Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1884 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, MONDAY, MARCH 3,1884.

Carpets, WALL PAPER. A. tM*ff Stock—Ixrarwt Prlcoa. HKRMAN MARTENS, 40 Booth Moridin St.

HEW GLOVES. Aa MDiasote line of Men'e Blovee for street and driving, Mer’s Glove Store. 10 Boot Washington St.

SHIETS made to order. Paul H. Krauss, (SuocMMr |« Wnr A Krauss), Nos. 26 and 28 N. Penn. St.

COHPST W ElUi. John Richard Green's Last Book. Prlca, $2.50.

Merrill, Meigs ft Co., No. 6 E. Washington 8t.

Tha ladluRDoHs Sews • paMtohed trrerj ■tUrnoon, except Bondar, at the office. No. so Wait Washington street Price, two cents s eopy. Serred by carriers in any put of the etty, ten cents r week. By mall, poetage prepaid, BO cents s month, $0 a rear. For aale. In New York, by Brentano Brothers, Union Square; Washington, Kbbitt House news Stand. Advertisements, first page, one cent a word for each Insertion; nothing less than ten words aoanted. Display advertl sements vary In orloe according to time and position. No AxmanBxmrrs maaTSS as anrroaui BAtma. Specimen numbers sent free on application. Terms, cash. Invariably In advance. All Offimonlcatlons should be addrcescd to Jon B. Holliday ft Co.. Proprietors.

THE D.flIL Y NEWS

MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1881.

There seems to be an attempt to ^at Cal. Dudley in antagonism to Bepreseatatlvo Calkins. The “old ticket’’ bas great attractions for that class of patriots who do not want a live Issue and do want “abar’l” opened.

Thb land which the Northern Pacific road will lose, If the report of the house committee should become s law, is 35,000,000 acres, instead of 3,500,NO acres as the press dispatch said. Kbhtuckt Is delag hotter thaa we gave credit for. The telegram aanouaclag Crittenden’s conviction said he had been sentenced for three years, but the Louisville papers say It was eight years. That is five years hotter Acrosmae to the Insurance Chronicle, the losses hy firs la the United States last year were 9100,149,223. Of this the Insurance companies lest $53,801,#84. la this state the losses were $3,071,845; insurance losses, 91,581,112. In ten months last year we Imported 450,000 pounds of opium, ss against 200,000 pounds for the same period the year before. There has been no Increased medicinal demand, and It is believed that It Is due te Increased opium smoking, but more to the use otftta cigarettes. The Ban Francisco Call has seme good words to say for Minister Sargent. It say* U Fretlnghuysea or Arthur had been la Sargent's place, they would net have of ended Bismarck, for they must have attended court receptions, and let the American hog go, aid !t concludes: Cf Sargent were president end sa American minister of his appointing was insulted, the person responsible for the offence would hear from him. whether his name was Bismarck er not Under the present administration foreign offletab of all grades do about as they plea«e with Americans, Whether officials er simple cit-

Labt night Bey. A. Marine, pastor of Central Avenue M. E. church, delivered a sermon, ta response to aa Invitation frena the Wemon's Christian Temperance Ualea, ea the duty of Christian citizens toward temperance reform. We publish in our lecal columns twe extracts from the disc ourse. Always lucid and emphatic (r his pulpit Utterances, Mr. Marine left no uncertainty as to bin poaitionoa the great moral question. Hs emphasised the growing demands and paver of the liquor traffic, which he denounced as anti-American la all Its phases and conclusions, hut expressed his firm belief in its ultimate overthrow when the latent moral force of the ceunt-y Is aroused to a sense of its danger by the encroachments of this law-defying, law-destroying element, j Thb resignation hy Rev. Myron W. Reed, of the pastorate of the Tint Pre&byteriaa church came like a thunder clap from a dear sky to the audience yesterday, and the festtng of sorrew and regret was universal. This sentiment is shared by the community generally, to which he has endeared him—»f t and that the separation win be a very patnfd one to him, was evident from hie words and manner. The reasons which he assigned for going to another field are reasons the full tone of which only he can judge. To such h man questions of material consideration, or even of health itself, weigh lightly, but the quality of hie work and its effect upon hie peopledeeply concern him. To reach the ecmetastoa announced area evidently no light task, nor done without -moot serious consideration. His departure will be a great loss to this city and the state, and in many

Wosnee win he mgaried la the light of a pereonal hmenremwh The /eunml itUngly oapst Mr. Reed Is net a man of many words, and while he has net yet formally accepted the call to Denver, we assume that the stop he took yesterday is final and conclusive. In disaapotti will ba a sufferer, alike with the Pint chnreh, in the removal of Mr. Reed. LanrtHbesited, large-brained, and with toe broadest possible hamsatty, he has entered hxtn the social, moral and religions life of this community to an extent that will not be fully knows until bo has gene. Paan Htactcthb said la New Orleans that the “cession of Louisians to the United States was the death warrant of a great Trench empire in America; It was almsst a crime." It was a very shrewd business transaction of If. Napoleon Bonaparte, first consul of France. He knew tkea a good deal better than Fere Hyacinth* deee new, that France ceuld not keep that territory an hour after the people of the United Staton had decided that it belonged by natural connection to them, and they thought the time had come to take possession. He knew, through his agents, what the feeling in the west was about it, and he made sev-enty-fire million francs clear by a sale which a dozen years later would have been a precedent of the Tens annexation without the succeeding war. Americans would have filled the territory to such an extent as to be the controlling population, as they were In Texas, and the end of that condition was as Inevitable as the operation of a national law. Bnt the lament of Father Loyson is not so absurd as the boast of the English historian Allison. He says of this aale of Louisiana, that Napoleon “anticipated thus, for a valuable consideration, the probable fate of a naval combat, and extricating from the hands of the British a valuable colonial possession which would assuredly have her. come their prey.” One thinks of this “prey” and the battle of New Orleans a dozen years later with a grin. It Is hard to conceive anything more preposterous than the notion that a naval power could take and hold a continental property as big as all Europe except Russia, and holding It against a people living along It, by It, and around it, who would mind a naval force about as much as a planet would a hostile balloon. The historian evidently had in kls mind aa island colony like Martinique, or some of those that English naval forces took from the French in the Napoleonic wars. A vast land the whole length of the Mississippi and the width of the valley from the river to the Rocky mountains, was something he clearly had no idea of. * There Is another thing that needs the attention of the police authorities besides the systematic violation of the law by the saloon keepers, which said authorities aid and abet In violation of their oath of office, and that is reckless driving. la this city, where there is done, perhaps, more driving than in any other city of its size In the country, there seems to be the least knowledge of what is proper driving. The very first principle of driving in a city—to “slow up” at street crossings, seems to be an unknown precept to those who hold the reins. In Europe a pedestrian has no rights which an equestrian Is bound to respect. Here where we regard the man, whether mounted or afoot, it Is supposed to be different—but it isn’t very different in Indianapolis. There have come to our knowledge three different cases la which death or a maimed body for life were averted by a bare “graze,” which the agility of the foot passenger enabled him to get. Two of the esses were women who were saved by men aear at the time. On the most crowded thoroughfares drivers go over street crossings at a speed far above the traditional “tea miles aa hour within the city limits” provided for locomotive engines. The time at which most of this reckless driving Is done, or when at least It Is most dangerous, is between six . - d eight o’clock p. m. Then the pavements are filled with people hurrying home afoot or coming out for the evening; It Is dusk and often dark; the streets are soft with the winter's accumulation of mud; the drivers are also hurrying home, and they drive at racing speed; their vehicles oa the soft mushy street, or the dirtfrozen or snow-covered hard ones,are almost as noiseless as sleighs; sad so they go unheard tad unseen, making It as much as one’s life Is worth to cross a street without a careful reconnoitre and then a desperate dash from curb to curb. Some day there Is going to bo a death or a horrible maiming for life from this cause sad It can be set down to the habit of reckless driving. The police should look Into this matter. Oae or two wholesome arrests sad fines would make an end of It. ^ There is serious talk In congressional circles, If Washington dispatches are to be believed, about recalling Minister Sargent from Berlin and suspending diplomatic relations with Germany. That would be unwise at this stage of the business, and we are glad to believe that the report from the White house to tho effect that no such notion is entertained there, is correct. Sargent has attended. to his business well—too well— that’s what is the matter with Bismarck. Sargent exposed Bismarck’s sanitary pretext for excluding our pork. Sargent is a thorn in Bismarck’s side, and he onght to stick. It is not for ns to take the inltlatiye in any of this business. We hare not been the offenders, and we most give no offense. We must simply follow suit to Bkmarck's lead and “go him one better," every time. It is for us now to receive the returned Lasker resolutions when they shall come, with dignity, to reaffirm them with empressment, as the French say, to return them with s communication, which, judging from Mr. Frellnghnysen’s published dispatches we do not, honestly, believe him capable of writing—therefore it should be framed by congress in a resolution. This should state in the most studiously courteous and highly polished manner, 4a effect that our congress regards Bismarck as an impudent churl who has meddled with things that do not concern him, and that he wiU leara wisdom If he will follow the example of the old man who always minded hte own business and not of other people's. Then whatever more he may make we should follow; just keep right up with the procession all the time. While this is going on we ought to attend to the

hog business. We ought to create a competent meat inspection, and than notify Trance and Germany that such inspection exists, and that they most repeal their measures of exclusion against American pork on sanitary grounds, er we will enact reprisals at eoce. Meantime let Bismarck "flop around” ta any way he pleases. If he recalls Xheedecher from Washington, ws will recall Sargent from Berlin. If he prohibits all Intercourse with America, we can laugh at him and let him prohibit. We can get along without Germany bettor than Germany can without us. Last year we exported te Germany, 966,160,929 worth of goods and imported 957,377,728. Bnt the things we exported Gennaay can not well get along without, while the things we Imported we can easily get elsewhere. The only cause for regret if this should come to pass, is the suffering It will pat upon the Innocent German peoplenoble lovers of liberty In the iron grasp of a despotism which they fear more than we do, because alas' they feel tt,while we only view it afar off. Well, then, after non-inter-course, if Bismacrk wants anything more of us he can get It.

meetlnx, reconsider the action of the previous

leting, and appoint the rational convention instead of Indianapolis.—[Chicago

of gold to a pemlura means high prices of all cotnmodiled at the close of the late

CURRENT COMMENT. The Current pungently remarks that “the disagreeable feature of the incident is the attempt of several American newspapers to prove that the house did not pass the Lasker resolutions.” t The talk about presidential candidates is about three for one as to the republican candidate against the democratic. The Interest seems centered on whom the republicans may nominate. Any significance in this? Since the establishment of the navy department in 1789 the navy has cost this country $1,000,000,000. There are In the navy now 1,768 efficers oa the active list. There are also 340 officers, including 43 admirals and 16 commodores, on the retired list, which makes an aggregate of 2.103 officers of all grades, without reckoning the 247 cadets at the naval academy. We have ninety vessels of all ssrts and sizes—and a rum lot they are. The cost up to date is $780,-

500,00$.

Flowers are used more extensively at funerals than ever in Chicago, and not so much as decorations at private parties. One county In Georgia will hare 1,000 acres of watermelons this season. In Chicago they call their merchant tailors “haberdashers.’' Chicago will soon become the biggest asylum of A agio-maniacs

In the country.

The best thing for the national greenback committee to do would be to have another neetlng, reconsider the — ' ' —

aeettng, it Ciiicat

News.

Come now; none of that! Don’t get envious because you only succeeded in getting the republican and democratic conventions. You will not get the greenback convention. That great boon remains with Indianapolis—

the city of conventions.

The Indications are that the democratic party will make a crutch and bar’l cam-

paign —[8t. Louis Chronicle.

If the unfortunate manufacturer had a foreign outlet for his products, his case would not be so hard. But that he has not. Tho tariff which fattened him while the boom was in progrtss Increases the cost of production. While It ables him to exact tribute from consumers. It compels him to pay tribute to others. He thus finds himself handicapped in neutral markets. Tne English free-trade manufacturer, who bas the advantage of untaxed raw materials, machinery and plant, can undersell him in all neutral markets, because the American is taxed on everything. The latter has only the home market, and this market he has

overstocked.—[Chicago Times.

The forcing of gold to s pemlura means

a return to the hi; ties that prevalle*

war, and the present policy of the government caa have but oae result it It Is carried into effect as it has beea pror >sed by the treasury department.—[Chicago Banker. As deeply as Germ an-Americans regret that the situation has been rendered thus, they must, as a matter of course, preeminently insist upon it that the Americaa government effectually guard Its dignity against the arrogance of the German government. We commiserate the German people If a breach between the nations should increase the suffering of that people, but tt will have to hold its own government alone accountable for it.—[New York Staats

Zeitung.

There is a bottom to the United States’ pile of gold as to every thing else, sad there can not long be a steady outgo of gold when the incomes are more and more largely ia eilver. The republican party ia congress can not afford to let much more of the session slip away before attending to tho silver dollar.—[Springfield, Mass., Ualoa. This government can better afford to do almost anything thaa recall Mr. Sargent at this time. If aa old man like Bismarck thinks In his dotage that he can reach across 3,000 miles of sea and dictate the policy of a government whose directors never grow old, he is everlastingly mistaken. Mr. Senator Hale, how are those new steel cruisers getting on«—[Philadelphia Press. Puck publishes pictures of Fitz John Porter asleep la his tent while the battle is raging round him In 1863, and before congress for reinstatomeat and back pay la 1884. The battle in wblch Porter Is charged with disobedience of orders was fought oa 1862, but Puck is hardly more accurate than the other enemlea who have kept up the fight on Porter.—[Chicago News.

Tho Wire Record.

A fire was discovered yesterday morning ia the new shoe manufactory of H. J. Holbrook ft Co., oa Catharine street, Utica, and proved the moot aestrucUve ia the history of the city. The Holbrook building, M. B. DeLong’s furniture house, and dames Rockwell’s clothing house, on Catharine street, M. C. ft E. D. Comstock’s large store honse oa Erie canal, Utica City national bank, Newdl ft Son's, paper sad glass dealer?; Utica Observer building and office, Comstock Bros., wholesale house, C. H. Sayres, hardware store, and Edward Martin's gas fitting and plumbing store, and the stores from 109 to 123, Inclusive on Genesee street, were totally dbtroved, with most of their contents. The Utica Observer saved Its files and little else. The weather was Intenselv cold. Assistance was rendered by the fire departments of Little Falls, Rome and Wnitestown. The total loss is about $800.-

000; Insurance $450,000.

Saturday evening the extensive works of the U a tied States Stamping company, L. Ingersoll, president, at Portland, Conn., burned. They were filled with machinery for stamping tin, and employed 375 hands, turning oat eight or ton car-loads of goods per day. The proprietors say the loss la round figures is about $400,000, and the total insurance 1825,00$, distributed among forty

orks covered

companies. The

id a half i

different

about four and a half acres ol ground and

are wholly destroyed. Settling the Question.

[CnKage Current]

The red sunset discussion is becoming very vigorous and fashionable. The consideration of Urge mysteries is not without profit ; yet one Is reminded, during this particular discussion, of Theophrastus Such's qi.e-tk*n to his valet: “What is the cause of tides. Pummel?” “Well, sir, nobody rightly knows. Many gives their opinion, but if I was to give mine, it 'ud be different" ^ Where Does It Oooae In? [Lotrti riBe Courier-Jeer**!.] A Berlin nuewrpaper says that Minister Bargent is lacking in political tact. He has managed to keep la office all of his life; if that ie not political tact what is it? Tho People Don't Like It. The railroads own a quarter of all the assessed property in New Jersey and pay only one-twelfth of the taxes.

POEITIOB IN MPa Party Organs sad Court He The Decline of the m*Jer _ KagHah Contest-Opinions of Promi-

nent Ken.

[Correspondence of Tbc ladtsnipeaiHeo*.]

Bhhlbttii.i.e, March 1 —Fully eight of my twenty-four hours’ rtslt to Bhelbyvffle, was spent In repose tnd meditation, bnt the political opinion I gathered may certainly be grouped into a satisfactory letter. I believe that the careful reader who begin* at the beginning and follows It to the end, will at that point have a fair idea of the office getting onttock at the old home of Mr. Hendricks. The power of toe newspaper is like the screw acdlever In mechanics, only limited by toe strength of the material. Especially Is this true of the country weekly— the dally circulating among a more critical and opinionated people. With a few m ea politics Is a matter of intelligent principle, with many an honest sentiment, hat with a great majority merely a nasty superstition. The exception to the rule is when Dorsey comes to Indiana. Then votes are supposed to be worth from 93 to $15 a piece. However, the editor who has sense and pride enough to he independent, recognizing the fact that man is a reasoning animal, wields an influence difficult to calculate. And nowhere is boldness of expression, candid and vigorous conclusions more absolutely essential. Nowhere Is demagogy, incompetence of decision or double dealing more readily apparent or more offensive. Other things being equal, the demagogue can not edit a paper In the neighborhood of the sincere man. All country journalists are personal in proportion to the editor’s strength of character. If the journals of to-day are less personal than the Logansport Pharos under Bam Hall, or the Richmond Telegram under Wash Woods, It Is because the men in journalism to day are less vigorous. Two newspapers of the same political faith in a county where there is a large majority also of the same political faith always prove disastrous to the party. The man who has held a county office, however correct he may have been, competes with the editor who has never held am office at a disadvantage. H A. Wadsworth, e f the Laporte Argus, is a more Influential editor to-day, thaa he would be, after serving one or two years as state auditor. Dan McDonald is doing well, but he might do better with the Plymouth Democrat If he had never officiated fa the Marshall county court house. Having held an office la Tipton county, though his administration was as straight as a string, absolutely above criticism, served to disqualify E. A. Overman for editing the Times, a work upon which bis heart was fixed and for which he had great natural aptitude. “The court house ring” in remote school districts is thought to be a dark, deep, cabalistic invention of the enemy, to gather toll from working people and increase taxes. The prejudice Is all [against it and it is Impossible to defend If the assault is vigorous and acute. If a genius for pencil combat like Tom Phillips, once of the Kokomo Tribune, had ever been called to war with the Howard county court house rine, he would have made the people of Sugar Creek township believe that it was the great fountain of disease from which their cuildren contracted measles, mumps,

whooping-cough and.chicken-pox. A surface observer would eay that the

trouble with the democracy of Shelby county ia that two democratic papers are published in Shelbyville. In ti. statement of the case there is a degree oi truta, but the natural democratic majority ef Shelby county will continue greatly redu d so long as the democratic organ Is contr led by a man who shared the spoil plucked rom the people—until every member ol the old court house ring ceases to be a political aspirant. So long as apprehension can be artfully aroused of one of them, or his kinfolks get ting into oflice, old Shelby will not. roll up her usual majority. The wages of sin is dcatb to parties as well as Individuals. Scott Ray edits the democratic organ in Shelbyville. He was a member of the court house ring, doubtless somewhat talented ia a certain character of political management, but so objectionable In some respects that prudent people do not love to affiliate with him. and far less capable as a journalist than his democratic rival, who is well read and reasons. Mr. Ray has no defect to which attention has not been directed by his enemies and opponents. Every weak spot ia his nature baa been acutely impressed upon the public mind to such an extent that it requires a stronger word than “unpopularity” to express the estimation la which he Is held. Fart of this is, no doubt, due to the fact that the record Is against him, because his associations are vulnerable; but he U guilty of no acts, perhaps, for which his accomplishments might not atone, were the critic editing the opposition paper less gif red and less severe. The country seems to be outgrowing organs as well as political bosses. The highest order of journalistic ability in an organ early gets fatigued competing with aggressive independence—a newspaper that

looks to and expects support from tin

■M-liquor feeling, that forcible possession of

e pes-

But the highest to success in

pic and legitimate Industry, order of talent U necessary

independent journals.

Cai'KT HOUSE HlXiiS IS GEKERAI.. Five years ago the democratic party of Shelby county was harmonious and had a ma jority of 900. Large majorities and harmony Is nice for the office holder, but always expensive for the tax-payer. The propertv holder who kicks because the harmony of his party Is disturbed mav be safely sat down as an idiot. I was once young, bnt am now old. la the ways of court house rings, yet have I never seen a felisw, either a democrat in Allen or a republican la Wayne beating up far the party and abusing the independents, who did not contemplate stealing something. Party “patriotism is the last refuge of s scoundrel.” Certainly the repuhlicaa party la Hamilton county was harmonious, and aggressive, like the strong man rejoicing ia his strength and wanting to ram a race, while its court bouse was building, the first cost of which Is as profound a secret [as the details of Dr. Cole’s slaughter in Kokomo. Retrenchment begins where harmony ends. Party harmony and malfeasance in oflice are twin sisters, and generally go hand in hand. The good Influence of Watt Evans’s administration as clerk of the court will reach to the moat remote section of the out townships ia Hamilton connty and democratic Shelby loses nothing ia a business point of view by cslllng s few republicans to office. The democrats of Madison county had a tremendous majoritv and the utmost harmony ia the party, wuea a bill of $700 was paid for a window shutter for the court house. John Hardesty dropped on to that shutter and was carried to the legialature, the only republican so far as I know, ever elected to the general assembly

from Madison.

THE SHKLBT RIWO IK PARTICULAR. The democratic officials of Shelby county

proceeded after the manner of the Boss Tweed rin^ in New York to help themselves liberally. Franklin, or somebody, has said that all men will steal. The Inkr-fingert d old type-sticker was perhaps a trifle off, but all of those gentlemen who aspire to office and get there are honest so long as conscious of being watched. Presently two of the county officers, Scott Ray and McCorkle, started a paper to drive the republicans from the federal government, and the pillage of the county by democrats progressed. There are three things necessary to the existence of a successful court house ring—multiplication, division and silence. The Shelby ring knew how to multiply and keep silent, but division with a country editor went against toe grain. “We will start a paper of onrown,"they argued, “and aave that part of the plander,” and that is the secret Of the Democrat, and right there the trouble began. “O, that mine enemy would write a book." The editor who had shared the spoil was of coarse easily frozen out, bat, was sncceded by Charles X. Matthews, This gentleman Is scholarly, a student, strong is bis likes and dislikes, and some thing of a reformer. There is a strong temperance sentiment in Shelby county, especially among demodemocratic farmers,and of this he has taken $| advantage. The sentiment caa hardly be defined as a desire to try the experiment of prohibition, though even that would find large favor, but the disgust is deep for anything that smells of whisky. The arguments advanced by those city statesmen against toe re appointment of Hou. John W. Murphy for police commisataoer, based oa the assumption of a eencuMnage between de mocracy and the den, would be fatal to the party, ia the rural districts. I fail to

comprehend this seems to have taken

the people, bnt no intelligent man why inquires in the country, can long remain In Ignorance of Its crest force. Concerted po litlcal action by the etttaens of Indianapolis engaged in-tbe manufacture and sale of liquor would fester opposition is Shelby county. The question seems to be disturbing the democratic more than toe repuhlicaa party. Even in Tipton, where the average citixea formerly got thirsty a half dozen times before dinner and full in the afternoon, ao democratic candidate dares to enter s drink-

ing place by toe front door.

I asked Judge Glessoer, a life-long democrat and one of the most prominent citizens

of tbs state, having had large experience ia both branches of the general assembly— who made sew laws intelligently became he wac perfectly familiar with toe foundation and old code. “What was the mistake of Mr.

Wm. X. Englishf"

“When the subject of Mr. English’s nomination was first broached," he replied, “we believed him s promising young fallow, with the correct habits and wisdom of the English family. There is much in the name to give confidence, and besides tt was suggestive of s large campaign fund. After the convention, so far as I heard, Mr. English fell far short of expectation at every point I never met Mr. English, and such democrats as Dr. Day, I none us Bishop, Judge Sleeth and perhaps twenty others equally prominent never saw him. On the other hand Mr. Pee'Ie moving among the people created a far >r j ble impression for candor and Intelllger ?. Mr. English did nothing to avoid the disgrace which those who favored the eleciton of his opponent were ready to fix upon him. It was told and believed that a committee of saloon keepers met him at the depot and that he walked up to the bar and asked for some of the platform. Putting himself under the management of Scott Ray, whose reputation for what the people of this community highly esteem Its not good, was one of the greatest of Mr. EngUsh’s mistakes. It was said that he carried liquor to night meetings and appeared under its Influence. I hope it is not true, but as his associates were of that character

who could deny the charge." “What Is the Democratic majority?”

“That no man can tell. The democrats are demoralized. The republicans have fel-

lowshlpped with them and learned their

maces

longed to the democrats has drifted perma-

weak places. The floating vote that once he-

ld to ‘

nentl

rntly away."

“W he do you think would carry the largest democratic vote in Shelby county for

congress?”

“Judge Claypool.” “Could he be elected?”

“I can not say as to that. This congressional constituency Is naturally republican. But Judge Claypool would carry every democratic vote In this county and prove, I fully believe, somewhat stronger than his party. There Is more political skepticism at this time extant than ever before, in the history of the country. You will find the people during the next campaign carefully weighing and testing the mental strength of candidates. I expect that a joint canvass will be demanded. The average voter seems to be asking for reasons, and that Is by no means an unhealthy sign, and that is why Judge Claypool would prove an available democratic candidate. He Is formidable oa the stumn. His aomination by the democrats would perhaps call for the aomination by the republicans of an abler man than Congressman Peele, but the two candidates being equal in force and character, the democrats will certainly have the advantage of the argument In the coming campaign.” I asked Louis T. Michener, chairman of the Shelby county republican central committee, about the political outlook, but he Is a politician, moving la a'mysterioas way— evidently well satisfied with the present condition of affairs—disposed to let well enough alone, and nothing definite for print could be coaxed out of him. I understood, however, that the English Peelle contest will lead to the renomlnation of those gentlemen by their respective parties. 1 In the course of a very pleasant conversation I informed him that two of the best lawyers inIndiana told me that Mr. English evidently had a case In the sprlngback tickets. He did not appear at all surprised, and replied to the effect that the question as to who was elected to congress in '82 would be definitely settled at the polls in ’84. Several geutlea»en were la the office, and the policy of tho gentleman controlling the democratic organ came up in a general sort of way. To the Idea advanced by the Democrat, that Sheriff McCorkle’s murder was political,allusion was made and such a theory declared an insult to public intelligence. On the day after McCorkle was shot, which - was the day preceding the election, Mr. Hendrick* spoke in Shelbyville, General Harrison having spoken on the day of the shooting. I asked. “Did Mr. Hendricks argue that the teachings of General Harrlsen resulted

In bloodshed?”

“Oh, no. Mr. Hendricks would not do that, but he did refer to the matter," replied Mr. Adams,” In language like this: 'It is strange that altercation and bloodshed should follow the speech of General Harrison; 1 come to plead for peace, and your presence here, my fellow democrats, or trues that the laws shall not be violated.’ No, Mr. Hendricks could not afford to make the Issue squarely. He knew that by offending Intelligence the loss would exceed the gain- lie Is inimitable, and he knows the people of

Shelby county.”

I have asked a number of people from the country, “Does the McCorkle tragedy influence politics and In Invariably received something likfl'this for an answer: “Ok, that Is all humbug. To be sure it will not. Democrats and greenbackers made up a large part of the jury that heard the case. Two democrats and one republican voted for acquittal. One of the democrats who voted for acquittal was lately nominated In a democratic townsLIn convention by aa ex democratic sheriff,, wao personally was McOorele’s best friend, and largely interested In the prosecution of his murderer. That blsouy shirt business is disgusting.” It Is frequently heard from hopeful Indianapolis democrats that the McCorkle trial bos brought the democracy sf Shelby together. It never drove them apart. It was of i o political sigalflcance whatever, and toe .tteoipt to make tt such, has proven a her ’less cruelty to the dead man, as uafsrtnr stely his official record, in the light of In-

vet tatlon, is bad.

Ti e organization of both parties evidently contemplates the renomlnation of Mr. English, bnt there will have to be a marked change from the methods of his last campaign—he must choose new associates to avoid the appearance of evil, if he succeeds la carrying as large a democratic vote as he did la eighty-two. Jar. Turpbn.

Tho Indianapolis Relief Committee. [Breckinridge county Ky.) New*.} Words are too feeble to express the gratitude of our suffering people to the Boaril of Trade of Indianapolis for the ti nely succor extended. Our needs were great our wants Immediate and pressing, but the .hartty of Indianapolis was greater thaa onr needs and swift to relieve onr pressing wants. May the good God who witnessed their bum tne acts bless them la family and store. Their charity ignored party ties and state lines, sects and nationalities, and was as bounteous aa it was quick and free-banded, ^galn we invoke God’s blessing on them and theirs. A Hint to Farmers’ Wives. [Qoshea News.] Two hundred million ponnds of oleomas gaiine are manufactured annually in this country. Where does it go? asks aa exchange. Why, tt Is purchased by the city people la preference to the large portion of the butter that finds its way to the market. But It Will Bo Homo Grown. ' [LooisvlUe Commercial.] Notwithstanding that Indiana Is no longer an October state the chances are that it will have as lively a campaign next fall as ever. A Complete Explanation. [Newcastle Cooritr.] One can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear. That’s what's the matter with W. R. Myers, democratic secretary of state. Progress in Turkestan. (Boston Globe.] Civilization has got Into Turkestan. The treasury is 100,000,009 roubles short. A Bad Emtnoneo. Ohio is third state In toe union in regard to crime. * A Writer Watering Place. Along toe Okie.

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SCRAPS. The Missouri will break up early. - There are about 5,000Chtneee taNew Tork General Kilpatrick’s widow is to have a pension. South Carolina has 613 lunatics ia her asylums. Surahs come ta ttata now to suit every type of woman. California exports a large number of bees to France every year. Farmers la parts of Maine are selling potatoes at 80 cents a barrel. A Troy lady has finally got $7,500 from a railway for a leg lost fourteen years ago. The maa that knows s thing or two has always three or four other things to lean. There have beea sixteen suicides sad two murders at Mo&to Carlo since the 1st of January. The fonr-track system on the Pennsylvania railroad now extends a distance of eleven miles. General Beauregard came out of the war a comparatively poor man, but he Is new wealthy. Sixty-four counties In Texas did not vote at the last presidential eleelion. Many of them have since beea organized. Guatemala encouraares cattle farming ky prohibiting toe slaughter of cows and severely taxing the exportation of hetfera. The distance from Trinkltat to Tokar la twenty mlhs; Trinkltat to Suaklm, tweatyflve miles; Tokar to Suaklm, forty-eight miles. New Tork City his eight hundred ragpickers who gather $750,1)00 worth ef rags la the streets and roads. The pickers are mostly Italians. A new volume from Browning Is premised. It will consist of one long poem, though the work will be about the same size as his latest volumes. This Is the way a mother down east described her daughter’s courtship: “He ’posed and ’suaded, she nayed and ’fused; last she ’seated, then he ’gaged her,” Memory Is a net. One finds it fall ef fish when he takes It from the breok, but a dozen miles of water have run through It without sticking. — [Oliver Wendell Holmes. The cost of the Washington monument thus far bas been $987,000, and the $150,000 on hand will finish it during 1884. The project of its erection is more than a half a century ago.* Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has returned to Johusion, ia Fulton county, N. Y., to pass the remainder of her dajs la the old Cady homestead, where she was born sixtyeight years ago. The pope has given orders for the removal of the body of Innocent III from Perugia to Rome, where a splendid monument will be erected to him. The remains of Gregory VII will also be brought from Salerno. A physician says that eating too many sweets brings on obesity, bolls and pimples. Ibis Is a good item to show to your caramel girl. What the impecunious young man wants now is a medical dictum on the poisonous qualities of Ice cream.—[Gil City Derrick. There is no period ia a fond mother's life when she is happier than immediately after her first baby has cut his first tooth. And there Is no period In that baby’s life when he is more unhappy than immediately after his mother has cut his hair.—[ Norristown Herald. A physician writes that “snoring can be cured by not permitting the victim to lie oa bis back, provided, of course, the case U not a chronic one of long standing.” But It seems strange that he should call the xnorer the victim, forgetful of the other members of the family. The Rev. Charles H. Eaton, of New York, refers to raffles at church fairs as “the devil’s kindling wood." If the reverend gentleman Invested fifty cents in an eight-day pound cake and drew a blank, he has a right to speak feelingly oa the subject. There should be no blanks at church rallies.—[Norristown Herald. Domino parties are fashionable entertain' ments in Boston, the ladles but not the gen* Uemen wearing masks. At oae entertainment a young gentleman waa flirting desperately with a domino, when to his astoa: ishment the voice behind the mask said “Why. Bobby, where did you learn such frightful things:’' The domino proved to be his mother. A submarine eruption occurred on the 32d of January off toe cost coast of Hawaii, which was witnessed hy several persons. It consisted of a terrific explosion, by which a column of water was thrown six hundred feet Into the air, accompanied with moot terrific detonations, as if a battery of cannon had been discharged. These noises were heard distinctly forty miles away, and continued for several hours. The occurrence was followed by a stonr of wind and rata, which lasted only a few hours. The next day was clear sad ploaosit. A Japanese correipoouoat of the London Dally News, having sssprsed that the Mikado was unpopular because ho received no cheers while passing through the streets ia state oa Us birthday, a Japanese geatlem&a writes to explain that cheering would be regarded there as disorderly. Ho further explains that the act of a young lady who wrapped up a piece of cake and pat tt ta ker sleeve at the foreign minister's reception Is quite “good form," and Is accepted as aa indication of a high satisfaction which she wishes to enable those at home to share. It is a remarkable characteristic of the waiters ia Paris restaurants that no matter what you ask for, no matter If It be a fried piece of the moon, they will Invariably reply “Tea," and either Wing It to you, or, on returning, assert with sorrow that unfortunately there to no more left It is told of Mery, the author, that by way of try tag tots as a joke ko peremptorily ordered of the waiter a Sphinx, a la Marengo. “I am sorry to say we have ao more," replied the waiter. “What, no more Sphinx?" exclaimed Mery, feigning astonishment The waiter towered his voice and murmured ia a confidential whisper: “We bare some more, monsieur, hut toe truth is, I would not care to give them to you, as they are not quite fresh!" Among tho Islands of the world Newfoundland ranks tenth in size, being 317 miles long and 316 miles wide. The original Inhabitant* were red men, supposed to be superior to the ordinary Indlaa. Up to 1728 Newfoundland was very badly governed, it being under the rule of the fishing admirals. The svslem under whick thev ruled was this: The captain of the boat that retch-d the fishing grounds first became admiral f v the season, and had entire charge of the Island. George Calvert, who afterwards became Lord Baltimore, and after whom the city of Baltimore 1s named, settled in Newfoundland before going to Maryland. Newfoundland does not belong to the dominion oi Canada, but has Its own governor and parliament.

hair-dye. Brought to toe verge of the grave, he abandoned Its use. His gray hair and beard are in curious contrast to what they were last session. But for the excessive loss of fltah and the painful effects of a long Illness, he would be Improved la appearance by allowing nature to have ber way. I hope that he will recover his health. Not long ago the most promlueut pawnbroker In Baltimore died a horrible death from the effects of hair dye. His dreadful fate has alarmed not a few elderly persons who had resorted to toe same practice, which Is one of Imminent deadly peril.—[Correspondence Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle Aa Amblttoue Undertaking. An Ohio physician Is preparing a medical lexicon In forty-twe languages. Among “all the Uls that flesh is heir to" none are more provoking thaa a troublesome onogh nod but for that reliable remedy. Dr. Bali’s Cough Syrup, many would be fas despair. Fries, » cents.

Eke Egyptian Situation. On Saturday, Gqp- Graham's forces vanced and recaptured Tokar. At the of Trinkltat, Friday, Baker Pasha ■"d Burnaby were severely wounded. It lo Ueved Osman Dlgna’s power has been W on. Tbe government, ceavteoad that Gordon's mission will fall end his Ufa put m Imminent peril, hoe offered to Ai ’ Kadlr Paths, minister of war, “

CT KVMUXT 1 VIUOAM VdZEl UUIW tUHW KNEW. V don amenta. Gordon hai ordered Ool Stcw&rt, commander of tho expedition up the White NBo, not to attack too: unless attacked hp toeen, but try to nog: with Sheikh Bugger as to go to Kbartou* If that sheikh prefers to fight he Fill pre lute a rising of aU tribes In Dortour Kardofu, and will attack Khartoum. A Xarrejeas Tking. [RMfcrin* GcaphfeJ The whisky Interest never asks anyth tt always demand!; and tt Is a marvel thing to ohaervo what as obedient eat tow nafcore here always bnen. The makers of Dr. Prise’s Cream Bek Powder hare entobUshed e wide reputation f putting upon the market articles excellent theta strength, parity end hsuhhfutoess. 1b constantly Increasing popularity renders It im* eoarihle for them to plane before the publio anything which is not found to be not 'half harmless but positively beneficial. In the midst of rime motto or neandglo tore. H Is pleasant to feel a masterly rem. moving through your system, driving out pangs and freeing the tied joints. Writing Atholophoroo—the champion remedy—Mr Radeo, Fair Haven, Conn., says: "Bare t a victim of neuralgia for years. During th last attack, tried Athlophoros. Its effect we*, truly wonderful. After the seoond does I felt It eU through mq, end my pntn was gone. 'In three hours I was able to reanme work, hove not been troubled stnoa.”

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DICi SON’S GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Use l cat located and^ mostpopulag Theater I Three NTgLt* and Saturday Matinee, common lag 1 barsday, March t, engagement of the Eminent Tragedian, MR. LAWRENCE BARRET Supported by Mr. LOUIS JAMES and »n et» oallent oonpaay. Thursday evening and Satarday Matinee, Hob. George H. Boker’s Tragedy, In six Acte and Tableaux, “RFANCE8CA DA RIMINI."' Laudotte, the Hunchback. Mr LAWRBECS BARRETT. A realization ef Daata’s celebrated story, presented with New Scenery, Oeetsmes and ate do, and the same eompeny as pared at Wall act's! Star Theater, New York, for ame weeks. Friday evening, Mar h 7—“HAMLET.” Satarday eTenlng, kiarch PV’KIOfl ICLIEU.” PRICKfi—Hefa Chair* and warqu«t»e, $1.““^ Psrqoette Circle, $1; Drees Circle, reserved, TSo. Admlsslsr. 86 and 50c. Sale of seats opens this (Monday) March S, at 10 a- m.. at the box office. Monday, March lO-^salabury Troubadours.■’

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One Week, commesoi , Tonday, JT.ircliA Matlaets Wednesday and SUurday. First appearance In this city of the brilliant young English Actress, Mfcs CLAIRE SCOTT Supported by a capable company, present lag Victor Hugo's Powerful Play, “LUCRETIA BORGIA.” tW~ Regular Prices, ^arl

Week of March 10. Harrison and Goarlay la* "SKIPPED BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON."

DIME MUSEUM. Attractions for the Week, commeBclng March J Miss Nellie Archer, tbs Urgent woman a them all. welghiar over MS pounds: Miss Pas Una Holleaderf, the ludians midget. <1 year eld. W inched In bight, weighs tt pounds; Mis TOHe SanvUle. the Lffllputaa qaeea; MGs Ad Morris; the electric lady; Rhoda, a head wttboe a body—It is ea optical illaatoa; Professor & Loomis’ Per Olreas, showing te what extent i dumb animal may be taught to perform triWk almuflt impassible; Ylctorello, the boy wonder Little Maude Bartina, In oharmlag songs, aa the “Oniy Leon.” the female Impersonator.

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