Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1878 — Page 7
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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, ."WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1G, 1878.
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SILVER MONEY.
Something to the Point on the Silver Question. A Wall Street Letter to tbe New York Graphic. From the origin of money, silver has furnished the greater part of the coin of the world. This fact demonstrates its superior fitness. With a small exception, it is now the money of the world. The greater majority of mankind in all civilized countries receive their wages, weekly or monthly, and expend them in numerous small items in the support of themselves and families. It is equally, with gold, made money by the constitution. Hamilton, one of the wisest statesmen and soundest financiers this country has produced, advocated silver equally with gold. Our statutes, down to 1873, made the silver dollar the money nnit of the nation and a legal tender for all debts. Every bond the government has now out is by its very terms, and the clear words of the statutes under which it is issued, payable, at the option of the government, in either silver coin of a given weight and fineness, or gold coin of a given weight and fineness Whenever at maturity the government tenders either the amount of silver or the amount of gold specified in the bond and statute under which it was issued, it equally fulfills every legal and every moral obligation to Its creditor. Nothing can be plainer than this as a question of law or of morals, and every intelligent man who reads the bond and the statute knows it. Why, then, the insane cry of "fraud." and "cheat," and "repudiator," raised by the Yew York city press against every advocate of the remonetization of silver? Why does paid counsel in court sometimes exhaust his intellect in fierce denunciation of his opponent, instead of calmly and logically confining himself to the facts a id law ol his case? It is simply because he is conscious that the facts and law are not on his side. Hence, and only hence, the bad temper and language of the newspaper counsel retained for the creditor class. Half of the coin of the world Is silver. Strike this out of existence as money, and the other half, which is gold, has to do double work. What is the result? Its purchasing power is doubled. It takes twice as much labor, or the products of labor, to obtain a given sum of coin, as before. Whom does this profit? The creditor clas, and the creditor class only. Debts, bonds and mortgages call for the same number of dollars as before, and each dollar costs the debtor double. If half the money of the world is to be demonetized, fairness requires that all debts should be reduced one half; yet the creditor class do not suggest this. They would doubtless denounce as a "cheat" and a "repudiator" any one who should propose it. Yet do they not see that unless the pcaliDg of debts goes witn the demonetization of half the money of the world, they become Shylocks and extortioners? The debtor class have rights as well as the creditor clas3. A hundred years ago the balance of trade set firm'.y in favor of England; she saw that she was in the future to be in the favored class of. creditor nations. Her interest then was to make the purchasing power of money the greatest possible, in order that her debtors might have to send her the maximum amount of their products to pay their debts to her. She accomplished this by demonetizing silver and requiring them to pay her in the equivalent of gold. Four years ago she saw that we were becoming a great silver producing nation. She held a large amount of our bonds, payable either in gold coin or silver coin. Could she stop our mint from coining silver the purchasing power of gold would be lamely increased, and we should be obliged to redeem our bonds in gold alone, bhe re quired a large amount of silver for her East India possessions, having 150.U0O.0UO of people, and wished to get it cheap. Neither the nor her colonies produced silver, while we produced one-half of the whole annual product. She became a bear in the silver market and sent skillful agents here, and such proceedings were had unbeknown to our people, that a few lines slipped into a bill relating to the mint demonetized silver. She then could buy our silver cheap to supply the 150,000,000 of people in her Asiatic dependencies, while the gold from her mines in Australia and Xew Zealand, equal in amount to nearly one-half the gold product in the world, was vastly enhanced in value. Germany, from the days of Hermann, had nsed silver for money, but as a result of the late war she extorted $1,000,000,000 of gold, or gold obligations, from France, and then believing she had not only emptied France of gold, but controlled more ready gold than all other European nations, thought to double her own power and weaken France by demonetizing silver and so enhance the purchasing power of her $1,000,000,000 of extorted French gold, and reduce the purchasing power of the silver left in France. Apparently, it was for the moment a great stroke of "blood and iron" statesmanship, but it was a violation of the laws of trade; it, as it were, cut off at home one of the legs of German industry, and has caused her ever since to hobble along at an uncertain pace, until now her people are tloundering in financial distress, while France, with her silver and gold, has nearly recovered from the loss of the $1,000,000,000. Clearly, England and Germany are not examples for os to follow. They had special reasons for depressing silver, while we have special reasons for enhancing its value. In demonetizing it we were made a tool by them; we did a stupid thing and did it in a stupid way. The opponents of its remonetization, in the light of the distress of the last three years in this country and Germany, are like the man Solomon speaks of when he says: Though thon shoa'd'st bray him in a mortar 9 yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Our legislators at Washington are the political agents, the trustees of the people. They have, in demonetizing silver, abused -their trust and made the burdens on the backs of the people heavier and more grievous to bt borne. They have no right to say by a law that debts contracted in silver or gold shall be payable only in the dearer metal. Tbis.so far as the debtor is concerned, is impairing the obligations of the contract with a ve L glance. They have no right to alter in the least the terms of the bonds issued, whether it be to favor the one party to the bond or the other. The people, notwithstanding the New York city press, understand the question. They want right done and they mean to have it. If this congress will not remonetize silver they will chooseanother that will. If the executive vetoes a reasonable bill for this purpose they will take care that the next executive is wiser. Our mines are producing $30,000,000 of silver per year; it will take at this rate at least 10 years to supply the people with silver enough for their daily small transactions. The large transactions will never be actually done with either silver or gold, bat with paper, convertible into silver or gold. If the secretary of the treasury can sell a gold bond at a lower rate of interest than a
silver one, let a law be passed authorizing in
clear terms a gold bond. It otners prerer a silver bond let another law authorize a silver bond. Then we shall have a gold bond, a silver bond and the bonds at present author ized payable in either silver or gold, at tne option of the government. All that Is requirta of governments in financial matters is strict, absolute, unvarying integrity leaning neither to the creditor nor to the debtor class. The ratio between gold and silver varies every century; but the neceity of both for money has for 4,000 years been a constant quantity, and will remain such. It is wise for us to recognize these facts and act on them without further delay. Dexter A. Hawkixs, 10 Wall street. A CEXTIRY OLD. Annt Polly. of Connecticut. New York Herald. In the somewhat old fashioned, yet, withal, busy city of New London, Connecticut, lives a woman who, on Friday last, attained the extreme age. as human ages go, of 100 years. On the.fourth day of January, 1778, Mary Frink was born in the town of New London. There she was married, there she has always lived, and there will she be buried when, at the end of a few more month, her eyes, now dim and almost sightless with the mists of many years, will be closed forever. When Polly by that name she is best known, the name of Mary having long ago degenerated into tbe nickname was '20 years old ehe married Antoine Jerome, a Spaniard, who, when but six years of age, was picked up at sea by an American vessel and brought to the port of New London. Their married life covered a period of 55 years, and was terminated by the death of the husband at the green old age of 75. By him she bore ten children. Of these four are living, the eldest bting over 5j years of age. He followed the sea for nine years he was in the United States navy and during his long voyages from home the care and support of the children fell upon Folly, and by "going out at work" among the wealthy families of New London she managed to comfortably provide for thzm. In the care of the sick she was invaluable, and her ser vices were always in demand. She is quite proud of having been called to wait upon the "first people" of the town, and relates with no little vivacity the fact of her having nursed honorables', senators' and judges' families. Yet at times' thre is an infinite pathos in the old granddame's voice as in a reminiscent way she speaks tenderly of this or that babe she cared for when it came into the world, and of its going out therefrom when it had grown to perfected womanhood. , As she advanced in years the sobriquet of "Aunt" was applied to Polly, and to this day she bears that title of affection. Aunt Folly is glad to have friends or visitors call upon her. With these she readily and pleasantly converts in quaint, old fashioned speech. She is so very lame that only by the help of those of the household can she move about, and her eves, though bright, are almost useless si far as sight is concerned, yet under these iD Mictions she bears bravely ap, and her piping, tremulous voice is cheery and kindly. A REMIXISCEXCK OK TUB WAR OK 112. But once in her lifetime has she been outside the borders of New London. When, during the war of 112-14, the British ships of war blockaded New London harbor and prevented the fleet of Decatur Irora putting out to sea. the women and children of the beleagured town were sent beyond its limits for their safety's sake. With them went Polly and her little family, returning only when peace had been declared. She has never ridden in a railroad car or steamboat, and knows nothing of modern facilities for travel. ASD STILL FCnTHER BACK. Save for occasional and monietary intervals of forgetfulness her memory would be considered very gocd. She faintly remembers being carried about in her mother's arms and looking upon the burned and blackened ruin wrought by Bendict Arnold when, in September, 1731, h set fire to the town of New London. At that time sha was not four years old. She has distinct impressions of whatever important events have occurred in the place ot her nativity since she was old enough to remember at all, and, though to use her words she is "not much versed in book larnin'," she is yet very fond of hearing the news of the day read, and the local daily paper is to her a source of real delight. Aunt Polly is a timple, honest soul, who "in her day" has done a deal of hard work, has known little of eae and has borne many a cross and heavy burden. Such is tbe commonplace history of one whose years exceed in number the years of those who "by reason of much strength reach four score and ten." Tell-Tal Llp. Iave noticed, said Leigh Hunt, that lips become more or less contracted in the course of years, in proportion as they are accus tomed to express good humor and generosity, or peevishness or a contracted mind. Remark the effect which a moment of ill temper and erudginess has upon the lips, and ludge what mar be expected trom a habitual series of such movements. Remark the reverse, and make similar judgment. The mouth is the frankest part of the face; it can not in the least conceal its sensations. We can hide neither ill temper with it nor good; we may affect what we please, but affectation will not help us. In a wrong cause it will only make our observers resent the endeavor to impose on them. I he mouth is the seat of one class of emotions and the eyes are of another; or, rather, it expresses tbe same emotions, but in greater detail and with greater irrepressible tendency to be in motion. It is the region of smiles and dimples, and of trembling earnestness; ot a sharp sorrow or full breath ine joy; of candor, of reserve, of anxious care or liberal sympathy. Tbe mouth, out of its many sensibilities, may be fancied throwing np one great expression into the eye, as many lights In a city reflect a broad luster into the heavens. TwcnlyTbonMnd Iollnr Exhumed. Vlcksburg Herald. Some time during the l&st week in Decern ber there was received at the Unlt4d States treasury, Washington city, from Vic ks burg. an old tin box. which had been buried in the ground a number of years by the owner, and lately exhumed by him, containing $20,000 in the first issue of the government green backs and national bank notes. The money had become so rusted by contact with the box and affected by mildew as to be in great danger of dropping to pieces, and was consequently forwarded to th United States treasury for redemption. Ihe exchange for good money has been msJe. The DriM-ua Note. Washington Post. As a good deacon of one of the city churches was circulating the contribution box yesterday an old, failed piece of paper was laid in it by a prominent member of the congregation, at which tbe deacon stared in astonishment. It proved to be the nearly outlawed note of the deacon for $''.(3 and interest, which the holder, unable to col lex t, had turned into the treasury of the Lord.
GREED.
Its Blindness and Rapacity. The M'eit anU South Support I he Conn try Their View on Currency1 Que, lions Should be Considered. Chicago Tribune. It is time that some of the men who are so crazed in their demand for gold should begin to consider whether their greed is not blinding their reason. They have invested their money in national bonds, in railroad and municipal obligations and in mortgages upon the lands of the country. They made these loans and investments, with paper money of depreciated value, and hardly any at less than 10 per cent below coin value. The law of the land and the full consent of the debtors, gurantee the payment of interest and principal at par in such lawful money as may exist, notwithstanding the great increase in the value of the paper money. Thus, a man who loaned $10,000 on mortgage at 9 per cent, when greenbacks were worth IK) cent, drew the equivalent of 9 per cent interest in gold on the value of the money loaned; but the advance in the value of greenbacks to 97,'a cents in gold makes the interest now paid on the loan j equal to per cent in gold on the value J of the money loaned. That increase in tbe value of the interest paid ought to satisfy any reasonable demand, but it does not The demand is not only that the interest shall now be paid in gold, but that all forms of metallic money shall b8 abolished save gold coin; that gold coin, being thus made the exclusive legal money, and being scarce, shall have an increased value; that all other property shall be proportionately depreciated, and gold have a purchasing power greatly in excess of its present power. Under the new arrangement, in the case of the transaction mentioned, the interest on the gold value of the original loan will be advanced to possibly 12 per cent gold, and the principal of the loan be made equivalent to from $12,000 to $15,000 in the property mortgaged. That is the plain Knglish of the struggle to have silver demonetized; that gold, being scarce and getting scarcer, shall have a greater value, and that there will be practically an addition made of 25 per cent. to every debt outstanding. That is the end sought by the inordinate greed of the money lenders. Are not those who make this de mand blind to the best interests of the country? Pending such a struggle can there be any question as to the ciuse of business stagna tion? Lver since lXi-5 all business in this country lias been done on a falling market. Every man who bought to sell, every man who manufactured, has done so under the embarrassment ot being compelled to sell at a loss. Those who stood up under the immediate effects ot the panic have been going down year after year, and the commercial disaster and distress are as startling to day as they have ever been. Everyman in busi ness has been looking for the bottom to be reached, has been expecting -that "hard pan ' would be touched, and that, when things had got so low that there was no lower, there would be a recovery and a rise, and a renewal of business. The outlook for the re-euiploynient of labor is even darker now than it was a year ago. The country 'hai reached that point, as was happily expressed by General Butler a few days ago, where, instead of there being an overproduction, there was a want of consumption, resulting from the inability of the mass of the laboring population, because of their poverty, to buy and thus consume what is produced. And yet we have not touched the bottom. Labor and material and the means to purchase and all forms of property continue to decline in value, and this condition is of necessity aggravated by the efforts to still further depreciate every description of property and every product of labor by demanding that the dollars shall be increased and every man's debt enlarged by the addition of 25 per cent increased value of the only metallic money left. To a nation and a people who are overwhelmed in debt, and who for nearly 18 years have been borne down by enormous taxation, this attempt to increase the value of gold is an act of self-destruction. The people of the southern and western states, as well as a large proportion of those in the other state?, are largely in debt. They live by the product of their labor. They toil and they produce; they maintain themselves and families; they pay taxes and they pay the interest on their indebtedness, and are hoarding to meet the principal when due. Is it wise, therefore, for the creditors to demand that, in addition to these charges upon the popular industry, thrift, and production, there snail be an arbitrary levy of at least 25 per cent, without consideration, to be paid out of the proceeds of the labor which is now hardly more than sufficient to meet the lawful claims upon them? Is it wise to insist upon having two days' labor to meet a debt which according to contract can be satisfied with one? Is it wise to insist upon taking 100 acres of land to pay a debt which by the contract might be satisfied with 50 acres? Is it wise to so increase the debts by law, and without consideration, and so crush out the debtor class as to reduce them to penury and want, and arrest production bj expelling the producers from the land? Is it wise to confiscate the only means whereby these people may be able to pay their debts? Is not greed overreaching itself, and is it not destroying the very people from whom it seeks to make this excessive extortion? The only direct and immediate mode by which values of property can be arrested in their fall Is to remone'tize silver. It will arrest the undue increase in the value of gold. It will restore the relative values of tbe two metal?, and. keep them more or less permanent. It will prevent corners in either metal, becau?e, both being a legal tender, the cheaper, whether it be silver or gold, will be that resorted to in payment. The people of the south and west do not favor the remonetizatiju of silver with any purpose. to cheat anybody. The south and the west produce more annually than would pay thair whole indebtedness, and this they propo?e to sell for the silver dollar. They are practically tbe only producers, and if thev are willing to take this cheap money for the product of their labor they are willing to be the victims of their own cheat If the people of the south and west are willing to sell to the people of New England all their cotton, their tobacco, their sugr, their flour, wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, eggs, butter, cheese, beef. nork. lard, bacon, poul try, their lead, copper and iron, their lumber. vrooi, hides, ana autneiroiuerproum.;.-, and take in pay silver dollars, the people of Kew York and New England might well afford to acctDt the same money in payment of interest on mortgages and principal of municipal bonds. If the peopl who produce the food and clothing of the nation, who furnish by their labor 90 per cent of all th exoorts. are willing to accept the silver dollar in payment for that labor and in exchange for their products, may they not of right insist upon the contract which makes that same silver receivable in payment of tieois, principal nuu iukihh t uu hj cbeated7 The remonetization of silver will put an end to all schemes for increasing the value ofarold. It will give the country a metallic money of fixed value; it will put an end to the decline in values oi property; it win
remove the clouds which threaten all enterprise. Hard pan will be reached, and the
recovery will begin. There will no longer be any use to hoard money; the future will not be uncertain. There will be an increase of invested means, an increase of consump tion, an increase of employment an increase of production, and of buying and Belling. There will be an expansion of actual money. a revival of industry; more land will be put under cultivation, more stores rented, more furnaces and mills in operation, more people at work, more money in general circulation, and a rise will take the place of the fall in values, and all this certainly will be better for capital than the annihilation and ruin which are inevitable from the forced establishment of an advanced and exclusive gold standard. I,MTf of o!d. Detroit Free Press. One night when the earth was so silent that the footfalls of the guardian angtls who passed to and fro could almost be heard, and when the grand canopy of heaven blazed with bright stars, an old man, who had made his bed on the grass under a lone tree on the commons, awoke with a shiver. The chill night air had crept through his faded and worn garments and pinched his flesh. lie sat up and looked about him with that longing expression in his eyes that comes only when men feel that the earth is fast passing away from them forever. He had no friends. Even the wandering dog which passed near him growled angrily as it caught the flutter of the old man's rags in the gentle breeze. When a tree becomes old and withered and ready to die, men dispise it They forget the beauty it held for years, and tliey give no praise for the grateful shade it offered to thousands. Thev would have its shade and strength and beauty endure forever, forget ting that every living thing must grow older day by day and at last die. .Men had forgotten all the good words ever spoken by this old man. If he had smooth-. ed the rough paths of the poor; if he had turned the wicked into better paths; if his kind works had filled desparing near;s with new hopes, he had no credit for it in the hearts ot men. lhev had sneered and scoff ed at his low step and many'.tatters, and they had laughed in derision as he fell upon the hard earth. No siilor, cast upon a lone isle in tbe great ocean, seeing ships sailing to and fro but none ever turning toward him, could have felt such isolation as this old man felt With his long, gray locks; with his rags and tatters; with his wounded and aching heart; with his knowledge that his hours were numbered, he turned his pale race to the bright stars and mused : "When the leaves 'flutter down I shall die. and like them I shall be forgotten bv all men. They will bury me, but they will not mark my crave. They mav write my name in a book, but no one will ever turn to it. Let me die to night let me be no more when the golden leaves flutter down to the chilly earth!" Shivering in the keen air of midnight, he held his face in his hands and pondered and prayed, r ew hearts had sinned less, even when smarting under the sense of the world's ridicule and neglect few hearts had deeper longing for the blessed rest of heaven. ly and bv the air no longer chilled him. He grew warmer, and his old heart grew larger, and as Sieep came back to his eyelids he whispered: "If I ever wronged one human being in God's great world may the angels forgive me!" The frost was creeping onward from the north creeping over bill top and orchard and meadow so softly that the blades of grass hardly quivered. It crept to the tree and lingered for a moment in its branches. The green leaves shivered; then the green faded away, little by little, and lo! each leaf was robed in gold. They quivered in their joy and gladness as the breeze whispered: "The old man below you is dead! He was waiting for these golden robes to come to you. I will waft you down and you, shall cover his gray head with such a crown as no king ever wore." And while the leaves were floating down to glorify what men had despised, an angel in heaven turned the golien pages of a book and wrote; "Earth has sent another soul to dwell with us and find eternal joy and peace." Justice in ttnsitla. Justice, in Russia seems to be halt and lame, as well as blind and detif. Nearly 200 persons, who were accused of sympathizing with revolutionary movements, and imprisoned four years ago, have been waiting all these weary months for a chance to be heard in court In the interval some ot them have died, others have contracted chronic diseases, and several of them have become insane. The whole number of arrests amounted to nearly 1,000, but a large number were liberated after short terras of Imprisonment A young girl was arrested because she had learned some facts from a letter of a certain Debogory. A man of that name was among the accused, and the authorities at once leapt to the conclusion that the young person in question had been in correspondence with members of the supposed secret society. When she had been in prison two or three years it was accidentally discovered that the writer of the letter was not the Debogory who had been arrested, but a newspaper correspondent of the same name, and that the letter had appeared in one of the daily papers. A young doctor, who had been compromised four years ago, but had been allowed to remain at liberty on condition of appearing when summoned, was recalled from the army and placed in the dock. A young girl was arrested some years ago, and was likewise liberated on bail. When she had probably forgotten all about having read revolutionary pamphlets and talked sedition, if she was ever guilty of such things, and when she was already a married woman with two young children, she was again arrested and placed among tke accused. . The question of negro suffrage Is looming up at the Cape of Good Hope. In British South Africa the majority of colored men is to great that the country has to bn compared to India or Ceylon, rather than to the southern American states. When once the Kaffir shall have learned what voting means, there will be no withstanding him, should the system of voting which now prevails in the Cape Colony ba extended over a South African confederation. There can be no doubt that the condition of the race has been infinitely improved by the coming of the white mau; but were it pot to the vote to morrow among the Kaffirs whether the white man should be banished out of South Africa or retained, there can be no doubt that the entire race would go for banishment Decatnr Press: A terrible accident occurred at the residence of Alexander Lin nen, lust east of Smyrna, et about 11 o'clock Taesday morning, by which a son of Mr. Linnen, aged 13 years, was killed. Tbe son of a neighbor was tpending the New Year win young Linnen, and they concluded to fire an old musket The boy, not taking tbe precaution to learn whether the musket coatained a ball, pointed it at young Linnen and told him to look out, he was going to shtot. He pulled the trigger and hia young pliymate fell to the ground a corpse, a Jenoen slug having passed through his heart Tti boy's parents became almost frantic wiii grief.
HAYES. The Way He Plays Hypocrite. New York Herald.l The account given In another column by onr special correspondent at Washington ot the tone and substance of Mr. Hayes' conversation Tith his friends exhibits him as the most serene and self satisfied of all public functionaries, and, indeed, of all mortals in this care vexed world. No shade of doubt has ever crossed his tiind as to his mental sufficiency for his great position; and as he foresaw everything from the beginning just as it has come to pass, he is neither discomposed nor disappointed. It is a surprising view which Mr. Hayes takes of the political situation and of his own relation to it and concern in it Everything is working in exact accordance with his original calculations, and he is not disappointed in the least by any turn affairs have taken. The public will be curious to know on what data he founded all the expectations which have been so remarkably fulfilled. What was there, for example, in the fact that he carried his own state in the election of 187G to warrant the expectation that his party would be so badly beaten in Ohio in 1S77? By his own representation he stood on precisely the same ground in both years na'mely, his letter of acceptance. Why, then, did his own state turn against him, and what was his reason for supposing in advance that it would condemn him? His assertion that he is not disappointed implies that he knew before hand that without a shadow of change on his part, he would forfeit the confidence of his own state, which practically repented in 1877 of having given him its electoral votes in 1876. The wonder is by what proce? s of reasoning he was led to form this prophetic opinion in advance of the facts. Would he have the country believe that he really exacted the republican losses in the state elections of last autumn, and serenely counted on the desertion and condemnation of nearly all the tried and conspicuous republican leaders? Does he really feel no disappointment at the fact that nine-tenths of the newspapers that advocated his election have turned against him and condemn his policy? Did he expect, when he issued his noted civil service order, that it would prove such a failure that he would be co strained first to ex
plain it away and then tacitly abandon it? If he was not disappointed by the rejection of bis nominations for the New York custom house why did he do s) futile a thine as to send in names which Le knew would not be confirmed? And why did the intimates and lamiliars or the white house send over the country such confident and cocksure predictions of the triumph of the president over the opposing senators until within two days of Mr. Con It ling's signal triumph? If the president anticipated all the rebulls he has received from his own party he was pleased to make a great secret of his expectations. If we may me an expressive slang word, the kind of talk in which Mr. Hayes is so profusely indulging seems a good deal like "poppycock," or at least like a new salve for rubbing his political wounds. WOHfA'S SHOES. What i Fashionable for Foot Gear. New York Home Journal. A fashion of wearing shoes has suddenly sprung up among the Parisian elegantes, and the sort they affect are called "Souliers Anglais." They are niado of kid, and the front comes high on the instep; the heel is Dot very high, and frequently the, toe is ornamented with white silk embroidery. They are tied with ribbons like a man's shoe, and the toes are rounded. Colored stockings of line wool, with embroidered clocks, are worn with this shoe. The clocks, be it observed, are always of light silk; very often the stockings are checked with two colors and green, blue or plain cardinal red, peasant's blue or bishop's violet Fashion is becoming practical ; we have short skirts, petticoats guileless of starch, woolen stockings, shoes, and h net for the hair; all of which are comfortable, and consequently conducive to tbe health, because tbe toilet being no longer cumbersome, the healthful exercise of walking is more readily undertaken. Loots laced up the front like those worn by gentlemen, which were made of ecru leather for the seaside, are now worn in black unpolished kid. Dark green kid boots are made to wear with the dark green costumes at present so fai.hionable.and there are tbe prettiest dark green shoes imaginable for indoor wear, with short toes, and two straps across the instep; these straps are in piush, and the buckles that fasten them are in either red gold, or steel, or crystal; the form of these small buckles is square when they are of metal, and they are oval when they are of crystal. The toes of fine kid and satin shoes are now embroidered, black satin is worked with jet and colored satin with flowers and arabesques in silk. Louis XV. slippers, called "mules," and consisting of the front or toe and sole only, are made of Japanese and Chinese materials, are embroidered with gold and sometimes with small coral beads; and shoes for evening wear are now made with embroidered metal heels, lined with satin and studded with tiny precious stones. Shoe buckles are aL made of precious stones, particularly torquoise and amethysts; amethysts have much decreased in price, hence they are relegated to shoes. Mar and tbe Princes. New Orleans Picayune Paris Letter. Victor dn Bechet, who recently died in Paris, was once delegated by the French government to settle with the Prussian government the unity of gauge of the terminal lines of railways of tbe respective countries. He used to tell that one day he dined with Princess Augusta of Prussia (now empress of Germany). She asked: "Do you think railways will facilitate war?" "Assuredly, your royal highness." "Then I should be almost tempted to deplore their invention. Everything which manes war easier fills me with horror. I have always deplored the invention of powder; as nobody could prevent men from fight ng, everybody should at least t hrow in their way as niany obstacles as possible. I never worship at the altar of the god of battles." Billings' rtiilosopby. How natral it iz for a man, when he makes a mistake, tew kurrect it by kussing sumbody else for It The wimmin ought tew ketch all the phellows who part their hair in the middle and clap a red flannel pettycoat on them. Heere iz just what iz the matter if yu shut yourself up folks will run arter yu, jind if yu run artor folks they will shut themselves up. Ambishun tew shine in everthing is a sure way to put a man's kandle out Ther iz no revenge 83 complete as forgiveness. He that desires tew be ntch, only tew be charitable, is not only a wize man but a good one. Grate welth in onr jurney thru life iz only extra baggage, and wants heaps of watching. He ware ov the man who makes a still noize when he walk?, and who purrs when be talks; he iz a kat in dieguize. . Full JleMore. While most of the to called two ounce flavoring extract bottles hold but one and oneanarter ounces, and the four ounces less ian three ounces, Dr. Price's Special Fla voring Extracts are full measure, strong, pure and natural as the fruit from which they emanate.
LEGAL.
SALE FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT. By virtue of a certain precept to me directed by the mayor of the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, ami duly attested by the clerk of said city under the corporate eal of said city, X will on SATURDAY, January 20, 1878, sell, at public auction, at the Citv Court Room, between the hours of 10 o'clock a.m. and 4 o clock p. m. of Nt id day the following described lot or parcel of land, or no much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the sum hereinafter n.imi a.sa.ssisl against such premises, for street improvement, and all costs, to-wit: Lot No one (1) Stevens's subdivision of onU lot Nn. nnA hmul rtu omt tK m t . . v, cf Indiana noli. Marlon county, Indiana. ujrftitiiiiru ouner, aRainst wnicn is assessed the sum of eighteen dollars and sey-enty-five cents (SiS.75 for street Improvement, in favor of Henry C. lioney, contractor. WILLIAM M. WILES, City Treasurer. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 2, 1S78. SALE FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT. by the mayor of the city of Indianapolis, ludiana,and duly attestHl by the clrk of aai i t T . .... I a ... ... l ta . . . ... vn.jr unuii uie corporate seui oi saiu City, I will on SATURDAY, January 2, 1873, soil at public auction, nt the Citv Court Room, between tlis hours of 10 o'clock A. M.aniM o'clock r. Mnof said dav, the folio wi :ia: described lot, or parcel of land, or so much thereof as may b necessary to satisfy the sum hereinafter named as assessed ;u;ainst kuc'i premises for street improvement, and all costs, to-wit : Lot No. seventeen (17) In Donecker et al.'s subdivision of lots Xos. nineteen and twenty (20) m HencSerson's addition to the city of Indianapolis, Marion count v. Ind una, owned ny Henry Martin, asrainst which is assessed the sum of eleven dollars and sixty-one cents (311.61) for street improvement in favor of John fcchier, contractor. WILLIAM M. WILES. City Treasurer. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 2, 1878. SALE FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT. By virtue of a certain precept to me directed 07 the mayor of the city of Indians'-polis, Im-?t-nna,and duly attested by the clerk of said ciiy under the corporate seal of said city, I will ou SATURDAY, January 2G, 1S7S, sell at public auction, at the City Court Room, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p.m., of said day, the followingdescribed lot, or parcel of land, or so much thereof n may be necessary to satisfy the sum hereinafter named as assessed against such premises for street impiovent, and all coits, towit: . Lot No. eighteen US) in Donecker et aL's subdivision of lotsNos. nineteen (111) and twenty (20) in Henderson's addition tothecity of Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana, owned by Henry Martin, against which is assessed the sum eleven dollars and sixty-one cc-.ntsSI1.61) for street Improvement in favor of J oh a Schier, contractor. WILLIAM M. WILES, City Treasurer. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 2. 1873. NOTICE TO KOH-RESIDEML Whereas, a certain precept has ln-en fufV'isitued to me by tne mayor of the city of Indianapolis, under the coriorate seal of said city, dated Decmber 11, 1877, showing Unit there is due the following named contractor the amount hereinafter specified for street improvement m he city of Indianapolis, Marion, county, Indiana. Pu James J. McKnlfrht Tor grading and graveling Kixth street and sidewalks, between Delaware and Alabama streets, from James K. Foster the mm of rirty-one dollars ( 1). amount of assessment chargrd acainst lot No. three (3) in Dewey's subdivision in Murphy and Tinker's addition to the city oi Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana. Now, the said defendant is hereby notified that, unless within (2V) days after tlie publication for three weeks of this notice, the amount so assessed against the above .described lot or parcel cf land is paid, I will proceed to collect the amount so asessei by lvy and sale of 6aid lot or parcel of land, or so mu-h thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the above claim and all casts that may accrue. WILLIAM M. WILE-, City Treasurer. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 2 1878. NOTICE TO fKJH-RESIDENT. Whereas, a certain precept has been duly issued to me by the mayor of the city of Indianapolis, nnder the corporate seal of said city, dated December 11, 1877.sho wine that i here Is duo the following named contractor tne amount hereinafter (specified for street improvement in the city of Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana: Dne David A. Haywood for grading and graveling the street and sidewalks bonMf riiiK the gutters and curbing tiie si-le walks nt Court street, between East and Noble atreehj, from George W. Gabbert the sum of twenty-nino dollars and thirteen cents (t29.1o, amount of assessment charged against thirty-fix (&) feet east of fourteen (11) feet on .Market street northwest corner of outlotNo. sixty-five (i5 in the city of Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana. Now, the said defendant is hereby notified that, unless within (2i) days afu r the publication, for three Meeks, of this collcv1, the amount so assessed against Uie above described lot or parcel of land is paid, I will proceed to collect the amount so assessed by levy and pale of said lot or parcel of land, or so touch thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the aboveclaim, and nil costa that may accrue. WILLIAM M. WILEHr City Treasurer. Indianapolis Indiana, Jan. 2, 1878. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT. Whereas, a certain precept has been duly issued to me by the mayor of the city of Indianapolis, under the corporate; wal of said city, Uateu December 11. 1877, showing that there la due the following named contractor the amount hereinafter jellied for street Improvement in the city of Indianapolis, Marion, county, Indiana: Due Richard Carr for improving Clifford avenue from Ma-sachusetts avenue to the worthwest line of the U. H. Ars 'nal grounds from Olivers. Dean the sum ol twenty-eight dol ars and Ave cents, amount if assessment charged against lot No three (3) in square fourteen (UL White and Boulet's subdivision of A. K. Fletcher's addition to the city of Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana. Now, the said defendant !s hereby notified,, that unless within (20) days arter the publication for three weeks of this notice, th-amount' so assessed aaraiost the above described lot or parcel of land is paid, I will proceed to collect, the amount bo assessed by levy and sale of stid. lot or parcel of land or so much thereof as may lie necessary to sat isfy the above claim, axaili costs that may accrue. WILLIAM M. WILE3 City Treifcur Indlanapoilg, Ind., Jan. 2, 1878.
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