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GREENFIELD. INDIANA
I GEN. SHERMAN is correct in saying that the idea of supporting the Indians in idleness, while white men have to work for a living, is a reproach to the Government and it is to be hoped that Congress will turn over a new leaf in that respect.
DURING the month of November the lees of the pension attorneys aggregated $196-, 600, or at the rate of $2,1860,000 a year. This is just so much •deducted from the money voted to the soldiers, and some way should be devised to put a stop to such an unjust aud unfair practice.
THE bill to provid for a thorough exploration of central Alaska ought to pass. From tho reports of hunters and traders there are immense and unsuspected natural resources iu that region, and tho people have a right to learn officially and authoritatively the exact situation in this respect.
TIIE silver half dollar is so unpopular a ooin that $17,000,u00 worth of them remain piled up in the Treasury vaults, and can not be got into circulation. The Director of the Mint suggests that they be recoined into dimes and quarters, and asks 'or an appropriation for that purpose.
THE rapidity with which work on the Nicaragua Canal is being conducted, as shown by the report of the comjpany engaged in the construction, will 'give pleasure to the country. This is jen American enterprise to the oxtent at or or at on a he ad 'has an American charter, receives its 'chief support from American capital 'and, when finished, will furnish ini jportant aid to American commerce 'he original engineers' estimite of the coet of construction was $64,000,000, jand the time required to do the work wa8 put at between live and six years. 'Experiences with other enterprises of tho kind suggests the likelihocd that in neither particular will expectation be completely realized. But even with A moderate advance in each case, the canal must ultimately be
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%-v -a-bout tho jasjjT'.ned e.Yoitament sod injury to busiiV which would result from the throw® of the next Presidential contest in the House of Representatives. In the first pla-o there is .not the shadow of a chance th it thi-j thing will happen, and in tho seco.id '^.^Ace. if it should happen, the big imocratic majority which will b9 in
House at that time will render the "ction of the Democratic candidate To certain that no suspense or anxiety whatever will be caused. Tho election of a President by House would toot be an entirely unprecedented occurrence. And if it should take place there would be none of the element of danger in the situation which were present in 1800, when that body sent Jefferson to the Presidency, or in 1824. when it was decidcd in favor of the second Adams.
THOSE of the Australian colonists who are seeking to turn their huge island into an independent republic aiu
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likety to succeed, accoiding to a colonist now in this city, who says: ••The Australians are proud that theiv country forms a link in the imperial chain of British possessions that encircle the globe. We ga great advantages by belonging tu tho Queen's empire. Our commerce is the.cby promoted, and the free change of goodB between England and Australia 1B thus established. The Ilo.ne authorities encourage tho settlement of British colonists among us. We have 'an impartial court of last resor* in London for the adju itment of any dis'put© between the five colonies of Australia. We have a gigantic p-nx of defence in the Britisn army and navy, if any assault should ever be made upon us by any adversary, and we stanJ secure under the shield of the British Government. If we were separate 1 from the motherland we would be liable to many dangers and disturbance:, from which we are now safe. We could not enjoy more freedom as a liepublic than we now have under the sew colonial system. Our law are made by our own legislatures our railroads are public property controlled by the State, and it is evident that our workmen have the right to strike, for we have ju9t settled the biggest strike
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The secession party in Australia is too small to be seen there. The Australtans will appere to the British Japira,' md are ready to do battle for its de-1 («noe agahxst any adersary."
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City on the 25th. Emma Abbott, the singer, died at Salt Lake on the5th inst.
Chicago bankers report returning confU dence in business circles.. Engineer Walcott was fatally injured in a wreck near Oskaloosa, la.
Liabilities of failed business in 1890 were heavier than for any year since 1884. At Ft. Fairfield, Me., on the 31st, the thermometer registered sirty degrees below zero.
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Kansas Farmers' Alliance will pres s^nt sixteen important bills to the Legisla ture.
Two men, a woman and a boy were burned to death In a hotel at Corsicana, Texas,
Five men were killed by the blowingup of the tow boat Annie Roberts, at Portsmonth, O.
Judge Joshua Seney, of Toledo, has bought a controling interest in the Columbus (O.) Post.
Three Hungarian laborers were killed near Rochester, N. Y., on the 1st, by the premature discharge of a blast. {Four otli el's were injured,
The Fifth avenue and Hermann's theater and a block of stores, New York, were burned on the 2d. Six firemen lost their lives in the llaines. Loss will reach §500,000.
Governor Campbell has ordered a special election in tho ^eventeensTwenty-eighth district of Ohio, for a successor to the late Senator Zimmerman, to take place on the l" th inst.
The recoivcr of an iron blast filled with molten metal exploded Saturday afternoon in the foundry of Faruum & Richardson at Chicago. Fifty workmen had narrow escapes. Three were injured, one of them, possibly, fatally.
THE NEWS OTFHE WEEK.