Indianapolis Leader, Volume 3, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1881 — Page 2

USDEII, PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY BT 9 OFFICE. 11 MILLER'S BLOCK Comer Illinois aad Harket ftts. ' Kntrd m second-clua m&tUr at tha FoatotBe t IadiaaapolU, Ind. TERMS OF SPB8CBIPTION.' Blngla Copy, 1 jear.-..-.,. fLÖÖ months. S montka. 1.00 .20 nonta... Clata of alxl jaar each copy. tau, 1 year, each copy. .'1.71 M 1.(0 THIS .PAPER S SÄrÄÄS Xewipapar Advertising Bareau (10 Sprue 8t ) whyo dTrtiaing contracts may bo mad for It In NEw1 TORX T , 177 J. I J . : i -. ; . x Subscribe for tnejlatder. Let every colored man who favors the elevation of his race subscribe for the;Leader; and let every white man who believes that slavery was a crme against humanity and that it is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in his struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. Ex-Senator T. O. ' Howe; of Wisconsin, was appointed and confirmed Post Master General last Tuesday ' - ,anw , ' ' - j ' . ' JL Hon. W. J. Hardin," a prominent colored citizen of Cheyenne' has been reelected to the territorial legislature of "Wyoming. Hon. Benjamin Harris Brewster, of Philadelphia, was appointed Attorney General of the United States, Friday of last week. ' Ex-Senator Revels was the MississipSenator refered to in Hon. J M. Lang ston's letter, last week, as having oppos ed the ."Civil Rights Bill." Register Bruce has received an invi tation from the Director General of the International Cototn Exposition at At lanta Ga., to attend and addressthe peo ple on "Freedmans day." Prof. Julius Rector, principal of St. Louis colored school, has sued a the- ' atre proprietor in that city, under the provisions of the civil rights bill, for discrimination against him on - account of color. ' . General Joseph E. Johnson, ex-con federate, charges that Jeff. Davis stole $2,500,000 in specie, belonging to the rebel government. This is bad on the leader of the chivalry. Jeff, ought to rise up and explain. ian We are informed that the spirit of proscription on account of color, even finds its way into our State Prisons, and that the colored convicts take their meals at a table apart from the whites. We have fully made up our minds not to extend our patronage to these state boarding houses. Owing to the sickness and death of the wife of one of the jurors, there was a recess in the Guiteau trial from Friday until Wednesday. The villain emitted another edition of his impudent ribaldry to the country, Saturday, in the shape of a letter to the Associated Press which is a rehash, in the main, of his previous insolence. It will serve only to draw the approaching hemp more firmly about his sneaking, murderous neck. ? , m Getting his friends into trouble anpears to be about the only thing the alleged editor of the Globe is a success at. Lieut. Flipper wrote him a private letin regard to his troubles, but the fact that an army officer had condescended to notice him so elated the alleged edit or that he could not rest until he had the letter in print. ' As a consequence an additional charge of violating the army regulations was prefered against Lieut. Flipper. Thus through the stupidity to say the least of a supposed friend the unhappy Lefttenant is subjected to additional aggravation. Southern politics generally, seem to be on the eve of an important readjustment, In nearly every state of that section there are signs that the Bourbon dynasties which have ruled since , the overthrow of Republicanism, are on the eve of disruption and downfall.- It is the old story of honest men ; getting their dues during a falling out among thieves. The Bourbons are at. outs among themselves over the distribution of spoils, and the ..more decent ones among them will combine with the RepublicanVfor the " establishment of equal jights, free elections, and a fair count. Truth crushed to earth will rise again triumphant. So it is with South ern Republicans; they are bound to come to the front again -in the , near. fa ture. ,.rr ii!teQZ'J3?l& f - In an address recently ?-T fair Viplrl In T?alp!crri TJ" 1 Vance told his colored v: they must not place too :n stress on education. We have not'seen the1 gen . tleman'a speech, and therefore are not able to state whether he meant to declare J himself against the .education of the masses, or whether he wished to be understood as saying that education- was not the only thing necessary to be ac-

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traced .c r--. If? harrayed 'himself against universal common school education, then he deserves and should receive the severest condemnation, not only at the hands of the people of North Carolina, but from the people of the whole country. . . If, on the contrary he proclaimed the potent truth that education alone is not the only prerequisite to the progress and upbuilding of the race, then he de serves credit for it, for he told what is undeniable. Before the Negro race in this country can command the respect of - their -fel low citizens, and wield influence com mensurate with their, numbers, they must, acquire; not only education - with all that the word education implies, and it means much more than the. acquire ment of a mere technical knowledge of books, but they must acquire worldly, tangible wealthy and also moral stabili ty. M,y ! J..-. . ! r These three things secured, education, wealth, and moral uprightness and the Negro at once ceases to be the inferior of any class of (peoplei andnaturällyt wiihcmtdissönt,1 takes his place as a co-sharer in all the rights, duties, privileges "and obligations of free Amer ican- 'citizenship. Without them he need not' expect to J .recognized as an equal in this or anyothercountry. In this struggle for advancement, then, our efforts and aspirations should be directed towards securing at the same time, not one, but all of these prerequisites. To seek or secure one alone, to the exclusion of the others, is a false step that will have to be corrected before we can attain perfect success. It is not proclaiming new truth to say that knowledge is power, or that wealth is power, or that power exists in moral purity. But they are truths that should be preached in season and out of season by preacher and teacher, lawyer and doctor, and in fact by every one who would lend a helping hand to the upbuilding of the race, for they are the levers by which we are to reach that plane of equality with the best citizens of the land, which we so much covet. The folly of the Globe's imbecile effort to attack Ex-Senator Bruce, simply because he had failed to discover any alarming symptoms of greatness in the make-up of the alleged editor and had - ... . not felt that the country would go to the demnition bow-wows if the aforesaid alleged, did not get an office, must now be clearly apparent even to the deluded editor himself. The conviction among well informed persons who have paid any attention to the controversy, is that intimated by us in our first reference to the matter, namely, that tne anonymous letter with which the Globe first opened the ball, originated in the murky brain of the alleged editor.. He felt that he had a grievvance and that the old "many citizens" dodge of an anonymous letter would be the least offensive way of presenting his sore toes to to the public gaze. The Globe squirms and whines like a simpering idiot because we have held it responsible for the sentiments of the letter. . Let it come out in a manly way, and repudiate the sentiments of the letter and give the name of any respectable man in Washington as its author, and we will give it credit for one manly action. But we do not expect it to do this. It will doubtless flounder along attempting to deny or excuse the falsehood that has subjected it to ridicule and contempt throughout the limited area bf its circulation. The North American Review for January is an excelent number, and contains some very instructive reading on five important questions. "The Moral Responsibility of the Insane" is ably discussed by five eminent physicians, Drs. Elwell, Beard, Seguin, Jewell and Folsom. William Martin Dickson contributes an able article on "The New Political Machine." "Shall Women practice Medicine" by Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi will be found instructive and of special interest to all those of a medical turn of mind. The Geneva Award and. the. Insurance Companies is the title of a valuable article from the pen of G. B. Coale. -:T- G. Ruffin j of the lost cause, contributes " A Chapter of Confederate History," in which he sets forth statements to" prove that it was not the preponderance of the North un population ; etc. , which wrought the downfall vf the Southern Confederacy, but that it was caused by bad leadership on the part of the latter. In another column we publish several extracts from , the . Atlanta Ga. I TjCho one 01 tne aDiesi aim spiciest feMpibMeda - theBputh.and , : 3 L"3, Cir fa ite trektmeot--of pubEcho one of the ablest and "spiciest i-tisn. xne article is in repiy iu me t ' rri a 1 . 1.. i iL. senseless fanron of the Globe and was r w provoked by the Globe'a foolish attack on Senator Bruce, who is a prime fa.vorite with. thecolored people of GeorThe Echo article, unlike the Globe's drivel, bears on its face the evidence of sincerity, ahd the :proprie tors instead of ;sliclldIrg"behifld, an, luionymbus signature like the editor of the Globe, bold-

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timonta ovnrPflwl. There 13 DleaSUTe 1' and profit often in discussing a question with an honest opponent. - ' : ; Our esteemed contemporary has evi- . 1 .. TT t r T n . aentiy clone tne non. o . u. ijaugswu i iniustice in the article quoted. Mr. .Langston s life work abundantly proves that he is the farthest oossible remove - ..I from being a Democrat or in sympatny . . . , . - . with the Southern brutes who ed unarmed and inoffensive men and women, and he had 2 no, part or parcel in the cruel Freedman's Bank robberies. Ihe alleged editor ot the Ulobe, an exoduster from Georgia, having failed to be "saunt" by the people , of his native state to hold a good fat office, betook himself to the empire state. But so far as we are informed, he has not yet succeeded in his efforts to break into the New York custom house. . . i t ii 1 I Indiana received the toilowmg cnairmanships in the house committees: Hon. W. H. Calkins, Contested Llections; lion. lhos. lirown, invalid pensions; m -ar i i and Hon. G. S. Orth, Civil Service Reforme. Color Line in Maryland. (Baltimore Herald.) The colored Republicans of Maryland Wpnfor flnrtiA timp rnnsidomhlv exercised over the fact that they cast over 40,000 votes and get onlv thirty-one T0r,;ol rKr.nlrl " nneSlJnna Whilf thp. vhlti Ttpmihlirans pant, nnlv I aaa on aaa ,TrtfD nnri Iv PVPntPPn hnnHrpd offiop mnv nf oi;i a Tun; . J:wishing to draw the color line, but claim incut uii:ii "Muai tun vuto. iiiui Ay-.ii that, when equal in capacity and character, colored men should not tx? debarr ed from all except poorly-paid menial Mr. Arthur and the Secretary of the Treasury that they would like to see one Afarv. rwAcif iAna I Iidv horn fOTTr.-irTi tcwl tf W1V1V.U 1UUU 1U m t-vvva ivcivivti 7 I Inn1 on1 Tili tVio Pr0e;,l0nt nrl tilt Secretary of the Treasury have responda rim tv,0 ,u nnt nntictw iho t w" ""y .v.-..v unreasonable or extreme. The cofored voters seem to be generally in favor of having Dr. Brown, an intelligent and resectable colored man. made survevorof the port. He, in fitness for the poUlnn nnd mnnnpr U rPrtninK- not in. ' v pire to the same position. Cel. Gilpin, r -N-nill Tr WilWr nnrl rthr who v JA ivn n.mpi mrtomiir o,i i,m,nMu mnl.An Ii xvn.iLl iia v t uvv u uuuivu uiv w-a v va vi fsiithfiillv Hisrharcrp thft dnHpa n t hp. crvpvnrdn'n hnt nnt nnp thm ha forty thousand voters claiming that his appointment will be a recognition of their manhood and of their fealty to the PonnMUn nartv lJ ,Uttimv iiu., if not in all of the states in the Union, our own Indiana not excepted. ." The demand of the colored people of laryland as the President is reported to J ... . ... A. . nave said to a coioreciueiegauon, iscertainly very modest, ro class ot . poopie in the land have practiced such modesty and self abnegation in the matter of office seeking u the colored people, They are every where making up their minds however to demand reasonable . recognition from the men elevated to power by their votes and, if need be, to enforce the demand by all the means in their power. The appointment of Dr. Brown to the surveyorship of the port of Baltimore would be a deserved compliment to one of the most genial in l i c u . and cultured gentlemen of the monumental city. The Doctor was a delegate to the Chicago convention and was unanimously chosen as one of the vice presidents by his delegation. He is in every way well fitted for the position and his appointment will be a deserved recognition of the colored voters of Maryland. 7 Chivalry Not Dead. National Republican Washington P. C. It was an Avenue car, not over crowded. A huge selfish lout in the corner spread himself over space enough for two and looked the hog he was. A Negro bishop; burley, black, and eloquent, entered with his wife. There was room for the woman, but the hog would not stir. A young Irishman, a well-known Land Leaguer, suggested that room be made for the "lady." The lout said, Juite andibly,he woulden't make room or a "nigger." Thereupon the .Irishman's ire arose. With flashing eye he gave the black woman his seaU and then sat hard down in the narrow space"' between the lout and black woman, while the crowded car, amid the applause of the passengers andthe discomfiture of teenth street! Change cars! . - At the Montgomery, AUu, -State Colored Fair, two- specialties were on exhibition which ; deserve, notiee." 'One was a locomotive. . and tender,; with smoke-stack, cow catcher, beUtj . aud everything as complete as could possibly be made. "The. whole thing' was made of wood, and was fashioned and shaped by a colored youth. Another was a clock, finely worked by a scroll saw. A church with a h.igh steeple is represented, and the cloclcis set in the steeple. The church is fenced in, and mounted men are doing , sentinel duty. Exchange. - . A Domestic Tragedy. ' Lincols, Neb., Dec. 22. Waverly, a small town twelve miles from here, was the scere of a domestic tragedy this morning. A man named Travis has been absent in the mountains three years. His wife supported the family by clerking In a drug store and keeping Postoffice, aud is said by those best knowing her to be an excellent woman in every respect. Travis returned some weeks ago. Meddlesome neighbors told ugly stories, but peace was restored. This morning Travis assaulted his wife with ferocity, inflicting five wounds with a butcher knife. He then cut his own throat. The woman may not die. He is not much hurt, and wai arrested ana janea nere.j

': j WASHINGTON LETTER.

Guiteau The Holidays' Queen Anne? " Political Colored ; Contestants Personal ; Points Etc., Etc., Etc. s Washington D. C. Dec. 19. A patriotic Terre liaute iriend in a recent letter requests me to do all that I possi l-kl nan rrv l- a 1-1 rr Cil ! too 11 'fni- " tlfCY'S "V e r --r . I want to see him die. I "-have no

niuiutrx- doubt that my friend voices the uni- ' COs ? , versa! sentiment of , ,the , country , with 5 nol port the possible 'exception of a few mem-

possible except bers of the Guiteau and Scoville families. I haven't the least doubt, either that his hope for the bloody villain's death will be gratified. Not being a 'member of the jury I can, of course, do nothing directly towards crystalizme my friend's desire into an accomplished fact, but I feel quite sure that the jury will do justice to the terrible crime and the insolent plea and conduct of ine murderer, oy giving mm a iree ticket to the callows. All lovers of justice may rest assured ' that Guiteau I it II 1 n rvt in onv örit neiana tt-i f Vi Viio 1111 UUU U UUI VI LUf VdVUk)V "IIU UIO life wlipthfir Jhft itirv convicts or not. There is doubtless a large number of American citizens who ihaye constituted tnemseives a silent jury on tnis case, and who are waiting, some patiently, and some impatiently, Jones and Mason tor example, to see it justice is done through legal channels. If not, then there will doubtless le thousands of pa'l0tic I0?). f511, b.v - "inspirati ion" to "remove riu. uDiiorred scounurej abhorred scoundrel to ä sulphurous rV-ion, where his revelaUU3 tauu p"' " y ,1" ;u'"" maV. be CXpOIldetl !l) kllldml Spirits tO nimsell. i The holiday season approaches, and Washington shop-keepers realize and appreciate the fact by their large sale . - . . oi articles lor presents, lnis city is not in any resect a commercial center but "small retail shops arc as numerous here as violin manipulators in the scriptural region held to be mythical by Col. Ingersolh AV hile many valuable and usf fui m th.c4 ?, Jewell7 art, pne-a-orac, pictures, silverware, . . . ry ladies goods, clothing, etc., are ottered i - r.i. U .11 V ct, uiwt , luc u5dl,c" ua iulc shoddy gootls largely, and hold them AoAdT- P"008; In offering the cornmoP,eslc,e9 T?E aIe clerks heJe f rallv 11 from, hfty to seventy-five per Pu.u u wigimu. price aKeu, rather than allow people to depart with OUt purchasing. ', i I ur a " . u i j f f h7 Pced "Pn everything for sale here.trom.a fifty thousand dollar mansion down to a pewter spoon. The l . more worthless and counterfeit the aruwc mwc mitusciy is iub auweui British,.trade mark applied to it. Auc neers; pedd.ers, street haw-kers and leye,!r;o.r"Chcap ;John mer,cnQls a r.'een Anne goods, ' in iact vjueen Anne - is ail tne rage I ' Watf . ' v Irt e iva m IIa svhr A ar ä , : fflovts. hate, handkerch efs. etc.. and I very much suspect that the Ivoung men get on Queen Anne drunks, sleep in the station house, and sober up u?f nJAim.e nf 8 n;f 1 morning. It all the colored gentlemen now con lfegtinß seats in Congress are admitted, the complexion of .the" Lower House, as to color and politics, will be restored to the condition existing previous to the ,4t?S2Ä.SÄ Drobablv admitted, as the Green- ' backers have declared their intention to vote for the admission of all contestants from the South, some of whom belong to their own party. ' The colored con testants are 'Messrs. Smalls and Lee, of South Carolina; M itherspoon, of Flori da; Lynch, of Mississippi; and possibly two or three others. . , t Clerk McPherson has appointed W. H; braith,1 colored, chief of the Congressiona,' librarj:. Mr. Smith has heretofore been a subordinate employe, Hon. J. H. ' Rainey is still in ! Wash ington. . . , , . , 1 Register Bruce attended . the Baltimore Tcception given to Bishop Payne, last week;- ' ; " E. R. B. . ! i AVhy,Provokc . Comparisons. -h '- Atlanta Ga. Echo ' We do not feel ' called upon to adduce the proof or retract charges made by us against Mr. ' Langston, simply because our valued contemporary, "The New York Globe," is pleased to characterize them as ; "groundless." . Whenever , professor' Langston J' or' his next friend, the .."Globe," is disposed to plead fairly to the issue, and to traverse the charges made in specific terms, we repeat the promise made, when we published the accusations,- to make good our allegations. -The "Globe" admits that its correspondent was in error &j to the gentleman for whom the petitidn was sent to mentor, which "error" it tacitly , affirmed by the not correcting it at the time and thus giving to Mr, Langston ? with a new administration the prestige of having been previously endorsed -for a position to" which its correspondent recommended him. -Our. "logic" may not be the abstruse': science of Aristotle, and modern' writers' upon 'the subject, but it is the "logjc" of . facts, and for an intelligent communication we much prefer , it to the paradox in which the "Globe" -'involves itself in the following statement. , . . .. .'. "STbe Eciio charges Mr. Langston with having made speeches in the South that" were simply "Democratic" in tone. This fact, so. far .from being a damaging one, is the very best evidence that Mr.; Langston is among the foremost men 'of us who would advance the race by ghowing the country that all colored men are' not forever chatteled to this or that party, but are free to go where inclination as free men. may lead them." N. Y. Globe. ': ' , The time at which Mr." Langston made the speeches referred to was when the issue between the Republican and Democratic parties were the right of the Negro to vote and other kindred ' ques tions, the agitation of which brought into existence the Ku-Klux-Klan, and similar crganizations which, were composed of; members-, of the. Democratic

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the JNecrro; and jMr.,.langstoa by his f peechea which were V 'Democratic tin1- V nie ai wjr vjjwsmg , iues X VgW S ngllUJ, but to the methods by which the Democratic party, sought to prevent the Negro from securing and exercising the privileges the Kepublican party attempted and did confer regardless of Mr. Langston. What were the methods adopted by the Democratic party ? Let the graves of thousands of colored men and numbers of white Republicans an swer. The Camilla massacre, close to where Mr. Langston made one of his speeches "Democratic in tone" answers the question and "this fact so far- irom lpeing a damaging one is the very best testimony that Mr. Langston is among the foremost men oi us who would ad vance the race." "Advance" the race to death ! Prevent them from obtain ing peir inalienable . and God given rights. Mr. Langstoq is commende by 6ur worthy; , contemporary for be traying the cause jn Tvhich the rights of hexace to wmcn neproiessedly belongs since the war and the abrogation of the Ohio law defining a . colored. man of so much Caucasian blood to be vhite, and to which Mj Lancrston was so much wedded, that he refused to make the motion to admit Judge . .Wright to the bari because he was a black man, were involved. Can a man be independent as the term goes, without committing '& crime whn such a want of fidelity to principle not only retards the elevation of a1 race, but infuses life into the murderous assassins who made the South a Golgotha of blood during the recon struction period ? Mr. Langstons speeches like those of others "Demo cratic in tone" brought into life the Ku-Klux-Klan and banditti of the South and the country knows what followed their direful orgies. "VVhy blame Mr. Bruce for not digging up the ghastly corpses that were slain through the agency and influence of speeches "Democratic in tone?" Is the, man who is silent after the funeral to be condemned while the one that was responsible for the death is praised ? This is "logic" with a vengeance. It is apart- of the political history - of the country that all reference to Southern outrages were characterized as waving the bloody shirt" and many of the ablest Republicans considered allusions to them as damaging to the Republican party and if Mr. Bruce was silent upon the subject, Mr. Langston fawned and praised the man that trampled Southern Republicans under the heel, and elevated to power men whose hands were stained with their blood. We ask in the 1 anguageoi our classic iriend, "Why prothat the speeches made by Mr. Bruce will not bear transcription to the pages 1UAC LUUIUUIUUIUI It illil 1 lit; II lit' of history and it is fortunate for him in some respects that they will not, espec ially if they should carry with them the odor of the speeches of Mr. Langston tor whom the ulobe entertains such a profound respect. Mr. Bruce is not alone in respect to not having made speeches in the Senate, we can name several eminent men who were not ad dicted to speech-making. Gen- Wash ington to whom the Globe refers, was not a speaker, nor was Thomas Jeffer son. There is one thing however that will adorn the pages of history and that is a man without the opportunities of a liberal education working his way up from an humble origin to a seat in the U. b. teenate irom a state that had such able colored men as James and John R. Lynch and Ex-Senator Revels, and for six years in that body commanded and held the respect of the most eminent of his associates and thereafter honored with a position next in dignity to a place in the Cabinet. The editor of the Globe is a man of too much intelligence to per vert our language and misconstrue our reference to the Republic of Hayti. We did not sneer at the black .Republic, and we are proud f hat we have a country en rolled among the independent sovereigni! il . 1.. j1 11 . 11 ties oi ine r.ann, ana nas upon its roil of honor - such illustrious names as L'Ouverture and others' of the bright galaxy of heroes andstatesmeu collated by the "Globe," Mr. Langston had been urged by his friends for a place in the Cabinet ot .Mr. Hayes, and not receiving that, should have declined any other than a first, or at least a second class mission abroad, and uot have accepted of the position held by a colored man who had educated more colored men than a dozen Langstons, and the mission to Hayti is one that an administration like that of Mr. Hayes would naturally confer upon a colored man because Hayti is a Negro Republic, while ex-Confederates like Henry W. Hilliard were appointed to positions of more dignity. Will the "Globe" contend thät the position was a proper one for Mr. Langston to accept under the circumstances? Or that the position is of equal dignity with the missions to Bra-J zil or Mexico not to mention most of the European countries ? . . ( Mr. Bruce devoted his energies and talent as Chairman of the Committee on the Freedman's Bank to the securing for the Outraged and defrauded colored people tf the country, a part of the money stolen from them while Mr. Langston knowing, as he privately expressed himself, that the concern was rotten withdrew his money and never raised a war ning voice to the innocent dupes sacrificed to the cupidity and avarice of the "long haired" saints who "preyed'' for and upon the colored people so earnestly, and we do not assert it as a fact but if our memory serves us well, we think Mr. Langston was at the time the advisory counsel of the concern by whose failure the tide of prosperity of the colored people was checked and turned back for a decade. Reception to Bishop Payne. Star (Washingthn D. C.) Rev. D. A, Payne, D. D., LL. D., senior Bishop of the African M. E. church was tendered a reception in Baltimore Thursday evening by the friends of the venerable bishop who assemble to welcome him back nome from the Methodist Ecumenical conference, held in London last September, on which occasion he had the distinguished honor, never before, enjoyed: by,.', anycojpred

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found in any other T man, of presiding over the conference for one day. Among those present was ex-Senator Bruce (now Register of the Treasury), "who, in an address of wel come, reiered to the fact that Bishop Payne was an ardent worker in behalt ot the A. M. E. church when a small building would have held all the members of a church which now numbers fully 350,000 souls, and which has churches which in magnificence will compare favorably with those erected by the whites. ALITTLK Q L EE It. Lottie Karl' Marriage From a Oouie of Bad Repute. An Evansville dispatch says: Some eight months ago there came to this city a young woman from Louisville, whose attractive appearance caused no little complimentary comment on'the steamer down the river. She was rather petite in figure, with a pretty face, a classical neck and head, surmounted by a rich mass of beautiful blonde hair. She was elegantly dressed, and the hackman whom she approached was not a little shocked at her asking to be driven to a maison de joie on Third avenue. She was accepted as a boarder and assigned ioonis, giving her name as Lottie Earl. She became quite a favorite with those who frequent such places, counting her friends by the score. She seems to have been quite modest and retiring, which created little stir outiide of her somewhat circumscribed sphere. On last Thursday a finely dressed, aiistocratic looking young gentleman arrived on the Grey Eagle from Louisville. He at once hastened to the above named house, and met Miss Lottie for the first time since last July, when she was up to Louisville to attend the races. During the afternoon he in all honesty made a proposal of marriage to her. At first she was doubtful of his attentions, but after supper he returned, renewing his importuning. She told hini if in earnest she would marry him; and, takiDg her at her word before she might change her mind, he balled a haek. The pair, getting in, were whirled to the Little Lottie restaurant. He then procured a license, the parties adjourned to 'Squire Day's office and were married. To-day a reporter, learning of the marriage, visited the clerk's office, but could not find a duplicate license, nor would the Justice give it away; but from a friend the real names of the contracting parties wers learned to be Theodore B. McBride and Agnes McGovem. Learning where the parties were quartered, the reporter hastened thither to interview the lady. She said she was born in Cincinnati, and educated in St. Xavier Catholic School, on Broadway. She was a bright favorite among her schoolmates and teachers. Her father was a business man of good standing. Being handsome, vivacious, and susceptible, at an early age she became "the ',l victim of some designing scoundrel. To hide her shame she left home for Louisville to obtain some honorable employment; but being a stranger, without recommendation or experience, she was forced to resort to the course in which we find her. Soon after arriving in Louisville she met Mr. McBride, a promising young business man connected with his father's hardware establishment on Third street. They became enamored of each other, being lovers during her stay in that city. -Some one . having . enjoined secrecy on our local officials, on informing Mrs. McBiide she said she did not want the marriage kept secret. The parties left for Chicago to-night, and will shortly return to Louisville. LOCAL LEGISLATURE. The Council met in regular session Monday night with Mayor Grubbs in the Chair. The absentees were Messrs. Cowie, Dean, Hartman, Stout and Ward. Several petitions for certain necessary street improvements were properly referred. - ... . ' ' THE CITY ENGINEER ' reported the following estimates, which were allowed: Richard Carr, $G41.02; Henrv C. Ronev, $814.45; Samuel Keers & Co., $1,G45.74; T. L. Spaulding, $250.37', John Schier, $178 50; F.' T. Blume, $820.80; T. D. Koos & Co., $530.02; Fred Kichber, $350.82. Mr. Morrison introduced a resolution calling for a Conference Committee to consider the extension of lines for the North Meridian street improvement, which was passed, and Messrs, Morrison, Pritchard and Thalman were appointed as such Committee. v' ' " .' '' . . 1 .. ; , , , : - : . PUBLIC SLAUGHTER HOU&E. A communication . from the. Board of Health, advocating the erection of a public slaughter house as . the remedy -against the sale of unwholesome meat in the city, waa read and referred to the Committee ou Markets and the City Attorne v. . The Board of Health reported tixty-four deaths during the first half of this months A bill in favor oC. C. Koerner for $125 damages to his horse and buggy, sustained by a collision ..with hose reel No. 5, was referred to the Committee on Accounts and Claims. j . . The Committee on Markets reported, recommending that the sanitary policeman engaged in inepecting meat on the East Market be retained. Oncarrred in: An ordinance for the protection of travelers, at the Union Depot, was unanimously passed. ' " - ' ' i ' r' : The Council receded from its former action in passing the ordinances reorganizing the official Boards. ' - - ! Superintendent Ritter, of the City Dispensary, reported &t7 patients treated duriDg the month of November and SCO prescriptions filled.OKDIKAKCES IHTBODUCIB. To grade and boulder first alley east of Illinois , street, from -South ..to Garden streets. , , ... . "To grade and gravel first alley west of Illinois, between Norwood 'and - Merrill streets. - ' " !

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D H A P P y ri E Y E - R a i To grade and . gravel first alley south of Seventh street. An ordinance providing for the construction of a sewer, from the corner of Washing, ton and New Jersey streets to the Female Ke foi niatory. An ordinance providing for special sewer tax for the year 1882. An ordinance regulating the construction of JbuiMings for the better protection of human life in case of fire and providing for the appointment of 'a building inspector. "An ordinance providing for tbe reorganization of the city olhcial Boards. HOSriTAL 8TAFF. Councilman Bryce submitted a lengthy communication in rezard to the selection of the Hospital staff which indorsed Superintendent Wishard's action in the premises. He vigorously protested against the reorganization as demanded by the "new school", physicians. A motion to recede from former' action on - the question was carried. : Aye. Jl; nays7.. . . The Committee on STREETS AND ALLEYS reported'in favor of widening and extending DiUon-street from Cedar to Meek, and a resolution to this effect was adopted. The same actipn was had In relation to Cruse street iram.Ieek Jiorth to the Michigan Road. TAX FERRETING. B. F. Riley's proposition to ferret out taxable property that has not been listed for city taxation was referred to the Judiciary Committee..-;., ; ;' CITY "ftÄLL COMMISSIONERS.' ' Mayor Grubbs, in compliance to a resolution, announced the aptointment of Counc ihnen George Weaver and Edward H. Dean as Market House and City Hall Commissioners. .. f A"reffolatioa"oflered by Councilman- Feaiv son providing for the sale of j the Tomlinson estate fori $27Jt 00, prQVokecL a lengthy discussion, engaged in by Messrs. Bryce, Thaiman and Pearson. It was lost by a vote of 11 to 7. A motion instructing the City Attorney to prepare an ordinance repealing the ordinance providing for a Wood Measurer at the Ea-t Market was carried. Quite a "lengthy dii-cui-sion was engaged in over a resolution of M r. Frichard's regulating the sale of stands on the East Market. The matter was finally referred to the Committee 0Q Markets. ANXEXATIOIC. A petition for the annexation of certain territory to the corporate limits of the city was referred to the City Attorney and Judiciary Committee. A motion was carried that when the Council adjourn it adjourn until Tuesday, night a week. The rules were suspended and the regular salary appropriation ordinance was passed. Board adjourned. CIIRISTMA3 TREES. How to Plant and . Decorat Thm Stoat llecomloglj. " ; From the Ladies' Floral Cabinet Flant your tree in a small wash-tub, filled in with brickbats or a hod of hard coal, or anything that is heavy and will keep it In place fiat-irons will do. if there is nothing else at hand and cover o er the tub with a gayly striped afghan, or a fur robe, or a flag, and upon this base many of the 'larger articles, such as books, desks, etc, can be arranged.' The children can manufacture many beautiful decorations for the Christmas treee,. in which they will take quite as much plsasure as if they were from the fancy shops. With a few sheets of gilt, blue, scarlet and silver paier cut into tiny strips four inches in length and half an inch in width, you can make long chains to entwine from bough to bough of the tree. With a bottle of musilage paste the two ends of the strips together until half of them aremade into rings; then make up some more by slipping one end through two rings and joining them together. Let the three rings become dry, and join them into 'long garlands. Suspend around the outer branches of the tree from ton to bottom. Twenty yards will be needed to trim a large tree, twelve for a small one. These pajer chains, when once made, can be kept for years, if carefuliy handled. Parch a large pan of pop-corn, and string them into chains with a needle and coarse thread. Entwine them also about the brandies, and after the presents are distributed break up the charms into necklaces and throw them around the necks of all the guests. : It you possess a brokf n looking-glass carry it to a glazier and have it cnt into bits three inches by two. Pastes bit of brown paper over the back of the glass, and bind the edges with strips of gilt or carlet and blue papers, and paste a bit of ribbon or paper at the top to suspend, them from the boughs. You can not have too many tin v mirrors. Purchase a pound or two of English walnut and cut them into halves and take Jout the meats. Save them to put into the middle of each small frosted cake. Purchase also a pound of sugared caraways, and fill half of one of the nut shells with them, and paste on the other half. Use common glue or gum tragacanth for paste. Insert a bit of narrow ribbon in any color at the top of the nut. Cut a small round of gilt paper and cover it with paste, and wrap it carefully about the nut, letting tiie fold of it lie evenly about the bit of ribbon, Make as many as you can of these, lor they are the prettiest of rattle-boxes, and everybody likes to possess such a trophy. Little lace bags made of bobbinet lace or . wash illusion, by running them together with scarlet, blue and gold-colored worsteds and using a bit of it for a string' to draw them together, are also very pretty and desirable when filled with nuts, raisins and sugar plums for the children MMa, hain't I been a real good boy since I've been ßoing to Sunday-achool?" "Yes, mv lamb," answered the maternal pareat fondly. 'And you trust me now, don't you. ma?" "Yes, darling." 'Then," spoke up the little innocent, "what makes you keep the I preserves locked up in the pantry the aamc 'aa ever?''-Suiiday School Visitor,'

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