Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1891 — Page 6

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1891.

PHILLIPS AND HIS OBATOBY

A Preacher's Address on a Great American Whose Eloquence Was His Power, Two yotalleWemen Talk to Large Audiences, One at Roberts Fark and the Other at Central Christian Church. A DISTINGUISHED OK AT OIL Dr. Cleveland Speak of the Eloquence and Character of Wendell Phillips. At the Meridian-street Church, last evening, the Eev. Dr. II. A. Cleveland addressed a large audience on "Wendell Phillips, the Man and his Speech." The Doctor said that to understand any particular man and what he has done, one must know the 'world that produced hiinand the world that is in relation with him. The mystery of the oak and the splendor of the woods are in the acorn, but all nature is in leagne with that little germ. Every new life is a chip from the old block. The forces of the preceding generations reappear in the child, and are potently operative in him. Mr. Phillips's oratory," continued the Doctor, rendered the cause of freedom in our country an almost immeasurable service; but he was impelled to his enterprise by many and remote causes, and was helped in it by many corelating influences and agencies. While we extol his oratory, we do not ascribe to it results that do not belong to it. The great orator is never a manufactured article. All recipes for producing him are a deceit end quackery. He can no more be rnado to order than you can make a sunbeam or a singing robbin. His genius, his temperament, his passion are native to him, and cannot be created. He is the child of his times. He is a stream issuing, indeed, from his own pure fountains, but also from the rains, and snows, and mighty sunshine that have fallen aback on the hills and mountains. It is the mist he has received from nature, the past, the people, that he condenses and pours oat as a river. His appearing is always among a people of like thought, talent, sentiment, conviction.' Like encourages like. Like begets like. No man is entirely original. The great mountain does not rise solitary and abrupt from the plain, but trom the midst of . other mountains. Always the great artists come into the world in groups. Demosthenes appeared among a people all of whom were orators. "As tested by the judgment of the competent and the tinal success of his cause, Mr. Phillips was a great orator. John Bright said: I regard him as the most powerful orator now speaking the English language.1 We have had orators who excelled him in this and that particular, but in the blending of those things that make the perfect orator, in tho grace and height of his utterances, in his mastery over his audiences and in the splendor of his achieving, he has not been equaled in our own times by any orator at home, nor surpassed by any abroad. "The most essential thing in all good oratory is tho man behind it. No rules, no training can make any man a great orator who has come into the world through the gate ot wooden endowments, and has woody lib re in him. Mr. Phillips's ancestors on his father's side came to this country with Governor Winthrop. They were a robust and valiant people. They were Puritans. His father was & graduate from Harvard, and was a writer of force and elegance. He was the first Mr.yor of the city of Boston. He was judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He had inherited and acquired wealth. On his mothers side his ancestors were the Wendells of Albany. N. Y. They were a family of great distinction, with Holland and the Dutch republic in its veins. Oliver Wendell Holmes is of the same family. She was a devout woman and carefully taught her son in the Holy Scripture. PHILLIPS AN AMSTOCRAT. "No man in our country was more aristocratic by heredity, and m the best sense of the term, than was Mr. Phillips. He was a born gentleman. His joints were oval and his fingers tapering. The graces bad . touched him at every point. Thackeray said, 'he looks as though he were born duke,9 The gentleman who is one completely, easily and continuously, must be born one. An essential note in all true "oratory is its gentlemanliness, its prudence, good taste, noble temper, gallant helpfulness and manly manners, all which can come, in their best degree, only from good ancestry and good breeding. From this source came tho wonderful poise of Mr. PhiUips and his sublime subduedness. Under the jeers, the taunts and stings of vulgar mobs he always maintained his perfect self-possession and imperturbable coolness. He flung back the gibes of noisy and pertinacious men, 'dressed in broadcloth and chocked with ootton seed.' by quietly telling them that their families were 'only lately rich,' that they were spending the money their fathers 'earned by emnggling in India,1 that they had 'never added an idea to the commonwealth and that 'these are the men who tell us, the children of the Puritans, the representatives of Endicott and of Winthrop, what opinions wo shall hold and what we may express.' It was this native dignity enabled him to put his hand helpfully beneath the downtrodden and the despised and to pload their cause before the great and the noble, and not feci himself humiliated by the doing. He was royal in himself and could have opinions of his own without asking any man's leave;, could bend down to the slave, as the sun bends to the imprisoned bulb, and remain noble still. By natural descent the genius of liberty possessed him. His ancestors had dethroned tyrants and abolished states. In resentment of injustice his fathers had made a teapot of Boston harbor and wrenched an empire from th grasp of George the Third, lie believed that liberty was woven into the eternal purpose of things, and had lighted her inextinguishable torch in the human conscience. It was the inevitable in him that made him say, 'by tho help of Almighty God I will make every man, of every color, in this country, to he as free before the law as I am myself.' He believed God bad chained nim to the deliverance of the slave, and that abaolute justice towards every man is the first of political duties and the only permanent bond of society. CONVICTION A REQUISITE. "All great oratory must have a great conviction behind it. Only by the lire that is in his own heart can the orator set his hearers on fire. He must have a positive conviction, a definite measure, and go forward with the fixed and impassioned intest that kills; else no lightnings will leap from his lips. Mimic thunder splinters no oaks and hurts nobody. The naturally stolid roan can never become a great orator. Mr. Phillps's convictions and intensities came to him in a rational and natural way. and held him as we are held by our mother tongue, and impelled him as we are impelled by our Teutonic blood. "All great oratory is the oratory of culture and knowledge Mr. Phillips was brought up in an educated atmosphere. He graduated from the Boston Latin School and from Harvard College. Motley was his classmate. He was a lawyer. He was a voracious reader of books, and especially of history. He made himself familiar with eiery thing relating to England, to Ireland and to Italy, bu inner said. 'He is the best hit.torian l have met.' He was a recognised authority on all matters French, lie carried Pcnelon in his satchel. He seldom spoke without quoting from Da Tocqueviile. The causes and details of the French revolution were spread out as vividly before his mind as before the mind of Carlyle, lu general literature he knew the bast things thoroughly. He daily turned the pages of the great classics. He read essays, novels and magazines because they freshened things, enabled him to know the pulse of the age and enriched his vocabulary. He studied the Knglish Bible. After the death of Theodore Parker be delivered the Sunday discourses in Music HalL In the literature of freedom nothiugeicapedhlsattention. On the social and political movements of Boston ho kept his eye as intently as if he had been its chief f pcv'jHo knew the passions, am-

bit ion 9 and motives of the men who were clore beside him. He observed the words men use on the streets, and from things pear shaped bis art. In early manhood he joined Dr. Lyman Beecher's church, and it is not known that he ever afterwards changed his religious opinions, nor is it charged that he ever held them insincerely. The moral tone, the iinish and fullness of his oratory issued from the moral convictions, the finish and fullness of the man himself. He had ideas, and knew how to utter them with advantage. His treasury, no matter how much he drew out, was always full and fresh to date. He never delivered a commonplace, or inappropriate, or musty discourse in his life. He never repeated himself. He never fell below the occasion. Always he made his message like Medea's robe a thing of beauty and of burning. "His personal character was beyond impeachment and above reproach. For forty years criticism has searched through the folds of his private life with lighted candle and has found nothing there with which to turn the edge of his logic or tarnish the shining tablet of his fame. Tho character of the orator is his major premise. Quintilian insists that 'no man can be an orator who does not think and speak justly, and who is not distinguished for goodness and benevolence.' lie declares the chief business of the orator consists in his being a man of virtue. The orator who is not true and kindly, and does not aim to enlighten and help his fellow-men, is but a clown and trickster in his art. "Mr. Phillips had no vices, no bad habits and no corrupting principles or ambitions. He was- chivalrous and self-eacrificingly benevolent. He was a lover of men. He did much for the poor of his neighborhood. He was helpful to the stranger, the aged, the unfortunate. His ardent and life-long devotion to his invalid wife was an idyl. Every ne?ro In Boston felt sure that he could rly en that good roan's friendly thought mu aid. He gave away in charity more than n If hisinherited fortune and all his 7f.st it.: ome from his lectures. Ho lived in a f.mall bouse and in a severely plain manner U his lite. Benevolent people all over tho country intrusted to him the distribution of their bounty. He was as earnestly devoted to the cause of Ireland as to t'le cause of the African. Whenever he coald he advocated the cause of the workingmen, and these, in his neighborhood, were his most ardent friends. He said, 'Our principles claim our utmost endeavor to protect all labor, white and black, and to further every claim of humanity.' The vrinciples and spirit of freedom and of humanity possessed his head and bis heart, and so they indicted and pervaded his speeches, thus proving John Milton's great saying. 'True eloquence is tho daughter of virtue.' COURAGE AN ESSENTIAL. "Quintilian insists that a noble courage and bravery is an essential element in all true oratory. Few braver men ever lived than was Mr. Phillips. He knew that that first speech, in Fanuel Hall, would bring upon him social ostracism and bitter opprobrium, and would completely block his way to thoso honors and promotions which his talents and social relations placed easily within his reach. When he choso to advocate the cause of emancipation, he deliberately flung all wcrldly advantages away and put ambition forever beneath his feet. Henceforth he wasunrewardingly devoted to the welfare of the oppressed. It was this gave his oratory its urgency, its moral momentum, its edge and fire. He stood on the rostrum of our time like Moses on Horeb and proclaimed 'liberty throughout the land, by the will of God.' "The secret of his eloquence," further said the Doctor, "and of its power, was not in his books, and teachers, but in his own soul, in his noble heredity, in his Puritan and Christian conscience, in his moral conviction and passion, in his fine oratorical temperament, in the largeness of his intellectual manner, in the love he had for justice and humanity, in the fineness of his culture and the wealth of his resources. All preceding revolutions and freedoms, since the world began, entered into tho purpose and argumonts of his oratory and the eternal edicts of justico and love sung and sighed in the rhythm of his cadences. His voice was the finest of any that 1 have heard. Its tones fell on the ear like the notes of a flute heard at midnight. 1 have seen him stand on the platform amid scenes of wildest turbulence and peril, calm, self-possessed, tall, eager, with the grace and majesty that mark the Grecian statues in the halls of the Louvre, one hand in persuasion stretched out, his forehead bright as lit with inner fire, and his tongue, from the transparent marble, pouring invective and glorious scorn, while his sentences seemed somotimes to gather about you like flocks of angels come down from heaven and turned into words, and sometimes as in them justice commanded and crushed souls wailed they Neemed like Danto's Hakes of iirey snow falling on themountain of retribution that rose just before you, a red-hot cone. "He never made it his business," the Doctor said in conclusion, "to amuse men, but only to persuade them. He bad undertaken a great cause. He was always seriously in earnest. Such dolls as be had, if you pricked them, would bleed. There was no emptiness in what he said, no cant, no mouthing nothingness. His speech commanded and compelled. Its very stings became agreeable to those who heard it. When his thunderbolts struck men dumb, he himself remained serene and immovable). When at last he went up to heaven's gate, it was amid the tears and lamentations of all peoples, his name a household word throughout the world, the praises of his art on all lips, and bearing in his misulHed hands, for passport and reward, the broken shackles of four millions of bondmen. The orator had carried his cause."

TEIirEKANCE AND CHRISTIANITY. Miss Anna Shaw Thinks Prohibition with Women Toting "Would I'urlfy the Nation. Miss Anna Shaw, of Boston, a noted member of the W. C. T. U., spoke to a largo audience at Koberts Park M. E. Church last night, on the duty of the Nation to the boys. She 6aid the fires of all the iniquities in the land, the violence in New Orleans and Pennsylvania, the wickedness of the lumbering regions, were, all fed by the saloon. "For several years in the city of Boston," she continued, "I was a dispensary physician, devoting my entire time to the lower classes of the people. I lived in the sinks for three years to ingratiate myself into their lives, to find out the real cause for their degradation and poverty, and to see. if possible, if any means could be employed to lift them up out of their condition. I came to the conclusion that in the United States there is not the least bit of reason for any form of degraded and debased poverty, and there would be no such thing were it not directly traceable to the saloon. It is absolutely impossible to do anything for these people, or to lift them up, as long as the saloon exists." She then described the work of the crusade of several years ago, and gave the cause of its failure of lasting results. She had procured 100 signers to a total abstinence pledge, but within a few days they were all drinking men ninety-five of them bad gone back on their pledge, and a few days later three more making 08 in all had abandoned total abstinence. "Each intended to keep the pledge," said Miss Shaw, "but they were men of depraved appetite, weakened physical condition, paralyzed will, and dovoid of spiritual sense. With this kind of material on one hand and the saloon on the other the saloon will come out head nine times out of ten. It is no use to get men to sign the pledge until they can get some way of keeping it, and the method is total prohibition and the annihilation of the saloon. In our crusade we found that a business that was established by law and supported by law could not be removed by prayer, but would have to be removed by law. We have heard that the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that moves tho world. That is a very pretty poetic sentiment, bat the fatherhood of the race is not exempt from responsibility to childhood. The fatherhood of the race must feel responsibility as a moral teacher of boyhood, and the motherhood of the race must have the power of the ballot to regulate the conditions which enter into and become a part of the child's education and training." "In the city of Boston, which is a highlicensed, well-protected city," tho lady remarked, "a boy walking down a certain street half a mile, on his way to school, passes eighty-two saloons. You gire your boy temperance training." she continued, "but- more than likely the boy who sits beside him at school has a father who is a liquor-dealer, and your boy comes home better informed on the liquor question -than you think. Ho

knows that men sell liquor and men drink liqaor, and boys want to be manly. If cigarettes were only smoked by women you could not whip a boy into smoking one. Mothers cannot become the moral teachers of the boys. A good mother is a great thing, but it is not enough. With a good, true mother give a boy a father whose life is clean and pure, and ho will stand an infinitely better chance than the boi whose father is not clean and honorable in his life. Yon will

never get boys to believe in total abstinence until men come to believe in total abstinence and prohibition in the State and Nation. The father's influence is of great consequence in the rearing oi a child. What men need to feel is their moral responsibility to boyhood, and that without them boys cannot be properly trained and become good men, and the women should have part of the control of the cities and towns in which their children are reared. No mother can protect her son in this country when the door-yard fence becomes the dead-line to the home. The wonder to me is not that our penitentiaries are so full of boys, but that more of our boys are not criminals. Where wehave one schoolhouse on the hill training our boys in the better things we have ten saloons in the valley." Nearly all who graduate from tho saloons, the lady said, go into politics. The motherhood of this country ought to be, she urged, in a position to say that this government shall not be permitted to legalize any form, of temptation and vice which needs for its existence and support but 80,000 boys a year. "If you men cannot protect us and our children," the speaker remarked in conclusion, "then in the name of heaven untie the hands of the mothers and give them a chance to protect their own children. The ballot in the hands of the motherhood of this country would mean protection for the babyhood of the country and that our -boys would grow to be men whose strength would be the strength of ten because their, hearts are pure." Women in History. The congregation of the Central Christian Church, last night, was addressed by Mrs. Persia M. Christian, of Chicago, who talked on "Women in History." She gave her lecture a bearing on Christian missions to lands where the oppression of women is heaviest . and their hopo darkest. It is true, she said, that brain,, and not brawn, rules the world; that one strong mind and intrepid spirit may have more inlluonco in the history of a decade than a hundred men of muscle. Ono great character may more deeply impress his times than thousands of others, as Gladstone has done. The poor, half-naked woman in the mines, drawing a car . of coal by a chain attached to a band about her waist, has no influence, and yet thero is a force in which numbers connt. The uninlluentlai men and women are made in the likeness of God, and are brothers and sisters with souls that give them claim upon Christian consideration. It is customary to sneak of women, said the speaker, through thote of great name, but Cleopatra represented not women but a class. Catherine of Russia and Elizabeth of Kn gland, wero separated from tho great masses of women. It is not through literature, art. or government that one gets the history of woman, but by laying the ear close to the mother heart throbbing with the mother love. It has always been true that some brave, loyal minority has existed to rise voice and strength against the oppression of tho weaker sex. but the true gauge of woman's real treatment has been theiawsof the land. The ancient laws have little to commend them in the light of laws of Christian ages. The speaker then traced the provisions of the ancient Jewish law, under which women were sold and denied divorce from their husbands, though the latter might gain a divorce from them.. The Grecian and Koman laws, she said, permitted, at times, some privileges, but subjected women, body and soul, to their husbands. The Greek concubine was given education, liberty and pleasures that were denied the wife, who was expected to stay at home. The , Persian. Buddhist and Mohammedan position of tho wife was that of other chattels, in one land only was tho woman held otherwise at any time. In Egypt the husbands in ancient tirrtes took the namesof their wive,who wetyested with property rights, could mortgagetheir1 land and make loans. Genealogy was traced through Lht mothers. This condition of things was changed in the extravagance of Egyptian superstition, and by the spread of Mohammedanism. The lecturer then showed how woman's emancipation began with a civilization born of Christ's reign in the world, but pointed out particulars in which' some relics of the old ages still appear. It is still the custom, she said, to ask the wife, when signing a deed, if she subscribes her name as a voluntary act, without coercion on the part of h-r husband. This is a 'vestge of the old English law, which forbade a husband chastising his wife with a gad larger than his kittle finger. The lecture closed with an iaealic picture of man'ftstho bread-winucr, and woman as ,tho roolder of the race. Woman's vocation is motherhood, and all is due her that will vest her with the best learning and the widest liberty. . . BOOTH'S EARLY TRIUMPHS. Ills First Great Success "Was Achieved in the Character of Armaud Duval. Boston Special to Chicago Inter Ocean. An intimate friend of Edwin Booth last night began a chance conversation about tho tragedian. "Tououing Mr. Booth's rumored retirement Iroin the stage." said his Boston friend, "the first time I ever saw Edwin he was sittiug on the prompt table in the middle of the stage of a little San Francisco theater called San Francuco Hall, which was leased and managed by his elder brother, Junius. He was swinging his feet, and was dressed in a worn-out hat, short monkey jacket, and shoes that told of something like pedestriumsm. He had coino down from Nevada via Sacramento, and was penniless, but a bright, jolly boy, and ready to turn his hand to anything that would yield him money. His brother took him to his home, and soon found for Edwin a part in a local burlesque, in which the young man mado up like, and in many ways imitated, a' local celebrity named Captain Plume. Edwin's make-up and acting carried the piece, aud it helped the thin treasury greatly. Following Plume, he was cast for all sorts of small business, and did everything well. Not long afterwards Mies Jean M. Davenport appeared at the Metropolitan Theater and made a hit as Camillu, Charles Wheatleigh, now at Daly's, being the Armand Duval. After the vacation it was decided to put Dumas' play on again, but Wbeatleigh had left San Francisco and who should be tho Armand was the question. Edwin Booth was timidly suggested by the prompter. Young and "old in theatrical circles laughed and scofted at tho idea, myself among the rest, but as a desperate resort he was cast for the part. Well, the opening night came, and by the time the enrtain fell on the fourth act, in the concise language of tho day. Miss Davenport wasn't in it; Edwin took the house bv storm, and since that day he has had many a great ovation, but probably never drank in sweeter music than greeted his ear that night. His next great hit was Kaphael. in "The Marble Heart." Mrs. CatherineN. Sinclair 3lrs. Edwin Forrest) was out there and had sent to Paris for a dress, in which to play Marco. The dress camo and cost $1,200, and this when $19 was thought a ruinous price for a leading lady's gown. Here was another triumph for Edwin. He played Kaohsel so as to set all the city talking, and raised the fortunes of the theater. I saw Edwin make his first appearance as Hamlet, and well remember his studying the part on the porch of a house in Sacramento. During his California experience ho played every kind of part, and his brother Junius told me that Edwin would probably be an excellent light comedian, but had better turn his back on tragedy. His father wanted him to learn thoroughly to play on the violin, thinking that he would never be a good actor, but might make for himself a leading position in some theatrical orchestra. Well, time has rolled on, and you see what their judgments have come to." Three Years Expenses for a Quarter. Front Royal Gazette, Austin Daily, a rich farmer, residing near Humboldt. Tenn.. asserts that he only spent 25 cents in three years, when he began to get a "start'' in tho world, and that 15 cents of that was spent for a pocketcomb. Mr. Baily is now estimated to be worth at least 8100.000. Spring stirs up the bile. You lose your appetite, feel weak, too hot, and oh! so tired. Take fclnimous Liver Regulator.

-. AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. The Proposed C & E. I. Extension. The Jefferson ville News of Saturday, in commenting on an item to the effect that the Chicago fc Eastern Illinois had abandoned the idea of building from Terro Haute to Louisville, crossing the river at Jeffersonville, says; "A camp of seventeen men is located at Black Diamond, seven miles out, and they are prosecuting the survey. Chief Engineer Baldwin, of Chicago, was at the camp yesterday and instructed the engineer in charge, Mr. McMichael, to return immediately upon completing the preliminary survey and locate the road. -The survey has cost a great deal of money and has been much more thorough than is usual with preliminary surveys. The cost of removing timber alone, has cost a neat sum. It does not look at all as if the project had been abandoned. The route as surveyed from Terre Haute to this city would be forty miles shorter than any other, over easy grades, and is needed by the road seeking the outlet. Besides, it would tap the valuable cement trade, now practically monopolized by the J., M. & I., and pass through a country now practically without railroads, including the great fruit regions in Clark and Washington counties." Personal, Local and General Notes. J. A. Bowman has been appointed agent of the Chicago & Erie road at Tocsin, Ind., Yice C. Blue resigned. John Newell, president of the Lake Shore road, has gone to Hot Springs to rid himself of rheumatic tendencies. H. Spiers yesterday took the position of General yardmaster of the Big Four at Columbus, O.. vice J. Brophy, resigned. ' There are now nineteen divisions of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in this State, with a membership of 1,802. The Indiana Car-service Association and the Superintendents' Association will hold their regular meetings on Wednesday next. Frank Bruce, master mechanic of the Kansas Citv division of the Union Pacific, has resigned, and is succeeded by F. Merstheiiner. . . The Columbus, Shawaee & Hocking road has placed a contract with the Terre Haute car-works for 350 cars, to be delivered in May. George Bradbury, general manager of the Lake Erie & Western system, who has been South for five weeks on a pleasure trip, returned on Saturday. M. D. Woodford, president of the Cincinnatti, Hamilton fc Dayton, who has been in the East for several weeks, returned to Cincinnati, yesterday. In the three months ending March SI the Columbus fc Hocking Valley road earned S5S3.511, against 8531,541 in the corresponding three months of 1801. Jay Gould and party passed through the city, last night, en route west, coming west over tho Chesapeake & Ohio and going to St. Louis over the Big Four lines. The first week which the Toledo, Columbus & Cincinnati road established trafiio arrangements 'with the Big Four its earnings increased Sl.557 over those of the corresponding week of 1890. Michael Burk, formerly a conductor on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, has been appointed trainmaster to succeed Mr. Bowman, who becomes assistant superintendent to Mr. Conners. , The sudden death of John A. Grier, Western agent of the West Shore line at Chicago, on Saturday night, caused much regret in Indianapolis freight circles. He was well known here and highly esteemed. Gorge Lickert, general yardmaster of the Vandalia at Terre Haute, returned yesterday from Hot Springs, where he went several weeks ago for the benefit of his health, which has much improved as a result. Eastern papers say that both the Lake Erie & Western and the Big Four people are figuring to secure control of the Pittsburg, Akron & Western road; meantime the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City has made traffic arrangements to work with it. ' L. D. Richardson, formerly commissioner 6f the Indianapolis pool, now superintendent of the Hot Springs (Ark.) road, receives from the estate of "Diamond Joe" Reynolds $50,030, which will bo a good thing for the recipient, as he is 60 advanced in years that he must soon retire from railroadiug. It is claimed that the Kansas City market is free from scalped tickets for the first time in many years. A representative of the Western Passenger Association on Friday tested the otlices, and could find but one road which was shading rates the Toledo, St. Louis &, Kansas City, which was cutting the rate 50 cents to $1 on New York tickets. I. II. Burgoon, general manager of the Terre Haute & Peoria road, has issued the following notices, to take effect to-day: J. C. MilUpaugh is appointed traveling auditor; J. L. Wilser, agent at Kenney, vice L. Y. Buckler, transferred; L. Y. Buckler, agent at Kedmon, vice F. L.Sully, transferred: F. L. Sully, agent at Morton, vice W. T. Sterne, resigned. On Easter day Jay Gould sent a check for $10,000 to the general manager of the Missouri Pacific and the Union Pacific

railroads, S. H. II. Clark. Mr. Clark certainly deserves such recognition, as be has accomplished much in the last few months in straightening out Union Pacific atlairs, as well as keeping matters moving smoothly on tho Missouri Pacific. The Chicago Journal of Saturday evening says: "It was learned to-day that in all probability Dr. Breyfogio, as vice-president, will continue at the head of the Mouon management. His actual control of f the road has uot been taken from him, and 'there is oyery reason to believe, said a gentleman well acquainted with inside matters over thcro, that he will again bo its president.1" The Whitewater division of the Big Four is to hereafter receive more attention, the increase in business the last few months justifying such action. Last week General Superintendent Peck went over the road in company with Division Superintendent Sutton, and next week Traffic Manager Murray and Assistant General Freight Agent White will spend a day on the lino looking after business wheh may be developed. President Ingalls has conceived the idea that the mechanical department of the Big Four is run on too expensive a scale, and as a result Assistant General Manager Barnard is cutting down exoenses wheroever practicable. At the shops in Mattoon sixty men were laid off. last week, and reductions are to bo made in the shops at Cleveland and other points, except Indianapolis. At present the Brigbtwood shops hero are crowded with work. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton people have been asked to put on a fast morning train for Cincinnati, in place of the 3 p.m. fast train, and General Passenger Agent McCormick would favor it did he not fear that the business men of Indianapolis would fee! that it was done to influence business from Indianapolis to Cincinnati. In running their trains it is the intention that neither Cincinnati nor Indianapolis shall have any grounds for complaint on such score. Freight men are asking the question why is it, if the special commissioner of the Interstate-commerce Commission has evidence sufficient to enable the United States grand jury to find indictments against A. M. Stim eon & Son, agents of the Big Four, for violating the interstate commerce act, the same evidence does not lead to the indictment of the shipper who was benefited by the alleged discrimination, the law holding the shipper as liable to punishment as the agent giving the rate. The committee of trainmen of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road, who went to Chicago on Monday last for a conference with General Manager Black, have returned. They express themselves as greatly pleased with the manner they were treated, and the prompt adjustment of all grievances. Like other railways, when pinched for money the Monon has been a little tardy about paying its men, managing, however, to pay before the month expired. As matters now stand the men will hereafter be paid more promptly. The northern division of the Vandalia will soon be made a more important line. The Lackawanna, the Nickel-plate and the Vandalia are doing considerable through business, the Niekel-plate connecting with the Vandalia at Hibbard. bugar shipped over this line last week was landed in Terre Haute in a little less than four days from the time it left New York, and as a Chicago, line the T., H. &. L. has great possibilities, there being seven roads whuh would gladly make a traffic alliance with it to establish a Chicago line. The passenger department is seriously considering the putting on of a

fast train to St. Joseph, to run in connection with one of the Chicago boats, which

in the summer would certainly be an at tractive route. May 1 has now been fixed uporby Gen eral Manager Ramsey, of the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan, for the opening of the new line between Benton Harbor andLouisville. The folly of half constructing railroads is shown in the trouble wnicn nas been experienced on the extension from Anderson to Rushville, and on the Evansville, eymour& Richmond road, inose in position to know sav that it has cost more to repair these roads after tho heavy rains of a few months past than it would have cost to properly build the roads in the begin ning. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers held their regular monthly meeting yesterday, but had no business of impor tance to attend to out of the ordinary routine. One who was in attendance said that he had not in years known the Brotherhood, so far as Indiana roads are concerned, so much at ease as at present. The conserva tive manner in which theynave neen treated by railwav officials when Questions as regards wages, etc, came up has strength ened the friendship between tho men ana the officers, and they feel now that any questions which may arise will be adjusted wunout friction. THE COURT RECORD. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. 16006. Alvin P. Hovey, Governor, vs. State ex. reL Wm. A. Shuck. Marion C. C. Reversed. CoQey. J. At the November election, in 18U0, tho relator received the higest number of votes for the office of auditor of Jennings county, which fact was duly certified to the Secretary of State. Prior to the time the relator called for his commission, the treasurer of Jennings county tiled with the Governor an affidavit to the effect that the relator, prior to his election, had been the treasurer of said county and had failed to account for a large amount of the funds which had come into his hands as such treasurer. Subsequently his opponent appeared and claimed that he was elected to the office for which the relator demands a commission upon the ground that the relator was ineligible to the office, which fact was known to the electors of eaid county at the time of the eleetion, and that he received the next highest number of votes. Under these facts the Governor decided not to issue any commission. Mandamus proceeding to compel the Governor to issue a commission. Held That the courts have no power to control the Governor in matters of this kind, and his conclusion in such a matter is final. 14772. Mary A. Neily et al. vs. James Boyce et ah Delaware C. C. Affirmed. Olds, C. J. Will: "I give and devise to my wife as follows (describing the real estate), for and during the term of her natural life. I give to her all my real estate, and 1 devise and direct that she shall conduct the farm operations in the 6amo manner as I should do were I living, with the view of keeping our children at home so long as they may be under twenty-one years of age; and I give to her 11 the interest on my money and all other annual profits of my estate, for her maintenance and to support our family so Jong as 6he should live;" providing, further, upon the death of his wife all the estate be divided equally among the children. The executors were empowered, when necessary to pay debts or expenses, or any sura provided by will, to sell real estate without order of court. Held, that the will vested in the widow a life estate and the fee in tho children, subject to being divested only in case a salo became necessary to pay debts, etc, as provided for. ll'JGS. JohnNewlon vs. William J. Tyner. Clinton 0. C. Affirmed. Olds, C. J. When a party permits the examination or cross-examination of a number of witnesses, eliciting from each of them certain evidence of the same character without objection, and cross-examines or re-examines such witnesses as to such matter, he cannot wait until after such examination has concluded and all of that character of evidence has been elicited and then present a motion to strike it out, and avail himself of an erroneous ruling on the motion to reverse the cause. If he desires to present a question as to the competency he must do so while the evidence is being introduced. If he does not he waives any objection to it. unless it be in a case where its competency or incompetency depends upon some fact developed subsequently to the introduction of such evidence. 14GS5. William H. Wiley, Trustee, ys. John N. Coovert. Grant C. C. Affirmed. Elliott, J. An appellant has a right to avail himself of all material errors that affect him, but he cannot avail himself of errors affecting another party. 14609. Francis M. Apple vs. Board of Commissioners. Marion C4 C. Reversed. McBride. J. When in an action against a board of county commissioners for injuries sustained by " the breaking down of a bridge, the court instructed the jury that if the plaintiff was acquainted with the bridge, he is chargeable with knowledge of the tendency of the timbers to decay, incident to ago and long use held error. He had a right to assume that the commission ers had done their duty; that all dangerous and decayed timber had been removed and sound limbers substituted, and the bridge kept in a eafe condition for use. APPELLATE COURT DECISIONS. 7. L., N. A. fc C. Railway Company vs. Redick M. Wylie. Lawrence C. C. Af firmed. Black, C. J. When an issue ol fact was formed which was submitted to the court for trial.and the court reduced its special findings to writing and submitted tnem to?oounsei on 00m siues to examine, and before the court announced his finding, except as indicated by said un signed finding of facts, the plaintiff, by his attorney, asked the court to dismiss, and over objection tho court entered of record its order and judgment that, "pending the consideration of the evidence and the making of a special finding, by the court, the plaintiff dismisses this cause by leave of court witnout prejudice to nis ngm 01 action herein, to which dismissal the defendant excepts." etc Held: That tho judg ment was not an adjudication upon the merits of the cause and did not conclude the plaintiff from further pursuit of a rem edv upon his cause of aotion. 21. James W. Topp, Administrator, ys. James Woodward. Auditor. Harrison C. C. Affirmed. Robinson, J. Under the statute it is the duty of the county auditor, on the relation of the State, to prosecute on notes executed by a mortgasreor for the use of a congressional township, when the mortgaged premises fail to sell for a sum sufficient to satisfy the principal and interest of the loan. The Board of Commissioners properly paid the deficiency to the State, and the fact that tho auditor failed to bring suit against the mortgageor until after such payment would not atlect the right to recover. S6. Aaron DeWeese vs. William Smiley. Decatur C. C. Affirmed in part, reversed in part. Kemhard, J. A party plaintiff. ordinarily, when he has concluded the ex amination of a witness upon his original case, is not compelled to discharge such wit ness until the evidence on both sides has been closed." Especially is this true where there are affirmative answers in support of which the defendant proceeds to offer proof, and which may reouire testimony in rebuttal. Before the court would be authorized in such a case to order the taxation of costs to the plaintiff for keeping such witnesses longer than the first day. provided the evidence was not concluded on that day. it must be made to appear by the de fendant asking such order that there ex ists some special reason why this should be done. 48. Clement W. Robertson vs. John W. Cooper et al. Dearborn C. C. Affirmed. Crumpacker, J. -Where a note, not nego tiable under the law merchant, is given for the right to sell a patented article, but there is no compliance with the stat ute (Sections G054-55). concerning patent rights, it is not enforcible in the hands of an innocent purchaser, xnis stature con trols, although the right sold was to be ex ercised and enjoyed in another State. 70. Henry D. Sprinkle vs. Enos T. Taylor. Huntington C. C. Affirmed. New, J. Where a special verdict is requested. the instructions of tho court are very lim ited, but the court would have the right to instruct the jury as to the nature of the action and the issues, as also respecting the form of their verdict and their general duty in relation thereto. General instructions as to the law, however, are unnecessary. - 54. Samuel Warbutton vs. Francis M. Demorsett ot ah Montgomery C. C. Opinion ordering caso transferred to Supreme Court. Crumpacker, J. The sole question in issue and determined below was the ownership of land, and this court has no jurisdiction. Why, Indeed. Lowell Courier. Tennyson has declined to write a poem for the world's fair. Why go out of Chicago for a poet when so many of the people there have gained riches by their pens?

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