Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1885 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1885.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 18*. TllR base boll fever shows symptoms of violent and wide-spread outbreak os soon as the weather permits. Chances are that we shall have it and the cholera both raging at once. ___________ The New York Suuiirge* Congressman Bynum to be magnanimous and let Mr. Hendricks have the control of the Indianapolis postmasters!) ip. Most people would prefer not to have it at all than to haye it as &e gift of somebody's magnanimity. THE Iowa supreme court has sustained the constitutionality of the prohibition law. Now everything on earth has been done for it that can be, and its trial is to be in a legality singularly fitted for its success. The very beat thing prohibitionists can now do for the ftiture of their cause is to see to it that the trial in Iowa results successfully. YOUR Uncle Joeeph seems to be a sort of “move-along Joe.” Washington public espression concerning him continues its tone of eulogy. He occupies now a position of great moral strength. If he doesn’t fritter it away by / the Acceptance of some two-penny appointment, he seema certain to be a quantity that most be reckoned in the democratic ftiture. _ WHILE these fastidious critics are worrying about Mr. Mannings he has been giving an illustration of pnicfleal civil service reform bv dismissing forty superfluous employes in the special ageiits r division and saving $40,000 a year to the government.— [New York Sun. If forty special treasury agents only cost $40,000, they ought to be retained. Why, their traveling exiienaes would amount to twice that, to say nothing of their salaries! There must be some niiaiake about this example of economy. In the picture gallery built and so grandly filled by the late Alexander T. Stewart hang canvasses of great cost, cracking and rotting away. No stranger can possibly gain access to this hall, which the collector was proudly willing to open to appreciative visitors.— [New York Letter. ’ We know a stranger who had no difficulty Is getting into the Stewart gallery, having applied for permission through the customary chaunel. He spent a most delightful morning there, and didn't find a single crack in a •ingle canvass, nor any of them, or their frames in the slightest way out of order. This letter was undoubtedly written—as so much is for the press every day—from the outside. ^ _ THE death of Professor Thompson is more than a loss to the Rose Polytechnic school. It is a loss to technological education in this country, of which he was one of the ablest advocates, and it is a wreck and loss of so lunch of good in a social, intellectual aud moral way. Here is one who by nature and education was equipped with the complete outfit of a gentleman, and jnst entering upon the prime of life, gave promise of becoming a powerful force for the leavening of all relations in society with a lofty inspiration. How much of good utterly perishes when snch a man dies! His memory and his example will live after him. ______________ Ir there is anything to be judged at this distance about the Auglo-Russian disagreement, it Is that the agreement which Gladstone announced yesterday is a hollow sham. It is a square back-down for England. It allows the Russian advance to Vemain where it is, and gives it discretionary powers. It will not make trouble, the agreement declares, unless the Afghans should provoke it. It looks very much as if England needed a atrong government. She has been “whipaawed” at every turn in this Russian muddle, and il will be a wonder if she doesn’t get into trouble deeper still. Another ease of accidental jwisoning by a druggist’s clerk’s mistaking one of the ingre dienu of a regulation illegible, uniutelligi-• ble prescription, is noted by an eastern paper. Of couree the doctors, who write prescriptions, will insist that the clerk was a dolt for not finding a scrawl of abbreviations as plain as a show bill; but all the same, common sense wonld like to know why pre•criptions can’t be written in full and legibly, ao that the chances of deadly blnnderiug in the reader mar be diminished ? It may be a little more tronble to the writer, but not much more, and it would be some additional assurance against errors, where errors are •erious matters. If bad hand writing, as frequently happens, be added to obscure abbreviations and cabalistic marks, the puxitle is to know whether it U a prescription or an Ashantee fetish. Druggists’ clerks are sometimes at a good deal of loss to know what a doctor means to pat into u patient to disgust his complaint enough to drive it away, and a very little conftision in snch eases may mean a week of suffering for a -luckless being, and once in a while a coffin. Illegibility in the manuscript of a letter or a aewspaper article or a book is not likely to be a serious matter in any case, and is very likely to be easily reparable. So the only call for care is in that which concerns the compositor and proof reader. But a doctor’s “bad hand,” in a double sense, is apt to be put under ground und tha reparation left to tto day of judgment,

The Visit to Ireland. The attempt of the Irnh nationalists to leave the priaee of Wales severely alone on the occasion of his prospective trip to Ireland, it is said, will amount to nothing, a« the vast majority of the wealth and responsible citizenship is preparing a rousing reception, and it is calculated that crowds will be attracted as they are by all raree-shows, and this will, of course, he taken as a demonstration of loyalty which means a disintegration in the nationalist pause. Hosannas “worked up” in this Cash ion sboald never be allowed to go for any more than what they are, namely, a paid clack. The English government in this affair is much like the newly appointed Indian agent who, lacking all eloquence except the eloquence of profanity, and bent only on plundering hi* new charges, made them a friendly address to begin with. Talking through and to an interpreter, his deliverance was something in this style; “Tell ’em—tell ’em— blank-blank ’em! that their great Fattier love* ’em.” “Tell ’em that, blank ’em!” “Tell ’em by blank! how happy they are.” “Tell ’em, blank their blank sonls, how well off they are!” That is just about the design and purpose and substance of the prince of Wales’s Irish visit. It is a political parade, if it is anything at all, and an indecent attempt to pervert the spirit of hospitality to base purposes. It is to lie hoped that Irishmen will not surrender one iota of their self-respeet, either in giving way to spite or malice or in feigning a joy they do not feel. This does not reach the merits of the Irish nationalist cause. One may differ or agree iu them as he likes; but it ought to be plain that this proposed visit is on attempt to taken mean- advantage, the advantage of construing what might otherw ise be a welcome oft'ered to a gentleman into proof of a political loyalty which is not felt. An exactly similar thing was tried iu this country by the “third termers,” who sent Grant over the land, and then tried to make the |xypular mind think that the welcome which was extended to him by democrats and republicans alike was proof of support of the political aspirations he represented.

True Reform. The high priest of the mugwumps, Henry Ward Beecher, has been lecturing Washingtonians on the beauties of “Evolution and Revolution.” It is said lie has also lectured Cleveland on the beauties of retaining Mr. Pearson as postmaster of the New York city portoffice, as being in the interests of civil ssrvice reform. We can’t see that It is anything of the kind. There isho more reason in retaining him than in retaining Mr. Wildinaninthe Indianapolispostofliee. Mr. Wildman, we venture to say, lias been as exemplary an officer at every point as Mr. Pearson, but civil service reform contemplates the creation of no class of office holders, aud with a change of administration both Mr. Pearson and Wildmau should be not necessarily Chang's!, but changeable. Otherwise, the people would lose all control of their public servants and become dominated, in time, by a clique armed with the # insolence of office, secure in their place, who would become masters, and not servants, as such class is to-day in imperial governments.* The New Orleans city postofliee is a case in point. Employes there, secure as they liave tieen in place and independent of al 1 control by the people, are so insolent that it is worth a man’s self-respeet to ask a question of them. Visitors there of all politics testify to this. Once get the custom established that heads of offices are not to lie removable, and a similar thing would prevail everywhere. It is the offices which must be divorced from politics,not the control of them. Of course this will work hardship sometimes, and will surrender to the operation of the spoils system places which ought not to be surrendered. In this vast and thinly settled continent it is not jtossible to have everything work to perfection all at once, and it may be necessary to leave a great number of small postoffices, for example, open to change. But the refonn should lie extended to take in every office which has say a single subordinate, and to allow no change in -any ease except when it would eventuate in more good than harm. It is because we .have this cause so much at heart that we do not want to see it perverted, and so brought into disrepute and lost as it will be by such nial-appli-carion of it that it means the retention of everybody in office. The body must be fixed, but the head and shoulders must be movable. The rank and file must remain, but the officers, the commanders, must be changeable. It is the only way to prevent abuses, and prevent the formation of a caste of office holders. The Dread of Ghouls. (Philadelphia letter.] Since the desecration of the grave of the late A. T. Stewart, the tombs of men of even moderate means are always guarded for weeks after burial. In the case of men of large wealth this protectorship is prolonged for mouths, and, indeed, the time of its ceasing is often purposely left a matter of uncertainty. The widow of u wealthy financier who was one of the richest and niost widely know-n men in Philadelphia, not only hail men guard her husband's grave, but she also had a mass of granite put upon it, so large and heavythat the pow er of an engine would have been required to pull it away. Still, it is the proper thing to boast of our advanced civilization, and to glory in the nineteenth century as the period of all the graces.

Imposing t'pon the Poor. (New York Hun.) “It all-comes o’ bein’ poor,” said an old ladv, trembling with indignation, to her sick husband. “I just stopped in a minnitat the Riches to tell’em as how you wasn’t gittin’ any l»etter, and Mrs. Rich sed she was sorry, anil wanted me to bring you a bottle of “Did you bring it*” asked the sick man,

eagerly.

“No; I beard her say it had been lavin’ down in the cellar ever since 1855, an’ when she offered it to me I jist walked off without

say in’ a word.”

The Telegraph Army. Of the forty thousand telegraph operators in the United' States, twenty-five thousand are employed by railroads aud fifteen thousand by private corporatious. Almost all are said to have joined the Telegraphers’

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Let the Baby Keep Well (Baby Laud.) A baby must have all the sleep St will take, and*be encouraged to take that bv all the wooing Influence of shade and silence. Next let the periods of rest, as he grows older, be stated and punctual. The Most Powerful Motive. I Prof. Bain ] The possession of a spot of land is the most powerful of all motives known to industry. Alack A-Day. [Wayne Cilixeu.] Now it does look like there was to be no rammer for the Bourbons. Comfort for the ITntncky. Richard A. Proctor says that a hand at whist can be made up* in 035,013,559,000 A Baseless Fabrication, fBoehm Bulletin.) The Bartholdi statue.

Never Grow Old. I looked hi the ten-tale mirror And *arvr the nuirk* of carr, The cr<*wV fc-et and the* wrinkle* And the gray in the dark brown hair; My wife 1'Sikeii orcr iny rbonUler. Most beautiful was *he: “Thou wflt never grow old, my lore," she raid, • Never grow obi to me. For age is the chilling of heart. And thine, n* mhv can tell. !■< a> young ami warm a> w hen flmt we heard The -*m!xl of our bridal bell'” I turned tind kiv-ed her ripe red Upa; ••1-ct time do its worst on me. If in ray soul, rav love, my faith, ‘T never seem old to thee!” —{Charles Mackay. “SCRAPS.” In Booth’s rouini of characters he has had to memorize 2t>0,0bU words. The Japanese “npfer ten thousand” are learning to dance L: the American fashion. A serious trade depression has been reported at Java on sugar and coflee, together with heavy failures. A flatr-staff at Mount Vernon, W. T., 146 feet high, is claimed to be the longest unspliccd spar in the United States. In Eagle Citr, Arizona, the other day, the enthusiastic minert, presented the mother of the first eiiild born there with $5,000. A butcher at Dow nieviUe, Cal., recently dreased a five hundred pound bullock iu thirteen and three-quarter minutes on a wager. < harlcs OTono r’s law library has been on sale during the past week. There were 1,281 lots sold. The prices realized were only moderate. Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil, favors the method of preventing yellow fever by vneo inattou, and 500 persons have been vaccinated at liio Janeiro. Congressman-elect J. D. Richardson, of Tennessee, will be the tallest member of the next house. He stands nearly seven feet high iu his stockings. # A Philadelphia woman says she was kissed by n ghost in the dark. This goes to show that Philadelphia ghosts are not so particular in some respects as most people.—(Somerville Journal. The steamer Beaver, which was launched in 1K35, and was the first steam vessel ever in the Pacific,was pronounced perfectly sound by the inspector at Victoria, British Columbia, TuewiBt February 24. West' Virginia is not behind in enterprisr ing lawyers, at any rate. A Wheeling papeboasts of one “who sued a dead man, got judgment, fssneiI an execution advertising hrs property, sold it, got the money, ami spent it for whisky before the court was apprised of his death.” The following order for a set of false teeth was sent to a deiltisa at Triangle, N. Y.: “My mouth is 3 i ™hes aerosl, 4 inches through the jaw; some hnmocky on the edge; shaja-d like a horseshoe, toe forward. If you want me to Ik* more pertik’lar I shel hev to emu thar. Yours truly .”—[Troy Times.. Edmund (lessee said in a recent interview, published in the Pall Mall Gazette: “The American is much more cultivated than the average Englishman. He reads books mors. There arc no circulating libraries in America. Books are bought, and private libraries, howevee small, are formed throughout the country The prince of Wales has already visited Ireland, in 1861, in 1865, when he opened the Dublin exj>osition, in 1868, when he was made a Knight of St. Patrick, and in 1871, when lie o|»eiied the Koval Agricultural exhibition. Other members of the queen’s family have visited Ireland ou various occasions. “Actors learn their parts in different ways Some can commit only bv tin* eye; it is pho’tographed temjiornrily on the retina of the brain, so to speak, sometimes by a single reading. Home commit only by hearing—the ear serving them as the eye serves others. Some commit a part by writing ir out two or three times; the writing fixes it.”—[Barrett. Carpenters use ^square mallets, while stonecutters use round ones. The reason with the former is that thev may be used in corners w here a round mallet would not go. Stonecutters use round mallets in order that a different part may strike on the chisel at each blow. The cutter turns his hammer as he works, otherwise the iron tool would soon bore a hole in it. George W. Cable was compelled to leave school at the age of fourteen aud aid in supporting the family. During his leisure hours in the confederate service in war times he made a critical study of the Bible, mathematics, and Latin grammar. After the war he accepted a position as errand boy for a mercantile house in New Orleans. Ho studied civil engineering and was for a time engaged in a state surveying expedition. “I can always tell the nationality of an engineer by the complaint he makes,” said an old engine builder and repairer. “The Scotchman is always worried aoout the ( boeh losh;’Englishmen and Irishmen are always fighting ‘the thump,’ which they firmly believe was left for them to remove; the German is very much concerned about ‘dem waives,’ while the Yankee has a hard time to ‘keep her from chawin’ too much steam.’ ”— [St. Joseph Herald. Charlotte Cushman “had a foot of her own” in size, and generally wore fours, but could crowd into a rhree-'and-a-half on “a tight squeeze.” One night, soon after recovering from a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism, she was wearing a pair of slippers much too small for her. Darting behind the wings between scenes, she snatched them oft'and threw them as for as she could, exclaiming: “Ye gods! Somebody lend me a pair of slippers, or I’ll go on in my stockings!” “What number do you wear?” asked a young actor, ready to help her in the emergency. “Oh, never mind the number; anything from five to twenty!” she replied.— [New York World. A charming French Indy, who passed through tiie painful days of the siege of Paris, was relating in her graceful way to a friend some of her experiences. She said that rats and mice, however disguised by intelligent cookery, became quite distasteful; the fattest eats palled upon the palate. If, however, a stray pigeon hapjiencd to settle upon the roof the street instantly became full of people seeking to entrap the delicacy. It often happened, however, that the pigeon turned out to be a messenger bird, and hence as sacred as the ibis of Egypt. “In fact,” said the story teller, “this was so often the case that to tnis day I can never hour to eat a pigeon. I always feel as if I were devouring a postman. President Cleveland has very long business hours. He is in his office ready to see jieople at 8:45. He is there, with the exception of his going to lunch, until 6 o'clock, when he dines. His dinner is not a long affair of three or four hours, like the Arthur dinner*. By 7:30 the President is hack in his office, and remains there until nearly midnight. I saw him last night a little before 11. He did not look at all fatigued, aL though it was at the close of a very long day. He said that he had hardly been out of the White House since he came to Washington, a week ago yesterday. He hopes to make arrangements for OUt-door exercise within a few days. He is very much surprised at the comparative freedom he enjoys here from the pressure of office-seekers. He had anticipate)! a great deal of discomfort from this source alone. He finds, however, that he is not nearly so much anneyed by personal requests in Washington as he was iu Albany. —[Washington letter. -The Yaqui Indians of Sonora Jong since used tactics of war that were unknown to civilized troops. In a former uprising, says the San Francisco Call, they were attacked by General Pesqiierias, who was much amused to see the savages use blankets as a shield against the soldier’s bullets. Holding

rently flimsy protection. The Mexican general was soon alarmed, however, to find that his bullets did not stop the strange advance, and the moving fort of blanket* soon came so close to him and poured in snch a deadly fire that he was tain to fly the field in confusion and with great loss. 'The Yaquis had become acquainted with the simple fact that while a bullet will pass through twenty blankets strained over a frame or laid against a firm surface, it will not penetrate a single one if moistened and hung up so as to swing clear of the ground. The bullets which General Pesmierias imagined were passing through the Indian blankets and thinning the ranlu of the ravages were all fiUliug harmlessly on the outside of the woolen bulwarks,

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thetic—A Great DOsnantI for Cocaine. [New Yolk Tribone.J A prominent ere surgeon was removing the bandage* from the eye of a patient at the Post Graduate School of Medicine, yesterday, when a Tribune reporter entered the room and asked, “Do you still use cocaine as an anarsthetic?” “Well, I should ray so; in operations upon the eye I feel now that I could not get along without it. In general practice it has driven ether and chloroform out of the field. It is not only a wonderful discovery, but it is astonishing how rapidly it has risen into favor. Even the most conservative in my profession, who look with disfavor upon anything new, will acknowledge that they have at least heard of it.” “What is cocaine?” “It is the alkaloid of the leaves of a shrub, orginally wild but now largely cultivated, as the erythroxy Ion coca. It grows in South America, principally in Peru and Bolivia, and looks much like the ordinary tea leaf. Dr. A. Neimann of Guslar, Germany, gave it its present name in 1860. But little was then known of the ]>roperties of the drug. In w>me experiments, it was luund that dogs could he killed by it when giv*. i in large doses. Its effect was to paralyze the respiratory organs. Experiments have been made from time to time with it since, but it has never been looked ujxmi as of much value a« a therapeutic agent. That it would produce local ninesthcsia was unknown until it it was accidentally discovered by a young medhal student named Koller, at Vienna, last Heptemher. Its merits have since been thoroughly tested and discussed all over the civilized world. I think that it has been tried in more eases in this eountry than in any other, and I believe that the palm for bold experimentation and demonstration of its amesthetiq properties in miiny branches of minor surgi-ry should he awarded to America. There is hardly a field in which it has not been used with success. Too much cannot be said in its praise in surgical operations upon the eye, ear and nose. Almost every conceivable operation has been tried in these parts with cocaine, and in many cases the first the patient knew—as far as feeling went—that any cutting had lieen done was when the wound was being bandaged. It is much easier to tell where it has not beeu used than where it lias Iteen. It has brought sleep to eyes that would not close, soothed angry wounds so that they were painless, stopped acute hemorrhages and distressing asthmatic spasms, has allayed the irritability of the mucous lining of the mouth, so that la ryngoscopic examinations could lie minje without distress apd food could be given in the last stage:-) of consumption, and has made the boring of the dental engine almost a pleasure, and the pulling of teeth painless. Its value is incalculable in gymecolugy and genito-urinary sur-

gery.”

“Is it true, cs reported, that injurious effects have been found to follow the use of

cocaine in some eases?”

“So far as my experience goes—and I have treated hundreds of cases m which it has been freely used—j have yet to report the first case of injurious consequences. I have heard of one case of hysterical paralysis and a number of cases of nervous prostration following its use. I do not believe that these conditions were the result of the cocaine, but I think they grew out of another cireumstnnoe that appears in all the operations in which it is used. It is only a local aim-s-thetic; the senses reuiaiu perfectly active, and the operations of the* mind normal. Although no pain is felt when the knife or other instrument enters the patient’s flesh, yet the glistening knife and the spurting blood ••an be seen, and if the patient has not sirong" nerves the sight of these things wHl awaken horror in the mind and rapidly exhaust the vital energy. It is fear more than cocaine, that produces an ill effect. There are also special eases in which cocaine can not be used to advantage. Take, for instance, a person of delicate nervous organization, troubled with squint or some other eye difficulty where an operation is necessary. The eye could be anaesthetized but not tne mind, and the patient would become exceedingly troublesome, and twist aud squirm from purely mental impressions, and render the surgeon liable to inflict an injury that might he fatal to the eye. In cases of this na-

ture, the old amesthetics must be used.” “Is cocaine made in this country ?"

“Yes^itis made bv a number of firms. MThen first used last foil it was put up only by Merck, a German chemist, was very scarce, and worth more than its weight in gold. It was made by a secret process. American chemists as soon as there was a demand lor it, however, began to experiment, aud after months of patient trial aud the destruction of a large quantity of eoea leaves, have at last given us au alkaloid as good, and many think better, than Merck’s imported preparation. The priee, though it Las been reduced somewhat, is still exorbitant and has not reachfd a normal basis. The demand has increased beyond the supply. It will take probably two years to bring cocaine to its proper position as a commercial article. The demand for coca leaves has been so great that the market has been cleaned out of all those of good quality, and chemists will have to wait until the plants grow to get their material. The plants are raised in a comparatively small section of country, but on account of the prospects of tlie future, preparations are being made to

raise them on an extensive scale.”

How does cocaine compare with ether in

price?”

“It is difficult to make a comparison. Quantity' for quantity, Cocaine will overtop ether enormously. In actual use I think cocaine the cheaper. While it may take six ounces of ether to amesthetize a person, the same practical result can be attained with a few drops of a solution that contains only four per cent of cocaine; this difference in quantity makes the actual cost for a given operation about the same, and in time the advantage will be largely on the side of cocaine. The future of cocaine is a matter of supposition, but I believe that its uses are vet in the infancy of development, and it will lx- a greater boon to suffering humanity than

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LOOK OUT! Secure your Ocean Passage at once of ALEX. METZGER, Odd Fellows Hell

To Indianapolis from Bremen _$7.00 an Glasgow, Liverpool and Queens>w n jig and 816.00 ea-These prices cm test but a few days, ALKX. M ETZG-KR, Second Floor Odd Fellows Block.

Best Boiler Seale Purgative. TO TRY IT 18 TO USE NO OTHER. J. I». SHIX/TGKS dfc PEASE. . Office ill Thorpe Block. Individual, County or State right of monufectuie for rale. I ffirTuKXWa bolter USH this article.

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LADIES, SEE OUR $2.50 KID BUTTON SHOES. Very stylish and good. Gents, see our

!1\, UUMHLOO Al At reduced prices. A large stock ALL KINDS RUBBER SHOES, At reduced prices. L. E. MORRISON~& CO Rubber and Shoe Store, IS EAST WASHINGTON ST.

GROCERIES RETAILED AT WHOLESALE PRICES.

2Sc for 15 bar* German Soap. 25c for « bare French Villa Soap. 25c for 5 bars of B. T. Babbit's Soap. 25c for 8 Iba Plel'* Starch. 25c for 3 IU of all kinds of Preserve* 25c for 4 lbs of all kinds of Jellies. 25c for 4 Iba of Mince Meat 25c for 4 lbs of Taggart’s Crack era. 25c for 2 lbs Ginger Snaps. 25c for 5 lbs New Turkish Prunes. 25c for 5 lbs New English Currants. 25c for 5 lbs Dried Sugar Corn. 25c for 4 lbs choir* Carolina Ricfc pricots.

i Evaporated Peaches.

25c for 4 lbs choice Evaporated Apples 25c for 4 lbs common Dried Peaches. 25c for 6 lbs common Dried Apples

25c for 10 lbs Oatmeal.

25c for 12 lbs Pearl Hominy.

25c for 12 lbs Pearl Grits. 25c for 15 lbs best pearl 25c for 5 lbs Lima Beau

art MeaL

25c for 4 lbs Baking Soda. 25c for 12 lbs Washing Soda. 25c for 7 lbs Buckwheat Flour. 25c for 4 lbs mixed Bird seed. 25c for 2 caps Table .Peaches.

25c for 3 cans of Damson Plums.

25c for 5 qts of Navy Beans. 15c for 1 lu Baking Powder.

15c per gt for fancy mixed sweet or sour 15c per qt for bulk Mustard or chowchow.

10c for 3 doz pickets.

20c per lb for pure ground Pepper.

Sue pei^jxmna for pare ground Cinnamon or

90c per doz forbest Corn.

90c per doz for Standard Tomatoes.

80c per doz for Polk’s or Van Camp's Pumpkin.

60c per doz for Lima Beaus.

6oc per doz for Peas.

60c per doz for Succotash.

15c per can for imported Sardines.

25c for 4 cans American Oil Sardines, 4 lbs.

75c for \ bbl new crop fiunllv Whit* Fiate

90c per dos for Holland Herring. 25c lor 3 cans of Mackerel. .

5c for 8-benuy Mackerel.

1 Urge No.

5c for si

3 River Shore Mackerel.

8c per lb for large No. 1 fat MackereL 00c for 25 lbs White Rose Flour.

$1.50 per bbl for best FI,air.

8c per lb for K lagan & Co.’s Shoulder*. _ 10c per lb for Kingnu <k Co-'s Breakfast BMSB

per lb by tierce for choice Lard. 7*;c per lb for 50-lb can choice Lord. 8C per lb for 20-lb can choice Laid.

25c for 3 lbs of choice Lard.

25o per gal for Choice Golden Syrapt

40c per gal for Crystal Drip*.

40c per gal for New Orleans Molasses. 40c per gal for good Maple Nyntp.

20c per gal for white wine or Orchard rlnefMt

15c per tnd for silver thread Sauerkraut

20c per lb for good Tea.

«Oc per lb for Tea that sells all over tow

60c per lb for Tea that sell 25c per lb for roast Java C<

Us all over town at 90*

Olfee.

25c per lb for roast Java t $1 for 15 lbs Granulated Sugar.

$1 for 18lb'* white Extrat'Sugar.

?l for 20 lbs Extra C Sugar.

Postal or verbal orders delivered In Haughvllla, North Indianapolis, Brightwood, Irvington, Bel-

mont. or any part of the city.

Orders carefrilly packed and shipped C. O. D. per express. No charge for package or cartage. Parties ordering C. v>. D. must pay express ■ arses on return monev. No orders shipped by tight unless postoffice order, pbsral note or iey accompanies order. All goods guaranteed

ive satisfaction or money refunded.

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on same side of street as No. d engine house. Will sell goods all week at old stand, 302 South Illinois street, opposite No. 4 engine house. If hotels, restaurants and boarding houses, not having time to call, will drop me a card with their number. City Solicitor J. H. Williams will coll oa

M. M. WILLIAMS,

them. Orders delivered promptly. 80S SOUTH ILLINOIS STREET,

Telephone 675. Opposite No. 4. Engine Hods*.

We are still on deck, selling the Best Goods for the Least Money. 'We offer yoa no shop-worn goods, but the very best patterns in our spring stock. Body Brussels, 5-Frame, : : : : : 77c to $1.12} * Smith’s 10-wire and other best Tapestries, : : ,07} Extra Super Ingrains, ; : : : : .62} Call and see us before buying, and be convinced of the above assertion.

ALL SALES CASH.

W. H. ROLL, 30, 32 and 34 SOUTH ILLINOIS ST.

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LADIES’ CURAC0A KID BUTTON SHOES $3.00, With French kid buttons, fly worked but-ton-boles, overlap quarters. These Shoes we have never offered before for less than $3.50, as they are a very desirable Shoe, and we will have only about 500 pairs at this price. You must oome early to get them. We have them on B. C, D, E and F widths.

BARNARD’S occidental shoe storr Cor. Washington and Illinou Sts.

The prices we are quoting for Carpets, Wall Papers, Window Draper, ies, etc., continue to make it decidedly to the interest of all concerned to . supply their wants at the NORTHWEST CORNER WASHINGTON AND MERIDIAN STREETS.

ThePerfection is the favorite wherever introduced. The only direct acting, doable cushion Skate made. • Finest movements ever devised. Steel axles. Weight from one to two pounds less than any other skate. Never breaks. Write for prices. THE MACHINE & STEEL PULLEY OH, SOLTC MAKERS.

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L\meral Directors, KREGELO & WIHTSETT, 77 N. Delaware St

Proprietors Free Ambulance.

TELEPHONE 5M.

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INDIANA PAPER CO.

Manufacturers.

WM. 0. DeVAY, President. 23 East Maryland St. 4»* The paper on which The Naw* lx printed i» frirnished by thin Company.-fe*

DRY GOODS! Closing out rale of DRY GOODS and SHOES at the CHICAGO DRY GOODS STORE, 418 South Wert Street. 4 cts a yard for drew Calico. 5 ctx a yard for Merrimac Shirtings. 5 cts a yard for Heavy Toweling*. 5 cts a yard for Cotton Flannel. 5 cts a dozen for Ladles' Dies* Bottom. 12% cts for Boys' Capa. £0 ctx a pair for Men * Suspenders. 25 ctx a pair for Ladies' Merino Ho*e. 25 cts a pair for Lodtea’ Fleece-lined Glove*. 2D ctx a pair for Boys. Heavy Woolen Socks. 25 ctx a pair for Men’s Heavy Woolen Sock*. 25 ctx a pair for Men’x Heavy Drawers. 25 cts each for Men’x Heavy CndenUrts. *' ' \ FlauneL

tor Men’s Calf Shoe*. $1.25 a pair for Ladies' Button Shoe* CHICAGO DRY GOODS CO.

D. A. BOHLEN & SON, ARCHITECTS, OFFICE: I INDIANAPOLIS, IND. •5 Boot Washington at | Telephone, 744.

Drunkenness and Opitun Habit

evidence, or Boston; Mass.

LYMAN VAPOR STOVE! Most successful operating Store in the market a, 3. OR 4 BTJRXERS. One generator supplies the gas for all burner* each burner being independent. Ax easy to light aa a gas burner; THE NEW LYMAN OVEN, JUST OUT. An improvement over any other oven. JOHNSTON k BENNETT, 62 East Washington Street to* Country dealers supplied. Write for dm* Ion..,.

Coal and Wood.

.Not Coal hand screened, per ton $2 0$ Island City Coal, per ton t 7S Best Brazil Block $ 00 Anthracite and Jackson Coals and Coke. Beal quality. MILLER Be WELLS, Cor. South street and Kentucky avenue. Telephone 985.

Troy Steam Laundry, 10O North Delaware St. SUPERIOR WORK. TELEPHONE ISfc JOHN KIDD, Proprietor. >