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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC REVIEW.
The Current Local Attractions—ltems of In
terest About Plays and the Players.
The Local Attractions This Week.
At the Grand Opera-house, during the present
Week, the attraction will be the new American
melodrama, ‘‘Shadows of a Great City,” of
Which tho Detroit Free Press says: “It is the
best of all the melodramas .now heforo tho pub
lic, whether of English or nativo origin.” It is
by L. R. Shewell, the well-known actor, and has
made a hit elsewliero. In its production particu
lar attention is given to scenic and realistic ef
fects, which are said to he unusually good. The
company engaged in its presentation includes
Annie Ward Tiffany, Julia Stuart, Clementine
Vaughn, B. R. Graham, O. H. Barr, George R.
Edson and others.
A big minstrel organisation, under the man
agement of Messrs Hyde & Behman, will begin
an engagement of three nights and a matinee, at
English’s, on Tnursday evening next. The
troupe is composed of performers who have merit,
and in numbers tho party excels most of tho
minstrel companies on the road. The company
includes well known men, like Fred Matthews,
Charles Banks, James Mclntyre; T. K. Heath,
J. E. Rostrom, Daniel E. Lyons, Thomas
Granger, J. D. Green, Frank Russell, George
Weeks, E. M. Kane, W. F. Holmes and Will
Talbott. The advance sale of seats commences
to-morrow morning at tho theater box-office.
The theater will remain closed the first part of
Jhe week.
At the Zoo Theater this week the principal at
traction will he X. S. Woods in his sensational
play, “The Boy Decective,' besides a selected
specialty company.
Barnum’s big show, which is said to he larger
and better than ever this year, will give exhibi
tions west of the river, on next Saturday, and a
Street parade in the morning. The show has a
number of uew and interesting features, among
which is the sacred Elephant, "Light of Asia.”
Rose Eytinge’s Troubles.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Logaxspokt, Oct 4. —The Rose Eytinge
“Leah” Combination played at Dolan’s Opera
house last night Owing to a failure on the part
of tho company to hill the city according to their
contract, the manager of the opera-house ignored
the agreement and demanded rent. To carry his
point he went to the box-office and pocketed the
receipts, which amounted to S3O more than the
rental demanded. At the close of the second
act, Miss Eytinge appeared before the curtain
and stated the difficulties between her and Man
ager Dolan, and asked the audience if, under
the circumstances, it was desired that she
should proceed with the play. She charged her
printers witli being responsible for the failure of
her manager to send the stipulated amount of
advertising matter. By her clear and honest
statement she completely captured her audience,
and, amidst loud applause, was urged to proceed
with the play. Sympathy in the matter is en
tirely with the company, as it is not believed
that Munager Dolan had sufficient grounds for
breaking his contract.
Notes of the Stage.
Sardon’s “Theodora" is said to have been
taken bodily from Watts Phillips's tragedy of
the same name.
During Henry Irving's American tour he pro
poses to play Orlando to Ellen Terry's Rosalind.
Henry lias hardly got the shape for Orlando.
Thomas W. Keene, the tragedian, will give a
single performance of “Richard 111” at English's
the night of the 13th inst. His agent, Mr. Lee
Townsend, is now in the city.
Yesterday afternoon, in front of the Grand
Opera-house, you couldn’t throw a stone with
out caroming on at least two advance agents,
all ahead of “the greatest show on earth.”
The “Romany Rye” played an enormously
profitable engagement for this city at the Grand
last week, it even knocked out Mr. Eugene
Ellis’s great moral attraction, “The Bandit King.”
Shed Le Clair, the trapeze artist, who has ap
peared in all of our variety theaters, died in Car
diff, Wales, Aug. 1!). His wife. Madge Ashton,
is at present a member of Baylies & Kennedy's
Bright Lights, and is well known in this city.
The members of the Bageard opera company,
lately in financial grief at Montgomery. Ala.,
are alleged to liavo had their trunks appraised
by the local railroad ticket seller with a view to
a journey homeward. I.ate reports have it that
the trunks wore too light.
Mr. Frank McKee, for years connected with J.
H. Haverly’s enterprises, is in town arranging
for the presentation of Rickaby's “Pavements
of Paris,” at Ihe Grand tho week of the 13th.
Mr. McKee did not go to Europe with Haverly's
Minstrels —because he could not swim.
John C. Freund: It is again asserted in Europe
that an American has offered tho heirs of Wag
ner $1,000,000 for “Parsifal.” I think so re
doubtable a person should have his name made
pub’ic. Who will now say that vve are not ad
vancing with great strides toward musical prog
ress? Who dare doubt it?
Recently two actors iu a Baltimore theater
forgot their lines at a critical juncture, and
stood awkwardly speechless, too close to the
footlights and too fat from the prompter to bo
immediately helped. A man in an orchestra
chair leaned forward, with a grave expression of
inquiry on his face, and solemnly asked, iu a
voice audible to the performers and half the au
dience: “Well?”
Chicago Herald: Talking of tragedians, wo
see that young Weed has taken Fred Ward in
hand. Tnis is the young man who backed “Tho
Power of Money”—a very bad play. When
why he selected such attractions upon
which to spend his money, he replied: “I have
an ineomeef $73,'0h0 a year; I have nothing to
do, and I am better to occupy mv mind in spend
ing my money this way than in remaining idle.”
Joaquin Miller will shortly complete a ro
mantic drama in three acts, entitled “Tally Ho."
It is built on an incident in the career of Hank
Monk, a stage driver of the Sierras, whom Hor
ace Greeley made famous many years ago by
printing a description of a journey which he took
in his company. The play will be brought for
ward by R. L. Downing, for whom Mr. Miller
wrote it. Mr. Downing first made himself
known in New York as leading support to Mary
Anderson. He is now iu Mr. Jefferson's com
pany.
Rome has gone mad over the brothers Stra
kosch, its new operatic conductors. Last year
the Eternal City shut up its principal opera
house, tho Apollo, because tho municipality
would not give a dime toward its subvention,
l’his year the city subscribes $38,000, the court
C* ,000, and tho public have already taken boxes
and seats for SOO,OOO. So Messrs. Strakosch be
sin with SIOO,OOO in cash. Such a sum would
not liavo lasted Abbey long in New York, but in
Rome salaries and expenses are at a more rea
sonable figure, and this sum is immense.
A Louisville man wrote the following, smoked
in onion, and climbed the golden stairs: “Mary
Andersen’s ‘Galatea’ is a benison—like a babe
•hat opens wide its eyes for one moment on the
world, and leaves it with a sigh; like a flower
that breathes in fragrance for a day upon the
ferth of which it is not; like a grand strain of
Tiusic that floats and throbs at twilight, and
links away into the dim reaches of which wo
dream, but in which we cannot walk; too purs
for the world, yet leaving behind a memory, a
perfume, a harmony, tenderer, sweeter, more
exalting, more diffusive.”
The energetic hissing nightly accorded to the
heavy villain in the melodrama now running at
the Baldwin, says a Nevada paper, reminds old
residents of the first theatrical performance ever
given in Virginia City. Most of the minors had
not seen a play for a score of years, and when
the Johnstoucs troupe opened in *-Othello" the
the house presented a packed mass of red shirts. ,
fl he then little famous Edwin Booth was t 1 tG
lago, and so laithfully did he portray the tr; 1 *l.,
ous friend that the audience lost control of
and in tho second act began shooting at A .’ x* it
conspirator. One shot struck Oth^Vn'JJr.l
hilt, and all bauds had to lie down 'f J,.1
nd roll off into tho wings. '
ouners were finally quieted. I the hiv nro
seeded with, but the ‘final ttmCt
was so taken to heart by the spectators that
Booth remained in the theater all night for fear
of the vigilantes, who talked seriously of lynch
ing the ‘-cold-blooded cuss" off hand.
RAILWAY GOSSIP.
M. Mounts, train master C., H. A: J., is spend
ing Sunday with his family at Morrow*
F. A. Husted, train dispatcher Evansville &
Terre Haute railway, is spending Sunday in the
city.
J. B. Grannell, for the past year conductor of
the Covington branch trains on the Wabash, has
resigned on account of confined ill health.
M. S. Conners, chief train dispatcher of the
C., H. & I. road, who has been on a pleasure
trip East, accompanied by his wife, has returned.
Col. Horace Scott, on Thursday, made a very
satisfactory test of the Brown patent courier
before the Railroad Commissioners of Massachu
setts.
S. T. Blizzard, of the C., 1., St. L. & C. train
dispatchers’ force, is off duty on a ten days leave
of absence, and will spend tho time m the North
west.
T. O'Dell and W. Ray, of the general offices
of the Vandalia at Terre Haute, who have been
in the city for a couple of days taking in the fair,
returned yesterday.
J. K. V. Agnew, late train master of the Chi
cago & Grand Trunk, has been appointed assist
ant general superintendent of the Chicago &
West Michigan road.
J. E. Schlaudecker, train dispatcher Texas
Pacific railway, Denison, Tex., was married to
Estelle C. Kleinfelter of Cincinnati, at Cincin
nati Wednesday last.
E. S. Sweeney, of the Vandalia. was, on Thurs
day, married to Miss C. Shaw, of Marshall. The
bridal pjytv were given a grand recei>tion at luo
residence of R. A. Taylor.
J. W. Squier lias been appointed traveling
freight and passenger agent of the Chicago A
West Michigan Railway Company, with head
quarters at Grand Rapids.
Thirty thousand shares of Baltimore 6c Ohio
stock, which was the individual holding ois the
late Mr. Garrett, are to be held intact by trus
tees for a period of twenty years.
Superintendant Ewan, of the Indianapolis di
•vision of the Bee-line, writes that he is having a
grand time in Colorado and will not return to
duty until about the 12th of this month.
The offices of ticket and freight agent of tho
Evansville & Terre Haute road at Evansville
have been consolidated, and N. Lewis appointed
agent. Frank Talbott is left out in the cold.
Now it is said that the Globe fast-freight line
will establish an office at this point, and that
Mr. Parmelee will be the agent of this line as
well as the West Shore and Hoosac Tunnel lines.
Mr. Stuyvesant, vice-president of the Illinois
Central, arrived in Chicago from New York yes
terday. He is on his way to the South to in
spect the new branches now in course of con
struction.
Official announcement is made of the appoint
ment of Mr. J. A. Munroe to the office of first
assistant general freight agent of the Union Pa
cific, with office at Kansas City, instead of at
Council Bluffs, as heretofore.
E. P. Ripley, general freight agent of the C.,
B. & Q. road, is now regarded as out of danger,
unless he should suffer another relapse. His
physicians state, however, that he will not be
able to resume his duties for several months.
With the closing of the up town Union railway
ticket office George Rech, one of the most popu
lar ticket agents in the service, contemplates re
tiring from railway service He has received a
very flattering offer to engage in commercial
pursuits.
V. H. Stevens, secretary of the Indiana di
vision train dispatchers’ association, has issued
a call for a special meeting of the division to be
held at the offices of the C., H. I. railway,
Sunday, Oct. 12, at 7 p. m., to determine as to
maintaining the Indiana division as an auxiliary
branch of the national association.
Master Car builder Kohler, for many years
the efficient head of the car departments the Wa
bash railway, has resigned and retires from the
service of the company. He is succeeded by M.
M. Martin, recently tho superintendent of the
Litchfield Car Works, in Illinois. Mr. Martin
will remove the headquarters of the car works
at once from Toledo to Decatur.
President Frederick Love joy, of the Denver &
Rio Grande, accompanied bv C. O. Pothonier,
Robert Fleming, A. M. Van Weel and D. Parish,
representatives of English, Dutch and Scotch in
vested in the road, is making a tour of inspec
tion of the properly. They will estimate its
value, and on their return to Europe will prob
ably report a plan of reorganization.
The Pennsylvania people have leased the room
in the Claypool Block, adjoining their present
room, which is not sufficiently commodious.
The newly leased room‘will be occupied by J.
A. Perkins, assistant general freight agent, and
his force; the corner room by H. R. Dering,
assistant general passenger agent, and his
clerical force, and as a city ticket office.
“Gould left the Wabash because, for the mo
ment, he was through with it,” says the Boston
Commercial Bulletin; “Jewett the Erie because
he could not stay any longer; Villard the North
ern Pacific andGoweu the Reading, because each
had ruined his road. Now Mitchell is about to
resign from the St. Paul, and a few other rail
road presidents must go into retirement.”
Railroad officials express the belief that the
trunk-line troubles are as good as settled, and
the only clouds of this sort remaining are hang
ing over the roads westward of Chicago, which
continue to wrangle over 1.000-mile tickets and
threaten to cut Omaha fares. Passenger wars
are, however, of short duration, and these mat
ters may be harmonized almost immediately.
The Terre Haute Gazette says: “S. F. Gray,
local agent of the Star Union line at Indianapo
lis, cubic over here yesterday to look at some of
Samuel McKeen's Aiuv.r?2*y cattle. His appear- ,
ance was seized upon by the papers. Jffid the
statement made that tho general manager of the
line was here, and ordered E. It. Bryant, the
agent, to maintain rates, which were named.
The gentleman is the local agent at Indianapolis,
and has about as much to do in fixing tariff rates
as the man in the moon.”
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has done
something which deserves favorable mention. Re
tail dealers at cities and towns on their line de
mand SG.SO per ton for coal. This has caused the
employes of the Pennsylvania railroad to club
together and buy their coal from the company.
By this means they are enabled to purchase the
best anthracite for $3.20 per ton of 2.240 pounds.
This arrangement has worked so satisfactorily
on the Philadelphia division, that similar advan
tages have just been extended by the company
to its employes along the Middle division. Coal
will be sold to them for $2.70 per ton, with
special freight charges per mile in addition. It
is understood that arrangements are being made
for cheapening the price of coal to its employes
along the entire line of the Pennsylvania rail
road.
THE COURT RECORD.
Superior Court.
Room No. 1-liou. N. 11. Taylor, Judge,
Stoughton A. Fletcher vs. Thomas 11. Sharpe
et a!. Petition of Receiver Wallace granted.
Room No. 2—lion. D. W. Howe Judge.
Frank L. Ritzinger et al. vs. Indiana Foundry
Company; suit on note. Judgement for $0,022.67.
Room No 3—Hod. Lewis C. Walker Judge.
William R. Ferry, administrator, vs. Horace
It. Allen et al.; suit for damages. On trial by
jury.
Au Art Specimen.
Cue of the new casts at the art school is a
head of BacOh 113 ; somewhat larger than life,
and of tho most exquisite beauty. This heVi
and face, representing the prime of youth, is
crowned with heavy, half curling hair an,* a
twist of wild grape vine, and tho countenance i s
expvessive of that agreeable cheerfulness
a/id pleasure in life which the ancients used to
consider the effect of their temperate use of
wine. The pose and whole turi\of the head is
godlike and noble, and the profile is most charm
ing. When plaster is fresli and white from the
molder’s hands it almost equals marble. Ail in
terested in art are invited to call at the art school,
English Building, and see it. Tho school itself
is no mean sight, with the pupils at work. This
school and the other endeavors of the Art Asso
ciation deserve tho highest commendation.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1884.
A CONDEMNED WIFE-MURDERER.
Last Davs of a Man Waiting for the Cal
lows—Characteristics of Andrew Ktorner.
Written by a Fellow-Prisoner.
The last days of a condemned man is always
an interesting period, or, at least, humanity in
general insists that it is. The subject of this
article —Andrew Koerner, the wife-murderer —is
and has been a very commonplace sort of fcl
low. The last years of his life were occupied in
running a milk cart and drinking beer. Kterner
was convicted on evidence of a circumstantial
nature. The only possible witness to the deed
was a child that could not distinguish between a
murderous blow and a loving caress. It possibly
sat up in bed and cooed while the blows fell that
beat out its mother's brains. True it is,
when the crime was discovered it was toying
with its mother's bloody tresses. This
infant witness knows, and its father
knows, who committed that crime. The jury
thought it knew, and the public doesn't trouble
itself about the matter. It is perfectly contented
with the verdict, and if the execution was pub
lic, half the people in the city and county would
be present. But in all probability Koerner will hang
Oct. 31,and the writer undertook to say something
about him. The digression came up and “ 'deed*’
I couldn't help it I suppose it is because Andy
has always told me he was innocent,and at times
1 have thought that way. I speak of him famil
iarly. I have known him for five months. We
are neighbors: his cell is No. 11, and mine is No.
•t. We aie on the best of terms, and visit each
other, perhaps, on an average of six times a day.
This is a humiliating confession to make, but
that is about the only way 1 can account for the
following:
I was in his cell a few moments since, and
joined him in a bowl of bread and milk. His
brother still continues in the dairy business, and
Andy keeps a large can in his cell. This is in
lieu of the Teutonic beverage, which Sheriff
Hess scrupulously prohibits. Here is a pointer
for the liquor element, in case tho Sheriff
is again a candidate.
I said, as 1 swallowed a glass of the lacteal
fluid, “Andy, is there any water in this milk?’’
“No. oh, no! mine broder never puts water in
the milk. Will you have a piece of rye brode?”
“Certainly. Did you ever milk the pump
when you were in the business?”
“Milk de what?”
“The pump.”
“I bet I give de besser milk vot vas got in the
city. I never skim the cream off. What you
think the Skuprem Kort do mit me?”
“Indeed. Andy I can't tell. Your brother
was here to-day. What did ho have to say about
it?”
“He said that there was somedings in de paper
about de Skupreme Kort oxciting it this week,
and de oxcution Oct. 31. What dos dot mean?"
I did not answer, but he subsequently asked
Buck Farley the same question. Buck has about
as much feeling as Hamlet’s grave-digger, and
he replied: “It means to take you out and crack
your neck." It is needless to say he is now feel
ing very blue.
In the foregoing paragraphs I have attempted
to portray in a measure his broken English, not
from a spirit of ridicule, but with an idea of giv
iug as completed a picture of the condemned
man as it is possible for my pen to paint. He is
thirty-three years of age, and weighs one
hundred and eighty pounds, height, perhaps,
five feet eleven inches. His liair is black,
mustache and chin whiskers red.
His daily dress consists of a
check shirt, jeans pants and slippers. He has a
black dress suit, which he takes the best possible
care of. I suppose ho intends to look respecta
ble on the occasion when he makes his final bow
and debut into the Great Beyond.. Nothing
could be plainer or more simple than this unfor
tunato man, and yet there is something about
him that is intensely interesting. At times he
is as playful and as harmless as a kitten. A fa
vorite Amusement of his is to get a broom straw
and tickle some sleeper. If he succeeds in an
noying his victim he is as happy as a child.
Another trick is that of playfully nipping hand
kerchiefs, after the manner taught by Fagin in
“Oliver Twist” Occasionally his practical jok
ing extends to setting fire to the paper curtains
the prisoners hang inside their cell doors. Andy
has been completely ducked for this trick.
In short, he is easily amused, and as
easily hurt. There is nothing in either his
make-up or nature that would indicate that he
could have committed the deed for which he will
suffer death. Tears come into his eyes on the
slightest provocation. I have sat in the cell with
this poor fellow and watched the play of his
coutenancc for hours. It is so terribly blank
and unexpressive that it would take a close ob
server to guess his thoughts. I have often asked
him:
“Andy, what is new to-day?”
“Notdings. I think it was a skame they keep
me here so long when I have done notdings. My
lettle schilder"—and here is where two great big
tears would well up in his eyes, the eyelids would
quiver, the chest begin to heave, other tears
would come thick and fast, tho round
German face would bo contorted with
agony, and then it was plain to
see that this big. strong, simple fellow was hav
ing a foretaste of what is to come. For relief
on these occasions, which are becoming more
frequent as his end draws near, his eyes will
wander up to the ceiling of his narrow cell, lie
will apparently see an imaginary speck that will
command his unbounded attention, then the
speck will move down the wall and out tho iron
door, then in again and light on the milk can;
from there it will crawl up the wall and finally
rest on a little basket. Andy's blue eyes follow it
everywhere. “Do you know what is in dot
basket?”
“No, Andy.”
“Some presents for my leetle oliilders.” Then
he gets up. takes down the basket as carefully as
if it could feel, and tho contents are laid on
the table. “Dot tin liorn is for my leetle poy.”
He puts it into his mouth, blows a blast that goes
echoing and reverberating around every corner
of the old jail. It needed that sound to dispel
the gloom. The tears are gone, and a smile
comes over his face like a rainbow after a storm.
These moods come and go, but 1 think that they
are occasioned by the loss of his property—which
is nowall gone, and tho condition of his children,
three in number, who are now in the German
Orphans’ Home. Ido not think that he has the
slightest realization of his terrible end. He ex
presses the fullest hope in ultimately getting
out of his trouble. But it seems that the
hope is not enjoyed by any one who is at all
familiar with the case. A brief outline of
his life, given by himself to the writer, is as
follows:
He was born in Germany, and worked on a farm
until be was seventeen years of age. Then he went
to Baden and was employed in a hotel for sev
eral years. lie came to this country thirteen
years ago. About two years .after his arrival in
this country he worked on a farm in Now York
State. Then he drifted out here; he worked
some five years in the starch factory, got mar
ried. and two years ago lie started a dairy on
South Meridian street. Here it was that the
murder w.as committed, the details of which are
still too clear iu the minds of the readers of tho
Journal to merit reiterating.
Webster’s Second Wife#
Philadelphia Times.
She always spoke of her stepchildren with af
fection. but seldom or never alluded to their
after-career. They appeared to be always
children in her recollection. In forgetting the
lapse of ya*ars she frequently made strange con
fusion Vn mixing up the past and present genera
tions tn families. Mrs. Webster had a delicate
and refinement in always avoiding all disa
grceablo subjects, and never by any chance sav
iug anything derogatory to another person. Her
worst condemnation of any person was: “They
are not the kind of people for me, but th*y are
very good in many wavs.” She always abhorred
scandal, and never listened to it under any cir
cumstances. There was an anecdote told of her
during her life in Washington which is very
characteristic.
There was a great deal of talk about Mr. Web
ster being attentive to the wit'** of a well known
senator. It could not fail to have reached the
ears of Mrs. Webster, but she took not the
slightest notice, and treated the lady in question
with the most marked politeness and attention
sending her flowers, taking her to drive—in
fact, disarming all scandal by utterly ignoring
it. She was in every way fitted for the position
of wife of tho Secretary of State, and was over
the hospitable, dignified and graceful hostess,
extending the same courtesy to all, whether
they occupied prominent positions or were poor
and unknown. She often said: “Tho wife of a
public man like Mr. Webster has to meet all
sorts of people and to bo agreeable to all. f have
seen men come to our receptions? in all sorts of
dresses, sometimes with their hats on. This
never annoyed me, although it used to vex my
husband occasionally.”
ABRA HA M 1,1 NCO LN.
Confession of the Man Who Invented tho
Scotch Cap and Military Cloak Story.
Joe Howard, in Philadelphia Pret?.
The next party of distinction that I recall as
receiving marked attention in the Continental
Hotel, Philadelphia, was Abraham Lincoln.
Again it was my good luck to be a participant in
tho chief event of the day. I had been delegated
by the paper I represented to accompany Mr.
Lincoln and his family from Springfield, 111., to
Washington, and, of course, I did so. I stood
within a yard of him when, in Trenton, ho made
the memorable assertion that it was time the
government put its foot down firmly, and I was
with him in Philadelphia when he was comforta
bly housed in the Continental Hotel, where the
best people in the city vied with each other to
do him honor and pay him the respect so bon
estly his due. And. by the way, tins is about as
good a time as any for me to explain the Scotch
cap and military cloak story, which long since
passed into history, and can be found in ail the
encyclopedias of the day.
There isn't a word of truth in it. The inten
tion was, after the reception and parade in Phila
delphia, Mr. Lincoln and his party reviewing the
ton-h-light Wide awakes and bands of music,
and attended by thousands, from his rooms in
Chestnut street, to go by the early train to Har
risburg, where, as in all big places, a reception
was to be given and a procession had iu his
honor, and thence direct to Washington. This
I’lan, however, was thwarted by information
brought to the Continental, and communicated,
I think, first to Mr. Kingsley, and subsequently
intrusted to Mr. Lincoln, although the wisdom
of that step was then and has ever since been
doubted. The information was to the effect that
the train from Harrisburg was to be thrown
from the track in tho hope of killing tho Presi
dent-elect, without regard to the lives or safety
of his wife and children and a largo number of
notables who were accompanying them.
Mr. Kingsley and Mr. Lincoln and the
gentlemen in charge of the party, who were
Colonel Wood, subsequently superintendent of
buildings in Washington; Ward Lamon, subse
quently marshal of the District of Columbia,
and a detective in the secret service by the name
of Burns, who used to keep the Pierrepont
llouso in Brooklyn, kept the secret well. It
was an anxious night with those people and
with Mr. Seward, jr., who accompanied the
detective from Washington and brought the iu
formation to the parties interested. Tho next
morning the presidential group started, and a
continuous ovation greeted them all the way to
Harrisburg, where a very creditable turnout was
made, with speech, band and fire-works accompa
niment. I went to my room in the hotel at
night, and was preparing niy dispatch to wire to
this city when Detective Burns entered the
room and locked the door.
I looked at him in amazement, and asked him
what he meant, lie told me I couldn’t leave the
room until the following morning. I asked why,
and to make a iong story short, in spite of ray
threats and representations of serious embar
rassment to me personally and professionally,
the conclusion was that I was not to leave until
the following morning, as it was for the public
good which he, upon my promise not to use, ex
plained, saying that Mr. Lincoln had already
left by a special engine and car. and had gone
buck over his track in time to catch the evening
train from New York, while his family and the
rest of the party would continue their journey
in accordance with the prearranged programme.
He also informed me that the wires had been cut,
and that communication with New York was a
physical impossibility, but that nevertheless his
orders were that none of the newspaper men
should leave their rooms that night I at once
wrote a dispatch begining as follows: “Abraham
Lincoln, President-elect of the United States, is
safe in the city of Washington,” and then pro
ceeded to narrate tho circumstances, as unfolded
to me by the detective, who, with considerable
mystery, said that no one would recognize Mr.
Lincoln at night, and that the plans of the con
spirators were fortunately foiled.
I asked myself what possible disguise could
Lincoln get in Harrisburg, and. as I wrote on. 1
imagined him in a Scotch cap, which would be
about as marked and opposite to his high silk hat
as one could conceive, and a military cloak,
which 1 borrowed, in my imagination,
from the shapely shoulders of Colonel
Sumner, who was traveling with tho President
elect. My dispatch was sent very
early in the morning, and, by good
luck, reached the Times office just as the day
editor entered his room. His first thought was:
“Well, this is a pretty time v. e day for Howard’s
dispatch to arrive,” arid, taking it up. mechanic
ally glanced at it. The first sentence attracted
his attention. Hurriedly reaching it, and seeing
its importance, he ordered it put up and an extra
gotten out at once. Tho first thing known in
this city by our esteemed contemporaries in es
pecial and the public in general, was when a thou
sand newsbops electrified the town with the ex
tra Times and its astounding revelation of the
diabolical plot against tho chosen head of the
Nation. Immediately the illustrated papers
took the matter up, and one and all printed pic
tures of Mr. Lincoln fleeing from Harrisburg,
arrayed in this chimerical garb, a Scotch cap
and long military cloak. The story was abso
lutely correct, the trimmings were pure imagina
tion.
THE LIBEL ON MR. BLAINE.
WUat an Honorable Newspaper Thinks of
the Attack on a Noble Woman.
Frank Leslie's Weekly.
We think that Mr. Blaine should have re
frained from any reply to the particular charge
laid at his dooi. This charge was of a sort sel
dom encountered in our politics. It was, in
brief, that his first child was born only two or
three months after his marriage to tho lady who
for thirty years lias been his wife. Mr. Blaine’s
moral character has been so conspicuously pure
and his domestic life so harmonious that
he did not need to reply to an asper
sion like this. He should have said: “My
married life ot thirty years is the only answer I
deign to offer to these outrageous charges. My
family history for all those years is before the
country. My faithful wife; my reputable chil
dren. grown to men and women—in their name
I scorn to reply. The country would, in such
an exceptional case, have approved this attitude
of dignified contempt; but Mr. Blaine has been
for years in the focus of that blinding light that
beats upon a candidate, and with hie chivalrous
nature he no doubt felt that he must speak, at
the risk of hurting all the sensibilities of those
he loved.
He spoke. He alleged that there was a pri
vate marriage almost a year before the public
marriage, and lie named the witnesses who were
present. That the private marriage was a vio
lation of Kentucky law he did not know at the
time; as soon as ho suspected it he had another
performed in the usual way. All an honorable
man could do. It is enough. Most people felt
at the beginning that the issue was not a fit one
to raise, whether the allegations were true or
false; but most men. without regard to party,
must now coucede that the defense of his
home is perfect. Tho charge cannot have
any influence on the election, unless, indeed,
the persistence of the original exploiters in re
iterating it after it has been answered, or tue
ghoul like desecration of the child's grave, should
induce some Democrats to vote for him. Mrs.
Blaine is a woman of austere virtues and rigid
principles; she knows her mind; she has never
had much sympathy with the cheap frivolities of
Washington society. She is not socially ambi
tious, but all her hopes and aspirations are cen
tered in her husband and her home. Tho tender
praise wnieh Mr. Blaine has often bestowed on
iiis wife as his chief assistant in his work recalls
that peorless eulogy which Mrs. John Stuart
Mill evoked from the pen of her illustrious
husband. “She is my sheet anchor and
my prop”, exclaims Mr. Blaine: “she
has been my untiring assistant always;
my collabornteur in my writings and my
speeches. 1 don’t suppose I should over have
amounted to anything without her." Where
such relations are known to exist, nothing that
can be said about- either of the parties will have
much weight, even ts it remain ununswored.
On the whole, it may be said that the intro
duction of indelicate question* into the cam
puign has not been profitable. It has shocked
many: it has left the voters about where they
originally were; it lias tended to the deraoraliza
tion of the young, and done no conceivable
good. Should Mr. Blaine be elected, the domes
tic life of the White House will be all that the
Republic could wish, and the “first lady” will be
found to combine in her character uncommon
strength, helpfulness, sweetness and dignity.
Hand-Writing and Type-Writing;.
Gath's New York Letter.
Note, for instance, what a thing the type
writer has got to be. It is said that this iuven
tion was started in Milwaukee by a man who
manufactured blank books, and after they were
bound had certain letters stamped on some of
their pages. He wanted to make blank-books
by tho ten million, and started to find somebody
who would contribute the mechanics. They
fussed along from year to year, until about
1873 they got tho type-writer almost as it is
and sent it, to the Remington gun factory to be
made. Os all the engines of war turned out by
that place it is the most revolutionary. The
young woman who formerly drummed the piano
from morning till night now executes on the
type writer. She thinks she can get employ
ment, and, if not that, she can see her own con
tributions in print. The merchant finds that lie
can no longer do with pen and ink. The writing
master has gone out of use. If there are any
longer perfect systems of penmanship, they are
given up to the small boys. The next thing at
hand is said to boa type-writer into which you
can talk, telephone fashion, and it will make the
impressions.
Farmers who have ice-houses on their places
find that, ice cream is as cheap a food can be
obtained during the summer. It costs less to
freeze crortfhi and eggs than it docs to cook them.
It is more pleasant to work over a freezing ap
paratus than over a hot stove in July or August.
Besides the article that is prepared by freezing
is more grateful than that prepared by heat
ing. An ice-house in the country affords a
good many returns on the investment, while it
affords comfort that cannot be purchased by
money.
A Perfect Avalanche
Os nice, new, nobby styles in children’s kilts
and two-piece suits at the Model. Prices from
$3 to sls.
OBITUARY.
Little Maud Haynes.
With the fading flowers and leaves died one of God's
blossoms. Tho first to grow around the fireside,
each year she grew until the cycle marked twelve,
then the plant began to droop, but not before it
bloomed. Thoughtful and patient and loving was she,
and when transplanted to another soil, though not
happy was still; but when papa said, “Maud, wc are
going back tolndianapolis,” with a joyful clapping of
hands replied, “O, lam so glad!" Then a song burst
from her lips, and for two hours filled tho house.
Mamma, surprised, said, “Why Maud. I did not know
you were so unhappy." “I was, mamma; but I thought
I would not say anything.’’ When back again with
old friends ami familiar scenes, content was she. ami
the busy fingers sewed together bits of bright col
ored silk and with each a history, her
mind soaring in a world she knew not of, until one
day there was a pain in the head, and the breath was
hard to get. “I must have breath, mamma: can't you
give me breath?’’ But God alone “breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living
soul;" and while the clock was striking 12 there was
no breath. It was another day. but Maud had gone
to where there was no night. “Ail is of God that is.
and is to be: and God is good." Let this suffice us
still, “Resting in childlike trust upon His will who
moves to His great ends unthwarted by the ill,” while
we will
“Give our tears to the dead! For humanity’s claim
From its silence and darkness is ever the same;
The hope of that world whose existence is bliss,
May not stifle the tears of the mourners of this.
O, who can forget the mild light of her smile
Over Ups moved with music and feeling the while—
The eye’s deep enchantment, dark, dream like and
clear,
In the glow of its gladness, the shade of its tear?
Asa cloud of the sunset, slow melting in heaven,
Asa star that is lost, when the daylight is given:
Asa glad dream of slumber, which wakens in bliss,
She hath passed to the world of the holy from this."
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CHURCH SERVICES.
Memorial presbyterlan chi rch << r
. nor Christian avenue and Ash street. Rev. H. A.
Edson, D. 1)., pastor. Preaching at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school at *2.30 p. m. Preaching at 7:45 p. m.
Subject: “A Second Visit to England." The public
welcome.
/ 'i"RACE (EPISCOPAL) CHURCE—CORNER OF
\ L North Pennsylvania and St. Joseph streets. Rev.
J. A. Borington priest in charge. Services to-day:
Morning prayer, sermon and Holy Communion at
10:30; Sunday-school. 3:30 P. M.; evening prayer and
sermon, 7:30. The bishop will be present at morning
sc: vice.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
SEE VAN PELT’S FLOUR PRICES UNDER
head of wanted.
QOLOMON S~ORIG IN AL LOAN OFFICE. 25
O South Illinois street. Money advanced on all arti
cles of value. Unredeemed pledges for sale.
OSTRICH FEATHERS.—CHARLES FAILLES
the ostrich feather cleaner and colorer, formerly
of Stewart Place, has removed to 74 North Pennsyl
vania, and is prepared to do same high grade of work
as in the past.
rNN()l• NCEM EN T- -M iss J. A. TU RNER~ lIA V
iV ing taken the first floor of the new block north
west corner of Ohio street and Indiana avenue, is pre
pared to receive her old friends and any new ones
who may desire to avail themselves of her skill and ex
perience in making cloaks, suits, etc. Entrance door
on Ohio street.
WANTFD.
IX7 ANTED DAY BOARDERS -AT 154 BIRD
Y V street, above New York.
IX7 ANTED—SPLENDID DAY BOARD M.L
V? the season affords, at 354 Bird street, above
New York.
UT
YY for gentleman and wife—no children—about six
blocks from center of city. ix. Address 8-1 South
Meridian st.
il T ANTED—FOR
YY 25 lbs best second grade flour. 50c.
50 lbs same. $1.00: barrel, $3.75.
This flour is second run from best wheat.
VAN FELT, 59 North Alabama street.
U J ANTED—FOR
YY 25 lbs “Light Loaf" roller process flour. Csc.
50 lbs. $1.30; 100 lbs, $2.00; barrel. $5.00.
Warranted best straight grade flour in this market.
VAN PELT, 59 N. Alabama street. Telephone 390.
\irANTED— ~
YY 25c fovOLj tbs Akron cracked wheat or oatmeal.
25c for 9 lbs fresh grab un flour.
25c for 15 tbs best bolted corn-meal.
These goods are strictly fresh. VAN PELT, 59
North Alabama street. Telephone, 390.
IX7ANTED—A HOME—I WOULD LIKE -• IME
YY <>ne to give me a home. 1 want to sew in some
good hotel or family, to earn wages. Can give satis
factory references. Please don’t forget, but come and
see me at 1014 North Illinois street. lam a girl
without a home. (Jan sow well, and have sewed in
some of the best families in the city.
FOR RENT.
1710 R RENT— NEWLY FURNISHED ROOMS, AT
IjiOß RENT—PART OF \ GOOD NINE-ROOM
. house. No. 485 North East street.
IX>R RENT -FURNISHED A N D UNFURNISHED
rooms, with board, 120 E. Ohio street.
I’-jfOR RENT ONE OR TWO FURNISHED
rooms for gentleman and wife or two single gen
tlemen, with or without board. Apply at residence,
79 West North street.
fjm RENT- BT<>KK K<)OM
I between Pennsylvania and Delaware streets,
known as 79 and SI. Choice location. BARNARD &
SAVJjES, 75 E. Market street.
i?OR RENT— DWELLINGS—
39S N. East, 10 rooms —stable—largo 10t.530.00
165 Park avenue. S rooms —stable 25.00
298 Blake street', f> rooms, desirable 12.50
300 Blake street. 5 rooms 3 2.50
270 Fletcher avenue. 0 rooms 12.00
298 College avenue, store-room 12.00
BAUNAKDASAVI.ES. 75 E. Market street
FOR SALE.
SALE -ONLY ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
* the Weekly Indiana Slate Journal. Send for it
15OR SALE—TEN FINE PLYMOI iit ROCK
1 Cockerels. $1.50 each. Giant of Battle stock, 0.
S. Ilammond, Lock-box 81, Greencastle, iiul.
1- OST—LAST EVENING BETWEEN THE NEW
A Denison ami Union Depot, a largo, red Turkish
leather Letter case, containing papers of value to the
owner but not to the finder. A reward will be paid
1 for its return to Frank Reeder, New Denison.
RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.
(TRAINS KT*V R 7 CENTRA!. STANDARD TTMR.)
Trains marked tliu*. r. c., roolimngchair car; r t \.
e., steeper; thus, p., parlor car; th'H, !., hotels ir
(Bee Lins* C., C., C. A Indianapolis.
Depart—Accommodation 4:00 am
New York and Boston Express.
daily, s— 6:15 am
Day? >n. Columbus aud N ;.v York
Anderson and Michigan V.\ u-e-, ... 10.50 am
Wabash 5:25 pm
New \ork and Boston, dai./ s. c. c. 7:15 pul
Biira;iT\vooD division*.
Bnpy 4:00 .vu 2:20 nm
Ibdly 6:lsam 3BOo®
Daily 10:10 a:n 5:25 pm
. . Ib-ii ..11:15 am 7:15 rm
Arrive—Louisville, New Oi.-.vis a:i 1
U.uis Express, daily 6:loam
Fort Wayne nud M unci a
Express 10:35 am
Benton Harbor an l Anderson Kx-
T> P r ss 2:00 ora
Boston. Indianapolis aud Southern
Exnregs 5:50 pm
New t ork aud St. L • .is Express.
daily 10:35 nru
Chicago, St. Louis Pittsburg.
Depart New York, P W h
ington, Baltimore aud Pittsburg
Express daily, s 7 4:25 an
lbayton and Columbus Express, ex
<*!>t Sunday ... 10:15am
Richmond Acc .mmodati ,n l:OOom
Wk. 1*,.: awlphn. Wa-aina.
ton, Baltimore and Pittsburg E.x
press, daily, s., h 4:55pm
Davton Exore>s c : m- > .ndav 4*sspm
Arrive—Richmond Accommodation, except *
Sunday 0:40 am
r>eiv Ynru. Philadelphia. W,..hint
ten. Baltimore and Pittshurj Ex
press, daily 1..27 as
Uoiumbus aud Davton Exnress, ex
centJNu L:3sp*
New V ork, Philadelp ia. W ishing
ton, Baltimore auu Pittsburg Ex
press, daily 10:20 pm
Dayton Express, daily, except Sun
day 10-20 run
cwioano utvisio.v via kokomo. ' r\! '.V a'sr. uu. P *.
depart—JaouisviUe and Chicago Kxj.res.
Eouisviue and Chicago East Ex
. press, daily, s 11:00 pm
Arrive Chicauro and Louisville Fast Ext-ress,
daily, s ‘ 3:59 am
Chicago aud Louisville Express,
Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis.
Depart—Southern Express, daily. 4.10 am
Louisville and Madison Express .... b; 15 am
Louisville and Madison mail, p. c.. 3:sopm
Louisville Express, daily 6:45 nm
Arrive—lndianapolis and Madison M.vl 9:15 am
Indianapolis. St. Louis and Chicago
Express, daily, p . 10:-i5 am
New i ork and Northern Fa - 1. Ex
press, r. c. 7:00 pm
Ft. Louis, Chicago and Detroit Fast
Lino, daily, s.T 10:45pm
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago.
CINCINNATI DIVISION.
Depart—Cincinnati Fast Line, dally, s. and
C- c 4:00 am
Indianapolis. Rushville uni Colum
bus Accommodation 7:09 am
Cincinnati and Louis\ illo Mail. p. c. 3:15 pm
Martiusville Accommodation 4:30 pm
Cincinnati Accommodation daily.. (3:35 pm
Arrive—Martinsville Accommndati..n ...... <: lo am
Indianapolis Accommodation, daily. 10:30 am
Chicago aud St. Louis Mail, p. c .. .11:50 am
Indianapolis, Rushville and Colum
bus Accommodation 7:50 pm
Chicago. Peoria and St. Louis Night
Line, daily, s. and c. c ...10:45pm
CHICAGO DIVISION.
Departs—Chicago, I’eoria and Omaha Ex
press 7:10 am
Chicago Fast Mail, p. c 12:10 pm
Western Express 5.05 pm
Cincago and Peoria Night Line,
daily, s.. r. c 11:20 pm
Arrive—Cincinnati Fast Line, daily, c. c.
and: 3:35am
Lafayette Accommodation 10:4.0 am
Cincinnati and Louisville Fast Mail
p. c ... 3:30 pm
Chicago. Rock Island and Peoria Ex. 0:20 pm
Vandalia Lint:.
Depart—Mail Traln 7:15 am
Day Express, daily, p.. h 31:55 am
Terre Haute Accommodation 4:00 pm
Pacific Express, daily, s 10:45 pm
Arrive—New York E :press, daily. 3:50 am
Indianapolis Mail aud Accom 10:00 am
Cincinnati andLouisriHe Fast Line.. 3:30 pm
New York Express, daily, h 4:40 pm
Wabash, St. Loifis & Pacific.
Depart—Detroit and Chi ago Mail ........ 7:15 am
Toledo. Fort Wayne. Grand Rapids
and Michigan Express 2:15 pm
Detroit Express, daily. ■ 7:00 pm
Detroit through coach on St.
3j. 6c P. Express 13:00 pm
Arrive—Detroit Express, daily, s *:00 am
Pacific Express 13 -30 am
Detroit and Chicago Mail 8:55 pm
Detroit through coach on C., St.
L. & P. Express 4:00 am
Indiana, Bloomington & Western.
PEORIA DIVISION.
Depart—Pacific Expres and Mail 7:30 am
Kansas and Texas Fast Line. r. c... 5:05 um
Burlington and Rock Island Ex
press. daily, r. c. ands 11:10 pm
Arrive —Eastern and Southern Express,
daily, r. c. ands 3:50 ra
Cincinnati Special, r. c 11:15 ana
Atlantic Express and Mail 0.15 pn
FT. LiOUIS DIVISION.
Depart Moorefield Accommodation f>:3o am
Mail ami Day Express 8:05 am
Night Express, daily, r. c 3 1:05 pm
Arrive—Night Express, daily, r. c. am
Mail and Day Express pm
Mooreneld Accommodation tklOpra
EASTERN DIVISION.
Depart—Eastern Express, Mail, daily, s. rc. 4:20 am
Day Express 3 1:45 am
Atlantic Express, r. c 6:45 pm
Arrive —Pacific Express, r. c 7:00 am
Western Express - - • 4:40 pm
Burlington and Rock Island Ex
press, daily, sand r. c. 10:35 pm
Indianapolis A St. I ouis.
Depart— Par F.xnress. daily, c. c. 7:10 a.r
Paris Express
Boston and St. Louis F.xpresvp... 6:2opm
New York and St. Louis Express,
daily, s. and c. c. lo:_>spm
Arrive —New York and Boston Exmess
daily, c. am
Local Passenger, p :,> ? ftm
Indianapolis .bloom
Day Express, c. c.. daily •• *-■>run
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis.
Deport—Cincinnati, Dayton &Tcudeo. -1:00 am
Cincinnati. Duyton, Toledo and
Ncw York -- --3 0:50 am
Connersvill© Accommodation 4:3opm
Cincinnati. 1 'avion. Toledo and
New York Express O tOom
Arrive —Connersville Accomitio'la ' m S:3oam
Cincinnati. Peoria and Si. Louis.. 11:50am
Cincinnati Accommodation.... ;kOO pm
Cincinnati. Peoria and St. Louis . 10:40 pm
Indianapolis & Vincennes.
Depart—Midi and Cairo
Vincennes Accommodation 4:UUpm
Arrive —Vincennes Accommodation 10:40 am
Mail and Cairo Express ... 6:30 pm
Cincinnati, Wabash &■ Michigan Railway.
(Over the Bee-line.>
Depart—Tndiananolis aud Grand Rapid Ex. 4:00 ara
Michigan Kani ns- 10:jjO am
Ijouiavilleand Wabash P®
Arrive—Wula.ii unU InJiunan •!> Ear.res. IO.Ha am
Cincinnati and i.-mi-vi:!.- Kxnr.'.s 2:oopm
Indianapolis and St. I. Express 104*3 um
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago.
(Michigan and Grand Ksnnl. !, ne.)
DMiart— Michigan and Grand Ua-nU h*.... 1 pm
Mouon Accommodat ion .inOWpm
Arrive —Mnnnu Acc.m undatKm 30:00 am
Michigan and Grand Hi-kh K 11: t. i.:n
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