Indianapolis Leader, Volume 3, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1882 — Page 2

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PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY -BT 9 OFFICE. 11 KIXXEITS BLOCK Career III! sola aavd Harket Bts. a - scat-clac Matter I IadlaaapoUa, Ind. t tas Pottofflcs TXBMS Or SUBSCRIPTION. lag Is Oopjt 1 yr .. M M asoatas. M M t nontka. 12.00 1.00 .20 1.75 1.50 1 BOltk. Otafcs ( six I jr, Mk copy. M ta, 1 year, ach copy. rrrriD ninni y b found on Ms at A CV.a Mawiypac AdvsrUsinx BirMi (10 Sprue at ) wker a4Trtiaiac eoatracU may fe rnada for it la NEW I0BX Sabaerla-e for H Leader. Let every colored man who favors the elevation of hi race subscribe for the Leader: and let every white man who believes that slavery was a crme against humanity and that it ia the duty of the ruling race to m. s a t aia ms n egro in uu struggle ior moral, social and Intellectual elevation do likewise. Some of the Louisville folks are trying - to put down whiskey. Bulletin. And they are succeeding admirably too in putting a great deal of it down under their vests. "GATHthefamouscorreepondent, is contributing some interesting literature in regard to old slave times to the Cincinnati Enquirer. To many people still living his account of the operationso of Patty Cannon, the murderess and Queen of the kidnappers, will appear wonderfully realistic, though they happened in Delaware a half a century ago. Tile abolition of the whipping post was one of the issues of the late campaign in Virginia. The promise that this relic of barbarism would be abolished was one of the controlling influences in giving the colored vote to the Iteadj lister cause. It is reported that the commit, tee of the lower house of the Virginia legislature, to whom this question was retered have decided to report, against the repeal of the obnoxious law. It is to be hoped that the Virginia legislature will promptly overrule this report and carry out the pledge made the colored people on the stump, by removing this stain from Virginia's fair escutcheon. To do less will be a fatal mistake on the part of the Readjuiters. It wonld be a serious if not a fatal blow to the coalition which has given promise of so much good. It is entirely too early to open the campaign for the Presidential nomina tion in 1884. Our first duty is to devote every en ergy to the election of a comfortable majority of the mfemjjers of the next House of Representatives. Some par tizan papers with more zeal than sense are attempting to precipitate into our present complications the contest for '84 Should they be successful the result would doubtless be a hopeless contest of party factions and a disastrous route in the fall elections. President Arthur has shown that he fully appreciates the situation and by moderation and fair treatment of all factions, he has already accomplished much in the softening of factional asper ities and the harmonizing of discordant elements. a The campaign for '84. may be opened, say Nov. 15 without serious detriment to the party. Till then, we beg these over zealous patriots to give us much needed repose. The country is becoming thoroughly aroused in regard to the suppression of Mormonism. It is indeed a singular fact that such a foul institution should nave ocen perraiueu to root luseii so nrm. ly in one of the fairest sections of our country, and vet it is not strange, the appologists, defenders and propagan dists of slavery, adopted this twin rel ic of barbarism as its protige. The wonder is that they did not place slavery and polygamy on an equal foot ing and use the power of the general government to extend the beneficent in fluences of both alike. Considerations of an economic nature however, doubtless prevented the slave holders from gratifying their beastly lust after the manner of the polygamous Mormons. But the similarity of the a two institutions as a matter of fact, en listed the sympathy of slave holders and their sympathizers, and the Mormons were exempted from the operation of the laws, and the institution was pennited to attain its present proportions, threatening as it does the very foundation of our civilization. There are few now who do not denounce slavery as a great evil. Its most fanatical advocatas can now speak respectfully, even kindly in some cases of the abolitionists. Yet some of our m a a a a Democratic cotemporaries, notably the .- Cincinnati Rnnuirer. see. or &fTectto see in this crusade against Mormoniam only a covert attack upon the Democracy, and appears to think that Cannon, the Morxaon delegate from Utah, who disports among the luxuries of his house-

hold a half dozen wives, ia being persecuted because he is a Democrat Our Democratic cotemporaries may possess their souls in patience. The people are aroused to a sense of the great wrong of continuing to tolerate this infamy of infamies. Not only will the bill now pending in

Congress to exclude Mormon delegates become a law. but the territorial governfTT.u in i -i r l iiipiil ill ail ii ii in i ie-? iMKfii iiiil ill Liir hands of the Mormons and stringent measures will be enacted for the sup pression of polygamy. To the Enquirer's plaintive query we xi . -r in itT say yes, me .uorraons, iiae? puor uu, must either civilize or "moove on" We now have a weather prophet in the person of a mulatto known inOradell, N.J., as Toby. He accurately foretold the weather on Friday and Saturday last, to a reporter of the Sua, and from the testimony 1 1? J' oi appreciative neignoors, ma preaicuon ior the past three years have been more generaUy correct than those of Devoe, Vennor, and the Weather Bureau. His modesty looms up in strong contrast with the self-assertive ness of the other prophets; and he has no sei- - al entihe theories to explain why h misses Toby's methods of foretelling the weather U by looking at the clouds, ami the way the wind feels around him. New York Globe. A Mulatto bov, at the burning of the old World Building, .New York, seeing three men at a window helpless, and that a telegraph wire was fastened over their heads and to a pole across the street, climbed the pole, cut the wire and enabled the men to save themrpItm. Th wire prvpn sm a rone bv which they easily reached the pavement. The name of the young hero was Charley Wrigiit. ynuesceiHU ig vne puie mr Lutnu u. i 1 I A 1 ÄA 1Ä 1. aar a ft.. I he fell, hurting his leg, and was clubbed by the police. (Jineinnnti Commercial. Echoes. Quincy Ills., has a colored Catholic church. Cincinnati has a colored Oscar Wilde. Kill him. The St. Louis colored people, want a sing ing festival. A colored writer is on the sti ff of the Philadelphia Press. Marion Co. Ky. has a congregation of col ored Koman Catholics. There is much suffering among the exo-. ausiers in ivansas. .-viu 13 asxeu. Y' 4!J7- I-J Hon. J. P. Green colored member of the Ohio legislature is a general favorite. The colored Tex ans propose holding at Austin, a state convention, ror what? J. D. Kennedy, New OrL-aiw, has been ap pointed special agent of P. O. Department. A mail line is talked of between thisc ountry and Liberia. Louuiana men are the movers. In Georgia 1,200 colored people own large i arms, me lenutncy in mis uireeiion in rr I - 1. ; .1 .1 T that state is very strong. It is said that juror Wormier, unused to an elaborate diet, gorged himself to the ex tent of complete prostration. Pinchback has lost only $300 in the twelve years publication of his paper. This sounds like the reading on a circus bill Congress has passed the bill directing the Secy, of Treas. to buy the Freed man's Bank property and real estate for public use. Hon. John F. Quartes, was brought up in the same family with Laeut. flipiier. Jblip per was taught his letters by Quarles. The Jacksonville Fla. colored people, own one dozen public halls. The city has a col ored population of 3,000. Too much hall. A railroad forty miles in length is build ing by a company of colored men of Wil mington i. j. ibis bears its own commen dation. A colored man was elected to the city council of Kansas City. Some of these col ored fellows will be aspiring to the Presiden tial chair. Some of the colored newspapers publish the names of parties who attend church This journalistic enterprise is far from being commendable. lion. Frederick Douglass, is a close stu dent and as light of heart and step as a man of middle age, though he is now some sixty odd years old. A colored man in lenn. took a c-- pre mium, for the best bushel of potatoes at the Atlanta fair. "Paters makes the ole man think ob possum." The Austin, Texas, colored people are go ing into the real estate business. They buy large tracts of land, subdivide and sell on the installment plan. wv aaa a a . ar. a .a Jfbiup A. hite, oi ürookiyn, is the pos sessor of a cool $100,000. His friends wish him to to on the Board of Education. He ought to have any thing. In a Mississippi town, a certain colored man performs the duties of a barber and of a Justice of the Peace. He is sure to "bleed" you one way or the other. Rev. Daniel Wadkins, a teacher of the olden school is chaplain of the Tennessee Penitentiary. He has written a pamphlet on "Education and Keformation. The average colored paper disgusted with the treatment in relation to appointinents etc. threatens to resiiru. But it dent. What is every body's business is nobody's business. The Weekly Definite defiantly threatens to cut loose from the vertebrateless miscalled "white" Republicans of its section. The paper claims they only "show up" to gather in me omces. A colored man near Columbia S. C, start ing without a dollar hve years ago, is now worth $8,000. The writer started in the same condition and is there yet. Some men are too modest. During a fire at Atlanta Ga., the colored ladies rushed to the rescue of a colored news papers outtit. Une average-sized woman would easily carry the outfit of some offices we've seen, at one load. A letter from an Indiana representative Congressman, says that an inordinate nnmber of colored men are appointed from the South instead of from other sections of the country where their efforts merit attention. Maj. Gen'l. Prince Rivers, colored, is now night watchman at Aiken. During Moses' reign in South Carolina, he was commander of the State Militia. What we intended to meution, was he lately caught a tnrglar at the hotel. Wilberforce Jubilee Singers have cost over $1,000. Thev have made a good reputation and that is all. B. F. Lee is sending out postal cards to A. M. E. ministers for aid. The "jubilee" era u past. The mine has "petered out." Ex-Congressman J. T. Rapier is a Collector of Internal Revenue having headquarters at Montgomery Ala. He is spoken of as a successful business man owning considerable land in Alabama, and a large cattle ranche i 3 Kansas. The Cincinati Enquirer says: "Washington's colored population is 83 out of every 100. And that a large proportion of the colored people who stay there are not of the better class of blacks." Thus the dreams of one's youth are dissipated.. A demand has been made in Flushing L. I. that colored children lately admitted to the High School be withdrawn and means be provided for their education separately; a petition presented the School Board was to this effect. The matter was laid over. Prejudice is the monopoly of no one state.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Dakota Again Blaine's Letter The Freed man's Bank Per8onal and Miscellaneous Notes Etc., Etc., Etc. Washington, D. C, Feb. 7, 1882 There are a great many people here from Dakota, lobbying for the admis8wn ofthat .territory as a fetate, and appearances indicate that their efforts will be successfidr ..The. territory will r.. probably be divided into two parts, and the southern part admitted as a State at once, while the northern part will be relegated to territorial tutelage for a few years longer. I his territory affords an excellent op portunity to young colored men to secure homes and make their fortunes early. It would be a very gratifying siern indeed to see a steady stream of colored laborers, farmers, mechanics and men with small capital, pouring in to this growing young commonwealth. inow is tne time to go, wnue govern ment land is cheap and plenty. rew railroads are being projected and built . constantly; new towns are being laid out, and the country opened up to set tlement, and improvement in every con ceivable manner. It is to be hoped hereafter, however, that when colored men go West, and purchase property in towns that they will have the sagacity to hold their proierty, and look forward to a rise in value consequent upon the growth of the place. In almost every large city in the country, eligible and valuable pro p- . ..... v - ertv may be pointed out which was " . ... owned hv eolorwl nipn. hut. wh oh they disposed of for "a mere song' ignorant of the real value of what thev were selling. Incidents of this charac ter are abundant everywhere. Of course this can be largely account ed for on the ground that the past history of the Negro in this country has not, as a rule, been of such a character as to develop an intelligent conception of the value and power of money and propertyjand the uses to which they can be put. But better things are expected of the present generation. The war, emancipation, the public schools, the enfranchisement, the newspaper, have thrown the iSegro ot the present da$? fairly and squarely in the current of ;Anglo-baxon American thought, feeling and action, and if he does not manifest the same restless, speculative grasping tendencies, characteristic of the Young America of to-day, then it can be said that he is an unassimilative ouantitv in our bodv oolitic. A large I i influx of energetic young men into the western territories would be the best possible demonstration of the fact that the race is alive to the opportunities and possibilities which lie before them. The principal theme of political gossip here is ex-Secretary Blaine's letter to the President, protesting against the abandonment by the present adminis tration ot what is known a3 "Blaine s South American policy. w Of course, in anti-Blaine circles, the letter is regarded as a part of the ex-Secretary's canvass ior tne iiepuDiican nomination in 1884, but among Mr. Blaine's friends it is claimed that the letter is but a straight-forward declaration in favor of a dignified and positive American pol icy, as against subserviency to hngland or any other European power. The letter seems to be directed more at Mr. Frclinghuysen, Mr. Blaine successor, than at the President, as he is the gentleman supposed to be responsible for the abandonment by the administration of the policy pursued by the late Secretary. The full effect of tne controversy in the political combina tions of our near future, cannot yet be clearly estimated, but it is plain the position taken by Blaine puts Frelinghuysen on the defensive. Any public man who champions American interests and American supremacy m the politic al affairs of the Isew World, may be sure that he will have nothing to apol ogize for before the people. Many peo111 f . 1 .1 T-l ,1 pie win De 01 tne opinion mat r reung huysen's apparent subserviency to Eng lish interests, will place the administra tion in a bad light, but no one will think for a moment that President Ar thur will long consent to any policy that will subordinate the interests of this country and of this continent for we are the Continent in a governmental sense to that of any foreign power. A bill has passed the Senate and been introduced into the House to purchase by the government, of the Freedman's Bank building in this city, at a cost of 8250,000. Should this bill become a law, as it doubtless will, the creditors of this defunct institution will receive another dividend, which will increase the sum total of the dividends thus far paid, to something more than sixty per cent. The damage done by the failure of this bank was very far reaching and general in its effect among colored people, not only in financial loss to its immediate creditors, but in the destruction of confidence in financial institutions managed by them or those professing to be their particular friends. And it seems to be generally admitted as a fact that the failure of this bank was owing to the carelessness, ignorance and dishonesty of its managers. There are quite a number of white "philanthropists" here in this city who made independent fortunes out of this bank aud the Freedman's Bureau funds. Some of them remain here in luxury and ease while others have gone to Chicago, and other sjeculative centers to still further augment their ill-gotten gains. I suppose that the tragedy of the failure of this extensive banking concern may lie, in large measure, attributed to the loose way of doing things which always attends aid follows a great civil war and social upheaval, like that which we experienced during and subsequent to the Rebellion. Hon. Frederick Douglass lectures this evening (Tuesday) at Bethel Hall. Hon. Jas. T. Hill, collector of internal revenue for Mississippi, is in the city. This is a field week for lectures from prominent colored men here. Besides Fredrick DoughWi lecture Tuesday-

evening, Geo. T. Downing and R. T.

Greener are to speak Wednesday even ing. Gen. T. J. Brady has sold his stock in the "National Republican," which leaves the 1 'Evening Critic" his only Washington organ. Hon. X. R. Lynch filed his brief Fri day, in contest of the seat in Congress illegally held by J. K. Chalmers, llie contestee has twenty days within which to file his answer, and Chalmers will probably be ousted within a month. Great precautions are being taken here to Drevent the introduction and spread o: the small-pox. The city has been divided into districts, and physicians employed to vaccinate the poor free of charg. A very few cases have thus far occuired. The house formerly owned and occupied by the late Senator Charles Sumner, has been purchased by the Arlington Hotel proprietors, and annexed to that hostelrie. Senator Fair, of Nevada, new occupids a suite of rooms in that famous house. At a fair in progress for the benefit of oi. vugusiiue vxnureu viuuum; vuuiun, JMrs. General bherman presides at one of the bazarrs. This church is located in the central part of the city, and many of the first white Catholic families of the city attend worship here. The music is excellent. Over six thousand bills have already been introduced in the present Con gress, and yet the introduction business has not fairly begun. Introduction, however, is about the only stage that many of these congressional bantlings will "ever reach, and it would be cruelty indeed to deny them that small boon. Ex-Secretary Blaine, bv invitation, will deliver his eulogy on the life and services of the late President Garfield, on the 27th inst., in the hall of the House of Representatives. The event is looked forward to with considerable interest, and there will doubtless be a great rush for seats in the gallery on that day. The great snow storm of Friday night visited Washington, and left a bountiful supply of the "beautiful etc." All day Saturday it was "driven" squarely into the face of any and all who dared to face the North Pole; but withal the weather was not cold, and on Sunday the melting process began, and is still in full blast. The death is announced of Peter Ray, in New York, a colored man who served four generations of the Lorrillards in the tobacco business. He was 107 years of age, and first entered the service of the Lorrillards in 1789. By promotion he reached the superintendency of the snnff factory. At his death he was reputed to be worth $100,000. Un last r ridav evening the blisses Patterson, 1532 "Fifteenth street, gave an informal reception and card party in honor of Hon. James T. Rapier, of Al abama. The occasion was one of much pleasure and enjoyment to all present, among whom were Miss Fraukie Mar tin, Miss Mary Nalle, Miss L. Math ews. Mr. W. H. Smith. Librarian of the House of Representatives, Messrs: Henrv Johnson. R. B. Bacbv. of Indianapolis, Edward Brooks, of Ironton, Ohio, G. T. Downing, of Newport, R. I., and your correspondent. E. R. B. Alden Williams, a prominent colored politician of Lawrence, Kas., is circulating a petition praying that a national convention be held to organize a new party which shall hare for its objects: 1. Todestroy sectional strife. 2. To pay promptly the bonded debt. 3. To reduce taxes and expenditures. 4. To establish the unlimited coinage of gold and silver. 5. To substitute government legal tender paper for bank issues. 6. To overthrow con uption at the polls, and in representative bodies. 7. To secure a fair ballot and a fair count. In fact, the petition wants to get all the purity out of the Democratic and Republican parties and leave all the rottenness. The petitition has nearly 250 signers. Gate City Prm. CURIOUS, SCIENTIFIC AUD USEFUL Monkey cutlets are relished in Brazil. Somebody in the South proposes a sheetiron covering for cotton bales. To cleanse hair combs and brushes wash well with soda and set in the sun to dry; rinse them well and do not let the backs get wet. It is said that the Japanese have made practical tests of paper belts in the transmission of power, and that the results have been satisfactory. ' A "solar' locomotive has been placed on the French Northern Kail way. It is so called owing to an electric light which is fdaced in the front and fed by toe engine taelf, and intended to illuminate the way tor a long distance ahead. A paper dome is being made for the new observatory at West point which, when completed, will weigh about two tons and measure 30 feet in diameter. A copper dome of the same size would weigh ten times as much and would be no better for the purpose. Following is a cement for rubber: Towdered shellac Is softened in ten times its weight of strong water of ammonia, which becomes fluid after keeping some little time without the use of hot water. In three or four weeks the mixture is perfectly liquid. When applied it softens the rubber, which hardens again as the ammonia evaporates. The French Minister of Public Instruction has appointed a commission on hygiene of the eyes in schools, for the purpose of investigating the influence of the material conditions of the arrangement and furnishings of the school-room the seats, desk', position of the light, etc, on the progress of myopia, and of looking for means of opposing them. Dr. Oavarret is president of the committee, and Dr. Javal is one of the members; and, In order that questions of typography may not be overlooked, it includes two publishers and a printer. M. Gley, a French physiologist, has, from experiments made upon himself respecting the effect of attcntien and intellectual work upon cerebral circulation, confirmed the results of M. Mosso and added some new observations. He finds that the rhytäm of the heart suffers an acceleration which is in creased in a direct proportion with the intensity of the attention. Thus the pulse was quicker when he studied geometry than when he studied philosophy, with which he was more at home. The carotid artery is also delated during cerebral work, and the carotidian pulse become dicrotic, but the radial pulse become smaller and less amp'e. The phenomena of congestion observed in the brain persist for a certain time after cerebral activity,

INFAMOUS.

Judge Lyncb Badly Needed. We clip from the Denver Star the following iccount of an outrage perpetrated on three lei pless colored women, at Saliua Kansas, which for its supreme deviltry cannot be exctlled in the annals of crime. If such acts ol violence can happeu in "free Kansas" aid the perjietrators goe unpunished, then the gMxl citizens of the state should take law in tleir own hands and mete out to the villains tkeir deserts. "We promised in our last issue to give some particulars of, aud make some comments on the disgraceful outrage committed on tne lamily of a JMrs lady of Salina, Kansas, who, with her three daughters, have sought an asylum in Denver. Had the cuticle ol Mrs. Scott's skin been vhite, the two scoundrels who degraded nd laid waste her home, would have been lynched; but no, she is a poor Negro, and must submit to all the' indignities cast upon her by the despisers of her race, as if the devil had made one and God the other. The facts of Mrs. Scott's case are these: This lady's two daughters, just entering into the ages of womanhood, had gained the affection of two white men, and were by them seduced. They are said to be prominent citizens of Saliua. The mother of the unfortunate girls was ignorant of their intimacy with these roguts, until they proved to be eneiente, when they could no longer keep this as a secret from their pareut, and they accordingly repealed to her their sad condition, and gave np the authors of their betrayal. As is natural with all fond parents, Mrs. Scott betame indignant, and threatened to prosecute the despoilers ol her daughters chasity, vhich only tended to arouse the ire of the two men. who were led to resort to some xtraordinary measures to hush up this disgraceful matter. Finding the stratagem impossible, they there upon threatened the whole family with bodily iujury if they did not leave the town at once thus assuming the position of the Czar of Russia. Mrs. Scott refused to leave, and commenced to make arrangements to institute proceedings for damages. Matters promising to assume a most disagreeable aspect for the two scoundrels, they offered to pay Mrs. Scott liberally if she would drop the matter, and keep silent: but this noble-hearted woman determining to avenge the wrong done her offsprings, refused to accent anv compromise. This made confusion worse confounded, for on the night of the 2th of December, a mob surrounded this ladj's house, set fire to it, and ordered her to take her daughters and leave town. The house being completely destroyed and ;he unfortunate family left houseless, fearing at the same time that no protection would be afforded them by the authorities, they had no other alternative but to consent to a proposition of accepting tickets and hurry away to Denver, where they now are. Although the Salina Herald denounced this infamous act of arson, and demanded that the perpetratots be sought out and punished, the authorities have been lukewarm in the matter, and no attempt has been made to discover and bring to justice the perpetrators of this diabolical act. Now, we are living in an age of civilization, and in a country where the laws ought to le dealt out to all, irrespective of creed, color, or position; and we cannot see why this outraged family should be so treated by the law officers of Salina. Had this occurred in free and enlightened England the guilty parties would have been ferreted out long ago and kept in durance, un il arraigned before a tribunal of justice, where they M ould receive the just reward of their crime. We v ail upon the law officers to exert themselves on behalf of this injured family, the only head and front of whose otlending is the cuticle of their skin. The vox populi is the ror Dei, and on behalf of a Christian people we ask that justice be meted out to the unfortunate strangers who have been compelled to make Denver their Asylum. We understand that Mrs. Scott has put the matter into the hands of an attorney, in or ilor in brtn(T suits nfrnlntt thn Ssnllrn nntVi nr. itits for damages sustained by the burning of her house, and the two Vagabonds, for having betrayed her daughters. Ihe poor girls have been victimized by two rutfiless men, whose actions bring them below the level of the brute. Is there anything more outrageous in the history of a Christian people? This is a double-handed crime, which should be met with the most condign punishment. Why should this poor colored family be singled out by these Negro-haters, to be sacrificed not only in a pecuniary point of view, but in all the social relations of life? These unfortunate girls were living quietly and respectably with their parent in her own humble cottage, paid for with her own means, the saving perhaps of years of hard toiling; and they were looked upon as idols of a mother's affection and the hope of Ler future joy. To be torn away by wretches, who are no better than (Juiteau the assassin, and betrayed in the manner described, is aggravating in the extreme, and calls forth the indignation of every colored man and woman, who now cry aloud for vengeance against these seducers. It behooves us all to look on these poor girls with sympathy and pity, and not with derision and contempt. They are young and weak, and were at the mercy and bidding of the two fiends. They denerve the consideration ol a generousminded and sympathizing public, who we have no doubt will aid them in their pres ent misfortune. We are however watching closely the movements in this case, and see whether this colored familv will receive the same redress at the hands of the law, as their white brethren. There are several gentleman here who are willing to assist Mrs. Scott pecuniarily in carrying through a prosecution." LOCAL LEGISLATION. The Council met in regular session at 7:30 o'clock Monday evening, with fifteen members present, Mayor Grubbs presiding. The Mayor reported $230.95 as collected n fines during the month of January. . ORDINANCES INTRODUCED. An ordinance requiring a city license of $100 for selling spiritous, vinous and malt liquors. Clerk Magner reported, showing the amount of orders drawn on the treasury during the month of January to be $30,817.45. City Assessor Con nett rerorted collections fqr the months of December, 1881, and January, 1882, at $301.30. CITY TREASURER'S REPORT for the month ending January 31: Balance as ter last report ... .H30.S31 85 Total receipts 11.413 91 Total expenditures.. timinmt $141.820 77 21.980 87 Balance February 1. 1882 .4119.8 90 .. 26,161 36 Balance Tomllnson estate, THAT GARBAGE CONTRACT. ..Egidius Naltner, garbage contracter, and his bondsmen submitted a proposition to release the city of all claims and rights of every nature growing out of the contract for the removal of garbage on the payment of $150, the amount which is claimed as due for the month of December. SWITCHING CHARGES. The City Attorney reported, pursuant to instructions, "that upon investigation he was of the opinion that the Legislature had conferred no powers upon the City Council regulating railroad charges for switching." He further reported that he had prepared an ordinance making it a misdemeanor for any person to handle FIRE-ARMS CARELESSLY in the presence or sight of any other person, J ana aiso an ordinance requiring saiety gates to be erected and maintained at various railroad crossings. He farther reported u

to the disposition of a number of suits of minor importance pending against the city. THE C1TT ATTOBHKY also reported that he was of the opinion that the Council was not limited to the ninety cent levy includinga sewer tax ander the acta of the last Legislature if the city sees fit to levy such a sewer tar. He further reported that he had prepared an amended cow ordinance that would "hold water." being of the opinion that the one recently passed was lame. In relation to the building of VIADUCTS by the Railroad Companies, the City Attorney reported that he was of the opinion that the city could not compel the budding of the same, where a less expensive method affording .a reasonably safe protection of life could be provided by the Railroad Company. 8TRCKT REPAIRS. The Board of Public Improvements re

ported $1,349 91 expended for street repairs du J' 20.250-61 M expended 10 ebruary DISPEK8ARY REPORT. The Superintendent of the City Dispensary reported 983 patients treated, 328 visits made, 841 prescriptions filled and $285.50 expended during the month of January. CITY HOSPITAL. Superintendent Wishard reported total expenditures for the month of January at $1,204.51. THE FIRE BOARD reported, recommending that $150 be appropriated for the purchase of '"gongs" to be attached to all hose reels and engines not already supplied with the same. They further reported that they had contracted to have the walls of No. 7 engine house made secure, at a cost of $220. Concurred in. SMALLPOX PATIENTS. Secretary Elder, of the Health Board, submitted a communication relating to the dis position, transportation and care of small pox patients, and asking that an aaaiuonai allowance be voted to Superintendent Wish ard, of the City Hospital, for extra duties connected with the rest House. CAR SHOPS. The Committee on Streets and Alleys and the Soecial Committee, to whom was re ferred the petition for the vacation of cer tain streets and alleys in Allen Root and English's addition to enable the C, I., St. L. and C. Railroad Company to erect shops in that portion of the city, reported, recom mending such vacation. The report was adopted. A dispatch was received from President M. E. Ingalls announcing that (provided the streets were vacated) the Company would begin building within six months, and complete them within two years. The Finance Committee reported against the building of the REFORMATORY SEWER on the grounds "that the sewer is estimated to cost $90,000. and that the city's portion would be $50.000 of this amount, whereas the bulk of the cost should be im id by the State, as it is for the State's sole benefit that the necessity for its construction exists." 0RDI5AHCKS INTRODUCED. An ordinance to restrain cows and heifers running at large from sunset to sunrise. An ordinance to grade and gravel Linden streeet and sidewalks, from Orange street to Pleasant Run. An ordinance to grade, curb and bowlder the gutters of Fletcher avenue from Dillon to Linden street. An ordinance to grade and pave the east sidewalk of Dillon street from English avenue to Prospect street. An ordinance providing for the grading and graveling of Minnesota street and sidewalks, from Madison avenue to East street. The regular appropriation ordinances were passed, with an addition of $560 for the pay of the twenty special policemen detailed to scour the city for "footpads." NOT REGISTERED. The Special Committee appointed to ascertain whether or not "The Watson Ccal and Mining Company have their carts registered as other coal dealeis" reported that no such Company have registered any coal carts with the City Clerk. SAFETY GATES. The Special Committee to whom was referred the matter of the erection of safety gates on the several streets crossing the Union Railway Company's tracks, reported that in a conference with the President of the Board of Managers of the Union Railwav Company he signified his intention of complying with all the requirements of the Coiinci1 at an earl da PUBLIC PARKS, The Committee on Public Property reported on the proposition of the -'Indianapolis Floral Association" to furnish plants for the public parks of the city, recommending an expenditure of $300, $100 each, to t r i . . tt a. oeautiiying tjircie, juiiitary ana university; Parks. Concurred in. 1 A bridge was ordered constructed over Pogue's Run, at the crossing of Willard atreet, A communication from the Police Board, recommending the addition of twenty patrolmen to the regular force, was received. The Committee on INSECURE BUILDINGS reported the following buildings as being unsafe and needing immediate attention by the owners: The old Oriental Hotel, on South Illinois street; the rear walls of the Sherman House, on Louisiana street, and the building on North Mississippi street known as "Gilmore's Zoo." The Water Works contract with the city was passed as amended by the Board of Aldermen. CITY COAL CONTRACT. Messrs. Caylor, Brundage and Coy were appointeJ as a Special Committee to investigate and ascertain whether or not the firm of Drew fc Wasson and the Watson Coal and Mining ComDany are the same firm. The City Marshal wns directed to notify the C, C, C. and I. Railroad Company to bowlder that part of the east side of Alabama street immediately north oi their freight depot at Virginia avenue. THE HOFPITAL BOARD submitted a report of their meetings held December 12, 1881, and January 31. 1882. signed by Messrs. Bryce and Mauer. The report was sustained by Dr. Bedford, the other member of the Board, so far as the first meeting was concerned, but was objected to by the Doctor so far as it related to the last named meeting, at which time the Board elected officers. Dr. Bedford claimed that he had not been notified of the last meeting, and was therefore not present. Dr. Wishafd, Superintendent of the City Hospital, stated to the Ouncil that he had notified Dr. Bedford of the meeting by telephone, and recognized his voice while talking to him through the instrument Dr. Bedford disclaimed all knowledge of the conversation with Dr. Wishard on the subject, and there matters rested, it being a QUESTION Or VERACITY between the gentlemen. The report was referred back to the Board. The City Engineer was directed to advertise for proposals for riprapping with stone or Rolling Mill cinders the west bank of White River, in Indianola. Adjourned. TABLK OOS SIP. They were twins. The parents christened one Kate and the other Dupii-Kate. A Louisiana man is establishing an alligator farm. The hides and oil are in demand. The musical people of Cleveland furnish the public a concert each week, to which the admission fee is ten cents. So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that In many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future. A Connecticut boy was sent by his mother to a neighbor's house for a cup of sour milk. On being told that there was none but sweet milk to be had. he helped himself to a chair and said : "Well, I'll wait till it sours." Talking with some English visitors, they gave some items of British gossip which surprised me. One said that the Princess Louise had been the object of a fool impu tation in Labouchere's Truth, because she had gone to Italy with another member of the Campbell family, a near kinsman of Lord Lome, her husband. "Well," said an American, "might ihr. not travel with her

husband's kinsman?" "Yes, but local goslip had settled down on this man some time before, and when Labouehere hinted at the fact all society started for the paper, because it let out their secret." Oath. There are 35,000 more women than men in Philadelphia, but the excess is made up by gooddooking girls, and we should be loath to part with one of them. Which one is nobodv's business. Philadelphia Record. A Second Advent preacher made converts of a congregation of United Brethren, except two members only, at Ifabella, Mich. Oneofthe two who held out against the movemetit was the pastor, and his office was given to the new man. A Japanese paper, very thin but of great strength and possessing the merit of being

perfectly noiseless when handled, is to be lmponea ior printing on me programmer ui theatrical and other public entertainments where the ratling noise usually made by their handling is a great nuisance. A New Jersey widow couldn't earn $0 a week at the wavh-tub. She became a clair voyant, and her income increased to $60. It just shows that a man begrudge the quarter be pavs tor washing his shirt, while' he will cheerfully give a dollar to stick his nose into the other world before the show begins. An Irishman who had been sick a long time was one day met by the psri&h priest. when the following con venation took place: Well, Patrick, I am glad to see vou have recovered. Were you not afraid to meet your God?" "Oh, no, yer rivertnee! It was the meetin' the other party that 1 was aft ared of !" replied Pat, "How is it, Mr. Brown,'' said a miller to a farmer, "that when I came to measure these ten barrels of apples I bought from you I found them nearly two barrels short?" "Singular, very singular; for 1 pent them to you in ten of Your own tiour barrels." "Ahem! Did, eh?" said the miller, "well, perhaps I made a mistake. Ltt's imbibe." San Francisco Post. A number of years ago a Baptist clergyman, named Clevinger, was one of the most popular men in two States. His house was built in such a manner that a large hall which ran through it was exactly on the State line between Kentucky and'Tenuessee, and whenever a runaway couple came to him to be married the obliging parson, on the first intimation of an approaching pursuit, would usher them across the hall into the State from which they had not come, and from which they could not be legally dragged by a relentless parent. An illustration of Mr. John Adams' force of language and striking figures of speech was given to Uaniel ebster, just before the venerable ex-President's death. Mr." Webster called on Mr. Adams at his home in Quincy, and found him reclining on a sofa, breathing with great difficulty. "Ah, sir," answered Mr. Adam, drawing a long breath, 'quite the contrary. I find I am a poor t nant, occupying a house much shattered ny time; it sways and trembles with every wind, and has, in fact, gone almost to decay; and what is worse, sir, the landlord, as near as I can fiad out, don't intend to make any repairs," The Irish Land League. The following named gpntlemen have been appointed by the Indianapolis Central Branch of the I ri.-h National Land League as a District Committee to solicit money's for the ab ve named organization: Partrick Manley, First District; James Hyband. Second Dir trict; H. Harrington, Third Dis trict; Edward Foster, Fourth District; James H. Deerv. Fifth District; John C. Dalton, Sixth District; P. J. Kelleher, Seventh District; James Riley, Eighth District; James I. Dowling, Ninth District; John C. Firriter. Tenth District. The Committee will bold a meeting this evening at the Emerald Hall, corner of Meridian and Pearl streets. rallhoab time table and after Sunniy, J as nary 82, 1889 On Cleveland, Column aa, Cincinnati and dlajiapolls. (BEE LINE.) Depart! Arrlrf N. Y. A Eo. Ex 4:b0 amIL. A Bt. L. TjlL 7:10 an, Union Aoc 4:35 am Dart A OoL Ex.11 :20 am N. Y. A B. Kt 7:30 pm E.G..M.AL xl2:55 pxa union aoc e.uoipm B..L A 8. L. Ex. 6:2) pa N.Y. A 8. L. Ex.ir.10 p HU8HTWOOD DITISIOH C, U., CiL Depart. Arrive, 4 35 am, 6 10 am. 7 23 am 9:15 am 11:06 am .12 05 pm .12:&5pm S :60 am ... 8:45 pa 6:05 pa ... 6 33 pa 10.55 pa 5:55 . 3:55 pm 6:55 am, 7:15 pm 12:40 pm . 11:05 pm For all information, rates, maps, time tables, etc. call at the Union Ticxet Office Bates House, corner, 134 South Illinois street, Masachuaett Avenue Depot, or at the Union Depot. PttUburg, Cincinnati and St? Louis. (PAN HANDLE AND PEKNSTLVANIA LINE.) impart. Arrive. new xorx, raiiaaeipma, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburg A Columbus Exprera 4 :C6 un Dayton Express 11:15 m Elchmond, Dayton A Columbus Express 4 45 pa BlcHmond A Dayton Aemo.4S ma H:l5 am 5:45 pa oomiuodatlon...mM..M.M. 5:45 pm VM .1 A A m tucomona Accommoaatloiiw ... f.....ttt..M New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Columbus & 9:66 am Dayton Express s H4 .45 pm Express ,8 H4 .45 pm' BlOS pa Daily except Sunday. Sleeping car. H Hotel car, For tickets and full Information call at Cltr Ticket Office, northeast corner Washington ana Illinois streets, or at Union Depot Ticket Office. Terra Haute, Tandalla ana St. Loai. Donart. Arrive Mag.. 7:00 am L. AC. Ex. :30aa Day Express, p. .12:00 pm Fast Line 3 50 am lerre uauie a C 4:00 cm Mall and Ac 10:00 Factflc Ex..- 11:00 pm Day Express 4:80 pm LAC. 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