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THE DAILY NEWS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH SL 1880.

The last and worst: Constitational amendment N®. 1 ia a virtual property qualification, and designed to exclude every one from the suffrage not a property holder! This is asserted by the democratic state organ. After all, this is not surprising. The amendment muat be opposed, and the real reason for the opposition ie too discreditable to be given.

The strongest government is that which ia strong in the hearts of the people. Anything that appreciates the value of the ballot is a blessing. That is what a registry law will do. The president’s little jaunt to New York yesterday t® open the museum of art, was a pleasant one. Art. should feel encouraged.,. - * Con® rbssm a a Townshend has not slaughtered aay one at last advices.—[Inter Ocean. No, he hasn’t; but he made the tariff monopolists roost higher. Next time he goes gunning he will bag ’em. James Gordon Bennett has been getting into the English again. After giving $100,000 to Ireland, he sent his horse to England and wins a race in the face of ) betting 3 to 1 against,, “Bill” Kemble is wanted in Harrisburg and yet was comfortably housed in a New York Hotel, yesterday, whence he has since disappeared. It seems to a looker on that if he had been wanted very badly he could have been secured. ■ 1 -m ^ The parliamentary elections in England have already begun. What will the harvest be is still a question. The general judgment seems to be that if Beaconsfield gets to be premier again, it will be as the Dutchman got to heaven, “a tarn tight squeeze.” It is said that a registry law will disfranchise thousands of honest workingmen. This is not true. Thousands of honest workiugmen are not moving about thirty days before an election. It will disfranchise the tramps who kill the votes of honest workingmen. That’s what it will

Lafayette has a taste of the value of

The Voorhees exodus investigating committee grinds slowly from day to day, and doubtless few read what cornea from it. But there ia a general drift of testimony now as to the cause of the exodus, which may be summed up in a phrase, “lack of fair play,* which is not at all what Mr. Voorhees was hunting for when he started out. John Kelly ia going to hold hi® state convention at Syracuse next month. Kelly will fight it out on this line from Syracuse to Cincinnati, and from Cincinnati to the polls, if Tildeo be nominated. There Mcms nothing more certain than that the electoral vote of New York is the pnoe th® democracy will have to pay for the nomination of Tilden.

subsidies te railroads. She gave $372,000 to what is now the Lake Erie & Western road, on condition that the shops should be located there. The road went into bankruptcy almost as soon as it was completed, was sold out, and now the new company remove the shops to Lima, Ohio, which bids $100,000 for them. The whole system of subsidies to railroads is pernicious. An eastern exchange notices that it was not so very long ago that Christmas was hardly observed as a holiday,whereas now even good Friday is almost universally observed as such. The great exchanges in the large trade centers were closed, the United States senat® adjourned over the day, and in some places theaters suspended performances. We take it this is as much from the fact that we have so few holidays in this country, as from the religious significance of the day. There is a stagger in the direction of tariff reform by the action of the ways and means committee, as Reported in The News yesterday. The duty on paper and most of the materials for the manufacture thereof was taken off, while the ad valorem duty on woolens was put at 40 per cent. Tariff reform is coming. Delayed greatly by the presidential issues of this year, it is certain itself to be the issue thereafter; not unlikely the issue on which the next presidential election mav turn. * Theodore W. Woolsey, Leonard Bacon, William G.\ Sumner, Francis Wayland, George William Curtis are some of the men who are urging the nomination of Edmunds as president. It is honor enough for one man to have such a constituency as that, and so far as he is concerned nothing more might be wished him. But as the Boston Herald well §87s, “It would be 6o jolly to have a candidate who, while well fitted for the office has not sought it. And it would be a good lesson for young statesmen.” - The Baroness Burdett-Coutt® also. She’ll have none of Gladstone and liberalism. It “seemed to her that under the present circumstances of the world the country needs, above all things, strong government.” So they have the same disease over there, and it is among the same people—the rich and those who would be among the great of earth. They distrust the people. “Croppies lie down” is their theory of government. “Lead and steel,” as some of our own supporters of a strong government have affirmed, ia. the policy wanted to “rule the masses.” Will we submit to this sort of thing in this country? We shall see. Henest Elections. It is worth more to any party to b« sure of a fair election, than to be sure of its result. A victory fairly lost may be fairly regained, but a victory unfairly won is a perpetual incentive to unfairness. As oue lie needs a dozen to cover it, and ®ne embezzlement drags more after it, one rascally election needs another and that another to avert the exposure that must come of a fair ®ne. Practically the only return to honest elections after jt resort by •ne party to ‘•importing,” “ballot-stuffing,” or “repeating,” is for both to practice them sufficiently to balance each other, and leave a pretty honest result of neutralizing rascalities. This is a costly landing at a point that a decent regard for law and self-respect could have reached f®r nothing. But both parties in Indiana have reached it the long way and the wrong way. Now it is time for both te stop, and count the cost in money—and far greatef in demoralization and dqager to the permanence of popular government—of a. system that worked for all that it is worth, is so evenly marked by emulous dishonesty on both sides that no general advantage is gained to either. The constitutional amendments aim and are able to make the most formidable of these frauds, importation of voterp, too costly to be practicable. If ratified, as every friend of honest elections hopes they will be, the colonization of voters in doubtful precincts will become a lost art. Once in the constitution in the explicit language of the first amendment, so warmly recommended by Governor Hendricks, the obstruction of the. chief channel of elective corruption will be very nearly complete. There is no opposition, so lar as we can learn, except among the brass-bound democracy. Some, if not most of the foremost men of the party, support them, or have heartily commended them. There can be no reason for opposition but the hope of benefitting by a continuance of the laxity of the present provisions. The man who says he means to^vote “no” on the first amendment leaves the inference, not only fair but inevitable, that he expects to profit by the chance of fraud. He may disclaim till his tongue is tired, and his associates may, as “Sergeant Joy” says, “resoloot till the cows come home,” that they are as anxious for honest elections as anybody, but when they try to defeat one effectual guaranty of honest-elections, which can have no possible operation but the obstruction qf fraud, they proclaim one of two things, either that they believe the rest of the world fools, or that they don’t care who knows they lie. Opposition among those who can read—and understand—means simply tljat they don’t want fair elections. This proposed remedy for a great evil—one of the moat insidious that accompanies our national career was thoroughly discussed by two legislature®, both democratic, and adopted by both, with few dissentients, after repeated

recommendations by democratic governors. There has actually been such a force of democratic sentiment in its favor, that if the democrats had chosen te make it a party measure it would have been no easy matter for the republicans to have prevented them from snatching the credit of being the party of honest elections. But a change has come upon some of them of the “baser sort,” some of the Kearney and soft money crowd, and among them we hoar of opposition. We hope confidently in the succe the whole set of amendments, but this regarding the qualification of voters, and that allowing the p-aduation of county salaries, are worth all the rest.

CURRENT COMMENT. The Grant republicans of Chicago do not enthuse over the republican convention so much as they should, if the nomination of Grant is deemed “a dead sure thing,” as is claimed, The committee to prepare the Exposition building met yesterday, and reported that only $3,425, out of the $15,000 necessary, •had been raised. The landlords had only given $1,500, and the brewers would gire nothing, probably because the price of beer is not to be raised. A contract for the carpenter work needed in remodeling the Exposition hall was let for $6,802.51. The “boomers” should go to Chicago and help push things. John Russell Young in “Around the world with General Grant” gives the following description of the young king of Siam, whose meditated visit to the United States has been announced: “His majesty, the first king of Siam, and absolute sovereign, is naped Chulahlongkorn. This, at least, is the nhme which he attaches to the reyal signet His name is given in the book as Phrabat Somdetch Phra Par amende Mohah Chulahlongkorn Blow. He i8 now in the twenty-fifth year of his age, and ascended the throne eleven years ago on the death of his tether. * • * The king is a young man, active and nervous in his movements, with a full, clear, almost glittering black eye, which jnoved ahout restlessly from one to the other, and while he talked his fingers seemed to be keeping unconscious time to musical measures. • * Everything about the king betokened a quick and high intelligence, and tlthough the audience [with Grant] was a formal one, and the conversation did not go beyond words of courtesy and welcome from the king to the general and his party, he gave you the impression oTs resolute and able man, full of resources and quite equal to the cares of his station. This impression, I may add, was confirmed by all that we heard and saw in Siam.” We find the following item in the GlobeDemocrat : Gil Feres, whose madness was announced a few weeks age, ia now comfortably Installed in Dr. Blanc’s maison de sante. He is In excellent health and apirits. He Imagines that he is the steward Of a grand seigneur who has charged him with the sdnAnLstration of his estates. Barring the mistake in orthography, The News is happy to say that Mr. Gil Pierce, while in excellent health, is not in Dr. Blanc’s maison, but in the Inter-Ocean office at Chicago, and his particular delusion is that Gen. Grant is likely to become president. Possibly Gen. Grant is the “grand seigneur” alluded to, in which case the confusion is more apparent than real. The nomination ot Mr. Tilden, according to the calculations of shrewd observers iu Washington, will break up the democratic party. The party can not stand another defeat. There is, therefore, every conceivable inducement not only to abstain from nominating Mr. Tilden, but to place in nomination a candidate who deserves to be elected. No democratic, candidate who does not deserve success can be elected next November.” —[Charleston News and Courier. Some mothers destroy their offspring from a mistaken sense of religious duty, and others for the purpose of hiding their shame. But here is the bourbon party of Indiana murderously assaulting seven of its own offspring all at once (the amendments) not from any sense of religious or other duty, and not to hide its shame, but apparently for the sole purpose of repudiating and andoingabont the only virtuous act of which any intelligent and fair-minded jury would be likely to find it guilty.—[Chicago Times. All Europe follows German example, and arms and watches and waits until unable to move or to rest, or to sleep for its own armor. It feels like the sentry who, as the night draws on, would almost welcome a shot as a relief from the monotony of the watch. It is the end of the nineteenih centhry, and the half of state resources and a tenth of the working time of all nations are devoted to to the keeping of armor ready for the battles which may come.—[London Spectator. The Czar’s Safety Plan. A correspondent, who recently obtained accese to the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul says that an aide-de-camp who acted as guide informed him, among other things, that in tho wall of the emperor’s room is an invisible door communicating with a little passage, very narrow and leading to a subterranean gallery, which, hollowed out under the Neva, leads^to the fortress, and, in the case of revolution or of imminent peril, the czar could disappear in a few seconds from the Winter palace, and in a few minutes after find himself in perfect safety in the foitress of St Peter and St. Paul, the guns of which, in a short time, could reduce SL Petersburg to ruins.

Mrs. Look’s Carious Presentiment.

[New York San ]

The aged mother of Dr. Samuel Long, of New Brunswick, N. J., lived for many years in Norristown, Pa. She had a presentiment that she would die if she had any of her teeth drawn. STeveral weeks ago one of her young lady friends, who was not very strong, had five teeth drawn, and the old lady then decided that if the young lady could stand the dreaded operation she could. She therefo re consulted with a dentist, who laughed at her fears. Three of her teeth were drawn without serious results, but as the fourth tooth was being extracted the old lady dropped her head, said she was dizzy, aud in an

hour she was dead.

John Kelly’s Convention. The Kelly committee have called a state convention to be held at the same time and place as the regular democratic convention. The call invites all democrats and others who are opposed to a pledged delegation to the ensuing national convention for the support of any one man, but in favor of the nomination of an upright, acceptable candidate for president, who can unite the democratic party of the state and of the nation. Farm Labor Troubles iu Louisiana. Gov. Wiltz has sent a battalion of militia to St. John’s parish, where the strikers are said to be intimidating and flogging all who do not obey their commands. The strike in St Charles parish ended by most of the laborers resuming work at the old wages. Two Cowardly Parties.

[South Bend Tribune.]

It is not likely that the tariff question will be heard of again this season. Both parties are afraid to handle it. The tariff question is

That To-Morrow.

like a two-edged sword.

Railroad Building in Minnesota. A St. Paul firm bare contracts for building one hundred and seventy five miles of railroad in Minaeeota this year.

We borrow, v . • - In our sorrow. From tho sub of somo to-morrow Half the light that gilds tka day; And tha splendor Flashes tender, O’er Hope’s Ibotstepe, to defend her From the fears that haunt the way. —[Father Ryan. SCRAPS. There is a town in Kansas named “Monkey Wrench.” Kalloch is coming east to lecture on the Chinese question. Cervantes is to have a monument in Central park, New York. Dr. Schliemann is hard at work on a new book, which is all about Troy. The property qualification disfranchises one-fourth of the citizens of Rhode Island. The lamber product of the Minneapolis mills for 1879 is set down at 149,754,547 feet. This is a little below the average for the past ten years. The Rev. William M. Baker id writing a short story, in which the principal characters in his novel.“His Majesty, Myself,” are introduced. Bishop Bedell says that, if mi. isterg would only speak the truth iu funeral sermons, the demand for such discourses would be rapidly diminished. * A candidate for the nomination for governor of Missouri is down with the measles, caught in kissing the girl baby of a delegate to the convention. General T.H. Simpson, of the army, has retired to private life at St. Paul, Minn. He had been in the service of the government for fifty-two years. William Ellery Channing, the great Unitarian divine, was ‘insignificant in figure, short, slender, thin, and weighed not much mere than 100 pounds. Maine is going to boom for Blaine at Chicago with the aid of a special Pullman train, carrying two or three hundred anxious politicians, with a brass band and other fixings. A Council Bluffs reporter found on one of

In the summer it is intended to place soda water fountains, ice cream saloons and confectionary stores in stations of the New York elevated railroads. Book and newspaper dealers now occupy th'em. Dr. Yandell, of Lonisville, is the authority for the statement that a mnle, now in the Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris, has brought forth no fewer than six foals—some by zebras, seme by an ass, and some by a stallion. This fertility in a hybrid is remarkable. Four or five enormous blocks have beeu removed by order of the khedive from the great pyramid for the purpose of building a mosque. This mutilation has been severely criticised by the Egyptians, whose faith, if pinned to anything, is pinned to the great relics of the Pharaohs. Gen. Imboden, who Represents a large company of northern capatalists, has purchased 42,000 acres of land in Scott county, Va., at fifty cents per acre. This land is believed. to be rich m iron ore®, and furnaces will be built at once, as well as a narrowgauge railroad to connect with some other line ef transportation. Louis XV had his speeches written out for him with marginal notes—“Here the king will put on astern aspeot,” “At this point his majesty will wave his hand,” “At this the roval countenance will become mild.” When he came of age, in 1723, three speeches were necessary—one for the king, one for the regent, and one for the president of the parliament. In order that they might not be inconsistent their preparation was entrusted to one person—President Henault. Henry James, jr., is making quite a sensation among the literary critics of England, mainly because he writes ele/ant English. They say that he has the genius of style. Henry James, the elder, was born in New York state, and was a religious radical. His books about the idea of Swedenborg have been in this country authorities on Swedenborgianism. Mr. James, jr., has written about the American girl in a way that has made him and the girl respected abroad—for their style. Ascan Backus, of Newtown, L. I., who died on Thursday last, was the largest market gardener in the state, of New York, cultivating eight hnndred acres, and employing several hundred persons. In July, 1829, the widow and twelve children landed iu New York, Ascan then being 15 years o]d. Nearly all of his brothers were farmers, and died rich, but not one of them ever rose to bia pinnacle of success. His landed-estate in Queens county is estimated to be worth $750,000, and his entire wealth is estimated at $1,200,000. , An engineer on the Lehigh Talley road broke the valve of his steam-pipe on Monday, and to save his life couldn’t stop the shrill screaming that followed. The prolonged whistling caused much commotion among people living along the line of the road, and many ran from their liomes to ascertain what was the matter. The engineer pointed to the whistle, which the fireman was vainly endeavoring to fix, bnt his gestures were not understood. Stationmen, flagmen, trackmen, and others had an idea that the engineer was crazy, and began to predict all sorts of disasters. The engine was run to Sugar Notch and housed, and there the fire was drawn. All this time, and until the steam was exhausted, that insatiable whistle tooted away like mad. It was a funoy sort of an accident, and created qmite an excitement. ' Dr. Calderwood, professor of -moral nhilosophy in the University of Edinburg, has, in his work recently published, entitled, “The relations of mind-and brain,” the following story of a dog: “A dog belonging to a United Presbyterian minister killed the fowls while the family were at church and buried them in the garde®. The bodies were found. The dog was taken to the garden and immediately confessed his guilt. His master took him to the library, and, having shat the door, began a reprimand after this fashion: ‘What a wieked thing you hare done in murdering the hens! You are a minister’s dog, and should have been an example to other dogs instead of doing such a thing as this. Then this iS the Sabbath day, and the deed is all the worse on acccount of the day on which it has been done.’ Thus admonished the dog was put out of the door and the defor abut. Next day he was found dead. A veterinary surgeon was consulted, and declared that the dog had died of a broken heart.” • Who Protection Oppresses. [Louisville Courier-Journal.] The agricultural products of the United Stages make up eighty-two per cent of our exports. Yet the class which is such an important factor in the' business of the country is heavily and unjustly taxed through the protective tariff, to keep the manufacturing interest in funds. The manufacturing interest says it can’t live except through taxing other interests. Virginia Biscuit. One quart flour, one-half teaspoonful salt, one-quarter pound butter; mix the flour and butter with the hand, together, and moisten with water; roll it out very thin three times, and beat with the rollingpiu each time; roll as thin as a sheet of paper, cut with a saucer, and bake in sheets. These are particularly nice for lunch. Wishing for a Dear Gazelle. [Cincinnati Enquirer.] What is hindering the appearance of General Tom Brady’s three ceut-mor&l engine, devoted to the defense of the Star Route Mail service? We had got our hopes centered on that paper as a sort of disturbing element in the stagnant pool of Indiana politics. Never M|pd the ’’Walk Ovor.” [Logs as port Pharos ] The only fear of the Pharos is that the anti-third term movement may develop strength enough to lay Grant out in the convention. Such a result would materially interfere with the “walk over” that seems to be in store for the democracy. Mutual Insurance Societies. * The mutual insurance societies have, it is estimated, a membership of 500,000 In the United States, representing each man insured for $1,000 or npwards.

NEW YORK LETTER. Why Sawyers’ Lamp May Reid Out to Burn—Edison at a Discount—The Keely Motor Want’s a “Boom” of Its OwnStrikers Having It All their Own Way— Ritualism Rampant In New York—Dlz’s Persecutor a Bungler. [Correspondence of The Indianapolis News.] New Yoke, March 27, 1888. The Sawyer electric light has, in the opinion of many good judges, come to stay. It has come just in time to reap the advantages of the excitement and interest in the matter created by the Edison boasting and fiasco. Sawyer recognized from the beginning that Edison’s search after an absolutely indestructible substance which, heated to incandescence would not trarn up or disintegrate after a time was futile. Chemists have been looking for such a substance for 20 years and have failed to find it. They have produce^ carbon in a shape as durable as Edison’s famous horseshoe of cardboard; they have used every device which Edison has used to keep oxygen from the carbon, and have always failed, it being thought by the ablest physicists of to-day that the fact that the carbon gave out light was evidence that molecular movement and disintegration was going on. It Is now pretty well known that heat is produced by" the rapid movement of molecules—rapid vibrations which when produced in rapidity must end in disintegrating the substance. It has been estimated that a trillion of vibrations a second is not more than the molecules of carbon experience when heated to a lightgiving heat; therefore it follows that the carbon quietly falls to pieces on being heated to even white heat. Edison refused tp acknowledge this, going on the supposition that there were conditions in which he could place his carbon horseshoe in which disintegration would not take place. He thronghtthat by exhausting the air from his lamps the carbon would last; but it did not, and Ediron is sick in bed with disappointment and overwork. Sawyer, on the other hand, after innumerable experiments in search of an indestructible carbon, turned his attention to the nse of a carbon which -would burn up gradually, taking as the basis of his experiments the Werdermann lamp, which is now immensely sudfcesefui in France. In this WerdermaU lamp, however, the carbon burns away in the air and burns quickly, a carbon pencil, five inches long, lasting not more than an evening; the constant wearing away of the point of the pencil as it barns necessitates clock work to propel the pencil forward, or to feed it, so to speak, to the flame. Clock work is all very well for very expensive lamps for public buildings, but would not be practical for private dwellings. Therefore, Sawyer set about finding some means of making the carbon burn away so slowly that one “feed” of carbon would do for an evening. He accomplished this by surrounding his carbon pencil with nitrogen, using an air-tight lamp. He finds that in this way only one-twentieth of an iach of the carbon pencil is used up in an evening of five hoars. Then it becomes necessary to give one turn of a screw and send the pencil forward another twentieth of an inch. His m in difficulty heretofore has been to make a lamp perfectly air-tight and yet which could be opened once a year or oftenerlf necessary, in order to replace thewarbon. A pencil (which, hr the way, is in appearance exactly like the lead in an ordinary writing pencil) ten inches long will therefore last between six and seven months, if one-twentieth of an inch burse away every evening. Then it becomes necessary to open the lamp and nut in a new carbon. To be able to open the lamp easily and close it up again has been the great trouble, which has at last been overcome, so Sawyer says, by the invention of a now cement, which only mflts under great boat and is perfectly air tigbt. This cement is something like rubber in its nature, not being affected by the changes of temperature and giving slightly with the contraction and expansion of the glass lamp. Of course the lamp wheu lit becomes very hot and any ordinary soft cement would melt. On the other hand, the cement most be soft enough to permit the contraction and expansion of the glass and metal parts of the lamp with which it is in contact The light is admirable—soft, steady, pare, and more powerful than a big |as jet, which was not the case with the Edison light. I understand that Sawyer is to build a depot at once from which all those persons within a mile can be furnished with the electric light. The cost will be about half the cost of gas. Within six months I am very sanguine of seeing the light in practical nightly use. It is worth .remarking that whereas the Edison lamp was received with a chorus of doubt and even derision from the scientific men of the country,; there is not heard a word of unfavorable comment upon Sawyers lamp. I would not advise any one to sell gas stock because the Sawyer light is said to be a suacess, but|there is far more reason for the gas companies to tremble now than when the Herald was devoting whole pages to the wonders of Menlo Park. When the Edison light turned out to be a failure ladies seemed to regret the motor by which they intended to run their sewing machines and rock their babies’ cradles more than the light. I am happy te say that the motor which Sawyer' will put into every house where his light is used is, if anything, better thaa Edison’a, and not half as large. Even if the electric light is not all that is hoped for it, the introduction of these beautiful little motors is is only a matter of a little time. WHAT KEEtY IB GOING TO PO, PERHAPS, ETC. I saw that-The News contained the other day an account of the new efforts made by Keely to convince the world that he really had a machine which was going to pull railroad trains a mile a miaute, drive ships through the water at the rate of thirty miles an hour, supersede water, steam, and every other known impeller of machinery, aud revolutionize the manufacturing "world; throw np the heaviest masses as a boy pitches up a marble, and cut throngh granite as we ent throngh cheese; in grinding and separating as well as jn tunnelling and hoisting it will speedily raise the worth of every good mine ia the world, and no less speedily detect the worthlessness of bad mines. In fact what the Keeley motor will not be able to do will not be worth doing. I know nothing whatever of the motor or its maker, bnt I happened to hear an interesting conversation concerning the machine about a year ago in a New Jersey foundry, where 1 was called by some business. The foundry in question was one specially devoted to casting large pieces of steel. One of the company’s recent orders was from the Keeley motor people, who wanted a casting of steej ia-shape like an enormous cannon ball weighing several tons, with a small chamber in its center and two air holes, the diameter of a pencil, leading to it. The walls of this chamber were to be a foot and a half thick, of solid steel, which strength it was supposed was needed on account of the terrible force of the new power. I never heard whether this coating answered its purpose, but some person evidently had faith enough in the machine to spend a great deal of money on it. The New York “backer” of the Keely motor is a sharp business man, tyho has ruined himself by neglecting a fine business in iron pipe to rua after the motor. He has been losing money on it for six years now, and is to-day just as confident and just B£ read; to spend his last cent on it as ever he was. This gentleman, whose name is F. G. Greene, failed in business two years ago, bnt has since succeeded in retrieving his fortunes to a certain extent The singular feature about his failure was that a large block of Keely motor stock was counted by Greone among the assets, to the dismay of the creditors. Yet, such was Greene’s enthusiasm and persnaaive powers that the creditors allowed him to take $3,000 ont of the available assets with which to continue his motor experiments. Greene is convinced that the day of triumph is at hand—when the faithful few who have stuck to Keely will be rewarded with millions, and looked up to as the benefactors of their race. If Keely does one tenth part of what he promises— and The probabilities are that he is a bold im-postor-mankind can soon fold its hands, and eat the bread ef idleness; the Keely motor will do oil tho work th&tis to bo done. It has been said in the newspapers that no Keely motor stock is to be found for sale in tke market so great is the effect of this re-

cent “boom,” but this anxiety for a stock was considered worthless six months ago, may be or] ly > ane more proof of the extraordinary

mania for speculatioa new nrevalenL THB LOCKOUT BECOMIS A STKIK®.

The lockout in the piano trade has practiCa ^I.v D( * e< *’ an ^ * n i 118 * tb® wa 7 which might b«re been foretold. No manufacturers can afford to remain idle when orders are pounpg m; they can make money by paying the advanced wages demanded, and although there i® a good deal of talk aboat the tyranny of labor, the association formed for the purposes of keeping wages down by the lockout system of which we have just had an example here are sure to fall to pieces on account of the jealousy of rival manufacturers and their eagerness to steal a march upon each other. They have been beatea in every way by the men—the lockout haring become a strike for ten per cent, more wages, and foar-fifths of the strikers kaving been successful and going back to work and getting the increase ordered by the anion as a penalty for the lockout. Steinway s men are still waiting to kave the firm decide some minor points, bnt will go to work next Mon? day. The men insist that non-nnion men, or “scabs,” as they call them, shall not be employed in the same shops with anion men. The Steinways object to any sack rale, bat are powerless; the consequence will be that -every workman in the piano trade will be forced into the union, which will thereby acquire more power than ever. The piano workmen are an intelligent, orderly set who have now a good deal of sympathy from the public on account of their decent behavior daring the recent troubles. In all the other trades strikes are taking place, and it is the seme story; employers of labor can not afford to remain idle in tkese good times. 'Wild threats of bringing on. Chinese labor have been heard from time to time, the dozen of Chinese receatly imported being held np as a warning—but no serious competition from

California is apprehended by strikers. AGONY SERVICES IN MORE WATS THAN ONE.

Ritualism iu the Proteetaat Episcopal churches of New York is more talked aboat this Lent than ever before, it seems to me. The truth is that it is becoming fashionable, and it is even possible that the grand services aow held every Sunday ia the new Catholic cathedral have attracted many Protestants who are fond of show and grandeur, and helped to make the daily Lenten services held there purely fashionable for many persons. It would be hard for any Catholic church to go further into Lenten observances than our ritualist churches are doing. For instance, yesterday at St. Ignatius church— sot one of the extreme ritualist churches— there was an agony service beginning at noon and made up as follows: First a processional hymn, a prayer, ten minutes for silent meditation, and an address lasting fifteen minutes; then a hymn, a prayer, silent meditatation for ten minutes, and fifteen minutes address; and so on until this little service, consisting of a hymn, a prayer, a meditation and an address had been gone through seven times. The *whole service lasted from noon until half-past three o’clock. And the rector had requested those who intended to come not to eat anything all day. What a lot of dieordered stomachs as well as of muddled brains, most hare resulted from thisone

service—for the church was crowded. THB TRACKED POSTAL CARD FIEND.

The capture of Mr. Eugene Fairfax Williamson is one more proof of the carlessness of wrong doers. If Williamson had wanted to be caught he could not have gone about it more certainly. He is foolish enough in the first place to send off 300 postal cards in his own handwriting, knowing perfectly well that some of tnese cards would inevitahljrbe returned to the postmaster for the purpose of tracing the writer ont, and at the same time he sends a card (written in his own hand) to the postmaster requesting him to detain his letters. Another imprudence was to write notes to Dr. Dix on hotel notepaper, from which the heading had been torn; what was easier than to Send a detective with one of these notes to all the hotels in the city to compare tho writing paper furnished to their guests with the sample sent to Dr. Dix?—which was done, and Williamson traced to the Windsor hotel. Those who know Williamson think he never intended to blackmail Dr. Dix, the demands for money being only intended a® additional annoyr ances. It is hinted on good grounds that there is a screw loose in his mental machinery ; were this not so he would scarcely have taken Dr. Dix as a man to get money from; he is the last man to submit to blackmail of any kind. In a long conversation which he had yesterday with Williamson the latter cried continually,. begging to be forgiven apd professing no enmity to Dr. Dix whom on the contrary he professed to like and admire. He said that the temptation to annoy some one was irreSlstable, and having some acquaintance with Dix, his name presented itself to his mind, and he began his systematic persecution,

making two journeys’ from Pittsburg here for the purpose of gratifying his whim. It seems from his account that be

was induced to persecute Buckly simply because the name on Buckly's sign struck him unpleasantly one morning as he was riding down town in a horse car. He bad never seen or keard of the man, and Bnckly is unable to say that he ever saw or heard of Williamson. Jast as some men are taken with an impulse to sweep every ornament from a mantle-piece in order to see the havoc, so Williamson is inspired to'write postal cards in order to see the havoc or hear of it. The severest penalty which can be imposed upon kim is a fine of $500 and one year’s imprisonment H. H. H.

Lowering the Pitch. >

BarbajaAjie great opera manager, was so ignorant of music that when a favorite vocalist complained that the piano to whose accompaniment she was rehearsing her part was too high, he at once promised that before the next rehearsal he would see it lowered. The following morning the instrument was, as before, half a note above the requisite pi»ch. It was pointed out to Barbaja that the piano still wanted lowering, on which be new into a violent passion, and, snmmoning one of the stage carpenters, asked him why, when he had been told that the piano was too high, he had not shortened the legs by two or three inches instead of doing so

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Farewell to 15. [Philadelphia Star.] The game of fifteen has lost its charm. The scores of vendors of the blocks that crowded Chestnut and other streets have disappeared, and people who for weeks devoted their brains and time to attempts at solving the puzzle have laid it aside. It would be interesting to know how many sets of the blocks have been made and sold. The number mast be immense, and the fact that the seemingly insatiate demand for them was promptly met goes to prove how capable we Americans are of meeting almost any emergency, especially in the manufacturing line. Cure for Dyspepsia. The juice of half a lemon after each meal, or if the case is very severe, a whole one should be used. Acres of Machinery. The mills of Minneapolis have twenty-eight and a half acres of costly machinery. A Groundwork for Belief. The Amexican people fully believe ia Hos tetter’* Stomach Bitten, and there is a substantial groundwork for that belief. They have witnessed and experienced its effects for over twenty-five years, and have found no rtasen to distrust one statement made in regard to it. Proofs have been brought heme to their own hearths that it Is a family medicine which ia of the utmost value la caaasof malaria, dyapepsia, debility, disordered conditions of the liver and bowels, and in a variety of other maladies. They have found it a competent tonic, a genuine alterative, and In contrasting it with the many preparations of the same class in the market, they nave willingly accordf>d it the palm. The correctness of their belief in ita efficacy has rectived the strongest confirmation in expressions of opinion by medical men, and the approval of the press. ou o-w,f,m o - Bkttbb Times.

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