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THE DAILY JOURNAL. IST JNO. C. NEW Jfc SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pare. SMI, FKB.t?iRI I!', 1883. TEN PAGES. liuliaua Republican Editorial Association. Ou account of the unprecedented floods throughout the B’ate, and the consequent hindrance to travel by rail, the animal meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, heretofore announced to be held at Indianapolis on Thui sday, 22d inst., has been postponed. The date of the deferred meeting will be determined and announced in a f -w days. Members of the association will therefore govern themselves accordingly. W. 8. Linglk, President. Charles E. Wilson, Secretary. The Journal of this morning consists of ten pages. On the supplemental sheet will be found the market reports, congressional proceedings, the court record, letters to the editor, and other interesting matter. The Langtry matinee in Cincinnati for the relief of the flood sufferers netted $1,107.25. The Postmaster-general has declared the Dime Distribution Company, of Indianapolis, a fraud. A bill has been introduced in the New York Legislature to punish wife-beaters by flogging. Sai.mt Morse is proceeding with the rehearsal of the Passion Play, and in time expects to bring it but. Booth’s Theater. New York, has been sold to James D. Fisk for $550,000. It will probably remain as a theater. A careful compilation of the loss by the flood in the city of Louisville, made by the Courier-Journal, foots up $367,500. The body of the late Richard Wagner has been embalmed. No religious ceremony will be held, the family having declined such service. Mrs. 11. M. Vaile, wife of a star-route defendant. died at Independence, Mo., on Friday night, under circumstances indicating suicide. Stephen Hempstead, the first lawyer who settled in lowa, and the second Governor of that State, died of heart disease at Dubuque, on Friday last. The president of the Reichstag at Berlin announces the receipt of 588 000 marks from the United States for the relief of the sufferers by the floods. Collections were taken in nearly, if not quite all, the churches of the city yesterday. So far as reported to the Journal, the aggregate amount contributed is $1,580.42. There is to be no St. Patrick’s Day parade in Philadelphia, and the money set aside for the purpose will he devoted to charity. A good example in the present exigency. The disaster at the Braidwood, 111., mine is worse than at first reported. Seventy-four persons met their death, and forty-six widow’s and forty-nine orphan children were made. It is generally believed in Washington that both Brady and Dorsey will go on the witness stand for the contradiction of Rerdell’s statements. Attorney Bliss says the government will rest its case probably tomorrow, being satisfied that they have given evidence sufficient to convict all the defendants. John E. Gilbert, the actor, has brought suit against the Nowhall House stock company for $25,000 damages. This suit is brought against C. 1). Nash personally, as well as the stockholders in general. It is thought that not less than fifty similar suits will grow out of the fire, involving damages that will aggregate $300,000. Col. A. M. Swope, of Kentucky, has written a letter declining to be a candidate for the nomination for Governor on the Republican ticket. But he advises a straight nomination of the best ma i in the party, without any compromises or coalitions, on an unequivocal Republican platform, and that an active and aggressive fight be made. It is understood that Mr. Pendleton will recommend J. Edwin S|ear, formerly an editorial writer of the Cincinnati Enquirer, but now' of the New York World, as the Democratic member of the Civil-service Commission. Dorman B. Eaton is likely to be made chairman. By the way, it is reported that Senator Pendleton has grown indifferent, if not absolutely hostile, to his own pet measure since its passage. lie did not expect the Republican House would agree to it.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch very properly and discriminatingly praises the manliness of Cincinnati in refusing to accept any relief funds or other assistance from outside. The relief committee has given notice that the people of Cincinnati must care for their own distress, and that all outside contributions must be sacredly preserved for other stricken communities less able to aid themselves. The Dispatch well says: ‘‘Thiscour.se is in striking contrast with the usual custom in other cities and especially in the imaTler burgs, in which, upon the appearance of any sensational calamity, the mayor tsually expands with an attack of the biglead, the leading citizens organize themselves into amateur committees, and the telejraph is used to send frantic appeals for aid.” The money now being raised from private lources and the appropriations being made !rom the State treasury must be given only :or the relief of present and actual want, and to those most needing it, whose necessities ire patent and overpowering. There is no noney to spare for constructive damages, ind the city or town which asks for what it san possibly do without in the face of the ippalling suffering elsewhere—suffering irhich will exhaust every possible supply—vill dishonor itself. We do not believe there frill be any such applications, but that a spirit if manly self-dependence wherever possible will be manifested and maintained throughlut all the trying ordeal. Washington correspondents are having a good deal to say about the book, ‘‘Twenty Tears in Congress,” which Mr. Blaine is lupposed to have in course of preparation. Among other more or less imaginary incidents in connection therewith, it is related that from having been, to a certain extent, neglected of late, he is suddenly being much lought after by prominent personages who txpect to figure in his book. Public men who have been openly against him are

anxious to make friends with the author, who, tlioy fear, might not deal with them kindly. This story is creditable neither to the alleged great men nor to Mr. Blaine. It is quite probable that that gentleman’s political opponents are not “oh-ing” for their enemy to write a book; but it does not speak well for their judgment, to say nothing of their principles, that they should attempt to conciliate him at this stage of the game, whether they do so through fear of the truth or of misrepresentation. The ex-secretary is capable of producing a volume which would not only be interesting but also of historical value, and if he is preparing such in good faith, it is an insult to his intelligence to suppose that he would ruin the work by using it as a means of petty revenge. It would, perhaps, be too much to expect that so ardent a politician would “nothing extenuate nor aught set down in malice,” but it is hardly to be supposed that he would vary much from facts, as he views them, to gratify either friends or foes.

A PROTRACTED DEMAND The generous public must bear in mind that the demand upon them in aid of the people of the flooded districts will be a steady one for at least several weeks to come. With thousands of workmen driven from employment by high waters, and tens of thousands of those dependent upon them deprived of all the necessaries of life, the needs are enormous, and must continue so for some time. The generous response already made to the appeal for aid is creditable to all who have shared in the duly of relieving the immediate wants of the distressed. The work has been nobly begun, but now it must be maintained. The suffering and deprivation that follow the first inconveniences will be as genuine and as much entitled to relief as they are now. Hunger will be hunger and cold will be cold during the next week and the week after, the same as now. It will require a month, at the very least calculation, to begin to get business back into its old channels. The furnace fires now under the water cannot be rekindled in a fortnight—the engines, rusted and filled witli grit, must be repaired and polished and lubricated. The watersoaked walls must have time to dry out, and the mills and factories that were wrecked must be rebuilt. An army of people will have to be maintained with jnilitary promptitude, and without the aid of military authority for collecting supplies. Provision trains must be formed, filled and forwarded wholly by a volunteer corps. The work should not be too vigorous to sustain itself so long as the extraordinary demand shall continue. Let each one give freely, but in such a way that the gift can be renewed again and again if necessary. By all uniting as one in this work it will be done well, and in a manner that will be burdensome upon no one. Help should come from bank and brewery, from court-house, office, shop, mill, workshop and private home. The children can help with their little stores. The need is imperative; the duty of relieving it universal. The spontaneity with which the whole people have undertaken the work of helpiug the unfortunate is grand; and now, if it be only well sustained until the need is past, the credit will not be wanting.

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL. Assuming that the dominant faction in the Legislature will make use of the party lash to pass the metropolitan police bill, the question arises: Is it constitutional? The News would have us believe that ‘‘police powers are inherent in the State, not in a city, and are granted by the State to a city, as a matter of convenience, and not of principle. The State may at any time withdraw from its creatures police or other powers which it has delegated to them.” In matters of special legislation—police powers and the like—the constitutions of Illinois and of Indiana are practically identical. A few years ago the Legislature of the former State passed a metropolitan police bill for the government of East St. Louis. That city, at the time, was not only overwhelmingly Democratic, but was run by as corrupt and unscrupulous a set of scalawags as ever went unwhipped of justice. Its police were known to be men ‘‘on the make,” of brutal instincts, in complete subserviency to the ring, and infamously cruel to all the helpless that fell into their clutches. They were a terror to all law-abiding citizens, and made the place a hell on earth. If ever a city on this continent deserved to be stripped of all authority over the lives and property of its citizens, and be governed by the State alone, it was East St. Louis. And yet, the metropolitan police bill in that State, a Republican measure, and framed in the interest of honesty and humanity, was condemned by Republicans and Democrats alike of the place and of the Slate. It was deemed that the violation thereby of local self-government was a far greater outrage upon the rights of the citizens than the rapacity of the city ring and the cruelty of its police. Upheld by such a sentiment, the Common Council again and again refused to appropriate one cent for the pay of the metropolitan police. The law was then so amended by a subsequent Legislature as to authorize the commissioners to issue bonds in behalf of the city to meet all their expenses. These bonds were frequently sold at auction, bringing only a few cents on the dollar of their face value. A gentleman of our acquaintance in this city once held several thousand dollars’ worth of them, which he had to take for a paltry debt, and which he was afterward glad to dispose of for less than the debt. After interminable suits in the various courts, involving vast expenditure, the Supreme Court of the State finally adjudged the law uncon-

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stitutional, and all the acts of the comrnis- J sioners under it null and void. It declared that the police commissioners were an irresponsible body of men, unknown to the constitution of the State, and not only without authority to involve the city in debt, but even to pay out any money thereof when not amenable to it for its use. To appro-* priate money for any purpose whatever was the prerogative alone of the Common Council, who were elected by the citizens and responsible to them for their acts. If they refused to appropriate money for the pay of a police over which they had no control, the State could not, by rflandamus or otherwise, compel them so to do. All officials appointed by the authority of the State are in the pay of the State, under laws operating uniformly all over the State. 6 Now, if the metropolitan police bill becomes a law here, the Common Council and the Board of Aldermen can quickly make it of no effect. Let them refuse to appropriate one cent for the pay of such police. Men will not work for nothing here or elsewhere, as the partisan commissioners would soon find out. We question whether the Democratic majority of the Supreme Court, with all tlieir well-known servility to their party, would dare, in the light of the precedent set I before them by the Supreme Court of Illinois, } to pronounce the metropolitan police bill j constitutional, least of all dictate appropriaI tions in its support from the duly-elected j representatives of the people of Indianapolis^ llf the Democratic Legislature desires to run the police of Indianapolis in the interests of the Democracy, let it provide for their payment from State funds. Let the issue at the next city election be, if the metropolitian police bill is forced through, “not one cent from the city treasury for a metropolitan police,” and the Republicans need not fear the result.

THE DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT. The Democratic party is the same enemy to popular progress to-day that it ever has been. Forgetting nothing and learning nothing, it is a shoal in the tide of advancement, a sand-bar in the current of history. Its attitude in Congress is hostile to every vital interest of the Nation. The Republican party, without a majority in the Senate ami without a working majority in the House, is practically bound hand and foot by the Democrats. Pledged to tariff reform, the Republicans have endeavored to secure legislation whereby a wise reduction may be made. In this, as in all efforts to effect reduction of taxation, the Democratic members have stood in the way. While shouting loudly for civil-service reform, they have dishonored the Pendleton bill and opposed every possible practicable step in that direction. Their insincerity is manifest everywhere in ail they do. To make political capital, business of an imperative nature is delayed and postponed until a Democratic Congress can come in and have it all its ow’ii way. If the present Congress fails to effect a reduction of taxation as demanded by the people, the blame will be laid where it belongs. The Democratic party of obstruction cannotescape its responsibility. The same disposition to ignore the public welfare in the interest of presumed party necessity is evinced in the Indiana Legislature. From first to last the aim of the Democratic majority has been to claim everything in sight. No precedent or statute has been allowed to impede the grand rush for spoils. In but one instance has the Democratic party in Indiana kept its faith, and that was with the liquor league. Despite all precedent to the contrary, the pending amendments were incontinently killed at the demand of the liquor allies of the Democracy. The Democratic law regulating the benevolent institutions, now found to stand between Democratic aspirants and a few petty officers, is repealed at the bidding of the spoils-hungry, and these State charities are to be turned into cribs for feeding party strikers. On Tuesday the work of the Heffren House was completed by the passage of the metropolitan police bill, placing the care of the largest cities of Indiana beyond the reach of the people and in the hands of a partisan commission. The Bureau of Statistics, the Department of Geology, and everything else, are to be prostituted to the low’est party uses. This attitude is thoroughly in keeping with the party’s stand in the past. Never, when in position to back its professions by deeds, lias the Democratic party given evidence of sincerity in its professions for better government. Its campaigns ring with calls for reform in all directions. To listen to Democratic orators a stranger would think that the purest, best, most disinterested men of the Nation were members of that party, only wanting opportunity to transform this thoroughly human republic into an Eden of purity and bliss. Again and again have the American people placed the feet of the Democratic party on the threshold of general success, only to see its representatives dishonor their most sacred pledges. It is so now. The public, deluded by the high-toned professions of the Democratic party, thought to give it some little encouragement in order to again test its honesty. The National Legislature was taken from Republican control and given over to the Democratic party. The result is already at hand. Encouraged by present triumphs, the party has come to believe that victory is assured in 1884. Emboldened and defiant, the true spirit of Democracy reveals itself. Party pledges are dishonored, and the cry for reform is swallowed up in the universal yell for spoils. The Democratic party is dangerous—it cannot be trusted. Incompetent and dishonest, it invites distrust and presages disaster. It will be driven out of power in 1884 at the

command of an indignant people, w’ho have seen its falsehood and treachery and recognize its dangerous spirit. “The 1884 campaign has already been opened in Indiana by Mr. New’s vigorous journal. It is hoped that the future holds some happy day when it will be possible to elect a trustee in one of the ninetytwo counties of that great State without fighting over all the battles of the war of the rebellion.”—Washington Post. That happy day will como whenever the Democratic party in this State ceases to put forward as its leaders men of the stripe of Lieutenant-general Heffren, whose only claim to conspicuity is his size, and to party prominence his pestilent treason. Too many soldiers went into the Union array from this State, too many died, too many wore themselves out in the service; there are too many bereaved fathers and mothers who remember sons, and widows who recollect husbands, to expect quiet acquiscence in the political leadership of a man who conspired with rebels against the government, and who denounced Abraham Lincoln, the leader of the Union armies, as a vile buffoon and vulgar joker, and applauded his assassination. Mary Clkmmer, speaking of the woman suffrage movement and some of the suffragists, says: “I have never felt the slightest sympathy with woman berating men in their public functions. Who has said that if men make the laws the women make the men? When a race of women arise so sweet, so wise, so strong that the race of men they bear and rear must wear forever on their plastic brains and souls the woman’s mental and spiritual seal, women will command, through their natures and by their own wisdom, the things they want, and they will want more and greater than they do to-day, and speeches and conventions will no longer be necessary.” As amateurs, with very limited opportunities, the Democratic office-holders “are playing a pretty good hickory,” and in the im- | mediate past have succeeded in “knocking down” the following sums: State of Missouri $200,000 State of Arkansas 200,000 State of Tennessee 400,000 State of Alabama 250,000 City of Louisville 200,000 Grant! total $1,250,000 Given something like a fair show, these reformers could reflect great credit upon themselves and upon the Nation. A million and a quarter stolen, and thirty-three States to hear from.

“The Journal is trying the efficacy of softsoap to convince Speaker Bynum that he should permit Republicans to obstruct legislation to an extent that important measures shall be lost for want of time to pass them.” —Sentinel. The Journal was willing to give Speaker Bynum the credit for being naturally a gentleman, and with a fairly acquired ability to know what was right; but if he prefers to be known and recognized as nothing but a bulldozer, we cannot help it. His passage with Kepresentati ve Shockney was a disgrace to himself personally and to the office he occupies. Referring to the denial by the State Senate of the demand from the Studebakers and the Olivers for an investigation of the lying charges made against them by Winterbotham, and by senators on the floor, the Lebanon Patriot well says: “Nothing more cowardly or unmanly was ever enacted by any legislative body. They confessed themselves guilty of having uttered damaging falsehoods against some of Indiana’s most valuable industries, and were not even prepared to offer an excuse for the insult.” _____________ “If Horace Heffren, the ex-C. S. A. army officer and present Democratic leader in the House, is not getting lots of free advertising, who is?”—Rushville Graphic. How would you like the same amount and kind of advertising? Lieutenant-general Heffren is fully welcome to all the benefit he receives from the attention paid him. Among the novel contributions received at Cincinnati for the relief of the flood refugees was four gross of stove polish from Chicago. What they really stand in need of in the flooded districts is a car-load of plug-hats and a few cords of walking-sticks. The loss of seventy-four lives at Braidwood, 111., by the flooding of u coal mine is in keeping with the character of disasters that are now making memorable tl>e current year. The public may well wonder what is to happen next. In the midst of all the casualties and disasters that are filling tlfe new year with sensations, it is gratifying to note that the cotton prospects are very fine. A prosperous South helps to make a nrosperous nation. The Saturday Herald kindly says “The Journal lias arisen to the emergency of the flood. It has given very full accounts of the ‘ways of the waters,’ and of all pertaining thereto,” In addition to being n general and international mitsmoe, Herr Most is a despicable fraud aud fin uncial deadbeat. The Cleveland Leader says: “In a letter written a few day* since to a gentleman in St. Paul, Minn., Herr Must explained Ins method of operation, and tli it gentleman, disgusted with the man and hm given il to the public. According to the terms submitted in this letter, Most asks lor every speech or lecture delivered $250, ‘with traveling expenses, hotel expense*, demonstrations, such as bouquets, receptions, entertainments, etc., to be paid uy the societies,’ asked to invite him to any city. He, however, proposes to bo liberal witti those who will make a season engagement with him by offering to deliver three lectures for $600.” Tiik present grand jury of St. Louis recommends the establishment of a whipping post In that city for ordinary offenders, such as wifebeaters, drunkards, vagrants, oto. This movement is opposed by some of the good citizens ou the ground that Missouri’s barbarism is sufficiently well advertised now, and that while suoh an Institution may bo useful, they prefer that it should be first adopted in cultivated New England. This is poor reasoning as well as cowardice. If the whipping-post Is good, Western hood-

lums ought to have the benefit of it now, so that the stigma of “half civilized” may be the sooner removed. — The Saturday Review, in its last Issue, had a lengthy and very appreciative review of the works of Benjamin S. Parker, one of the poet, editors of Indiana, now United States Consul to Bherbrooke. Mr. Parker has just passed his fiftieth birthday. His muse is of the sweetest, gentlest, chastest nature, with a fancy and expression that cause his work to rank among the best that has added to the luster of Indiana literature. Mr. Parker’s graceful pen has, frequently enriched the columns of the Journal, and it will be a pleasure to all his friends to see ample recognition of his genius and industry. One of the lady teachers of Atlanta has introduced the reading of newspapers as part of the training given her scholars. She says: “The experiment lias proven far more successful than I expected. They all take great interest in it, and T think it will be a great addition to the schools." “What is the nature of the articles you lecture on, political, historical nr sensational?” “Ob, I teach them howto read methodically, and select such mutter as will prove most beneficial and attractive to their minds. For instance, the ‘lrish assassins' and the troubles in Fiance. Such articles are not only interesting, but attractive.” Scarlatina surpasses diphtheria in its ravages in Russia. In 1882 there were 1,323 deaths from the former, and 1,146 from the latcer in St. Petersburg, and during five years there have been 156,027 fatal cases out of 463,019 persons attacked by these two diseases in the empire. The Golos remarks that no war has ever been so disastrous, and thai, considering the large proportion of young people among the victims, it Is really the future of the country that i in question. The great difficulty is the lack of coinpe- | tent physicians. f Scottish financial companies are reaping rich ! harvests in ail kinds of American securities, i some of them paying as high as 8 and 10 per . ceut. dividends, besides increasing their capital ! stock. Wheu the inevitable crash comes there j will be screams aud yells of dismay that will discount the uncanny screeches that issued from Kirk Alloway when Tam O'Shanter forgot him- ! seif and cried out, “Weel done, cutty sarkl” * A voice pipes up from away East and says the peach buds in the Hudson river region are in j excellent condition, and that there will be an enormous crop. To-morrow a melancholy oliorus 1 from a thousuud pairs of lungs may be expected to inform the indiscreet soloist that there is 1 plenty of time yet in which to freeze or otherwise totally destroy every bud which has put its head out. A Philadelphia jury awarded Louise Montague SSOO for having fallen off a circus elephant. Lots of men would be willing to fall off an elephant once a da) r lor thirty successive days at the same rate per tumble, but unless ; they were prize beauties they would have to travel a long way to find a Jury which would award it to them. A Massachusetts man is curing himself of dyspepsia by a ten-days fast. At the end of five days he said he felt full of energy, had no sense of hiiuger, and expected to taste nothing until his time was up. There is no manner of doubt that fasting will euro dyspepsia, or any other disease, If the sufferer will only refrain from eating long enough. Tiik milliners of New Yorjc gave a ball the other night, and the most beautiful bonnetmaker opened the dance amid great applause. When the anxious reader looks for a description of this supposed loveliest of her sex, and finds that he was a horrid man, and that it was u manmilliners’ ball, interest in the affair suddenly subsides. An eccentric New Hampshire man requested that after death lie should be buried standing in his coffin aud a pipe placed in his mouth; also, that he should be hauled to the graveyard iu a ha3’-rack. He died the other day, aud his unsympathizing relatives planted him in a horizontal position, aud were glad to get him under in any shape. M. LB VICOMTE D’HAUSSONVILLE, Who has written a book on America, says that even the third-rate papers in the United States are better | than the leading journals of Paris. With earnI estness he adds that the so-and-so (meaning a j disgraceful police weekly) “is not found on the tables of ladies in good society’.” So the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: To settle a dispute, please answer the following question: How many “squares” to the mile in the city of Indianapolis? J. A. Young. New Briton, Ind. About ten of the ordinary squares.

ABOUT PEOPLE. The Ohio is not only out or its bed, but it's running around iu it’s night-rap. Tiik mother of the late Governor Jewell, of Connecticut, survives him. She is more than eighty years of age. Tiir milkman cau now start an hour or two later. The water Is so high that he doesn’t have to lose any time at the puiup. Mmk. Modjeska writes that tne proper spelling of her maiden name is Modrzejewsko. It is easy to see why Mr. Gebhardt has kept away from Modjeska. It is gossip in Washington that the Ferry* have suddenly “struck it rich” iu their Utah mine, and they are thereby wealthy again ami able to meet all their obligations. Sir Michael Costa, who has occupied a similar position at every festival since 1857, is to be the conductor of the Handel festival, at the Crystal Palace, London, ou June 13, 16, 18 aud 20 next. Wendell Phillips says that William Lloyd Garrison intended to write]reminiscences of antislavery days, but was always given to putting off things. Mr. Phillips says that he, himself, has not the time. For the first time, It is said, ir the history of the Canadian Parliament, father and son are sitting members of the House of Commons. The gentlemen are Sir Charles Tupper and Mr. Charles H. Tupper. Lord Tenterden, ut one time Chancellor of England, expired with these words on bis lips, “Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict.” Lord Hermand, the Scotch judge, said ou his deathbed, “Guilty, but recommended to the mercy of the court.” Sergeant Ballantinb, on one occasion, had a lady client named Tickle. Mr. Baiiantlne said to the Judge, “Tickle, uiy client, niy lord”— Hero be was interrupted by the Judge, saying, “Tickle her yourself, my learned brother.” Ballantino, who is a great wit, looked glum for a whole day. W. W. Stort has expressed his willingness to male*) a brons statue of Daniel Webster, to be erected on Boston Common, bis rewaid to be either $15,000 or $20,000, according to size. About $5,000 have been subscribed, and it is likely that Mr. Story will bo commissioned to undertake the work. The Rev. \V. C. Winslow lias loaned to the Bostonian Society the aucicnt door-knocker once in use on the door of his famous ancestor, Governor Winslow of the Plymouth Colony. The venerable relic is of solid yellow brass, and is appropriately mounted upon a piece of English oak that might have accompanied the knocker over in the Mayflower. THE Denver, Col,, Inter-Ocean says: “It isn’t any of our funeral, but the man Coppinger (Colonel) who on Tuesday married Mr. James G. Blaine’s daughter at Washington, Is uot a good man to have in the family, unless Miss Blaine feels disposed toward missionary work. Colouel

Coppinger is in the regular army as inspeetor general. He is a Catholic Irishman, bald and gray, with a furious mustache, and with a ‘pen* shong’ for good whisky. He has been making love to all the mothers, and has ohaperoned all the daughters at Fort Leavenworth these many years back.” A veritable Swiss Family Robinson life is that led by the McKees, husband, wife and children, on the crib iu Lake Michigan where the Chicago water supply enters the tunnel, two miles from the shore. Captain McKee last visited the city on Christmas day, and expects to corns again in April. Communication is had with tha shore by telephone through the cable, the lake now being full of ice as far as you can see. The hymn beginning, “My sins were washed away by the blood of the Lamb,” as sung by the Salvation Army of Toronto, was followed by what is called u sacred song, commencing, “My tobacco was washed away by the blood of the Lamb.” After that the “recruits” took their plugs of tobacco from their pockets and threw them upon the floor in one corner of the halL This performance was enacted in the cause of Christ. Mr. Langtry, the husband of the lady who if now in this country, owns some laud in Ireland which an agent manages. This agent reoently wrote to him, saying that the tenants demandsd lower reuts and bad threatened to resort to the shot-gun policy to obtain compliance with their demand. Mr. Langtry at once wrote baok as follows: “Dear Sir: You may say to my ten* ants that any threats to shoot you will never in* timid ate me.” Gambetta was not a brilliant writer, and ha never knew when to stop. It is related that ha would enter his editorial room, say, “I shall want about half a column to-night,” aud, sitting down, be would begiu to cover page after page with his close, cramped baud writing. For so impetuous a man he wrote a curiously stiff hand, and, Chough his fingers moved fast, their motion was feverish and spasmodical. It could never be said of him that ho “dashed off” an3* of his effusions; he rather jerked them off, A story is told of Justice Huddlestone, of London, a prominent English judge, illustrating his propensity for “tuft-hunting.” Going out to dinner recently, he learned that a certain noble Duke was to be of the party. As he encountered the butler In the hall he slipped half a sovereign into his baud, saying: “I have a few speolal words to say to the Duke; contrive that I si* next to him.” “Thank you,” said the butler, “His Grace has Just given me a sovereign t& place you at the other end of the room.” Th® Duke knew his luau.

THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. How to restore the old-time purity of eleotlonf becomes both a serious and a vital question. If is a question which the better class of men belonging to all parties will have to face at an early day and act upon, or our institutions will meet with ignominious failure.—Cleveland Leader. The Ohio valley Is subject to more disastrous floods than formerly, because the timber has been wantonly destroyed along the Allegheny and Monoiig.ihela rivers and along its own banks. It is folly to object to any good law for the preservation of the moisture-straining forests.—Courier Journal. Women, as a rule, are fur less Just to each other than men are to each other or to women. Consequently, us long as most of the teachers in the schools will continue to be. women, the) will probably Hud their lives somewhat less wearisome if their duties are. largely arranged and fixed by men rather than their own sex solely.— Philadelphia Record. The rest of the country lias not waited for an official call to come to the helnof the victims of the floods. The letters and telegrams published this morning show that the offerings are innumerable and spontaneous. It is one of the sweet uses of adversity that it brings into relief the bright streaks iu humanity and reaffirms the universal brotherhood of man.—Cincinnati News. Until the Western Union Telegraph Company reverses its polioy of dealing fairly with its customers ami doing business as cheaply usitcati be well done, the scarecrow of monopoly need not frighten anybody, aud there will uot likely be any general demand for government control, which, under our system, would never be efficient. and would always be dear.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Whatever may be the truth in the eontroversy between Dr. Newman and the Book Concern, it is clear that the Methodist denomination does not pay its managers to bolster up mines, whether they are paying or nou-paylng. The fate of the Isabella ought to be a warning, and the warning might be emphasized by referring to a very good book which lias something to say about the difficulty of serving two masters.-** Chicago Tribune. As to fears of an unusually unhealthy season, all such predictions are purely sensational. As the waters recede rapidly, which they will do, the)' will have u greater fall, therefore a greater force, aud they will have a cleaning effect on the city. Last year the water came up almost as high, and the summer season was not unhealthy. The record does not bent- oat the idea, or superstition, that great overflows produce epidemics. —Louisville Courier-Journal. The feebleness of the opposition with which the government must contend this session may be inferred from the fact that Lord Salisbury could find no better basis for his criticisms on the speech than the stale argument that tha Irish legislation of the past two years is a failure. The truth is that both the land act aud the arrears-of-rent act have done lnealonlable good. It could not be expected that they would prove a complete remedy for Irish ills with which unfair rents have nothing to do.—New York Times. There surely out to be some means of uulrlng the Republicans of both houses in harmonious action. It is the desire of a large majority of them to secure reduction of taxation, and by means of a measure uot differing very widely from the one recommended by the coimuiaiuj. They would hardly be. equal to their responsibility if, in such an emergency, they should allow a technical controversy as to precedence between the two houses to defeat their own desire and the expressed desire of the people. If members meet with a reasonable willingness to make concessions and compromises for tlie common good, a path to success can oertaiuly be found.— New York Tribune. This hour of trial has brought out the heroes, nnened the purse-strings and the heart-strings, broadened The sweet charity of our womanhood and rounded out through all a spirit of Christian feeling and brotherhood that dignified the city and its citizens. The close-listed have gone to the rear. The word welcome has arched from every home, and the left hand has held no private seances with tlie right. Little chiidreu have broken into banks—worth)’ of mention if they were toy ones—and vied with the older ones in dispensing good cheer and comfort to the distressed. We will cotne out of It purified aud bettered; and here's a hope that the trial may never again approach the bitterness of the cup that is now passing from our lips.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Failures During the Past Week. New York, Feb. 18.—There were 256 fail* urea in the United States reported to Brad* street’s during the past week, 20 less than the preceding week, 07 more than the corresponding week of 1882, and 105 more than the corresponding week of 1881. Compared with the previous week, the Middle States had 45, an increase of 1. New England States 26, a decrease of 20; Southern States 75, an increaseofS; Western States 92, an increaseof 8; Pacific States and Territories 18, a decrease of 12; Canada and the provinces 34, a decrease of 12. The failures wore mainly of the average trader, the important ones being Ferry A Brother, Grand Haven, Mich.; Pel ton, Pomeroy A Cross, pianos, Chicago; Sumner, Reed. Williams A Cos., wholesale cloths, and Richard Salembier, laces, New York city; J. Br Carprew. wholesale dry goods, Norfolk, Va. In the principal trades they were as follows? General traders 65. grocers 30; dry goods 18;, shoes 17; liquors 17; drugs 10; hotels and restaurants 8; tobacco and cigars 7; hardware 7; millers 6; manufacturers 6; jewelers 4; furniture 3; produce and provisions 2; commission 2. Michigan Senatorslilp. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 17. —Only one ballot was taken by the joint convention of the Legislature. Jt stood: Newton (Dem.), 45; Palmer, 12; Ferry, 11; Burrows, 10; Hanchett, 9; Willet, 8; Lacey, 6: Hannah, 6, with If scattering oh seven other candidate*