Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1884 — Page 4

EVERY TRAIN That comes from the East brings new additions to the already immense stock of Clothing and Furnishing Goods at the MODEL. We are now thoroughly prepared to meet all demands that may be made upon for Fine Clothing for Men, Boys and Children. MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1884. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL -a Can be found at the following places: LONDON —American Exchange in Europe. 449 Strand. PARIS —American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capuciues. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor liotel*. CHICAGO —Palmer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS —Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Hamilton Fish is—well, he’s no sucker. Neither slander nor blackmail will win against Blaine. Scratch an independent Republican and you i*!l find a free trader. JufT when '‘Hon.” J. N. Scott was Secretary of State has faded from our recoUection. Beecher and Boole oppose Blaine. Who's Boole? Don’t you know who Boole is? Why, Boole's the man who opposes Blaine. The New Albany Ledger, the leading Democratic newspaper of Indiana, rather outdoes Thomas A. Hendricks in its “defense’’ of Grover Cleveland. Two years ago New York went Democratic by 192,000 majority. This year it will go Republican. Yet Mr. Blaine’s campaign is not “aggressive.” Shall we have another “Know-nothing” speech from Col. Isaac P. Gray, Democratic candidate for Governor? How he could denounce the Know-nothings! Mulligan is represented to be a Democrat in politics. That explains all. Os course he would have no hesitation to steal letters and then use them dishonorably. What does Mr. Hendricks think now about removing Grover Cleveland from the head of the ticket at this stage of the canvass? It is time ho should write another letter. j Neither Mr. Hendricks, nor any friend for him, has explained or apologized for his connection with the circulation of the Maria Halpin story against Grover Cleveland. Colonel Isaac P. Gray, Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana, was member and master of a Know-nothing lodge in the State of Ohio. He has not and will not deny the statement. But few more than half of the members of the general committee of Tammany voted to support Cleveland and Hendricks. Five hundred members refused to vote at all, and eightyseven voted point blank in the negative. No Irishman can assert his independence of Democratic dictation without encountering the vilest abuse. That party has so long imagined proprietorship of the Democratic vote that Menu not willingly relinquish the idea. The Wisconsin Independents are “organizing to defeat Blaine.” It was very kind of them to thus notify the country at large. There were some who did not know wbat the Wisconsin independents intended to do with the country. The Democratic State committee took pity on poor Gray, and pulled him in the hole, and then pulled the hole in after him. The Knownothing candidate is now safe. He will only have to face Mr. Calkins four times. He may last through that ordeal. An official statement.from the Secretary of State of the State of Maine shows that the plurality of Robie over Redman is 19,857, and the majority over all 15,411. Four years ago the Democracy elected their Governor. The Republican gain over 1880 is 20,020. The Rev. George H. Ball seems to be loaded to the muzzle. His last letter, printed this morning, is a fearful one. It shows that the life of Grover Cleveland has continued to W an unclean one, and that his sins against

womanly virtue and the sanctity of the home did not cease eight or twelve years ago, when he formed “an irregular connection” with a widow having two children, as his Democratic “defenders” would have the country believe. The Democrats would do well not to fool with Mr. Ball and the Buffalo preachers. A LETTER from Hon. Albert U. Wyman, United States Treasurer, stating precisely the items which form the Treasury surplus, printed elsewhere, will be of interest as an official refutation of the silly and preposterous demagogy indulged in by Mr. Hendricks and Colonel Gray. Mr. Wyman’s letter substantiates exactly the editorial upon the subject which appeared in the Journal of Tuesday morning. The New York World prints a special from Boston to the effect that another scandal agafnst Cleveland is on the tapis, and that the revelation is to be accompanied by affidavits. It is also given out that the New York Sun has been selected as the organ for disseminating the news. The one already proven is enough. THE ÜBS. BLAINE LIBEL. Yesterday evening, at a late hour, the Sentinel’s attorneys filed a bill of discovery in the United States Court in the suit for libel brought by James G. Blaine. The purpose of the bill, as stated, is to secure from Mr. Blaine, under his own signature and oath, an answer to the list of interrogatories filed with the Sentinel’s answer, and which have heretofore been published. It is our purpose, at this time, simply to make plain the depths of infamy reached by the Sentinel in this matter, it not being the desire or aim of the plaintiff’s attorneys to try the merits of the case in the public prints. . The Sentinel made a charge against Mr. Blaine, the foulest that could be well imagined—a charge that did not affect him so much as it did the virtuous good name of the woman who has been an honored wife to him for a third of a century, and the mother of his children. Mr. Blaine was the Republican candidate for President of the United States. The libel was uttered for political effect solely. Had Mr. Blaine not been such candidate, no cur in the land would have been found mean enough to gnash its poisonous fangs in the character of his wife and her children. Being this candidate for President, a resideat of the State of Maine, unacquainted with our system of jurisprudence, and a stranger, almost, to our people, except as he is known publicly, and the libel being uttered for political purposes, Mr. Blaine was surrounded with difficulties which can only be faintly imagined. He obeyed his first impulse, however, and ordered suit for libel to be brought in the United States Court. This was the only answer he could make. Suit was promptly instituted. The Sentinel, as defendant, exhausted the full time of fifteen days before making answer, and then demurred in a series of pitiful, pettifogging, shameful pleas which we're at once disgraceful and an insult to the intelligence of the court and the public. When the demurrer was overruled, the Sentinel made answer in justification, and appended a list of interrogatories addressed to the plaintiff, the very framing of which was a confession that when the charge was made there was no proof in their possession upon which to base it. Besides this, the attorneys for the Sentinel knew that the filing of the interrogatories was not conformable to the practice of the court. Mr. Turpie himself admitted that Judge Davis and Judge Drummond had declined to allow the asking of such interrogatories. Yet, for buncombe’s sake, and to repeat the essence of the vile story, the attorneys filed these questions, and, despite the plain talk of Judge Woods, proceeded to argue for the issuance of a rule against Mr. Blaine. Os course, the rule was not granted, but Mr. Blaine’s attorneys stated once and again that, voluntarily, the plaintiff would answer the questions, and that very soon. The Sentinel has attempted to create the impression that it wanted to bring the case to an early trial, yet its attorneys have solved notice upon Mr. Blaine’s attorneys for the taking of depositions in Kentucky during a period running well into October, and have notified them that further depositions would be taken elsewhere. To the suggestion that the case should be tried before November, and that it was evident from the dates set for the taking of depositions that that would be impossible, the Sentinel’s attorneys replied that they had nothing to do with the political aspect of the matter, but must prepare the case in their own way. Mr. Blaine’s attorneys said the time to be spent in Kentucky could be materially shortened; but the Sentinel’s attorneys would listen to no suggestion or arrangement whereby the trial might be hastened. What the Sentinel may print in its columns for political effect, and what its attorneys say and will agree to in court, are two different things. And now, in the face of the repeated statement of Gen. Harrison that the interrogatories would bo voluntarily answered, the Sentinel files a bill of discovery. It is plain that it will attempt to pose as trying to force Mr. ’Blaine; but the filing of the bill is cumulative evidence of the fact that the paper is not in possession of the evidence necessary to sustain its plea of justification. What will any honest man think and say of a newspaper that will utter the libel it ditl against Mrs. Blaine, and then oome into court, twice in succession, and formally confess that it

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has no proper evidence upon which to predicate its infamous charge, and ask for legal process against the man it has libeled to compel him to furnish the proof! That is the attitude assumed by the Sentinel in the filing of its list of interrogatories and by its bill of discovery. But we have stronger proof still of the infamy of the Sentinel in this matter. A copy of the following circular is in our possession: “THE SENTINEL. “Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 16, 1881. “To the Editor—Will you favor us by giving one insertion of appended notice, and mailing us a marked copy. Any friendly mention you may add will be appreciated. “THE BLAINE LIBEL SUIT. “The Indianapolis Sentinel will issue, about Sept. 25. a large supplement containing a history of James G. Blaine’s suit against it, and a volume of facts concerning his private, as well as public, record, snowing the truth of tile Sentinel’s publications regarding him. Price of supplement, post-paid: Single copy, 10 cts.; three copies, 25 cts.; eight copies, 50 cts.; twenty copies, sl. Special rates to committees, clubs and newsdealers. “Address, Chas. F. Shoemaker, “Sentinel Office, Indianapolis, Ind. Here.is an announcement that the Sentinel will issue all the gossip and slanderous tales it has been accumulating, but which it acknowledges do not constitute legal evidence upon which it dares to go to trial in a court of justice, in the shape of a campaign document, and it wants committees and clubs to order largely and assist in their distribution among the people. This is to be issued on the 25th of September, while the notices to take depositions already served on Mr. Blaine’s attorneys, cover a portion of the month of October. This shows whether the Sentinel is ready to go to trial. It shows that it is using this case simply and solely for political effect, while preventing the man it has so foully attacked from legally defending the honor of his wife and children before the election, which it hopes to influence by its waton libel. We submit that nowhere, at any time, in all the history of foul, malicious libel and slander, can there be found so atrocious, so conscienceless, so infamous an instance as this? COLONEL GRAY IN KENTUCKY. In his speech at Madison, Colonel Gray took occasion to refer to the charges of misconduct attributed to him while in Kentucky for a short time as a federal officer. He grew very indignant over the statements, some of which, he said, were that he, Gray, was a horse-thief, and that he had thrown ’a print-ing-press into the Ohio river. He denied the first' and as to the latter said it was a rebel newspaper, aud that “the boys" did it, anyhow. That is the excuse he made, also, for the charge of breaking into a store at Bedford and despoiling the goods. It was' “the boys” who did that, “boys” of Captain Curtis’s company. The charges had appeared in the Madison Courier, and “Colonel” Gray grew very heated and personal in denouncing them, trusting that the editor of the Courier was present to hear him. Mr. Garber, the editor, was there, and in a caustic article reviews the doughty Colonel’s “defense.” The Courier says it never called Colonel Gray a horse-thief, or any other kind of a thief, but had merely printed what had been frequently and repeatedly said of him by others. Mr. Garber says: “Before the writer reached West street (on his way to the meeting) he met a Kentucky gentleman who is practicing medicine in this city, who reiterated a former assertion,” such as Colonel Gray’ said the Courier had published about him. The Courier mentions another man. Mr. Lase Mellender, who “is in the habit of remarking frequently" that Colonel Gray is what the Colonel complains some people have called him. The Courier invites Colonel Gray to go into that part of Kentucky nearest Madison, aud he will probably receive an access of information as to the estimation in which he is held by the people of that region. The Courier concludes its article as follows: “The authority for the statements concerning the destruction of a printing office in Carrollton is Col. Thomas D. Wright, a Democrat without guile, who charged that Isaac P. £rrav, and no Other, is the sole responsible party for the outrage. Colonel Wright is as well known in Southeastern Indiana as Isaac P. Gray" is in his home, and Wright’s word will be taken as soon as Gray’s, fi Gray thinks he can cut a broad swath in the Courier, as he evidently does, he only exposes the narrowness of his mind and the littleness of his nature. We have published charges against him, but there has been foundation for all that we have said, and our language has been such as to cause us no regret for its use. To insinuate that we have called him a horse-thief for the purpose of yelling “liar" and “coward” may be magnificent, valiant, parliamentary and consistent with the proprieties of the occasion, in his eyes, but •re are willing for the people to look upon the picture he has painted of himself, and judge him accordingly, We do reiterate ill of our former statements concerning him, and, while we have never said he was a horse-thief, we do say that the testimony is overwhelming that he abused the authority vested in him whjle an officer of the army in Kentucky, and permitted the insulting and maltreating of non-combatants in a mannner that disgraced the uniform he wore. For his comfort and information, we will add that a Kentuckian, now a resident of Madison, stopped US at noon to-day to inquire whether we were going to hear Gray, When we replied in the affirmative he declined to accompany us, declaring he would not vote for Gray, and that he knew twentyfive other former Kentucky Democrats now in Madison who wouldn’t. ‘We are all i own on Gray,’ he said.” Our disinterested advice to “Colon 1” Gray would be not to stir up the record of lis military career and services. There are some things of which the least said the belter, and Colonel Gray’s “army service" (I) is ole. The policy that is to the interest tf .England, and in.favor of English trade anil manufactures in this country, certainly oa not be favorable to our own people. When did Eng-

land become the unselfish friend of America? Was England ever anything else than commercially selfish? Why does she want American markets. * The Enquirer has a copy of a handbill circulated at Indianapolis after the Maine election. It advertises a “Republican jollification over the news from Maine.” Furthdr along it embraces, in display type, these ecstatic observations: “Glory enough! 15,000 majority for the Republican State ticket; 40.000 majority for the Prohibition amendment!”—Cincinnati Enquirer. And the Enquirer has a copy of a stupid, contemptible bit of forgery, concocted,printed and circulated by the Democrats of Indianapolis, the same high-toned and honorable men who are engaged in the congenial work of libeling an honored wife and attempting to stigmatize her and her children with disgrace in order to make a few votes for a confessed libertine. The Enquirer should keep its “copy” as a souvenir of the pure-minded, clean-handed libelers, slanderers and forgers from whom it received it. The Kokomo Dispatch, of the 18th, says: “The Dispatch of last week reproduced from the Indianapolis Democrat an article touching the suit of James G. Blaine against John C. Shoemaker, in which the former’s early matrimonial experience was touched upon. Through a very exasperating blunder of the compositor, the article was improperly credited to the Indianapolis Journal, and in this shape it eluded the Argus eye of the proof-reader. Such errors are not infrequent in all newspaper offices, no mattei how vigilant the care exercised. The blunder was made by the son of a federal office-holder, himself a stalwart Republican, and this fact is evidence that the error was one of carelessness and not of design. * * * We trust that the Journal and our Republican friends will appreciate the true nature of the blunder and extend to us the charity of honest intentions. We were satisfied the credit was a typographical blunder, and that Mr. Henderson, the editor, would correct it so soon as his attention was called to it. An Albany -special says: “The story spread abroad by ‘Gath’ that Governor Cleveland would wait till a fortnight before the election, and then sue the Buffalo Telegraph for libel, is laughed at by the Governor’s friends. They say that sufficient denial has already been made to suit any fairminded person.” Where and to whom was any denial made? Fair-minded persons have been anxiously listening, but have not even heard the echo of such a thing. It must have got in to the possession of some close-mouthed man, who refuses to give it away. Just suppose, for instance, that Mr. Tilden is the man who holds the denial, and that he should die suddenly. Wha£ a fix Mr. Cleveland would be in then! The clarion voice of General Logan in Michigan sounds very much like a Republi- ■ can alarm. There really must be something in the Democratic claims in that State.—Cincinnati Enquirer. How does the “clarion voice” of Thomas A. Hendricks sound in Indiana as, with hat in hand, he piteously and whiningly begs for votes? Does it sound like a Democratic alarm In this State? Ex-Governor Conrad Baker sets at rest the false and ridiculous statement that he was either lukewarm in his Republicanism or was about to declare in favor of Cleveland. Governor Baker is for the Republican p.irty because the Republican party is for the interests of the American people—for the protection of American industry against the freetrade principles of the Democratic party. A SPECIAL from this city to the Chicago Times says: “Hon. J. N. Scott, ex-Seoretary of State, criminal judge, and brother-in-law of Senator Harrison, declared to-day for Cleveland and Hendricks.” Gosh! Four years ago Cleveland, 0., had greatness thrust upon her by chancing to lie in the path over which pilgrims wened their way to Mentor. This year, not being on the road to anywhere, and fearing forgetfulness on the part of the world at large, she is endeavoring to achieve greatness by arresting, as a crank, every stranger who has neglected to visit the barber or have his boots blacked. It behooves the traveler who is stranded in that village to look neither to the right nor the left, and to get away as soon as possible. Mr. Oliver Wormad will, for a purse of SI,OOO, envelop himself in a big rubber ball and go over Niagra Falls. Mr. Wormad’s method will commend itself to the public over that of ordinary ball-playing, owing to the fact that he will in himself comprise a w hole team, including the "battery,” and also that, for obvious reasons, there can be no repetition of the game. To the announcment of Wormad’s proposition is appended the statement that he is thirty-five years old, a fact which will soon come handy to the marble-catters. Governor Cleveland declines to go to Chicago this month, and will mako no campaign tour. Well, the public doesn’t wish to be charged with cruelty to animals, and will excuse him. The mentul effort involved in writing that Elmira composition must have been very severe, and his secretary would soon break down under tlie strain of composing a series of such gems. Besides, it is no easy matter to commit pieces to memory, and Mr. Cleveland ought not to be expected to do it if he is able-bodied. He may l>e excnßed. It takeE the edge off of the political worry to read that bicyclists are busily engaged in saving the country by lowering the record. There be even grown men who like to “see tbi Wheels go wound.” _ The New York Times üßes the past participle “bursted.” The Times never made that kind of a break when it was Republican. Next it will be “bust.” Belva Lockwood, P. C., (presidential -candidate) has decided that she is eligible under the constitution. The campaign will now proceed. tinv. W. H. Boole, of Williamsburg, N. Y.. is opposed to BlAine. We publish this fact for two reasons: That there is such a man as Boole, and that a preacher opposes Mr. Blaine. Any man who has hopelessly thumped the sacred

desk for a lifetime without attracting attention outside of the township can gain a national reputation, of a certain kind, by opposing Blaine. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please give the names of the counties that the seventh district of the internal revenue covers. Pleasantville, Sept 18. b. j. a. The counties of Clay, Greene. Owen, Parke, Putman, Sullivan. Vermi llion, Vigo, Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Martin, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburg, Warrick, Clarke, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Perry, Scott and Washington. The collectors office is at Terre Haute. POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. Governor Cleveland has written to a Chicago gentleman saying that he will not be able to visit that city during the canvass Philadelphia Press: Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, has taken the stump. The last time Hoadly went into politics ho took nothing but mulana. St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It is said that Mrs. Lockwood believes she will be electod to the presidency by a decided majority. This would be a good time for someone to borrow $lO of her. New York Tribune: How Satan must hug himself with grim mirth when, after reading Democratic editorials on the dignity and virtue of the prohibition movement, he learns that the liquor dealers have raised $350,000 to help the Democrats carry Ohio! Governor Cleveland was nominated for President on Friday, July 10, and “L. W. R." writes to the New York Sun declaring that it was according to the eternal fitness of things that an ex-sheriff should be nominated for the presidency on hangman’s day. Hon. John D. Long has been renominated for Congress from the Second congressional district of Massachusetts. Gov. Long is one of the great men of tho Republican party and will take a leading place in the next Congress, even higher than he did in the last, when he was anew member. New York Star, Tammany organ: Mr. Cleveland shows no sign of a disposition to withdraw. Surrounded as he is with sycophants and scheming human barnacles, the man probably does not appreciate the magnitude and intensity of the hostility which prevails against him in the Democratic party. He is as a lump of putty in the hands of the'managers. New York Commercial Advertiser: The Cleveland organs have not a word to say about Lot M. Morrill’s Little Rock & Fort Smith investment Their silence about that speculation is as profound and as impressive as their avoidance of all mention of the Morey and Raum forgeries. There is notning evasive or dishonest about these organs. They are pinks of political propriety. Gath’s special: The Republicans have ordered a complete canvass to be made of the States of West Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana and North Carolina The Democrats claim in Tennessee a majority of twenty thousand for their candidate for Governor. I understand the Republican candidate is a confederate soldier who carried a musket when a mere child, and after the war reflected that he had done a great deal of marching to break up his own property. New York special: There probably has not been a more ridiculous fabrication than that which appears in a special to the Herald, that many Republicans in the city of Indianapolis eat on the platform when Carl Schurz spoke against Blaine, in a sympathetic capacity as vice-presidents. That is not the style of the Republicans of Indiana. Besides, there are not enough anti-Blaine Republicans in Ohio and Indiana to fill an old-fashioned stage. Six rocking chairs would swallow the whole crowd. Professor Perry is out with another broadside against the tariff. He says he is prepared to maintain anywhere that no protective tariff was ever laid in this country, except at the instance and under the pressure of selfish and greedy men. whose only motive and sole design was to benefit themselves at the expense af their countrymen. Mr. Perry does not withdraw his commendation of Mr. Cleveland as a free-trader, and ho believes so much in the Democratic candidate that he has offered his services on the stump. Carl Schurz, in 1880, after showing that the Republican party had established industrial and commercial prosperity on a sound basis, by wise legislation, asked: “Aud what prudent man would now risk these great results by turning over our financial policy to the hands of the party which is the refuge of all destructive elements, threatening new uncertainty and confusion!” Was he thinking of the free-traders who have taken refuge there, and threaten the country’s business with “new uncertainty and confusion?” The Rev. Robert Collyer, speaking of some of the charges against Governor Cleveland, said: “I have pledged myself to vote for him, as you know, but lam sorry to be confronted by his record. Clergymen are of course the shepherds, in every sense, of their congregations. They are supposed to be capable of judging of moral questions. Chastity is one of the greatest of virtues, and without it a man is incomplete. An unchaste man may well be regarded with solicitude by his friends. If Mr. Cleveland had known me in his younger days, and had known of my doctrines of early marriage, perhaps all of this trouble might have been avoided. Bachelorhood is always dangerous to a man’s morals, and it has been doubly so to Mr. Cleveland.” ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. There is a man in Georgia who has a sunflower stalk in his garden with 118 flowers on it. Vienna has become so fashionable as a medical center that even the Scotch students do not consider themselves perfeot until they have passed a season there. The attractions consist in the large amount of material for study and the great teachers. IT is said that only a few years before her death Miss Catharine Beecher received an offer of marriage from a most worthy and estimable man. In reply to his letter Miss Beecher sent the following answer: “DearM , I was born in the year 1800. Yours respectfully." [Signed] The fanatics who maintain the descent of Englishmen from the lost ten tribes, are having a public debate on the question in England, and Mr. Hine, the leader of the movement, having declared that England would gain £50,000,000 in reduced taxation by accepting his erase, is about to transfer his propaganda to America as more hopeful soil. A MAMMOTH bee-hive has been discovered in the bosom of the noted peak oommonly called “Old Baldy," situated in San Baruardlno county, Cal. The beea at work in this wild mountain hive are almost innumerable, and they have in store a gigantio mountain of pure honey, which is estimated to be 150 feet deep and 200 feet, wide, and contains more than flye hundred barrels of the genuine article. The Crown Prince of Germany is a turner, whose productions a well-known master and Socialist frequently exhibits in his shop. The Crown Princess has given many proofs of her facility with the pen and the brush. Prince Wilhelm, their eldest son, is a skillful photographer, and Friuce Hetnrlch, the sailor, another son, has inherited his mother's taste for painting. This is doing very well for an "effete monarchy.” Mbs. Isabella B. Hooker is* believer in ghostly manifestations. She is mediumistie, according to one account., and does not need to resort to other folks’s seances In order to receive visits from the rehabilitated spirits of ths dead. Bhe says that they oome into her house quite familiarly, that she meets them wherever she goes, and that frequently she does not know whether a person at hand is normally alive or is a pb enomeaon of spiritual manifestation. She astound-

ed a clerk in a dry-goods store by asking him if he was in earthly existence. He thought she meant to reprove hup for being distraught, and replied, by way of apology, that the weal her was so frightfully hot that he was nigh melted. “Oh, if you feel the heat,’* she remarked, “you’re what you seem to be. I merely didn’t wish to fool away any time with a spirit when out shopping.” An incident of the advance by General Butler with the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment to Washington, in 1861, was the obtaining of a pilot for the boat which was to convey the troops from Havre de Grace to Annapolis. Not a volunteer could be secured; but a competent man was found, and to him Butler said: “I understand you are au expert pilot in this bay. You will steer us to Annapolis. If you run us ashore, we shall run you up.” The voyage had no mishap. Take large freestone peaches, halve them; then place them flat side down in a pan in which enough of equal quantities of lard and butter sufficient for the purpose have been heated; let them cook gradually until the flat sides or cut sides are nicely browned; turn them and fill the seed cup with granulated sugar; let them fry until thoroughly cooked, and then lift them without spilling the syrup, and serve hot. This makes a very pretty and certainly a very rich dish. Visoomte de Brimont, who made an immense fortune by the manufacture of champagne, took it into his head to adopt a child, and selected from a number presented for inspection by the mother of a convent a very pretty little girl named Catherine Rvboldi, whose father was an Italian laborer working in England. To this child the Viscomte bequeathed his estate, and tho attempt on the part of his family to break the will has failed. To his wife, from whom he had habitually lived apart, the Count left only $25,000. A woman juror of Wyoming Territory was asked by another to write in her album. She wrote: “They talk about a woman’s sphere As though it had a limit; There’s not a place in eai*th or heaven, There’s not a task to mankind giveq^ There’s not a blessing or a woe. There’s not a whispered yes or no, There’s not a life, or death, or birth, That has a feather’s weight of worth, Without a woman in it.” An English critic, who has been describing the genesis of the famons ballad, “Auld Robin Gray,’ l says that Lady Anne Lindsay, who wrote it, told her little sister one day that she .was writing a ballad, and was oppressing her heroine with all manner of misfortunes. “1 have already sent her Jamie to sea, broken her father’s arm, made her mother fall sick, and given her Auld Robin Gray for a lover; but, poor thing, I wish to add another misfortune to her in five lines.” “Then steal her coo (cow),” piped np her little sister, and accordingly the cow was stolen, and the ballad completed. Somebody in Washington has just unearthed the following good story, told at the expense of Comptroller Lawrence. He was arguing an appeal before the Supreme Court last winter, in the course of which he quoted a decision quite unfamiliar to the members of tne court. “Pardon me, Judge,” interrupted Justice Wood, blandly. ‘/What is your authority for that?” “Lawrence 1,” was the rather hesitating reply. His embarrassment was not lessened at the titter which ran through the room as bluff old Justice Gray exclaimed sotto voce: "Well, if that isn’t cheek I’U b® The Comptroller had been quoting from bis own decisions. This is the wicked story they are telling about Monsignor Capel.and the incorrigible “Biily” Florence. They have been friends for a number of years, and they met recently in the streets of Chicago, when Florence asked the Monsignor if he was in the habit of attending the theater, intending to invite him in case of an affirmative reply. “No,” said Monsignor Capel, “it has been twenty-four years since I attended a theater, and I cannot conscientionsly bring myself to patronize a place where the devil is preached. ” Mr. Florence protested that the Monsignor placed a false estimate on the theatrical profession. “Ah, no,” replied Monsignor Capel, with a sad smile; “you people are sincere enough; you don’t know it; but you preach the devil all the same.” “Well, your Grace,” inquired Florence with great urbanity, “which is worse, preaching the devil from the stage without knowing if, or preaching Christ crucified from the pulpit without believing it?” “Both are reprehensible,” replied Monsignor Capel, and bowing stiffly, h went his way. A LAWSUIT OYER A LIZARD. The Little Beast Crawled Out of a Man's Throat and the Doctors Want It. Petersburg, Va, Sept. 17.— While police officer William Schanck was sitting at home with his wife, yesterday afternoon, he was suddenly taken with violent nausea. He felt, he said, as if something was crawling up his throat. Retching ensued, accompanied by a choking sensation. Schanck put his fingers into his mouth, and, aided by his wife, pulled out something that looked very much like a lizard. It was inanimate, but an incision in the head showed that life had been there. The thing was fourteen inches long by two inchos in diameter. The head, which was shaped like a grey hound's, waa three-eighths of an ineh in diameter and the body was catilaginous. It is supposed that Schanck swallowed the embryo animal while drinking water. The monstrosity was thrown out into the yard, but two friends of Schanck obtained it and presented it to Dr. John B. Hartwell, homoeopathic physicianof this place, who placed it in alcohol to preserve it as a curiosity. This morning Dr. Schanck, the officer’s brother made a claim upon Dr. Hartwell for the surrender of the what-is-it. He was told that upon payment of a sum to reimburse the latter for his trouble he could have it. This Dr. Schanck refused, but brought suit before a magistrate against Dr. Hartwell for unlawful retention of property and obtained judgment The case was appealed and will go to she Hustings Court. The New Branch Soldiers' Home. Dayton. 0., Sept. 18. — The board of managers of the homes for disabled soldiers arrived here this morning, and reviewed 4,000 veterans drawn up in line on the campus. Delegations from Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, lowa anil Nebraska are here to present their claims for the location of the Western branch. After inspection, the board met in Memorial Hall, and resolved to give each State half an hour, and each city ten minutes, to present inducements to locate the branch. The afternoon was consumed in the transaction of regular business, aud an inspection of the Home. The State committees will be heard to-morrow. The Forest Fires In Michigan. Pout Huron, Sept. 18.—The forest fires were checked to-day by a north wind blowiug the flames back over the burnt district, when they died out Fencing and wood have been burned, but it is not definitely known whether any buildings were consumed. The fire caused some damage, but, by clearing out the underbrush and dead trees, has made tillable a section of land heretofore not used. The latest advices from Pinconning says the danger from the forest fires is over for the present The wind has subsided, and the flames are checked. Army of the Cumberland. Rochester. N. Y., Sept. 18. —At a meeting of the Army of the Cumberland Association, this morning, officers for tho ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Lieutenant-, general Philip H. Sheridan; correepondiDej secretary, Colonel Hepry M. Cist; treasurer, General James Fullerton; recording secretary, Colonel John W. Steele. The committees on the Gsrfi-l'i monument fund and on memoirs ; reported, and the meeting adjourned until even- 1 ing, when a banquet was given at the arsenal. Strikers Held for Conspiracy. Pittsburg, Sept 18.—Tho hearing in the • habeas corpus proceedings of the striking coal ! miners, charged with conspiracy for interfering with non-union workmen in the fourth pool, 1 took place before Judge Hart, to-day. A large number of witnesses were exnmined, and, after the testimony was all in, Judge Hart derided to hold the prisoners for trial at the November tdrro of court. Sixteen gave bail in S3OO each, fluid the other thirty-three were committed to