Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1885 — Page 4

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We auk Democrats to tear in mind, and select nelr own State paper when they come to take abscriptiona andmaie np clubs. AgonU making np clubs tend lor anj information desired. Address KDIANAPOLU SESTINZL COMPANY, Indlanpolia, lnd. Seyzstees men were killed In an explosion at Gibraltar yesterday. Tut National Democratic Committee is called to meet in "Washington March 2. A SIiciiigas paper advocates the establishment of conyict colonies in ' Alaska and the genera! transfer to that Territory of the sconndielism of this great country. The scheme takes in the naughty women also. 8eal BXln sacqnea are cheap in Alaska. It is raid that of all the Cabinet offices the State Department is the easiest, although ranked first. An hour a day giyes the Secretary of State time sufficient to go through the routine wort. A high order of ability is demanded, however, when international questions arise for settlement. Thi ladies of the Cabinet officers' families will hold their last receptions on Wednesday the 25th. These, with one more public reception by the President, we are told, will close the social career of the present .Administration. Rather solemn occasions to some folks, we should imagine. TiriRK seems to be a good deal of lying about recent military matters in the Soudan. By the way but, no; it can not be. ElGath was here the other day, and El Jawhawker is on the Pacific coast; bat where is El Eli Perkins? or that colossal combination of fool aid fiction, the Albany correspondent of the Chicago Tribune? Here now is a specimen faggot utilized by the bloody shirt organ "to fire the Northern heart," as it were. The Commercial Gazette says: The Indianapolis Sentinel evidently favors the selection of J-jU Divis lor a place In Cleveland's Cabinet. It pleads Republican precedent in giving Lonsstreet ofiiee and putting Key lato the office of Postmaster General. It would be unparliamentary to brand the foregoing as a lie, and were it not so we do not care to use that epithet toward an esteemed, but highly erratic contemporary. We place it on record merely as an idiosyncracy of unfair journalism. As Albany special of the 11th says: "Senator Voorhees and Congressman Cobb, of Indiana, arrived here late last night, and this morning spent an hour with Presidentelect Cleveland. Mr. Yoorhees nrged strongly Mr. McDonald for the Cabinet, and brought letters from twenty-two Democratic Senators in McDonald's favor. After the visit, Mr. Voorbces would say nothing save that he found Cleveland an attentive listener, and that the request for McDonald was a whole-soled and spontaneous one." It costs something to have a Congress. In the list of expenses the first Item, the compensation of Senators, is put down at $380,000, while for pay of members of the House the sum of 51,606,000 is appropriated, making over 92,000.000 in salaries alone to members. Then there are still greater expenses in the aggregate, though none 83 large in single items. The mileage of the members of the House and the Senate is alone nearly J 150,000. For clerks to committees, messengers and others to wait upon and serve the honorable statesmen the sum of $617,000 is asked. Even the little item of stationery counts up, the sum to be appropriated by the bill, as reported, being over $50,000. Then, too, there is the usual appropriation for the Botanic Garden, the principrl purpose of which seems to be to furnish bouquets to members and their wiyes or through them to somebody else's wife gets $11,000. For the library of Congress the appropriation is $37,000. On the whole, Congress seems to be doing pretty well. Over $2,000,000 for salary list, f 00,000 for stationery, over $33,000 library, $11,000 for bouquets and more than ?00,000 for persons to wait on members ana do work incident to the meetingof Congress. WHAT COLONEL MATSON HAD TO FIGHT. During the campaign there was some little brag and bluster indulged in by Republicans hereabouts, and by same living in Hendricks and other counties of the Fifth Congressional District, that Major Grubbs would run Colonel Mateoa very close, If not defeat him outright, in the race for Congress that was then "on." It did not, however, give us any concern, although there are immense possibilities within the reach of the gigantic corruption funds heretolore accumulated, seemingly without much difficulty by the Republican managing bosses throughout all the doubtful 6tates and Congressicnal Districts. Mr. Grubbs did make quite an active canvass, and It seems that he had some questionable sort of encouragement, which probably inflated him into a sort of ambitious . longing that he might pull through. We think we have the key to it as presented by our Washington correspondent in his dispatch published this morning. The character ef the testimony presented yesterday by Chief Cornatock, of tbe Pension Bureau, created some surprise, and we think it will create more among the people of Morgan, Hendricks and other counties of the Fifth District. It seems that Mr. Grubbs was given complete control over the pension cases that he sent to tbe bureau, and that Commissioner Dudley issued orders making "special" all claims sent in by Grubbs. Comstock says that it was common talk around the Pension Office that Grubbs was to be afforded every facility In his campaign. The order of Dudley is characterized as "unusual and remarkable" by Chief Comstock. This places the charge upon a solid basis that the Pension Office machinery was used for partisan purposes in Indiana and Ohio. Our Washington correspondent says that Chairman Warner, of the House Committee on Pensions, characterizes the order of Dudley ai "remarkable and mean," because It was issued in the interest of the opposition to Colonel Matson, who has been eo fair In all his dealings with the pension

office and Commissioner Dudley. Here we hate then the Beeret of the hopes of Mr. Grubba that he would defeat the gallant ilatson for Congress.

THE NAVY OF THE FUTURE. It Is by no means clear that our Govern ment has cot acted wisely in going leisurely to the upbuilding of a new navy, and that the clamor of ship building and interested contractors would not haye hurried us into a system which the changes of the times would compel us to abandon with all the outlay that went to its establishment Since our civil war, the tendency has been constantly toward the construction of inynl nerable vessels. The ideal war ship was a monster that coul t lie and take any fury of cannonade as indifferently as an alligator takes a bombardment of pop-guns. It was to be so densely cased in steel that no force could penetrate its motive power, endanger its magazine, or destroy any life that as not needlessly exposed. At the same time it was to carry a battsry so powerful that no strength less than its own could resist it. In short, it was to be at sea what the old iron cased knights were on land, inaccessible to any tsaailing force and Irresistible when it choäe to uae Its own force. This was all very well in the ideal. It proved not so well in the actual. One ef these iron-cased monster went down Hie a shot in a gale In the Bay of Biscay that a common frigate of the last generation would have laughed at. Its impenetrable casing that made it inaccessible did not make it imponderable. It weighed the more the more it was made invulnerable, and then the weight made it the easier victim of that awful p3wer tint rides the seas on the "white horses" of the gale. The first revelation cf the radical defects of the new naval system was its peril In storms. It could not meet the "wave and the gale" with the confidence of the weakest cf the old "wooden walls." So it could never be caed with the efficiency ef the old system for cruising, for rapid transport to distant points that needed protection, for attacks on ports of shallow entry. The huge weight of the ships made, their draught too great for any but a very few of the deepest harbar and roadways. This limited its utility largely to the service of "floating forts." But even these great defects were not the worst. They would have compelled the supp ementing of armored vessels by lighter ones that could run easily asd rapiuly anywhere, but they would have been invaluable in their own range of service. The fatal defect appeared with the improvement of artillery. Heavy guns have gone on getting bigger, longer, heavier and more formidable, till now they weigh 1C0 tons, fire a ball of 2,000 pounds, with nearly a half ton of powder, which gives them the momentum of a locomotive under full steam. The shot, steel -pointed, will cut through two feet of solid steel and three feet of solid timber backing. No armor can stand such blows. If it is not bored full of holes as big as a flour barrel it is jarred and shattered till the sea pressure seeksout the leaks, pours in irrepressible floods and canies the battered mass of helpless iron down to make dens for strange fishes. A versel with no armer to diminish its carrying power can take one of the hnge Whitworth guns of the Italian navy, and lying out of the reach of the smaller guns of a heavy steel-plated ship, or frisking about with its powerful steam machinery so rapidly as to mace a fair shot impossible, it can plug the monster at pleasure, as a sword-fish does a whale. S3 it has come about that some of the longestheaded men of the day are arguing that armored vessels have run their course, proved their unfitness for the general service of a navy, and demonstrated that the next change must be to lighter vessels, cased as strongly as possible not to interfere with their rapid tailing and maneuvering, and made to carry guns of the most formidable force. Now, by waiting, our Government is ia a position to adopt the latest improvement, without sacrificing a nayy of the old pattern to give place for it. So our delay may prove, after all, a sort of Fabian policy what Benton called "masterly inactivity." THE PERIL OF ASYLUMS. The recent fire in the New Yoik Orphan Asylum, the late one in our own, and the terribly fatal one a few days ago In the Alms House of Philadelphia, point plainly to the peril of collecting great numbers of helpless beings in one building subject to the chances of fire and wholesale sacrifice. It happens only too often, as was seen in the Newhall House disaster, in the greater one of the theater In Vienna, and the hardly less frightful one in the Broolyk theater, that sane and helpful people, placed suddenly in the midst of deadly danger, lose their wits and become as wild and reckless as horses in a burning stable. They can't use the means ef safety that offer themselves even to the least provident judgment. They jnmp recklessly from windows, rush blindly down flaming stairways, dash furiously into fiery rooms, and never see the chances that cool observation would nie and escape unharmed. How much worse must be the case with insane people, liable on the slightest excitement to go into fits of frenzied terror or headlong bravado? Clearly, the best protection of the insane is not in large buildings, housing armies like a barrack, story above sttry, to heights inaccessible to ordinary means of rescue and impossible of escaps, without a certainty of death or dreadful maiming. The world has adopted that mode of provision partly from its convenience and partly from its cheapness, but It must be modified by the higher demands of safety. Before many years asylums and hospitals will be built in small departments, easily entered and emptied, with no pile of stories to climb or escape from, and no great mass of frightened humanity to intensify terror and helplessnees by multiplying the subjects. And for those already built, too costly and convenient to abandon, a plentiful supply of water must be provided. The water failed at our asylum fire. "Two plugs were Insufficient" at the Philadelphia fire. It is a want easily supplied m most cases, and the failure to do it is hardly less than a crime. We should have an ample supply f jr our ajylums. They contain the population of a respectable country town. The build ings have cost more than the houses in many a town. Now, a water supply can be obtained either from wells or the adjacent creeks, or at no great expense, considering the Importance of It, from a connection with the city supply. 'However it is done, it should be done speedily and complstely.

TIIUBtfAJi'S TALK.

An Interests? Interview With the Distinguished Ohio Statesman. Sir. Thirmm Still Hals and Hearty Cabinet Gossip and Current Politics F,s chewed lUaine'a Book The Senat of Clay and Webster's Times Democratic Simplicity Old Back's" Ball. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1 Columbcs, O., Feb. 11. In a quiet, unpretentious looking two-story red brick house on high street, a few blocks away from the State Capital Building, lives ex-Senator Thurman. He built this house when he moved from Chiilicothe to Columbcs, in 1S53, and it has been his home ever since. I was let in by a little house-woman, who looked as neat and prim and smooth as if sbe had just come from hearing one of Cotton Mather's sermons. Would 1 step into the library? Mr. Thurman would be down in a moment. I went back through the broad, high hallway, and found the library to be a large square room with many easy chairs, a table with a lamp, shelves ef books reaching to the ceiling on two sides, and a ble, roaring fire. And in a moment in came the great ex-Senator. I expected to see a man somewhat bent with age ancf very white-headed. But he was not tent, nor was he very whitebeaded. He carried his left arm as though it was somewhat paralytic, and he wa3 a little unsteady on his feet, but he has a grat, broad, massive chest, and his face was AS CLEAB AS A BOY'S. He broke his left arm two years ago, and it has never entirely recovered, and he is somewhat unsteady on his feet from rheumatism in his knees, a malady that has afflicted him for twenty years, and which he got by inheritance. When he had sat down in a big arm-chair, which he comfortably filled, he looked very hale and comfortable. His great, fine hea l sat on his broad shoulders as steadily as if he were but thirty-five. His eve is C.ear, his complexion ia rich and healthful, and his mouth firmly set, He has a short, gray beard that covers the lower part of his face, but his upper lip is clean shaven and sets down equarely and solidly without a wrinkle. His mouth is large, and when he smiles or laughs, as he often does, he shows a set of remark ably well-preeerved teeth. When I asked him about his health he said that he felt better than he had for a loDg time. "Does your rheumatism trouble you much, Benator? ' "Very little now. I have suffered more or less from it for many years. It came to me by inheritance, and it is sometimes in my shoulder, sometimes in my elbow and sometimes in my knee. Then again, it some times fails into my broken arm, and then IT HIRTS A GOOD DEAL." "Then it is not true, Senator, that you are quite decrepit - and broken down?" He laughed heartily, and asked me If I thought he Icoked so. "But I suppose yon know that it has bsen reported that you are?" 'Oh, well, I know I have heard something of the kind. I paid no attention to it. I don't think I ever studied so hard in my life as I do now. I don't go out much, it is true, for the reason that it is not necessary. I have closed np my law business, and I am now taking a little comfort with my books." "But, Senator, that is not the worst story that we have heard." "What now?" be said, with a good-humored twinkle in his eye, "They say von have fallen into hard drink." He laughed more heartiiy than ever.Jand proceeded to tell a story about a man who ran for the Legislature in Kentucky. When he got the nomination he went home very despondent, and Baid to his wife that he did not believe that he would run; that he had always borne a good character, and he did not now want to lose it. "But, John, you haven't done anything," said she. "You have always been honest. They can't hurt you. Go in and take iL" And he did. But when the campaign had got along pretty well, he came home one day again LOOKING V1RT BLUE. " 'What's the matter, John?' asked his wife. 'Well, Sally, it'a just as I told you. They have accused me of stealing sheec' 'Cut you didn't.' 'Yes, but they have not only accused me of it, but the worst of it is they have proved it. I don't suppose," continued Mr. Thurman, laughing, "that there was ever anything charged against a man that somebody would not swear- to. I hope my friends do not expect me to notice such stories. I will not even go to the trouble of denying them. I will say to you, however, that as a matter of fact 1 have been for a long time an absolute teetotaler. I do not even drink wine at my dinner. I used to drink a little wine and occasionally something stronger, but I found tbat it aggravated my rheumatism, and I gave it np entirely. Now, tbat is just how much truth there is in tbe report tbat I am a hard drinker." I next asked him if he would talk for publication about the current POLITICAL QUESTIONS OF THI DAY. I told him be was, cf course, aware that he had been warmly urged for a place on Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet, and tbat the people would be greatly interested in any expression from him at this time as to the policy cf the new administration. "You must excuse me from sayiner a word," he replied, with great firmness. However much I may esteem the Post-Dispatch and its editor, I must be excused this time. 1 do not think it would become me. Any expression of opinion from me now would be ill-timed and cut of place. As to my going into the Cabinet, I will only say this: I have received a bushel of letters, I suppose, Irom kind friends all ever the United States, ex pressing their hope that I would be selected as one of Mr. Cleveland's advisers. I have not even answered one of these letters. Some of tbem are from gentlemen I esteem verv highly, and I fear they think strange bf my not having acknowledged the courtesy they have extended me, but I have felt, and still feel, that not one word en this subject shall fall frost my lips. I have not authorized a living soul to speak to Mr. Cleveland in my behalf. I have not him myself, and I have never said to anybody that I would either accept or decline a place in his Cabinet. Mr. Cleveland ought to be left to make his executive family to suit himself. Positions in the Cobinet are NOT rOSITION8 TO I S SOUGHT AFTER. A man who seeks a Cabinet position or who has others seek it for him is not the material of which a Cabinet should be made." Mr. Thurman did not again refer to any current political topic during a two hours' conversation, but he did not have to do that at all to make himself a charming talker. I fail to call to mind anything he said that more strikingly illustrated the absolute faircess of the man than his comments on Mr. Biaice's "Twenty Years of Congress." He was talking about history, about how great consolation he founä in reading it; thet he found it more entertaining than any other branch of literature, and that h often became so charmed by an historical story that he would sit np till 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning, and even later. I asked hin if he had read Mr. Blaine's book. "Oh, yes," he replied, "I read the first volnme when it first came out." "Do you think he will give you fair treatment wben he comes to yon In the secend volume?" "I do. In fact, I hfcve no doubt of it, Blaine is not a man who carries malice.

There are certain statesmen in his first volume that are not strictly correct from our standpoint; but, take it as a whole, it is a remarkably fair book, and not only a very fair book, but an exceedingly well written one. The Ecglish is plain, vigorous and well sustained. If tbe second volnme is as good in style as the first I think the work will become A CLASSIC IS OCB POLITICAL IIIST0BY. I have just heard, by the way, that Cox (Sunset) has written a book on Congressional history. I shall be glad to see it." "While speaking of Congressionalhistories, Mr. Thurman. may I ask what you think of Denton's Thirty Years' View?" "Oh, well; that can hardly rank as a history. It certainly does not rank with a book like Blaine's. I happen to know somethinz about how Benton's book came to be published. It was really never Intended to be a h. story of the Senate. Bsnton's friends got after him about printing his speeches. He finally hit upon the idea of that book, which is really little more than a running account of tbe legislation in the Senate for thirty years, with hl3 speeches thrown in." From Mr. Benton's book the conversation drifted to the Senate while Benton was there. "There was one thing in particular that struck me when I went into tbe Senate Chamber for the first time," Baid Mr. Thurman. "and saw Benton. Clay, Webster and others of t j sir class. They were NEARLY ALL LARGE M EX. I believe that two-thirds of the members of the Senate at that time were six feet or oyer. It was not a mere fancy. Mr. Clay was over six feet, so was Mr. Calnoun, so was Mr. Benton, eo was Mr. Preston, so was Mr. Sample, of Illinois, eo was my ancle, William Allen, and so were many others. So we of them were six feet two inches, or even six feet tbree inches. The men in the Senate now are cot so large ; neither do they dress with such care. The first time I saw the Senate every member had a dress coat on. . They now go into the Senate with any sort of a suit on, and I suppoie I was as bad as any of them. Bayard always looks neat, but I think Ingalia takes more pains with his cbthes than any of tbem. The custom of the Senate in the matter of personalities u?ed to be much mere strict than it now is. Once, while Aaron Burr was Vice President and presiding officer of the Senate, a member, who had been riding, came in and took his seat with his boots on. Uurr sent word to him by a page that he would be obliged if he would retire at once and apnear in dress becoming his place in the Senate Chamber." Mr. Thurman was in Conzress part of the

time of Polk's administration, and has bean pretty well acquainted witb public men in Washington since 1810. Since there has been so much said recently about the expens e of HOLDING THE CFFICE OF EECP.KTARY OF STATS I asked him if he could tell me anything about the way that Webster, Buchanan, Calhoun, Marcy and other distinguished gentle men had lived while they held that office. "I believe," he said, '"every Secretary of Slate we had up to the war lived within his salary. Mr. Calhoun certainly did. I think he always while in Washington lived in the rooms near the Capitol where he died, Mr. Marcy was a very economical man and I am sure he never exceeded his salary. He waa the last Democratic Secretary of State before the war. Mr. Buchanan was Polk's Secretary ef Slate, and I was in Washington much of the time while he was serving in that position and I knew him welL He was probably the wealthiest Democrat who ever held the Office. In his day he was considered a rich man, though there were no millionaires in Washington public life in those times. 'Old Buck,' as we used to call him, was a bachelor, and a very polite and courtly gentleman. I do not think he owned a house in Washington. He gave an occasional dinner at his hotel, but nothing very extravagant. He gave one ball, which was then considered the grandest one tbat bad been given by any Secretary of State. The ladies got about him and told him he would never marry in the world, if he did not give a ball. He finally consented to do so, and it came off at a place called Carusis saloon. It was not a drinking place, but a hall what in French we would call a salon, if you please. There were OVER A THOUSAND ISVITATIOX3 and the hall was crowded, but etill it was after all a very modest affair compared with some of the entertainments now given in Washington. Mr. Seward came into the office of the Secretary of State at the opening of the war, and he had a house where he extended frequent courtesies to foreign representatives. It was important be should do so, but I doubt if he exceeded his salary. There was nothing extravagant about Andy Johnson's administration, but when Oraat came in he made Mr. Fish Secretary of State. He was a very rich man and very hospitable. He spent a great deal more than his salary, and was the first Secretary of State to do that. Those who followed him have felt obliged to follow his example as far as they were able. Mr. Erarte, no doubt, spent three or four times his salary, though of course he did not bankrupt himself in doing so." "Do you not think, Senator, with the incoming Democratic administration and an etlort at political reform, that there ought to be a return on the part of the chief officer of the Cabinet tj the old way of living?" "There must be a limit somewhere. I think the country will sustain a man who draws the limit at his salary. If public sen timent demands that the Secretary of State should spend more than 3,000 a year, then public sentiment will give the Secretary of State more salary. If this rule does not hold, then it will be so that none but very rich men can hold the office. That would be an injustice and a misfortune." HcDONALD.I Visit of Senator Voorhees and Congressman Cobb to Mr. Cleveland. Albany Special, Feb, H.to New York Herald. Democratic statesmen continue to pursue Governor Cleveland. Late last night the glare of electric lights shone upon two muffled figures as they stepped from a New York Central train and crunching the frost beneath their feet walked to the Delevan. One was tall, broad shouldered and of a massive frame, with even features and a familiar looking beard and mustache, while the other was tquare and compactly built, with a smooth face and shorter stature. Nobody knew tbem until they had tcratched these names upon the hotel register, "D. W. Voorhees, Terre Haute, Ind.;" "T. R. Cobb, Vincennes, Ind." To-day the "tail Sycamore of the Wabash" with Congressman Cobb ducked his head as he entered a sleigh and ordered to be driven to the residence of President-elect Cleveland. The Senator and Congressman had come on a mission of poli tical importance and were with the Presi dent elect three-quarters of an hour. "There is no use disseising the object of our yisit," said Senator Voorhees to your correspondent after his interview with Mr. Cleveland. "We have come here to urge upon the President-elect the appointment of Senator Joseph U. McDonald to a place in his Cabinet," "What place?" "He is good for.any'place, but as his name has been frequently mentioned for tbe Secretaryship of the Treasury we specified that Important position." "Did you receive anv encouragement?" "We expected none. I and Mr. Cobb have both been in public life too long to expect that we would receive any. However, we feel confident that Mr. McDonald stands as ecod a show as anvbodr." "Did you come here at the instigation of anyone? ' "Mr. McDonald knows nothing of our trip. He makes 20,000 a year at his law practice, ana does not, 1 am sure, oase any hones npon a Cabinet rosition. We have. however, a petition from a score of Demo cratic Senators who wish his appointment. Mr. Cleveland has manr difficulties to meet in making out his Cabinet, and it is with this partly in view that we have come to as

slat him. Ail sections have to be represented,

and we think In the West that the West

could not be better represented than in the person of Mr. McDonald." INK THAT MAY P.EPP.EMST THE IXACGCEAL. "Did you find Mr. Cleveland at work on h:3 Inaugural message?" "He was up stairs when we called. His workshop, I believe, is up there and he probably bad been at work In it. He had ink on his fingers and looked as though he had iust drawn on his coat." "Did the President elect drop anv intima tion about any other member of his Cabinet?" "No. He is a good listener. Tve didn't n him to talk, but to let ns talk, and he did eo. He is a great man, filled with the consciousness 01 the responsibilities of his new office, and I think his administration will be tbe purest we have ever had. Friends and foes alike will be weighed in the balance when they come up for office. There will be no favoritism I am sure." "I admired a reply Mr. Cleveland made to a remark of yours," interrupted Congressman Cobb. "What was that?" asked Senat ar Voorbee. "You said you pould not talk with him unless you talked frankly. Ha said: 'Gentlemen, that is the only way any one can talk with me." "Mr. Cleveland has tbe saving grace of common sense," continued Mr. Voorhees, "and that will carry him through. The only thing I fear is that he may work himself to death when he gets down to Washington." Senator Voorhees and Congressman Cobb departed this afternoon for Washington. It is understood here tbat the Democratic Senaters favoring McDanaM practically include all except Metsrs. Lamar, Jone3, Garland and Bayard. Poor Fellows ! Prostrated, debilitated, enfeeblad, thy feel as if they were haidly worth picilug up. They would hardly give the tos of a bright penny for chance of a choice between life and death. Bnt even such forlorn people can be renewed by the use of Brown's Irrn Bitters. It vitalizes the blood. tos tbe rjeryp". and renovates tbe system. Mr. IebscC. Weed. Burr's Mills, 0.,Bays: "I used Brown's Iron Bitters for general eakr.ess, and it helped me greatly." HUNTING A CUKE FOB MAL1RIA. And What the Inquiries axd Investigations Developed. Cursed with that vsgue and indefinite something, cal.'ed malaria, and living in Lancaster, Pa., the birthplace of Mishler's Herb Bitters, Mr. Walter Kiener, of the Daily New Era, resolved to investigate its curative powers, of which he had heard so much. He writes as follows: "Calling on James H. Marshall, Esq , at present and for twelve years past, postmaster of the city, I asked. 'What do you know about Mishler's Herb Bitters?' 'I know, was the answer, 'ti. at it is the most palatable bitters I have ever taken, and as a tonic it has no equal. " That was encouraging, and the next person I met was William A. Morton, Esq., of the Lancaster Intelligencer. I addressed the Bame inquiries to him, and quick as a Hash came the answer, "I have used Mishler's Herb Bitters, off and on, for ten years, and have found it of great benefit. On one oscasion, suffering from severe prostration, it was the only thing to give me relief." Stepping into the office of Hon. D. P. P.CEenmiller, Mayor of Lancaster, I repeated my query. "It is the best tonic I have ever known, and I regard it as an infallible cure for malaria," smilingly answered his Honor. "Mr. Steinheiser, what do you know of Mishler's Herb Bitters?" I asked, addressing Mr. J. O. Steinheiser, cow United States Mail Agent, and for eight years Superintendent of the Lancaster County Hospital and Insane Asylum. "Never had a medicine in the Hospital that acted so charmingly, and for chronic diseases it never fails to give relief." "Mr. Long," addressing a member of the firm of John F. Long's Sons' drug house, the oldest ding house in the State, if not in America, "What has been your experience with MiBhler's Herb Bitters?" "We handle a great deal of it, and the demand ia constantly on the increase. I regard it as being, medicinally, the best bitters in the market. People who buy it once Invariably call for it again." The next place visited was John It. Kanffman's drug store. "How'b the ,Mhhler'a Herb Bitters market, Mr. Kauffman?" "It never was better. We sell a great deal of it in the city, but the bulk of our trade is from the rural districts among old farmers who need a tonic, and among those living in malarial regions. One old gentleman from the country has been coming for eight years, and as we know about how long a bottle will last him we know just about when to expect him. It is a great bitters." H. B. Cochran, another prominent druggist, was the next person approached. " What has been your experience with Mishler's Herb Bitters, Mr. Cochran?" "For a steady sale it bas no equal. It is chemically pure and medicinally strong. Lately the demand for the Bed Label-brand that intended particularly for ladies has greatly increased, and I know of nothiDg more popular or more effective for the weaknesses peculiar to the female Bex." Meeting Bev. J. G. Fritchie, an octogenarian minister of the gospel on the street, I er gaged him in conversation, and remarking on his great age and seeming good health, he said, to my surprise, "I owe it all to Mishler's Herb Bitters; it is the best friend I have, sustaining me in all moments of physical weakness, and If anyone desires my testimony you are at liberty tc give them my came. Let them address oie, and I'll tell tbem all about it." But why mutiply the home testimony? Address whom I might preachers, lawyers, bankers, druggists, merchants, all who had any knowledge of the bitters, and the testimony was overwhelmingly In its favor. Soffice to Eay that, although a skeptic on the subject of curing malaria, I became convinced that there was one preparation, and one only, tbat would cure it, 'and its name is Mishler's Herb Bitters. How to Care Catarrh. Catarrh is very frequently mistaken for Consumption, tbe symptoms la each being much alike, especially In the earlier stages. No one who recognizes In his own system, or who has friends or relatives with any of the symptoms so accurately described, should fail to send a statement of the case to Mr. Childs. . There may be hope even In very desperate cases. The djtcovery of his cure for Catarrh and diseases of the Throat and Lungs has attracted great attention. Leading men everywhere publicly i Ute that Childs' treatment has cured them or their famine of Catarrh or Throat and Lung difficulties among them clergymen, physicians, law-, yers, merchants, bankers and business men. All who have personally investigated the tacts are satisfied tbat Mr. Childs bas discovered a certain, positive and permanent cure tor these diseases, that when properly used never fails even in the rcost desperate cases. Catarrh is generally many years in ga'nlng a-foothold in tbe system, and attacks so many parts oi the body that it can not be cured by any one remedy or by a single application, it requires remedies that will meet the disease wherever it is located, and fight it inch by inch until a comnlete victory has been obtained. Kev. T. P. Childs has treated and cured thousands at their own homes, never having seen them. In a thoroughly honorable and characteristic manner he publishes the names and addresses of some he bas cured, that any who desire may inquire of the patients themselves what Chilas' treatment baa done for them. None need feel any hesitancy in placing their case in Mr. Childs' hands for treatment. We would call especial attention to the advertisement, snd request a careful perusal of the facts as get forth. Many who do net receive our paper would doubtless be very thankful should our readers call tbe Ht tent Ion of such to the advertisement of Mr. Childs. Catarrh and Consumption are the twin enemies of the race, and any means of relief 5s a Beaven-sent blessing. Childs treatment may be relied on as an effective and certain cure for Natal Catarrh, Bronchitis and all diseases of the Throat and Lungs, and you may recommend It to your friends with every confidence. Obltnary. Lot isviLLk, Feb. 13. Colonel Thomas Baford, brother of General Abe Buford, and the alayer of Judge Elliott, of the Court of

ji.j iv:. : . V a - ne ;s. The Pension Department Used for Election Purposes. Washington, Feb. 12. At a meeting of tbe House Committee oa the Payment of Pensions, Bounty and Back pay, a nnmber of examiners in tbe Pension Office testified that they were Instructed in October ty Second Assistant Chief Smith not to report any case for rejection. It was the understanding, they eaid, that the order was given for political purposes; that if pensioners learned their cases were rejected they would oppose the Republican candidates for office. I A. Broadus, a clerk in the Pension Bureau, testified that on October 9, last, he took the pension esse of a widow to Mr. Ccmstock. chief of tbe division, and sa d it ought to be passed. There was a technical defect in the case. "What member of Congress has urged action on this case?" asked Comstock. ot Bread as. He replied, "Holman." "That's the great objector," said Comstock. "He's a damned Democrat If he gets that esse it iil give him fifteen votes in that locality. Hold her np for the requirements in the case." Broadus said the widow afterwards remedied the defects and the case was allowed. T. F. Winthrop, a pensioner examiner, testified to having reported to the Pension 0:l;ce tbat he bad taien a certain number of affidavits in one dav, when they had not been taken at that time, but on the succeedin? day. The report was made, he said, to show a good record in the office. WiU-iAM & Lr.w Wallace, Attornevslor Flaln;:f SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue f a certified copy of a decree to me directed from the Clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in a cause wberem William N. Pickerill et al. are plain tiffs, and Mary Ann Farman etal. are defendants, (cage Ho. St,4s2, requiring me to mace tue sums ot money in said decree provide!, and In manner as provided for In said decree, with interet on said decree and oosts, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, oa SATURDAY, THE 11TH DAY OF M4.RCII, A. i). 1SS3, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m., of aald day, at the door of the Court House 01 Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following real estate, situate in Marion Couuty, Indiana, described as follows, to-wit: Farts of lots No. ten (10! in Van Blaricum's subdivision of outlot fourteen 114! in the city of Intiiantpolis, beginning at a point seventy-seven 77 feet and two (2 inches west of the southeast corner of said lot ttn L 10 1 on the south line of said let, thence north forty 40 feet and eight is; Inches to the norm line of said lot ten 10 . thence weit on the north line thereof twenty-eight rJ 1 feet, thence south forty NO, feet and eight äj itches to tie south line of said lot: thence east on the south line thereof twenty-eight 2Sj feet to the place of beelnnicg. Also, beginning at the f outhwest corner of lot ten i 10 1 in Van Blaricum's subdivision of outlot fourteen ill I in the c tty of Indianapolis, thence east ninety !0j feet, tnence north forty j40 feet and eight S! inches, thence west ninety 190! feet, thence soma forty j40, feet and eight 1 81 inches to tbe place of beginnin known as the Farman Block, corner of Tennessee and Garden streets, Also lot number four 41 in A. L. Wright's first addition to the city of Indianapolis as shown in Flat Book 4, page 3, in the .Recorder's oilice of Marion County, Indiana. Alto part of lot number nine '91, in Ktnlsr's subdivition of square seventy-eight 7j, in the city of Indianapolis, described as follows to-wit: Beginning on Vlrgina avenue twenty-three feet northwest of the southeast corner of said lot nine 19, running thence northeast at right angles with Virginia avenue thirty two 32 1 feet, thence Eorth p.uallel with the east line of said lot nine 1 9 forty-nine 4'J! leet and eight and one-half is1.. inches, thence west three 13 feet and eight and one-ball jS Inches to a point midway between the east ;.nd west lines of said lot nine ' thence south lorty-six(46i feet, thence southwest thirtytwo 32 feet to said avenue, and thence southeast with the line of eaid avenue fire 151 feet and three 13 inches to the place of beginning. Also, beginning at the southwest corner of said lot nine 9i in Kinder subdivision of square ev-enty-elgnt 78 in the city of Indianapolis, on Virginia avenue, iher.ee northeast at right angles with said avenue thirty-two 32) feet, thence north with the west line of said lot nine 191 twenty-six '20j fee, thence east parallel with Maryland street twenty 20 feet, thence south parallel with the west .'lne of said lot nine 9i forty six 140) feet, thence southwest at right angles with said avenue thirty-two '32 1 feet to said avenue, thence northwest with said avenue twenty eight 2Sj feet and three " inches to the place of beginning, except the following described part thereof: Beginning on Virginia avenue at the southwest corner of eaid lot nine I9i. thence southeast en Virginia avenue three ! 3 ieet and six 6j inches, thence northeast at right angles with said avenue thirty-two 32 1 ieet, thence north parallel with the east line of said lot nine 9 twenty-eight US feet and five and three-fourths ;5?i incnes. thence west two la feet and five and three fourths inches to the west line of said lot, theuce south twentysix --'6j feet, and thence west to the place of beginning. Also lot number five ö in Isaac N. Phipps' Springdale addition to the city of Indianapolis, as shown in plat book fonr 41, page tlfty-one 1511, in tbe Recorder's office of Marion County. Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sntlicient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and coits, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so mach thereof as may be sufficient to discharge Baid decree, interest and costs. Eaid sale will be made with relief from valuation or appraisement laws. GEORGE H. CARTER, Sheriff of Marlon County. February 17, A. D. li8ö. Wm. & L. Wailace, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE By virtuefof an execution (venai) to me directed from the Clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, 1 will expose at public salt, to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, THE 14th DAY OF MARCH, A. D. 1S85, be' wtf u the hoars of 10 o'clock a. m. and -t o'clock p. in. r-f said day, at the door of the Court house ef Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits tor a term not exceeding seven years of the following real estate, to-wit: Lots number five 61 and six !6 In square number forty-five 45) in the city of Indianapolis: also, lots one 1, two 2,. three 13 and four 4 in Kirland and Rvan's subdivision of lot one I I and sixty-two and one-half rG2! feet oft' the east side of lot two 2 in square ti,ir fonr I S4 1 in the city of Indianapolis; also, the following described parcel of ftround, commencing one hundred and six 106 feet east of the southwest corner in let number twelve 1 12, square number fifty-five (55) in the city of Indianapolis, tbeace north at rieht angle to Potomac alley to intersect Kearney's east line, thence northeast with said Kearney's line to Circle street, thence with Circle street thirty-eight and fourtwelitna S8 4-12 feet to Holmes' northwest corner, thence southwest fifty 50J feet with said Holmes' line, thence south with Holmes' line and parallel with Meridian street seventynine 1 79) feet and six and one-half 6'. ;i inches to a point on Potomac alley one hundred and ten IllOj feet west of the southeast corner of lot eleven llj, thence west sixty-nine 69) leet to the place of etdnning: alto lot number one fliand thirty 1301 feet off of tbe north side of lot nnmber two 1 2) in Morris' subdivision of square eighty-6even 87J in the city of Indianapolis, all situate in Marion County, Indiana, And on failure to realize the full amount of judgment. Interest and costs. I will, at the same time and place, t xpose at public sale the fee simple of said real estate, SX3 , Taken as the property of Elijah fc. Alvord at the suit of Henry Tutewiler, Trustee, for the use of the Indianapolis National Bank. Baid sale to be made with relief from valuation or appraisement laws. (Case No. 16,8m GEORGE H. CakTER, Sheriff of Marion County. February 17, A. D. l!&5. Merrill M06F.es, Attorney for Plain tiff. SHERIFF8 SALE By virtue of an execution to me directed from the Clerk of the tJibson Circuit Court of Gibson County. Indiana, I will expose at public sale, to the highest.bidder, on SATURDAY, THE 14TH DAY OF M.ECH,""Z D., IS00, between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M. of said day, at the door of the Court-hou of Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following real estate, situate In Marion County, Indiana, to-wit: Lot No. eleven 11 J. In the G. B. Edwards' subdivision of block nineteen 10, in Johnson's heirs addition to the city of Indianapolis. And on failure to realize the full amount ot judgment, Interest and costs, 1 will, at the same time and place, expose at public sale the fee simple of aald real estate. Taken as the property of Pleasant N. bpaln, at tbe suit of William L. Dorsey. Said sale to be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws, GEORGE H. CARTER, Sheriff of Marion County. Tebruarv 17, 1, D 1555.

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LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S s VEGETABLE COMPOUND IS A POSITIVE CURE For all of those Painful Complaint a and Weaknesses so common to our best ., FEMALE POPULATION. . It vn.t, ctrk kxtirflt tri worst yR or FeMALS CcrstPLAl.NTV ALL OVARUV TRICjjLH, InrLAMMATIOX AXD I'l E RATION. FaM.INO AVT IurLACEHESTS. iSD THE (N'EljrrVT SSriNAfc WlAKKESS, 1D I P1ET1TL1KLT ADAPTED TO TH Chan of or Lin. a It vol diolt avt uprt Ti mors tt.ou ths I'TIRrS I!t iSHRI.T TAGE or IEVEI.oriENT. Tb TEVDENCTTOCaNCER'H-9 IiUHOBSTHERKUC HSCKErt VERT triEDILT BT ITi ViZ. . It kekovts FArvTvrs. Flatt-lfxct. trts1 ALLCRATINQ FOR murUNTS. AND REI.IETE8 WEAK-; Essor theStonach. lr ci res Bi-oatino, Head'ache, Kervous Prostration, General Dibiutt.I Depression axd Indigestiom. , That rEEi.rvo or Bearino Down, arnxs Paijt.I .Weight axd Backache, is alwats rinjiAXEXTLvi ccridbt rat. (fcA a!4 IT WI1X AT ALL TIMES AND rXDIAlXf-IR(T STANCES ACT IS HARMONY WITH TUB LAWS THAT COVERS THB FEMALE STSTEM.fc J tJy Vßt j WITS PURPOSE IS SOLELY POBTHELEi. rTmATl' DEALING or I)1EAE AN T JE KELIEr Or PAIS, AN3 THAT IT DOES ALL IT (LAIMS TO IK, THOCSAJiDS OP LADIES CAN GLADLrTEiTirr. - k For thk cvrz or Kidnet Complaint iv EITHER (EI THIS REMEDY IS UXflUPASfED. jfLYDIA E. rrNKHAM 3 VEGETAELE COMPOUND if prc-parc-d at Lynn, II. Price tL bix botts for t".. tkJd by all 4 ruggittt. S-nt hy mail, portale paid, in form of PilU or Locnir a on rers-ipt of price ma abov. Urs. Pinkham's "Guide to Health" will be mailed freetoanr Lady sending stamp. Letters confidentially anwerel. No famür M10.1M be without T.TPIA T.. PINTCHAMU LIVER PILLS. Ther .-on. t'onntirmtion. Biiiouarm.i and Torpidity of tbe Liv. r. Sj khU per box. a THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL 1885 FOR THE YEAR 1885 Tbe Eecognized Le&ding Democracy Newspaper of the State. 8 Pages 56 Columns The Largest, Best and Cheapest Weekly Id the West at only ONE DOLLAR. As heretofore, an uncompromising eaem j of Monopolies In whatever form appearing, and especially to tbe spirit of subsidy, aa embodied ia the RESENT THIEVING TARIFF. TO INDIANA DEMOCRATS: 81noe laming oil last annual prospectus yoa have achieved a glorious wictory in your 8tate and aided materially ta transferring tbe ISational Government once mora Into Democratic hands. Your triumph nas been as complete as ronr faithfulness through twecirfonr years was beroic. In the late campaign, as In former ones, tbe 8ektikxl'i arm has been bared In the Iht We stood shoulder to shoulder, as brothers, in the conflict; we now ak your hand for & coming year In onr celebration cf the victory. Otir columns that were rigorous with flgtt wien the fight was on will now, sinoe the contest is orer. be devoted to tbe arts of peace. With lta enlarzed patronage tbe 8kntlnm. wlU be better enatxed than erer to give an Unsurpassed Hews and Family Papsr. The proceedings of ConErens and of our Deziocratic Legislature and the doings of onr Democratic National and State admin tstratons will be duly chronicled, as well u the current events ! the day. Its Commercial Rerlews and Market Kepora will be reliable and complete. Its Agricultural and Home Department are la the best of hands. Pithy editorials, select literary brevitl and entertaining miscellany are assuied feature, It shall be fully the equal In general Information of any paper in the land, while in lta reports on Indiana analrs it will have no equal, it Is Your Own State Paper, and will be devoted to and represent InHlana'a Interests, political. Industrial and social, a no foreign paper will or can do. Will yoa nit bear this In mind wben yoa come to take labsmpüoai and. make up clubs T A copy of tbe Bentlnel Supplement, Klrttg fall proceeding In Blaine libel suit, furnisaad eaca new or renewing subscriber when desired, j Now is the time for every Dem1 ocrat in the State to sub scribe for the Sentinel. .TERM WEEKLY. Single Copy wttkont Prmlom Clnbs of II for .., Clubs of X3 Clnbs of 80 - DAILY. One Vop, On T er " 1 0 One Copy, Six Months 8.00 One Copy, Three Months.... . 1.00 On Copy, On Month 81 grKDAY SENTINEL, BT MAIL, . Agents making op Clubs seid fox any information desired. 6PECIMEN COPIES FKBI, Address Indianapolis Sentinel Co 1 FREE HLEHTI5E PACKAGE! i 1 - " T. hitrod.o. H gmxto an mtrmr iit wrmmm, l , :IJ . "ill too, fr of ck.nr. if rtm will Jf j - X ra. ta Mum fr piu, I Fwij i iliiUr, p I, f) 1 srlk-au SratinmUl Vfclrtitm, I ff ''- I J. 4Tf fvxur4 almtm (rwr nr, Cotr ih. I -B.Ufl, Kami, Ktonl mrr Aibmm, nUraraiM wHh bird.. trrt, mm row., c I Hlo.fir Albus ( sll Um hmlnu ( ta V. 8. wnk uuirpt ( Mi-h, I BrMttfal I "ill bt.pi-i hvr. biM. ctmkt, . fcuvriUtflu iXttti.altaAVAla? cVUKk,iUritw.

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