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Indianapolis People (Newspaper) - August 2, 1879, Indianapolis, Indiana 4 t i vol. In. Nidin i Olis tax just 1879. No. 41 we of a inducements for july Trade that have no counterpart in this City. Closing of it Sale of Light weights Brevi ties. At the when clothing store 34,36, 38and40n. Penns Annast. Bird cages and picture frames Are cheaper than Ever at the Novelty Dollar store 44 and 46 Eais to Washington Street. George Beyersdorfer. Woit 6clp6in 67 North Illinois Street Aib by or nal.1. Personal. Browning amp Sloan the druggists. A1 Martin will leave shortly for Chicago. Will Johnston of the Johnston Brothers is dangerously ill. Pickstone s washing Crystal at Ward Bro s drug store. Allen opposite Post office has the finest perfumes made. All doors in bulk. H. A. Garvey expects to finish very shortly his Model of the new state House. Or. Joseph h. Dunn is to be the newly appointed laundry Man at the new insane any us. On last sunday Reuben a Rogers an old Soldier of 1812, died at the City Hospital aged 87. Officer Fiscus broke his wrist joint in attempting to arrest Dave Edwards on last wednesday. Mrs. Wilson was fined for an assault on Market master Deitrich. Now honors should be easy Between them. Sex policeman Spence Richardson has gone to Kansas City to engage in mercantile pursuits on his own account. Bill Blaine left for the West on last wed esd. He will be accompanied by Johnny Williams to protect him from the wolves. Craig the murderer of Long declares that he is enjoying himself very much in jail having every thing he needed a chair and an accordion. The Quot dizzy blondes Quot Are shadows of Beauty when compared with the Beautiful Brunette to sorial artists at prof. Heitkam s Parlours. No. 9 Vance Block. Eugene Saulcy jailor at the Central police station was made extremely ill on last wednesday by an overdose of opium taken As a remedy for cholera Moribus. All kinds and latest designs in jewelry at Crane s 164 Virginia Avenue. For sixty Days he will sell american watches of which he has a Large assortment at Cost. P. Lieber the Brewer is said to be in improved health since he has been enjoying the Reeves from the Wisconsin lakes where with his family he is rust Cating for the summer. Very delightful rooms and every delicacy that the season affords can be found at the Home like boarding House of mrs. J. A. Hunt Corner of Meridian and new York streets. Major James Wilcox the reformed Saloon keeper failed to come to time on last thursday evening with a speech at the Corner of Kentucky Avenue and Illinois Street As promises Norb Ijan Graf superintendent of the tailoring department of Louis Dessar s clothing House left for tie East on last wednesday night. Before his return he will take in Long Branch. A Young Man named Joseph Williams was journalistic notes. Adolph Muelen City editor of the German Telegraph the same who caused the arrest and Fine of Council president m. L. Brown for provoke is said to be writing a drama to be produced at the Germania theater. Or. James Gordon Bennett has the Honor of having crossed the oct an More times than any other editor in the . This accounts for Jim being so frequently half seas capital. The people is trying to revive the played out Rumor of a three cent morning paper to Ide established in this . We Tell the Story As it was told to tis but then we do not wonder the journal objects. The Freedom and fighters have started an journal of Why Don t you keep up with the times the Freedom and fighters have had an Organ for to these Many months. It has Only changed its base from Lafayette to this City. That s All. The journal condescended to notice the new evening paper after the following fashion. It could t have Well said less the evening mail made its appearance saturday with t. E. Dean business manager Charles a. Par news editor and Jesse Tarkington City editor. It is of the same size of the news and is a Bright newsy looking venture. The Amateur journalists have been indulging in a number of conventions in this City during the past week. The great event was the canvass for the office of president of the National Amateur press association. Money was spent liberally it is charged by a certain faction and As much As two dollars each were offered for votes. Weak drinks were dispensed with a generous had by the rival candidates. The corrupt party How Ever was beaten. Right prevailed and or. J. Edson Briggs of this City for whom a Lively Boom was made was triumphantly elected president. The convention will be held next year in Cincinnati. There was a doubt whether to select Indianapolis or Cincinnati. It was mentioned that two glasses of Beer could be bought for five cent in Cincinnati and the wavering association at once became solid for capital. Tie evening mail made its appearance on time according to programme on last saturday afternoon. It is an exceedingly neat looking paper and Well filled withal with newsy gossipy and Well considered matter. It gives evidence that the journal hands who were locked out by the late sole p. Are not Only excellent printers but gentlemen of intelligence and culture Able As they Are to conduct a daily paper in All its varied departments. The mail promises to be no party s servant. It will Organ for no ring or clique but will Ever be found battling in the cause of True labor and the rights of the labourer. It promises to be Independent in fact and not in word Only. It should receive the encouragement of our citizens generally. Its number was exceedingly judicious and temperate. It did not Tare a passion to tatters or try off the handle in relating the grievances of the journal s late printers. Its sensible course gained it Many friends at the Start. We can out think if tie mail does not succeed it will be the fault of its conductors. They must learn to pull together have but one head with a great Many arms. They have an excellent paper and it should be the Endeavor of each to keep it so and then the by Siless Rotthe my pros Veator Rem liners of the municipal legislature guilty of violating a fundamental ordinance. Quot the capital City Quot Cigar at Circle House. Chew Jackon s Best Sweet Navy tobacco. Even thing in the drug line at Allens opposite Post office. Try the old reliable Senate at John a. Mcgaw a 16 North Illinois Street. The socialist Congress will probably hold its december meeting in this City. For Choice Flavouring extracts go to Ward Bro s drug store 190 fort Wayne ave. For toilet articles brushes Combs and that class of oods Call at Christian Avenue drug store. Complaint is made of poor provender at the county asylums stinking meat and Mouldy bread. See the new Light running White sewing., machine. R. E. Stephens agent 19 mass. I the Street commissioner and the Avenue. Chief fire Engineer in for it. The most handsome toilet sets in the City _ Are found at apothecaries Hall 7 and 9 East a prosecutor do Washington Street. Money for the City Treasury. Coburn and his be then get Silty by their own confession. Smoke the floridian a genuine key West Cigar c. L. Downie wholesale agent 47 North Illinois Street. Mis duty. It has hitherto been supposed that the City a ted Doi g of trading with the City Furm Shing it a Joni of a with their wares mending its fire engines $135. Address Cigar store this office. Like but fortunate a we have Dis horses and buggies to hire at re enable covered that there is an ordinance directly prices gentle horses for ladies at Ripley s prohibiting any officer of the cite from Pur Bazaar Market Street near Illinois Street chasing from any other officer of the City any Call and see the bed room sets at Spiegel supplies whatever for the use of the City in to Lions life co s furniture Ware rooms 71 and Der a penalty not exceeding $100. This or-73 West Washington Street. All goods at finance May be Faund in the volume of Char Low prices. Ter and ordinances in the City clerk s office even John chinaman has found out the Page 186. It was ordained May 29th, 1867. Good Quality of Mcgaw s cigars and now it seems that in 1867 there were grasping puffs away on his smoke at 18 North 111 councilmen As Well As in 1879, Soho wanted Innis Street of Nike an honest Penny off of the City and pos ii s run is daily becoming More and ordinance was expressly introduced to is Noios. Quot to a his in Reris w o Orth to f is Emfs were into the Kun. Needed in the shape of horse feed and for it is said that the cabinetmakers employed aug it we know lumber and the like. City by the Western furniture company Are All father Tom Cottrell had the Honor of Intro very poorly paid some making Only from $4 during the ordinance. It is concise and to to $5 per week. _ the Point. If we Are not mistaken the Hon. Day s wholesale clothing manufactory Henry Colum present Alderman was a which is to commence operations very Short member of Council at the time and voted for by will give employment to about one Hun it. Here is a verbatim copy dred persons. Advice to Young men and the Public for a Good shave shampoo and hair Cut Stop in latest notes. From All accounts there seems to be no abatement of yellow fever at Memphis or new Orleans owning to a War Between the Board of health and the doctors the True state of facts As to the latter City Are difficult to arrive at. Nine new cases were reported to the Ard of health at Memphis yesterday morning. Among the number was the Rev. Father Boyle pastor of St. Bridget s Catholic Church. Four additional cases reported outside the City. Three deaths occurred since thursday night up to yesterday coniing. The colors people left to take care of the property a room for fall per aliases. At 84 Massachusetts Avenue and let L. Thae ter try his hand. He is acknowledged Champion in the City. A Large number of new and second hand an ordinance prohibit Ina of racers or agents of the City of from purchasing from any Copti officer. Ordained May 29,1867. Ask for Means of Quot wow and a Wum pus Quot is again threatened Between the state and City prosecutors before the mayor s co dirt. Fees that s what s the Lindley brother of representative Lindley was drowned while bathing yesterday evening at Indianapolis Rascal who claims to be connected with the once in which the question lists for teachers to be used at the examinations for License by county school superintendents Are printed is sending out circulars to teachers offering to furnish these lists at and Sio each. Of course the Indianapolis Chap is a fraud and a swim file. Rev. John Graham d. D., of Brighton England was drowned yesterday while bathing at Cape May. Esquire Pease mourns the theft of a whip Martingales and Lap Robe taken from in front of memorial cd urch on thursday last the venerable Mother of Chris Harmoning fell Down the Celler stairs yesterday sustaining serious and it May be fatal injuries the mercantile association have joined in an Irinita Tion to the president and his family and Cabinet to visit this City during state fair state House have concluded to replace that portion of the basement Story of the new building Between the ground line and the top of the basement window with solid Stone and have contracted to that effect. The addition dial Cost will be 517,084.-gov. Williams has appointed Nathan t. Carr judge of the 9th judicial District to fill the vacancy made by the death of judge James r. Hester. Hamilton Ontario was afflicted yesterday with a one million Dollar Are. Several valuable blocks and the Bank of Hamilton building residence of E. Watts on Indiana Avenue was again visited by burglars Early yesterday morning. They carried off a valuable Gold watch and Chain and s2 m Money. Mrs. Candace Northam widow of the late William Northam yesterday filed in the civil circuit court Charees against Charles a. Wright Admi Strator of her late husband s estate charging him with embezzling Over 82,000 from the estate and converting the same to his own use. The Petitioner alleges that there is now due from right principal and interact about $2,700, upon which herself and child Are unable to realize anything. She also asks for Wright s removal. This is the Case now pending before the supreme court upon an order for commitment for contempt issued by judge Adams in june. Mon department Liberal reductions. Largest Ani freshest Stock in the state. Neck ruching Irnen collars and cuffs neckties fans and girdles Linen handkerchiefs embroideries _ ribbons lace s. Among the classes who infest the combination Pool rooms the journal forgot to mention newspaper foremen and . What does this mean do foremen and reporters visit Pool rooms or have they Pool rooms of their own burglars effected an Entrance into the residence of Gus Smith on St. Mary s Street also Constable Gous Ion. Be it ordained by the common Council Idy g House after 2 o clock yesterday morning securing a a. Of the City of Indianapolis that it shall be unlawful fio at the latter place. The burglars were frightened buggies wagons etc., for Sale cheap also f away by officers Potts and . J ii in us a a a a a a a a restly or indirectly from any officer or agent of said some Good family horses for Sale at Ripley s City and article of personal property whatever for the it would have been More officer like to Bazaar nos. 60 to 72 West Market Street near ii Seorim behalf of said City. Any person violating have captured the thieves instead of fright Illinois Street. No mistakes Are made at the great drag Emporium of Browning amp Sloan apothecaries Hall 7 and 9 East Washington Street. The most careful pharmaceutic to in the West Are found behind their counters. It is Likely that the bid Well air ship will be a Bone of Contention Between prof. Hughes and the Russ rifles the Birmer having a claim for advancing Money to inflate it the latter for damages for failure to carry out programme. Weekly meetings Are held at Temperance Hall 75 East Market Street As follows gospel Temperance meeting wednesday even ing regular meeting of the refer in club Friday evening and Bible class sunday at 2 p. M. All Are free to every one. The Camp meeting at Castleton is drawing to a close. To Morrow will be the last sunday of the meeting. The i., p. Amp c. Peru r. R. Co. Will run six special trains to the Camp grounds to Morrow. Tjie time schedule of these Camp meeting trains will be found in another column. Mrs. Louis Niehaus who became so last win ter on the strength of a Bastardy suit appealed to Squire Pease with the baby in her arms on last tuesday to know if or. Niehaus could not be compelled to support this family. Being answered in the native she became declared insane by or. Bullard and justices journal s lock out will prove a Blessing in a. Whitney and Newcomb on last wednesday. Domestic trouble and religious excitement were the causes. Lambert Van Cleaver Cam Bowman and Mcelheany Street car Drivers who led the others in the perfectly justifiable strike for stools have been discharged l y that contemptible company. The George Shaw arrested for victimizing the proprietor of the Occidental hotel is not George Shaw the bully boy with the Glass Eye who was formerly on the merchants police Force not by a Long sight Market master Deitrick was fined and costs for attempting to eject mrs. Wilson from the sout Iside Market. The report that the Market is the resort of improper characters he says is absolutely false. Miss Julia Robinson the popular actress has started for new York to meet her husband Billy Courtright who has just returned from a successful season with Kelly life leons minstrels in Australia. Sex City in Neer Chad Reed has taken the matter of his removal to the courts. He claims that charges should have been preferred against him according to Law before removal. Col. Blake and Charles Holstein Are his counsel. Last week Frank Mahoney a freight conductor on the i., c. Amp l., Maide the Best time on record on the Road. He took a Large train from Cincinnati to Lafayette and return 358 Miles in eighteen hours. Frank surely knows something about railroading. After the adjournment of the Board of aldermen on last monday night the councils met in joint convention and r. M. Patterson was elected City civil Engineer in place of Thad Reed and David Small Wood measurer of West Market in place of Levi h. Rowell resigned. The maus Brothers have engaged architects Huebner a Miller to prepare plans and specifications for a Brick addition to their brewery. The addition will be 40 by 60 feet and two stories in height. The first floor will be used a a fermenting room and the second for the storage of ice. The improvement will Cost about ,000. Mrs. Emma Molloy will lecture on next sunday in the first Baptist Church at a Quarter before four o clock under the auspices of the woman s Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Molloy s ability upon the Temperance lecture platform is not excelled by any lady and the fact is beginning to be aug ted both in this country and in eng one Day this week father o Donaghue visiting the spot where mrs. Merrick and her child were buried found a pint flask of whisky a tried in the Sand near the shallow pit that answered for a grave. The whisky had evidently been there for months and is being Analysed to Serif i contains strychnine the Suppf oltion being that it was left there by Memck. A pleasant Surprise party greeted or. H. G. Bals on last thursday night at his residence on the eve before his contemplated departure for Wisconsin. His wife ushered in a number of friends of whose coming he was entirely unaware together with the full to nip band who had assembled to give him a Good Send off and a Happy Farewell. Or. Bals is now compelled to admit that his wife Bas Enir fwd him Onoe at least. Stead of a misfortune and the autocrat who denied to his the right to belong to a society will receive a lasting rebuke which will rankle in his soul for All time and our citizens will have a paper that they will be proud of and to which they will feel bound to yield a Liberal support. The Story of an unfortunate. The Story of Mollie Davis the Courtesan who came near dying at the Central station on last wednesday is really a terrible one. A Little More than two years ago when she was a virtuous country girl fifteen years old she was ravished on a lonely Highway by a tramp who first struck her a violent blow upon the head and then pitched her head Foremost Down a Steep embankment where she was found in an insensible condition. Her mind has never since been quite right and partially excuses Lier erring life. A few months since she was struck upon the head and she alleges made to Swallow Poison by a Man named Clark with whom she was living and came very near dying in consequence. On last wednesday Clark had her arrested for provoke. About 7 of clock City jailor Taffe discovered her insensible with blood flowing through her lips. He hastily summoned or. Bullard who succeeded in reviving her. Or. Rubush the attending physician also arrived shortly after. Throughout the night the poor girl had terrible convulsions which the doctors say was caused by the blows she had received upon the head. During her Lucid intervals it was distressing to hear her moaning for her child who is dangerously ill at Home. The doctors think there is utile Chance for her recovery. Clark vehemently denies Ever giving her any serious injury. Here is a poetical Quot gymnastic Quot that would do to read at one of the meetings of our Good Temperance people. It is from the san Francisco news letter in the seven Ages of drunkenness All the world s a pub., and every Man of its denizens Mere drunkards. They have their hiccups and their staggering and one Man in a Day drinks Many glasses. His acts being seven stages. At first the gentleman steady and steadfast in his Good resolves and then the wine and bitters appetizer and pining yearning look leaving like a Snail the comfortable bar. And then the arguments trying like Hercules with a wrathful frontage to refuse once More two Penn Orth. Then the mystified full of strange thoughts a needing Good advice careless of Honor Sodden thick and Gutt ral seeking the troubled repetition even in the bottle s Mouth and then quite Jovial in fair Good humor while the world swims round with eyes quite Mist while Bis friends him Cut full of Nice oaths and awful bickering and so he plays Bis part the sixth age shifts into the stupid slipping Drunken Man with Quot blossoms Quot on his nose and bleary eyed his shrunken face unshaved from Side to Side he Rolls along and Bis unmanly voice huskies than Ever Falls and flies and leaves him staggering round. Last scene of All. A that ends this True and painful history. Is stupid and then oblivion sans in itch. Saniz Chita sans Coin sans everything. His. Tribe increase. Exceedingly anxious to and her husband Quot just for one the old settlers of Arion Morgan Hendricks and Johnson counties hold their annual gathering at Mooresville ind., on the Vincennes Road on trip Day August the 12th. Rev. J. C. Pletcher will deliver the principal address on the lives and characters of the prominent citizens of earlier Days. The Railroad will sell tickets at reduced rates. Kay our artist Friend a. E. Sinks is Hap it is a Fine rigorous boy and came into thu it world evening weighing something Over lie Bounds. Its Mother As Well sits prqo0 male self is gating along remarkably we wish tie artist and his most estima6le Jfe idl possible Good for t for a it As officers Weber and Morgan were marching a Drunken Man to the police station on last wednesday morning two men rushed upon them and attempted to Rescue their prisoner. One of the men presented a pistol at officer Morgan s head but the officer succeeded in wresting it from his hand and taking him also into custody. The third party escaped. The men said they came from Stiles Ville. Burglars got in their work on last thursday morning to a limited extent on the West Side of the City. The i residences favored with their attentions were that of B. My Sheppard North West Street where they got Nix William i. Ripley s pantaloons contributed four or five dollars in Loose change they overlooked his $400 ticker Nelson Kingman s contributed a couple of dollars to a the common store. Of course there were no arrests. Several in Otiis since we published the Story of Mattie Moore a Young country girl who charged her sister s husband Horace Quick with being the father of her infant. The child aged six months died on last sunday under circumstances which were reported to Coroner Wishard As suspicious. Upon investigation however the Coroner found that or. Murdoch had furnished a certificate attributing the death to inflammation of the brain he therefore refused to hold an inquest. A Young gentleman named Greenwood a Memphis refugee was decoded by three men named Hill Ray and Thompson into the House of one of their friends on last monday when he was made intoxicated and robbed of fl50 in Cash and a f400 Diamond pin. The Trio was arrested the next Day for grand larceny on his con plaint. The Diamond pin was returned to Greenwood in a letter. Lou Ray was sent to the reformatory for two years. The cases against Hill and Thiompson were Ollied. Anything in the line of country produce not on Sale at Dan a. Lemon s daily Market is not raised in this neck of the Woods or in any other Section of our great and glorious Union. Dan daily receives cargoes of Sweet Southern melons luscious Nutmeg Cante Lopes and Sich besides invoices of oranges and every kind of fresh fruit. His Stock of teas and Staple and fancy groceries is unexcelled in Quantity and Quality and prices Are always at lowest Market Algurea at 151 West Washington Street. The county commissioners after examining fifty bids and plans from fourteen competitors warded contracts for the proposed new Bridges As follows the White River Bridge on the line Between Benyr and Decatur townships to a. M. Kenney a son. Of Bushville this state for $8,190 the fall Creek Bridge on the Meridian Street Extension to the Cleveland Bridge and Iron com my of Cleveland Ohio for 93,720 the pleasant run Bridge on English Avenue also to the Cleveland company for $710. The first named will be of Wood and the others of Iron. The 25th Anni Versai of the Indianapolis social turn Verein at the Volks Garden last monday evening was a grand ovation. Standing room Wasta Premium. The elite of our Gennan citizens were in attendance. Singing by the manner Hor lieder Kranz wild Harmonie societies was appropriate ening them away. Councilman Tucker is not unwilling to run for the . The people announced this startling fact a month ago. Sex Counslman Steinhauer would also like to be a racer. Dered and Well received. Vogl Sorcie Tea de a few of their Choice selections. The Ress of or. Kappa part upon the a tending of the dal turn Verein and their Annivera i Saries wad splendid. The Best oth mor Prev aued it thing the evening and All left area late hour Well pleased with the Evenio til entertainment the provisions Hereof shall on conviction be found in any sum not exceeding 8100. Section 2. This ordinance shall be in Force from and after its passage and publication in the Indianapolis daily journal for two successive weeks. The Beauty of this ordinance is that it cuts both ways it fines the purchaser if he is a Street commissioner or chief fire Engineer or any other City official As Well As any member of the Council who Sells to a City official. There is no erecting around it. The ordinance has never been repealed. It is in full Force to Day. If the City attorney does his duty he will at once Institute suits against those City officers who have been found guilty of violations of this ordinance. A list was Given in the people two or three weeks since. Of course suits will have to be instituted against commissioner Fui Mer and chief fire Engineer Pendergast for each of these officers have acknowledged that they have purchased articles Tor the use of the City from members of the municipal legislature. The journal the other Day hunted up an old ordinance against the running of cows at Large and insisted upon its being enforced to Quot the distress of poor people. Now let us see if the great Republican state Organ will insist that this ordinance that affects Well to do Republican City officers shall likewise be enforced. Here is an Opportunity for the new City attorney to distinguish himself and put thousands of Quot dollars into the Treasury of the City for each Selling constitutes an offence against the ordinance and the penalty for each offence a ran be fixed at 8100. Will he enter suit against his Republican Brethren we shall see. These honorable offenders cannot prove ignorance for ignorance is no excuse in the Eye of the Law. The Hon. John Coburn brother to the honorable Henry will Tell you that if you ask him. We can see no possible escape for these honorable lawbreakers. The discovery of this ordinance proves the correctness of the position taken by the people from the first that it mattered not whether Alderman Coburn sold his lumber cheap or dear to the City he committed an of base a inst the Law when he sold to the City at ally likewise did his Brethren who did business with the City one of whom. Alderman Layman a very Clever gentleman by the Way and we Are really sorry for him a was chairman of the committee that half investigated the charges against the Hon. Coburn. By the Way is it not somewhat strange that this committee never discovered this old ordinance it would have settled the matter at once and there would have been no necessity of referring the Case to the new City attorney. We hardly think it Likely any other honorable member who has sold his wares to the City or mended the City s engines or anything of like character will with this ordinance Star i u ing him in the face get up in his place and without the preferment of charges or an in Demandt investigation to find out whether vesti gation of any kind he is voted out off he sold dear or cheap. A k a this beats the Case of the City civil Engin or Reed having arranged his Bis Mes a Eer All to pieces. So Many Are involved in Cep Edthe office for two years filed hip Boivid it you see gentlemen who make Laws for the does not feel justified in obeying the Arbi City and have no hesitancy in breaking them tray action of the Council and will demand Alderman Henry Coburn deserves the thanks of the Community for being the innocent cause of the discovery of this old ordinance whereby offenders against the Law will meet with just punishment and the City exchequer be Reif Lenisher. Had he never demanded an investigation ten to one it would never have turned up but now like Banquo s ghost it will not Down. One Day this week prof. Heine who is qui mechanical Genius took to pieces a Large English clock for the purpose of cleaning and repairing it. After removing the wheels and other works he was surprised to find the pendulum still swinging with unabated Energy. Attracting the attention of other parties to it they found that the pendulum continued swinging for an hour and a half without any other moving than its own Sweet will. City Engineer Reed and the City Council. Some weeks since the common Council passed a Resolution declaring that they had removed or. Reed from the office of City Engineer. This Resolution went to the Board of aldermen and at the next meeting for its consideration. Or. Reed filed a petition asking for a committee of investigation. This was granted by the Board of aldermen and their portion of a committee appointed. This action was sent to the next meeting of the Council who in a very Stalwart manner in the classic language of councilman Hooker moved that the Council stick to its former proposition and no debate was allowed on the proposition of the aldermen for an investigation of any charges against or. Reed and the peremptory action of the Council was again referred to the Board of aldermen who finally tie action of Trio Council and voted with the Council to not allow or. Reed any Chance to have charges filed or allow him to make a defence. Or. Reed was allowed no trial but was arbitrarily voted out of office. There seems to be something under ground somewhere in this whole matter. In the convention of the Republican members of the Council and aldermen or. Reed was nominated Over or. Patterson the Birmer City Engineer. Or Patterson and his friends were sore and started the cry that Reed was a Democrat and not a Republican and that he was incompetent &c., and a violent Eibrt was made to hold a second caucus in order to reconsider or. Reed s nomination and defeat him and nominate or. Patterson. This Effort to get up a second caucus failed and or. Reed being the nominee was elected by the joint convention of the Council and aldermen and accepted the office filed his Bond which was approved in the usual Legal Way. He was then elected and qualified to serve As City Engineer for two years. The majority of the Council however determined if possible to oust him and notwithstanding the recent Advance in Pilk fabrics we Are holding a Large Stock of ribbons in All colors and widths at old prices. L. S. Ayres amp Hay and Fence bails. Forty tons of Hay and 4,000 Fence rails Are reports to have been burned on the farm of Lliam and Oliver Stone in Warren township. It is thought an incendiary fired the Meadows in which the Hay was stacked. The neighbor slowed up a strip of the Meadows thus staying the fire and saving the on the bail. Charles Sinclair a brakeman on the i., c. L. Road was knocked off a Bridge near Lawrenceburg on last sunday evening and being run Oyer was instantly killed. His Remus were brought to the City next Day and placed in charge of Russell amp Lee. Sinclair win marked several months since to a deaf mute a Pupil of the deaf and dumb Asylum who is expecting very shortly to become a Maraer. A Legal decision from the courts and has retained for his counsel Charles Holstein and col. John w. Blake. This action is taken not in a Mere spirit of resistance but believing that he has just and fair Legal rights that the councils have trampled upon and upon this he rests his Case and will Abigie the Reed of the people is wrestling with old fashioned Quot fever n . Editor Reed Only wrestled for a Day or two. He s pretty Well again thank you. Arrivals of probably infected goods. The arrival of several car loads of goods from ill toted Memphis and the storage of a portion of them in a commission House has created the Fet in the minds of Many that the yellow fever might be spread among us consequent upon the presence of these goods in the City. They came by the j., m. A a and have varied destinations. Quarantine regulations of other cities prevented their shipment by More direct routes. Indianapolis has no quarantine regulations probably More s the pity. The goods were fumigated with camphor and it is probable that no evil will result Froin their presence yet As a people we Conot be too careful and should Mke All necessary and Wise precautions against the dread disease which is now ravishing a sister Southern City. _ Why the Indianapolis bibles picnic was a failure. For some time past we have had Public meetings of our citizens to devise ways and Means by which people May be induced to come to this City to spend their to Kiev instead of going to Cincinnati Louisville a and other adjacent cities. An association has in formed with this object in View and everybody thought our citizens were in Earnest. The Indianapolis rifles thinking to help the City along and help themselves at the same time conceived the idea of getting up a grand picnic to Las two Days. A grand Arch was to be erected bid Well s air ship was to show what it could do we were to have Man races horse races and mule races and we do not know what in All at the exposition. But the rifles had to do the work comparatively alone. They received word encouragement but precious Little Money to sell half fare tickets for want of funds or something else. Bidwell s air ship did to show what it could do and sorry we Are for poor Bidwell who has Laboured so hard in this Enterprise until from comparative affluence he has poverty staring him in the face then the management of the picnic was somewhat at fault. Although they Quot powered free notices upon the press and Nau Seum they neglected to Shower any free tickets. If what thu people published in behalf of this com Ino Dable Enterprise was charged for at legitimate rates Foo would hardly have paid the rifles Bill. But not a single ticket was sent to the office of the people. One of the managers told one of its Young men that if he came out to the exposition he would be admitted the kind of an invitation the people never accepts. Why the Arch which would have attracted thousands to the City was not built we cannot Tell for we do not know. We suppose however that no one was willing to Advance the necessary funds. Our people Are great in talking and meeting to talk they dearly love to hear their own voices but when it comes to opening their purse strings to carry out what they talk about Why that s altogether a different matter. The Enterprise of the rifles was praiseworthy and everybody would have supposed that it would have been encouraged. But it was not As it deserved to be. If they come out without losing Money they will be fortunate. Wilkz arson sentenced one thousands. Out of in this age of ballot Box stuffing and improper influences brought to Bear at the polls it really seems like a farce to sentence a Man to the Penitentiary for a year and Fine him ,000 for making use of any kind of Means or machinery to beat Quot the other fellow and vet the other Day judge Gresham imposed this Fine and sentence upon James h. Wilkerson of the Well known Jennings county cases the Only one out of ten or fifteen who was found guilty for conspiring to procure a fraudulent election. The fierce is in the fact that politicians High and Low stuff ballot boxes and conspire to procure fraudulent elections Ith impunity. They not Only do this but of it and that not very confidentially either. Everybody knows Quot that it is a common custom Quot in this City to take men from one Ward to another and vote them Early and often both at primaries and at regular elections yet no one Ever thinks of arresting those who do this conspiring to procure a fraudulent election. Hats Are stuffed at primaries and ballot boxes at regular elections and the people Are not shocked in the least. Each party does it and have done it until elections have become farcical so far As showing the Choice of the people. The candidate who resorts to the sharpest trickery is the Lucky fellow and becomes the Quot honorable Quot gentleman when in Point of fact he should be in the Penitentiary along with the rascals. It would seem As if poor Wilkerson was made a sort of scape Goat for others. We believe in serving All alike and probably seventy five out of a Hundred of promising politicians the country Over have conspired to procure fraudulent elections and would again bad they half a Chance. We Are not complaining against Wil Ker son s sentence As he is not to labor in prison probably it was not sufficiently severe but what we demand is Justice to ally Send each ballot Box stuffer etc., to the Penitentiary. A bad Case of malignant fever is reported at no. 7. Elizabeth e d h 0 to at prices rapidly �4 oods in great demand and Selling off beyond Competition at York one Price clothing House nos. 43 arid 45 . Quot in

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