Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1874 — Page 2

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1 KLUOMAf'M *KWB.

Outstanding legal tenders, $382,000,000. The Missouri Legislature adjourned yesterday. Admiral Porter’s condition was reported to be better last night. The Atlantic Delaine Company, of Providence, has been declared bankrupt. A heavy snow and sleet storm was reported near Big Springs, Nebraska, last night. The new directory of Omaha, just issued, indicates the population of that city to be 27,409. Patrick Hazleton, a Cincinnati laborer, killed his wife with a poker, Sunday evening, in a drunken quarrel. A mass meeting of colored citizens was held in Cooper Institute. New York, last night, in memory of Charles Sumner. There have been heavy losses on both sides in the battle before Bilbao. Santander is crowded with wounded from the republic ranks. General Chanzy has been authorized to declare Algeria in a state of seige in order to restrain the violent abuse of the radical journals in the colony. Louis Riel, the member for the province of Manitoba, has taken the oath of allegiance and subscribed to the role of membership of the House of Commons. The (iondon morning capers attribute the depression in business there to extensive Strikes of coal and iron mines in Staffordshire and other parts of England. The joint committee who arc investigating the affairs of the Diitrict of Columbia have ajqioihted Mr. Blickendorfer, of Ohio, as engineer to test the Government measures. The steamship Nil was lost on her last voyage from Hong Kong to Yohohama. All her passengers were drowned; among them the Japanese commissioners to the Vienna exposition. The Carlist Junta at Bayonne has received dispatches from Durango* claiming that the Royalists maintain all their positions near Bilbao, and have cut the telegraph wires behind Marshal Serrano’s army. In the Superior Criminal Court of Massachusetts yesterday, Chief Justice Brigham sentenced William A. Clover, convicted two years ago of being on accessory to the Boy lesion bank robbery, to twelve years in the State prison. The different trades unions of New York have united in an appeal to labor organizations throughout the country to insist upon eight hours as a day’s labor, and to hold mua meetings on the 11th of May to express opposition to the contract system of government buildings. The steamer Sam J. Hale from Cincinnati for New Orleans burst her steam pipe, one hundred and twenty-five.miles above Memphis Sunday night at 11 o'clock. One of the crew was blown overboard and lost, one was fatally and several seriously injured. The boat was but little injured. The Galleon Insurance company is organizing for the purpose of acquiring ami operating the concession granted by the Spanish government, giving the right to recover a vast amount of treasure known to have been sunk in the fleet of Spanish galleons in the harbor of Vigo, Spain, in 1702. ^ The Lower House of the Missouri Legislature has passed the bill appropriating $10,000 to aid Governor Woodson to bring the Janies and Younger brothers, and other out laws and desperadoes, now in difierent parts of the State, to justice The proposition to establish a State police and a secret service fund, was defeated. In the appropriation bills already reported to Congress there has been a reduction of between $11,U00.000 and $12,000,000 from the revised estimates of the departmerits. and the committees confidently expect to be able to effect an aggregate saving of $25,000,000 in the total appropriations this year as compared with those of last session. Henri Rochefort and his companions escaped from New Caledonia in a small open boat. They Inj^ been three days at sea when they were picked up by a British sailing ves■el and brought to on Australian port. Rochefort has telegraphed to Paris for funds He intends to visit the United States and lecture in New York and other American cities before he returns to Europe, when he will take up his residence at Brussels. A young woman named Miss Sarah F. Watson, murdered her uncle, Hiram Aldridge, on the morning of the 20thinstant, at Ozark Mills, sixteen mile* south of Ironton, by driving an axe into his skull, burying the blade in ins brain up to the handle. Miss Watson confesses to having committed the deed and justifies her act on the ground that her uncle attempted to outrage tier person. Aldridge was only about twenty years old and Miss Watson was about seventeen. While about twenty persons were returning home from church, six miles east of Carbondale, Mo., Saturday night, they were fired on from an ambush, and Mrs Stansel and David Bulliner dangerously, perhaps fatally, wounded. It is not known who the awailante were, but it is thought the affair grew out of an old grudge existing between the Bulliner family and some of their neighbors, and was a continuance of a tragedy which occurred three months ago, in wnich Builuier’s father was killed. George E. Eagle, a painter, endeavored to induce George Holden, who was in his employ, to assist him in robbing Alva Simmons. cashier of the Mechanic’s Bank of South Boston, who was in the habit of visiting a wooden-ware establishment in the city proper, every Monday afternoon, for the purpose of receiving deposits from employes. Eagle's plan was to induce Holden to strike Simmons with a bludgeon after be had received the deposits, and afterwards rob him. Hoiden exposed the affair to a State constable who arrested Eagle while endeavoring to carry out his plans. In the Senate yesterday a bill was reported from the Committee on Public Lands to settle the two percent, claim of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, which was placed on the calendar. The Currency Bill was resumed, the pending question being the amendment of Mr. Morton to strike out the second section, providing that after January 1st, 1876, United States notes shall be redeemed in coin. The motion was adopted by 28 yeas to 23 navs. Pending discussion on a motion by the same gentleman, to strike oqt the fourth section of the bill, the Senate apjourned. In the House, under the call of States, several bills were introduced and referred. Mr. Hurlbut introduced a bill for the construction of the the Portland, Dallas gnd Salt Lake Railroad, which, after some discussion, went over. The situation of Susquehanna Depot is not •a,lovely as yesterday’s dispatches indicated. ££9 zpea art being paid off, bat no com-

promise has been agreed to. The militia Board might very properly refuse to do it” have entire possession of all the They could say with all justice, that “there cSie^Vse^t meeting of the”stnkem was is an officer elected and paid to do that field last evening at their head-quarters at very work, and nothing else, and if he

^'tdc it the blame not ours. We are

unless the company will agree to re-employ m no way bound to make good his ignorail they will refuse to allow any ^goback or inexperience. It is no part of our to work This demand will be refused by , . , , , the Shoad authorities, who have decided to ^ stop cracks in the laws of the rednee the force from 1.000 to 500 men. As f State, and make the people of the country Z to r’Si ' w *«• *• “<*«•" But the question i tovm is filled with rumors in which nitro notan open one now. Byeveryconsideraglycerine and fire are frequently mentioned, tion of consistency and expediency the Iltv ^S e t,T t ' ^ are estopped from denvinp-,he!r

Wednesday. None of the missing pans of the engine have been restored, and fifty engines are lying there disabledf not including those in the shop waiting for repair*. The paymaster was paying the strikers all day yesterday and will finish to-day. Division superintendents, Thomas and Gardner, have returned to their departments. Vice Presidents Clark and Wright are still here It is probable that the strikers will not interfere with the trains, but thev make serious trou-

ble in the shop.

It begins to look as if Livingstone was really dead.

At last there is a probability that the Calumet data trouble is ended.

There don’t appear to be much Jeffersonian Democracy in this neck of woods. The change of the Council meeting to afternoon instead of night, is an improvement likely to last about three weeks. The nominations for Councilman in the Fourth and Eleventh Wards seem to have been effected by zealous electioneering and the free use ot vehicles.

The Sentinel and Journal are at it again tugging at each others ears. ‘There wanst was two cats in Kilkenny, And aich thought there was wan cat too many.’ There is a good working majority for inflation in the Senate and anything looking to a resumption oi specie payments, even in a far oil’indefinite future, will be voted down.

Thk New York Herald pretends to a faith in Grant which has never been justified by anything he has done. It now calls upon him in a ludicrously simple manner to veto any inflation schemes that Congress may adopt. With a President who knew what was right, and had firmness enough to carry it out, such an appeal might not be wasted, but General Grant neither knows what is the bes* policy for the country, nor has he independence enough to cut loose from the swarm oi political adventurers that encompass him, and carry it out. The dishonesty of some advocates of inflation although pitiful is amusing to see. They know very well that a gold standard is the only true one, and that to be on an equality with other nations we must return toil. They will admit that specie payments must come, but they are not ready for it now, knowing that inflation will result in general harm they zealously advocate it, with the quiet belief that they will watch things closely and make a handsome sum before any trouble can come. They will take advantage of the high tide let the ebb catch whom it may. There has been not a little of this sort of reasoning. "It may be bad for the country, but then the people are bent on it and I can be popular and make money during the first rush of excitement. Before the smash comes, as no doubt it will come, I will draw out and have everything safe.” This is dishonesty and the man will suffer by it if (he country does not.

help to the prosecution. After following the case for five years, through lower courts and higher courts, through one county and another, from here to the penitentiary and from the penitentiary back again, to stop now is to confess that this ptfKecution was a persecution, or that the necessity of justice is less apparent now than before. Either is an alternative that honorable men, sensitive for the reputation of the community they represent, would gladly avoid, it seems to us. The question of expense is no longer a controlling or even important question. We have gme too far logo back with credit. As Macbeth says "returning is as tedious asgoo’er.” We can save a thousand dollars or so, but we shall gain the unenviable distinction of having persecuted a woman for five years and being at last worried into allowing her a chance for justice. That the prosecution may come to nothing is nothing to the purpose. Nobody knows that, for one thing, and if everybody knew it, the duty to enforce a full legal trial is none the less clear. That the Supreme Court would reverse a conviction in any case and make still another trial, is probable enough, but that is one oi the chances of evil that we must bear as we bear the possible visitation of a tornado or

the cholera.

Ilntlerand UN Personal Danger. [Washington Cor. Boston Herald.1 On the 13th of next November he will be fifty-six years old. He has never been sick. His constitution has been like iron. He has worked for ten years as few men ever work, even in this busiest of lands. His favorite saying lias been that when he retired at night, unless he was asleep in five minutes, lie thought something was the matter. He has enjeyed absolute uninterrupted health and has reveled in it. But there must be an end to all tilings, and especially to overworked men. Butler has grown obese, and, inferentially. apopletio. His political tights begin to tell on him. The contests of Worcester have helped pull him down. The Simmons tight set his nerves in’a frenzy. His head was clear, but his blood was hot. and his face livid at times. He had wound himself up to a fearful pitch of excitement. When the victory was won and the relapse came, the blood left his face, he became quiet and seemed to have weakened perceptib'y. His friends on the floorsaid he looked fifteen years older. But with his immense interests on his hands there is no release from the tread-mill—no long hours of relaxation. His affairs are as inexorable as those of an Emperor. Some day his life will go out like the light of a hastily-snuffed candle. Ttio Queen'H Keecpiion to Her Rn»*!an

Dniiglitcr-io-Lnw.

A few minutes before one a c[;eer resounded down the line from the crowd that had stationed itself by-the rails, and almost simultaneously the long-expected train dashed into the station, drawing up with marvelous

.SOME CO EXTY MATTERS.

A correspondent of The News yesterday arraigned the County Board for culpable indifference to the public interests, in refusing to employ assistance to the prosecution of Mrs. Clem, while paying what he alleges are extravagant charges for the maintenance oi our paupers. There is a basis of justice in his arraignment, but it is only fair to the present Board to acquit it oi responsibility for a pauper system instituted by its predecessor. Our County Asylum is a monstrosity. It cost enough in its construction to have built a suitable house for the poor of ample capacity, and maintained it from that day to this. It was a freak of folly ior which there is no palliation but pride in handsome public buildings: And it has been conducted with equal disregard of public interests. fx> much we believe to be true. But the present Board is not to blame for it further than in failing to make a deduction in ex penses; not in the aggregate, tor increasing population necessarily makes a larger pauper outlay, but per head. We agree with our correspondent that a cost of $2.57 a week tor each inmate of the Poor House is extravagant.aud inexplicable upon any supposition that does not imply favoritism in

the arrangements which have caused it. ; , , ... ... . were such imbecilednvehngsthat,especially The fact is that until within a few years :l3 coming from an ex-6ecretary of the Trea*past the business of the Board has been so ury. they provoked the ridicule of every

generally unimportant and therefore so lit- j

tie regarded, that the Commissioners Mr. Bout well has made no figure. Hisochave bven restrained in nothing, and a [' asion ^l utterances mi financial subjects have . f * 1 11 v J a 1 been ot a piece with his speeches during the system of tolerably unlimited "do as we p aniCi an d now he caps tfie climax by fend-

precision. with the royal carriage facing the door of the waiting-room. The queen had stepped forth as the engine passed, and almost before the train had stopped the Duke of Edinburg had jumped out and was in the arms of his mother, who kissed him lovingly on either cheek. But the warmth of this reception was eclipsed by that which awaited the young lady with a face paler than the white flowers that trembled in the wreath across her bonnet. There was no introduction of the bride to her new mother. Perhaps when the Duke of Edinburgh turned round and held out his hand to his wife he had it at heart to speak the words of intruInction. But before the Duchess could take the proffered hand the Queen had quickly advanced, and clasping both the bride's hands, kissed her again and again. Then the Princess of Wales, coming forward to renew old acquaintance kissed her sister, and finally the Prince of Wales added his welcome

in brotherly fashion.

To Keep 4‘anaN From I'reealax-

[By a Rochester Genius.]

Tiiis here idee, which cum mighty near liftin’ the top of my head off, is jist like this: I’ve got a patent plan to keep the canals from freezin in winter or summer. 1 propose to build a nice fire-proof huildin’ ■>ver the canal, extendin’ its hull length. This buildin’ will be ornamental, and the upper floors can be used as offices and elevarors. Bizness will flow into ’em; it can’t help it. Along in places where there ain’t much population the buildin’ need’nt be more than two stories high, but in cities it can be as big as Powers’ Block. The offices will be wanned by steam, and of course the canal won’t freeze, for I propose to have a law passed requiring each boat to boil a certain quantity of water an’ pour it into the canal with every mile she makes. Population will flow into the magnificent structure over the canal, an’ the towpath will be kept dry. In summer the heat of the sun will be kept from the backs of the mules, an’ menny valuable lives will be saved, not to mention

profanity.

Tlie *»tatesm:«n of Groton.

[Springfield Union.]

Senator Bout well was one of the three New England Senators who voted for inflation. in the Senate, this week. As a Senator, Mr. Boutwell has not been a success. He has run down steadily in the public estimation since his succession to Henry Wilson’s seat. The panic tame near finishing him. His deliverances on financial issues at that time

please” has grown up, which now, that the

ing his vote to defeat the efforts of Carl

countv business and taxes have become of v' cfaur f, t ? cf l eclc /hereby placing

* ^ , . . himself by the side of Butler m opposition

more consequence to us than those ot the i to the unanimous sentiment of the Suteand legislature, chafes us in several sore places. ; section of the country which he professes to

The remedy lies in a fall report and close re I >reseut ' watch of the proceedings of the Board. Real Estate In New York, and the consequent intimation that the [Graphic ]

members are responsible to the people, an we * r ® apparently about to have

,, , ,, r r > a settled financial pohev, we shall probably

opinion they could hardly have enter-j fitness a revival in the real estate market, tained in the days when the Pauper Pal- 1 Prior to the late panic the paper money of

ace was built, at cost ei ough to erect a tbe ^ n i ry in T

“ L a way bonds. The addition which is about to Court House; and the Michigan street I be made to the volume of currency will bridge was built at a cost of $30,000, where ! probably find its way into other channels.

• . if o* The value of real estate, which has been

nothing hut a cat can climb it at either gradually declining since 18®, and which end, and no business can reach it, or will fell fnllv twenty per cent after the panic, ia near it, for five years to come. now about to rise, not only because we have

* ,7 , , .. . at last a definite policy, but because that "If, as we remarked some time ago In a policy is one of inflation. Speculators are

notice of the Clem case, “the question of already busy searching for eligible investemploying anxitiarr counsel in the l«o~ “TSefS^

cation oi that case were an open one, the same its former activity.

Acbool Statistic* ’Twas Saturday night, and a teacher sat Alone, her task pursuing; She averaged this and she averaged that (Mall that her ctaas were doing; She reckoned percentage, so many boys And *0 many giris all counted. Name* and residences wrots hi full. Over many columns and pages: Yankees, Teutonic, Airigan, Celt And averaged all thelfages. The date of admission of evety one, Inane * Her weary head sank low on her book. And her weary heart still tower. For some of her pupils had iitUs brain. And she could not furnish more And they met her there with a question fair. •State what the percent of your grade is.” Agee had slowly rolled away. Leaving but partial traces. And the teacher’s spirit walked one day In the old, familiar places. A mound of fossilized school reports Attracted her observation. As high as the State House dome, and as wide As Boston since annexation. She came to the spot where they buried her bones. And the ground was well built over. But laborers digging threw out a scull Once planted beneath the clover. A disciple of Galen wandering by. Paused to look at the diggers. And, nicking the skull up, looked through the eye. And saw it was lined with figures. “Ju-tas I thought,” satd the young M. D “How easy it is to kill 'em” — Statistics ossified every fold Of cerebrum and cerebellum “It's a great curiosity, sure.” said Pat ‘ By the bones cau you tell the creature?” "Oh. nothing strange,” said the doctor, “that Was a nineteenth century teacher.”

many Catholics who will go to communion and offer masses and prayers for the only King in Europe that is fighting for God and for His Holy Church.” A clergyman applied at an Atchison, Kan. sas. ticket office for a "clergyman’s ticket.” The agent appeared to doubt the alleged callingof the applicant,Itbe minister said, "If you don't believe I am a minister, I will read you one of my sermons,” and began opening his antiquated sacbeL The ticket was produced without further delay. The fashionables of Paris have taken it into their heads to go en masse to the Comedie Francaise on Tuesday, and on that evening not a box is to be had for love or money, while the house glitters with diamonds and gay toilettes like the Italian Opera. On that night the choicest pieces of the old repertoire are usually played. The crowd outside the court-room was greatly disappointed when it heard the result of the Tichborne trial. A reporter for the Daily News ran to a cab and said, “Drive me to the Daily News office.” "What’s the sentence?" asked the cab driver. "Fourteen years hard labor.” "Then I'll see your d—d neck broke before I’ll drive you anywhere. This little dialogue is characteristic of the crowd. It was a crowd of people who had gradually come to consider the Tichborne case a fight between a butcher and the aria tocracy, and whose mental contusion was too great for them to consider what was involved in the hypothesis.

“SCRAPS."

On the contrary—riding a mule. Tamberlik is singing in Madrid. "Volcano” means an immense hole. Cannibals relish "the broth of a boy.” France is without a rival in porcelain. Three pounds of pork will buy one mule at Atlanta. In New York men reach their prime at 38 instead of 50. Something to be paid "through the nose:” The duty on imported snuff. Two new lodes of lead have been struck in the vicinity of Galena lately. Never take your boota to be mended by a cobler whom you have offended. Gratitude is the throwing out of our hearts in the light of another’s kindness. Mormon missionaries are Utahlizing the resources of Michigan.—[N. Y. World. A Boston correspondent says Gilmore lost just $200,000 for his subscribers at the last Jubilee. Miss Edith Wynne, the Welsh "nightingale,” is to sail from England for this country on the 11th of April. Freeport, Illinois emulous of Elgin and Rockford, has gallantly set about the establishment of a watch factory. "The one tiling.” says Jean Paul, "whicha maiden most easily forget is how she looks— hence mirrors were invented. A Milwaukee policeman has a Newfoundland dog to protect his purse from thieves as he sleeps on his lonely midnight watch. Referring to the number of fights about small sums'of money our arithmeticians are reminded that there are ten mills to a cent. Six saloon keepers of Milwaukee have agreed not to set out any more lunches, and a local reign of terror has been inaugura-

ted.

A number of ladies and gentlemen from St. Louis have arrived at Galveston to assist the Rev. Mr. Hammond in his revival exer-

cises.

There are no less than fifty editors and reporters encamped at the foot of Bald Mountain, North Carolina, awaiting developments. Every contribution to the Sumner memorial fund now being accumulated at Boston is to be acknowledged by a heliotype portrait of Sumner. The Rev. Edward C. Towne, a radical Uni tarian writer, has announced his return to "Loyalty to the Christ of God in Jesus,” wherever that is. One lead pencil, according to a contemporary, lasts a Dubuque editor three months, but he has to have a new rivet in his shears every three weeks. A pickpocket recently arrested in Rochester defended himself by saying that he was only searching the man’s pocket for proof of frauds against the government. General Banks’s sonJoseph was assaulted and left senseless on a Boston street by some roughs, the other night, for trying to help some girls they were insulting. Minnesota lags behind the age in financial matters. It has taken two banks there thirteen months to get deposits enough for a paltry defalcation of $20,000.—[N. Y. World. M’me Isabella McCulloch Brignoli, wife of the tenor, now in Europe, sang in "Martha” Saturday, at the Brooklyn Academy. This was her first appearance in public for several

years.

Charles Lamb’s ward—his adopted daughter she might be called,—is still alive, and, it is announced, in destitute circumstances. An appeal has just been made in her behalf

to the public.

A leading merchant of Anoka, Minnesota, a church member of fifteen years standing, has withdrawn from the church on account of the persecution of the crusaders, one of

whom was his own wife.

Capu William Flowers of Bangor, Maine, has invented a new sleeping-car, in which the berths are placed in the middle, leaving an aisle on each side of them, thus securing

privacy and better ventilation.

David Kalakaua, the new king of Hawaii, is about forty years of age, and has held a seat in the House of Nobles, and been Chamberlain to Kamehameha V. He is a nativist and opposed to foreign control. His grandfather was hanged for poisoning his wife. There is a boy in Washington county, Iowa, who sheds his skin in scales every three months. He is a bedridden invalid, having injured his knee several years ago while bathing. His malady appears to be | something like scrofula, but is a puzzle to the '

doctors.

Don Carlos was twenty-six years okl yes* i terday. The Freeman’s Journal, in record-|

ing the fact adds that "there are a geod <U Lammermoor,’

CITY IVKWtS.

Work In the Chnrche*. The daily prayer meetings of the Y. M. C. A. are very interesting, and are held from

to 9 A. M.

The mission at the Holy Innocent’s Church was commenced last night by the Rev. Dr. Austin. There will - be service to-day at 10 o’clock with brief sermon; and at 4 o’clock, followed by conference meeting; and again at 7 ^ o’clock. Mission service, with sermon by Dr. Austin. The Bishop and several other clergy will be present this evening. It promises to be a season of Mnusual interest to all who attend. The interest in the meetings at Christian Chapel are unabated. Elder Moore will this evening take for his subject "Objections to becoming a Christian answered.” Daily prayer meeting from 3 to 4 r. m. Temperance Matters. Mrs. Heath presided over the Roberts Park Temperance meeting last evening, and there were stirring addresses from Rev. O. S. Dean, Mrs. L. 0. Robinson, Mrs. Dr. Haggart and the President, besides a solo song by Mrs. Walker, and the recitation of a poem by Mrs.

Cornelius.

The following items of business were ordered to be published. The Ward Secretaries will hand in a weekly report of the meetings held in the ward, which shall not be read, but'the leading items published in the paper of next day. Those ladies who have withheld their co-operation heretofore are earnestly requested to attend. There were meetings of the ladies of the 1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 13th Wards this afternoon, at the various places previously announced.

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That Engine Test. ’

Yesterday afternoon the Clapp & Jones was tested on University Square, and after the torch was applied she showed 10 pounds of steam in two minutes; 15 in 5:20; 20 in 6:20; and in 6:35 was started—the engineer helping the turning of the wheel. In 10:35 she threw water through the nozzle of 750 feet of hose, and one half minute later reached 50 feet. The farthest distance with a 1% nozzle, was 217Va feet; afterwards the hose was shortened to 300 feet, same size nozzel, and 230 feet scored, and 197 feet with a 1% inch nozzle. This distance was in small spurts, a few drops of water at a time, and not by any means in a continuous stream. Still later, the hose was laid South on Meridian, and water nicely thrown over the top of the Meridian Street Church spire, going six or eight feet higher, but not maintaining this bight any considerable length of time. The engine threw well, but not so well as the agent had led the citizens to expect, and she disgusted her few friends in the Council by the slowness in generating steam. Eleven minutes in throwing 50 feet, and nearly 25 in reaching 120, is too slow for an enterprising "city of concentric circles.” The friends of the glorious Latta were more than ever jubilant, and after this test were ready to •champion” the Cincinnati machine against any squirter on wheels or on the ground, that ever was manufactured, much less ex-

hibited in this city. OERMAK OPERA.

I.a Favorlta.

No other of the composers ot the Italian school understood as well as Donizetti how to blend the sweet melodic rhythms of his own order of mind with the sterner and more scientific intricacies of the acrimonies of the German school, and in this, deemed by lovers of classic music to be his greatest work, he has approached wonderfully near the latter order; at times, in fact, being considerably over the line of demarkation. Within the scope of this work we have, following each other in rapid flow, beautiful melodies, refined modulations and progressions. scientific harmonies blended and framed after the most subtle resources and rules of counterpoint, and uniting all in dramatic unity an i rile resting, though somewhat, perhaps, questionably moral story as a plot. Such a work necessarily demands, in its interpretation, the most talented lyric artists, and none others should essay it with any dreams of success. To succeed is, therefore, to fix the seal of ability upon those who do win the approval of their auditors, and the triumph is never easily won. That our present troupe succeeded admirably well last evening, those present will cheerfully attest, as the eral effect of the work was fine Jaeger as “Leonora” developed to a still greater degree her reserved dramatic power, and won still brighter laurels than those already gathered. This artiste improves with each hearing, giving in every new work additional tokens of immense lyric power. Mr Beetz as "Fernando,” was excellent in voice and action. His “Spirito Gentel” was rendered as excellently as that well-known air has ever been given in oar city, and perhaps elsewhere. Mr. LaFontaine as "Don Carlos” was extremely good, as was Mr. Franoech as the monk Balthazer.” Chorus and orchestra, with the occasional help of the prompter, contributed a full share to the P ~S success and "f-S Vavnritm” —Ml I P

King & Gervais, REAL ESTATE BROKERS, No. a Clay pool Block, Corner 1111 uofs Wasbinirlon streets, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. EOR R EXT. Good office rooms, second floor front; large hall, superior for lodge or club EOR TRADE. FARM of 160 acres, 3 miles from corporation line, east. Will take a good county town property, some little cash, and balance on long time. 8team Flour Mill, Bartholomew County, a* follows: Mill property, four acres of ground, mill house, 60x60, 3 stories and hlyh attic; first story stone, balance extra heavy timber; engine and boiler room 20x60. one story, brick stack 50 feet high, boiler 44 Inches In diameter, (28 feet long,) 2 flues 15 inches diameter, engine 12x24, only ono year old, 2 runs 3>$ foot old quarry wheat stones. 1 run foot com stone; capacity zfi bm-hels wheat and 30 bushels com per hour. Independent boiler feeder Independent merchant and custom bolts clothed two years ago with best Du four anchor cloths, and can run either or both bolts at pleasure. Cleaning and elevating machinery all In complete and good order, t-to rage room for 10,000 bushels wheat and 5,000 busheT com. One 4-ton Fairbanks scale; Fairbanks hopper and platfo m scales. Taggart packer, new. bwitch to the door ; brand of flour A1 at Louisville, Madison. Cincinnati, etc. Warehouse 24x60; power com sheller and cleaning rig, with capacity of 100 bushels per hour; fuel abundant; wood S2 per cord In yard. Brice $10,000. Will take unencumbered property worth about $1,600; $l,u00 cash, balanc* to suit. Bargains in residences, mills, farms, and all kinds of property FOR SALE—Vacant comer lot on Tennessee street, 120xl87>£, 5 feet above grade. Inside city lots at $450. WANTED—VValnut timber for cash. Give full description of locat on a- well as price, quantity and size. Near stream preferred. Bargain in a house, about $3,500. Homes for rent. Rental property fbr unencumbered lots and money.

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There was a regular raeetingof the Council last evening, resulting in the adoption of a multitude of motions of minor degree. Ordinances were introdneed as follows: To grade and pave with brick the sidewalk on Arsenal avenue from Washington to Michigan streets. * To grade and gravel the first alley east of Meridian street running north and south,be-

tween Ray and Han way streets.

To grade and gravel Hudson alley between

Vermont and North streets.

To confirm and approve the report of the City Commissioners covering the opening of Morris street between Tennessee street and

White river.

To grade and gravel the alley between Fletcher and Forest avenues, running from

Pine to Cedar streets.

Seventh street, from Tennessee to the I C <fc L. tracks was ordered widened. The ladies of the Temperance Union now making their appearance, their petitions, presented and published last week, was read and referred to the City Attorney. The Park avenue contractor was ordered to hurry up. A motion looking to the reduction of show licenses from $100 to $50 per day, was passed Messrs. Adams, Stratford and Wood bum and a committee of citizens consisting of Messrs. W. H. English, W. W. Caldwell and E. B. Martindale were appointed to confer with the committee on railroads, the committee on sewers, the Civil Engineer and the committee appointed by the Union Railroad Directory, and to perfect plans, make wtl mates and ascertain what portion of the zr'zz? th ,r T m e.riy x” 1 « SSSrt ll 1 " 2l!a.„". ,aUer . toight b.

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cil was ordered not to fool with tb* i n dil!tin^in S ravei rcad bv putting in gutters, etc. The agent of the Clapp thin\ neS raa ? e tlie followin § proposition, w V. l w t0 the Fire Department; 4 . v > 6 vnll meet in your city any engine of the same size and weight in a competition trial, the engines to work side by side and the trial be such as to bring out the following points: economy in the use of fuel amonntof oil used, power to work through one, two or three thousand feet of base for five to ten hoars without stopping, and anv other testa that are desirable to show thi* steamers. The machine will be sold to the city on the day of the exhibition for $4,500.’’

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