Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1872 — Page 2

THE EVENING* NEWS. nlar] 7 surveyed and conveyed in the e«44Jlver«Me».

ostial technical descriptions of the Gene- God give o» men- A time like this demand*

JOHN H. HOLLIDAY, Pttorotnrra*. SATURDAY, MARCH IS, 1872.

ral I^nd Office. One of the “riparian gentlemen proving to be a defaulter in the

: office of State Auditor, or being found T»« Emrrso Nrws n ptblisho ktekt wece- iodcbted to It in some way, his half of Datastkesooii, at four o’ctock, a* theoffice, •crate-i this huge “water lot” was given to the

State in payment, "fhe present claimants

t corner of Meridian and Circle atneta.

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hold as assignees of the State, and Mr.

~ SUEiCRlF! I0S8: i Wilson’s bill will only make good the Babacrtten nerred by carrien in any part of the | monstrous trick by which the lake bed

Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready

hands;

Men whom the last of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office can not buy: Men who possess opinions and a will: Men who have honor—men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagoeue

Aod •corn his treacherous flatteries without wink-

tag:

Tall men, sun-arowned, who live above the foe In public duty and in private Hunting— For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn

creeds.

Their large professiouj and their little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife. k>: Freedom weep-

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Thih ig a of day inveKtigation into the acts of officials. Congwb* has ordered during this session thirteen investigations. Tkk Emmett Guards at a meeting last night protested against the selection of Attorney General Bayless W. Hanna a0rater at the St. Patrick's Day celebration. What is the matter with Bayless? Is he losing ground among the bretheren. Til kkk is some probability that a portion of the expense of the public printing will be removal. A bill before Congress will re<luce the amount paid one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which will come off the Congressional Globe. We do not believe it is best to discontinue this publication entirely, but it can be relieved of much superfluous matter and a

saving effected.

Is all the discussions concerning cheap fuel it seems never to have been taken into consideration that this winter has been an exceptional one. There is scarcely a city in the West that has not suffered from a coal famine, and in all of them the supply has been , very short. Even if the river had been open and all the mines in this State working full time, there would have been a scarcity, for the winter has l>een unprecedentedly long and severe. Th6 railroads are extending lines into the coal regions as rapidly as possible and are preparing in other respects for the traffic; new mines are projected and in the ordinary course of events we may expect a considerable reduction in price by next winter. We are surprised that any person in favor of a revenue tariff should be led off by the proposed abolition of the duty on tea and coffee. It is the most transparent trick the extreme protectionists have ever been guilty of. This is the way that it will work. A largo portion of the revenue is derived from these articles. A removal of the duty will benefit the people individually very little, but it will reduce the revenue to such a point that it will be impossible to cut down the tariff on anv other articles, and it is doubtful if there will not be a deficit. If the protectionists can get the free traders and revenue tarillites to join with them in abolishing tea and coffee duties, they rivet the oppressive chains tighter than ever and se cure an immunity from disturbance. With their numerous monopolies thus strengthenod the popular burden will be far greater than ever, and the small relief given will not counterbalance the in-

creased weight.

Tbs Braver Lake Land. We read some weeks ago a letter from Judge Charles H. Test, published in one of the city papers, defending a bill now’ (lending in Congress for the transfer or ratification of a precedent transfer to the t>tate, of the lands uncovered by the draining of Beaver l.ake. Some days afterwards we saw a long letter from Maj. Gen. R. H. Milroy, dissecting Judge Test’s plea, and condemning the proposed transfer severely. Both documents have followed in the wake of our discussion of the case early in February, and Judge Test’s letter seems to have been suggested by it. We can not say that the case is at all changed by these later lights. General Milroy, indeed* only elaborates the same argument that we advanced, and relates the history of the case at length. A few words w ill complep what we have to say about it There am|wo bills before Congress, one introduced by *Mr. Tyutr to declare the Beaver l.ake bed government land and subject to the regulations of other public lands; the other introduced by Mr, Wilson, to transfer it to the State, that is to the State's assignees. The former will yield something to the national treasury; the latter will merely consummate an audacious trick. While the swamp lands were subject to entry under the acts of our legislature, two noted politicians and speculators “got the grip” on the entire shore of the lake, by such means as the late Dr. Eddy ex(»osed in his report of IStil. Whether their title could have borne a rigid scrutiny or not it sufficed to give them “standing ground” for a bigger speculation. Owning the lake shore, they claimed the lake bed as • riparian proprietors”, under an old ••common law” rule that the owner of land adjoining a stream owned to the “middle line of the channel,” if he owned both sides he owned the entire bed of the stream, and “ subject to the occupancy of the water.” Their “claim”, then buried under a good many feet of water and utterly incapable of survey, they “laid off” in supposititious forty-acre blocks, each taking alternate blocks. Their title was solely as “riparian proprietors.” ‘There could be no pretence of any other, for the lake being incapable of survey could not be entered, under the acts of the Legislature, as swamp lands, which were all reg-

waa appropriated before it was or could have been surveyed.

There are two broken links in the chain of the title sought to be made -.rood by Mr. Wilson's bill, 1st, In order to entitle the “riparian” speculators to appropriate the lake bed, it must be shown that it was the State’s property. If it was not, the possession of adjacent property obtained from the State could confer no title to it. Under the constant ruling of the General Laud office for years that lake’was not the State’s property. It had never been surveyed, and no titles are given to unsurveyed land. The title was still in the General Government. A “riparian” owner under a State transfer could have no more right to it than he would have to the bed of Lake Michigan. The big plat of forty acre blocks, containing some Iti,000 acres in all, we are told. was. therefore, a plat of land that had never been in the State's hands, and could not pass even directly, much leas by a strained implication, to the State’s assignee. The “riparian” claim was utterly baselea*. It was built on water. This baseless title passed to the State in satisfaction of the default of one of the holders, and has passed from the State to the present claimants, just as empty, idle and audacious as it was at the start. Wilson’s bill, therefore, is nothing but the confirmation and consummation of a bold and iniquitous trick. 2nd, Allowing that the take bed passed to the State under the Congressional donation of 1850, where is the common law precedent that will sustain the appropriation of a body of water a half dozen miles in width? The reason of the rule fails in such a case as wholly as it does in the case of a “cut off,” that transfers a river channel from one side to another of a township. We don’t believe that any intelligent court, and we are sure that no honest court, would listen to such 1 preposterous claim for a moment. The original title was nothing but the thief’s title to stolen goods, and it is no better now. The men who hold it knew’ well what a villainous thing they were getting when they got it To lose it is no more than they deserve. Wilson’s bill, from whatever motives it may be supported, will be but the legalizing of an infamous transaction, and those who vote for it will find it hard to relieve themselves of the suspicion that they “found their account

in it”

Surveyed Wrorrg ruie * die land, and waiting Ju«ke deeps

A Voice From the School. Wuh spirit weary and v orn

With aching, throbbing head,

A teat-her sat at close o; school. And these are the words she said:

“ 'TLs teach, teach, teach.

Through the hours, of sunny light;

"Tis think, think, think. Far into the uuiet night

“Oh' to he a slave

la the land of the barb'rous Turk, Where woman h*s never a soul to save. If this is < "hristiaii work! “Teach, teach, teach* Teach astainra guile and sin ’ No backward glance on a happier past. No sigh for what ’might have been.’ “Teach, teach, teach, From morn to quiet even— Time, and thought and brain, and soul. For a pittance grudgingly given! “No rest in a life of wear}’ toil - No hope! hush! a cheery voice rings dear: ‘Faithfully work; hopefully work : You are moulding the 'Country’s future here" The pale brow flushed, the thin lip curled— ’Twas less a smi e than sneer— “What! mould the future, give faithful toil, For four hundred dollars a year"’’

—i Third tirade.

“ SCRAPS.”

made from corn <*obs in Council

Dorn and Bablen in Boston. [Correspondence Worcester Spy.] The newspapers talk about a new refonn, “a mission to animals.” I don’t quite know what it is, but hope it is something that will keep small dogs out of the crowded streets. The long-haired, sore-eyed lap-dogs, that wore bright ribbons and were carried in arms.seem to be superseded by small, short-haired animals, covered with fine cloth blankets, embroidered in elaborate patterns, and adorned with monograms or single initials; they are alarming little- creatures, running about among so many strange feet, and getting squeezed and trodden upon, and uttering sharp yelps of pain, or angry barks of dis gust, that startle nervous pedestrians, and must cause the rapid development of any latent heart disease, beside bringing upon the innocent aggressor black looks from the ufiectionate and lair owner of dog and blanket. Then they are obstacles where there is a crowd; it is almost impossible to get by them, and you don’t want to tread on them if you can avoid it. It is worth while to be delayed by babies; the roly-poly little beauties in white fur and knit white wool are so fresh and plump and jolly; they have such a fast hold of somebody’s hand, while their bits of muffs swing from their necks; and such a ripple of affectionate warning and baby talk surrounds them. To be sure, they are* very slow, and their funny waddle, impelled by their wraps, requires the whole width of our narrow sidewalks; yet they are enchanting, and a sufficient excuse for being late anywhere, while a delay caused by small dogs is an annoyance without alleviation. ■ nrderons Coincidence*. (From the N. Y. Sun of yesterday.] Change in the Erie Railroad brings very conspicuously before the world two murderers, who are its real authors—Daniel E. Sickles and Edward S. Stokes. But for the killing of Fisk by Stokes the agents of the foreign stockholders could never have got into the Erie building, the Grand Opera House, for it turns out now, and is proved by recent events, that Fisk was the real vital power of Erie. It will strike every body on reflection as a most extraordinary coincidence that the other principal actor besides Stokes, via, Daniel E. Sickles, is also a murderer. Stokes killed Fisk, and is yet to be tried for it; Sickles killed Philip Barton Key. and was tried for it and acquitted on the ground of insanity. Another coincidence is that both Fisk and Key were killed by being shot with Derringer pistols; and still another, that Stokes is defended by the same distinguished criminal lawyer who got Sickles dear. Sickles is our Minister to Spain, and for an ordinary man to be at home leading a struggle to take a railway office in a foreign interest, while drawing pay as our representative at a foreign court, would seem strange; but nothing is strange to Dan. Sickles. The country is happy in the expectation of a reform in Erie, and Stokes’s friends are happy in the hope that at no distant day, while Minister to some foreign country, he may return home and serve some

great railway.

Mias Pauline Vogel was in 1867 considered an incurable idiot. Under the tuition of Miss Dunphy, at the Idiot School on Ranuall's Island, she has become an assistant teacher, at $200 per annum. She is now eighteen years old, very fair looking, writes a fine, clear hand, is of good address, and plays excellently on the piano. In conversation she informed her visitor that she had a faint recollection of her earlier da vs; she slightly remembered her mother, but has not

the slightest idea of her father.

A gentleman died recently in Buckingham countv, \ irginia, who owned at the surrender of General Lee twenty-two negroes. Twelve of them left him. bat the other ten remained with and worked for him until the day of his death, taking for their services just as much as he chose to give them. At his death, to show his appreciation of their services and his gratitude, he gave themjhis farm, on which they can all live comfortably.

Gas is Bluffs. Plants of ramie are flourishing nicely at Santa Barbara. A Mississippi steamer is commanded by Capt. Sarah Pickney. A pair of rats at Los Angelos built their nest in an orange tree. Bierstadt, the painter, was in the Yosemite Valley at last accounts. General Negley wears the army blue and brass buttons in Congress. General Pillow, the ex-Confederate, is spoken of for Governor of Tennessee. A Chinaman, named Lee Can, is a clerk in the Bank of California, at San Francisco. The English authorities have interdicted the revival of “Jack Sheppard” on the London stage. Louis Prang, the chromo man, is mousing around among the New York galleries for pictorial gems. The weatherwise predict as the result of the severe Arctic spell, a very warm and early summer. An English physician declares that he has six paralytic patients, made so solely by imoking tobacco, It is estimated that there are still some 350,000 red men inhabiting the Indian territory of the West. England is said to be fortifying Heligoland and arming the fortifications with numerous heavy guns. Mr. Polsgrove, of Fort Scott, Kansas, has raised from seed, in one year, a grove of soft maples four feet hight. Two trees are pointed out to the curious visitor at San Diego which grow with thei leaves in the ground and their roots in the

air.

Toads sell freely in the English market for twenty-five cents each. They are used in gardens to catch flies and clean the shrubs of insects. A Hardscrabble, Connecticut, widow wears with becoming pride a massive gold ring made from the plate of her deceased husband's teeth. A monster fish, “resembling in all respects an elephant,” but covered with scales, has been washed ashore near Cape Hatteras. It is thirty feet long. They have a pair of match mules in Gold Hill, Nevada, named Mary Jane Simpson and Susan B. Anthony. One of them kicks awful in the harness. Mr. Beecher declares Wall street, New York, to be the dunghill of mushrooms, and says all the business men there are trying to get rich in uncanny ways. New factories seem to be springing up all over New England, and old ones are doubling their former facilities, all of whiph is evidence of successful enterprise. The Berlin papers announce that Prince Frederick Charles, of Prussia, after returning from his present voyage to Egypt and Nubir, will visit the United States. After killing some more patients by the use of chloroform in the Paris hospitals, it is finally decided to substitute sulphuric ether in its place. This was done in America long since. Death by starvation is a very rare thing in this country, but almost a daily occurrence, as recorded by the British press, in some parts of the kingdom, but especially in England proper. High French-heeled ladies’ boots are inducing among the wearers a very dangerous weakness of the Bpine, by causing an unnatural strain. So the Boston physicians have discovered. • Two boys have made urgent application to be admitted as pupils in Yassar Female College. They were coldly snubbed by those who have been clamorous for the admission of girls to male Colleges. A Wisconsin woman has done all the family sewing for twenty years with a paper of needles which was presented to her on her wedding day. Though her family is large, the needles are not all used up yet. A new miraculous tenor has been discovered in the person of a Russian street vagrant named Microvich, who has just been admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory, at the instance of Mme. Pauline Lucca. The late cold weather has interfered seriously with the oyster trade, one vessel bound forViginia being frozen into New Haven harbor, and ten schooners, bound to New Haven with oysters, frozen in Virginia waters. Two old men were in Bridgeport, Connecticut, can’t look an old dog in the face because they tied a tin can to his tail when he was a pup. and because, furthermore he hasn't forgotten the trick and still manifests a desire to retaliate.

Dr. Hibbard, the well-known lecturer on j The peace of Christ wis the fruit of com* physiology, while delivering a lecture in I bined toil and trust; in the one case dirfusVontrea! w -kW- i t mg itself from the center of his active life, Mon res . week, suddenly Lost his mem-: in the other foria ttiat 0 f i,is passive emo- • ory. He was taken to his room, but was ab:e ■ tions; enablirg him in the one case to do to recognize nobody. Softening of the brain j things tranqnUty. in the other to see things

L> supposed to have set in suddenly. ; Ir &nquihy.—[J. Martmeau.

Charles Kingsley savshe considers historv ! , ^ « ™t truth which makes man worthy, “larffAltr * ' Wan’fit. r> v ~ but the striving after truth. If God m His jargeij a lie. Well, 8ir Robert V xi'O.e ; right hand held every truth, and in His ieu said with still more emphasis, a hundred tlie one inward impulse after truth, although years ago: “All history is a lie!” Napoleon, j with the condition that I should err forever,

(more philosophically.'termed it: “But a j - 1

I fable agreed upon. "—"Boston Globe. Coniy and Shannal^an both impecunious are~to be hanged in Louisville on the same day. This arrangement will be hailed with satisfaction by tiie Christ'an thousands who expect to i>e present. The I«egislature <>u|iht to come down and see this show.—[Cour.

Journal.

So we are not to lie thrown of into space and become little asteroids nor be crushed into eternal smash after ali. M. Piantamonr, having become alarmed lest he should happen to be on the side of the earth where the thing is to hit. has revoked his appointment for a collision with a comet next August Rhode Island politicians are without guile. When a caucus is to be held, it is customary to give public notice for three days. So they stick up a notice in a grocer's window just before the shutters are put up on Saturday night and those who know about it meet eariy Monday morning, and fix things. An aged African named Going Clark, who had ministered to the Justices of the United States Supreme Court as Keeper of the Holies for thirty-five years, died the other day. He had come to consider everything in Washington as fleeting vanities but Supreme Court Judges, all of whom attended his funeral and stood uncovered by the grave.

Lttnny to the Holy Spirit. In the hour of my distress. When tempUdcns me oppress, And when I my sins confess, . Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When I lie within my bed. Sick in heart, and sick in head. And vith doui-ts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the house doth sigh and weep. And the world is drowned in sleep, Yet mine eyes the watch do keep, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the tapers bow burn blue, And the comforters are few. And that number more than true. Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When. God knows, I’m toss’d alout, Either with despair or doubt, Yet before the glass be out, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the judgment is revealed. And that opened which was sealed, When to Thee FhaL e appealed. Sweet Spirit, comfort me! Robebt Herrick.

THE PULPIT. One third of the people of St, Louis own no Bibles, as a recent canvass has shown. The Presbyterians have nearly 100 German ministers in America, and 6,000 to 8,000 communicants.

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The missiomiry work at Gaboon, Western Africa, is increasing in efl'ect under the charge of the Rev. Albert Bushnell. Take this to your constant lesson: Keep in the way of duty, and let things come as they may, all will be well.—[Howland Hill. A grasp of the hand, a smile, a word even is enough in God's hand to change the entire course of life, to save a soul from death. In the church of the Rev. E. E. Hale (Unitarian), in Boston, there is a vesper service every afternoon at five o’clock. It is mostly musical. The New 5Tork Christian Leader (TTniversalists) denies the truth of the surmise that Dr. Chapin is soon to follow in the footsteps of Mr. Hepworth. Many people labor to make the narrow way wider. They may dig a path into the broad way; but the life must remain a nar row way to the end.—[Cecil. Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride and fear. The Methodists of this place have organized a sewing society, and one of the conditions of membership is that the neighbors shall not be* talked about—[Cambridge Tribune The secret of being rightly guided—guided of God—is to have our own will thoroughly subdued. “The meek will He guide in judgment; and the meek will He teach his way.” There is a movement going on among the Lutherans for a revision of the Liturgy. One thing demanded is the replacement of the Apostolic Confession of Faith by another which shall give a truer expression to the Protestant creed. A Catholic priest in Pittsburgh interdicted the holding of a fair to raise funds for a charitable institution, under the auspices of hts congegation, pleading that the practice was anti-Christian and surrounded by many temptations to wrong.' •Sir Thomas Brown says: “I desire to exercise my faith in the difficultest point, for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion. This, I think, is no vulgar part of faith, to believe a thing not only above, but against the arguments of our senses.” I heartily believe that it is not laok of benevolence or excess of woridlinessthat makes our alms what they are, in proportion to our wealth. It is not rather an idea that the sum total of our charities, of which we have kept no accurate account, is greater than it is? A correspondent of the Christian Era makes the pertinent inquiry, “Where are the deserters?” He asserts that the statistics of the Baptist denomination snow that during the last five years there have been granted twenty-two thousand more letters of dismission than have been received. The Church Journal has a letter from R. W., thinks that the “Society for the Increase of the Ministry;' working at the wrong end. There are now three hundred of the clergy who can not find supporting fields of labor. What the church wants, therefore, is an increase of the means of support. As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are Uie steps which the soul has to to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse or friendship of a higher nature. —[Goethe. It has been discovered that a Boston clergyman has printed, as original, “A Calendar for Daily Reading of the Script a res,” w *th a prefatory address to his parishioners, which turns out to be almost identical with a similar address written and printed by a Scotch clergyman thirteen years ago. The thing was Dunn clumsily.

to the left hand, saving, 0. Father, give me that pure truth for Thee alone.—[Lessing. What makes yon green hill so beautiful? Not theumtstanding peak or stately elm. but the bright sward which clothes 'its slopes, composed of innumerable blades of grass. It i- of small things that a great life is made up; and he who will acknowledge no life as great save that which is built up of great things will find little in Bible characters to admire

or copy. „

God is continually giving. He will not withhold from you or me. I hold up my little cop. He fills it full. If yours is greater, rejoice in that, and bring -it faithfully to the same um. He who fills the violet with beauty and the sun with light; will not fail to inspire you and me. Were your little cup to become as large as the Pacific sea, He would till it.—[ Theodore Parker. The family of the late Rev. Dr. Breckinridge are desirious of collecting as soon as possible the material for a biography. Those l>ersons who have in their possession letters from him which they are willing to place in the hands of his family will confer a favor by forwarding them to Dr. William 8. Breckinridge, Pleasant Hill. Missouri, or to Colonel William C. P. Breckinridge, Lexington,

Ky.

The Rev. J. F. W. Ware, of Baltimore, hss taken no action on his call to the Arlington Street Church, Boston, on account of several anonymous letters which he had received from Boston reflecting on the Arlington Street Society. Some of the letters were read-at a recent meeting of the proprietors, and resolutions condemning them in the strongest terms were adopted and forwarded to Mr.

Ware.

The West Church, Boston, has l>een noted for the length of its pastorates. During the one hundred and thirty-five years of its existence. it has had but five ministers. Since 1S06. when Dr. Lowell was settled, only one ordination or installation service has been held within its walls. That was on the first of March, 1837. The thirty-fifth anniversary of this event was duly observed bv the Rev.

Dr. Bartol, on Sunday, March 3d.

Wesley and Edwards preached to a people who were torpid, not believing error, but asl^n in indifference. They aimed to resusciti* a dead church. They brought forth no new doctrine, hut clothed the ones already generally received, with a beauty and power that compelled active personal acceptance. So in various ages leading men made it their mission to preach the gospel so as to adapt it

to the exigencies of their day.

There is great difference between delicate and timely suggestion of gratitude for a minister’s helpful words, uttered in private confidence, with moist eyes and lowered breath and in few’ words, and that noisy swash of praise which washes up about a popular minister’s Sunday performance—the incense and flattery of fools to a successful actor who has chosen the pulpit for his stage. No real minister of Christ allows that sort of flattery to find entrance into his willing ear, my, no such minister awakens that kind of feeling. The avoidance of little evils, liTtle sins* little inconsistencies, little weaknesses, little follies, little indiscretions and imprudencies, little foibles, little indulgences of self and of the flesh, little acts of indolence, of indecision, or slovenliness, or cowardice, little e>|uivocations or aberrations from high integrity, little bits of worldliness .and gayety, little indifference to the feelings or wishes of others, little outbreaks of temper and of crossness, or selfishness, or vanity; the avoidance of such little things as these goes far to make up at last the negative beauty of a

holy life.

Dante as a Dancer. A wonderful ballet on the subject of the “Divina Comniedia,” of all things, has been produced at Rome. Dante—a dancing Dante —is the hero. The first scene represents Frederic Barbarossa, with a great black heard, by the by, running away trom the Italian ballerini. Then, in the selva oscura mentioned in the first line of “L’lnfemo,” there appears the well known figure of Dante, who, to judge from his violent gesticulations, is suffering from an indigestible supper. To him enters Virgil, whose affectionate way of feeling Dante’s pulse is likely to lend the unsophisticated spectator to the supposition that he is the family doctor. His treatment seems to be successful; for they soon trip off hand in hand. In the next scene they are joined by Homer, “discovered” playing a harp in the ruins of a Greek city. Why Greece should be in ruins when Homer was alive, or why the three poets should dance a fandango in the Elysian fields, are mysteries which only the composer can explain. All such speculations are ended by the irruption of a bevy of Amazons, who, with the plumpest little Venus Calipyge at their tail, are attired in a costume—if a negative can be expressed by a positive term—admirably adapted for the Olympian games. We need not remain long in the Inferno, for in the next scene, representing Purgatory, Dante meets with Beatrice, who with most unnatural levity and in a very rickety conveyance, carries him off to the Torqno eterno. The last scene discovers Italv bound in chains; at the sound of Garibaldi’s hymn her fetters fall off. Dante rushes forward to bless her; the audience shriek with delight, and the curtain falls. A Japanese Albnm. Mrs. De Long lias in her possession a beautiful album, presented to her in Japan, and depicting the most noted landscape scenes. Each photograph is about twelve to eight inches in size, and altogether numbering about 150. They are bound in a handsome center table volume. ' Some represent single features, others groups of native inhabitants from the highest officers in court or official dress to the semi savage Ainos, with their long beards and Indian style of garments and hats. The “Girl of the Period,” a tall (for a Japanese lady), graceful lady, carrying in her hand a “love of a parasol,” about six feet in diameter. The original "Grecian bend” is found in these pictures in the pristine elegance of deformity. Some are straight and erect; others appear as though they were compromising with the quadruped, after the latest “modern” style. The “horse boys,” who run all day long without tiring beride a traveler, are decked in native simplicity, like the Sandwich islanders that Mark Twain describes—minus the “stove pipe.” Groups of girls, the belle playing on the recumbent harp, female smokists, brawny wrestlers, executioners, travelling merchants, itinerant peddlers, and many other novel sights are to he seen in this collection. The work was executed bv an artist at Yokohoma, who has copies for sale at the modest price of $250 each. The photographs are well done and artistically colored. rwmer His reellsws. The (eelings of a near-sighted man. who finds he has kissed his hand to the wrong ladv. The finding your pocket-book gone just as you are about leaving a strange hotel, with no time to spare to reach the cars. The rapidity with which fancy stocks decline when you go in, and rise when you sell out. The sensation from a lady’s hoot heel (preef -* oar foot acci

at some of the

-.v ^ 8t > le -” The skill with which the “gentlemanly” bar-keeper

Poisoned with Posts** Stamp*. The Nashua Telegraph ^ys that Dr. L* Cheslev, of Nottingham, recently received a letter from an unknown source, containing two postage stamps, with an urgent request that>e should send by return man a b'tter to a given address in New York City. The doctor complied with the request, using one of the stamps just received in mailing the return letter, wetting the stamp by laying it upon his tongue, whereupon he was instantly seized with a mysterious fainting -ensation. accompanied with severe convulsive action of th* heart, difficulty of breathing ana a pricking numbness of his whole system. His wife was seized with like symptoms on applying a 'small piece of the other stamp to her tongue, and has been prostrated ever since. The doctor had a quid o! tobacco in his mouth at the time, and thinks that it acted as an antidote to the poison which the stamp contained. He has sent the remaining stamp to Boston for analysis. Flowers as Dlsinfeetawts. Professor Mantegazza has disetnered tlrai ozone is developed by certain odorous flowers. A writer in Nature states that most of the strong smelling vegetable esiences. such as mint, ciovc.y lavender, lemon and cherry laurel, develop a very large quantity of orone when in contact with atmospheric oxygen in light. Flowers destitute of i»erfutne do not develop it, and generally the amount of ozone seems to be in proportion to the strength of the perfume emanated. Professor Mantegasza recommends that in marshy districts and in places infected with noxious exhalations, strong smelling flowers should be planted around the house, in ordei that the ozone emitted from them may exert its powerful oxidizing influence. 8 * pleasant a plan fof making a malarious district salubrious only requires to be known to be put in practice.—(Saturday Review.

A HCORK, Stook, Bond, Note Beal Estate Brokers, 16 North MraumAN Strxst. WK HAVE, at all time*, money to loan on first ■«.««..•< c-h fronting on University grounds at 0i<> per foot, part on longtime. . , „ , ■ FOR HALE—Sixteen lots on Ash and Rohampton streets, in .lobnson's heirs’ additon. Terms, onefifth cash, balance in 1,2, and 4 years. . POK SALE—Seven lots on North Mississippi St., from 188 to fM) pot foot. FuK SALJt—Fine residence on North Pennsylvania, for flo.oct): also u sloe cottage on hellelontaiuo street, for $t,0t!0. FOR SALK—A two-story house, and lot GTxlOo feet, on North Meridian street, for #13,000. FOR SALK—Lot on Broadway at #50 per foot; also a lot in Seaton's addition for #680.

j. c. HOSS.

J. O. FXATlIKMTOIt.

j. v. iao*s & c o„ Real Estate Brokers, Has Mach n Nett h Avenue, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

Sell all kinds of Property, Farms, House*, Lots, etc.; Collect Rents and Rent Houses, and do a tieuern] objecting Business *

|^4»« NAf JR.

A first rata grocery stand in southeast part o

eitv, for sale or trade.

Five acres of land in Brookside at a bargain. A new brick house of 28 rooms, on good term

and at a V>a.gain.

A well improved home farm in Misiouri, to trad

for small farm in Indiana.

Notary business promptly attended to. For rent room 800 Virginia avenue, with stable

etc.

RAYMOND A KRFW80N, 17)4 N. Illinois street, up stairs.

M>U MALE.

Two vacant lots on North Meridian street, #r0 per foot Part rash, balance on litne. Two lots on North Illinois street, at #1,800 each. Part cash, balance in payments to suit purchaser. Six choice lots in vVoodlawn Add., ffcOO each. Part cash, balance on long time. Three lots in Block 4 on Brookside, #600 each. Part iush, balance on long time. Four beautiful lots on N Missi*sippi street, between Walnut and St, Clair. $50 per foot. A great assortment of houses and lots that we can sell to suit nurchasers. TO TRADE. Rea! estate of every description. Don’t fail to call and examine our list. THOMPSON <st LEMON, 9i East Washington street*

Real Estate Agents and Broken? ALSO, DEALERS IN PATENT RIGHTS, No. 30 North Delaware Htreet, Oppositx the Cocbt Horst

Bargains in improved property, ranging in price from >1,100 to $25,000. Also in vacant Jots favorably located. Property for rent. Lands improved or unimproved, for sale or exchange for city property, in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. Prompt attention will .)>e given to every branch of our business, to the collection of claims, payment of taxes, etc.

gives you short change. Getting on horse back for the first time in your life. The amount of your gaa and plumbing hilts. \ our mother-m law’s remarks if you do not go to the mountains or sea shore during the

season.

Mick Brothers, HEAL ESTATE AGENTS, 16 1-3 ICast Washinflton Street, ROOM N<A 7, rP-STAIRH. FOR SALE. Lots in Arsenal Bights for #500. Probably the cheapest lots on the market. Cash $100 down, Glance $100 per year till paid out. This is an excellent opportunity for young men to make a safe investment, and thereby save what many would otherwise throw away. Several nice liule nous^s ranging in price from #1,000 to $2,500. Tcnns e*Sf. We hav*> vacant lots in nearly every part of (he City, ranging in price from $::7'> to $5,000, and think we can ort'er great inducements to buyers. A nice two-story frame house (new,) of 4 rooms,

A lull and complete ‘trek of clothing, with store fixtures, HtuouD'hig in r-6-0 0, to trade forcity property. Will pasy or take cash difference. A very comfortable heme situated oi First street; house has 4 good r *om«, corner lot. Price, $2,200. We have several small iiflcts of land lying east of the city, a iso, a f-w very desirable piece/; southeast and west, which oa i be bought on easy terms. A good stock of dry goods ii, a good country town of 5,008 inhabitants, to exchange for a good city property.

ipon SAI.K AND V.Xt UAHUK. Three fine bo nes on Fletcher avenue. 6 room*, well, cittern, stable, etc: pri es from #2560 to 14,000. A mo, a nue house of i rooms, cellar and porch; everything tn the be.-’ of r.u a;i situated on DouglaMstreet. Price, $1,500; cheap. Ufoiehcap houses J rooms. Price, «•**?- * House and lot on Smith New Jersey street, three square-* uV.o: WmM ! 5 rooms,'eta.; well, tkten MditaUe. Price, #2,m . A tw j-story residence of n rooms, only 4 square* from the Post office; lot ?6%xl» feet: loPwtdl set in fruit, etc. I’rfcc, #5.f«. A vacant lot on kietcher avenue, OOxlfts ft Price, fl.500. Four vacant lots northwest $750 for thei lots. Several line Jots on Tinker street. $700 and #$60 Fine building low on Michigan, North, California and New York streets. Also J) !•»’* in Madison avenue addition. Tbe-sa lot* are choice, and nearly all sold. Garden laud and farms at ail price* ^ jajmks frank, Dealer in Real Estate, etc.. No. &>)* ll»t V shiusMO street

CAMdMW CURE®, OR NO PAKV T \R. SWANK is. and has been making a specialty

the ir'jiayin*; his railroad fare. No core no pay. No tuiuiey in advance. The Doctor also pay*special attention to the treatment of the Ivyo and K»r. Office, 76 North lvnn*ylv*td*street, where hehaa been for Uu last ajtou years.