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BEPDBLICAK PROGRESS,

XSTABUSHKD A. D.

TUKjaHSD STZST WKMJE8DAT

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BLdOMIMGTOM, INDIANA.

MtMiM QfU: "JYeevwi IHsor," S&tt Strut m Ccllf Atmme.

A Republican Paper Devoted to the Advancement of the Hocal Interests of Monroe County.

Established A. D 1835.

BL00M1NGT0N, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1884.

New Series. VOL. XVIII . NO. 29.

REPUBLICAN PROGRISi

A VALUABLE ADVEB71SO

Onmlates im the Bert Hoim CsantT,

Ana to Read by Every Member ot Each Funny.

RKOTHEKHOOU. bt un & rum said in olden days 1 mighty king, at whose command almost The u stood stal. before whom knelt a bast Unooanted. POUftht the praise Of future im 1 will and." said He.

Tne fun amfa wren mom Happiness emu oe

w aw men so snau tatr worship

Throwtn every land lie sent

Hti heralds. Rich woM be Us prise who

orongni Tbomijtbty agcret that the wis king -sought. A vast crowd went TJp to bis nalac en the final day.

When they who strove should bring their gem

And wMoh was rarest the king's seer shouldaay. One bom a jewel with the gleam of gold Caught hi its yellow heart. He shook hU hsad ; that nmptre wise and old Bade them "Set it apart! Wealth implies poverty, as sunlight shade. Who hath too much, a burden's on him laid His brother's lack is by his surplus made.-

. rFjBnant a brilliant atone, whose tabbing

Caoght every eye. "fame winsP Shoot they. Not so the Judge. "Ureal aamea are bright, Aod yet sDccees hefrins Where failure ends. Tea) One who risen oUmbs O'er hundreds who hare iallen. One' joychimes Bins in lor others their lire's saddest times." - Bad flashes the fierce Jewe next beh-ld The Tutor's Jem. "Kven this, 'ThV its warm radiance is unexcelled. The hhrhest prise must miss, "e says. "O think you what a victory means other fellow -men I Del pat! Sad scene blood and flames, as Death Us harvest gleans." A fair white mm brines one, ky depth the sage sees pondering. , 'ion have the secret now, my kmg; With this the search i-i done. . read reflected the great truth . the prop of age the hope of yonth high and low. .- brother. This, in sooth. Leaves none forsaken. No manstamis alone; ' Union is strength for all. Help each yoox brethren, and when comes your own Distress yon will not call In yarn for aid. So shall the balaace just Be e'er maintained. Orief and oppression must Grow less, and man meet man with perfoct trust."

ii!

Pat."

BT M. C. FABLSY. TO own up that from the very first she uttcrestedme. bat it is compulsory admission on say part even yet We n ere all lodging in a big up-town boarding-house, where boarders were thicker than whortleberries in July, and where "help" was hardly to be had far love or money. The landlady had one day been "taking on at a fearful rate over the difficulties surrounding bear pontica, when ia walked a yoang . person in search of a situation. She 'was a perfect godsend. Nobody stopped to ask her for reference. Indeed, the landlady said shortly that she was only too glad to find somebody who could do something, and. for her part, she didn't cure a fig where the girl came from, nor who she was, so long as she did the duties allotted to her. Inasmuch as we had been taken in a short time previous by a certain immnc-nlate young Jezebel, who had not only stolen the hearts of all the gentluruen about the house, but had also eloped with all their other rain, ablet, an well, some of as rather felt cross-grained toward the worthy hoqtt'S'S and wished she would be a trifle more particular in the selection of her servants, especially the parlor maids. Bnt as she wasn't particulur and acted in an outrageously independent manner in the bargain, we women all determined among ourselves that, come what would, the new girl should be woil watched, and if .she was inclined to be tricky we would catch her is her tricks and oxpose her. Even married ladies, yon know, don't relish baring the graces, of a servant rung in their ears by their husbands and friends. There were thirty of us all told, and we were divided up into half a dozen little cliques, as boarders will divide up when domiciled together. We each tried at different times to be the belie of the boose, and as such one and all of Us bad met with bet indifferent success ; to be left in the shade by the new girl was unbearable. And that girl t The gentlemen to a man bad declared in favor of her at the first sight. Even yoang Howe horn report said was smitten with a cousin he had never seen in two days was raving over the parlor maid. I notice that men seem to have a propensity for falling in love with servants, any way, and this particular one hadn't been in the house two weeks before she bad earned the undying hatred of every woman in it ex eepting the landlady. She said her name was Patty, and Patty we called her to her face for there 'was -something' about her that conquered oar insolence when in her Presence, and forced as to treat her politely, tio matter how we felt toward bar. Bnt among ourselves we invariaS cut her name down to the first svlle and called her Pat. That is the spiteful way women take to vent their rbsliks on a person they dare not attack openly. And what a way she had. The Princess of Wales herself never entered a room with a grander air than Pat. did, when, duster in hand, she walked about the rooms dusting the things and putting the furniture to rights. She had a tan, willowy figure, bat swayed like a reed in the wind as she moved; and a pair of eyes as big and bright and black as eyes could well be. It was astonishing to hear some of the gentlemen raving over Pat's "delicate figure" and her "midnight eyes." As for me,Pve always said, and say it again, that I'd as soon embrace a lightning-rod as one of those tall slim girls. I am not an ardent admirer of thin people myself, bat tastes diner. We watched Pat as closely as eats would watch a mouse. We were literally dying to catch her trying to inveigle some of the gentlemen into a flirtation, but we did not succeed in so doing the sly boots! At this juncture there was a new arrivala lady. She was young, pretty, not toe tall, bnt round and plump. All the women were in ecstasies. Here was a rival to that awful Pat. We all immediately "called" on the stranger, -and we not only called on her, but we opened our hearts confidentially and told her about the parlor maid who was at present reigning like an uncrowned queen oyer the mate element of the bowling house. Viai Pretty man smiled disdainfully over our woes. "Ton ought to be ashamed," said she, in her dear, high tones. . "Here you are, fifteen ladies, all under- 35 years of age, and yet you let a servantgirl curry away the honors before your face aod eyes. I detest entering the b Cgainst a hired maid, but, to save the reputation of the boose, I'll think it ever, and let yon ladies see what I can do." We thanked bar humbly and went away. As I re-entered my room I spied the tall figure of Pat approaching my door. How. then. Pas" said I. ahakinc a

- Hum tmmmr aav t.m -invar turn.

you'll drop your colors. We've got a match for you at last, you jade!" "Were yoa speaking to me, madam ?" says Pat, innocently, swinging her duster carelessly in her hand; "if so, please repeat your words, I did not understand yon." But I merely slammed the door and bided my timePromptly at noon down came Miss Prettyman to dinner, arrayed for victory in pink sills, diamond ornaments, and no end of style. Young Howe, the beau par excellency of the house, always sat next me at dinner. All the single ladies were trying their very best to catch that wily yoang man, but none could boast of any success. To tell the truth, Mr. Howe had been abominably indifferent to all the ladies, except us married ones, until the advent of Pat, when, to our unbounded rage and consternation, he had immediately struck his colors and gone unconditionally over to the "enemy." "Sow, then," said 1 to him, "what do you think of the new arrival?" He adjusted hia eye-glass carefully and looked at Miss Prettyman. "Nice girl," drawled he; "nice complexion, too if its natural; but rather

stumpy little hgure, en v ' Stumpy! I could have boxed his ears.

Of course he was making a mental com

parison of the two girls, and Pat's tall

figure, which to me looked tor all the

world like an animated telegraph pole, was the standard of perfection in his es

timation. It was enough to make a

disinterested person sick.

A week passed by. We could all see

that Miss Prettyman was doing her

very beat to displace Pat from her

throne, and not witnouc some small

prospect of final success. Mr. Howe,

though, never flinched an instant, but

was ready at any moment to lift the

cudgels in defense of toe maid.

And we all thought yoa dead in

love with that cousin of yours, whom.

report says, yoa have never seen !" said

J, spitefully, one evening. "And for once you all thought the right thing," retorted he, coolly; "only I have seen her often, and my admvation increases daily."

"Somebody ought to tell her about

Pat" "ni tell her myself, if you'll give me time enough," said he, lounging away. There was a little romance attached to the story of Mr. Howe and his cousin. The story, as I heard it, was something like this: Mr. Howe's grandfather had two daughters. One ran off and married an Englishman against' her father's wishes; was disowned, and disinherited. The other one married a merchant prince, and died young, leaving a child none other than young Howe himself. Finding himself on his death-bed, the grandfather relented, and causing a search to be made for his discarded daughter, found her still living, though in humble circumstances, with her Englishman. The issue of their marriage was one child a daughter. Now what did the old fellow do bat have his will drawn up, in which, after providing for the Englishman and his wife, he left the bulk of his fortune to his two grandchildren, providing they married each other; or, failing in this, the money all went to the one who was willing to marry. If both declined to wed, the estate was to go to a charitable institution. Young Howe wrote to his cousin, stating the terms of the will and signifying his desire to comply with his grandfather's wishes. But she wrote back, flatly refusing, on the' grounds that her mother had been wronged. Then the attorneys wrote her, telling

her she was losing a fortune by her ob-I

BBUMM., WU. UU UUV . UUUUThe lawyers were obliged to turn over the whole great fortune to Mr. Howe, who, worried at his cousin's passing her life in poverty and care, determined to transfer half the property to her, and visited her home for that purpose; only to find she had disappeared, none knew whither. The upshot of the matter was that he inserted a masked personal in the Evening Journal. But so far he had heard nothing in response. Mr. Howe had never seen his cousin, but he had an excellent photograph of her that had been given him by her mother. Of course, this little romance in his history made Mr. Howe quite a hero in our estimation, and when he so far forgot himself and his high position as to turn his eyes toward Pat popular indignation reached a climax. Miss Prettyman was making a "dead set" at Mr. Howe, and I fancied Pat sometimes save her a scornful glance from her big

eyes when they .met, and meet they did,

quite often, lor it seemed as if Miss

Bret ty man could not be satisfied with

the services of the other servants, but must always insist on having Pat to wait upon her. We were all delighted with the way Miss Prettyman managed to make the maid's heart ache, for Pat began to show plainly enough that sjie liked Mr. Howe better than a person in her situation ought to have done, and Miss Prettyman would casually allude f o him in her presence in a way that was exasperating to say the least Pat began to look ialler and thinner than usual, and her manners were prouder and more scornful than ever. She was actually unbearable to us, and we longed for something to happen that would take her down a notch or two. We were all in the parlor one evening, and a stranger who had come that day began a long tirade on the lolly and mawkishness of the personals in the Evening Journal. "Now, here's one," he declared, "that is sillier and more romantic than all the rest" At that moment Miss Prettyman accidentally knocked over a rare vase and smashed it into atoms. Pat answered the bell. "Gather up the debris, Patty," said Miss Prettyman, loftily, to the maid; "and be as noiseless as possible, for Mr. Hanford is going to read." Patty stooped over the pile of broken china, and Mr. Hanford cleared his throat "The gentleman is about to give us a sample of the 'personals' found in the city papers," whispered Howe to the parlor maid, in a distinctly, audible tone. "What do you think of them, as a rule. Miss Patty t" "I don't think of them at all," said she, soldly. "I never read them." "This one takes the cake,' as the saying is," went on Hanford. "Now, listen a moment, ladies and gentlemen, and then give me your opinion." -Miss Cleopatra a: "Cousiw: If my presence is distasteful to yoa, I will try to find you no longer. But, for the sake of your father and mother, return to your home. I will not force myself Upon your notice, but will say that half of your grandfather's money shall be given to you, providing you will let me know where to send it Sorrow! nlly yours, "F, S.H,"

That was Howe's advertisement, and I recognized it instantly, for he had showed it to me privately o"o time, and I wondered how he would tak Hanford's scathing criticism. At the words "Miss Cleopatra S." Pat had stiffened up straight as a ramrod and turned a pair of big-surpriseO eves upon Hanford anger, amazement, and incredulity expressing tliemselvet' by turns upon her face. 'Nobody thought to express an opinion; we were all struck dumb at l'at's look and action. "It strikes me," said Miss Prettyman, with an arch glance at Howo, who, quito pale, stood glancing furtively at Pat, "it strikes me that the object fot which I entered this house is attained at last" The object for which she had entered that house! Good gracious! We women looked askance from ono to the other. What on earth did Miss Prettyman mean ? She smiled at Howe and made a motion jv.th her hand. "Oi courso these women," with a slightlv scornful emphasis on "theso women," "are burning up with curiosity to know what all this means. Let us explain." Pat reached out a trembling h.md for the paper Hanford still held. "Will you let me look at that per

sonal?" she faltered. And then that false, deceitful, good-for-nothing Miss Prettyman put her arm around Pat's waist nnd said, in a voice that would hare melted an iceberg: "You shall see the paper all you like, dear girl, after awhile. But just now let me introduce you to all those people in your proper character of Miss Cleopatra Sherman, heiress to half a million of money, and cousin oi Mr. Frank Sherman Howe." And some way Mr. Howe had hold of Pat's hands the next moment, and began telling something about his suspecting her to be his cousin, from her strong resemblance to the photograph he carried in his pocket and that, not daring to let her know of his snspicions, he had hired a female detective to come into the house and watch her, and how, just tbe day before, Miss Prettyman had actually discovered proof of his snspicions in a box of letters she had found in Pat's room, and to make a long story short, that detestable Pat was a great heroine for the next four and twenty hours, and the landlady gave a very lofty toss to her head when one by one we slipped out oi the parlor and hunted her up to tell her the news. "It don't surprise me at all to hear that Patty's somebody," said she, with a very superior air. "But what docs surprise and amuse me is the way you ladies haw been- taking on over that Miss Prettyman, who is nothing but a female detective. I think this time you pulled the wool over your own eyes. " Mr. Howe conducted Pat to her home next day; but, before they went away, he called at my door. "Good-by. madam," says he, blithely; "you always told me that I would marry my cousin at last if I would only persevere in carrying on the siege. And I am glad to let you know that I think you're a true prophet. I shall send you cards for the wedding." From behind my window-blind I watched them enter the carriage, and as Pat I will call her so still raised her hands in the sunlight, I saw glittering on the first finger of the left one a blazing stone, which convinced me that the poor old grandfather's fortune would be settled .as he wished it should be.

Stopped Off at Niagara Falls. A man, seemingly about CO years of

age, was telling the people in the waiting rooms at the depot that he had

been East to old Massachusetts to see his sisters, and that on the way back he stopped off at Niagara Falls. "That's a place I never saw," remarked a woman with a poke-bonnet on. "You didn't! Well, you've missed the awfullest sight on earth! I was jes stunned." "What is it like?" she asked. "Well, there's a river, and the falls, and lots of hotels, and several Injuns, and the bridle veil, and land only knows what else. If my old woman had a-been along she'd have wilted right down," "There's water there, I suppose?" "Oh, heaps of it It pours, and thunders, and roars, and foams, and humps around in the terriblest manner. You have bit on a shirt-button in a piece of pie, haven't you?" "No, sir." "Well, the feeling was about the same kinder shivery. Why, tfco biggest man that ever lived ain't half as big as

Niagara Falls ! Let him stand thar and

see that 'ere water tumbling over them 'ere rocks and he can't help but feel what a miserable boss fly he is. You've fallen out o' bed haven't you?" "No, sir." "Well, ifs about the same thing, you

wake up and find yourself on the floor, and you feel as if you had been stealin' sheep or robbin blind men."

"What portion of the falls did yon most admire?" she asked. "The water, mum," he promptly replied. "If you'd put 10,000 kegs of beer on the roof of this building and set

them all running, they couldn't begin

pallingest thing ever patented." "Cost yon much?" inquired a gentleman. "'Bout 65 cents. It's pooty tight times, and 65 cento don't grow on every bush, but I ain't sorry. It's sunthin' to talk about for twenty years to come. There's a chap in our town who used to travel with a circus, but bell have to take a back seat when I git home. Flipfloppin' around in a circus don't begin with Niagara Falls." "So, on the whole, you were pleased, eh?" "Pleased! Why, I was tickled half to death 1 I tell you, if I had one on my farm I wouldn't sell it for no $50 in cash ! I've looked into a field whar' 750 fat hogs was waitin' to be sold for solid money, but it was no sich sight as the Falls. I've seen barns afire, and eight hosses runnin' away, and the Wabash Biver on, a tear, bnt for downright appalling grandeur of the terriblest kind gim me one look at the Falls. You all ortcr go thar'. You can't half appreciate it 'till you've gazed on the rumpus." Detroit Free Press.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men; they make the earth wholesome. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society; and actually or ideally we manage to live with our superiors. We call our children and our land by their names; their works and effigies are in our houses.

Tjib gas meter never yet deceived the imaa wbo let it alone,

NASBY.

Mr, Hasby, Who Is in Hew Tori on Political Business, Interviews Several DirtinguiBhed People and Proposes a New Tioket COKFEDEBTT X HOAJDS ) (which is in the Bute ut Kentucky), V Aug. ia. 1 I cam to Noo York to attend a mootin uv the Independent Bcpnbllklns, which have boltid lilane and perposo to olcot Cleveland, to sec ckeackly wat they mean to do. 1 wuz fori-lintt in my time nv oomln. for there wuz a mectin uv em the nite I struk the Metropolis. There wuz present Gcoreo Wilyum Curtis, Carl Shorts, the Bev. Henry Ward Beecher, and others to tejus to mention. 1 can't say they Rreoted me with that corjalitv which ought to eglet atwixt bretltern engaged in a common coz, and I am satisfied that the glnoolnc Domocrisy uv the kentry kin never work in harmony with cm. They are altogether ondeslrable, wlch wut, evidently, leveled at me. Outnv deference to theso nniky-mon I hed borrored a shirt from a clozellno at 1 a. m. to come to Noo Yoik in, and hed only wore it a week. Wat do thev want"? Wood thoy bev a man hev a thousand shirts; They ot to see that shirt a week Irom now. George Wilvnm Curtis snifed at my brcth, and Henry Ward Bceeber rrfonscd to speck to me at al. Hovevor, I don't mind trifles like that. I mlnuled with 'cm affably. The question under discussion wuz the proper method uv conduktin the campaneon the part uv the Independents, and Mr. Curtis spoke fust. Mr. Curtis remarked that ho hed kiled he Republikin ratty, orlglnely becoz uv the depravity uv its candidate, tire tatocd Blaine. It wuz his orlginol ijeo that ho cood never Btiport a man wich hed any static onto his earactcr uv any kind. But his views hed undergone a modlficoshen recently. He hed origlnoly intended to eliminate polrtix from the campane entirely and hed notified ho Mmocratic Kashnel Comity to that effeck and tit it out purely on the soopcrior morality uv Mr. Cleveland, but his views hed undergon a serins change sence a subslisd pre hed charged Mr. Cleveland with sedoosin a widder and beta tho father uv a ilegitlmit child A voice from the awjense And proved It, too." "I admit the corccshnn. And proved it. I hev sence desidid that the bringin uv tho persncl earactcr nv candidates into tho canvas la al rong. For the time bcln, I only ak ofishl purity uv a candidate. Wat hex the Wider Halpin to do with civil cervls reform? Wat hez tbe Wider Haipin to do with " Myself "The postofflesl" "Wat hez tho Wider Haipin or the child, Oscar FolsonvCleveland, to do with pnrif yin Amerikin politht? Nothin. This cainpanc muot now be lot on them ishoos, and none others. Tho Bev. Henry Ward Bctcher spoke next.. "Ef I sposcd, scd Mr. Beecher. "that Mr. Cleveland wuz actily cilty uv tbe benyus sin that has been charged to him. I supose I cood cot conshionshusly vote for him. A man in public life hoz no rite to Indulge in sins in filch a way that it can be proved again him. Ruthur than hev it proved agin him he hed better keep virchns. In a matter uv this ktnd the onpardonable sin is to hev it proved agin yoo. 1 kin sympathize with Mr. Cleveland, for I have bin slandered myself. Tt'u all remember the painful circumstance. But I woz sure ot my ground. I wuz acquitted. My peple all believed that, while I wuz inosent. Elizabeth was guilty, and I most ernestly hope that our noble standard-bearer is fixed the same way. We care not bow guilty Mrs. Haipin may be considered, but we must donbt the gilt uv Mr. Cleveland. And, after al, I shel vote for him anyway. Sez the Holy Scrlpters, 'Let him wlch is without sin cast tho rust stone.' To forglv is divine. We all need forglvencs. Bposen Theodore bed succeeded in hunt in me out uv my pulpit wat wood Brooklyn, and tho Independent Bemtblikln organization, and tho world hev lost? When tbo purifyln uv the polvtix uv this great kontry is under oonsidera. shen it is idle to take into account sich a Utile ez the seduckshen nv a woman or the abduckshen nv a child, or trifles like that. Wc sl-.o '.d keep our eyes fixed stcdily onto wot we sot out to do the establishment uv riclmsnU in polytlx, Not wun uv us kin rote for a man like Blaine, whose caracter is smirched." It was my turn to chip in, wich I did ez follows: "My friends and co-workers," I remarkt,"I bring yoo glad tiding nv grate joy. The charges made by a venal and subsidized pres agin Mr. Cleveland don't affect the Diinocrisy uv the Corners at al. That -feend, Joe Bigler, sposcd it would hev sum efeck upon the Democrisy, and ho sposed that wc wood denouns a man for such misdemeanor, and demand his retirement from the ttkit. We held a meetin to consider t he mater and Josef fixed to put us to confusion, wlch ts his prinsiple business. Ho gathered together a hundred or more mulattoos, tho most of em over so years nv age, bein the sole reminders uv the old patriark system wich th Republikin party destroyed, al nv em barcln the honored names nv Fog-ram. MePelter, Gavit, and Guttle, and al uv em resemblin the Pogroms. Gavitts, Mcl'cltcrs, and Gntleses to a wonderful degre. Ho gathered together these niggers, and brot em to the meetin-house, and intendiq to spring em on us jist after we hed pased a resolooshen denounsin Cleveland for bevln bin the father uv a ilcgltunle child! Did ho put us to confooshnnl Not any. I quoted the passage uv fikrictcr wich my trend Mr. Beecher ist quotld and we resolved, ez yoo are doin, that this campane must be fot out on the grate prinsiple uv reform in polytlx, and that in eich a lite tho privit caracter nv our candidate hed nothin watevcr to do with iu It is entirely proper to assale the privit caracter uv the Republican candidate, becoz tho Republican party lay elame to respectability, but it is not proper to assale tho privit caracter uv our candidate, becoz we don't make no sich a clamo. Inesmushcz Joe Bigler kin git together a hundred niggers who bear the noses uv a skore uv our best Dimocrafcs shel we condem Clercland, wich is only charged with a half dozen? Diinocrisy must be consistent. The charges agin Cleveland will make votes for him in the Corners. Ez we sympathised with Mr. Beecher some years ago, so wc sympathise with Cleveland now. Indeed wer it not for tho reccord the grate Hendrix made, ez an unfllnchin oponent of a crooei War wlch deprived ns uv our privileges we shood insist that ho resin from the tikit that we might substltoot tbe name uv Henry Ward Beecher. "An now that 1 think uv it that is wat we want to do. Wo want a hymetrikel tikit. C) rover Cleveland is best known by the peplo nv the Yoonited States by his oonexions with the Wider Halptn, and Henry Ward Beecher by bis connexion with the Tilton family. Let us make the tikit syraetrikel. Let it bo CLEVELAND AND BEECHER 1 "Ef we succeed in eleetin' em, the peples idea uv jestis kin be don. Mrs. Haipin and Mrs. Tilton, both uv wioh arc in stratened circumstances, kin be given posishens in the Treasury Department, and they will be porvided for and everything made lovely. "This wood bo a symetrikel tikit, and a wellbalanced tikit, a tikit both ends of wich wood oome together, like a snake with Its tale in its month. I move that tfce Democratic Nashnal Committy bo advised uv (ho aokshen uv this mectin' ane rckested to make tbo change towunst." The matter wuz taken under considerashun, and we meet tomorror evln' to desldn unto it. May wisdom gnido their councils. I don't like to see Hendrix shelved, but the war ishoos aro old, and noo ishoos hev arizen. We shel remember his services to tlio Confederacy with gratitood, but everything must be sacrificed for success. Tho postoflices is our goal, and to gain them we must run faithfully and strongly. Peteoleum V. Nasbt, (Manager.)

SENATOR EDMUNDS. The Defeat of the Vemocratta l'arty the One Paramount Meed. IBnrlington (Yt.) special. The most notablo rally ot Uic week In Vermont took place here to-day, in the City Hall, whioh was packed to overflowing. The speakers were Congressman Horr, ot Michigan, and Congressman Stewart ot Vermont. Senator Edmunds presided at the meeting, and spoke as follows: "Gentlemen: I thank you for the compliment implied in selecting mo to preside on this interesting occasion. As you have come here to listen to distinguished gentlemen .who have not tbo felicity oi residing in Burlington, and some of them not even tbo comfort and saf ty of living in Vermont, tbe pole star ot sound politics, it would be both nnuraeioiis.aiid cruel is me to occupy tho time that has been devoted to our guests. I must say, however, that a very close study and observation of tho professions and practices of tbe Democratic party in Congress and in tho country, that tho generous confidence of my iellow-citizons has enabled mo to make for a long l eriod, has demonstrated to my mind that the safety and welfare of the people of tho United States continue to demand its exclusion from power. Whatever doubts or difficulties may embarrass our countrymen, here or elsewhere in tho United States, it seems to me that In the present attitude of political affairs the defeat ot the Democratic- party is a need fairly paramount to any other. I recognize fully tlio liberty of belief, of opinion, and ot action that belongs to citizenship. It is a fundamental i art of our creed, and none of ns can fail to feel tho great responsibility that results from that freedom. Under suoh responsibility, and looking at every aspet t ot the public weal, the people of tbo Htate ot Vermont arc again to express their opinions of the principles, the methods, and the pnrposen of the Democratic pa: ty. It has been wrong tor more than a quarter ot acenlvnj,-, and, I tear, will continuo so for a long time to come. In the recent eriods, when it had control ot ono or the other of the bouses of Congress, it demonstrated its unfitness for government in respect to nearly all the Important measures it proposed or resisted, and every succeeding year seems to decorate It with a new folly. But I must return to the duty I stated at the outset. I have the ph-asuro of presenting to you Congressman Horr, of Michigan." The condition of Senator Bdmunds' private business, and the ill health of his family, have considred to retire htm from publicity this Hummer. He is at j resent closely engaged In preparation for the trial of an important telephone suit. The Democrats are determined to make a desperate effort to capture Ohio in October, The brewers have already contributed

$350,000 to bo used as a campaign fund in that State, and other largo contributions will bo msuo by the Standard Oil Company and other monopolies. The Saloonkeepers' Association of tho State will also be utilized, and every ono of its '33,00o members is relied on to win over a Eopublican to the Democratic and saloonkeeper cause. The money will bo ready for use the 8th of September, and thereafter will be freely scattered where it will do most good. Tho campaign will be fought by the Democrats mainly on tbe liquor and barrel issues and on the still-bunt plan. Chicago Tribune. SENATOR HOAR.

A Iietter Effectively Meeting Mr. Carl Sohurz'a Charges Against Blaine.

Mr. Schurz says that tbe election of Mr. Blaine will be a declaration by the American people that honesty will be no longer one of tho requirements ot government. 1 think Mr. Schnrz is entirely mistaken here, also. It will be a declaration on tho part of tlio American people that they do not agroe witb him in his estimate of Mr. Jllttliie. It will bo a declaration that they do not Ibid in Mr. Maine's conduct and letters what Mr) rlcharz thinks bo finds there. It will bo a declaration that they agree with Dr. Clark when he paid Mr. Blaine his glowing tribute of admiration and honor, when all these facts were fresh and familiar. ' It will be a declaration that they agree with Mr. Curtis, who declared that Mr, Blaine's vindication of the principal charge against him was triumphant. It will bo a declaration that they agree with Mr. Bluino's noli'libors, ot his own district and of his own State, with the representatives of a vast majority of the Republicans of the country, who have three times, since all these charges were made, declared for him as heir candidate for the Presidency. It will be a aeelaratlon that they agree with the Governor and the Legislatnro of Mi-ino when thoy twice in succession made him Senator. It will be a declaration that they agree with Garfield when he made bim Secretary of State, and witb the almost half Democratic Senate when they, without an instant's hesitation, confirmed him for that high ottioe. Mr. Schurz says: "The friends ot Mr. Blaine say his offense has been condoned." They say no such thing. They say he has been triumphantly acquitted. They find bun not guilty of these foul and Injurious charges. They say that in this complicated matter these repeated tokens ot public confidence and affection ought to outweigh a million times the breath of rumor and of slander, or even the possibility of an adverse interpretation of tbe meaning of a single phrase. He says that our answer is only tho cry or party. I think bim mistaken in this also. Your party is but the instrument by which treemon execute their will. But it differs from other instruments in this: It is an indispensable instrument. It is an instrument made up cf men, and, practically, of all the men wbo wish to accomplish tho things you wish to accomplish, and deem vital to the prosperity, honor, and glory of your country. It is an instrument itself possessing intelligence, judgment, conscience, purpose, will. A majority of that party must necessarily determine its plan of battle, and the commander undt r whom it will tight. And when yon separate yourself from the party whose principles and jim-poses are yours, you effectually abandon those principles and purposes. You might as well say. when the army of the Union was about

to enaage the enemy at Gettysburg or Lookout

mountain or five Forks, tnat you man t approva tbe plan of battle, or didn't like the general, aud that, for that day only, you would go over to the enemy or tight in another place. on cannot da it w ithout being a deserter. No matter whothor yon dislike Grant or Meade or Sheridan. The bat tie on which tbe bopoof Union and humanity hancaisto lie fought. tbore on the lines they form. No man knows this better tbanGrover Cleveland. "I am chosen," he says, "to represent tbe plans, purposes, and policy ot the Democratic party If elected he will do it. James G. Blaine is selected to execute tbe plans, purposes, and policy of tho Republican party. And he wiil do it You may not like the general the commissioned authority of the Republican party has selected. But you fight on tho Domocratio side, with the Democratic party, against the Republican, oaeverythingon which the two parties differ, if you vote for Grovcr Cleveland. If you eleet Cleveland you abandon further hope of civil service reform for this generation. Yoa take tbe side of free trade against protection. You bid farewell for a lifetime to honest elections in the South. You suffer the great Mormon cancer to spread over the breast of the republic. There is bnt one thing on which Grovcr Cleveland has unmistakably planted himself. That is. that if elected, he will be a party instrument. What he said in his speech of acceptance, be echoes in bis letter. In that feeble document which, as compared with Mr. Blaine's, is as a mole-hill to tbo Allegheny Mountains, he declares that when "the party has outlined its policy and declared its principles, nothing more is required of the candidate than the suggestion of certain well-known truths." Is he for protection? Nobody knows. Does be wish to put down Mormonism? Nobody knows. Is be in favor of repealing tne tenure of office law? Nobody knows. There is not a single question nt issue before the people in regard to which you have any warrant of .his action, except in his avowed purpose to carry oat tho will of his party. Mr. Schurz further says that it anybody hereafter chargos that tne opposition to Mr. Blaine is a free-trade movement it will be a lie. Hitherto It m -V have been a mistake. But since ho has reminded you that they were ready to support Mr. Edmunds, you will lie if you repeat the statemont. Well, it is true, they favored the nomination of Mr. Edmunds, who is a protectionist. But is it not true that every newspaper and every prominent man wbo has corns out against Blaine, leaving the Republican partv this year, has a strong leaning to free trade? Do yon think or an exception? The men who love, honor, and support Mr. Blaine have quite as lofty an ideal of pnrity and integrity in public station as those who oppose him. 'They make no distinction between public and private virtue. If a man be not controlled by tbe law of right and duty in private lite, he is not to be trusted amid tbe temptation of public office. We will vote for no corrupt or unclean man for President. At the same time we do not mean to help any party to gain the Presidency by crime. I said in 1870, just after tho Belknap trial, that tbere had been not only less corruption relatively to tbe size of tbe country in tho twelve vears that followed the rebellion, but less absolutely than in the twelve years of administration of Washington and John Adams. That is equally true if we compare the last twenty years with the first twenty under the Constitution. Tho Independent oddAss enumerates some recent cases of dishonesty in high places. In some ot them retribution has been tartly. In some there bos been a natural, but indefensible reluctance to accept evidence of guilt against )o!itical associates. But in the mam those are cases where dishonesty has been detected and remanded to publio life by Republicans themselves. The party bas been growing better and bet ter. It was better in '68 than in '01, better in '76 titan in '68, better in 'si than in 'su. Attention is called to the fact that there arc unworthy men still consplcnous, I think it likely. Wherever a victorious army is on the march you will sec theso vultures flying in the air. The company of men who have formed a hasty and unjust judgment of Mr. Blaine contains many persons whom I love and honor, many of whoso friendship I am proud. They have been honestly misled. But in tbe main the honesty, purity, education, strength of tho nation is in the Republican party. Tbe men who saved the nation are more patriotic than those who tried to destroy it. The men who abolished slavery love freedom and labor better than the men who struggled to preserve it. The men who paid tbe debt are more honest than those wbo tried to repudiate it, Tho men who kept the currency sonud are better financiers than those who tried to debase it The men wbo stand for fair elections in the South are more fit to be trusted than tho minority who are honing to sent tlutir men in the Presidency by murder and fraud. The purity of the American home, without which there can be no pnrity of health anywhere, is safer witb those whajrc trying to extirpate Mormontsm than wits those in whose eyes Grovcr Cleveland is the standard of personal excellence. The men who have achieved the independence of American manufacture, whoso policy bos called our vast industries iuto life, and who would exert overy force which Government can rightfully wield to keep up the rate of workmen's wages, are wiser and more far-seeing than those who would put these great interests under the heel ot England again, and let the price of American labor oe determined In the British market. defter t H'oreetiter UUaxo.) Spy. JEFF BAYIS WASTS A CHANCE. Ho Says Southern Soldiers Havo as Much Bight to X'cuslons as Union Mon. (Forsyth (Go.) spcclal.l Tho Confederate soldiers of Monroe County have just finished a reunion at whioh memories of tho war were froely interchanged. Among the incidents was tbe reading of a letter from Jefferson Davis, in which he complained ot tho pensioning of Federal soldiers as discrimination, lie says: "Though the States are again reunited and all contribute to fill the Treasury of the General Government, the funds thcro collected arc only aj piopriatcd to provide for the ex-soldiers of the Northern States. Tho Southern soldiers disabled In war and tho widows and orphans ot those who died can only hope for relict from a second tax, which may bo voluntarily paid by the people for whom they fought and who sulfered with them. It is not the least of your meritorious manifestations that you meet this discrimination without complaint and braco yourselves to bear the double burden with no ill feeling to tho Government for this off onstvo favoritism. Under all the severe trials to which you were subjected it U equally honorable to you that you have accepted the consequence of defeat ami thereafter gone shoulder to shoulder with all who are striving to secure tbe welfare and promote the prosperity and prcscrvo tbe honor of a common country. Tbb Bepuhlioau party has recently reduced the revenue by $0,000,000 a year. "Turn the tascabjjOnt, "

SENATOR SHERMAN. The Past and the Present The Demoemtio Policy in the South.

Senator Sherman recently delivered a speech at Ashland, Ohio. Tbo Senator beean by stating that tbe older he became the freer ha was from partisan pride. He then briefly leviewedi ho history of tne Republican and Democratic parties, ami sold: "Those of us who have lived through the Serlod of this struggle and growth can realize y a single glance of memory from the present to the patt tie great and beneficial change which has been produced in the United States sinte the Democratic party was in power, bnt thote of you who are about to assume the reins of government will appreciate this change more by reference to somo figures token by mo from tho statistics of the last census. From lSRti to lStiO our imputation increased from 31,100,000 to to 6l,ooa,oo, more than 58 1 er cent The number of manufacturing establishments .ucro'sed from 110,000 to 233,ut'0. The capital employed in manufactures increased irom il.MW.oOu.uoe to $-"0-.t,000,ooo, or nearly three-fold. The number of bands employed in manufactures increased from 1,311,000 to 2,7.w,oiki, or more than donblo. Tne wages paid to laborers lucrcas-d from 37j,ooo,ooc) to $ui,(h)o,ihxi. or nearly three-fold. The value of material nsed in manufactures increased from tl,03i,ouo,ooo to $a,:iao,(itio.()oo, or more than three-fold, and tho valao of products from fl,55,0O0,0O0 to $5,3139,000,000, or about three-fold. "But this enormous Improvement in our condition is not confined to manufactures only. It extends to agriculture and other pursuits as well. The number of farms in ISC0 was 2,0,000, while in 1880 it was i,omyj0. The number of acres in farms increased during that titno from 407,000,000 to Cl6,uoo,000, and their value increased from ,0WJ,oo,O0 to tlO.WT.eoo.ooo, while the products of farming increased from $2 iti.ooo.ooo to $i0i'.,roo,:oo. "In 1800 wo had 80,085 miles of railway. In 1SS0 r.-e had 81,393 miles, and now we havo 127,000 miles. Our exports of domestic Products during the last year amounted to $8ot,000,000, while in I860 they amounted to $373,000,000. "Our national debt, once an object of profound alarm, is being paid off at tbe rate of $100,000,000 a year, the excess of taxes being so lightly borne that no considerable portion of the people complain of them, and no general demand ts mode for the repeal of any of them. Indeed, it is a marvelous feature of our condition that to repeal taxes is more unpopular than to retain them, aud some ot these taxes are themselves a means of prosperity, and not a burden complained of by any." The Senator then spoke of tbe triumphs of the Republican party in the post, and declared the Democratic party totally unfit to govern the country. Concerning the Democratic policy in the South he said: "The Democratlo party is in complete control of all the Southern States. In this way they claim to be secure ot lis electoral votes, needing only forty-eight from the North to give them power to elect a President of their choice. And yet we know that in perhaps a mnjority of the Southern States, if tbere was a legal, fair election, without fraud or violence, the Republican partv would be in tho majority. Wo also know that thev gained power In those States by crimes so revolting that when described in the mildest terms, good, quiet, honest people In tbe North doubt the truth of such statements because thev are not capable ot believing it possible that such crimes would be resorted to. It has got to be somewhat out of fashion to talk aoout Southern outrages, but no correct view can be had of the condition of this country unless we ore willing to look at the exact situation of the rebel States. "By the policy adopted in 1875 in Mississippi the Republicans, white and black, were either not allowed to vote, or, if they voted, the count was so made as to reject their votes, and, iu many cases, to count them on the other side. This fraud and violence was open, palpable, and scarcely denied. It was proved by witnesses by tho hundred, whoso testimony is recorded in public documents, nowopen to the Inspection of any citizen. That fraud and violence was continued in 1878, and would have defeated President Hayes but for the power conferred by State Legislatures upon returning boards, a device of their own contrivance. which enabled tbe returning boards in Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina to return the electoral votes of those States for President Hayes, Sometimes this has been a matter of complaint, and it has been denounced as a fraud. Yet I happen to know, from the most careful examination of these coses, that in each of these States, if there had been a fair election, tbe majority' would have been overwhelming for the Hayes electors, and that the returning boards were not able to repair all the wrong done, but did lawfully and properly reject the returns ot counties and parishes where the fraud was most palpable and gross, and thus secured the election of President Hayes. Von all remember that even then bribery and fraud in Oregon and other States was attempted, and the cipher dispatches, a disgrace to the history of onr elections, showed that bribery was attempted in fcveral of the Southern States. I affirm without fear of contradiction that in every one of tho cotton States a fair and honest vote, free from fraud and Intimidation, would place all these States on the sldo of the Republican party. "The occurrences at the recent elections in Mississippi and Virginia, known as the Copiah and Danville outrages, show that tbis policy is continued now, and tbe newspapers Inform you that it is the openly announced and avowed purpose of the Democratic leaders to resort to the same frauds in Louisiana and Mississippi, and, perhaps, other States. The success of the Democratlo party is only possible by Crimea that in former times would have so shocked public opinion as to have led to the nunishmcnt and disgrace of every ono wbo participated in them, and yet tbis is the way, and the only way, by which there is a possibility of tbe Democratic party succeeding at tbo present election. I have often thought and believed that it the honest, good Democrats of Ohio could apnreclate, as I do, the nature of these offenes, and the danger to our institutions growing out of election frauds, they would revolt against all afiiliaiions with tho Democratic party. I concede that, as citizens and neighbors here, they am as peaceable, as orderly, and in tbe main as patriotic as we are, but I cannot but think that they are so blinded and misled by party zeal that they will condone and take advantage ot crime and fraud to secure party ends, or a still more charitable view, that they cannot be persuaded, even by evidence, of the truth of charges so disgraceful to their party and their associates in the South." The Senator then considered tho tariff question, the duty on wool, and urged liberal pensions for soldiers, closing with a eulogy ot the Republican national candidate.

Deceiving the Irish. The average Irishman is tanght to believe that the Republicanism of to-day is the successor ot Knownothingism that the ruffian mobs of Louisville. St. Louis, and other American cities who mobbed the Irish forty years ago by some unexplained metamorphosis have converted themselves into the respectable and libertyloving men wbo compose tho rank and file ot the Republican party. The truth in this regard is that this Knownothing story is clearly, calumniously false. - What became of tbe Know-nothings may bo an open question. They may have gone to heaven or hades. I wiU not sav that they went into tho Democratic party; but I do say that they are not in the Republican party, for the party is not composed of that kind of men. Ruffianism will assert Itself, and it does not assert itself in the Republican party. The Knownothing party was a Southern party, its home was in the slavoholding States. There were five Knownothing votes cast south of the Masou and Dixon line, for one vote cast in the Republican States of tbe North; yet for thirty vesrs this Infamous falsehood has been tho false pretense on which the votes of Irishmen were obtained for the Democratic party. While parties have risen and fallen, while individuals have acted with regard to living issues, for thirty years, the proud place assigned to the Irishman has been a post beside the tombstone of tho putrefying past, hugging tho ghoststory of Knownothingism. I find no fault with Democratlo principles, these principles are mine: nor am I prepared to say that it is an Irishman's dutv to abandon the Democratic party and enter tho Republican. What I do say and shall keep saying is that ho has the right to think, and that he must not be stigmatized for a thought or an act that runs counter to the Domocratio party. That it any wish to secure his vote they must appeal to his reason, to bis sense of riaht, to tbe manliness aud honor of his character. Bnt it is written, aud the fiat has gone forth, the hour is at hand when Ids vote cannot be held by any claim in the nature of a chattel mortgage, nor by an appeal to his prejudices, nor by the vicious and calumnious buQ-a-boo about Knownethtngism. John Brennan, in the Ioiea 2'inm. Beformer Cleveland. Tho Albany Evening Journal is dealing seme treuohant blows at Cleveland from the standpoint of his protended dovotiou to reform. In ono of its recent chapters of State history it shows that ho approved a bill whioh took $121,ooo from the pockets of tho taxpayers of tho State to pay for rascally old claims which hod been rejooted both by Gov. Robinson (a Democrat) aud by Gov. C'ornoll la Republican) after full examination by both ot thorn. Tho claims grow out of work performed by contract on the Elmira Reformatory In 1871. During its progress it was discovered t hat tbe work was done In the most extravagant manner. Accordingly an act providing tor a change in the plans was Jiassed. Tbo contractors then put In a claim for 121.000, as the profits they would have made had they been permitted to go on until thecomfdetion of the building. Two Governors, as wo lave said, one Democratlo and one Republican, refused to approve tho claim, bnt Cleveland approved it wil hunt any delay. The affair ia local to New York, but it shows tbo humbug of Cleveland's pretenses ot reform and how closely bis sympathies are allied with rings and Jobs. nmeiftn 'PrihaM.n A hwiminiml: AffrtW-

gan Republican ridicules the boasts of the

fusionists that they ran curry that atate

against Blaine. Iu 188(1 Gartieid secured 34,705 more votes than Hanoock iu the fcjtate. This year tho Bepublicans of Michigan aro enthusiastic in support of JBtatno, and thoy VO united. This gentleman esti

mates that Blaine will poll 200,000 votes Oils year. The fusionists cannot poll more than 176,000.

GOV. PORTER.

A Reusing Speech Before a ing In Indiana.

Has8-Meet

Liberty find.) Cor. Chicago Tribune.I Gov. Alberto. Porter addressed, to-night, an Immense Republican mass-meeting and delivered a lengthy and able speech, most or whioh, however, was taken up in discussing questions relative to the State. He presented a scathing arraignment of tho professions of the Democratic State Convention, vindicating Republican management of public institutions, and commending some valuable suggestions to tho coming Legislature He showed teat the Republican party in Indiana deserved credit for taking measures toward securing mechanics by a first lien upon work done for wages thereon performed, and he recalled in the same conneo ion that Grover Cleveland had vetoed a mechanics' lien bill, and was fully sustained in it by his party friends The speaker suggested that as tho burden of taxation fell upon the farmers and the owners of small homesteads-it wo lid be well for experienced men chosen by the people to meet in convention and discuss measures of reform. Touching the general Issues of the campaign he said : "My objection to the Democratic party in recent years is that it ia a party without convictions. It bas had no settled belief upon any public questions. It has repeatedly approved and pledged itself not to disturb measures achieved by tbe Republican party, against which it had waged tbe fiercest party warfare. It is always asking that its past may be forgotten. Its enemy is memory. Tho first sentence In its recent platform shows its soreness about the past: "The Democratlo party of the Union, through its representatives in national convention assembled, recognize that as nations grow older, new Issnes are born of time and progress, and old issues rerish.' Why remind the people anxiously of the old issue having pet isbed? Banquo perished, but his ghost took a seat at the banquet table, and tbe ghost was a hundred times more harrowing than Banqno had ever been himself. That is what is the trouble. It is these memories connected with the old issues that will not 'down,' that haunt and pester the party. The Bepullcan party has no chests of memory connected with past issue that put it In dread that the past will be referred to. A vast territory mother of many States preserved from the presence and taint of unrecompensed labor; an enemy overcome by the sword yet more benefited by war than it bad ever been by peace, by being ridded of a destructive system of labor and ot having had opened to it, i,s by doors flying wide apart, an enlightened system ot free and diversified industries; a national credit, through the exercise of an undcviatlng good faith, unexampled in the history of nations; a currency, since the issuing of which no blllholder bas ever lost a dollar; an arbitration ot a great national dispute, through which, as a national redress for wrongdoing, there was wrung from tbe most warlike nation of Enrope$15,000,oo of treasure; a tariff system which, at the beginning of our great civil strife, by setting on foot a vast system of manufacturing industries, spanned the darkest clouds of war with the rainbow of promise. These 'past issues' have left no ghosts to terrify the Republicans. We never beg that they shall not be remembered." The speech was received with great enthusiasm, particularly tho closing tribute to the Republican standard-bearer. "If Mr. Cleveland cannot tell," said the speaker, "where he stands upon this great question, there is one man whose trumpet has never given forth an uncertain sound Its notes being ever clear and resonant. Yon know very well whom I mean. James G. Blaine answers to the description. Beginning life in the humble occupation of a schoolmaster, he has, by the force of his talente, by the strength and vigor of his character, by his personal intrepidity, by his irresistible social charms, by that combination of high and sympathetic qualities which belongs to rare and tine natures, made himself one of the best known and best beloved of all the public men in our history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives of bis adopted State and of Congress, distinguished always for the fairness ana unerring clearness ot his decisions; as a debater on the floor of each House, whenever he entered the lists his plume shining in front of the combat; as a statesman, long known for the surprising breadth and accuracy of his political knowledge; as a writer, depicting the incidents and scenes of a long public life, in which he has borne a most conspicuous port, rich and perspicuous in style, copious and accurate in information, just and generous to every ono with whom he has ever crossed a sword; his home the abode of domestic bliss and hospitality its hospitable doors open alike to friend and foe tbe bitterest adversary in his warm and joyous presence forgetting bis fend and dissolving into kindness: a citizen ot the United States, broad-minded and just toward the whole world, yet his whole being pervaded and burning with the American instinct; so frank and open that be is transparent as the air this is the man whose banner is in onr front, whose plume nods at the head of the column, and under whose leadership we expect to move on to victory," Examine His Record. Democrats who affect to sneer at Mr. Blaine's record on the civil service question hod better study his record. While he has never posed before the country as a oivil service reformer of loud professions, the fact is that daring the only period of his public life at which ho hod control ot any considerable amount of patronage, his coarse was that of a supporter ot the principles recognized by the advocates of reform. A correspondent recalls the circumstances attending tbe resolution ot the House of March 3, 1873, vesting the appointment and removal of the official reporters of the Honse in the Speaker. At that time nearly all of these reporters were Democrats; and had Mr. Flolne, as Speaker, followed Democratlo example, he would have been excused for removing them. Instead of this, however, no actually constructed the resolution of the House so as to limit his own power, and that removals could only lie made for cause. Careful study ot Mr. Blaine's relations with the officeholders of his own State will also develop some facts that will surprise his self-appointed and ignorant critlos. 6'ount-i! Muffs -nonpareil. Temperance in the Campaign. The fact is, the temperance question ia not an issue in this elcctionIt has no place in a Presidential contest. A President can do nothing officially to promote the cause ot temperance. He may, as Hayes did, exalude spirituous liquors from the Executive Mansion, and it is not a bod example for the Chief Magistrate to set to the people of the country. Beyond th s the President has no power or Influence. The Federal authorities have nothing to do with the subject of the liqnor traffic, and all efforts to make capital out of the temperance proclivities ot the candidates are but subterfuges. It is true Mr. Cleveland made an open bid for the German vote in his letter of acceptance in referring to "sumptuary laws," but the Germans have too much good sense to be influenced by anv suoh clap-trap. They know that If St. John should bo elected he could not, if he would, interfere with tbe manufacture and sale

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Mr. Hendricks' Record. Mr. Hendricks' record Is longer than Mr.

Cleveland's and more oonsistont. In fact, its consistency is the most aggravating feature ot it, for from first to last he has opposed the great principles upon which national honor and prosperity have been built up. Mr. Hendricks advocates the repeal of tne Missouri compromise. . Mr. Hendricks opposed the repeal of the fugitive slave law. . ilt Mr. Hendricks opposed the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. Mr. Hendrloks opposed the war for the Union and gave moral aid and comfort to the rebels. Mr? Hendricks advocated inflation and repudiation. Mr. Hendricks Is opposed to the protection ot American industry and the prosperity ot American labor. A Cleveland Bolter. The Hon. Edward F. McDonald, who was nominated for Presidential elector by the New Jersey Democrats, and declined, publsthes a card stating his reasons for declination. He savs that under no circumstances oould he vote for Cleveland, because he considers him mentally, politically, and otherwise unfitted for the office of President He would have supported Bayard, Thurman, Baudall, or Batlor. Availability was the only qualification the Democratic convention sought, he says, and they have not found it. Mr. McDonald Is in for smashing tbo Democratic rings in New Jersey. The ballotbox stuff ors must go before the Democrats will have any chance of success. Mr. McDonald predicts that Blaine will carry Sew Jersey by 20,000 majority. Cleveland's ideas of economy and reform were shown by his charges for attendance at court iu Buffalo when he was Sheriff. There wore threo courts, and he brought in bills for 863 days' personal attendance in a year at $3 a day. The way he did was to visit eaeh in rotation for thirty or sixty minutes each day, and then oharge the taxpayers for a full day's work. But this same Cleveland thought twelve hours' labor too short for a day s work on the footboard by car-drivers; his idea was that sixteen hours was about right for them and thirty minutes for himself. An anxious Democrat asks the New York Sun for Mr. Cleveland's views on tho Mormon question. They aro exactly the same as Mr. Cleveland's views on the tariff. His expressions on these topics may be stated in a lino. Something like this: " Over 100 Irish-American Demoorkts at

Crawfordsvillo, Ind., havo pledged themgaIvah to vrw' tains and Ijooan. "

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INDIANA STATE NEW. A child was born at the Vloyd Cvonty Poor Asylum having five fingers and a thumb on its right hand and six toes on its right foot Some miscreants broke into the semi' nary at Vernon and destroyed books, ptetures, and everything they could lay thsir hands on. Weston P. Cary, residing at Pleasant View, received a bite from some insect the woods, causing swelling and deiirionv which ended in his death. Clinton Bay, a dissipated young farm, of Tippecanoe County, attempted suichis by running a lead pencil through his neck in the Lafayette Jail, where he bad beer locked op at his own request. An Aurora chicken, about half grown, swallowed a honeybee. For ten minutes the poor fowl flew about the door yard in a most frantic manner. Finally it squatted upon the ground, turned over, and died. Prof. U F. WundOTlich, of New Albany, and for years the leader of the Maennorchor Society, has been elected, without solicitation, Superintendent of the German Orphan Asylum at Louisville, over sixteen candidates seeking the place. Mr. Joseph Thompson and Miss Annie Pore, of Eaton, Delaware County, were to have been married a few mornings ago. The parties and guests assembled, but Annie was witb an old lover, and refused to take part in the ceremony. Jerome Q. Stratton, a criminal lawyer of Fort Wayne of much prominence, attempted suicide in his room by catting his throat with a penknife. He did not succeed owing to the dullness of the instrument, and is considered out of danger. George, alias "Dofeey" Watson, whe was caught in the Madison ftly Hall on the morning of June 7 trying to open a safe lathe Treasurer's office, has been sentenood to two years in the penitentiary, and disfranchised for five years. At a Sunday-school celebration at Moorefield, Switzerland County, twe brothers named Coleman quarreled with two brothers named Higgins. John Cole. man was shot and mortally wounded. Hit brother, James, was badly beaten witb alungshot. . Samuel Shipley, a farmer living a few miles northwest of Connersville, is the owner of a heifer ten months old Oat gave birth, a few days ago, to a healthy calf. As the period of incubation in cattle is nine months, this is thought to be the most astounding case of premature fecundity on record. Andrew Robinson, who came to Decatur County in 1823, and has lived on those mo farm, near Kingston, ever since, is dead. Although -he was 93 years old, hi mind was unimpaired until the hut week. He was a soldier of 1812, and for the past eight years had been blind, but always cheerful. John Griffin, a policeman, shot and killed Noah Wilson, a colored man, at Eoganspoxt. Griffin arrested Wilson for having interfered in a dispnto between hinweU and another policeman. At the station the prisoner made some resistance, and GrifBa emptied the contents of his own and brother officer's revolver into the priacner'a body, John Smith, of Jeffersonvillo, who an 'not a practical butcher, took a huge butchet knife to cut up a calf hanging on a hook. He cut so vigorously that he cut the calf in two, and as he did so.his knife slipped and entered his abdomen, penetrating a oowpie. of inches. He did not think tire wound a serious one, and walked home. Surgical attention was given him, -but he died of internal hemorrhage. Herman Heitman started to watt on the Air-line track from Duff, Dubois County, to Huntingburg. While crossing the long" trestle near Duff, a west-bound freight train entered the trestle. As there was no ebaaoe to get off he stopped to one aide and latd

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wnen sometning caught m tne wamajanaor. , his pantaloons, leaving him as naked' .-' when he came into the worM, He ah received a scratch on his back, bnt was other

A strange gentleman went into the Ftrat. . Preabvterian Church, at LaiavattSL re-:

uvea in new iwra, uy, w a umww e ps. . John's Episcopal Church, and gave thev pastor his name, telling bim he won W leave a letter at his hotel directed tonbn. but. not to be opened till a prayer-nieettog oov . eurred some nights afterward. It eontained a cheek on a New York bank for $850. :v The lny at Train Moat. So common is it to remark: that isAroad 4 men, especially train employes, are poorer , paid, that we have taken the trouble to ' ascertain the average salary paid persaoath . to the men in the different branches of bait: service, selecting Jury, which was tbeanlU est month in the year with the IneUtMpolis railroads. Tho pay-rolls of three different Indianapolis raltaieds whisk

are a fair criterion of

roads centering hero show that

one road the highest amount paid to any yW

engineer was U7.25; the lowest, $T.3S; T N

on the second road, autue highest, Ktt Inme. im flu ttiiWi iMil MOA rt VtdAlt! J t

SU6.4U tne lowest, ah were paid on tbTy

trip, or mileage basis, as ia the ease with. a majority of the roads of tbis country. Tb pay of the firemen rouged as follows; O road No. 1. highest 70, lowest 6i. road No. highest $56.35, lowest fU.Sfi mad No. 3. hifthest 62.63. loweat M9 .M

The ground is taken that firemen ate ptap

tieally apprentices. The brakemen

paid on road No. 1, the highest lowest 50.40; road No, 3, highest tfl.Tt;

lowest 50; road JNo. 3, highest tgi$:&

lowest $41.25. The pay of the conactot averaged as follows: Road No, 1, highest', r' paid conductor f 98.80, lowest 987.78; road No. 3, highest $97.50, lowest K86.10; road No. 3, highest $96.30, lowest $85-80. t$ every ease trainmen when business ia heavy ': can considerably increase their pay bymek- ; ing extra trips. Freight traiumen recstye , . the largest pay per trip or mile, but are r. -' quired to do more hoars o servic,-.! .

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