Indianapolis Leader, Volume 1, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1879 — Page 2

THE MDMtfOUS iE 'DIR. BAGBY & CO., Publishers. INDIANAPOLIS, - - INDIANA.

TO RUBSCKIBEIIS. If you fail to receive j our paper, notify this of lice at once. RESUME OF THE WEEK'S NEWS. All the Teruyian, Suth American, ports are blockaded. A three hoars' snow storm was reported from Georgia on Friday. Reed fc Sod, one of the heaviest music houses in the countrv, failed in Chicago last week. The treasury department purchased 282,000 ounces of silver bullion for delivery at the mints on Saturday. Five prisoners, two white, were whipped at Newcastle Dei., Saturday, each receiving 20 lashes. AU were convicted of larceny. A game dinner was served to 700 guests of the Pacific HotsI, Chicago, on Saturday. One hundred and twenty different kinds of game were on the table. Albert Bryan, a lad 1G years of age, was stabbed mortally at Geneva, Adams county, Ind., on Saturday night, by Fred Stanley, who was drank at tho time. A London dispatch states that the widow of Charles Diekens died at her residence, Gloucester Crescent. Regent Park, Saturday morning, after an illness of IS months. Two farmers near Lindate, Mo., Crocket and Nicholas, engaged in a quarrel, on Friday. A fight ensued, in which Nicholas was cut 13 times with a pocket knife and killed at once. His throat was cut from ear to ear, and his tongue dropped out. Crocket was cut 18 times with a dirk knife, and lived five hoars. Terrible storms are reported from Lakes Michigan and Erie, and a great destruction of vessels as the result. Thursday last seemed to be a particularly unfortunate day. - Gold continues to pour into this country from Europe. The steamer Geliert was mong the life arrivals with $800.000 from France, and the Algeria from England with over $1,000,000. Charles G. Bosse, bookkeeper of the Wisconsin Fire and Marine Insurance company at Milwaukee, has been arrested for tmbezzling the funds of the company. The amount is variously estimated from $100,000 to $250,000. The Army of the Cumberland held a reunion In Washington City last week. lion. Stanley Matthews, of Cincinnati, made the address; a handsome statue of General Thomas wad unveihd, and Mr. Hayes and his wife gav a brilliant reception at the White House. The king of Spain will be married on Saturday next, the 29th cf November, to Marie Christine, of Austria. The court festivities will be on a splendid scale, Including a reception, processions, gila performances at public places of amusement, banquets, bull fights and national dances. The people of Henry county, Ind., held a large and enthusiastic railroad meeting last ween on the proposition t run a road from Newcastle to liushville, there to connect with a road to North Vernon under contract already. Tnis, when completed, will be a straight line road from Louisville, Ky., to the lakes. The meeting was large and enthusiastic. Many of the Southern States are pensioning the severely maimed Confederate sol diers, the pension allowances of Georgia being the most liberal. The last Legislature passed an act which will take $200,000 annually from the State trt: rary for some years. Each ex-Confederate soldier who lost a leg is given $80 annually, and $G0 each for lost arms. The Mississippi Paver commission finished up their business at St. Louis on Saturday, and left on the Unit3d Statts steamer General Barnard for New prleans. They will make an inspection of the river en route, and that their observations may be as complete as possible, they will only travel during night, lying up at the bank wherever daylight overtakes them. Colonel NortOD, United States marshal for the Northern district of Texas, accompanied by two deputies, was in Dodge City, Kan., Saturday night, on his way home from the Pan-Handle, of Texas, where he arrested all vae county officers of Wheeler county and 10 other parties, principally ranchmen, all growing out of internal revenue violations. Considerable excitement prevails among the ranchmen south of Dodge City and among cattle men who have sold tobacco to their hands. GENERAL NOTES. Texas would make 35 States the size of Massachusetts. Six hundred Venetians have reached Genoa on tnelr way to the United States. Oxjs hundred and fifty-two car loads of pig metal ore were received In Pittsburg in one day. Osk of onr local coal firms Interested In Clay county mines, recently sold 500 car loads or block coal to Chicago. EMb. Moody and Mr. Sankey Intend to maintain revival work in St. Louts all winter. They will open tneir meetings there in about two weeks. CoMFTBOixxRKjrox.of the treasury department, so It Is said, will In his coming report, dvlsea the complete withdrawal and destruction of the greenbacks. A mcreask of 20,000 cows is reported in Ireland this year as compared with last. Railroad books show a large falling off in the amount of butter shipped. Cattxk In considerable numbers are being AiDDed from Minnesota to Iowa, to be latted uDonthe big corn crop. In Illinois feeders are picking up eligible lots for the same purpose. The manufacture of the little round Dutch cheese made from sweet milk, so popular in the retail trade in eitles, weighing from three and one-bAlf to four pounds each, is being undertaken in Illinois. tw car has a nice little income-a trifle of t9??00aday. The sultan gets I18.C00 a day, the Imoeror of Austria 110,000, the emperor of GerSSr king of Italy IM and the king of the Belgians 11,. ABU1CHKB in York county, Pennsylvania Whlle cutting rounds Irom a slaughtered steer 3.ntlv found in the beef a gold dollar, datea fSs BV the appearance of the space in which nwaa inclosed it must have been there for some time. a rtai amount of salary is safe against to a married man In Florida. In orSl uke ivantage of this law, a St. John's ?w iSSnboa captain hastily married a woman to whom he had previously been a perfect stranger. r trngrortlnz a bushel of wheat rJmCnfcaloi uvKpool or Glasgow varies 'Tmtle from 20 cents; and 100 pounds of Soi put into the cars at Chicago and landed . ?he doc of Liverpool costs 47 cent for freight charges. Thckk are In Worcester, Mass., 1,200 women hooTn property assessed at $1,500,000. yet ontotZl the women in the city only 100 have " registered ao aa to be able to vote at the school elections. , aw intelligent reHdent of Havana Rays that rnba jj f" xaveyard of Spain, and a more be 'flgnamjtbMPearlof the Antillen. In ?necfmeter near the capital 89,336 intermeuta have been made within 10 years, and In neighboring burial groaud ovtr 10,000.

DCRrNG the week ending last Friday there arrived at New York 212 vesseN, including 36 steamers, 25 ships, 118 barks, 3 brigs and 32 schooner. This is the greatest number that ever arrived in New York In any one week. In one day aione arrivals amounted to JH vessels. Various statistics from every leading branch of industry shows a great improvement in the affairs of the couutry, and the. e reassuring omens promise to be permanent There is

every prospect mat worisiuijmeu wm uuu experience much better timjs than they en joyed for years. In a conversation with several of our lead ing grocers recently, we git her the Information that Indianapolis wholesale dealers are selling from four to lour and a half millions of groceries annually. This Is rather a favorable report, we should think. This Includes only the tobaccos and cigars which they Incidentally sell without any special effort. The large sales of exclusively wholesale tobacco dealers are not included in this estimate. TnE following are shipments of live stock and tresh meats from New Y'ork to Europe last Saturday : By the Fracce, for London, 240 head of cattle ; by the Anrhorla, lor Glasgow, 2,177 quarters of beef and 505 carcasses of mat ton; by the Victoria, for London, 60 head of cattle: by the City of Berlin, for Liverpool, 100 ton of beef. Dürisu the last month the most encouraging reports have been received from all parts, showing great activity aud largely increased exports. In Han Francisco during October these amounted to nearly 4,000,000 in the article of wheat alone. In many years this has not been equaled. From Savannah there was shipped to Liverpool one week ago the largest oargo of cotton ever shipped to that port, con slstlng of 6,500 bales. In Augusta, In the same mate, t here was an lucre ase in the price of cot ton over the corresponding period of last year of over 100,01)0, chiefly Irom hotter prices. Of Charles F. Browne (Artemus Ward) the Voice, of Cleveland, says that ouce at Vlncennes, Ind , where he had been lecturing, "he was grossly insulted by a very consequential depot baggage master. This fellow, out of a desire toshow hUauthurlty.had ued hlrn vry roughly on some trifling pretext. Browne med lUted revenge, and walked up and down the platform of the depot for fully 15 minutes In deep study. Suddenly a basket of eggs attracthlsatveutlon.aud he bought about a dozen of thm. He put three or four in his own pockets, and gava as many to two friends who wero with him. Thon he took them into the bHg?nge car and awnlted hU opportunity. In a few moments the train brgau to move, aud Immediately Browue and his friends made a target of that iiiun, the first egg hlttlmc him ou the nose, and the others decoratlug him at rregular intervals, o je of t he persons who saw tho occurrence says that the look on the baggage master's face as the shower of eggs came . . i t r - i nnon nun 11 inuescrioaoie. itrowne was in bi.s happiest mood trip, aud appeared revenge." for the remainder of the entirely Rationed with hin Sunlight and ;ht, Piiys the Health. Manufacturer Sunli; and iJuikler. is even mre neetwarv to health in summer than in winter; for one, among other readout, that disinfectants of all sorts are more necessary in summer than in winter. The rays of heat quicken tho vital powers, the chemical rays exert their mysterious and potent influence, and the illuminating rays, independently of the others, communicate motion. The exhalations from our belies in warm v eather are more copious than they are in cold weather, and if we shut out the" light from our houses we remove the most elHcient of all agents in destroying what is wholesome. The noxious vapors, which free admission of air and light would remove, are absorbed by carpets and upholstery, and are productive of disease. Those who are accustomed to the darkness and dampness of close rooms may not consciously sutfer therfrom but that they sustain real injury is evident the in pallid faces, their flaccid muscles, and nerveless movements. The contrast between thorn and those whose lives are passed in open air is too evident to need comment. It may not bo necessary to expose during the day every room in the house to the direct rays of the sun, but there should be frequent opening of doors and windows, so that the solar rays may perforin their beneflcient office. Bed-rooms and other rooms in constant use should receive most careful attention in thU respect; sick rooms especially require thorough sunning and ventilation, and, if possible, should always have a Southern aspect. More patient die on the north side of hospitals than on the south side; there are more deaths on the shady side of any street than on the sunny side. A notable Southern house-keeper, observing strictly the following rule during the summer months, kept her house perfectly sweet, cool, and dry from May to October: Until 10 o'eloek in the morning all the doors and windows were opened wide; then they were closed until 4 in the afternoon, and then opened again at nightfall. This rule might not do for all localities, but such a ue of it as should secure a free access of light and air to every part of the house at least once a iy would" be productive of good results. The Window Garden. It is a mistaken idea that tender plants alone are suitable for the sitting room or conservatory. Many persons who can not afford such plants as geraniums, callas, camolias and begonias, think they must go without flowers or plants all winter; but their gardens might easily supply flowers for winwinter as well as summer, without extra expense and with much less care than is given to ordinary greenhouse and conservatory plants. Most of our hardy shrubs force very easily, and this forcing is not such a mighty matteras many suppose. Late in the fall, or any time after the leaves drop and before the ground freezes, take up parts of such shrubs" as you wish to force. They will grow all the better next spring for the division. Select carefully those which have blossom-buds set. These can easily be determined by their round, full shape. Dig them out with a tuft of roots and bal of earth set them away in a cool, dry cellar. They require no care except to see that they are kept in the dark and not too dry. They may be potted when first taken up, if it is desired, and set away in the cellar; but it is just as well not to pot them until you wish them to bloom any time from Thanksgiving to New Year's. They need little care in potting; but when brought up to the heat and light of the conservatory or sitting room they must be well supplied with water. Handsome Mantel Lambrequin. Materials required: Olive green felt for the curtain; one-half dozen skeins of black filling floss, one hank each of blue crewel worsted in two shades ;four skeins cream colored floss; one-half dozen skeins old gold split silk. Cut from stiff card-board a pretty scallop, alout five inches from top to bottom place this upon the felt and mark around it with lead pencil; continue this entirely around the curtain and you will have the outline of a pretty pattern. Inside these scallops make a net work of the black floss, tacked down with old gold split silk; around the outstde of these scallops tack down two shades of blue crewels with old gold silk (the crewels to Ikj about five strands eachl. After you will have done this you will have a straight line running directly across at the top of your pattern which will show where the black floss has stopped, and which will need hiding. Cover this with a row of creamcolored floss (four strands), tacked down with gold silk. About an inch above this put another straight line, running parallel with this, made in precisely the same manner. Between these two lines work herring-bone stitch in old gold. I may not be explicit enough with this, but I am positive of one thing, viz: If by chance you can understand it and make a lambrequin after this pattern, you will be delighted with it. If the felt be pure olive green and the blue a peacock blue the effect will 1; lautiful when finished.

AN OUTCAST'S FUNERAL.

Touching Scenes That Attended the Burial o a Ruined AVoman Liberality of her Frail Companions. Cleveland Herald. J Not long since, in a certain house on Cross street, a young and beautiiul girl lay dying. For days she had tossed in feverish delirium upon her sick bed, without a friendly hand to soothe her throbbing head or wet her parched lips with a drop of water. A few weeks before she had moved into the house an entire stranger. Several persons were seen and heard to enter her room when she firfct became an inmate of the house, but the people that saw them knew them not, and cared so little that they made no endeavor to become acquainted. After awhile the visits ceased and the girl was seldom seen. Occasionally she would go out with a basket, and return a short time afterward with a few vegetables. The balance ot the residents of the building seldom or never thought of the strange girl that always appeared so sad and friendless. One morning as a woman was passing the door of the girl's room she thought she heard a groan, but paid little attention to it, as she was used to such things. Later in the day, as she was again going through the kali ho heard a faint moan and, stopping at the door, looked in. There lay the girl burning and raving with fever. All that poor ane laboring people could do was done lor the sufferer, but it was without avail, for a few days afterward the "king of terrors laid his rude hands upon her lovely form, and blasted her beauty with his icy breath." No friend was near, nor did she leave behind her any trace that she ever had any one that was near or dear to her. The people in the building were too poor to pay for her burial, and so oneofthemtoldapolicemanoftheca.se, and , . .i.L. . .At he iniormed the authorities The earno day an undertaker with a pine collin proceeded to the house to prepare tho dead for her last resting place. It so happened that he was a kind hearted man, and when he saw the saa hut Deauuiui iaceoi ine dr ad girl he could not place her in a pauper's grave until ho had satisfied hitmelf that ho hud reallv no friends. So he began to search and before long ascertained tho dead girl's history, and beside found women that had known her before she had became a resident of the place wherein she died. Ho learned that eho was one of tho many women that had fallen. She was tho promised wife of a mnn whom she loved better than her own life, and in a moment of weakness was crushed by the one whom she worshipped. Time passed on, and tho girl entered on a life of sin and wretchedness. Little by little she sank lower und lower, until finally, bocoming almost driven to frenzy, she forsook her companions and took up her abode in the room where sheuieu. Upon learning tho fate of their old friend, the women, hardened by sin and neglect, proceeded to tho bedside of the deceased and did all they could toward preparing her for the tomb The pine coffin was ordered sent back, and a handsome casket took its place, lleautiful flowers of pure white were wreath(Kl in the tresses of the dead, while a handsome wreath was placed upon the casket. These women, shunned bv the world, dospiscd and denounced, "freely spent their monev in giving one of their own class a good burial. The day of the funeral came. I ho hail ana room oi me ueau g ri wore crowded with genuine mourners. The undertaker and hackmen arrived, and were tho only men present. The hour approached for the funeral procession to take up its solsolemn march toward the city of the dead, when the undertaker noted that thero was not a person present to conduct the burial service, lioing up to one oi me women pre sent he inquired whether the girl was to be buried without the aid of a minister, or even tu... ,a v,,i, a prayer. The women said they had thought ofthat, but they knew no one near at nand who would attend euch a funeral and offer up a prayer for a woman of that character. The neighborhood was searched for a minister, but none could be found, and the burial was to take place without even a prayer being oflcred for the soul ot the poor dead girl. Tse women were appealed to by the undertaker to say a few words, but none of them had prayed since they were children, and considered it a mockery and a sin for such as they to attempt it. Finally an old colored woman was called in, who said she would offer up a prayer to the throne in Heaven for the dead. She knelt down, and the courtezans followed. The aged colored woman began, and solemnly proceeded to ask God to deal gently and to judge mercifully. As she prayed for the souls of the living, and asked God to forgive the company for the lives they had lived and to make them better women, not a dry eye was to be seen among all in the assemblage, some of whom had not wept before since the time that they knelt at their mother's knee. After the prayer a solemn line was formed and the body taken to its last resting place. There the colored woman offered another prayer, and as the clods fell into tho open grave, giving a dull sound as they struck the rough box, the scene that ensued was indeed touching. The events of that day will undoubtedly exert a good influence among even those outcasts. He Would Write to Their Parent. Richmond Herald. Colonel X., of John Morgan's cavalry, was not a martinet; but, bearded like the bard, had a military air. Discipline was his hobby. The soldiers of his regiment were young men from 18 to 25 years old all of them blueblooded. To restrain these hotspurs required tact, skill and firmness. It was no easy task to curb this jeunesse doree. But the colonel did it, and this is the way he did it: An inspection having been ordered, the brigadier and his staff visited the colonel's camp for the purpose of conducting it. While the regiment was in line undergoing inspection, two privates, who had been ranging the night before in search of buttermilk, and had endeavored to sneak into camp unobserved, were detected by the outpost sentinels and brought under arrest to Colonel X. at the head of his regiment. The colonel, cocking his hat on three grains, sternly ordered them to his tent to await his coming after inspection, remarking to General D. that he would make an example of these rovers. Arrived at the tent with the general and staff, after ranks were broken, the coloDel arraiged the culprits before him. "Young gentlemen," said he, severely, "you are aware that you have been guilty of a serious offense against the discipline of my camp?" 'Yes, colonel," was the meek reply. "Well, sirs," thundered the Rhadamanthus, "I desire you distinctly to understand that if this offence i3 repeated I will write to your parents about it. Go to your company.' Turning to the surprised officers looking on, he said: "You see how evere I must be with these young fellows. Discipline must le preserved." Beautiful Tribute to Our Country's Defenders. Below wo present one of the grandest speeches ever made tho speech of Colonel Itobert G. Ingcrsoll, delivered at tho banquet to Gen. Grant, in Chicago. In answer to the toast "Tho Volunteer Soldiers of tho Union Army, whoso valor and patriotism gave to tho world a government of tho people, by the people, for the people," ho said as follows: "When the savagery of the lash, tha barbarism of tho chain, and insanity of secession confronted tho civilization of our country, the question, Will the great republic defend itself? trem-

PETITION TO

To the Hon. J. D. Williams, Governor of Indiana :

Sm We. vour petitioners, represent that William Nelson, a citizen of the State ot paring to hold a concert during 1 J 1 71 It promises to be a success, if t

Indiana, of the county of Vigo, of o VWrn nntv urt.

UVVl Vl V Ö v ' j CJ respectfully represent to your excellency that the law under which

is a relic of pro-slavery legislation, dictated by Southern slaveholders, previous to the late war; that the said law is in conflict with the amended constitution and laws of our country,

and entirely at variance with the genius of our free institutions. , s . . .... -, , ... tTT.ii.- a- i. .

ask you to exercise your prerogauve Dy releasing vviinam j.eisuu uum ciiiicuuuij axi

restoring to him his liberty, of pray. tvm:e. bled on the lips of every lover of mankind. "The North, filled with intelligence and wealth children of liberty marshaled her hosts anj asked only for a leader. From civil life a man, silent, thoughtful, poised and calm, Stepped forth, and with the lips of . i i .1. . : '.. J3.... .1 victory, voiced the nation h nrst anu last command : Unconditional and immediate surrender. From that moment tho end was known. That utteranco was tho first real declaration of real war, and, in accordance with t,0 dramatic Ullities of mighty CVetltS the great soldier who made it received the final sword of tho rebellion. The soldiers of tho republic wore not seeking alter vulgar glory. Thev wero not animated bv tho bono of plunder or tho lovo ot conquest. They fought to preserve tho blessings of liberty and that their children might have peace. They wero tho defeiidorn of humanity, tho destroyers of prejudice, tho breakers of chains, and in tho name of the future they slew tho monsters of their time. They finished what the soldiers of tho Rev 0uti0n commenced. They relighted . , .... f, nllfrn,t , v , , V.ii . . 7 T. hands and failed tho world again with light. They blotted from tho statute books laws that had been passed by bypocrites at the instigation of robberS, and toro with indignant bands fc f . from tho constitution that infamous clauso that made men catchers of their fellow-men. They made it possible for m(rCn to bo just, for Statesmen to bo UulailCi and for politicians to bo i honest. 'I hey broke the shackles from the limbs of slaves, from the souls of masters, and from tho northcrn brain. Thev kept our country !?.. fl., Uli l-IH UU VI HIV VI 114, UUU UUI uu, in heaven. ("Great applauso.l They rolled the stone irom the sepulchre of progress, and lound there two an- , P , ,. . . gcis ciau in Binning garmenis - na - uonauiy anu nueny. xno bouiicis were ,the saviors of the nation ; mm. a F11 I 1 t( tliey were tne noeraiors oi men. In writing thö proclamation of emancipation, Lincoln, great est of our mighty dead, whoso memory is as gentle as the summer air when reapers sing amid the gathering sheaves, copied with the pen what Grant and his bravo omrades wrote with swords. Grander than the Greek, nobler than the Boman, tho soldiers of the republic, with patriotism asshoreless as the air, battled for the rights of others, for the nobility of labor, fought that mothers might own their babes, that arrogant idleness should not scar the back of patient toil, and that their own country should not be a manyheaded monster made of warring states, but a Nation, sovereign, great and free. Blood was water, money was leaves, and life was only common air until one flag floated over a country without a master or without a slave. Applause. Then was asked a question; 'Will a free people tax themselves to pay the national debt?' The soldiers went home to their waiting wives, to their glad children, and to the girls they loved they went back to tho fields, the shops and Uli nun. xiiuy uuu iiuii uccii uuuuiaiized. They had been ennobled. The' were as honest in peace as they had been brave in war. Mocking at poverty, laughing at reverses, they made a triend of toil. They said: 'We saved the nation's life, and what is life without honor?' They worked and wrought, with all of labor's sons, that every pledge tho nation gave should be redeemed. And their leader, having put a shining hand of friendship a girdle of clasped and happy hands around the globe, comes home and finds that every promise made in war has now tho ring and gleam of gold. There is another question still: 'Will all the wounds of tho war be healed? I anm t ct .1 . 1 8Wer yes. xne öoutnern peopie must submit, not to the dictation of the North, but to tho Nation's will, and to the virdict of mankind. They were wrong, and the time will come when they will say that they are victors, who have been vanquished by the right. Freedom conquered them, and freedom will cultivate their fields, educate their children, weave for them the robes of wealth, execute their laws, and fill their land with happy homes. The soldiers of the Union taxed the South as well as the North. They mado us a Nation. Their victory made us free and rendered tyranny in every other land as insecure as snow upon volcano lips. And now let us drink to the volunteers, to those who sleep in unknown, sunken graves, whose names are only in tho hearts of those they loved and left of those who only hear in liappy dreams tho footsteps of return. Let us drink to those who died where lipless famine mocked at want to all the maimed whose scars give modesty a tongue to all who dared, and gave to chance tho care and keeping of their lives to all tho living and to all the dead to Sherman, to Sheri-

THE GOVERNOR OF

is now confined in the Prison South, at Jeftersonville, by the

for the alleged crime of marrvinc: a white woman. We

which he is unjustly deprived, dan, and to Grant, the foremost sol-j dicr of the world, and Jast to Lincoln, whoso loving life, like a bow of peace, spans and arches all the clouds of war. Letter from Columbus, Ohio Ed. Indianapolis Leader. While St. Louis, Washington, D. C, and especially Indianapolis, can boast of their very able newspapers edited for colored men, Columbus, tho JJuckeyo capital, will not bo behind long in that particular, for already arrange ments aro being mado to bring out a sixtoen-pago monthly, edited by Mr. E.J. Waring, now principal of our colored schools hero. Mr. Waring purposes on bringing out his fust issuo in January next, and seems hopeful of a bounteous future for his pa per. Those personally acquainted with Mr. Waring and of tho energy ho possesses, aro quito sure of his success. Ho is a young man of marked intellect, and of unquestionable character, and should havo tho liberal patronage of the colored folks, both here and abroad. Colored nowspapcr men snouiu nein Mr. aring in ma mian cy by speaking a favorablo word of him and his paper in their papers. Tho very ablo editorial on colored soldiers' reunion of tho United States in last week's issue of Tho Leader, must bo complimented, and should bo duly considered by all colored exsoldiers and citizens. At a meeting of colored militia of the United States, at Chicago, in August last, a convention was called which convened for one day, at which time Cant. W. II. Berzy, of the Attuck Guards of St. Louis, . Alrv w'ia choscn Lieutenant-Colonel, or PresiI An. ,iia TTiiirn idcniiOi uie union. ; A rmanent union was cffcctcd at i Raid Convention, and some business , 0nraportance transacted. The busir tod otbeiuffallthatwiU make the union of colored militia of the United States what it should be, Lieutenant-Colonel Berzy has issued a call to all commissioned officers and representatives of the various military companies of the United States to meet in convention in this city Feb. 16, 17, and 18, 18S0. Captain Brown, of the Palmer Guards, this city, has been notified of tho convention. Captain Brown thinks himself and command highly honored because of the convention meeting here, and claims no pains will be spared to make it tho grand est meetincr of colored men in the. United States. The 16th day of February being the anniversary day of the Palmer Guards, they have decided and are preparing to reproduce their military drama entitled "Out of Bondage, or, the Battle of Petersburgh." On the eve of the 17th of February a grand military banquet will be held at city hall, under the auspices of the Palmer Guards, and promises to be a grand affair. Those acquainted with Cantain Brown and his very aDle haye nQ he8itancy in - believing the whole anair will be one to De re a membered by the colored people of Columbus. Columbus people are making extensive preparations for the reception of General Grant next month. Mr. J. H. P. Payne, of Springfield Ohio, but formerly of this city, is soon to be a citizen of Indianapolis. Success, Johnny. Kev. Dr. S. P. Seaton lectured at St. Paul A. M. E. Church last eve, on the Holy land and tho Order ot Good Samaritans. The house was crowded and the lecture elegant. J. II. Martin, of Indianapolis, was in tho city last week, on business. It is rumored that we are to have a colored deputy under Sheriff-elect j Richf ibacher. Lct everybody subscribe for Tho Leader. B. h . Payne will take your ubscrip tion. Hawk-eye. mm m The Truth About the Exodus. Cincinnati Commercial. The facts about the exodus of Negroes from North Carolina, and their location in Indiana, are very simple. Having resolved to leave North Carolina because of injustice and lack of fair treatment, some leading men among them got together last summer and organized an Emigration Society; but wishing to act intelligently, they sent out a committee to make inquiries and report. Meantime they set aside a specified amount of their wages to form an emigration fund, and when their committee reported that they had met with encouragement in Indiana, and that work among the farmers could be had for a considerable number of them, they met and voted who should go first, those drawing the prizes, so to speak, leaving without delay for ascertained localities. The pioneers in tho movment left

now, kept ' William Nelson is confined We therefore respectfully u:, a and your petitioners will ever wives and children behind them, and will send lor them as soon as they have earned enough money by their labor to pay the cost of transporta tion That is the substance of the whole matter out of which Mr. Hendricks and other Uemocrats make, such a bugbear. Tho influx of Negroes is not likely to be rapid, or in; virgo numbers. If employment crtn Vi found, they will come; if not found, they will remain where they are. It will not bo a blind exodus, liko that into Kansas, but will be regulated by the law ot supply and demand. Thero is no occasion for alarm from a polit ical point of view, either. The DoMyermfiKra. ;ky ten voters to one brought all 3 way from North Carolina. raoci tucky the Princeton News. Miss Mason is convalescent. There are six colored schools in the counly. Prof. A. J. Snoke's stable was destroyed by lire last Monday. D. A. Graham, J. Ii. Lytle, and A. Thornton subscribed for The Leader last week. There is a revival going on among the churches at the Sand Hill. Five or six have found peace in the Lord. Non Dum passed down the road lest Friday. He failed to stop ofl" as in the days of old. Non Dum, you are too easily discouraged. There will be services at the A. M. E church Thanksgiving, in the day, and a festival at night, for the benefit of the pastor. The young people met at the A. M. E. church and organized the Suoiner Liter ary Society, with the following officers: 1). A. Graham, president; Miss Olivia Prator, vice president; Stephen Pope, and Charles Chavis, secretaries; Mrs. S.L. Jack son, treasurer, and Chas. Jackson, critique. Rev. A. Mason arrived last night from Carmi, 111. Omeoa. Kokomo News. Mrs. Calvin Iloberson is very sick. Miss Allie Brown will soon return Fort Waj ne. to Mr. Ellis, of the Basset settlement, says he must have The Leader. Thos. Byrd is the Nimrod of Howard county. He hunts every day. Hon. P. B. S. Pinchbeck, of Louisiana is solid with the Republicans now. Rev. J. Burden, of ILafayette, was present at tne Literary on lasi xuesuay nigm Mrs. Narcer Maxwell, of Michigan City. Ind., is visiting in the city, the guest of Mrs. Roberson. Moses Peak and wife, of Logansport, Ind., spent last Sunday in the city, the guests oi his motner-in-iaw. Rev. J. McSmith will occupy the pulpit at the A. M. E. church on Sunday, Nov. 30. Mr. McS. deserves a crowded house. The colored people are having some trouble in court again. Boys, save your time and money, and subscribe for The Leader. J. A. Braboy will take part in the debate with the white Literary on Thursday evening, Nov. 27th. Question: Resolved, That representatives should be bound by their constituents. Theie was quite an interesting meeting at the A. M. E. church on last Sunday evening, conducted by the Y. M. C. A. Those oonducting the services were J. Stewart, D. AV. C. Smith, C. F. Stokes, Mrs. Silvers and Job. Braboy. Mr. James Smith and his estimable wife are preparing to eat turkey on Thanksgiving day, and Prolocutor is one of the invited guests, and may Mr. S. and wife live long and prosper, and have the turkey well filled with oysters, and oblige 'Cutor. Mr. C. F. Stokes has subscribed for The Leader for one year. We certainly expect all our school teachers to subscribe for The Leader, as they can not afford to miss so much good news. And as for the editor, he surely expects the teachers to subscribe, as they always have money. Everybody was well pleased with the grand spelling match at the Literary last Tuesday night. Some of the good spellers went down on small words. Richard Brown went down on "mustard;" J. A. Braboy went the same way on "pommel.'' Miss Susie Gaskin was asked to take her seat because she could not spell "skain," and Miss Sadie Brown and Eusebius Roberts remain champions of the spelling school. ' Prolocutor. Noblesville News. A girl of Abner Roberts' is quite sick. The list of subscriptions for The Leader is increasing. Rev. Cole altended the quarterly meeting last week. Elder C. A. Roberts arrived last week, from Jeffersonville. Mr. John Thomas disappeared rather suddenly last week. Success to you John. Can't we have items from Darke county Ohio? I understand The Leader goes and Mrs. Benj. Roberts attended the funeral of Mrs. Robert's sister, at Marion, a few da) sago. A matrimonial secret was confided to us a few days ago. It will not be long until we can chronicle further. The First Baptist Church has been holding a series of meetings for two week past, with some unusual interest. Ths whooping cough is raging here

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. . t ?1 -1 -- a ta from school on the account ot it. , Some of the white business men and in

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gration here. Fifty famines couia De supported in this county.

The young people of this place are prel nouuajs. there is no flinching on the part of those participaa s good a discourse as we have listened to lately, was delivered by Elder Smith, of Muncie. last Sunday. Text at night, I Cor. , iii-xi verse: "The foundation. e welcome him here again. , W noticed that little paragraph by "Cutor" last week, in regard to that deba ting affair. You may prepare yourseii. ArZ ing up their talents of Tuesday evenings. Wfl wnnld like to have The Leader introducedin the Roberts settlement, and if it could be, I am certain that many an interesting item would come from that loi . 'a. 1 .1 itrt !n(Al1!nana camy, as n ia iiuiia iui no iuiciii,-uvv and sobriety. n Monday evening about 6 o'clock p.m., the prisoners in the jail house sue" ceeded in escaping. There were some sev" en of the prisoners who were awauing fhp5r trial that would have come off dur mg the present term of court, now in session. They esca pea mrougn uie uwr, u being of brittle stone and easily removed. This is about the sixth time that this $30,000 jail has been broken through. Abe. i. ... 1 . 1 r 1 L GO TO W. T. FLOYD'S BARBER SHOP, No. 5 Indiana Avenue, FOR A GOOD SHAVE. uniAltk tuuiau Specialty. im 'O'DRIEN & LEWIS Bl&CilEUtta 'Mil fall IttfSl i ' GENERAL JOBBING SHOP. BEPAIBIHO PBOMPTLY DONE. Oov. North and Fayette Sts-. Indlnnapoll. lud LEWIS SCHWENK. Dealer in all kimli of Groceries, Country Produce, Flour, t AND FBESH FISH, 308 North Blake St., öor. North & Blake. DR. WM. Ei WHITE, DEITTIS T, 4 No. 70 N. ILLINOIS ST..T Room 19, Miller' Block, INDIANAPOLIS. Upper or Lower Se't of Teeth $8. lml rr j 1 DO NOT CO WEST Until yon hare applied to J. S. LAZ ARUS, General Eastern Agent, v. HIDMHAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS R. I 134 S. Illinois St., Indianapolis, For Time Tablet and the rery lowest Freight and and Passenger Ratet. BARBER SHCP. FOB A GOOD SHAVE CALL AT V. A. MAY'S star zmm SH0Pt 180 INDIANA A TENÜE. Clean Towel and good artist always on band. STOP! BEFORE 01X0 FURTHER CALL AT LUCAS & SCOTT'S Shaving" Parlor, And get a clean and easy share. Clean linen i tpecialty. Good artists in attendanco. lml 17. 7. HOOVER, Dealer in Staple and Fancy COUNTRY PRODUCE A Specialty. 408 Indiana Ave. THE IP IL. -A. GIF1 TO BCY Y0CR Second-Hand Furniture, Stoves and Glassware, and everything to be fonnd in a Second-IIand Dealing House, Cheap for Cash, at J. A. PINKSTON'S, No. 162 Indiana Avenue. Iitopi, Fern ud Chicago Ey. THE GREAT THROUGH LINE BETWEEN THE . IVORTH AJVD SOUTH, SHORT LINE. INDIANAPOLIS C CHICAGO. FT. WAYNE, HUNTlKGTOa, WABASH, . TOLEDO, DETROIT, And all points in Northern Indiana and Michigan. Direct connections made in Chicago with the trunk lins lor all nortn-westeru summer reeorts and principal points in the north-west and far west. Close connections made from the north at Indianapolis for Louisville, Cincinnati and all points In ths south, east and west. Woodruff Sleeping and Tarlor Coaches run between Indianapolis and Chicago, via Kokomo and Indianapolis and Michigan City. Ask for Tickets ?ia I. P. & 0. Eailway. , V. T. MALOTT, Gn'l Manager. & P. B0CKWELL, Gun'l Pass. Ji Ticket Ag(