluffs; Jos. E. Merrett, Logans port ; John W. T. Poor, Scipio; Prime Craven, Indianapolis: John 15. Hatfield, Sinis; Jas. II. Spore, Owensvllle; Jackson Beswick, Nabb; Thos. M. Smith, Spurgeon; Jos. Stetfer. Hosier; John Mathews, Hobart; Daniel Blckev, Bedford; Harrison Craig, Bluffton; Ja. W. Christie, Moses A. Daugherty, Indianapolis; D. Perlee, i)illshorouh; Solomon Ford, Evansville; Francis M. Moody. Deedsville; C. C. Wait, Union City: John M. Montfort, Whltestown; Ben). Hursh, 8pencervlUc; Christopher Craigmile, Corrlngton; Jos. Ms'ers, Sparksville; Calvin stodgill,. St. Paul: Morgan M. Lutton, Tunnelton: Joseph Barber, Mittiln; John W. Bremer. Abvdel: Levi V. Roof. Lafayette; .John It. Newberry, Leavenworth; Greenberry N. t Rose, Ballershurg; M. L. Watts, Petersburg; Wm. B. Chisler. Bedford; Morris T. Frank, Petersburg; Robert McDowell, Dayton: Joseph Croslow, Nashville: Nathaniel Edwards, Odessa; Benj. F. Anderson, Brownsburg; Ilenrv M. Eaton, Prinoeton; James M. Duttin, West Fork; Morris Diets. St. Paul; Hiram M. Waltman. Bean Blossom; Wm. Grecntteld, Columbus; W. A. Spencer, Redkey. . ReisKue and Increase Eli Thomas, Martins ville. Reissue Wm. H. Hook, Hartsvjlle; Marion Bennett, Wnrtbinjrton; Nathaniel Beatty, Crawiordsville; Jas. S. Elliott, Burncy's; Isaac 8haf tner, Sullivan; Jos. W. Dodd, El Dorado. Original Widows, etc. Minors of John Benedict, Petersburg and Glenscn; minors of John Grimes, alias Hawes, Rotkport; Mary, widow of Tilford McClain. Friendship; .Eliza J. Umphrey, former widow of Asa MoKeJlo, Princeton; uan Ann Lamb, lormer widow " of John Benedict, Glensen; minor of Asa McKello. Princeton; Rachel, mother of Henry C. Pearman, Hillsdale; Mary A., mother of John C. Brandon, Van Buren; Henrietta, widow of Jos. V. Purviance, Uuutincton. TO RESIDENTS OF ILLINOIS. Original Invalid Joseph Ryan, Gibson City; John F. DeBolt, Mason; Wm. W. Richards. Ogden; Andrew McKeeu, Rural; Charles F. Davis, Chicago; Daniel Carr, Coatesburg; Florian Kueny, Peoria; Alfred Romine, Youngstown. Increase Leonard C. Thornburg, Vermillion: John P. Bell, Ridgeway; Wm. H. Purviance. Troy; Oliver M. Moon, Sibley; Benjamin MoHaley, Clarence; Seth B. Collins, Areola; Isaac Jelf, Tower Hill; John Delaney, Bloomington; Sylvester T. Patton.Urbana; Wm. P. Gibbs, Aurora; Win. V. Nicholson, Port Byron; Albert G. Brown, Clay City; James Jacobs, Paris; Lewis H. Card, Harvard. Reissue John N. Null, Springerton; Martin Goodman, Athens; Jasper Benson, Shiloh Hill; Wm. S. Wells, Chicago. Reissue and Increase Hiram N. Fisher, Rosewood. Original Widows Medina Butler, former widow of Joseph Greenawalt, Ava; minor of Ephraim Lihc, Tamaroa; Jane A. Downs, former widow of Herman Walford, Rock Island; Catherine, mother of Eugene B. Slaten, Hebron. Then and Now. Disquisition on the Use of Gunpowder, by (A Master Jack.) When they first invented gunpowder, They did most dreadful things with it, They blew up popes and parliaments, And emperors and kings with it. They put on funny hats and boots. And skulked about in cellars, oh! With shaking shoes they laid a fuse, And blew it with the bellows, oh! They wore great ruffs, the stupid muffs! (At least that 's my opinion), then; And said, "What, ho!" and "Sooth, 't is so!" And called each other "Minion!" then. Brtt now the world has turned about Five hundred years, and more, you see; And folks have learned a thing or two Xhey did not know before, you see. So nowadays the powder serves To give the boys a jolly day, And try their Aunt Louisa's nerves. And make a general holiday. In open day wo blare away With popguns and with crackers, oh! With rockets bright we crown tho night, (And some of them are whackers, oh!); And "pop!" and "fizz!" and "hang!" and "whizz!" bounds louder still and louder, oh! And that's the way we use to-day Tho funny gunny-powder, oh! Laura E. Itichanls, in 8t. Nicholas for July. Real-Estate Transfers. ' Instruments filed for record in the recorder's luce of Marlon county. Indiana, for the twentyfour hours ending at 5 p. Jr., July 3, 1890, as furnished by Elliott & Butler, abstracters of titles. Hartford Block. No. 64 East Market street: W. C. Soper to Cora Z. Hnbbard. lot 20, in Beaton's subdivision of lot 25, In Johnson's heirs' addition $1,650.00 Francis Ford et al. to Emma Steph ens, part of lots 37 and 38, in Fletcher's tirst addition to Brightwood Margaret McKean to G. D. Schnell, lot 5, in block 14, in Vajen's subdivision of Holmes's West-end addition John II. Vaien to Robert Reinhardt, lot 57, In Patterson's addition...... A. 1). Shaw to D. W. Scanlau, lot 20, hi the Exchange Land Company's 300.00 225.00 375.00 subdivision of outlot 183 1,500.00 I. W, Scanlan to Permelta Shaw, lot 20. in the Exchange Land Company's subdivision of outlot 1K3 1,500.00 J. O. Armour to O. K. Olson, part of square 00 5,500.00 O. A. McCarty to E. P. Fulmer, lot 23, in King's subdivision of lot 20, etc.. in Wasson & Co.'s Highland Park addition Anna Brown to Joseph Hamilton, lot 17, in Julian's Spring Garden addition J. B. Duncan to J. T. Burton, lot I), in Myers's subdivision of lot 1, etc.. In 300.00 200.00 Elliott's subdivision of outlot 150. . 200.00 W. 11. W ilhelm to M. D. Kaufman, lot 1 1, in Carpenter's Home Place addition to Mount Jacksou G. M. Alexander to Laura A. Alexander, lot 257 and part of lot 25S, in Spann & Co.'s first Woodlawn addition Martha A. Dane to Margaret Means, . lot 7, la Tweed's first West ludiaiiaiolis addition Robert Thomas to I'. J. McNamara, 350.00 1,250.00 400.00 lot 88. in McCarty's stfath addition. 1,825.00 W . . liuhbanl to Annie M. Hastings, lots:2 and 33, in Hubbard's South Meridian-street addition 600.00 Conveyances, 15; consideration $16,175.00 Just So. New York Mail and Express "Hoosiers Howl for Hilir' But all tbe arts of apt alliteration's aid will not help matters. Hoosiers howl for Harrison, And there are more of tho last sort. too. Truth Is Stranger than Fiction. Chicaeo Tost. A Pennsylvania doctor recently wrote his own name in the blank reserved for the "cause of death" in a death certificate KiDjir.T affections of years' standing cured by eiimnons Liver lieguiator. j. w . l'oynts. ANCHOR LINE Atlantic Express Service. LIVERPOOL. VIA QUFESSTOWN. Steamship "CITY OF ROME." from New York, July 2d. Au(r. 23, Sept. 20. Oct. 18. Saloon, f GO to $100; fe cotnl-clasA. $30 and $35. " " '' ' Glasgow Service. Stc smers every Saturday from New York to GLASGOW AND LONDONDEKnY. Cabin Passage to Glasgow or Londonderry, f 50 and fu. secona-ciass, Fterafr l'ange, either ncrvice, $20 Falom Excursion Ticket at luIared ltatec. Travelers' Circular Letters of C'redlt and Drafts for aur amount issued at lowest current rates. For Hook of Touth, Ticket, or further Information arply to HENDEliSON IlKUTHEHS, New Yora or. ALEX. METZQEK. 5 Odd-tellows' Hail; or FHKNZEL BliOH.. Merchant' National Bank. UNITED STATES CIUCUIT COURT. DISKJ trlct ot Indiana. In Equity. No. 8438. J. R. riant en vs. Chicago fe Cincinnati Railroad Company and Chicago. bLLouUA Pittsburg Rail road Company. Notice 1 hereby Riven, that in the final decree of said Court, in the above entitled can se, entered on the 24th ir ot May. lMUo. It wa ordered and 1erred hy the Court that all outtHndinz bomla of the Chicago fe Cincinnati Railroad Company, secured by the mortgage of company, executed on tho 1st tayof October. 1H37. to Frederick L Oebhard and Nathaniel Marah, trustee, shall be presented in said cause lor amumcaiton as to their validity and allow ance. on or before the 15th day of August. lSdo. and that in default of reentatton within that time they snail ne torever Darren irom participation in the proceeds of the sale ordered in aaid decree, and from enforcemeat as a hen airainat th property ao ordered to beaobt. WILLIAM P. 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bnuaren ury ior nicners oasiona. When Baby was tick, we gave her Castoria. When the was a Child, the cried for Castoria. When the became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.1 Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. CONSOLIDATION OP THE PITTSRURa, CIN. cinnati A St, Louis Railway Company. Chlcasro. 8t. Louis & Pittsburp Rtilroad Company, The Cincinnati & Richmond Railroad Company, Jeffer.Honville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad Company. M . Notice Is hereby ptven that the directors of the above-named companies have entered into a Joi"t agreement for the consolidation and tuerjrer of sd several companies into ono new consolidated company. Said arreemf nt provides, anion other things, that the capital stock of the constituent companies shall be increased so that the capital stocic of the con. aolidated company shall be seventy-live million dollars, of which thirty million shall be preferred, and forty-tive million shall bo common stock. Said agreement alto authorizes tho creation by said consolidated company, of a loan of scventy-tlve million dollars, the same to be represented by bonds of various series, and to be secured by a mortgage or deed of trust covering the cnttrerailroad, properties, estates and franchises of the con soUda ted company. Pursuant to law said agreement will bo submitted to the stockholders of the Chicajro, St. Louis A Pittsburg Railroad Company for their adoption or rejection, and for that purpose said stockholders are hereby summoned to appear at a special meeting thereof, to be held at the principal otlice of the company at Indianapolis, Indiana, on Wednesday, the twentieth day of August. 1SU0. at 10 o'clock a m. Ry order cf the President and Directors ot the Chicago, JSL Louis & Pittsburg Railroad Company. S. li. LIGGETT, Secretary. Indianapolis, Ind., June 10, 1800. HAMBURG-AMERICAN PACKET CO EXPRESS SERVICE between New York. South amp ton and Hamburg by the magnificent new twlnscrew steamers of 10.000 tons and 12.&00 to 16,000 horse-power. This Line holds the record for fastest trips to and from Southampton and the Continent, equal to six days two hours toQueenstown. Steamers unexcelled for safety, speed and comfort. Through tickets to London and Paris. Apply to HamburgAmerican Packet Co. 37 llroadway, N. Y. General Passenger Agents. C. R. RICHARD fe CO., 61 Broadway, New York. ALEXANDER METZQEK. AgenL Odd-fellows' Hall, northeast eor. Pennsylvania and Washington sta.. Indianapolis. Ind. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBMaBaaaaaBaaaa BUSINESS DIRECTORY. THEODORE STEIN. Sucoeuor to Wm. 0. Anderson, ABSTRACTER OF TITLES. 86 Esat Market Strwa. ELLIOTT & BUTLER, Hartford Block, 84 East Market st. ABSTRACTS OF TITLES. REMOVAL,. DR. E. R. LEWIS Has removed his office to 257 North Delaware street. THROAT AND NOSE. Dr. SARAH STOCKTON, 227 North Delaware Street. DR. J. A. SUTCLIFFE SURGEON. Office, 95 East Market street Hours, 9 to 10 a. m., 2 to 3 p. m. Sundays exoepted. Telephone 94L DR. HAD LEY. OFFICE-104 North Meridian st. Office hours 8 to 9 a. m.; 2 to 3 p. m.; 7:30 ti 8:30 p. m.: Telephone, 802. Residence 270 North Delaware at. House tol ephone (day), 1215. D R . H A M M O N D lias removed his residence to 790 NORTH PENNSYLVANIA ST. Oftice 4 WEST OHIO ST. DR. C. I. FLETCHER, J OFFICE 369 South Meridian street. BESIDENCE-573 North Meridian street Office Hours: 9 to 10 a. m., 2 to 4 p. rru 7 to8p.ro. Telephones Office: 9U7. Residence: 427. DR. H. M. LASH, 139 North Meridian street. Telephone 1231. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Silver-Moon Restaurant No. 18 North Pennsylvania street. Best meals Lu the city for 25 cent. First-class in every respect. INDIANAPOLIS STEEL ROOFING AND CORRUGATING C0.-0FFICE FACTORY, 23&25 E.S0UTH STINDIANAPOUS.IND. Wrought Steel Warm'Air Furnaces l DEWENTER No. 54 South Pennsylvania St. SAFE-DEPOSIT VAULT Absolute safety airainst Fire and Burglar. Finest and and only vault of the kind in tho State. Policeman day and night on guard. Designed for the safe-keeping of Money, Bonds, Wills, Deeds, Abstracts, Sllvor-plato, Jewcli, and Valuable Trunks and Packages, eta S. A. Fletcher & Co. Safe Deposit JOHN S. TAR KINGTON, Manager. J. C. Shaffer, Pres'U W. J. Mcrpht, 8eoy. TIIE INDIANAPOLIS FENCE CO., MANUFACTURERS AND BUILDERS Wrought-Iron and Steel Ribbon Yard and Farm Fences. Guaranteed for strength, durability and Yalae, Over 40,000 feet erected since last September. Agents ranted. INDIANAPOLIS FENCE CO., 15 and 17 McXabb street tyTelephone 437. Indianapolis, Ind. Wrought -Iron Picket Fences, CHESTINGS, GRATINGS, HOUSE MOVERS' JACK SCREWS, Champion Steel-Eihhon Fence. ELLIS & HELFENBERGER, 176 South Pennsylvania Street. Estab. 1850. Manufacturers of LIGHTNING Conductors, Weather Vanea. fJIasa Palls, 'lnials,Cretinc:a,etc. Furnish estimates on your houe, barn or Iartorr. Repair I Vii ft 1 1 t li I C. CO.. U4 tkmlh Delaware street. GEO. J. MAYER, Seal, Steroil, Stamps, Kto. 15 South Meridian street, Indianapolis, Ind. fiend tor catalogue.

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4 rpT'T'NTG K. C fc CO ., Manufacturer, a A 1 IVliN ORepairera of ClllOULAH, CROSS CUT. BAND, and ail other Deltlug. Emery Wbeela and Mill Surpllea. Illinois atreet, one square south Union station. SAWS SAWS BELTINGand EMERY WHEELS. Specialties of W. B. Barry Saw X- Supply Co. 132 t 134 S. renn. sL All kinda of saws repaired. SMITH'S DYE WORKS 57 NORTH PENNSYLVANIA ST. Genta clothing cieaueil, dyed and repaired. Ladies' dresses cleaned and dyed. mi Harvesting JIafc fe, Manufacture of BINDERS, KKAPEUS AND MOWERS. TTepdntmrferft fnr Indian. Ifi7lfi9 IL WaaVa St., IndianapoliMnd. J. 11. 11EYWOOD. Manager. ACCORDION PLAITING, By MISS COBB. Price, 37 he per Yard. ROOM 0. Dazar Duildintc. ippit Batea House. T. II. DAVIDSON, DENTIST. A set of the rery best Teeth, oa Rubber, for $S an 1 10. Teeth trlthcut plates, or crotm and bridge work, a specialty. Vitalited Air admin istered. OFFICE 242 East Washington street, oppotita New York: Store. Nordyke tfc Marinon Co. Eatab. 1831. FOUNDERS and MACHINISTS Mill and Elevator Bulldera, Indlatiaiolis, Ind. Roller Mills. MMtrearlnjr. Halting, Boirinir-eloth, Grain, cleaning Machinery. Middllngs-purinor. Portable Mills, eta, etc lake street cars for stockyards. INDIANAPOLIS STOVE CO. Mamifantarnrs of . STOVES AND HOLLOW. WARE. 85 a ad 7 South Meridian s;roefc Hand and Machine BRICK MOLDS, HARDIN & CHURCH. No. 3 Vine st., two doors east of Park ave., INDIANAPOLIS, IXD. LUMBER, SHINGLES, ETC HENRY COBUP.N, lelra in all kinds of BullOlng Material, Sash, Doors, Blinds and Frames. Vo. r&nrta work a specialty. PLA NINO-MILL aud YARD Kentucky arena and MiahissipDi stroet. McGILLIARD & DARK, 7 Oldest and Largest Fire Insurance General Afrea?r in Indianapolis. Office Thorpo Block, 83 aul East Market street. JUJVIBJER. E. H. ELDRIDGE & CO., Shingles, Sash Doors and Blinds. COR. ALABAMA AND MARYLAND STS. M. B. Wilson, PresL W. D. F.winq, Cashier. . Josephus Collxtt, Vice- president. THE CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK OF INDIANAPOLIS, IND. CAPITAL $300,000 Business lntrusteorto our care will receive careful attention at lowest rates. PENSIONS New Laws, New Rulings. Every aoldler or aoldlers widow Fhould aenl to the OKI Kstabllshed Claim Agency of P. II. FITZGKRALDand get hia 12-p:ipo pamphlet on War Claim a. Mailed free. No. 6S2 East Market st. P. li. FITZGERALD. BICYCLES A large stock, from $35 to $135. . Peoond'-hand Wheels taken In exchange for new ones. We .lo all kind ot REPAIRING. NG and NICKEL-PLATING. A full line of Spaldniff's R&se-ball rood. Send for CATaloo. AK?nts wanted In every town. HAY & WILLITS, 113 V. Washington at., Indianapolis, (Opposite btatc-house.) NEW YORK STEAM DENTAL CO. Prom $4. $5, $6, $3, $10. to f 50 per set. All kinds of fine dental work at reduce! prtre. Fine (told fllllnjr at 1 and upwaro. MUrer amalgamM) eta, and 75 cts. Teeth extracted for 25 ev. Teeth extracted without pain. All work warranted aa represent'HL Fifteen yars' experience. A. r. utKitj. jvianagsr. 3 and 4. Grand Q:era-hoae. Rooms ADAMANT WALL PLASTER. The now, cheapest and best Wall Plaster known ti the trade. Manufactory at 106 West Maryland st. Indiana adamant plajtba oo. BRILL'S STEAM DYE-WORKS. 36 A 38 Mans. ave. ant 95 N. lit. sL Oenta Clothes cleaned, dyed and repaired. Li UeV Drees cleaned and dyed. Velvet and Seal Skins leflnished, etc. J. PL RYAN & CO., Commission Merchants, Wholesale Dealers in Grain, Flour, Feed, llay, etc, 62 and 64 East Maryland et. L S. F. GALLOWAY Solicits correepondenoe on Wool. 200 South Pennsylvania St CLKAVKLAXD YARD FENCE. (Pst'd Nov. 13, 1SS Reissue, Dec 3. 1839.) This out a!iown oar Scroll Oato patt Avrll 22. 90) set In our ntajxiard two and one-hall teet, six strand Lawn Fence, our threo feet seven strand fence, is used whre sUxk run at large. Oar Farm Fencing la being universally alo;tert. Mend rfiairrama foresti. mates. Circulars fre. OLEAVELANI) FENCE CO., 20, 21 and '22 Riddle street, Indianapolis, Ind JEL. T. HEARSEY, 6IGVCLES hew anl Secosi-Hwi rRppairlnjr a specialty. Riding shoot cpeu. furcnasers tancr; nt i to rl Ae tre of charire. No. lltt NORTH PiSNN. ST. Send 2c stamp for catalogue. HIGHEST AWARD OF A GOLD UEDAL AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION WAS SECURED DY THE REMINGTON STANDARD TYPEYRITER Which has been for FIFTEEN YEARS Tho STANDARD -ind embraces -n i ' tho Intest and highost achievements of Inventive skill. WYCEOFF, IUMI & BENEDICT, 34 EAST MARKET ST.. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. ROBERTS tfc ALLISON, ' MANUFACTURE)!: OK UPRIGHT PIANOS, 85 & 87 EAST SOUTH ST. COMSTOOK & COONSE, WOOD, CHAIN and TOODEX lOUCKPUilPS. Dealers lu Iron Plio, Drlren-w tll Points and all DrtTen.TeU Supplies. 1x7 aui 1 ti. Meridian sk Ji

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