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THE LAND RECORDS. The Litigation and Losses Likely to Result from the Imperfect Condition of Records. The clerk of the State Land Department, Geo. TJ. Bingham, has filed with Auditor Rice his annual report.

Some of the most valuable records of the department, he states, are missing. He is unable to find any trace of the field notes of surveys and plats of the Wabash and Erie canal lands, which would be of particular value At the present time, purchasers of the canalbed under the sale of the federal court are asserting their rights under that sale, and where the canal bed has been filled, there are many disputes as to the course, width, and location, and the dimensions of its basins and There is nothing among the canal records and papers surrendered to the State that furnishes any of this information. the issuance of swamp land the report states, were many errors made in the description of the tracts intended to be conveyed and in the names of the patentees, and in many cases two or more patents have been issued for the same tract. This causes confusion in the titles, and has resulted in some litigation, whicn will be greatly increased the value of the land is enhanced by drainage. There is no law in existence authorizing the correction of these patents.

In 1847 a law was enacted authorizing the correction of patents where any error has occurred which may be ma terial in the conveyance, but by the repealing act of 1852 this was repealed, except, probably, so far as it relates to the Wabash and Erie Canal, and Michigan read lands. While lam of the that tne Governor had the power to issue patents in correction of these errors, it is an open question, and there should be such legislation as will remove all doubt of his authority in the premises. There still remain in this office a large number of patents conveying Wabash and Erie canal lands. The law directs that these be recorded in the county where the land is situated, and until this is done there will be a defect in the title to these lands. Patents, some issued by the State as early as 1832, and others by the trustees of the canal as late as 1876, are here for lands in Allen, Benton, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Crawford, Daviess.

Dubois, Fulton, Gibson, Greene, Huntington, Jasper, Knox, Kos, iusko, Lake, Lawrence, Marshall, Martin, Marion, Monroe, Newton, Noble, Orange, Owen, Parke, Perry, Pike, Posey, Pulaski, Putnam, Spencer, Sullivan, Vanderburg. Vermillion, Wabash, Warrick, White and Whitley counties. It is hoped that the owners of canal lauds in the counties named, who have not yet obtained their patents and had them recorded, will do so at once, in order that their title may be made perfect. THE CITY IN BRIEF. Twenty-three deaths occurred in the city the past week.

Building permits amounting only to $3,425 were issued during the week. Jennings county yesterday made the semiannual settlement with the State, paying into the treasury $7,398 21. 4 The case of Ezra G. Lippincott against the £baw Carriage Company has been referred, by Judge Woods, to W. P.

Fishback, master in Christian Wilte and Louisa Shakel, George Colelazier and Mollie Burns, Anthony Hicky and Mollie Larkin, procurred marriage licenses yesterday. H. C. Levi will assist the choir of the Second Presbyterian Church to day, and will sing this -morning the tenor solo from with all your hearts," etc. John Briggs, who was sentenced to a term to the Northern prison for counterfeiting, has been released from the peualty of fine and costs under the convict by Commissioner Jordan.

The regular Sunday gospel meeting will be held at W. C. T. U. parlors, 76 North Pennsyl vania street, this (Sunday) afternoon at 3:45.

The meeting will be led by Mrs. H. C. Page. Everybody welcome.

The annual meeting for the election of officers the Young Christian Temperance Union, will be held Monday, Nov. 23, at 8 p. at No. 76 North Pennsylvania street. A full attendance is desired.

Esquire Smock yesterday settled the case growing out of the fight at the Dime Museum, a few nights ago, by fining John Robinson for provoke, Henry Curtis for assault and battery, and dismissing the suit against Manager SacketL Addison Macafee was arrested yesterday for conducting a policy game. He gave an appearance bond in the sum of S2OO, with Samuel Perkins as surety. John Burke, arrested on a like charge, gave the same bond and bondsman for his appearance. On Tuesday the 24th the managers of the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum will be found at the When clothing store, where Thanksgiving donations will be gratefully received. It is hoped that the friends of the orphans will generously remember them this year.

In the probate room of the county office yesterday, the bonds of James S. Cruse, administrator of Elizabeth estate, and of Charles Feller, assignee of Samuel C. Seaton, were filed aud approved. Ernest Knodel is surety in the sura of $5,000, the assignee making oath that the probable value of his trust is $2,500. is the name given an entertainment to bo held in Masonic Hall, Dec.

1 and 2. by the Ames M. E. Church people. This style of entertainment is quite novel, as well as furnishing considerable amusement to those who have been so fortunate as to attend one, and the folks assure their friends that this event will be fully up to the standard.

The will of Susan Brown was probated yesterday. It leaves all her real estate and personal property, except two small bequests from the latter to her daughter, Laura Stewart, and after her to the daughter, Mamie. In the evert Mamie dies before her mother, then tatrix son, Charles Lewis, is to have the property at the death of Laura. Judge Taylor continued yesterday the hearing the habeas corpus application of Ora Reynolds for the possession of her child, the father, Robert L. Reynolds, and the mother being defendants.

The testimony was the same as that heretofore sketched, and came to an end late last evening. Arguments will he heard on Monday morning, directly after which it is thought the Judge will give bis final decision. Thanksgiving Dinners. In a wife pleads her husband that he forgive one who has Wronged him before he goes to sleep. own sleep will be the she says.

And jour Thanksgiving dinner will be the better, if when you sit down to it you think that there is at least one family who has a good dinner. For there are many who live so close to the line of mere existence, that the holidays bring with them no gladness. Last year we gave seventy-five dinners, receiving in response to an appeal, a hundred dollars. One dollar will buy a dinner for a family. You can leave the money at the office, or what is better, come and get the name of a family and take the dinner to them.

Oscar C. McCulloch Itentz Discharged. Fred Rentz, the night porter at the Circle Park Hotel, who was arrested on the charge of violating the postal laws by opening a letter addressed to one of the guests, was discharged from custody yesterday morning by Commissioner Martindale, the evidence failing to show that he had been guilty of any offense. Amateur Minstrelsy. A number of young lads below the age of wighteen gave a very pleasant and bright minstrel entertainment on Friday evening, at the residence of Mr.

H. C. Adams, corner of Delaand Morrison streets. The boys call the A. Minstrel and the is made up of B.

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Porter and A. T. Perry, tambos, with G. C. Beck, interlocutor, and W.

W. Wocher, C. T. Perry, L. G.

Robinson, W. S. Robinson, James Morris and others, taking the remaining parts. The double parlors of Mr. house were transformed into a hall for the occasion, with stage and curtains.

The boys acquitted themselves handsomely, in the presence of a large company of their young friends and of their parents, who gave their patronage and countenance to tha programme. THE DAWSONS IN COURT. The Pair Plead Gnilty and Are Sentenced to the Work-House. In the court, yesterday, Oscar and Kate Dawson, the eloping step son and mother, were each fined $25 and sent to the work-house for thirty days on their pleas of guilty to adultery. After the sentence, however, Attorney Bernbamer came into the case on behalf of defendants and proposed to appeal to the Criminal Court.

This action prompted the prosecution to file an additional charge, that of incest, the parties, but, in the meantime, they are fulfilling the work house sentence. Later in the day, John W. Dawson, father and husband, filed his complaint for divorce, setting out the facts which have been lengthily treated in print Not satisfied with this action, he went before Esquire Smock and procured a warrant of replevin to recover the household goods Oscar and Kate had from time to time stealthily removed from his home. Under this writ a bed, a lot of bed-clothing and other ar tides were found at No. 327 South Pensvlvania street where the guilty pair were arrested.

Mrs. Dawson remained heavily veiled during the court proceedings yesterday, and to all questions, except those of her attorney, refused to give any answer. On her way to court from the station house she remained silent, now and then giving way to sobs and tears. When in the cell, and approached by the prosecuting attorney, who wished to know her plea, she more tightly drew veil over her face and crouched in a corner of the room, merely saying, and that hardly above a whisper, When Oscar was questioned by the same officer he expressed great curiosity to know how the woman bore her trouble, and when told of the plea she made, said he would do likewise. The woman claims that Friday preceding the elopement her husband knocked her down, but he says she did the knocking down and he suffered for it.

The difficulty arose over a S2O gold piece that belonged to a former wife, which he carried about his breast suspended by a string around his neck. Mrs. Kate got possession of the gold piece. He asked her to return it, which she refused, and then the fight came on, she saying that unless he gave her S2O for it he could not have it. Kate and Oscar were going to Kansas, representing at their boarding place that they had come from Greensburg, where they had sold a valuable farm.

THE CHURCHES TO-DAY. Rev. N. A. Hyde will preach at Mayflower Congregational Church to-day.

Rev. Mary T. Clark will preach at True Friend Hall, When Block, this morning. Prof. C.

H. Hall will preach at the North Baptist Church, morning and evening. Kingdom will be the evening subject at the Sixth Presbyterian Church. Rev. Augustine Prentiss will preach, morning and evening, at the Grace Episcopal Church.

Rev. A. W. Lamport will preach, morning and evening, at the Central-avenue M. E.

Church. Inferno and will be Rev. M. L. evening topic at the First Presbyterian Church.

Rev. 11. P. Jackson, of Hanover, will preach morning and evening at the United Presbyterian Church. Secret of a Happy and will be the respective morning and evening topics ot Rev.

O. C. McCulloch. will be Rev. E.

J. subject at the Central Christian Church this morning; Before this evening. Priesthood of will be Rev. Dr. morning theme at the First Baptist Church; evening, and the Future Dr.

J. H. Carroll will preach at the Fourth Presbyterian Church this morning. This evening he will preach at the revival service at Roberts Park M. E.

Church. will be Rev. R. V. subject at the Seventh Presbyterian Church this morning.

There will be a service of song in the evening, instead of the regular preaching service. Special musical selections will be given at the Third Christian Church at services. The regular choir will be assisted by Miss Nettie Johnson, Messrs. Dachez, F. W.

Fowler, A. W. Johnson and C. H. Parker.

Heavens Are (Hayden) will be sung this morning, and the (Mozart) this evening. Rev. Dr. J. E.

Gilbert, at Meridian-street M. E. Church, will lecture this evening on Good Prospect; or, The Young The following music will form a part of the service: Quartette Faith Looks Up to -Bassford Mesdames W. 0. Lynn, S.

L. Morrison and Messrs. O. W. Williams and S.

L. Morrison. Bass Who Treads the Path of Mr. F. M.

Loomis. Tenor Wondrous Gounod Mr. O. W. Williams, with violin obligato by Mr.

M. H. Spades. Male Quartet Messrs. O.

W. Williams, F. M. F. M.

Loomis and S. L. Morrison. The Coining Fair. It has been decided by the management of the coming Miennercbor fair that the hall is to be open to the public every day from 4 p.

m. until midnight. The fair will last three days, and on the closing day, Friday, Dec. 4, a ball is to take place, beginning at midnight. There is now every indication that the fair will be the most pleasing entertainment of the kind ever given in this city.

The decoration of the hall and the arrangement of the different tents and booths will be carried out in an artistic manner. The gentlemen who constitute the decoration committee are known for their ability and taste in such matters. Bunko-Steerers Unsuccessful. An attempt was made yesterday to get from Jacob Eldridge, the real-estate man, through the time-worn bunko scheme of lottery prizes. Pretending that they wanted to purchase property, the manipulator of the steal induced Eldridge to go to No.

65 North New Jersey street, where it was represented that he had drawn a couple of prizes, one of which would be paid him in Lafayette, on his paying them in cash. Eldridge refused to invest, and reported the affair to the police, who were unable to capture the bunkoists, as they had deserted the premises. Everybody Praises It. The hunter, when he makes a path, Takes ax and kindly it; Thus others try it, and, if good, Each praises it The mind is apt to be misled. Wrong information dazes it; But you may on a thing rely When everybody praises it And Sozodont is such a No glamour false it It cleans the teeth, perfumes the breath.

And everybody praises it. The Queer Bociety Are among the stanchest advocates of beautifying Sozodont which communicates to the teeth the glistening whiteness of snow, arrests their decay, renders spongy and ulcerated gums healthy, and breath made offensive by defective teeth as sweet as honeysuckle. Ladies, ye were made to captivate; make your conquests sure and swift, your empire over male lasting, by its sovereign aid. The fashionable world declares there is nothing like it EAIMTAY GOSSIP. J.

E. Tucker, Western agent of the Chicago Alton road, has resigned to accept a position with the Florida Railway and Navigation Company. C. H. Chappell, general manager of the Chicago Alton, is confined to his room with rheumatism.

As soon as able he will go to Hot Springs, Ark. Ira Bramwell, well-known in Indianapolis, was yesterday appointed contracting agent of the Erie Pacific Dispatch and South Shore line, headquarters Chicago. C. W. Smith, who Dec.

1, takes the general managership of the T. St Fe road, writes a friend here that he has decided to make Topeka, his headquarters. Messrs. C. Vanderbilt, Depew, Roberts, Thompson, Garrett and the Morgans met in Philadelphia Friday, and there is much speculation over what was done at the conference.

The new hospital of the Denver Rio Grande railway at Salida, was formally opened last week, and is said to be one of the most complete institutions of this character in the country. Columbus, 0., is said to have the most prosperous railway branch of Railroad Christian Association in the country. General Manager McCrea, of the Pennsylvania lines, has done much toward making it a success. James McCrea, general manager of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, John F. Miller, general superintendent of the same lines (the Ft.

W. excepted) were in the city last evening, en route from Louisville to Pittsburg. President J. F. Joy, Vice-president H.

M. Hoxie, Treasurer Smith, Thomas E. Tutt, re ceiver, and Superintendent Stevens, together with several directors of the Toledo. Wabash Western railroad, went to New York Friday night The roads composing the Richmond and Danville system, of which E. B.

Thomas is general manager, show, with the exception of Virginia Midland and one other, the best average results for the year of almost any group of roads in the country. The passenger agents of the railways centering at Buffalo have formed an organization sim ilar to that of the Indianapolis agents, known as the Railway Passenger and have elected Peter C. Doyle as chairman and Edson J. Weeks as secretary. The Wabash road announces that a freight agenoy has been established at Collamer, on tne Detroit and Indianapolis division of this railway, with R.

J. Emerson as agent. Freight shipments for this point may be received without requiring prepayment in future. A meeting of general passenger agents is to be hold at Atlanta, Dec. 2, for the purpose of organizing the Southern passenger committee, an association similar to the Central passenger committee, which is doing a good work in this section in bringing about a better maintenance of rates.

The pass question has its humorous side. A Chicago road derives some added traffic from a new cemetery started about a year ago, and lately received an application for a trip pass from a prominent physician, who based his request upon the ground that lie had up a good business for the He got his pass. In Southwest Virginia there are thirteen counties where the roar of the railway has never yet been heard, and the people live their uncouth lives in ignorance of the events of the outside world. Very little money circulates among them, the products of the farm being used as the medium of exchange in most business transactions. The members of the executive committee have selected St.

Louis, as the place for holding the biennial meeting of the Aid Society on the second Wednesday in February, 1886. The by-laws of the society provide lhat each division shall be entitled to a representation of one delegate for every twenty-five members or fraction thereof. Superintendent Taylor, of the C. St. I division of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, is as boastful as Charles Watts, superintendent of the Chicago division of the St.

L. regarding the high moral tone of their employees. Both discharge a man when they find he is fond of intoxicating liquor, visits gambling dens or houses of ill-repute. H. J.

Adams, who represents the Erie fastfreight lines at Kansas City, was in the city yesterday, and tendered his resignation, to take effect Dec. 1. Manager Lewis has not as yet decided as to who will be his successor. Mr. Adams has accepted the position of general western freight agent of the Chicago Alton road, headquarters to be at Denver, Col.

Presidents and general managers on many roads are setting an excellent example to employees by discontinuing the carrying on their private cars intoxicating liquors, even dispensing with wines. While officials of roads use intoxicating liquors or carry them on their private cars they can with poor grace enforce rules of total abstinence on the part of employees. Indianapolis Division, No. 11, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers have what they call a private insurance association, which is carried on independently of the national organization, which is doing much good. Whenever a member of the Division is unable to work, he is allowed $lO per week, and in case of death his friends are given SIOO for burial expenses.

The old locomotive has been condemned and cut up at the shops of the New Brunswick railway, at McAdams Junction, N. 8., by order of the mechanical superintendent, G. A. Haggerty, after thirty-one active service. This locomotive was built in 1854 by the Portland company, at Portland, for the Maine Central road, and was the first built with a link motion.

Hon. Donald A. Smith, director, and Mr. Vanhorn, vice-president, of the Canadian Pacific railway, have arrived at Montreal after driving the last spike in the through line of railway to the Pacific coast, at Coal Harbor. A project for the establishment of a line of steamships between the Western terminus of the road and China and Japan is under consideration, and will be carried out as soon as practicable.

The New York Sun says: would be nothing surprising to learn some day that, instead of Mr. Vanderbilt controlling New York Central and its Western outlets, the control of these companies is in the hands of English capitalists, and that Mr. Vanderbilt and his agents have simply to do what the Englishmen order them to. If this be so, and the fact became known among our Irish legislators, we might have a very lively time in Albany, as well as in Washington, regarding railroad The Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen, in the preamble of their revised by-laws and constitution, say: recognize an identity of interests between our members and their employers, and it is made a special object of the brotherhood to bring them in perfect harjnony with each other. Benevolence is the principal obiect of our existence, and, in our hazardous calling, it is almost daily brought into requisition by the husbandless and fatherless, whose protectors have gone down at the post of The veteran paymaster of the Chicago, Milwaukee St.

Paul road. C. A. Place, has had an interesting experience during the twenty years he has occupied the position of disbursing officer of that great corporation. The pay-car system was abandoned several years ago by the company, but before that time he was traveling over 3,000 miles each month and distributing about $450,000 a trip to the employes of the road.

Now they have the check system. A pay roll is sent to each station agent, with a check for each person drawing a salary at that point, the agent taking receipts for all and checking up the pay roll Every check is signed by Mr. Place, his autograph appearing on 22,000 checks every month. He devotes ten days each month to signiug checks. Mr.

Place is seventy years old. He resigned last year, but the Milwaukee people retained him in the position while making him master of bis time. He has disbursed $10,000,000 amone the Chicago, Milwaukee St Paul employes. F. M.

Wilder, who retires from the Erie road on Dec. 1 as superintendent of motive power, has become widely and favorably known by his protracted and useful service on the Erie railway, and his active participation in the proceedings of important railway mechanical His connection with the Erie commenced in 1859, when he became an pppreutice in the Buffalo machine shop of that company. After the allotted term he successively advanced through the grades of journeyman, foreman, general foreman, master mechanic and superintendent of motive During this period a number of important changes were made under his direction. He secured the adoption of the consolidated engine as the standard for freight movomantson that road, and superintended the change of the old motive power and roiling stock from the six-feet gauge to the standard guage. He reduced the classes of engines from about seventy styles to nearly a uniformity, only six now being in use.

He also effected radical changes in the methods of conducting shop labors, introduced the templet system. established a test department and enlarged and improved the equipment of the Susquehanna shops to such an extent that they cau now construct one hundred new locomotives per annum. His services have been of a class that commands high appreciation. The B. O.

Secures a New York Connection. New York, Nov. contract was closed to-day by the terms of which the Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company has secured access to New York. This will be accomplished by means of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad line. The B.

O. will run from Bound Brook by anew line to Elizabeth, where a bridge will be built connecting the B. lines with the Staten Island lines. The contract is for ninety-nine years, and was signed by President Garrett, of the B. 0., last Monday, and President Emmons, of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Company, this afternoon, at a meeting of the stockholders and directors in thi3 city.

The contract covers over 100 pages of paper, and provides that rates shall yield as much by through traffic to the Rapid Transit Company as is now yielded by its local business, thus securing to the Staten Island Company so much as it gives up to the B. 0., and permitting it to participate in half the profits made by the latter company over the Staten Island lines. The B. O. guarantees to the Rapid Transit Company second mortgage bonds to the extent of 000, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent, for forty years, which amount is to be used in payment for water front property already secured at Staten Island for terminal purposes, the building of a bridge 600 feet long across the Kill Von Kull to Elizabeth, for new boats, and such other arrangements as may be required.

The terminus at Staten Island will be at St. George, and from thence 10 the Battery. The bridge will cost about $300,000, and the whole scheme is expected to be in operation by July next. meeting of the Transit company was attended by holders of 4,000 of the 5.000 shares of capital stock. Several directors resigned that the B.

O. might be represented in the board. The following additional particulars regarding the Baltimore Ohio arrangomont for getting into New York are made public. The new route implies that the Baltimore Ohio managers will avail themselves from Philadelphia of their modified traffic contract over the Reading railroad as farjas Bound point of connecting with the Jersey Central that from this place anew road is to be built to Elizabeth, a distance of less than twenty miles, over a level country, where a junction is made with the Rapid Transit Company system by means of a viaduct to bo erected by the Staten Island Company. FRATERNITY NOTES.

I. O. O. F. Indianapolis Lodge worked the third degree on Friday night, and will work the first and second next Friday night Corinthian Lodge, on Friday night, conferred the initiatory on one candidate, and next Friday will work the first degree.

To-morrow night Fidelity Lodge, D. of will hold an oyster supper in the hall of Indianapolis Lodge. The members of the order and the public are invitod to partake. J. W.

McQuiddv, P. G. hag been re-appointed grand instructor for the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment He will go to Shelby ville on Friday and hold a school of instruction in the golden rule degree, and at night the eucampment will confer the same on sixteen candidates. S. P.

Oyler, grand representative, was stricken down with paralysis of the brain, last Tuesday, while sitting at the table with his family. It was thought that he was dead, but his physicians applied a battery and succeeded in bringing him too, and at last reports he was thought to be out of danger. The work of Metropolitan Encampment on Monday night and that of Indianapolis Lodge on Wednesday night was witnessed by a large number of the representatives and there was but one expression, and that was one of pleasure and delight. Both the lodge and the camp did excellent work. On Friday night Corinthian Lodge appointed a committee to prepare for a Christmas tree on Wednesday night, Dec 23.

The families of the lodge and their friends will place presents on the tree for the children, and the lodge will do the same for the widows and orphans of the lodge. It is designed for night, and they will have the privilege of romping as much as they please. The Grand Lodge adjourned Thursday afternoon. Among the various measures adopted was the dividing of the fees for initiation and degrees so that an applicant will pay $5 for initiatory, first and second degrees, and $4 for the third, this as a minimum. A committee was appointed to present the claims of Indianaapolis for the permanent location of theSoverign Grand Lodge.

Fidelity Lodge, D. of visited Ladoga on last Thursday, on invitation of the lodge at that point, and conferred the degree in beautified form to the great delight of the large audience present The following ladies took part in the work: Mrs. Brown, N. Mrs. Despo, V.

Mrs. Wonnell, P. Mrs. Daugherty, Mrs. Reed, Mrs.

Curson, Mrs. Houselman, R. S. to V. Mrs.

Prescott, L. S. to V. Miss McMullin, I. Mrs.

Bone, Industry; Mrs. Callahan, Order; Mrs. Roberts, Harmlessness. Gen. John C.

Underwood attended the session of the grand encampment, on Tuesday, as the guest of that body. During the afternoon he spoke for over an hour, and explained in all its details the new degree of patriarchs militant He gave the most encouraging account of the progress of petitions for cantons. Two hundred and fifty petitions have so far been received, among them some fifty are from temples of the Patriarchal Circle. Twelve hundred patriarchs in one enening signed petitions in Massachusetts, New York city. St.

Paul, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, St Louis, Rochester. N. Albany and all the large cities have petitioned for the new degree. General Underwood himself organized, informally, Occidental Temple and Excelsior U. D.

of Chicago, last week. The General went from here to Hannibal, and writes that Missouri will enter the new degree in a body. In this State petitions forcaritons have been forwarded by Goshen, Indianapolis, Muncie, Anderson, Marion, Warsaw, North Manchester and Elkhart. These will be mustered in by the General as soon as the charter and rituals can be got ready. These will be followed in rapid succession by Winchester, Kaudallville, Mishawaka, Lafayette, Sullivan, Princeton, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Michigan City, Kokomo and other places.

The prospect of success is very flattering, and the visit of General Underwood will do much to hasten matters in this State. Secret League. Indianapolis Lodge No. 1, Secret League, will give an invitational entertainment on Thanksgiving night, at 8 in hall of True Friend Council, Bates block. The entertainment will be purely literary and musical.

The programme will be rendered by the ablest talent, among whom may be mentioned the name of Mrs. Lucia Julian Martin, principal of the Indianapolis Training-school of Expression. This will he Mrs. first appearance before the public in this city. An Claim for Damages.

A singular suit in trespass for $5,000 damages was filed in the Superior Court yesterday. It involves the right of an employer to require of an employe work or assistance other than that which he agreed to perform. Henry Sefread, a stonemason, worked as such for Henry Helm. One day, June 8, last year, Helm required him to assist in taking down and removing a large derrick. One of the timbers fell upon left leg, breaking the ankle.

He alleges that the work about the derrick was carelessly managed by Helm, and wants him to pay for the injuries the complainant received. The West Market Place Shanties. The three fires within the past week among the West Market shanties have revived the question of right as to these places being used for living quarters. There is no ordinance against it, but it is regarded that lessees can keep their families there only by suffetance. In this market no regular leaso is made with the city, as on the east side.

The market-master collects the rents and pays 40 per cent, of thorn to the city, retaining the rest for his services. Indianapolis Lecture Course. The second lecture will be given on Wednes day night by Rev. A. A.

Willetts. His subject will be or the Illusions of Life." The gift of story-telling is a rare one. Mr Gough is pre-eminent in this, but Mr. Willetts is his peer. No one that heard him talk on in the course last year, or at Acton Assembly, can ever forget his delightful humor.

Reserved seats on Monday morning at 8 The Manchester Martyrs. To-night, at Masonic Hall, the eighteenth anniversary of the execution of the Manchester martyrs, Allen, Larkin and will be celebrated at Masonic Hall. The Emmet Guards, Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the local branch of the Irish National League will take part Speeches will be made by Matt. Doherty, of Louisville, Hon. Wm.

D. Bynum and others. There will also be vocal and instrumental music, Marcus Acquitted. Wm. at factory, arrested on the charge of assaulting Lillie Gilgerhouse, was acquitted in the court yesterday.

Lillie and her girl companions testified to the allegations set forth in the affidavit, but Marcus and his witnesses met their testimony by denials, general and in detail, that created very great doubt in favor of the defendant. The Tribute to Mrs. Jordan. The following minute is sent to the Journal: Mrs. Susan Bowen Jordan, the wife of our honored president, having been removed from our midst by death, we.

the faculty of Indiana University, would record our high appreciation of her many virtues and accomplishmen ts. Everyone who knew her was impressed by her fine, womanly character, her clear intelligence and breadth of culture, her rare good sense, her unselfish devotion, thoughtfulness and ready sympathy, her sunny influence both at homo and in society; in short, by all those endearing and ennobling traits that adorn a good woman and a Christian character. With our deep regret at her loss is mingled the tender remembrance of the qualities which shall ever keen her memory precious to us, and to all who came within the circle of her influence. To her bereaved husband and her immediate relatives we tender our heart-felt sympathy and condolence. DaniboJlyirkwood, John G.

Newkirk, J. C. Branner. The Owen Murder Mystery; Special to the ludiananolis Journal. Wabash, Nov.

mystery surrounding the murder of W. A. Owon, twelve miles south of this city, scarcely two months ago, remains unsolved. Apparently no effort is being made to ferret out the perpetrator of the bloody deed. The mother and sons, who were arrested and charged with the murder, were discharged from custody, as no case was found against them.

A strong effort is now being made to induce the Grant county commissioners to offer a reward of SSOO for information leading to the arrest of the murderer, and also to have the grand jury, at its next session, make a searching investigation. The impression prevails that this has not already been done, because Owen was a poor man and of little influence. Minnie Lung Sleep. Columbus. Special.

Minnie Dishner, the trance-found girl six miles northwest of here, completed the twenty-sixth day of her long sleep this evening. is no material change in her physical condition except a slight twitching of her eyelids at intervals. A number of the best physicians in this section held another consultation on the case yesterday. The was not announced until to day, when their unanimous opinion was given that the girl is suffering from cerebral hysteria, with prospect of a favorable change by Sunday night If the change does not occur by that time, the galvantic battery probably will be applied to the sleeping girl Monday or Tuesday. A Monument for Riel.

Bismarck, Special. A messenger from the Northwest Territory reached hene to-day and reported that a movement is already on foot to secure the erection of a monument to the memory of Louis David Riel, whom the French Canadians and haifbreeds consider a martyr. The messenger is an influential young half-breed, and says that every man in the Northwest who boasts of one, drop of Indian blood will contribute to the Riel monument, and he thinks it will be one of the most imposing ever erected. Slie Had Nothing Against It, Centralis (111 Special, A young lady in Kinmundy went riding with Mr. Charles Dennis.

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