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THE DAILY JOURNAL. I*Y JNO. C. NEW A SOX. For Rate* of Bubscriptiorvetc.. see Sixth Pare. MONDAY, JANUARY 21>, 18S3. The first child cremated in America was submitted to the process at Washington, Pa., on Friday. The body was from New York city. The remains of the father were incinerated there in ISSO. A beautiful BUie-gras9 belle has been arrested at Louisville for shop-lifting. She is respectably connected, and it is altogether probably that nothing worse than kleptomania will be proven. Mrs. May Weight Sewall, of Indianapolis, held the attention of the audience at the closing session of the woman’s suffrage convention in Washington by a very able address upon “Home Rule.” Governor Butler is of the opinion that the fourteenth amendment provides for woman suffrage, and that a decision to that effect by the Supreme Court of the United States could be arrived at quite as soon as a new amendment could be secured in the regular way. Fight persons are recently missing In New York city. Os these, four are-school girls, who may’ have been abducted. One of them was a man from Kensington, Pa., who went to the city with $1,200 in cash “to have a good time,” and it is not strange that he fell among thieves, who may have murdered him. The Mississippi river has revealed another mystery,, only to leave it unsolved. At Vicksburg a metallic burial-case was found containing a body. The casket had washed out from some burial-place, probably at Lake Providence or Goodrich’s Landing, La., where cemeteries are immediately on the river bank. It is said that Father McCarthy, of Missouri. Iras fallen heir to an estate in Australia, valued at $1,000,000, and that he will devote the entire sum to the payment of the debts of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati. He is a warm personal friend of the Archbishop, and volunteers to do this on account of ttygt friendship. The instance is unprecedented. Mr. Fawcett, Post master-general of England, is moving to have faster trains between London and Scotland and London and Ireland. The fast trains on these lines are the fastest in the world, but it is proposed to save one hour’s time by some means. This, in the cramped-tip territory of England, is a fine example for this country. The principal mails from New York for the West should be put through with greater regularity and at a higher rate of speed. The Canadian government will be called upon for about $25,000 or $30,000 to foot the expenses of the pleasure trip of Lome and Louise. When the forty-ninth parallel marks the northern boundary of the United States from Puget Sound to the St. Lawrence, these things will not be. With the boundary thus marked, the United States will look much handsomer than now, and, with the twenty-fifth parallel for the southern boundary, the thing will be about right. T WEDDLE Hall, at Albany, N. Y., which was burned on the 16th, was the scene of many political meetings, and one was made memorable by a speech from Governor Morton. of Indiana. It was at the darkest period of the war. The ball had been partly packed with men to break up the meeting. As Mr. Morton, then in the prime of his powers, was advocating the most energetic measures, one of the disturbers called to him, “Would you arm the niggers?” “I would fight the rebels with hyenas 1” thundered the speaker, in a voice which rose above the tumult and silenced it. Tin: number of people who are seeking wealth by means of the damage suit i9 increasing daily. An Atlanta tramp who was roughly assaulted by his fellow-convicts on the chain-gang, while the keeper stood by and laughed, has sued the city for SIO,OOO. A Brooklyn woman who was thrown out of a carriage on her way to the funeral of a neighbor’s child, and had her arm broken, demands a like amount of the undertaker. The defendant claims that he contracted to take only the family of the deceased to the graveyard, and is therefore not responsible for outsiders who may have entered his carriage. Jr das Iscariot has been vindicated. The movement to provide for the incurable insane should receive evers' encouragement. Tlrair condition, even under the most favorable circumstances, is unspeakably deplorable, while the provisions now made for them, in most instances, is simply disgraceful to civilization. A limited number are cared for at the State Hospital for the Insane, but it is greatly inadequate to the Accommodation of all such unfortunates. As a* result, very many of them are kept locked up in private families, or are sent to county hospitals and jails. Necessarily the care bestowed upon them at such places is not what it should be, and a visit to almost any of them will,convince one that something should be done speedily for the alleviation of their condition. In most instances they are not provided with the appliances necessary for their proper keeping, neither are the attendants qualified by experience or educated to intelligently care for them. It is possible that in the disordered condition of their minds they are not acutely aware of their wretchedness and misery; but tor the credit of humanity every effort should be made to make tliera ns comfortable as possible. The expense will be borne ungrudgingly. Every instinct of human nature calls fora home for these unfortunates. This can only bo secured by unity of action through the Legislature. A State institution, established on the same general plan of the present hospital, is what is needed. Then, with nurses and physicians qualified by education and

experience to look after these incurable patients, the darkened lives of the latter will be made as endurable os possible, and humanity’s duty to the unfortunates of earth will have been discharged as far as possible. The need is urgent, and the demand is imperative; so that the present Legislature should not adjourn without having made arrangements for the speedy erection of a suitable building or buildings for this purpose. Surely no argument is needed to impress any thinking person with the necessity and duty of undertaking this work at o: ce. An esteemed contemporary fell onto a big thing yesterday in the way of a poem on “Judas Iscariot”—a regular two-story scoop. It is a rule among newspapers to require the name of the author to accompany contributions, not necessarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. This little formality seems to have been omitted in the case of Mr. Story’s poem on Judas Iscariot. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN WORKINGMENMr. Robert P. Porter, the statistician and secretary of the late tariff commission, is contributing a very interesting series of industrial papers to the New York Tribune. The last one is dated from Glasgow, in which he makes a showing of the wages paid mechanics there, together with the cost of living. Glasgow is one of the busiest, thriftiest cities in the United Kingdom, and as a result the condition of the workingmen there is greatly better than in most parts of that country. What can be learned of Glasgow, therefore, may be regarded as very favorable to the country at large. In the building of iron ships, Glasgow, on the Clyde, leads the world, and at the present time this great industry is pushed to its utmost capacity, so that the wages paid are a very fair index by which to judge of the English mechanic’s compensation. The figures given by Mr. Porter were taken from the pay-rolls for December, where, in the ianguageof one of the ship-builders, “English and Scottish workmen always work like demons,” in order to have extra spending money for the holidays. Every man had all he could do—“piece workers” and “timers” were all busy, so that the pay-roll made its most favorable showing. The writer says: “I made very careful inquiry in regard to the wages paid, and the social condition of the workingmen of Dimibarton, and was told that some riveters earned £3 n week, and platers who had charge of gangs from £3 to £4 a week. The average earnings of a blacksmith were £2 ss; of a joiner. £1 15s, and of laborers, from 15s to 18s a week. The latter, I found,Were mostly Irish, and they lived in miserable dens—the single men in lodgings and the married whole families in one room. Their midday meal consisted chiefly of bread and tea.” Here in one brief paragraph is concentrated the whole story—the wages and the way of living of the men who, the Louisville Courier-Journal asserts dogmatically, are in better condition and receive more for their wages than the mechanics of America. The fortnightly pay-rolls of one of the most celebrated of the Clyde shipyards, at the time noted above, shows that the average fortnightly earnings of each man was £2 10s, or $12.50, so that the average weekly earnings was but £1 ss, or $6.25. In this estimate it must be remembered that the wages of the best mechanics are included, and of the aggregate paid the 1,600 employes (about £4,000), but 10 percent, or £4OO was paid day laborers. An investigation of the wages of this latter class showed that each received a trifle over 18s per fortnight, or actually less than $2.50 a week, The average annual earning of all the workmen employed in one of the great shipyards of Scotland (including foremen, platers and riveters, and other experienced men) amounted to £62 10s, or $312.50. The census statistics of the United States for 1880 show that $12,800,000 was paid out in wages to 21,330 hands employed in ship building, or about S6OO per annum. It is thus made plain, from these and other trustworthy sources, that the wages paid at home in this industry exceed those of Great Britain by over 100 per cent., for the figures given from America are for building all classes of vessels, while the Glasgow wages quoted are paid workmen on iron vessels only, to whom the highest wages are paid, more experienceand skill being required. This certainly throws considerable light on one reason why England can build ships so cheaply, to say nothing about running them after they are built. But some may say that this difference in wages is offset by the cheaper means of living in England. Mr. Porterjrays: ‘•The cost of living fcTmuch greater than it is in the United States. Some idea of the prices of provisions may be gained trom the following: Beef of the first quality sells for 24 cents; second quality, 18 cents; third quality, 14 cents. Bacon is 18 cents, pork 18 cents. Milk is 16 cents per half gallon; cheese 16 cents per pound; butter 40 cents. Bread, potatoes, sugar and a few other articles are somewhat cheaper than they are m American cities.” The same writer further shows that workingmen’s wages generally are much lower in great Britian than here. Glasgow, as we have said, is one of the most prosperous cities in the kingdom, and wages there are probably as high as anywhere. The following is a table of weekly wages paid in Glasgow, prepared by Mr. Porter: Blacksmiths $7 AOilfonm carpenters $7.50 Bootmaker* 7.20 Masons 7.50 Bricklayer* 8.15; Palmer* 7.50 Cabinetmaker*... 7.501 Plasterers 7 50 Coopers 6 oo Plumbers. 7.50 Tailors 7.20| The following table shows the weekly wages paid in Berlin: Blacksmiths $4.32 (Shoemakers #4.32 Housecarpenter*. 4 321 .Masons 4 0 Coopers 3.00 Bricklayers 5 06 Tailors 2.BB|Machiutnta 3.00 These figures indicate the average pay for mechanics in the above trades, without board and lodging. The cost of living is not greatly less in Berlin than in Glasgow. Beef is about twanty-two cents per pound and

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bacon about twenly cents. Asa fair average of wages paid in America may be taken the following figures from the Commissioner of Labor Statistics for Ohio, giving the weekly wages in the industries named in that State: Carpenters $13.75 Cabinetmakers $12.00 BricKmasons.. .. 21 OO Coopers 9 !)6 Stonemasons .... 17.50 filuckfemttus 13.68 Bootmakers 13.50 From these figures it is apparent that the cost of living is little if any more in the United States than in Great Britain, while the wages paid here are fully twice as large. But valuable as are these statistics, the logic of events would prove this conclusion without the aid of a single figure. The fact that an army of workmen a hundred thousand strong annually cross the Atlantic from Europe to America to better their condition is proof conclusive that the condition of our people is vastly preferable to that of any nation in the world. Whether this happy condition of affairs shall continue indefinitely depends largely upon the continuance of the general features of the system of protection of American labor. Remove the restrictions of the tariff entirely, as the free traders desire, and the mechanics of America will be obliged, to work for the same wages paid in Glasgow, or not.work at all, while the cost of living will remain much as it now is. These are facts that cannot be controverted. The friend of the working man and of national prosperity must defend the tariff. It is the American people’s fortress of strength, and properly reformed must be kept up to avert financial disaster and industrial prostration. It is to be said to the credit of the new Indiana poet that Mr. Story's great poem on Judas Iscariot does not suffer in his hands. The copy, so far as it goes, is faithful. A NEW POETThe Journal has had frequent occasion to call attention to the boundless resources of the great and growing West. Do you speak of crops? The West gets away with everything east of the Alleghenies. Hogs? Our hogs—of all kinds —lay over all manner of porkers the world ever saw. Storms? Our blizzards and cyclones are the personal pride of every Western citizen. He glories in the fact that our winters are colder and summers hotter, our blizzards more penetrating and cyclones more devastating than can be found elsewhere in all the known world. And when it conies to liars, the genuine Western article towers above others like a Colossus of Rhodes over a babe from the land of Lilliput. We will not be outdone, and that's a fact. This has come to he recognized everywhere, and few are bold enough to dispute the title. In every department of art, literature and science we have walked right along with the head of the procession. In fact, we have always crowded the band-wagon of advancement in every direction, and now an Indianian has actually climbed into that important vehicle and toots a very large brass horn in a manner that must command respect for its vigor, if not for any other virtue. This time it is a poet, and he breaks into a very enterprising contemporary to the extent of nearly four columns. But the poem is a good one—the paper says so editorially, and that ought to settle it. The fact that exactly the same production—word for word—was written a number of years ago by a man named W. W. Story doesn’t spoil its merits. It is fully as good now as it was on February 6, 1878, on which day it appeared in the Indianapolis Journal. as will be recalled by intelligent readers. This time it is written by W. B. Martindale, or at least the paper gives him the credit of its authorship, and as a copyist he has been very faithful, there being but few grammatical mistakes incorporated, while the punctuation of the original has considerately been retained. It is our duty to congratulate Mr. Martindale and his publisher. Who knows? In years to come the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy may be varied by references to the Martin-dale-Story puzzles. If Story would cleur himself, let him do so now, for if he should happen to die, Indiana’expects to walk right away with his entire outfit. If anybody, any where—highland or lowland, far or near—has the plagiaristic bakery concealed about his person, he will please forward it to Indiana. Its ours, and we want it, and must have it. There are some portions of Mr. Story’s poem on Judas Iscariot that have not been copied and republished. And it is fair to say that the remainder is of equally “decided literary merit” with what have appeared. The new Indiana poet evidently has a “storied urn,” if not “ananimated bust.” “The talk about imperiling past amendments has nothing in it. They may have gone through irregularly, but they passed to the people and received the ratification of the electors on the merits of the amendments. The completed uct of the people was given them. In their course, from beginning to end, no question had been raised as to the validity of the amendments for irregularity.” —Saturday Herald. Nothing is to be gained by misrepresentation. The alleged defect in the Wabash & Erie canal amendment was specifically called to the attention of the Legislature by Governor Baker in bis message, who argued its importance, and reached the conclusion that the constitutional provision, if it meant entering the text of the amendments in full upon the journal, was merely directory. The question was considered by the Senate judiciary committee, Jason B. Brown bellig a member, and in the debate last week the record was produced and an extract read froip the speech of Senator Brown, in winch

■he held the defect not to be vital. The only reply Mr. Brown could make was that, at ■ that time, he was acting with the Republican party. What can the Herald mean by the assertion that “from beginning to end, no i question bad been raised as to the validity of the amendments for irregularity?” Mr. Story’s poem on “Judas Iscariot” caused a great stir in the literary world when it was first published, but it seems there are places where it had never been heard of. Has Horace Heffren recovered from the insanity which his father said in 1864 had troubled him for these two years? Mb. Berry R. Sulgrove, in the Saturday Review, sustains the statement of the Journal that the commutation of the sentences against Bowles, Milligan and Horsey was procured from President Johnson through the direct personal efforts of Governor Morton, lie savs: “The desire to conciliate and disarm Democratic hostility rather than crush it by force or fear, was the reason he interfered to “ prevent the execution of the Sons of Liberty, convicted mainly by the testimony of Heffren, J. J. Bingham and the detective Stidger. j He obtained a respite when General Hovey , had begun preparing for the erection of the gallows for them, and finally secured a com- j imitation of the sentence. Others, of course, 1 joined him, but ‘without him was nothing done that was done’ in that case.” ______________________ The poem of Mr. W. W. Story on Judas Iscariot “is a work of decided literary merit.” The compliment paid it by an esteemed contemporary is not at all too strong. TnKColumbus Republican, discussing the question of newspaper advertising from a business point of view, well says: “A first-class attorney cannot afford to compete in prices with a shyster who has spent neither time nor money in preparing himself for the profession; no more can a first-class paper compete in prices with a second or tnird-class paper, and if it does, it will soon cease to be first class. When a paper has a great influence, either on account of its high character or large circulation, it is entitled to the benefit of that influence, and patrons are not swindled when they are required to pay more for the assistance of such a paper, thau for one of less value.” It requires rare literary acumen to discover the “decided literary merit” of Mr. Story s poem on Judas Iscariot, even when attested by a great name. The plea ot insanity is entered for Mr. Heffren. What are you going to do about it? Indiana has some poets—and copyists. Kentucky is a very great common wealth, and it* dignity is altltudinnus, while the tone of its blooded citizen* is irreproachable. The rules of propriety there iu some directions are very rigid, while In some other directions they are construed rather liberally. At Louisville, the fashion metropolis or the State, last week, the good people were greatly wrought up by an luoideut that, would have escaped notice in localities less highly cultured, ft appears that Mary Merkle is a handsome white girl, about twenty years old, while John O'Batinou is a colored lad, though possessed of au unqualified Celtic name. They lived lu the same neighborhood, and in some manuer became acquainted. The girl's sympathy for the lad (for lie is blind) led her to talk with him, much to the scandal of tho bong tong, who witnessed the conversations, which were carried on iu full view at the gate of the girl’s residence. This could not be tolerated, so complaint whs laid, and the pair were arrested ou a charge of disorderly conduct. It does not appear that they were disturbing the peace, but the complaint alleges that the parti-colored pair actually swung ou the gate while talking. This was too, too much. They were Incontinently hustled off to prison, and the good people of the city breathed freer. But the Inconsiderate manner of her taking off, or something else, made Mary mad, and she does not hesitate to say that she loves “John," and met him at the gate because she loved him. In view of the fact that no more serious charge is alleged, it Is a mutter of surprise that such strong measures were taken, especially in a city where scores of scandal* might be run to ground were the authorities so disposed. And now that the pair ure arrested, what will be done with Mi era* E. J. Norris is one of tho school trustees of Jefferson county, Kentucky, and bus just passed through a trial ou the charge of Immorality. The specifications of the complaint were: First —That be had gone barefooted. Second—He went without socks. Tuird—He wore lut one suspender. Fourth—That he got drunk. Fifth —General immorality. The finding of the court was that while he was in the habit of going barefooted, ho never did ho iu the school-house. The second count was proved and admitted—he were no socks. The third paragraph—relative to one suspender— was triumphantly disproved, the defendant swearing that he had worn no suspender nt nil for over twenty years. Ah to getting drunk, the defendant pleaded guilty, but threw himself on the mercy of tho court, and pleaded exteuuation on the ground that it was bi-er. The last charge, of general immorality, was not substantiated. In summing up tho case the presiding justice concluded that no sufficient grounds had been found for the removal of Mr. Norris, ho the barefooted trustee, without socks mid suspenders, was “made the recipient” of the congratulations of bis friends, who were doubtless in much the same condition of Kentucky simplicity. This, from the Boston Herald, seems to be to the potut: “A: the next meeting of the Worcester county Central Grange the topic for dehato will he: ‘ls there anything in bnlng the wife of a farmer wuioh will blunt the love of the beautiful in art or nature, or rob woman of her inborn qualities that go to make the. real ladyf It seems to us that everything will depend upon the kind of a farmer a woman marries. One who was compelled to rise before daylight and rank half a dozen cows wouldn’t have many thoughts about and nr', while one who married u faru or who‘farms it’ after the style of our own Ur. Luring would have ample opportunity to cultivate the beautiful." A Dklmar, Md man Is confidently reaohlug for the champion licit us the great American liar. Ho Claims to have a 300-pound hog that has shed its skin together with one inch of fat. He clinches his claim as the boss prevaricator by declaring that new skin is forming, and that the bog seems in good health. The fellow who found tlie petrified buff do standing upright in Manitoba, and the other who discovered a colosnal bronze statue in a Western cave will please take off their hats. The investigation of the condition and conduct of the priiinpifiiiry at Clinton, N. Y., has revealed some fearful mroeitlcs. If the witnesses may be bodeved: It lias been customary there to immure recalcitrant prisoners in what in known as the ceil, ” wlieit, one at a

time, they were chained to the floor for nn indefinite period, at the will of the prison authorities. The door of this cell is covered with sheetiron, pierced by four diamond-shaped holes about an inoh in diameter. Twelve convicts were oonttued there between August. 1878, and February, 1880, who had been removed to the lunatic asylum as a result of this form of punishment. One prisoner had been kept there ten, one eight and one eleven months, the last one dying from exhaustion. The testimony thus far developed the most disgraceful condition of things. A Cleveland man has had n trance, during which ho went to heaven. He describes the place as being composed of seven planes, from which it might be inferred that he had stumbled into the Mohammedan paradise, but the orthodox people encountered there preclude such an idea. John Quincy Adams was iu the fourth plane, George Washington and Lord Baeon in the fifth, Dr. Chalmers, Marie Btuart and Queen Elizabeth In the sixth, with other distinguished personages scattered about. It will be quite painful to many persons to be informed that Voltaire was hobnobbing with George Washington. The Cleveland man lias returned. Not loug since a story went the rounds of a lady who accidently threw her diamond ear rings Into the fire and burned her bauds in attempting to resoue the ornaments. Her pluck was considered quite commeudable. but a Connecticut woman whose store teeth fell into the grate is jeered at for the manner in which she clawed over tho coals to save those useful articles. News being dull over in St. Louis, a quaileating match has been started by the employes of one of the daily papers. The advertising man does the eating, while the business manager bets nculnst him. Space in this paper will be given to the daily reports of this match at regular advertising rates, top of colurnu next to reading matter, if desired. A Vermont neighborhood is concerned about a man who lives iu a hole in the ground, aud refuses to come out eveu iu the coldest weather. He was crossed hi love twelve years ago, and took to the ground as the only place where no woman would ever bother him again. Right in the face of the woman suffrage convention, the Washington Post rises to remark ot the tbree-tongued Arkansas baby that the fact of Its being a girl precludes the awful possibility of its ever getting iuto Congress, but is suggestive of numerous other horrors. The Saturday People, In its last issue, says: “The truth is, that the newspaper business in Indianapolis is overdoue, and advertisers are deviled almost to death for their favors. Some of the papers will have to go by the board, but then, it's not our funeral.” A French writer deolures that the bravest and most courageous men are tlioso who eat sausage. In America it requires heroic courage for a man to eat mince pie. “Daily Reader," Clay oounty, Ind.: Address your inquiry of the 25th to the Secretary of State, Columbus, O. ABOUT PEOPLE. There is said to be in a graveyard in Pennsylvania a tombstone insarioed, Methuselah Smith, aged one year. Postmaster-general llowk was a country postmaster at Readfleld, Me., in 1841, and was removed without recorded excuse by President Tyler. A Florida paper has this equivocal sentence; “The visit of the members of the Assembly to the lunatic asylum is already producing good results " , I!-; vl>*i i. Speckled Moon, a Pawnee Indian chief, has seventeen wives. “ They will keep his wigwarm," says the experienced family luau of the Troy Times. Governor Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, bus boon presented by some absurd person with a gavel made of wood grown upon the Mount of Olives. Govkrnor-klkct Half., of New Hampshire, is president of a company organized for the manufacture of anew patent insulator for underground electric wiree. Dr. Gumpukcht, of the Berllu National Zeltung, is the author of an article ou that unfortunate epidemic called lady pianists who flock to tiie concert room In snob masses that they devour each other. It is reported that Queeu Victoria has summoned Lord Rotwon from abroad, in order to urge him to hasten the publication of Lord Beaconfield’s Life, so as to counteract the injurious effects of Bishop Wilberforce’s caustic criticisms. Lady BrasseY, at her ball glveu before her departure for the Mediterranean, wore a dress of coral tulle, the skirt being trimmed with old Venetian poiut and velvet begonia leaves, and the rich satiu bodice having its pattern woven in begonia leaves. A Newfoundland dog seized a lady’s satchel in a depot in Bangor, Mo., a day or two ago, and ran with it up street and down, pursued by a score of men ami boys. Fleet of foot, he distanced them all, aud at last brought it back and laid it uninjured at the lady’s fart. Lorenzo H. Nightingale, of Cedar Swamp, Cape Cod, has just begun a suit against the publishers of the novel “Cape Cod polks" for $lO,000 damages. Mr. Niglitlugale was made to sing through his nose, in the novel, under bis real name. The suits brought by other persons whose complaints were similar have been compromised. “Colonel" Jacob Krmblk, of West Virginia, portrays his early aspirations as a youth, when “General Grant’s overcoat would not make him a vest,“ an contrasted with his position as a disappointed office-seeker, “when Mail one’s coattails would uiuke him a suit of clothes and an ulster.’’ No man of recent times has given birth to a moro striking figure of Bpeech than this. * The Philadelphia Times says: “Mr. St. John, of Kansas, one of the deadest of Governors, is to have a banquet and ovation in Boston ou Washington's birthday, but it is safe to predict that the most lively Governor that every stepped foot in Massachusetts since December, 1620, will not take part in the demonstration. Honoring dead men and ignoring live ones are great traits iu the average population of tho Hub." The full title of the Marquis is the Right Honorable Sir John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquis of Lome, K. T , G. M. G, He was bom Aug. 6,1815. and is consequently thirtyseven years of age. He Is tho eldest son of the eighth Duke of Argyll,was educated at Eton aud Trinity College, Cambridge, and was returned to Parliament for Argyllshire hi Feb. 1868. Oa the 21st of March, 1871, he was married to Her Royal Highness, the Prinoess Louise, daughter of Q-ieeu Victoria. He was appointed Govern-or-general of the Dominion of Canada and of British North America on the 14th of October, 1878, and assumed the government ou the 7th of December in'that yflar. Judge Belford is a dignified and respected member of tho House of Representatives from Colorado. Nature lias gifted him with a flue head of hair, which iu his presence is referred to as auburn, but which on all other occasions is called red. The Judge lias a bright aud interesting boy, who is at present in Colorado, and reads a great deal in the local papers about the coming senatorial contest in that State. lie has just writteu a letter to his father describing the situation, which closes with the following astute Heuteiroe: "Things are much of a muddle

here. My own opinion is that a dark horse wi£ win the race. I hope ho will have red hair.” It is not known whether or uot the Judge shares iu the hope, but It is certain that that boy has in him the materials for the makingof a successful politician. The oldest son of Farmer Saunders, of Richardson county, Nebraska, committed an act of which a younger brother threatened to tell his father. Thereupon the older boy threw down the little fellow nnd cut out his tongue. Unablo to spea.r and not old enough to write, the little chap could not tell who had done the deed. Remorse seized tho older brother and caused him to confess. It was with difficulty that neighbors were restrained from lynching tho unuatural aud fiendish brother. THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. When the Republic gives way to a dictatorshin it is highly improbable that the-new ruler of France will be n member of one of the families which have already reigned.—New York Herald. The whole pension system offers a premium to fraudulent claim*, anil legitimate pensioner* should be the most urgent in demanding that the national treasury be proteoreu* from the ravages of unprincipled agents and claimants.— Chicago Herald. Englishmen claim now, and have claimed since the fraudulent union, that Ireland in one with Englauu. But beyond paying the taxes and supplying the soldiery, Ireland has no common participation in the constitutional government of the realm.—Philadelphia Press. Five hundred dollars a year is none toe much for a full saloon license, and we would suggest as a basis of calculation, if nothing more, that the beer and native wine lioeti-se, n© placed at one-half the amount, agreed upou for a full license.—Chicago Iu ter Ocean. Manifestly there is something inconsistent in putting on probation, as it urbre, a large majority or the House of Representatives for thirteen months before a term of service actually begins. Tim lull before the House simply puts the newly elected congressman ut once at work.—? New York Times. M. Grew will naturally hesitate before appealing to the country in a period ot disquiet tide and apprehension, when the constituencies may b'J swayed by a vague dread of the instability of Republican institutions. He will be more apt to accept M. Duclerc’s resignation than to order a general election.—Now York Tribune. It won’t do to make an arbitrary law defining how tickets shall be printed that will invalidate any ballot after it gets into the ballot-box, but by imposing penalties upon printers and election officers for printing and receiving illegal tickets, the absolute secrecy of the ballot, as clearly demanded by the constitution, can bo preserved.— Philadelphia News. Tiik next presidential election will not be carried upon promises, but upon performances. The people are bent upon having reform in the civil service—national, State and munioinal—as the first condition of purer politics, better administration and higher statesmanship. Aud they will break to pieces auy party that stands iu the way of their purpose.—Boston Herald. When the time comes iu which Christians shall render unto Caesar the things that are Cißsar’s, and unto God the thing* that are God’s, they will not desire to perpetuate, even iu the mild form of exemption of houses of worship from tribute to Cte-mr, the confusion, now everywhere apparent, of things belonging to this world and things belongiug to the next.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. John Bhkrman wrote with great caution, favoring something like the system prevalent in Missouri now. He would let each county or village in the Stare determine for itself whether it will have saloons. He thinks no law can be enforced which does not have the approval of tho people of the vicinity, and this approval can bo shown by the working of a local optiou law, or something of that kind.—St. Louis Republican. While there in no question before the publio which Is likely to completely break up the existing parlies, or to form the basis of new ones, there js at least the two we have mentioned [taxation and the civil service) ns to which enough changes may easily take place to throw the national administration into Democratic hands. And that danger cannot now bo avoided by an appeal to the sentiment* which averred a like one in 1876 aud again iu 1880.—New York Times. Export trade in wheat has been limited to small lines taken out by the regular steamers. Foreign market* have not improved and tha current demand is light: but private advice* Indicate a treer movement as soon as buyer* on the other side feel assured of tiie stability of American prices. The position as regards values in home markets is very firm. Farmers are not selling freely, and there is a general disposition at country point* to hold until seaboard prices go high enough to net $1 per bushel ioc the West.—Philadelphia Record. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL HEFFREN. The Commissions for the Knights of the Golden Circle from Jefferson Devi*. Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The Knights of the Golden Circle ought to have been relegated to the province of ancient history, but certain papers keep harping upon the subject because they think it annoys my friend, General Horace Heffren. None of the papers which have printed tho attacks upon him have ever paused to ask whether there were any mitigating circumstances which might have caused his peculiar conduct. He was in the army, and upon the certificate of one of the most reputable medical men in this State (then surgeon of his regiment and to-day a Republican), he was discharged because of disability incurred while in the line of his duty. In 1864, after his arrest, and while incarcerated in the military hostile, tiie following letter was received concerning him: Salem, Oct. 19. 1864. • V * * * Dear Sir—Having been informed that you are employed to defend Horace Heffren, 1 take till* opportunity to inform you that be bus been Insane for ihe lu6t two years, and some part of the time raving crazy. Tills can bo made to apnear by the best men in this place, such ns John L. Menaugb, Dr. Povnter, Lafayette Prow and William Johnson and iQMiiy others. Os this there can be no doubt. Horace Is my sun. I li.iaii Heffkkn. If you are not employed, please communicate tin* to his counsel. c. I have copied the above from the original, which is it; my possession to-day. To-day Mr. Heffren gave me the following, which at my request lie wrote out: Heffren was a witness in the trial of tile erise of Milligan vs. Hovey and oilier*, in tbe Circuit Court of tiie United States, for false imprisonnient lu the ease before tho military commit *lon, and offered to swear, and would have sworn, bad It not been held inadmissible by the court, rliat Michael G. Bright, brought six commissions from Richmond, Vu., from the Confederate government, aud signed by President Jefferson Davis, for the officers of the Knights of rue Golden Circle in Indiana a* follows: One to Dick Dodd as general, one to Horace Heffren as lieutenant-general, and one each to William A. Bowie l *. John C. Walker, Lamhdin P. Milligan •i-d Andrew Humphries a* iuqJor-g<jnerals. Ha received bis from Mr. Bright, and saw tho other iive. They were genuine. Mr. Heffren having seen the commissions, and having reaeived his, states that they were the genuine Jacob Townsend documents. Dr. Walker, Generals Humphreys and Milligan are still living, cun tell whether they ever received theirs or not. A commission of such high rank in tiie late war is entitled to be preserved as valuable mementos, and should bo framed and hung up. But I hope the editors who have beer, attacking General Heffren will moderate their tone after his frank explanation. IJe is now the most active Democrat in tho House, and though lie has introduced moro bills than any other member, notone of them has been political in its character. Tiie correspondent in the News of Batuo day explains that the paper as to the com* mission was written by a gentleman inti* 1 nrately connected with the defense in ths case of Milligan versus Hovey. The Journal a Metropolitan Paper. Indlanapollu .Saturday Pc-oplo. While we do not at all times agree with the editorials that adorn the fourth page of tho Journal, there is no question of the fact t.liat is about the only real metropolitan newspaper we have. It is as full of news as a nut is of meat, and that, too, of the most entertaining character. It lacks the silliness of the Sentinel, the bombast of the Times, ami the egotism of the News. Altogether it is what it purports to be—a nowepajier.