Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1881 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1881

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Carped b for Spring Trade, special reference to t style of fornishing.

i HtfcT JPSfl 4* Sf T. . StrawMatting. New Importations of neat and ototoe patterns. 2 ‘ Rugs and Mats Of every kftd and dimension. Lace Curtains, Lambrequins, Draperies, Upholtery Goods and Window Decoraions of every style. Wall Paper, All the new and artistic designs il AjW Smig^ngs and an endless variety of the cheaper grades. A CORBEOT KNOWLEDGE OF TIE MARKET can only be obtained by an examination of our stock, which is the largest in the State, and by learning our prices, which are always the lowest. No trouble to show goods, whether vou wish to buy or not.

A. L. WEIGHT & CO., 47 and 49 South Meridian Street, (Sacceson to Adams, Mansur 4 Co.) There wu once a pitiful plumber. Who was meekness itself In the summer,

But the fro* made his "pile," And he now has the style

Of a brass-mounted Chicago drummer.

i to look fora Spring Scarf ton Btreet, where we have our > prominent view on our pat

eat Scarf Display Racks, so that you can look at a glance over two hundred or three hundred Scarfs. H, B. PAKKER, Men’s Furnisher.

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|i£ 11EESII The Best Oopying Fad Mew Made.

Price, from 41 to S5.

sar-We ate the sole Agents for Indiana."« MZBBTTJ., HUBBARD ft 00.,

Maokaelleia and Stationers

The Indianapolis KewS is published every afternoon, except Sunday, at the office, No. 80

West Washington street. , ^

Price—Two cents a copy. Served by carriers in any part of the city, ten cents a week; by tqgU, postage,prepaid, fifty cents a month; t6 a s Weekly News Is published every WednesPrice, 90 cents a year, postage paid. its, first page, five cents a line for

Display advertisements vary in

—- Kiee accoruiux to time and Dodtion. VO A0VKBXIBBMSXT8 IXSXBTKD AS EDITORIAL Specimen numbers sent free on application. Terms—Cash, invariably in advance. AU communications should be addressed to mk Joh» H. Holliday, Proprietor. *• THE DAILY NEWS. WKDKESDAY, MARCH 2, 18S1.

WHIP the women wbippers.

Abb we to have an extra aesaion of the e? That honorable body seems

ry,thewftuld*begigafette sta.e and allot llnsic hall, except the first half dozen rows of aeata, from the real enjoyment of what there was to enjoy, and en'orces the reflection, as one ponders on the crowJa which rushed to supply material for the experiment, “wh at 'oo’a tt ese m ortals be.” ’• » . .... ..... sw ^ i Sekatob Bell in opposing the local opVnn temperance b'.l 1 , said he “didn’t believe in sumptuary legislation,” and that "he belonged to a party which as a party, don’t believe in it, and he deeired to oppose on all ocoaaions.” It’s a pity about Senator Beil and his party, in their virtuous hostility to sumptuary legislation. Words, words, words. The democratic party, by means of its senators and representative* in the legislature, have enacted and continue to enforce one of the most infamous and unconstitutional sumptuary laws. They strike hands and agree to take certain business concerns by the throat and hold them, while the two party newspapers ram hands in their pockets up to the elbows, and steal honestly earned money. In other words, the compact of corruption is made by which party organs are subqj^ized at the expense of business institutions, those gentlemen who (< don't believe in sumptuary legislation” standing by and legalising the assault. Prtbb Cooper’s solution of the present funding trouble is that congress take up the 5 and 6 per cent, bonds falling due, and pay them with treasury notes, and that all national bank notes be likewise exchanged for treasury notes. The venerable Peter is logical and consistent; the only pity of it is that as he lives he doesn’t learn. It is sad to see an old man like him approaching the end of his life with Such views. As the New York Post observes; "Supposing for example, that the same judgment, discretion and disinterestedness which we now see employed in that statesmanlike swindle known as the river and harbor bill, were employed frem session to session in determining the amount and quality of the currency needed by the country.” That is what the venerable Cooper and his fellow greenbackers are endeavoring to bring about. Folly dies slowly, but in.these times of rational notions it would be well for all who may have been led off with such fantastic doctrine in the past to firmly resolve that they will never be so deluded again.

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Public opinion say that these companies doing business in the state should publish their condition and status at least twice a year. National banks have to do it five times a year. But what does The News care for public interest.—[Journal. It cares sufficiently for public interest to expose thieves whether they filch money from the public treasury or seize private business concerns by the throat, and through the infamy of class legislation extort subsidies from them. As to public opinion sanctioning such a practice, we have a higher estimate of it. This is not a question whether statements should be published or not. It is simply a question 'Whether a dirty steal shall be perpetrated and sanctioned by the legislature. Why don’t you defend yourself if you can? Why don’t you give some reason for making the insurance companies pay for two and three times as much space as any other legal advertiser is compelled to take? Why don’t you defend yonr padding the advertisement^, and year charging three times what you would be glad to £et for them if the law did not forefe them into your clutches? One would suppose the legitimate profits would be enough, and that the legislature if it insisted upon subsidizing you, would at least make you print the advertisements only in the space necessary. The five publications the national banks make, cost barely two thirds of what you get from the two notices of the insurance companies. The national banks have the right to go into market and make their own terms. They are not delivered over bound hand and foot to brigands.

twins of the insurance steal > this morning, at the speeiwork published in The News

.

i the insurance statements When the Sentinel says this it lies, and It knows it. But as lying is its normal condition it will keep on. IB England persists in going ahead and conquering the Boers she will gain everything but honor. The world knows she ean Pfforo Is only a question of Involved in this contest, could better afford to be decent a hog. Let the Boer roam in free-

tiain the pay of the foreign JournaL. You are looking the wrong way. land Sentinel who are in inanrance companies, you la that you are not y, but want to force

. opposition to the refundseems to he factitious. Sherman r u better than nothing, tho republicans favor it. M oppress no person or is not the general imhanks have been is a feeling, perhaps, mrtain whether can get along under this

The world is not often more completely st peace than it is now. There is no actnal warfare going on anywhere except in South Africa, and that is not what the Journal would call a "cosmical” disturbance. It is little more than a war between us and the Indian tribes would be. Chili and Pern have fought their fight out by the effective method of one belligerent cruahingdbe other. '*9The British war Afghanistan is ended. ThcRussian war with the Turcomans appears to have halted for the present. A world with actual war tegingeBlyin one remote spot of the least important division of it, may be said to be pretty quiet. But there is thunder in the air if it doesn’t make itself heard. Turkey and Greece are arming and quarreling about the concessions required by the Berlin treaty. Greece wants them and Turkey doesn’t want te make them. The "cosignatory powers” hare had to interefere several times to hurry up the laggard movements si the Porte, and •till the treaty is not executed. The expremier, said to be theroughlr.informed of the'feelings of his countrymen and in sympathy with them, has been almost openly urging war, through his opgaa in Athens, and the indications of the popular disposition certajnly lean in that direction. For some weeks it seems to have been accepted throughout Europe as the most probable event of the first half of this year, that the war of aixty years ago should be renewed. Bat this mosnlag cornea news that the Porte is so seriously troubled by the revolt of the Albanians, that it has sept out 4,000

has a two column tipped sarcasm on ^ held in that the apecisliypraparedacene-

. V. Our. Pig xvow raxiuet.

Product.

> at Duluth.

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” % Tha. Jhiuraaea Steal. ^ Itr one column we show how the Jottnml and Sentinel print insurance statements. This one was published in the Journal yesterday. In the other column the very same advertisement is printed in the style required in Ohio, Illinois, Maryland and other states. It Is set "solid,” as all other legal advertising is. It will be seen that when printed honestly it requires little more than one-third the space used. Pay for this extra space, which is of no earthly value, is exacted at the very highest rate the law will allow, a higher rate than those papers would charge any business nun for the same thing. It is not a question of whether insurance Companies shall be required to advertise, but wt ether ia defiance of all law and equity, they shall be charged from fifty to seventy-five per cent, more than any other business or individual would be« Whether the law will permit them to be robbed or whether it will give them honest protection. This is the issue before the legislature, and the argnmenta in favor of advertising with their lies and misrepresentations should not be suffered to befog it. Here is the plain ease. Here :s the steal, eighteen square* on one side, made by, padding; and an honest space on the other. Will the legislature sanction this flagrant abuse? Has it not integrity enough to destroy this infamy root and branch? Let it put the advertising where it pleases, but for the credit of Indiana have it done honestly. [OFFICIAL.] [OFFICIAL.]

TATEMRNT OP THE CONDITIOM OF THE

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TATEMENT OF THE CONDITION

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UNITED STATESBRANOH

OF TH8

GUARDIAN

FIRE AND LIFE ASS’NCE CO.

OF LONDON, EM.,

Ou the 51st day of December, 18d0.

The name of the company is the Guardian Fire and Idle Assurance Company. It ts located at No. M William street, New York city. H. E. BOWERS, Manager. Home office In the United States, M William street. New York.

Cl TATEMRNT OF THE CONDITION OF THE O United States Branch of the Guardian Fire and Life Ass'nce Co., of London, Eng., on the 31st day of December, 1880. The name of the company is the Guardian Fire and Life Assur-

mager. street,

New York. ASSETS, The assets of the company In the United States are as follows: Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons.... 1121,654.14 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of — per cent., secured as follows: U. S. 4 per cent, registered bonds of 1907, *195,000, at U$£ 219,131.25 U. 8. 5 per cent, registered bonds of 1881, *450.000, at 101% 456,750.00 TT. 8. 6 percent, registered bonds of 1881. *100,000, at 101% - 101,500.00 Debts for premiums 37,025.% Interest 8,700.00 Total assets *W4,761.« LIABILITIES. Losses ad iu<.ted and due 1 Losses adjusted and not due Losses unadjusted 1*21,346.47 Losses in suspense waiting for further proof J Ail other claims against the company 13,017.25 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 193,831.20 Total liabilities * 228,194.92 The greatest amount in any one risk. *25,000. The greatest amount allowed to be insured in any one block, 975,000. STATE OF INDIANA, 1 Office of Auditor of State, j I, the undersigned, Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 3lst day of December, 1880, as shown by the original statement, and that said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this 29th lay of January, 1881. [s£AL.] A H. WOLFE, Auditor of State. ALEX. METZGER, Agent, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

ASSETS. The assets of the c ompany in the United States are as follows: Cash on hand and la the hands of agents or other persons ~.J 121,654.14 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of — per cent., secured as follows: U. 8.4 per cent, registered bonds of 1907, *195,000, at 112% 219,131.25 U. 8. 5 per cent registered bondawf 1881, *450,000, at 101% 456,750.00 U. 8.6 per cent, registered bonds of ! 1881, *100,000, at 101% 101,500.00 Debts for premiums u 37,025.96 Interest 8,700.00

Total assets * 944,761,85

LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and due 1 Ix*ses adjusted and not flue I Losses unadjusted j-$ 21,346.47 Losses in suspense, waiting for for- j - ther proof I All other claims against the company 13,017.25 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 193,831.20 Total liabilities * 228,194.92 The greatest amount in any one risk, *25,000. The greatest amount allowed to be insured ia any one block, $75,000.

STATE OF INDIANA, > Office of Auditor of State, j I, the undersigned, Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a cofreetfcopy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1880, as shown by the original statement. and that said original statement ia now ou file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this 29th day of January, 1881. A H. WOLFE, [seal.] Auditor of State.

ALEX. METGER, Agent, IndianaiJolLs Ind.

CUBBKNT COMMENT. "But 22 of the 2,000 banks, and about one I dollar in seventy of the circulation,” ia the way the New York Times "aieea” the recent demonstration of the banks against the three per cent funding bill. Senator—"Why don’t you require the Siamese couple to put the inanrance advertisements in half of the space they take?” "Don’t you see, we want to spread the

information?”

The Jeurnal and Sentinel are regarded as the two leading newspapers in the state, chiefly because of the way they pad the insurance advertisements win "lead.” Carlyle leaves after a life of rigid economy a property valued at 925,000, it is said, aa the result of sixty years literary labor, which leads an exchange to remark that, "Writing is even now, and it has groatly improved in 25 or 30 years, one of the poor-

est of poor trades.

To Bob htgersoH’s observation that no punishment should be provided for crime that a gentleman could not not inflict, the Cincinnati Gazette wants to know, "If a gentleman could not whip a wife beater,’-’

tMops from Janina to put them dawn, f^d pertinently adds %t, "Gentlemen

and Imtfound the situation so troublesome that it is disposed to aettlolts Greek dispute peaceably. Let it so be, and the-£ng-lis settle their unwarranted war with the Boers, and as the claasic Journal would say,

the temple of Janus can close..

have been knows to kick rascal* not near

as bad as that class.”

Brand your oteomafgarine. — [Several Ex-

changes. -ifet::. i'. - <.V.

If the New York Sun will permit we suggest that it be "branded with ’fraud.’ ” Last year, according to the Boston Economist, the prodnetion of gold throughout the world, was $118,000,000 ($80,000,000 of which was produced in America); of silver, $94,000,000 (of which $76,000,000 was pro-

000,000. The largest production in any one year was in 1858—of gold, $236,000,000; of silver $49,000,000; total of both, $285,000,000. Since thCfi the gold crop has diminished one-half and the silver crop doubled. New Orleans has had its flood and its Mardigraa, and next month will hare

Moody and Sankey.

The New York Tribune wants Hayes to veto the funding bill and save us from more democratic financial folly. "Mrs. Gen. Logan smiled on him, grace* fully sipping the wine and praising its flavor.” This is the passage in one of T. S Arthur’s temperance books that has raised such a breeze—Mrs. General Logan being a temperance woman, and her husband being greatly scandalized at this mention. The author explains that it was a mere coincidence of names, and that he never intended to allude to Senator Logan and wife. There is encouragement to young writers who have hard work in chasing the goat of thought, in the story that Tennyson has written, "Come into the Garden, Maud,” in his poem "Maud,” entirely over-fifty times, and to have occupied throe whole days on •lx lines, it is said -that he holds that genius can accomplish Miking without work; f that everything famous in literature is the

result of great labor.

St. Louis’s grand jury has reported that if the eitv’s official do their duty under the law every den of iniquity in the city can be suppressed. It Is so in all cities. The Chinese ships admitted at San Francisco, under the new treaty, have begun cutting on freight rates. The Pacific mail folks swear loud and deep and cut too.

duced in America); total of both, $212,- Thus competition is the Itfe and trade and

a stumbling block in the path of monop•ly. They wouldn’t dare hang a “gentleman” down south, bat to have indicted one for duelling, as they did Cash, in South Carolina, ahows steady progress in civilization. The number of people carried in the street care of New York per annum, ia one hundred million. Some of the "Coincidence” editors find that the number of ballots taken in the contest for senator from Pennsylvania, (36) was the same as in the convention which nominated Garfield. But the awful significance of it they do not undertake to interpret it. Considered in its relation to the possibilities of war, onr interest in an isutmos canal arises from a fact that, if not so held and defended by American forces as to be absolutely under their control, it might be need by an enemy for the rapid movement of military or naval forces designed to assail points on the coast of the United States.—[Chicago Times. It must be remembered that the banks themselves can not afford to institute a bank panic, nor to incur popular distrust and reprobation. Outside of the holders of bonds every interest of the country will be financially promoted by the success of the 3 per cent, funding scheme.—[Philadelphia Record. It is said that Col. Ingereoll objects to the whipping post on the ground that "no punishment should be prescribed by law which a gentleman could not inflict.” The exception is not well taken. It would be difficult to imagine a more gentlemanly and commendable occupation than administering the lash in its severest form to certain classes of offenders—for example to certain classes of the fiends In human shape who systematically torture or excessively punish little children.—[Washington Star. Universal suffrage is a curse if unrestricted. It is a vice of vote-buying and vote corrupting politicians, but whenever honest people nave strength enough in a state it sheuld be deprived of its sting by strongly defined qualifications.—[Louisville Courier-Journal. Under our present financial system the secretary of the treasury will prove a power in the money market. Therefore, the secretary of the treasury should not only be & strong man, bat a man in whom the country has confidence.—[Cincinnati Gazette. In all circles, political and otherwise, and among democrats as well as republicans, there is proper recognition and appreciation of Secretary Sherman’s pfompt action in counteracting the attempt of the national banks to strike our finances a blow by curtailing the circulation.—[Washington Star. Senator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, is not a money-getter, and is said to be comparatively a poor man. That is not a Camerenian trait.—[Cincinnati CommerciaL ‘‘Send 'Em Bight Up." [Detroit Free Press.! A citizen residing in the northern part of the city, who always orders his groceries early in the morning, so that that they can go up by the first wagon out, but who has been disappointed a hundred times in receiving them before noon, made another order the ether day, and said to the grocer: •‘WH1 these groceries go right up?” "Oh, yes; unless the wagon breaks down or the hone takes sick.” "Will they be at the house within an hour?” "They certainly will, unless something happens to one of the clerics, or we have to turn in an alarm of fire, or there is a sudden death in the store.” "AU right, though I haven’t the least idea you will get them up there before noon.” Noon came and the groceries had not reached the house. At one o’clock the gentleman entered the store and asked: "Did the wagon break down?” "No.” "Horse take sick, or anybody drop dead?” "No.” “Have a fire here, or anything happen to a clerk?” "No.”

groecr.’*

utee when I was drawn on a jury, and just as I was going out my head clerk announced that he was to be married at ten o’clock. We seU No. 1 goods—try to fiU aU orders promptly—keep prices at the lowest notch, and once in a while we have to disappoint some one. Yonr order wiU go right ap by

the first wagon.”

How to Do It.

[Columbus Republican,; The public have a right to know the condition of the insurance companies which they patronize, and there is no way for them to learn this unless the companies are compelled to make a statement Responsible companies can very well afford to do this iu order to drive out weak and irresponsible ones. While this is true, there is no justice in the legislature compelling them to pay exorbitant rates in order to subsidize two particular papers. The companies should be required to advertise their standing in every county where they do business, but they should be permitted to select their own paper and make their own contracts, in a business like way. Selfinterest would prevent them from selecting the most obscure organ, as it would at once indicate their weakness. In this way it would cost the companies little if any more than at present, and be worth five times as much to the public. An Unfortunate Man. "Calamity” Lapham is the name of a man who lives in Ottumwa, Iowa. He acquired hie unhappy soubriquet from the numerous accidents of which he has keen the victim. He was shot a dozen or more times during the war; was run over by a caisson, and went to the bottom of the Mississippi river with a transport sunk at the siege of Vicksburg. Since the war he has had the cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, been bitten by a snake, struck by lightning, and had three ribs broken by a falling wall during an earthquake in one of the South American states. A few days ago his left hand was cut off in an Ottumwa mill. - Oh! Now we Concur.

[Lafayette Journal.]

The Indianapolis News asks what “"oyster heads” are. According to some advocates of women’s suffrage, those whose brains are not above those of an oyster are opposed to the movement; and per contra those for it are about the only ones endowed with the blessed gift of common sense. In view of results at Indianapolis we were led to

napolia

remark that a law "agm ’em” was in order.

Mor* Improved Machinery. A corporation has been recently organized in Boston, with a capital of $1,000,000 to finish the bottoms of boots and shoes by a new invention. It is claimed that by the aid of the machine six hundred to eight hundred boots can be finished by one operator in one day, where one hundred aud fifty to two honored bund.

are now done by

More th [Hichlean

than Likely. City Dupatcb.]

The democratic party needs new leaders, new men sad a revival of democratic doc--trine. Then we ean reasonably expect a

of adminletratioa, -ana not uni

change

until- ►,

SolennuT

‘The elurches burn, but the

mortgagee

are fire-proof,” sighs a high religious authority, in bewailing the confusion caused

by fire and finance.

In the case of

who had been n . seventeen yean, the ReV. F. Vf. Waseca. Minn., advised tiro use of SL Jacobi Oil. She used the oil tor three days, and wnt able to leave her bed.

Ah I fairy stokes of I Which rue end tall A Mownb* abetoy" langhingbreath. Greeted with rapturous < How beautiful and all too frail Yonr little treasure of delight l How quickly laughter turns to wail As vanishes from baby's sight Your many-colored sail! The little hands are stretched in vain ; , In vain the blue eyes questioning staret , : _ The pretty thing comes not again— It Is not here, it to not there. It is not any where. Oh! baby eyre, in future years, •- The fame blank look win cloud your blue. As, spite of hopes and spite of tears. The chosen bubble you pursue ! Eludes and dii|ppeare. You will have learned the* not to cry: Have learned the art that grown folks know, When pretty bubbles burst and die, Of smiling grimly as they go, As they go samy by. But though they smile, and though they joke. And though they would have deemed it shame To whimper when the bubble broke, They do not like it all the same, These mighty grown-up folk! —[Susan Coolldge. Fruition. I. The clouds may hang too low, too, The ice-bound streams refuse to sing, The cold, bleak blasts may bitter blow, And nature’s pulse refuse to flow— But, true as truth, at last comes Spring.

We toil and till with brain and hand That our poor world may brighter yield; We see no blossom on the land; But, as we falter, God's command Brings, Summer sun and golden field.

Down where the reaper's sickle rings We look and yearn for harvests o’er; Our hearts are full of murmurings; We toil in doubt. Lo, Autumn brings, As true as Time, its treasure store.

IV.

All, true to God’s good time, are done; All tree as truth, despite our fear; Each cycle rounded out in sun Or shade; all sweet fruition won—

wrought

O, weary hearts! have cheer, good cheer. [E. L. Wakeman, In Courier-Journal.

SCRAPS.

We shall have two ex-presidents at the

end of the week.

There are more judges and coarts in Illi-

nois than in all Great Britain.

Harvard’s near pressing needs, according to President Elliott, are only $3,000,000. Dr. D. A. Raymond, of Fond da Lac, has just received back pension to the amount

of $5,700.

Silk waste, which a few years ago was sold for old rags, is now manufactured into

a variety of fine cloths.

Chicago will spend for new buildings and apparatus for her fire department $125,000

during the present year.

In 1831 the manuscript of "Guy Mannering” was sold for $107. It bi

$1,950 in London last month.

The superintendent of schools at Little Rock, Ark., reports that many pupils carry loaded pistols and dangerous knives. John F. W. Ware, a Unitarian pastor of Boston, who was a leader in all reform movements, died of heart disease Sunday. Mrs. J. J. Astor has sent from New York to the west, through the Children’s Aid society, 813 homeless waifs at a cost of

$11,000.

I used to think that women prefer those whom they think handsome. Error. They prefer those who think them handsome.—

[Charivari.

In the town of Plattskill, Ulster county, N. Y., there are said to be seventeen pensioners of the war of 1812—two soldiers

and fifteen widows.

Jesse G. Lindell, the last male scion of the old Lindell family of St. Lonis, has just died in New Mexico. This Undell and his two brothars, who also died within the past ten years, completely dissipated their portions of Peter Lindelrs six millions. "I suppose you are very glad that your husband is entirely cured of his rheumatism?” said a doctor to a fashionable Galveston lady. <r Yea, I suppose I ought to be, but from now on We will have to guess at the weather or buy a* barometer, u his bones quit aching before a damp spell.”

bones quit aching Peter Bogart, of

kTw

a damp spell. 1

Downsrille, Delaware

together seventy-five years, ijoying fair health, and bid ite their one hundredth birth-

having lived together seventy-five

Both are enjoying fair to celebrate thei

day.

There is a marble lamb on the tombstone of an old Galvestonian, and when an old friend saw it for the first time, he exclaimed: “How appropriate!” "Was he of a gentle disposition?” "Whew! I guess not. He would shoot in a minute, but he always over ate himself on spring lamb and green peas. That’s what killed

him, I reckon.”—[Galveston News.

An Italian writersays that our modern millionaires are nowhere in comparison with some of his countrymen, as follows: Marc Antony spent$l,000,000,000 in merely sawing his wild oats; Nero gave $1,000,000,000 in presents to his friends; Heliogab&lus gave a dinner that cost $100,000; the toilet of Agrippina, on a special oocaaion. footed up $1,500,000, and her box of jewels at

home was worth $200,000,000.

Lady Florence Dixon, the London Post’s war correspondent, is a famous horsewoman and when on long journeys always puts away her side saddle and rides in masculine fashion. Qneen Victoria, who is deeply devoted to the conventional, once severely rebuked Lady Florence for appearing at a court draw ingroom without the required plume and lappets. The young lady has never appeared at court since, it

is said.

In Watertown, New York, about A year Ago, Mrs. Evelyn Marcellos dreamed a strange dream, which for a long time she refused to reveal. At last she set a date upon which she would reveal it. At the time appointedi the house was crowded by those whose cariosity had been excited. She told her dream, which implicated the virtue of a Mrs. Wool edge, who now sues for $1,006 damages. At last accounts the trial had closed and the jury was discharged, being unable to agree upon a verdict. The Baroness Bnrdett-Coutts’s weddingdress was composed of cream satin and velvet brocade, trimmed with bows of ribbon and white marabout; bonnet to match, trimmed with stephanotis and white feather, lace lappets, and an ancient Spanish veil of very fine lace. Her only ornaments were a locket of antique gold, the gift of her sister, Mrs. Trevanion, and a cat’s eye set in diamonds, the gift of the bridegroom. This stone is of unsurpassed beauty. Her traveling dress was composed ef heliotrope plash, trimmed with brown marabout feathers, bonnet and muff to

match.

A good parson, who had the happy faculty of saying a kind wprd for everybody in whose behalf one could possibly be said, recently officiated at the funeral of a fanner who was known aa the meanest and moat miserly man in the neighborhood. Instead of execrating the deceased for his extortionate and niggardly habits, this kindly disposed clergyman simply spoke of him as "the beat arithmetician in the county.” This was surpassed by a mildfe 1 Stockingfor some - < he Among the insane convicts in the eastern (Pa.) penitentiary is a middle-aged man who has a propensity for burning barns and houses simply because he thinks that no one is entitled to have more property than hiniseU* Recently one of the inspectors wss engaged in conversation with <be In-

cendiary and ii sir.” r««K*d **

of ills

refresh his memory, "you have got the otme. I did hay* a «$«e oaw—I think it

wss Jack—but the fact is I aa now too miserably poor to have a name. But, air” —and there was a look of earnestness in the man’s eyes—‘T wish yan would please inquire among those who knew me, and if you can find out what my name is tell me. It’s frightful to be withont n name.”

STAflHE NBWB.

Fort Wayne contributed to the Mardi* greuy idiocy yesterday, and did it "suedes*Mayor Weir, of Laporte, succeeded in set-

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Twenty-one young doctors ware graduated from the Fort fyayne college of medi-' cine on Monday night. f . Henry Turner, a citizen of Carlisle, came to Sullivan yesterday, and while transacting

some business became insane.

Measles and scarlet fever are playing sad havoc in Ripley county, quite a num-

ber of denths having occurred.

Mrs. Marp Am merman, of Alamo county, was found yesterday hanging in her smoke

house, having committed suicide.

Daniel Meredith, Esq., a prominent farmer living a few miles south of Greensburg, Decatur county, died last night of

pneumonia.

The Indianapolis Weekly News is one of the best papers published in the state. There is nothingfoohsh about The News.—

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Indianapostmartere commissioned: Joseph H. Wilder, Crooked Creek; Samuel Porter, Downey, Ohio county; Warren King, Gwynnvitie, Shelby county. The two latter offices are newly established. William Holden^ an employe of the Jeffersonville car works, was fatally hurt yes-

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terday, by the breaking of a belt, one end of which struck him in the abdomen. Fred Blmnentbal, ’bos driver at Logansport for fifteen yean, died from injuries received while his team was running away on Saturday last. He was crushed between his ’bus ana the timber of the Wabash bridge. A brute named George Ford, at New Albany, yesterday morning, beat his mother-in-law, Mrs. Wheedon, in a moat cruel manner. He should be given sixty days in a comfortable jail, with plenty to eat and

nothing to do.

The sixteen year old daughter of Thomas Fleaner, of Arlington, Rush county, has left her home, leaving a note, saying; "I am going west, and will remain away about one year.” She was traced to Indianapolis where she took a train for the west.

Chicago Barbers.

[Correspondence Courier-Journal.)

The trade of the barber at one time here was very remunerative, but as the barber business has been overdone here to a terrible extent, wages have become extraordinarily snail. In nearly all first-class shops the wage plan ia this: The barber receives $10 per week and one-half of all he may take in over $20. As the receipts of aehsir in the hands of s good * barber aggregates about $25 per week, it will be seen that his wages can hardly exceed *12.50. The best paid shop in tiie city is that of the Grand Pacific hotel. Here workmen receive only $13 per week, which seems to be consider*

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it requires an unusually popular and able man in this line to receive $15 a week. Ib the ten-cent shops the wages will not average over $9 per week, and in the five-cent shops, of which we have quite a number, not over $6 a week can be made by the barber. As this kind of work requires a good many years of experience and much deftness and tact for one to become what is known as a first-class barber, it would seem that there are few fascinations to attract amateurs in that direction.

A Groat Help to the State. The amount of tax paid by the railways into the Wisconsin state treasurer’s office, last year, was $417,519.50. . Chicago Labor Population. Seventy-five thousand people are employed in skilled and unskilled manual labor. A Sensible Precaution. Though diseasecan not always be conquered, its first approaches can be checked. But not only Is the use of a medicinal safeguard ..to be recommended on the first appearance of a malady, but a wise discrimination should be exercised in the choice of a remedy. For thirty yean or more Hostetler's Stomach Bitten has been the reigning specific for dyspepsia, fever and ague, a loss of physical stamina, liver complaint and other disorders, and has been most emphatically endorsed by medical men as a health and strength restorative. It Is indeed a wire precaution to use this sovereign fortifying agent and alterative in the early stages ef disease, for it effectually counteracts it, if the malady belongs to that large clam to which this sterling medicine Is adapted. Not only is it efficacious, but pure and harmless. ♦ ^ — t _

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Kidney-Wort—the only known remedy acting at the same tiuie on the liver, bowels and kioneys. ", v t w,f,m* Redding’s Russia Salve is an invaluable drees-' ing for in flamed and sore joints. Price *26 cents.

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