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The Indianapolis News has a bona fide circulation more than one-half larger than that of any other daily paper in Indiana.

Senator McDonald deserves the thanks of the country. He won’t speak on

the army hill.

In the debate yesterday Mr. Voorhees had the floor in the upper house, and Mr. Kelley In the lower—and both said nothing. Voorhees talked to hear himeelf as he generally does, and Kelley evidently wanted to get a chance to air his inflation ideas. He flew the track on the question at issue, after declaring he would vote to repeal all but the supervisors law if presented separately, and launched into the blessings of a silver currency and the policy of public improvements. There is this much to be said for Mr. Kelley, however, he waa touching the issues that today in spite of the management of party _ leaders are foremost.

I tOMrang 1« It While it is doubtful if he 1 can carry New York, It is quit* certain he can keep anyone eke from doing so. If refused the nomination he will undoubtedly have his revenge by to doing. With Tilden or Bayard there would of necessity be a reasonably sound platform on the money question. But it is becoming evident that the party affiliation with the greenbackere has produced a demoralisation which will make itself felt. As an independent party, drawing largely from the republicans, the greenbackere were valuable auxiliaries to the democrats; but absorbed into the body of that party they have strength enough to largely influence its future. Mr. Hendricks’s refusal again to take the second place ia a significant aati-Tiiden move. The surrender of Speaker Randall to the inflationists is equally important. While it is not likely that any of the proposed schemes can be enacted into laws, their introdoctibn and discussion will so commit a majority of democrats to them, that a hard money platform will be impossible and a recognition of these absurdities will become a party necessity. The republicans i^the next compaign will occupy sound financial ground, and the prestige of success in resumption and refunding will be immense. In this aspect the choice of Hendricks or Thurman seems probable, and Ohio and Indiana, with the solid south, the hope of democratic success. In short, the issue is being rapidly made up, as between the republicans on a sound platform, and the democrats on an unsound one. And on such an issue The News would not doubt of republican success, but for the effort to force Grantism

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An impression is beginning to leak out in some way that the president will sign the army bill, reports of, sUlwart papers and instruction in the speeches of stalwart congressmen to the contrary notwithstanding. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: It is rumored that Secretaries Evarts and Sebum and Attorney General Devens have advised the president to sign the army bill if

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They are fighting a phantom; they are af-

fecting alarm at a perfectly ludicrous chimera. No citizen of sense, no man outside of an asylum for lunatics, can Bare any fear that elections will be controlled by flderal soldiers when it is demonstrable that there are none which can be made available for

this pnrpoee —[New York Herald. The Herald’s point is well taken, as

was Senator Blaine’s in his speech when he showed the ridiculously small number of soldiers there was east of the Mississippi river, but both arguments prove too much. The same logic which ahows that the army can not be an instrument of tyranny under the law as it stands, because of the mea-

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gerness of the army, shows inferentially at least that the law can be made to cover tyrannous acts, and that with a larger army or with this one properly handled the law gives opportunity for the suppression of liberty. It is dangerous to allow on the statute books lawa that in time of supposed necessity can be strained to tyrannous uses. If there is no such intention the said law may as well be off the book as on, and as most of the prominent republicans have repeatedly expressed themselves opposed to the law and as none of them even in this de hate has touched the merits of the law itself but only the manner of its repeal, it would seem to be a good deal of a fight against men in buckram. Ths soft money men are the real enemies, and it might be well to save (me and strength and not throw one’s self away without sufficient cause. ' Jr Grtnt U needed for 1880, lilll more will he b© needed for 1884.—[Cincinruti Commercial. ; Well, if Grant is needed as badly for 1884 as he is for 1880, be will be elected—that’s all. And what are you going to do about it ?—[8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. It uninteresting to note the successive developments of the imperialistic conspiracy. Four years ago, when the cry of Cteeariem became a real one, the managers denied they contemplated running Grant for a third term. No sooner was his successor installed than the scheme conceived as soon as it had appeared impossible to realise it in 1876 was put into action, and the tramp around the world began. In due time thereafter there began the assertion that a third term after an interval of four years would not be a third term at all. This was so flatly denied by the sentiment of the people that the managers acquiesced, but pleaded the neeessity of the time; the need of a “strong government.” To this came the accusation that there was no more need of a strong government now than there would be in 1884, and that no reasoning could be advanced to prove the heeessityof a tnird term that would not hold good for a fourth or fifth term. This was also strenuously denied, whistled down the wind as a phantom of the alarmist!. But now this pretence is given up, and we are told by the high priest of this movement that “if he is needed as badly” he will be elected for a fourth term, and insolently asked “What are you going to do about it?” The gentleman who first propounded that conundrum found in due time what the people, did about it, and his crime was aimply the dirty one of greed for plundercity. The cabal of corrup•re scheming against the of the republic wu think will be aa effectively aa Tweed was, what is

done about it.

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if the demo-

bs forced to cut loose I the east at all hasards, hope of carrying New York ; presidential election, and trust of the south and west

it passes in iu present form, but we are not prepared to beueve that they have done anything so foolish, While it makes but little real difference whether the use of troops to preserve the peace at the polls is forbidden or not, it is of vital importance that the president shall ndt allow himself to be coerced by the vain threats of the blustering brigadiers. On this ground we think he must certainly sign the bill. If there is no real diference in the very question at issue,namely the presence or absence of troops at the polls, then there is certainly no reason for his defeating an appropriation bill out of pure wantonnem. The vain threats of blustering brigadiers to coerce him is certainly not of vital importance. Themanner of legislationis noneof the president’s business, Were he to defeat the proposed law simply^ecause he didn’t like the way in which the legislative body set about to make it, that, indeed, would be an approach to coercion. If the law is undbnstitutional then the president must withhold his signature. It is not unconstitutional, and therefore the only question left for him to consider is whether in his judgment it is for the welfare or to the detriment of the country. If he can not withhold his signature for the latter reason he must sign. The foolislr method adopted by the democratic majority to pass the law, may be as unsparingly condemned as is desired. But it is a method that has grown gray in service,and has been used and defended by the best men the republicans ever had in their party. Garfield, although he had to eat his own words, clearly showed the wrong of it in his recent speech in the house, but we take it the executive can not rebuke such a wrong perse; that he must wait until some measure is tacked to an appropriation bill that is obnoxious in itself and exercise his veto for that reason, and give to the manner of its passage all therebuke

he can. \

OUKKKMT OOSUUtHT. The business men’s societf^r the encouragement of moderation in drinking, of which an account has been given in The News, has started’off finely in New York under the patronage of some of the most venerable and best men in the city. One of the songs prepared for the use of the society runs: "Then let us adhere to the standard, Remember our promise each day; No drink till our bu-oncssLover, And then—we hare nothing to aay." The New York Sun notes with pain that the most conspicuous idea in this stanza is that which marks as an interval of license the time of which the reformers ‘‘have nothing to say” and it pictures one of them saying it in this fashion: "Then let us ad[hle]here to the standard, R*[hic]niember our promUh all day: No driukah till our biahneae is over. And ahen—we have [whoop] noising to shay." The third term conspirators hare turned fourth term conspirators already and ask "What are yon going to do about it?” The nationals claim 50,000 votes in Ohio. But then the nationals already hare the democratic penchant for "claiming every-

thing.”

By the official report of 1878, the amount of the poor rate in England was $85,000,000. About $20,000,000 was devoted to police, highways and school boards, tearing $45000,000 for the support of 750,000 paupers. England’s poor laws and her alms bousee have become encouragements of pauperism. The one is a recognized demand for snpport, and the other is a place, not for temporary sojourn . in time of pinching need, but for , constant residence by able-bodied beggars, who propagate their kind and lire a tax upon he industry of the community. It is thought a reform of this state of things will be one of the planks in the liberal platform at the next general elections. The only conspicuous republican who now makes any show as a competitor with General Grant for the republican nomination is Secretary Sherman, the New York San

thjnkr.

The report of Mr. Gorham, ex-secretary of the senate, for the eight months ending March 4, 1879, shows that the total expenses of that body were $632,836 96. Of this $301,000 went for salaries and mileage of senators, over $20,000 for committee clerks and pages; other officers of the senate cost over $134,000, while the contingent expenses were over $43,000. As there has bean much uncontradicted assertion that useless committees are continued for the benefit of aeoators.

the sea, ^oJMK __ ^ and b likely \ it would » good fifld for economy could

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he found in the upper hooaa of congress. Nearly three-quarters of a million of dollars tor etaht months is a pretty stiff figure. May be the senators think they do come high, but we must have 'em. Wa weald Ilka to aak The I ad Unspoilt Newt a conpla of uuextiona. Between (.rant and Tilden which would you chooieT Between Grant on a hard-money pUtiorm, and Hendricks on s soft, which would yen ch xweT—{UlayeUe JournsL If present conditions are maintained we will tal{e to the woods. Dr. Delone, a French expert, has been measuring the heads of men ^engaged in various pursuits. He finds the largest among men living the intellectual life, and finds also some carious differences among the different kinds of intellectual life. The members of the academy of sciences have larger heads than other academicians; the students of the polytechnic. school hare larger heads than the students of the mQitary school; the students of the theological school of St. Sulpice have smaller heads than the students of the normal sshooL The heads of the French clergy are smaller than those of men in other learned pursuits. The head of the army officer is larger than that of the private soldier, and the hospital doctor has a larger bead than the hospital nurse. The doctor thinks, also, that the heads of peasants who leave rustic life and come to Paris increase m size in consequence, and that a general exercise of the intellect increases the size of the

head.

Ex-Congressman Rainey indignantly spurns a clerkship offered by Secretary Sherman. Mr. Rainey thinks he is about the size of a third anditor of the treasury, and couldn’t possibly squeeze himself into a clerk’s chair. Rainey wants room. Connt Schouvaloff has withdrawn his request to retire to private life. The able looters of the Grant jnorement should reflect upon the fact that history is crammed with the names of presidential candidates who wer^ nipped off just before their bloom by the mistake of being too premature. The American people are soon weary of a sensation if it is made too absorbing.— [New York Tribune. Something must be done to stay the tide of intemperance. For thirty years or more, the total abstainers have tried their ineffectual experiment. Those who can constantly practice total abstinence are safe anyway. Let ns see what the “temperance” men can do for the reformation of society.—[New York Times. Mr. Tilden solicits a renomination by’a democratic convention and the ballots of his countrymen on the plea that he was elected in 1876, and defrauded of the rights vested in him by that election. Gen. Grant is put forward as “the savior of society” by people who ask the citizens of the north to believe that the civil strife of 1861-5 is not yet suppressed, and that Gen. Grant must be called upon in America, as Marshal McMahon was in France, to save order and property by the terror of his sword.—[New York World. “He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” This waa the first of the “facts submitted to a candid world” in the immortal declaration of independence. Another charge made against the king of Great Britain wa4: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of oar legislature.” After the lapse of a little more than an hundred years we seem to be retnrning to the original questions, and it naturally happens that the democratic party, founded by the author of the declaration of independence, is in harmony with that declaration.—[Cincinnati Enquirer. THE ANDRE MEMORIAL. What Cyrus W. Field says about his Purchase and Inscription. fNevr York Sun.] Cyrus W. Field smiled good natnredly last last evening when asked whether the inscription which he proposed to place on the stone to mark the spot where Major Andre was banged had been correctly published. “Certainly,” he said, “the inscription is ready, and here it is,” and Mr. Field showed the following: Here died, Oct. 2, 1788, Major JOHN ANDRE, ot the British Army, who entering the American lines on s secret mission to Benedict Arnold, for the surrender of West Point, was taken prisoner, irled^ and condemned as a spy. though according to the stern code of war, moved even his enemies to pity, and both armies mourned the fate of one so young and brave. In 1821 his remains were removed to Westminster Abbey. _ A hundred years after his execution a citizen ef tbe States against which he fought - placed this stone above the spot w here he lay; not to perpetuate the record of strife, but in token of thoee better sentiments which have since united two nations, one in race, in language, and in religion, with the ear*ost hope ’that this friendly union will never lie broken —f Arthur Perrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster. [On the back.] Sunt lacrymse et men tern mortalla tangunt. —[Virgil, ti'.ueid, 1,182. [On the left side. ] Tbe spv of the neutral ground, who died as he bad Uved, devoted to the service of his country. —[Fehtmore Cooper. [On the right side ] He was more unfortunate than criminal; An acccmplished man and a gallant officer. He died universally eltoemeiand^inlvmsaliy^regretted, —[Alexander Hamilton.

“Now let me recall to you the way it all came about.’' Mr. Field continued: “When Dean Stanley was stopping at my house we took a ride with a view to find the spot where Major Andre was executed. It took us about three hours to find the place. At last we came across a man 91 years old, who said he knew the place, because he remembered when the remains were taken up aad removed to Westminister Abbey. He said also that his mother saw the execution. Both the dean and myself were certain that we had found the spot, and we both agreed that the location of such an interesting historical event ought not to be left to oblivion. So I said I would buy the land if he would write the inscription, and if any one chooses to quarrel with him about it I have no objecuon. There is a quotation from Virgil also, and one from Fenimore Cooper, and one from George Washington. If any one chooses to quarrel with George Washington I don’t care. There is what he said about the spy,

r land, and I’ve got the deed in mr pocket, and I’m goinN to have a stone placed there with that inscription. I bought the whole farm of six acres. That is more than I wanted, bnt I bad to bay it to get tbe other and I thought the historical interest made it worth ‘ Will there be a monument placed there?” “Oh, no; only a granite slab after some design which I am to select. It will be raised a little from the ground to keep off the water and debris. There is a man who owns a granite quarry up near there and I told him to get me out a design for the slab. He gave me one but I did not like it. As soon as I decide upon that the stone will be 1lscribed and placed in position.” “You were not deterred by the many communications on the subject in the newspapers?” “No; we had some fan over it, and. no harm was done It is only a historical matter, you see. That’s tbe whole of it—only a l^torical matter. Why, my friend, if they will show me the spot where Satan was .executed I would put a stone there to mark it, because that would be a historical thing.” The failure efthe Hart, Bliver* Mead iqamifactning company. No. 107 Chambers street and 91 Reade s reet New York it anonoutced. Their liabilities are placed at over $700,000. Their trade obligations will not exceed f1.000. Their assets show * large surplus nominally oyer the liabilities, and consist of merchaadse, open accounts, bills receivable, and real estate.

Following a previous paper on this subject which rehearsed the organization and size of socialism in this country, and of which The News presented its readers a summary at the time, the current number of the North American Review continues the discussion of tbe subject in reference to its principles and tbe influence the questions of centralization and states rights must have upon them. The nice balance these two principles are supposed to bare under our form of government the writer of this paper thinks is hardly able to prevent reactionary evils. The extension of the suffrage he considers the principal cause of the first development of modern socialism. America is the nursery of indiscriminate suffra^ and from here this most important and operative of all modern social tacts has spread over the world. It has developed in Germany, and returned to flower here, and the most aristocratic and most democratic of the governments of menthe German empire and the American union, are exposed to the same dangers. With the farmer they are recognized, and amelioration is sought at the expense of the latter as wiH appear further on, while with the latter they are unrecognized and nnconfessed, and we are drifting to great events more sanguinely than any people on the earth. It was so before the war; it was so before Black Friday; it waa so before the etrikes of 1877. When they came we marveled how they had come so Suddenly. The prevalence of bureaucratic principles at Berlin and Washington has been the source of much of the evil of socialism; and paradoxical though it may be, this very centralization is a powerful bulwark against ita spread. Our struggle for unity daring the war produced the same effdbts, generally more silently bnt in many places even exaggerated beyond the German development. The government that rose at Washington after the rebellion, waa conspicuous for the concentration and responsibility of its powers, and to • the fresh exhibition of centralization it pat forth, is to be attributed much of that reactionary condition that at present characterizes the working classes. That it was a check upon individualism can not be doubted, and for the last dozen years the dependence of the people upon the central government has been increasing daily. If there is anarchy at the south,the government most suppress it. If a railway corporation is in difficulty, the government must help it If commercial interests suffer, government must make “money” for them. If there is yellow fever, government most go into'the quarantine and protection business. If there is lack of work and widespread poverty, government must give relief. This condition which prevails so widelv here makes it possible for German refugees to unfurl the red flag on these

shores.

While thus centralization has been the bane of socialism it has been the antidote, as with us in the employment of federal forces in the strikes of ’77, and in Germany by the repressive measures which have made the worst despotism the world ever saw mild compared with that which is being wielded to stamp out the modern evil. Where the point of separation is Bo be; where socialism and centralization can mutually disarm, the writer is foggy. He ventures however to assert that so longois elements subversive of the best interests of modern society continue to be fostered by certain portions of the community, so long will centralization, in spite of its attendant evils, be the bulwark, and as such -its power most and will be extended before it will be curtailed. Co-operative associations the writer regards as one of the best safeguards against social revolution. Co-op-erative credit banks, in place of the thieving saving banks, which have been established with so much success in Germany, co-opera-tive stores, which are such a relief in England and other countries of the old world. Concerning corruption the writer simply qnot£p the following paragraph penned by Daniel Webster in an article in this Review

in 1816. It reads:

These then are tbe evils which threaten the duration of pur government and against which all the well-meaning and all tbe wlae men ahonld unite their efforts: Tbe assiduity and impudence of office seekers, the licentiousness of the press, the

Tbe assiduity and impudence of often, the licentiousness of the press, the

abuse and perversion of the rigbt of suffrage, and above all tbe violence of party spirit which has shown Itself in the hands ol demagogues the most tremendous engine of mischief ever wielded against

the liberties of a free people.

This was sixty years ago, and if since then we have not instituted reforms thfe writer thinks it is because the American people have set their faces against reform, and he declares an administration can never reform ihe noiQn. It is the administration which must be reformed by the people. His views as to whether this is to be done he does not give, bnt inferentially he seems to say he thinks it won’t, for he adds: “But if the people of the United States prefer organized corruption to honest government it would seem at least expedient, even from this standpoint, to take timely measures for the preservation of society from the evils so graphically foreshadowed by Macaulay” ia that letter which he wrote two years before our war, and which, during and since the railroad strike, has been so widely printed under the head of “Macaulay’s prophecy.” Therein he sa^rs our fate’is certain, that some Ca sar or Napoleon will seize the the reins of government, or our empire will be laid waste aa the Roman empire was; that our constitution is all sail and no anchor, etc. The writer thinks the sails of our constitution are still set, but that the anchor is still wanting, and that we are drifting carelessly and swiftly onward to the unseen

rocks ahead.

No Cicsar or Napoleon has ret appeared, bnt none can tell the day or hour ‘he will appear, appear aa surely as Napoleon succeeded Robespierre and destroy our liberty, or without him our civilization be destroyed. One legislative act done by Great Britain, tbe writer thinks would bring unexampled distress upon us. Seven-tenths of our people are engaged in agriculture. Great Britain consumes twothirds of all our agricultural products, greatly to her own detriment. The supply of the rest of Europe exceeds the demand. England's demand can not keep pagg with our increasing supply, and suppo^England should enact a retaliatory tariff upon us! As to remedies, the writer thinks plots against the life of the government and existing society should be curtailed by law, as plots against private life are. Co-operation should be elevated to ita best estate. Organizations providing temporary work for the workless class should receive the encouragement, though not the absolute support, of the federal and state governments. The central government should protect all those who can not protect themselves, thus legal limits should be imposed on the length fora day’s work for chil-

dren.

The indigent poor should .be relieved by a system of charity, based upon the French plan, which ia the only one to-day approaching perfection. And at the risk of extending its functions the government should set its face against certain monopolies which are calculated to disturb the peace of the country by aggregating into single hands gigantic fortunes. At the same time the rights of property should jealously guarded both in the legislature and in the courts, instances to the contrary being a legislative grant to a certain elevated rati* way in spite of the protests of property Polders and to the ruin of many private interests, and the granger decisions of the supreme court some time ago. The influence of such work as this, from whffh there is no appeal, is frightfully dangerous. With tbe rapid redaction of the national debt and the advent of free trade, he thinks some of these dangers will disappear, but now and always there is an orgeat demand for congress to restrict immigration; he thinks this conntry has been the “damping ground of Europe long enough. Horde-like immigration has become the curse of an answered prayer. Not only has it reduced to ooe-half the population of pare and granine decendants of the choicest race that ia modern times has dyeit upon tbe earth, bat

it has peopled oar soil with the

of other lands. Bismarck is driving aad secretly advancing funds for the socialists to leave Germany and move here. “A thooiand Chinamen can not bring to oar shores tbe mischief that is brought by one apostle of Lasalle. Never since tbe rebellion did a graver question present itself for legislation. The administration or the man, therefore, that will call tbe ettoation of congress to the necessity of suppressing all conspiracies against the government and society, aa well aa to tbe necemUy of radically revising the emtaretion laws, will have deserved well of fnlure generations. Continued ignorance of the true condition of the sodel sub-strata a hich are showing themselves in oar own land, can only lead to lawlessness or force and perhaps to the fulfillment of Mr. Carlyle's spiteful epigram, which declares the

United States to be but iiceman,’ ” ■■

it ‘an anarchy plosapo-

CONCERNIKG CATTLE. Tremendous Transaction by Vanderbilt— Tbe Trade with Karope—Ploaro-Paoa-monle in Now York. [New York special.] The Colorado cattle company, which ha been for eight years enegaged in raising, crossing and preparing cattle for the eastern market on their Huerfano ranch, in Colorado recently purchased from Colonel William Craig bis magnificent ranch of 87,000 acres, called tbe Hennosilla. paying therefor $320,OCO. The company nave already over ten thousand head of cattle, and it is tbe intention to increase it to 40,000. Mr. Wm. H. Vanderbilt, through hisfriand Mr. Eastman, the great cattle king, to-day purchased a controlling interest in the company, with a view of exteeding^is beef trade in foreign markets. This purchase is said to be important, in view of the great increase in the exporttrade in lire stock, and shows that Mr. Vanderbilt is also hard at work in his railroad interest. The European steamers known as the Unicorn Line, are to carry cattle as well as grain. Tbe New York Central have now a stock-yard at Kansas City that cost over $1,000,000, and will make the immense estate of the Colorado cattle company the entrepot of the cattle they desire to prepare for the eastern and European markets. It is undesrtood that prominent parties interested in cattle-raising in the country and in this state, including General Patrick Cottle, commissioner of New York state; General Curtis, and Hon. Calvin P. Halbard, chairman of the cattle committee of the New York state agricultural society, have been in correspondence with tBb agricultural committee of congress, to whom was referred the subject of cattle disease. Mach important information has been elicited, and it is believed that unless tbe disease is effectually stamped out in the states east of the Allegh&nies, it will quickly work its way to the great western grazing plains, and jeopardize tbe whole beef product of the country. General Curtis visits Washington this week to further confer with the congressional committee on the subject, and will make some practical 4ggestions, which may be embodied in tbe bul which that committee is framing tar the protection of this great interest

A Clean Sweep. It was a Sad looking tramp, with a pained expression of face, that entered a Sutter street bar-room the other day, holding in his band a small, battered red canister. “Look at this,” he said sorrowfully. “I went Into a gun shop and begged for something to eat, and fbe mean man handed me this can of powder. He said I could go shooting—a starving man go shooting. Just think of it!” “Well, mizzle,” retorted the barkeeper, who bad just s«t up four fancy drinks for a row of customers. “I pledge you my word,” said the vagrant, bolding the can within an inch of the stove. “I’m so miserable, I’ve almost a mind to blow

myself up.”

"Dare you to do it,” said one of the by-

standers, winking at the crowd.

Tbe wrecked party gave a sad, lingering look at the poured out liquor, as that he might ne’er behold again, and tossed in the

can. •

The yell that the whole crowd gave as they started for the other side of the street was heard on Telegraph hill. When they filed in about ten minutes after the empty can did not explode, there were four empty glasses on the counter, the lunch table was an empty mockery and the till looked like a savings bonk on the day after a really large de-

posit.

Tornado In Sootn Carolina. A tornado in the southern part of South Carolina, on Wednesday, caused great loss of property and several lives. In the village’of Waterboro more than 100 houses and all the churches were swept away. Three-fourths of the inhabitants are homeless. Fifteen persons were killed, among whom wer.e Mrs. Dr. 8. M. Rivers, her danghter, and Mr. Philemon Sanders, and many wounded. At Oakley, a station on tbe N. E. railroad, all the negro honses were leveled and one negro killed, besides many hurt. Similar casualties are reported from various points on the track of the tornado. Heavy Four Per Cent Snbs.crlption. A syndicate, emposed of nineteen banks and banking firms of New York city and Boston,' to-day made a subscription of $150,000,000 to the four-per-cent, bonds and $40,000,000 funding certificates, making this the largest single subscription ever made to a government funded loan in this or any other country. The heaviest subscribers are the first National bank, Fisk k Hatch, Metropolitain National bank, and H. J. k W. Selisman. The subscription is made through the First National bank for itself and its

associates.

. A Miscreant Lynched.

When the train which left Washington with James Carroll, the negro accused of outraging Mrs. Thomas, at Licksville, Md., reached Washington junction, Maryland,

yesterday, fifteen or twenty masked men boarded it and, after a desperate struggle, succeeded in overcoming the policemen. The prisoner was dragged from the train, a rope thrown over his head, and he was pulled across a field to the nearest tree and hanged.

8m»U Consolation. [South Bend BegLter.1

As we have heretofore remarked, the Grubbs law makes It possible that a newspaper can be made the defendant ip fifty libel suits a year, prove its innocence in every instance. and get no satisfaction for all ita lose of time and money bat tbe reflection that some jury has not misunderstood the true status of the care and mulcted it in heaty damages, or clapped its editor into the penitentiary.

Congressional.

Nearly the entire session of the senate yeaterda — -

ation bill. I 11 _ „ live appropriation bill in committee of the whole, Mr. Kelley occupying the floor. PoattiTe. Comparative, Superlative.

[Tipton Timm ]

A town council, a state legislature, and a national congress are hot practical comparisons of an adjective; gabby, gabbier,

gabbiest.

Hew It DM It [Elkhart Review.]

The Indiana legislature reduced salaries. It gives aheriflii only 95 cents for doing what they got 70 cents for before. Do Spare Die Declaration.

[Laporte Chronicle ]

Tbe greatest good to tbe greatest number n a saying full of bum bug and fraught with

danger.

' Only a Small Part of lb [Cincinnati Pnmsiwrizl 1 The extra session of congress is coating $12,000 a day and extras.

[Tiptoa Tlmm.1 As to the Ohio idea, we just remark there is no Ohio idea.

A storm of wind aad rein yesterday reached

ignU:

fromHcT York to the i

with the night dewt Ml, of ssag wm aateohsa.

The cattle stood st ths lover’s side, Without any show of vexation.

As though taprmmd with s ire-bar net Wm a pert «d their test isHea. aim

i Jsne listened to the notes t

And as Jsne listened to the notes that cssm

Right under tbe ben end over. Her beert took wli

And ucelled up <

llook wing, the smithing,

Ms heme wee poor.

re nan wen me Chinese circles ee who looked wedding were h

m *sv his hoi

nothing but lore to give her:

Jed content, as though Love had spent

She heard him That he’d aa

And the smiled

Every snow he had ta Ms quirsr:

She intUed content, when the evening Sir

With rolcesef birds are rlaging,

And her Ups confessed that a lowly nest Should never prevent her staging. >

So over the hen the lovers laaa.

In the Joy of their sweet communion; dnd their look* declare that poverty ne’er

Shall beabsr to their union;

O, sweetest music, go thread year rhyme*

Now under the ben sad over;

Where pretty Jsne, ta the fragrant lane,

Bewitched the heart of the mover.

neren pm

EHjAJLju CPw

Out in Colorado a stranger is called a ten-

der foot

Tbe average business life of a Boston street car bone is about 4 years. Marrying a woman for her beanty is like eating a bird for Its ringing. Americans now eat more frogs aad play better French hiUards than the French. Herr Gustav Freytng, the German writer, has just been married to his housekeeper. Mrs. Oates is said to be alarmed at the rapidity with which she is increasing in flesh.

n'tTli

means "Alice marriage sc© has ever taken

riage bad

in Cb thoee

tbe wedding were Him Ah Quy, who age, was a few days

tWO matrons, Who Umcu mean strutting hy in her duties as comber of the relatives of tire g

ntilisT were si

„ land wishes of new sphere of life. A la chants and the president visited a Chinese restaurant on

where a banquet was to be | ceremony, and deposited with tire sums of money varying from $1 (

donated to the groom. Each iota thunk w sfisrS iZmSsiEsz i and the packages when endorsed were delivered to the groom, who, according to tire custom of his country, was in duty bound to seek out the donors and extend to each a personal invitation to attend the banquet One hundred and eleven Chinamen made donations, and as the groom had to invite each one of these, he had no tight task before

him. • THI HABITATION PBIPABBD.

The groom had selected for his future home two rooms on tbe first floor of the old Baptist church building on Washington street, fronting on that street. Those he had prepared expressly for the occasion, and Sued

The two elevated railroads in New York . J? P* rt Chineaeand American furniture. City are carrying an average of fifty million ( » number of large

passengers a year. Professor Morse, of the Imperial college at Y okohama, has discovered evidences of cannibalism among tbe early races in Japan.

gue

tenant, will be r

the senate.

George Francis Train, believes that sewing maehines and other light machinery can be run by sour milk. How to do it ts a secret with him for which he wants $50,000, The Boston Advertiser has a story that at a recent Sunday school exhibition a minister asked the children: “What is the best book in tbe world?” and the prompt reply war

"Longfellow’s poems.”

The only substantial relics of the Jews in England before their expulsion by Edwanl I are a stone synagogue at Bury, and a bronze bowl made for synagogue service, and now preserved in the Bodelian library, at Oxford. The Scotch have a reputation for gravity, yet Punch receives more jokes from.Scotland than from any other part of the United Kingdom. The Scotch also do more laughing at the theaters than either the English or

the Irish.

Alexander H. Stephens was so poor when he first commenced the practice of law that be bad to live on $6 per month. This is said to be the secret of nis assistance to poor young men, over fifty of whom he has assist-

ed to a liberal education.

It is related of Saint-Benve that be once foqght a duel in tbe rain.. He gravely opened an umbrella, and no expostulations of bis second could make him close it. “I don’t mind getting killed,” he declared,

“but I do hafe getting wet.”

' The profhpt and energetic action of those interested in the prosperity of Cape May has

me much to restore the place to the

tha^

position it occupied before the great fire of

last fall By tbe time tbe

already don position «

y the time the season regularly

opens, in June, it is thought the capacity of the city to accommodate guests will be as

large as ever.—[Philadelphia Record.

Mr. Fronde gives an explanation of how he came to take to writing English history: "I found myself obliged to settle to some definite occupation. I would have gladly gone to the bar, or studied medicine, or gone into business. But, as the law then stood, these roads were closed to me. I did mit wish, I could not afford to be idle; and though I knew that I had bnt tbe most moderate

was the only alter-

capacity for it, literature native left open to me,”

A colored minister in Georgia was bronght to trial before his church on charge of stealing bacon. After a number of witnesses had been examined, the deacons retired, and soon afterward returned the following verdict ; "The Rev. Moses Bledso am ackwitted of de riuuations dat he actual stole de pork, as ’twasnot shode that sum body else miten’t hev bin wearin’ his cloze; but de brudder is beerby ’fectionately warned dat in de future

he must be more keerful.” -

"Phairest Phlora,” wrote aa amorous youth who is smitten with the phonetic craze, "phorever dismiss your phears, and phly with one whose phervent phancy is pbixed on you alone. Phrends, pbamily, phather—phorget them, and think only of the phelicity of the phuture! Phew phellows are so phastidious as your Pherdinand. Pborego phrolic, and answer phinally, Pblora.” “Oh, Pherdinand, you phool I” was phair Phlora’s curt reply. Mme. Grevy lately took a velvet dreaM which had seen some service, to a very gra y Parisian milliner and said she wished a certain alteration made. Tbe grand modiste intimated with a superbly affable air that they “were not in the habit of doing that, sort of work for ladies with whom they were not acquainted.” Mme. Grevy expressed her regret, remarking that sbe was the wife of the president and wanted the dress to wear to the Eiysee entertainment A transporta

ticn scene instantly ensued.

I bad only just left Russell in Regent street >hen I saw Blondin on an omnibus. Though 1 ton of a ’bus if tbe cheapest and pleasantriding in London, I remember “Blondin,

when I tbe top

est _

the hero of Niagara,” some dozes or fifteen years ago “a swell-’ in London, reclining in his brougbam, attended by bis servants, dressed a la prince and living tire life of a public favorite. Poor fellow: they say he has lost bis money through toe failure of a continental bank, and he now rides down to tbe aquarium on aa omnibus. He looked

old and sad.—[Letter.

A Louisville young woman writes to a modest and stupid youth: “Yes, when you asked me if I would marry you—oh 11 ought not to have done it, I suppose—but, then, it was such an opportunity, and so I smiled the cue to you and answered ‘never l’ And yon, stupid, yon froze and cowed like a telegraph pole, and left. Oh, dear me? aad 1 certainly thought that at this day there wu nobody

‘What, never?’and given me the chance to reply, ‘Well, hardly ever.’”-[8x.^^ Major General Clifford, Lord Chelmsford’s seconp in command, hu plenty of cool courage. It is told of him that one day in British Kaffraria. daring the Kaffir war of 1846-

were.

marriage and

ia the first room

.were lacquered^ trays^containing Chinese other were tin cups for tea. There were also on the table Chinese ornaments aad several water pipes. Yesterday afternoon, about five o'clock, the tamale chaperons conducted the e irl in their charge to the rooms of ber future husband, but before she creased the threshold of the door they threw a heavy handkerchief over her head, and shut out everything from her light. This they told her wu to warn her that in entering the married state she wu groping in the dark future, but tha placing implicit faith in the husband relying on bim to guide her, rile need-not fear of making a misstep. She wu then conducted to the first room and then to tire room adjoining, where she met the man who wu to become ber husband. He wu standing by a bed in the room, and as she approached the handkerchief wu removed from her head and both sat on the edge of the bed. In sitting down he intentiooaliy sat on a portion of the long silken skirt she wore. She made no attempt to remova the garment, and by allowing bim to remain seated on her garment sbe gave proof that she wu his captive and willing to sobmit to his orders. Had sbe, however, drawn the garment toward her it would have been proof that sbe would not be submissive and would not obey bim nnleas sbe felt inclined to do eo. The pair then knelt before a small altar from wbicn hung ancestral tablets and each offered a prayer, after which they went into the other room where ther seated themselves.

A PECULIAR FAHCV.

One of the chaperones poured tea into two of tbe caps, and offered these to the groom and bride, telling each to take a sip. This being done, they took the caps again, mixed the contents, and returning them to tbe pair, told them to drink, saying that u their Ups bad touched the beverage, they would draw inspiration from each other by partaking of the mixture. The bride, accompanied by the chaperones, followed by the groom and some relatives, formed a procession and left tbe house, amid the explosion of firecrackers, and marched through Stout's alley to the restaurant on Jackson street where the guests bad assembled and were waiting on the third floor. As the party ascended the stairs, an orchestra played an air which a stretch of imagination might construe into a wedding march. As the bride entered the room where the guests were assembled, she wu supported by two chaperonea, and had her face hid frpm view hy a large fan. She wu then led . around to each of the guests, end u «hf Approached she curtseyed three times, ifl guest returned tbe curtsey, and then rrcited a proverb, to which the bride replied. After having gone through this ordeal 111 times, the party sat down to a banquet gotten up in the highest style of culinary art. The first course,which luted nearly two honrs, being over, tha bride wu escorted to her home again. Daring tbe evening a Call reporter, who had attended tbe banquet, wu uked by the groom to pay a visit to the bride. On the way to tbe bride’s borne the groom said: “I have b£en married in the trne Chinese fashion to pleue my Chinese friends. The ceremooiu last several days and at the expiration of the seventh day 1 will go before a justice of the * peace and be married in American fashion. Now, liefore you see my wife, I must give you some instructions. When you enter the room yon must take a seat, and then toe old women who have charge of the bride will bring ber from tbe other room and she will offer you a cup of tea and some sweetmeats. Yon mnst take the offering and say ‘thank you,’ for if you did not take it she would look upon your refusal aa an insult.. a quxia urraonncTios. Tbe reporter expressed a willingness ta follow instructions, and after having been ebown to a seat in tbe bridal house, wu requested to wait a few minutes until the Oride was ready to come, as she wu very bashful. In a few minutes tbe bride, supported by an elderly Chinese female, came from an adjoining room. She wu attired in a new dark silk gown, which touched the floor, and bid her feet from view; on her

nd on too

during the Kaffir

4n, ne was in tbe act of sitting down on the ground, placing one hand behind bim for the purpose. He found something clammy to the touch, and found to his horror it wu a puff-adder, a most venomon reptile. Another man with less self-possession would have removed his hand, probably to be stung in tbe act. Not so Clifford. With great presence of mind he held the snake down firmly with one band, with tbe other drew hie clasp-knife from his pocket, opened it with bis teeth, and then coolly severed the

reptile’s bead from its body.

with artificial flowers and gold fbe entered the room she held a large tan in front of ber face which sbe lowered threo times successively, and then she bowed three times to tbe reporter. Tbe elderly woman then hfinded ber a tray on which wereaeveral cups of tea in each of which wu a small rose. This sbe in turn presented to tire rejxtrter who took one of the proffered cop*, and according to instructions said, "thank yon.” She then presented the tray to the proem, who alee took a cop of tea. The bride then offered some sweetmeats, which were partaken of. While the reporter and the groom were sipping their tea the bride hacked out of the room, biding ber face from view as sbe did so. “You see,” said tbe groom, “rite backs out of your presence, that is a sign of re* sped, if she did not respect you she would have tamed ber back on von u sbe left the rocm.” Tbe groom then left hie bride without raying a word to her, accompanied the reporter to the street and announced bis intention of returning to the banquet, so as to be hi time for the second coarse.

Always tiademoeratfe. [New Albany Lrdger-fltaodsrd.]

For ways that are dark and tricks that are lain, command ns to the Indianapolis democracy. To say the least, their actions aredisffuwtng to true, honest and stalwart d«ynocrats. It seems that the democracy of Ind-

ianapolis invariably acta in an

[Chicago Newt ]

The Daily News bu berelofere allnded in strong terms to the efforts of leading journMs in this and other citiea to induce people™ emigrate to certain western mining localities. They are simply the paid puff* of speculators and gamblers in mining stocks. These same journals puffed the Northern Pacific railroad enterprise at 50 cents a line, and, when it failed, denounced Jay Cook* k Co., as frauds and swindlers. They are pursuing the tactics with Colorado. Arizona, Utah

manner.

By the pangs et rbeouaUsin, U>e Joint* < beam# grievously distorted, end fume an almost grotesque defu each resuHa by a simple aad certainly the part of wlsdosa. riieumatlcVlImenU i with Hostetler's 8toi_ the prestige of a km* ( bounded popularity. aod of

end other mining schemes, not omittiag

, Lead vily deception.

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