Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1894 — Page 5

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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. SATITRDAT, MARCH

THB WHOLESALE DEALERS.

rKATL RSS OW DRY GOOD*, MILLJRKRY AND OXUJKB 1*1 NK*.

tb« Vmw Prto* Ltct on Rubber Goods —Speculation of Comlnsr Demand* For Milltnerr - Jewelry - Wholesale Trade Rotes.

HINTS, percales and fine ginghams have led in the sales of dry goods this week. The gingham sales have been increased over the volume disposed of last year an increase probsbly due to the larger esriety of styles offered the trade. A marked improvement is seen in calico printing. Windsor prints, the jobbers say, surpass any thingoffered in previous seasons. The good# have been patented, «uj unusual thing in dry goods, and the material is selling at l.'> cents. , Through alllinea of prints new colors and figures nre aftowu by the wholesalers. Prints have been on the market probably for a century, and the number of new designs originated in that time is not surprising, when one remembers that the styles have to be Changed twice a year. Not only are some of the designs entirely new this season, but the manner of putting the goods up is changed. They are now obtainable in patterns of ten yards each, neatly folded and fastened with a band. They are sold •t the same rate a yard a* the full pieces and are packed in cases of sixty patterns each, no two patterns being alike. They are sold only in case lots. This plan of preparing them for the trade has several advantages over the old. It saves the trouble of cutting and handling and leaves no remnants on the bands of retailers at the end

of tbs season.

Tha dry goods trade has ordered new styles of cotton crepe for evening dresses. The material will srrive within three weeks, for the mills are sold far ahead. The goods are eqoal to those of foreign manufacture and will be sold at 16 cents. They are shown in'solid colors. The same effects are shown in printed stock, with designs of

polka dots, flowers and rings.

The dry-goods trade was temporarily cheeked this week by the snow, but it is expected to revive at once. Through Apnl the jobbers are confident of disposing of a large quantity of stock. Several visitors have been on the market in the past ten days who speak encouragingly of the out-

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New Frlce-YUt on Rubber Good*. The price-list for rubber goods fbr the year has been issued, and will take etlect April 2. It is thought that the revision will be to the satisfaction of the jobbers | and retailers, causing an early demand for 1 goods, and will have a tendency largely to increase the use of rubber goods in all parts of the country. The rubber footwear is in the bands of a combination, which forced prices to such a high point last year that the amount of goods sold by the boot and shoe houses in this city was reduced considerably, the consumers taking something in leather and felt instead. The sale of rubber boots was perhaps the most aflected. Prices on the new list are practically the •ame as last season. One of the changes is a reduction of 2$ cents on men’s short B boots, and another is 10 cents reduction on ^ hoys' short boots. Light goods for city trade, or what are known as specialties, in cartons, which last year were 10 cents higher than the regular goods packed in bulk, have been reduced 5 cents a pair, with the exception of those Which fasten

with buttons or buckles.

country” would follow them la a march away from Washington. The reason is that such a march would be notice to the country that the Wilson wrecking machine ie dead, dead, dead. • BXXF EATEN IN THIS CITY.

Where It Comes From and How It Ie Handled*

About half the beef that Is eaten in Indianapolis is the flesh of "native” cattle— those raised in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky or Kansas. The other half la from Western or Texas-crossed cattle. Those who eat the first named, eat tha best, those who get the other have good meat, though cheaper. Home-grown cattle are corn-fed and the flesh is solid. Texans feed on the grass of the prairies, and on cotton-seed meal, and the flesh is softer and "goes to pieces” more qnickly, as the meat men Buy. Cattle are seldom killed on t he day they are taken to the slaughter-ho uses being allowed to stand a day or two, to as to recover from the effects of their trip and get into normal condition again. When dressed the two halves or sides are bung in the cold storage rooms where they remain for from three to twenty days, according to the desires and tastes of the retailers who buy them. The beef that hangs from the hooks weighs half what the live animal did. The other half has gone with the hide and the oflal. When the order for delivery comes, a keen knife is slipped between the ribs about the middle of the side as it hangs, and the beef in quarters is carried to the wagon and transported to the butcher's shop. The wagous carry from sixteen to thirty quarters each trip. The drivers are not giants, yet they carry the Quarters weighing from 150 to 250 pounds each on their shoulders more easily, apparently, than the head of a family does a dollar's worth of sugar. Not many butchers order more than two cattle at a time, a few not more than a single quarter. In summer meat is delivered to the retailer much earlier than it is in cold weather. Butchers like to get their meat before the sun is up, the flies astir, or the air filled with dust. BUYING THE CATTLE. In avery section of cattle-raising States will be found men known as “buyers” or “shippers.” These go among the farmers, and, buying one animal here and a bunch there, finally collecting a car-load, which they ship from a convenient railroad station to stock-yards. The commission men, for a fee of 50 cents a head, dispose of them at the best price possible to the wholesalers. The latter kill the cuttle and sell the flesh to the retailers, from whose hands it goes to consumers. There are not enough cattle come to this market of the kind in demand in Indianapolis to supply the w ants of local dealers, and the wholesalers are obliged to buy car-loads from St Louis and Kansas

City.

Cattle bought Wednesday by the shipper will probably reach the stock-yards Friday or Saturday. The wholesalers will take them to their private yards and keep them until Monday or Tuesday, or longer, if tha demand be not great, before killing.

"fresh” meat.

People who ask for "fresh” meat at the shops get what they want only in so far as that the meat is freshly cut. If the average customers followed the butchers’ tastes and advice, they would not eat meat that is less than twenty days oid. Many butchers sell meat that has hung only two or three days and their patrons are apparently satisfied, but it is said by those who ought to know that these caters would soon reform if they only had a try at the older meat. There are tenderloins for sale in this city that have been kept in an atmosphere at the freezing point for over a year now. Some carry their tastes for aged moat to what appears an extreme, and do not cut it until it is almost on the verge of decomposition. One wholesaler says that the best steak he has ever eaten came from a qunrte • he baa sold a customer, and which he offered to

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“take back,” when he saw on his next trip that it was rotting. The retailer

" The" discounts”are the same as in the old Llaughed, and a morning or two afterlist, but to enable the jobbers to secure an r ward asked the wholesaler to breakiriy detailed business, the companies are (wt, as the letter stepped in

just as the meal was about to be served. The steak he ate was from the “spoiled” quarter, but he did not know it until after he had disposed of it and admitted its excellence. The flesh when fresh from the killing is strong, the fibres much as they are in life, and the meat is characterized as tough by the eater. With age the fibres relax and the flesh becomes tender.

early detailed business, the companies are allowing the jobbers under the new list to giva a 5 per cent, concession to the retailer upon such goods as the jobber is able to ship before October ,1. Goode formerly known as “thirds,” and sold to the jobbers and retailers for what they are, will be branded, so that the consumer can tell to a certainty that the goods are of this grade. Under the conditiona of the list it is expected that all of the rubber shoe factories will lather enough business to be operated to their full capacity. The retail stocks are low, and the jobbers have light quantities on hand. The jobbers here have not received their rubber samples, but expect them soon, and they will be taken on the road for the inspection of retailers early next

month.

Millinery.

The millinery buyers are at home from the Eastern market and summer goods are being received. The jobbing houses are preparing for the opening season. They decline'to make public the date for holding the next opening. The plan of poblic announcement was followed at the time of the spring event, and the trade houses were overrun by consumers* who made it inconvenient for the retailers to do their shopping. The jobbers do not object to consumers attending the openings, if they did not crowd the wholesale houses until it is impossible to give retailers attention. The openings are for the benefit of retailers, and consumers will see the new ofierines in a short time afterward. The dotes will be announced to the trade through circulars. The jobbers are not positive as to what the women will give their attention to this ■ummer. but it wjtl probably be black goods. Last year the summer season started on mixed materials and in a short time went to tan and black. The Dry-Good* Monagerle. The calico cats, monkeys and other novelties >a dry-goods are ofl‘ the market. The demand for them lusted only during the hohidny trade. The tabby cat was the most successful of all the offerings in the dry-goods menagerie. It was originated by a Frenchman, who had driKeulty in disposing of the discovery to a calico printer. Most of the manufacturer* thought it was an idea that would not "go,” but before it waa on the market three months it had made the mill that produced them 1100,000 profit. After the heavy sales of the cets the other novelties appeared. Large quantities of them were made up, and before the season was over the market was overstocked and the manufacturers lost

sonej on them.

Demand For Hntrpin*.

The wholesale jewelry and dry goods houses are having a good demand for hairpins. The finer grades are selling well, and for the lower-priced one# the jobbers can hardly keep up with the orders. The pins ire ©tiered in an endless number of designs, and are made of silver, tortoise shell, nicael, rubber and celluloid. t

Jewelry Trade JiuT rovinjj.

The iewelry trade ia gradually improving. Jewelers s»y their roods are not regarded as luxuries tows great an extent as one would •think. During the depression shoppers on ♦ he retail market have been known to ■ gWt their grocery bill that they might provide themselves with some trinket in

precious metal. '

Wh»l*a*le Trad** Note*. - The fancy goods buyers have returned from the East. ‘ ;■■■.•- . The trust rubber goods plant# will close April 1 for three weeks to take stock. The fall samples of boots and shoes will be taken on the road by the traveling salesmm the latter part of next month or th« 1st of May. m\ L , ' ' ^ ' Wo At* »U1I Under tha McKinley Law. t New Albany Trifceiie. | Th* Inhianaiouh Nava makes this very true observation. “If some Coxey would Iona an army of Longresamen and Senator* and inarch away from Washington he would receive the benedictions of a grateful couitry.” Hot Tux N*ws doe* pot s«y why th# •‘benedictions of a grateful

SELECTION OF MEAT. The flesh of the heifer ia to be preferred, the experts say, to that of the bullock. It ia more tender. There are butchers in the city who never buy steer meat. Their customers grumble and complain of it, they say. Those who have particular patrons generally go to the wholesale houses and select their own quarters. A glance of the ■killed eye and a,jab of the trained fingers are the testing apparatus. The eye sees that the flesh is of a healthy, bright-red color and the linger detects that it is firm and solid. Toe majority of the three hundred butchers of the city never go to the slaughter houses, but give their orders generally to solicitors or through the telephone. The local dealers persist in t£e statement that Indianapolis people eat as fine meat as any in the United States, but they do not get the finest. The largest, heaviest, and best fed, best cared-for animals go to the seaport and thence to Europe, not so much because Englishman or Frenchman are more fastidious than Americans, but because these cattle can best stand the trip across the water and land in marketable condition on the other side. Indianapolis nses small and medium-sized cattle. CUTTING STEAKS. The majority of the consumers want small steaks, “Ten or 15 cents’ worth, please,” and a single cut doe* it if the beef be not too large. The steaks irom the large quarters of export steers would have to be cut again, a proceeding which sears the meat man’s conscience and proves unsatisfactory to bis customer. Illinois grows the finest cattle, with Indiana a good second. There is as much pork eaten in this city as there is beef, it is estimated, but Indianapolis people do not seem to care much for mutton, veal or lamb. Cincinnati is a great veal town, and the Get mans are the main consumers, Hebrews will not' eat meat killed by other*, and they have their owu killing days at the slaughter-houses. The ordinary custom is to pull the animal to its knees with block and tackle Until its head lies upon the fioor. One blow into the skull with a sharp, pick-like instrument kills the Animal. The Hebrew butcher uses the knife entirely and the death of the animal seem# slow and torturous in ^comparison.

sweep at the neck. He draws the razor-edged blade back and forth across the neck three or four times, never letting the kui/e leave the wound; for if he did his people would noteat of the flesh. The lefhgs are then "“blown up” and very carefully examiued, the slightest irreguIsnty or eigri of disease being sufficient to condemn the carcass. Hebrews cat only the fore quarters. V) »,- - Working For 111* Dinner.

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Lazv Simpson (at a brother tramp heaves in sight)—'niet’s jest ray luck! When 1 do a disgraceful thing somebody cornea along an' ketches me at it,

ANDY PEDRO, CENTENARIAN

BROWN COUNTY’S OLDEST INHABITANT AND HIS PECULIARITIES.

Does Not Know HI* Ago—Eetlmates Make It About 180-Hla BlrthPolltlcal Vlawe—Not Much of a Traveler.

[Special to The lodisnapolU Newa.l Spkarsville, Brown county, Indiana, March 30.—Half a mile east of Spenrsville the yellow dirt road drops down the side of a golden-hued hill. The descent is precipitous and winding. At the footof the bighill begins the course of Salt creek. Where it crosses the road it can be spanned with the open hand, but it swells to the size ot a small river fifteen miles below. Along the bed of the creek is a road that winds about the foot of dozens of big hills. Its course is through picturesque scenes and among peculiar people. It is the pathway through Indiana’s Eldorado, as Brown county may be called, as it has produced gold.

OLD ANDY PEDRO.

Brown county is marvelous for its country and people. It is doubtful if there are those in a city of 130,000 inhabitants that believe that within thirty-five miles there are people half a century behind them in civilization. Brown county is a strong evidence of what the country might have been if the developing influence of the railroad and the telegraph had been absent. Of course such inventions were not interdicted in Brown except by the topography of the county and there have been a number of attempts to establish railroad communication with other counties. Since the war two subsidies have been voted by the county and two townships have voted subsidies to railroad corporations, but each time without result. In the whole county there is neither railroad, gravel road, telegraph, telephone, negro nor tramp. The two latter are not wanted and whenever they appear are the subjects of a county chase. The county is populated with simple-minded people, hospitable, moral and generous, but poor, ignorant and ready to “wallop” any one who tries to bully over them, itamblen township is the garden spot of the county. Its principal town is Spearsville, a place of eight houses built on the top of a hill. THE OLDEST MAN. Three miles from this place on a tract of land that has but one record ki its chain of title from the settler to the present occupant lives a little old man, whom the oldest men of the county remember as an old man when they were young. The little old

ANDY PEDRO’S CABIN.

cigar-maker might call his claro.” His skin seems to correspond to the yellow color of everything in the county, particularly the mud. In stature Andy is four feet, four and one-balf inches,

man is Andy Pedro. Brown county regards him as its oldest man although his voungest brother, George Pedro, who died in the nineties some time ago, received the chair given to the oldest man at the old settlers’ meeting at Bean Blossom. Andy, besides being a curiosity as to age, is remarkable for his other characteristics. A cigar-maker might call his skin “Colorado claro. the <* j—1 and in weight seventy-four pounds. His face is as wrinkled as the back of a rhinoceros and bis hands are bent and stiff with age. Yet all of his teeth are sound, bis eyes are good enough to see and recognize persons on the hill tops, and a light eye-glass helps him to spell the words of his sacred “scripter.” His head is covered with a growth of golden brown hair that is soft and silky ana thick and long enough to braid. He hears as well as the squirrel and eats as heartily. Last Sunday I drove down from Franklin to see Andj. The drive through the bed of Salt creek was of itself a compensating pleasure for the trouble. It was not a lone drive before the hut of the little old man could be seen. As I approached, he came out of the door, and, hearing the horses’ steps, raised himself on the doorsill to look at me. With one hand over his eyes, he watched my approach. He answered a hail cheerfully, but when I alighted and started for his house, he exhibited his first doubt. He stood in the doorway with a querulous look on his face. As 1 drew closer to him, he turned halt in the doorway, but still faced ms. The look changed to one of absolute fear. "What might ye want,” he aaked. —

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A BROWN COUNTY HORSE.

irself known, and he seemed his squeaky, tremulous voice

grown,” said I, “when you came to this State; then lived at Trafalgar four or five years, and have lived in Brown sixty-five years, you must be over a hundred years

old.”

"Well, people around here have insisted that I was a hundred for years. They sworf 1 was a hundred twenty years ago.” “Do you know when you were bom?” “Not exactly, I sUould say. It was during that big sleet, but 1 don’t remember the month. My brother George was born in sugar makin’ time and 1 was born durin' the big sleet” The remembrance of the ice age and its relation to the broken topograpnyof Brown county and the deposits of gold and minerals found in it led me to ask, "Do you mean the glacial period by the big sleet?” Andy studied a moment, with his eyes fixed in the fire, his hand on his chin. “I

I made

aflected. In

he asked me to be seated while he went to r. pile of twigs and roots and brought an armful for the smoldering fire in the fire-

place.

UNCERTAIN ABOUT H18 AGE. I sat down on a chair ef uncertain stability and plunged at once into a query as to the old man’s age. The question seemed to interest him. “Well, I don’t know exactly,” he answered. “I've been livin’ in this here one spot for sixty-tivt years that I know of. When I came here I had lived for four or five years at Trafalgar, over in Johnson, but that was long before Trafalgar, or anything else, was there. My father waa from Lexington, Kaintuck, and my mother was Peunsylvany Dutch, and I was born in Kaintuck. When I came to this State, I was A man grown, ten year and past. 1 guess I must bj eighty-three or eighty-four year old.” I suggested that Andy's arithmetic was faulty, and he " ’lowed that it might be, as he never bad much learuin' and was no earthly good with figgers, nobow.” “if you wen tea years and past a man

PERRY HEATH'S SUCCESS.

AN ISDIANIAN WHO HAS MADE AN EXCELLENT RECORD.

The Career ot One of the Beet-Known Washington Correspondent*—He la Deaervedly Popular, and Haa Excellent Proapeota.

(Special to Tbs Indianapolis News.)

Washington, D. C., March 31.—It need not be surprising to read that an Indiana

the Sixth district, and of the convention ai

don’t know but what it might have been i boy, who started at the age of fourteen as a that limp” sflid ha Thfi oid man waa Tier- * _?■» • -a* • » _ _ _ ^

that time,” said he. The oid man was per-

fectly serious.

“What is your political faith?" HAS ALWAYS BEEN A DEMOCRAT. “Well, I’ve voted the Democratic ticket all my life. I cast ray first vote for James Monroe.” This either established his age or the ability with which minors voted when Monroe ran. Andy said he lived in “Kaintuck” then. I asked him what he thought of Cleveland. He said he didn’t think much of him, because the postmaster at Nashville was not the best possible appointment he could have made to save the majority of Brown county. “Do you read tbe papers?” “Jes’oncet in a while. I haven’t seen a paper for nearly seven months, and the paper I had then 1 lit the fire with afore 1

thought,”

“What do you think of the tarifl'law?” “So far as 1 m concerned there's no need for any law. 1 never violated the laws, and people here in Brown won’t if you let ’em alone.” Then with an injured air he added: “A man’s got a right to be a Democrat as long us he don’t transgress the laws of the

land, aye, Gordon 1”

The expletive was almost indistinguishable, and 1 said, “Oh, well, the war’s over.” The little old man was irascible. He shitted his feet, clasped his bauds and looked at me boldly. “Yes, it is, and I am’t forgot it neither, aye Gordon? nor haa the people of Brown whose men folks went down and fit, nor the Mexican war neither, aye, Gordon? aye, Gordon?” That was Andy’s sole by-word, “aye,** Gordon.” He never swears. He has no need to in Brown county. Everything seems sworn to have been death. I asked him about Corbett. But he only looked

strangely at me.

NOT MUCH OF A TRAVELER. Then 1 asked him when he was going to Indianapolis again. He said he had never

been there.

“You have never been to Indianapolis,

only thirty miles away?”

“No, I’ve never been on the cars at all. 1 seed ’em oncet about twenty year ago when 1 went to Edinburg. But 1 don’t take no rides on ’em; they’s too many lives lost.” “Wouldn't you like to go up aud see the soldiers' monument? It’s 285 feet high and has a bronze figure about forty feet high on

it.”

“What’s the use of building anything that high?" That was all he said. We started to talk about gold. This was Andy’s topic. He was lull of it. He told of the gold washers of forty years ago who washed down in Jackson township, and made a barrel of money. [The best estimates say that not to exceed $2,600 in gold has been dug in Brown county in forty years.) “My place here is full of gold,” he said, rising from his seat and sweeping his hand so as to include the invisible horizon. His eyes twinkled. “It’s lull and I know it. But old Andy Pedro can’t get it, ’cause his ol<P arms is too stiff and his back would break with a dozen shovels full.” 1 The old man has eighty acres of laud, of which probabiy two are available for farming. The rest lies at an angle of about fortyfive degrees. Andy used to keep a horse on his place, but the horse stood on the hill side so long that he got like all Brown county horses. His forelegs got short and his hind cues long. He couldn’t w alk down hill without going backward. I left old Andy sitting by the fire in his little cabin. In it for years he has lived, as he lived all his life, alone. He has ever been hermit-like in habits and solitude. So I left him in solitude. He will live on the patch of earth where he raises a few potatoes and a little corn until the last call comes, and it maybe that it is not far away. But the opinion of Brown county people is that Amdy will never die. They believe that he will just dry up and blow away.

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printer’s devil in Muncie, has at the age of thirty-seven become principal owner and sole editorial and business manager of one of the greatest newspaper properties in America. Perry Sanford Heath is a name that has become very familiar to newspaper readers. Commencing at the foot of the ladder as an apprentice in a printing office of a weekly newspaper at Muncie, Ind., Mr. Heath was in turn a compositor, foreman, reporter, editor and finally publisher of a weekly newspaper, which his enterprise

was made chairman ! and was prominently

mentioned for the congressional nomina-

tion.

GOOD WISHES ALL ABOUND. The best wishes of every man in Washington will follow Perry Heath to his new field of labor. It is not exaggeration to say that he has not made an enemy during the long period which he has been con* nected with the press in Washington. His sincerity, generosity and friendship for his co-workers have won him their respect, and among public meu here he has the reuutation Mr reliability, high business integrity and influence. His high standing with public men in both k Houses .of Congress and in th# executive departments is shown by the numerous expressions of good will heard everywhere in his new venture and the predictions which are made of his future prominence in journalism and politics.

SUPREME COURT. Abstract* of Case* Decided March 80, 1894.

PAINE’S CELERY COMPOUND

Best

Spring Remedy in the World— It Makes People Well!

Friday,

\xx k/i. iAJglJUg l/iiu BUJlr bAIU UVUVU4 property subject to execution pay the debt. (2) This court w a case on the weight of conflict

MINISTER THURSTON’S FIANCEE.

Ho First Mot Her At th© Hawaiian ^Cyclorama Durlnp: the World’* Fair. Miss Harriet E. Potter, of St. Joseph, Mich., who is soon to marry Minister Thurston, of Hawaii, first made his acquaintance at the Hawaiian cyclorama at the Columbian Exposition. Miss Potter was secretary and cashier of the cyclorama. Mr. Thurston, being naturally interested in

MISS HARRIET E. POTIER.

an exhibition of this character, drifted into the cyclorama during his visit to the Fair

and there met his fate.

When the Midwinter Fair opened in San Francisco Miss Potter went there with two

FRAUDULENT CONVBVANCE—«rtT TO BBT A8IDB —PLEADING AND POACTICB—MARRIED WOMAN

— SURETYSHIP.

16,692. William H. 81agel va. Abel Hoover et al. Carroll C.O. Affirmed. Howard, O. J. (1) In a suit to set aside an alleged fraudu-

promptly developed into a daily. Mr. Heath j i\nt conveyance it need not be more oarticu-

larly alleged that the property conveyed was subject to execution where it Is alleged that at the time of the conveyance and at the tim# of bringing the suit the debtor had no other

with which to

This court will not revere# gbt of conflicting evidence.

(3) The right of a married woman to plead suretysbio is personal to herself, and is not

available to another.

DESCENT—CHILDLESS SECOND WIFE—STATUT* ' CONSTRUED. . j 16,716. Mary Rogers vs. Rebecca Rogers et al. Jeflereon C. C. Affirmed. Hackney, J. The first section of the act of 1869, R. 8. 1894, Section 2644, amending the statute relating to the descent of the real estate of a man dying, leaving a second or subsequent childless widow and children by a former wife, is not retroactive.

Appellate Court.

PRACTICE.

1,092. Eliaa Haines vs. Charles H. Porch.

Warren C. O. Affirmed. Davis, O. J.

(1) An exception must he taken to a ruling on a demurrer to a pleading to present the question of the correctness of the ruling on appeal. (2) This court will not reverse a cause

on the weight of conflicting evidence.

DEMURRER—FORM OF—EVIDENCE—RES GESTAE. 1,271. Wallace W. Merrill vs. William Pepperdine. Porter C. C. Affirmed. Lotz, J. (1) A demurrer to a complaint of three paragraphs. in the following terms, “the defendant herein demurs generally to the plaintiff’s complaint, and to each "paragraph thereof separately and for cause of demurrer, says that the same does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against this de fendant,” docs not challenge the sufficiency of each paragraph of complaint separately. (2) In an action for damages against a physician and surgeon for negligence in setting a broken leg, testimony as to his intoxication at the time is admissible as part of the res gestae.

City—OPENING OF STREET—DAMAGES.

1.278. City of Terre Haute vs. Joseph Blake.

Vigo S. C. Affirmed. Rosa, J.

(1) Where the report ol city commissioners, assessing benefits and damages to propertjowners on account ot the opening of a street, is accepted and approved by the Council and an order made for the appropriation of the lands. the owners of the lands so ordered taken are entitled to the damages assessed to them, and they are not bound to wait until the street is opened for tiavel or the benefits assessed are collected. (2) Upon the acceptance and approval oi the report of the commissioners and the ordering of the appropriation the right oi the propertyowner to his damages becomes vested, and tne subsequent revocation of the order of approI priation can not affect his right thereto. VIEWS OF THE STATE PRESS.

PERRY S. HEATH. left the Muncie Times at the age of twenty four to go to the Territory of Dakota. Ho reached the present site of Aberdeen one hundred miles ahead of the railroads and three days ahead of the city, for he had printed three issues of the Aberdeen Pioneer before the city was organized, and while the handful of settlers which formed the basis of its future population still dwelt in a tent. lie was one of a delegation which came to Washington in 1881 to secure the division ot the Territory into North and South Dakota, and, that accomplished, he was a delegate to the constitutional convention at Sioux Falls in 1883. He was urged for the territorial governorship and territorial secretaryship, but declined both. His efforts in behalf of the Dakotas received special commendation in the shape of an autograph testimonial, signed by every delegate to the constitutional convention, acknowledging his effective services in behalf of the Territory

and State.

HIS WORK IN WASHINGTON.

Soon afterward Mr. Heath began newspaper work in Washington. From the start almost he has had charge of the Indianapolis Journal bureau, ahd is familiar with every inch of Indiana soil. He worked as reporter on the Washington newspapers, had an important connection with the

United Press for a period of six years, dur- 1 The Coxey movement hasnot been wholly ing which lie had charge of the Capitol! barren of good resuits. It has afforded Sc i • work and reported the executive sessions of ; atorJ J efier twi opportunity to prove that bj the Senate. Mr. Heath’s career in Wash- I I s 80 a cran h as people have imaging was a brilliant success. His income : lty In,,,ro yr i , , , i by emphatically disclaiming any sympathy from Ins newspaper work alone was greater : with t [ e Ohio idea.-fLafayeUe Journal. ‘ than that of a Senator during the last few j McKinleyism and Coxeyism are one and years he was at the Capitol. When he left ; the same thing. Both ce based on the here to reorganize the Cincinnati Com- j theory that the Government must give Sm-mereiai-Gazette he relinquished the man- ployment to the people. McKin!eyi>m had qftgement of the Washington service for K its inning in 1888, and the pauper concerns tour newspapers—the Indianapolis Journal, i of the country were given all they asked Omaha Bee, Cincinnati Times-Star and Co- j for. Now the Coxeyites want a share of lumbus Dispatch. He was also private | the Government’s bounty.—[Logansport

secretary to Senator Pettigrew, served as j Pharos.

clerk oi the quadro-ceutcnnial committee We confess to some surprise after the during the last session of the Senate, and ! record of too-goodness he made in the Itobv had previously been clerk of the committee j wa r, to hear that Governor Matthew, w s

present at the Brekinridge-Pollard trial ti e other day, and “occupied the front row. There must have been a wire grounded in mud somewhere when this incredible piece of news was telegraphed to the press.—

[Evansville Courier.

McKinley says there never was a tim * when the American voters were so anxii us for an election as now. Guess that’s a fact —without it was in 1876, after passing through the panic of 1873. And the Demo crats in 181)6, lik6 the Republicans in that good centennial year, are likely to realize that there is such a thing in politics as a vicarious atonement.—[Richmond Item. Coxey’s ragged roadsters and the palacecar plutocratic lobbyists both look to the

There is one real spring remedy I There is one true specific for diseases arising from a debilitated nervous system, and that is Paine's celery compound, so generally prescribed by physicians. It is probably the most remarkable remedy that the scientific research of this country has produced. Prof. Edward E. Phelps, M. D., LL. D., of Dartmouth College, first prescribed what la no*r known the world over as Paine’s celery compound, a positive cure for dyspepsia, biliousness, liver complaint, neuralgia, rheumatism, all nervous diseases and kidney trouble#. For the latter, Paine’s celery compound has succeeded again and again where everything ala# has failed. The medical journals of this country and Enrop# have given more space in the loot few years to the many remarkable cases where the use of Paine's celery compound ho# made people well, than to any other one subject. ALL WANT TO READ IT

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on invalid pensions in the House.

Mr. Heath is one of the most popular of the Washington correspondents, both with bis associates m the profession and with public men, whose confidence he holds to a remarkable degree. He enjoyed intimate relations with President Harrison while he was in the White House and had charge of the press work at tiie Minneapolis convention. He was an intimate personal friend of the lute Governor Hovey and was ten*dered the position of private secretary to the Governor in 1888 and declined it. He served on tlie start of both Governors Hovey apd Chase. He lias always been an ardent Republican and identified with the various campaigns in which the Indiana Republicans have been deeply interested. He enjoys an intimate acquaintance with nearly every leading politician in the State. Ex-Treasurer Houston, of Connersville, exTreasurer Nebeker, now of Indianapolis, and ex-Deputy Controller Nixon, now of the Fifth National Bank of Cincinnati, have been his intimate personal friends and

business associates in the past A POPULAR AND SUCCESSFUL MAN.

Mr. Heath has been a member of the standing committee of five correspondents which has had the management of the press galleries of the House and Senate in recent years. Hia popularity among the correspondents is shown by the fact that at the last biennial election for members of the committee he received for re-election the greatest number of votes cast for any candidate on the ticket. Mr. Heath had none of the traits of a Bohemian except good fellowship and charity for the struggling members of his profession. He was the intimate friend and helper of every new-comer to Newspaper Row since he first became prom-in'-nt in newspaper work here. His present success in a business way is due to his un-

schoolmates, both of whom, like herself, liuggmg industry aud strict economy. He received positions as cashiers in connection saved bis earnings and carefully invested with the Hawaiian concessions. Thurston : them from th# very day that he was was also there early in the year, stopping old enough to earn wages by sweepover a week on his return from his late trip j ing out an office, and as a to Honolulu. It was his expectation that result is to-day regarded as a wealthy man, he would receive news from Washington whose capital is represented by the conthat would make it necessary for him to trolling interest in the great newspaper of hurry back to Honolulu, but after waiting which helms just taken charge, a number

of hanking institutions in Ohio and Indiana, real estate investments in Muncie and Eiwood, Ind., and in Bouth Dakota, to say nothing of securities. During the last six years Mr. Heath has give* much att

for a week he went back to Washington. While there he pressed bis suit, and the progress which be made may be inferred from the fact that Miss Potter resigned her

position at the Midwinter Fair over a six years Mr. Heath has give* much attenmon'h ago. in order to return to 8*1. Joseph, tion to bunking interests. With his brother where it is announc'd that she will b# Fletcher and the Hon. E. G. Rathbone, of „_2_j n ' u - * i - Ohio, he organized, in 1886, the Miami

Valley National Bank of Hamilton, O., with the capital%toek of $100,000, and is now one of the directors. lie is also interested in the First National Bank of Oxford and the Bank of Mason, and was influential in the reorganization ot the Fifth National Bank of Cincinnati. He has an interest also in the Delaware County National Bank of Muncie, a netv bank just organized at Sullivan and a hanking institution at El-

wood.

Mr. Heath has never given up his residence at Mnncie and has always been

united to Minister Thurston some time in

the near future.

Miss Potter is the daughter of one of the pioneers of 8t. Joseph. She was born September 30, 1871, and has resided there all her life. She is described as a tall and stately woman, with a clear complexion,

blue eyes and brown hair.

Minister Thurston is thirty-five years of age, a widower, aud the father of a little

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Both want to live on the labor of others. And both, as a matter of fact, will so long as the masses protect the classes by a tariff, and so long as chanty, so-called, is dispensed without organization and application of the labor test— [Terre Haute Ga-

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boy, who is now in Washington with the Minister’s mother. It is said the honeymoon of the Minister and his wife wdll be

spent in San Francisco. Afterward the couple will go to Washington, where they j identified with the local politics of Indiana, ill make their home until the expiration In the fail of 1890 he was a delegate to the * Ifi ic-e.Av HPlv ii t-o tnvi /•vf nftisto I> ...... L1a. . 1 — a . _ f

of Minister Thurston’s term of office.

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Editor—“We Mourn Our Loss.” The Tallest Trees. The tallest trees in the world grow in Australis. They are a speeie of marsh gum, and some are said to exceed three hundred feet in hight. r . Could Have Hired It Cut and Made Money. While splitting wood in an attic in Minnesota, a woman jarred down a hanging lamp, and burned up the house and $400.

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If Congress can be compelled to adjourn the present session without passing the wrecking bill, we shall be in the full tide of restored prosperity before the close of 1894. If it passes, prosperity will not come again much before 1900. Thus the duty ot Republicans in Congress is made plain. They should not spare the most desperate efforts to defeat the horror.—[New Albany Tribune. There is no reason for Republicans to withhold due credit from Mr. Cleveland for his stand for sound money. Maintenance of sound money should be a continuous policy, and the provisions which secure the impartial support of the wiser men of all parties will be the most safe and stable. The coin which is to pass current the world over is struck by national not partisan mints.—[Terre Haute Express. Mr. Carnegie may use a large part of Mr. Cleveland’s concession to him on damaged armor plates in his trip to Egypt and residence in England this summer while having a pleasant time, but his friend, Mr. Cleveland, will not have near such a pleasant time at Washington. There is going to be considerable talk in Congress before the matter drops. The size of the majority leads us to hope that Mr. Carnegie will be shown to be a very good man, now.—[Terr# Haute Express. Mugwump ideas look rosy on paper, but in the practical every day afi’airs of life they are found impractical. The country has just as much to fear from a reigning class of life-term office holders as it would have from a reigning family of kings or queens. Rotation in office stimulates individual exertion for the honors and emoluments of public oflice. I’eople voteachange to purify the public service. There never was a more un-American law placed on the statute books than the civil service act.— [Richmond Crescent. The Chess Tournament. New York, March 31.—The sixth game in the championship chess match between Bteinitz and Lasker resulted iu a draw, after seventy-one moves. The fourteenth game between Bhowolter and Hodges was won by Hoages.

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