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THE DAILY JOURNAL. DY ,7NO. C. NEW & SOX. For Rates ot Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pare. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1883. A report has been prevalent in England that the late Lord Beaconsfield died in the Catholic faith. So public and widespread was it that Mr. Montagu Corry—Lord Rowton —the Earl’s private secretary, has written a card to the press categorically denying the truth of the rumor. TnE Greencastle postoffice contest is settled by the renomination of Mr. George J. Langsdale, editor of the Greencastle Banner. The nomination of Colonel John W. Foster, to be minister to Spain, was yesterday confirmed by the Senate, as was that of Dr. Dybrenfurth as Assistant‘Commissioner of Patents. TnE Divorce Reform League of New England has called a public meeting to agitate the divorce reform movement. The number pf “modern instances” is appalling to the respectable New England mind, and the trouble is that the evil can no louger be laid at the doors of Western States. Massachusetts and Connecticut lead all the rest in the ratio of divorces. After a long and painful effort a considerable sum of money was raised toward the building of a Garfield memorial hospital in Washington. Many people in different parts of the country contributed to the fund. It is now discovered, by a little investigation and the exercise of a little sense which would have been better used at first, that seven hospitals already exist in that city, and more than enough to supply the needs. It is now proposed to turn the money into the monument fund. The Journal prints a second letter this morning from its staff' correspondent with the relief expedition up the Ohio river. The statements made in this report from the personal investigation of a trained and experienced mind, corroborating what information Comes from more general sources, will have the effect to stimulate the people to continue their benevolences. The necessity for active work is in no respect lessened, if, indeed, it be not really increased by r the subsidence of the waters. We commend our special report to a careful reading, certain that it will result in an enhancement of the funds at the lisposal of the committee. David Davis, president pro tem. of the Senate has given notice that he will resign that office on the 3d of March proximo , so that anew presiding officer can be chosen, und thus the presidential succession be kept Intact. It is presumed that this notice of Senator Davis is the result of an intimation that there Yrttt be nu special executive session of the Senate, and, of course, no special session of Congress. The postponement of the consideration of the Mexican treaty until next December also tend3 to confirm this general impression, It is regarded as certain that Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, Will be elected the successor of Mr. Davis, fend that the other officers of the Senate will remain unchanged for the present.

The Reed rule, whereby the House can disagree to the Senate amendments and send the whole tariff and revenue question to a committee of conference upon one motion, was passed yesterday, and thus the way is open to see what sort of legislation in the interest of reduction and tariff reformation can come from the conference room. There seems to be no question that the Senate bill as it stands would work injury, is crude and out of harmony, and that radical amendments are essential. These, it is hoped, can be effected in the conference committee. It is greatly to be desired that, after all the pulling and hauling, the alternations of hope and chagrin, a bill may be perfected and agreed to by both houses of Congress which shall make a start, at least, in the direction of reduction of revenue and reformation of the tariff. This will fitly close the hotlycontested work of the present Congress. “Whatever may be said of the other actors In this ‘comedy of errors’ it cannot justly be said of Judge Gould that he has failed in dignity or in the preservation of order.”— Lafayette Courier. If this be true, then “the other actors in this comedy of errors” have managed to turn the court room into a bear garden or a comedy stage without the judge seeming to be aware of it. If such proceedings as are quoted from the Courier’s own columns are called “order” in Lafayette, then the courts there had better indulge in a little disorder, not more for variety’s sake than for the sake of the sanctity of law and the reputation of courts of justice. Either the reports of the trial in the Courier columns are frossly unfair or else the proceedings are disgraceful in the last degree to all who participated in them. What the Journal said was based upon the reports taken from the Courier —and we have no doubt they were and are correct. The justness of that criticism we are willing to leave to an intelligent public or to the bench and bar of Indiana. Cities everywhere are suffering from diffusion of responsibility in their municipal government, and there is almost a universal movement for the abolition of all executive boards, whether independent or intermediary. Experience has shown them to be useless, cumbrous, inefficient, in the way of the best administration, and with an inevitable tendency to lack of responsibility and consequently breeding corruption. In the pending session of parliament Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Home Secretary, is to in-

troduce a measure for the reform of the government of the municipality of London, and the New York Times speaking of it says: “The general plan of the bill, it is supposed, will be to substitute a central authority for the various city, metropolitan and district bodies and boards which now have such mixed and inefficient jurisdiction.” Had the Legislature of Indiana been desirous to give to Indianapolis and to all cities the best form of local government, they would have abolished ail executive boards and vested the entire central authority in the mayoralty. Concentration and direct responsibility is the key note of the best attainable municipal administration. WHAT IS THE GOVERNING POWER? The liquor league of Illinois is putting itself into an attitude of violent opposition to the people in that State, as it did in Indiana. The Illinois Legislature is ready and anxious to pass a high-license law, for which there is a general demand, but the Democratic minority, at the bidding of the whiskyites, have put in a factious opposition which absolutely obstructs all legislation, among other things such important and imperative measures as the bills for the relief of the sufferers by the Braidwood mine disaster and by the flood in the lower Wabash. The demand on behalf of the liquor men is that the high-license bill shall be withdrawn or no legislation will be permitted. The Republicans propose to stand their ground, and in that attitude will be upheld by the people. Government cannot afford to be abdicated to the liquor league, nor to any other organized class. But this action shows the spirit of the liquor traffic. It is essentially lawless and defiant. In Ohio it defied and obstructed the operation of a low-license law; in Indiana it declared that the people should not exercise a constitutional right in voting upon a prohibitory amendment to the constitution; and in Illinois it puts itself in the way of a high-license law, and with insolent impertinence obstructs all public business until its will is obeyed. There can be but one result of such an un-American, unrepublican, law-defying attitude as the liquor traffic has seen fit to assume. Sooner or later it must and will meet with crushing defeat. The representatives who stand for the people in Illinois must stand fast and stand firm until the liquor autocrats come to understand that this country and the government was not made specially and exclusively for them. In Indiana we have had a fierce and close contest. Prohibition has been defeated before it could reach the people. We have urged, and the overwhelming popular opinion has urged, a high-license law, with provisions restrictive of the evils of the traffic, provisions which could be readily enforced on behalf of law, order and public morals. Such appeals have been to deaf ears in a Legislature controlled by and under pledge to the liquor power. We want a law framed to restriot; framed in the interests of the people, and not in the interests of the saloons. We want a law which shall recognize the unquestioned evils flowing from an unrestrained traffic in liquors, which shall put the worst crime-breeders under the heaviest penalties and guards. We want a law not produced by and passed at the instance of the interest it is intended to lay its hand upon. There will be no such law passed by the Indiana Legislature, and there will be no amendment of the present faulty and inefficient statute. The people will be left to precisely the same safeguards, or rather want of safeguards, there have been since the liquor league assumed control of the Democratic party and wrote the law passed by the Democratic Legislature of 1875, and which the Democratic Legislature of 1883 dares not amend or supersede. We have said to the liquor men themselves, time and again, and the same advice has been given by shrewd men of their own business, that they cannot afford to place themselves or to continue in the attitude in which Hotspurs have succeeded in putting them by such movements as have been made in their interest in Ohio, in Indiana and in Illinois. They are making for themselves bitter enemies all the time, treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath, turning moderate men into extremists, and inviting the thing they most violently oppose in its most radical form. We do not believe this antagonism of classes, this virulent and heated opposition, to be for the best interests of society generally. It is likely to result in intemperate and ill-advised legislation, the net result of which will be adverse to those things which it should be the duty of all good citizens to conserve. High license and strict restraint is the drift of public sentiment. The St, Louis grand jury, in a recent report, referring to the condition and prospects of the penal, charitable and reformatory institutions of that city, says all the city institutions are overcrowded, “chiefly from causes incident to liquor,” and urges that something be done to “limit in some degree the most obvious crime-producing agencies.” The report says “the dram-shops induce at least nine-tenths of the crime and pauperism,” and “with the facts before us, we say deliberately that it is almost impossible to use the language of exaggeration.” The report says to the Legislature of the State of Missouri that “the present lawcannot be properly enforced, audit is not nearly ‘good enough’ for this city if it could be enforced. This question is one of simple justice to the immense preponderance of numbers and of business values in the city they were chosen to represent.” Arguing the most feasible remedy, the report says: “It is not a question of prohibition, for the main purpose in view is not even one of temperance. It is a vital question of the reduction of crime by a better regulation of the

THE ENDIANAPOEIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1883.

saloons, involving the closing of many of the worst of them and a much increased revenue from those of a better class that will remain. What is termed ‘high license’ takes from no man any native or acquired right. It does not attempt to legislate out of existence any known business, engagement, or privilege, legitimate or illegitimate. It simply demands from a traffic that has no recognized counterpart some more reasonable pecuniary return fox the enormous drain that traffic makes upon the public purse. It does not attempt, by any means, to balance the account, inasmuch as any grade of license that made the dramshops pay back for all their definitely ascertained prejudice to social order and general prosperity would require a much heavier tax upon them than, within our knowledge, has ever been proposed. There cannot be a thoughtful, well-informed man in this community who does not see in the light thrown upon the subject the business necessity of imposing stricter conditions upon a traffic whose return to the bodj r politic for a permitted existence is an appalling aggregate of ‘contentions, woes and sorrows’ of direct taxation and related loss and injury. * * * We are reluctant to believe that the representatives of this city in the Legislature are finally committed to such regard for a comparatively insignificant number of saloonkeepers that they will consentingly ignore the various advantages to the cit\ at large which would come from a much higher dramshop license.” These words, without exception or change, can be applied fully and completely to the condition of things here in this city and State. Prohibition is out of the question, and has been ever since the result of the election last November in constituting the present Legislature. We refer to present legislative or constitutional prohibition; but there has been an opportunity for the passage of a strict, just, high and operative license law. Such bills have been introduced, and they have received no consideration whatever at the hands of committees formed in the interests of the saloons, or at the hands of a Legislature which is the product of a vile and unnatural union between the liquor league and the Democratic party. The Legislature of 1883 will have to answe** for this, among its other crimes and misdemeanors, to a people who do not intend that a government of the people, by the people and for the people shall be supplanted by a government of the liquor league, by the liquor league and for the liquor league. We find in one of our exchanges the following, purporting to give an extract from the recent speech of Senator Ililligass in defense of the leadership of the Democratic party by Lieutenant-general Heffren. “‘Who is Lamdin P. Milligan?’ asked Senator Hilligass. ‘He is a distinguished constituent of mine, the intellectual peer of any senator on this floor. Though once tried for treason in this city, he has lived to see the Republican party, the party claiming to be of Morton and of Lincoln, prostrate in the dust, supplicating him to become its candidate for the office that I, a Democrat, have the honor to hold. The Republican party of Indiana, through its chairman, cried, ‘Help, Milligan, or we sink.’ ” Senator Hilligass was a Union soldier, and he not only has an honorable record but bears honorable wounds received from the associates of Lieutenant-general Heffren in the rebel army. It emphasizes the galling yoke which this monstrous traitor has fastened upon his party that he compels an honorable and gallant Union soldier like Captain Hilligass to rise in his seat in the Senate and defend him from the attack of his own infamous record. But if the Senator felt the thrall so much that it was necessary for him to champion his fleshly and flagitious grand commander, it really wits not necessary for him to add falsehood to the burden of his pitiful and pitiable service. Captain Hilligass knows that when he intimated that the Republican party, in any manner or decree, advocated the candidacy of Lamdin P. Milligan, to say nothing of the assertion that the party asked Milligan to become a candidate for the Senate, and that the party, by anybody or through any authorized representative, called upon Milligan to stand as an opponent of the Senator, he intimated and said what is absolutely and unqualifiedly false. There can be no excuse of ignorance on the part of Captain Hilligass. He knows better, and knew better when he uttered these words on the floor of the Senate, and he dishonored himself and the office he holds by so large a majority when he gave utterance to so palpable a misstatement. Any man ought to be ashamed to be the author of such a glaring falsehood. A senator, and particularly one in the position of Senator Hilligass, should have considered his honor worth more to him. and of higher influence and power with his conscience, than even the fealty he owes as a Democrat to the leadership and orders of Grand Commander and Lieutenant-general Heffren.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I am not versed in politics or legal lore, hence desire to ask you a conundrum. From recent literature upon the .subject I understand that one Heffren, who is finding out what is going to be done about it, was at one time an officer in the United States army, and that afterward he accepted a commission as lieutenant-general in the rebel army. If these premises are true, why is not said Heffren disqualified from holding office or even voting, by the laws of the United States, unless his disabilities are removed by a special act ot Congress? There is an eternal fitness of things in Brown and Heffren as the recognized leaders of the Indiana Democracy, but it is a sickening spectacle to all decent citizens that blackguardism, bullyism, cowardice and treason should chiefly characterize the leading spirits of the Indiana Legislature. Remington, Ind., Feb. 26. m. This presents a view of the case which has not heretofore attracted attention. Without a close examination of the laws of Congress, it is our opinion that Lieutenant-general Heftreu’s case is covered by the general amnesty laws, and that now, at least, he can legally vote and hold office if any constituency can be found to make him their representative. If it should turn out that he b really disqualified from holding office, that would only make him the stronger with his party, if we may judge from the alacrity with w-hich they have made him the leader iu the Legislative, and the servility with

which they have followed his beck and nod. If there is one thing the Democratic party of Indiana admires more than any other, it is a man who was a rebel and a Confederate officer during the war of the rebellion. The New Albany Ledger is a Democratic paper, and among the ablest of that taith in the State. It is published in the shadow, so to speak, of Louisville, where Henry Watterson sits on his tin throne and fulminates his thunderbolts in favor of free trade as the only simon-pure Democratic doctrine, but it is also published in the shadow of great manufacturing enterprises, which have been built up under the Republican policy of protection to American industries, and it knows just what the practical advantage of such establishments are. Taking up tAe everlasting cant in the-free trade newspapers about the fabulous profits made by the “protected monopolies,” the Ledger proposes to leave bluster and bravado and get down to bottom facts, which are within the observation and reach of everybody. It says: “Let us take up the history of manufacturing in this State during the last ten years, and see if the “monopolies” have made such vast sums of money. The News may select ten large establishments, if it will, and their books will show that the ten have not averaged 10 per cent, during the ten years. The Ledger could very easily select ten that have not made 5 percent., ten others thf.t have not made 1 per cent., and ten others that have lost all the way from 10 to 100 per cent, and would not select a single New Albany establishment either. In a few instances, and in a few exceptional years, large profits have been derived, but they are the exception and not the rule. What is the history of Indianapolis manufactories? How many of them sunk all the original capital before they ever made a dollar? The books will show more failures than successes. “The same is true at Evansville, Richmond, Jeffersonville, New Albany and elsewhere. A few great establishments, built up like one at South Bend, from a small beginning and by a lifetime of labor and remarkable skill, have met with phenomenal success, but, as said before, these are the exceptions. “The Ledger wants the manufacturer to make money, wants the skilled and unskilled laborer to make money. The figures quoted in the article which opened this controversy showed that ship-carpenters on the Clyde were paid only $0.25 per week. The Ledger knows that unskilled labor is paid more than that in New Albany manufactories, and thatsome skilled laborers are paid more than twenty times that amount. What makes the great difference? The tariff helps.” That is the true watchword—“the tariff helps.” No one wants tariff that will not help, but they do want helpful, helping tariff, and that the people of this country will keep, despite the Democratic party. The Republican party, with the aid of such papers as the Ledger, will see to it that British free trade does not close up our factories and shops and drive all our people on the farms, to become the slaves and the drudges of the world.

Here is a little resume of the work of the Legislature from the columns of the Richmond Palladium: “The present session of the Indiana Legislature will go into history as the body of Democrats who dodged behind a subterfuge in order to prevent the people from voting on a proposition to amend their constitution; who, for political purposes, took the power of appointing trustees for the State institutions away from the Governor, because he was a Republican, where it had formerly been placed by a Democratic # Legislature when the Chief Executive belonged to that party; as the body who interfered with the discipline of Purdue University by placing a rider on an apportionment bill, whose effect w r as to compel the resignation of Professor White, an educator of national reputation, and to seriously cripple, if not destroy, the usefulness of the institution; who refused an appropriation for the Indiana University; who seriously discussed a bill to abolish the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home and to give it to the feeble-minded children; who proposed to rob the people of Indianapolis and Evansville of the right to choose their own rulers, by an infamous metropolitanpolice bill; who swooped down on the House of Refuge, the bureau of statistics and the State geological bureau; whose leader in the Senate was a profane blackguard who used the vilest language in that body; and whose champion in the House was a man who conspired to turn the State over to the Confederate government during the war, and who, to shield himself from merited punishment, turned State’s evidence against his co-con-spirators. This catalogue of villainies is dark enough and long enough, but, unfortunately for the people of Indiana, it is not completed, and cannot be finished until the Legislature shall relieve the State by a final adjournment.” Discussing the troubles at Purdue and the forced resignation of President White, the Lafayette Times says: “Purdue University lias never been in so hopeful and satisfactory condition as it is at the present time. Not only has there been a decided advance in the work done during President White’s administration, but the appliances and accommodations of all the depart men ts have been greatly improved. The greatest change has been made in the departments of agriculture and mechanics to which the President has devoted his best attention. “The fight over the Greek fraternities, in some of its features, has been merely a side show; the real fight was against President White. He has been made the targtt for scurrilom abuse on the nart of certain senators, notably young Willard, that was simply disgraceful, but considering the source from W'hicb it came should go unheeded. “Under the circumstances, it is, perhaps, well that President White should retire. He will leave the institution in a highly flourishing condition, carrying with him not only the confidence and respect of the trustees, but of every true friend of Purdue University.” A statement having been made by the Rochester Sentinel that Governor Porter was pardoning more convicts out of the penitentiary than any of his predecessors, the Peru Republican wrote to the Executive Department for information. The figures show as follows: Governor Hendricks, in four years, pardoned 200. Governor Williams, in a little less time, pardoned 297. Governor Gray, in six weeks, pardoned 14, and Governor Porter, in two years, pardoned just 48. The average of Governor Hendricks is 4 a month, of Williams over 6, of Gray 10, and of Porter just 2. Facts and figures are valuable to meet the assertions of the thoughtless or vicious. _______________________ Tub news comes from Florence that the Ponte Vecohlo—-an ancient bridge over the Arno—la shortly to be pulled down because unsafe. It is said to bo in danger of being can led away by

the Arno in flood time. “We need hardly point out,” says William Morris, of the Euglish Society for tne Protection of Ancient Buildings, “the unrivaled historical interest and artistic beauty of this world-famed bridge, with ite fchre*i graceful arches crovvued by a picturesque group of houses, over whioh is carried the long passage connecting the Pitti and Ullitt palaces. Not only the arches of the bridge, but portions of some of the houses, are still preserved exactly as designed by Taddeo Gaddi, aud built in A. D. 1362—an object of the greatest beauty both when seen closoat hand and as one of the chief features in the glorious distant view from San Minlato.” He has no doubt that some careful engineering work is required to save the bridge, the foundations of which have been seriously undermined by the soour of the stream; “but It certainly,” he adds, “would not be beyond the skill of modern engineers to underpin and seoure the falling piers.” A Carriagkmaker in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, pine his faith to Veunor. When that prophet foretold heavy and repeated snow storms for this season, the Bucks county man quietly proceeded to manufacture sleighs and cutiers of every style and variety, which he stowed away, ready for a snowy day. At the appointed time the storm came, and the sleighmnker sold all his vehicles at a neat profit. A local paper containing a mention of the circumstance reached the far-off Vennor’s hands, whereupon that individual sent a letter to the editor, in whioh he intimated a willingness, if not a desire, to ride In one of those sleighs. The manufacturer thereupon proceeded to build the handsomest outter he could contrive, and has shipped the same to Vennor at Montreal. If weather is going to be made a purchasable commodity, the prophet business, &a this incident will show, may easily become profitable. Gath furnishes the following concerning Quakers in Great Britain and Ireland: In 1882, the number was 17,977. In addition to these there were 6,000 persons who regularly attended Friends meeting-houses, but who were not full members of the society. Above 25,000 scholars, children and adults, are under instruction iu the Sabbath-schools of the Quakers, but oulv a limited number of these become members of the society. Numerically small, however, as is the community of Friends, the wealth, respectability and intelligence which as a body distinguish them have given them by no means a small or unimportant share iu the affairs of the country in which they were once persecuted outcasts. There are ten members of the House of Commons who are professed Quakers, and several ex-members of the society, which also includes one Baronet and one Knight. The State of Texas has $2,000,000 of idle money in its treasury, aud there is talk of raising the Treasurer’s bond to $600,000. The Treasurer’s bond at present only calls tor $75,000, and the incumbent, TANARUS, R. Lubbock, threatens to resign if the amount is advanced to the figures given above. If Texas could manage to ascertain the whereabouts of Mr. Vincent, late of Alabama, and put him in charge of the treasury, the $2,000,000 would speedily be put in circulation. He is hardly a man and a brother yet down in Atlanta. A negro, m company with two women, who had the temerity to occupy seats in the gallery just outside of the limit set apart for his color, was promptly ejected and put under arrest in that city a day or two since. A Georgia journal has editorially discussed the question, “Shall we send our paper to a negro?” and has decided iu the affirmative, but to sit next to one at a show is asking too much. Boice, the president of a Jersey City bank, is now in the State prison at Trenton, engaged in the hones: and useful occupation of ironing shirts. His late cashier and bookkeeper put in their time in making linen collurs. They will make less money for a few years, but will be of far more value to the community than in their former positions, " - ■■■! Tiib Now York Journal commends the act of Sarah Bernliarot’s husbaud in enlisting In the army, and says if all our own poor actors would follow his example our national forces would soon be brought up to the required standard iu point of numbers if not in efficiency. Tiie Wide Awake for March is up to the usual standard of excellence iu all its departments. Its illustrations, serial articles and short stories are of tho choicest kiud, and it will prove a welcome visitor to any home. D. Lathrop &, Cos., publishers, Boston. The Montreal Witness pertinently inquires: “Is there no civilized way of dealing with the avowed assassins of New York who actually boast of their knowledge of and relations with the thugs of Dublin?” A cousin of Mrs. Langtry Is keeper of a tollgate near Springfield. O. The poor relation has all oountries for his own.

ABOUT PEOPLE. The Duke of Argyll is trying to acclimate Americau wild turkeys iu Scotlaud. The Comte de Chambord seeks popularity iu Paris by having distributed among the poor free bread tickets bearing his coat-of-arms. It ih stated that George O. Barnes, the “Mountain Evangelist,” when he arrives in England, will take steps to organize a religious movement in opposition to the Salvation Army. The Marquis of Lome wdiile in California had several dozen quails shipped from that State to the head-keeper on the Inverary moors, with a view to having them acclimated in Scotland. Ik David Davis does not marry her as soon as Congress adjourns. Miss Burr can begin a breach of promise suit, with a cloud of witnesses ready to swear to the engagement, and a long bill of particulars. Mr. Blaine says, according to a somewhat apocryphal report, that he has not seen either house of Congress In session since he retired from the cabinet, and that he does not Intend ever to go upon the floor of either house again. General Siikuidkn is said to bo already house-hunting in Washington In anticipation of succeeding General Sherman not only as generalissimo of tho American armies, but also In a measure, as one of the social lions of the oapiial. The death Is announced, at Leipzig, of Wolfgang Max von Goethe, a grandson of the great poet, at the age of slxty-t wo. He is described as having been an amiable but very baslifui person. He published a volume of short poems aud a long epic-lyric poem, “Elfriede.” A letter from Cannes rather indignantly denies that Miss Chamberlain is quite the beauty par excellence, aud declares that Miss Crab be quite shares the general and special admiration claimed by the Americans for their countrywoman. Miss Crabbe is the daughter of the popular actress, whose beauty she inherits. Mr. Austin Corbin will sail for Europe to-day. Mr. Corbin said, Saturday, that he was going abroad chiefly on business, and expected to return May 1. He said that the Long Island summer resorts with whioh lie is identified would be made more attractive than ever next season. He would try and induce Johann Strauss to come over and spend next summer at Manhattan Beach. Mrs. John Jacob Astor has the largest and finest diamonds of any lady in New York —probably in America. They are remarkable for size aud brilliancy, and represent a labor of years to collect, match, size and shade. It Is only on rare occasions that she wears them, and when

she does detectives who are splendid facsimiles of the society gentlemen of the period, accompany her to and from the house or plaoe she visits. At home these diamonds are kept in a safe so built that to rob it one must needs kaook down part of the house. Thjk pecuniary affairs of one of the Czar’s nearest relatives, who held high military command in Bulgaria, have become so desperately Involved that his estates have been placed under administration for the benefit of his creditors; and in the meanwhile it is said to have been suggested that he could live with more dignity abroad on the small income whioh has been reserved for bis personal use. Mr. Gl dstonb, during his idle days in Cannes, me: M.Clemeuoeau, the leader of the French Radioals. The two statesmen needed no other introduction than mutual recognition, and they chatted pleasantly in French and walked hours together in the sunshine of the Riviera. “I find, M. Clemenceau,” said the English premier when they parted, “tnat we think aliks about tea and decentralization.’’ The other night, at Washington at a reception, the Chinese minister met Mrs. Samuel Bright. Mrs. Bright is slightly deaf and uses an eartrumpet. Mr. Tsao Ju, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from tho Empire of China to the United States, took it into his head that the ear-trumpet was anew kind of pipe, to be smoked through the ear. It took four secretaries and an interpreter to convince him to the contrary, and even then he insisted, in choioe Chinese, that he should be allowed to try it for himself. The recent sale of some of the late Edwin Forrest’s effects in Philadelphia recalls a singular circumstance concerning his estate. Pending the divorce proceedings between him and his wife he deeded his property in equal shares to his three sisters. Soon one of the sisters died, and her share reverted to the other two and to Edwin. Then the second sister died, and her share, with what had been left to her by the first sister, came to the third sister and to Edwin. Finally the remaining sister died, and Edwin Forrest,being the sole heir, again beoame possessed of all the estate he had deeded away. Jay Gould’s marriage was not only happy in every respect, but it made him the manager of bis first railroad, as his father-in-law owned the controlling interest in the road, and allowing Jay to manage that interest gave him the opportunity to make himself speedily tho owner of it. Mrs. Gould not only brought to her husband the beginning of his forture and his opportunities, but she has ever since been the only person iu the world in whom he has fully confided, and it is said lie has invariably done so with profit. Mrs. Gould undoubtedly is in possesion of more great secrets than any woman liviue. It is said of her that she possesses her secrets, while other womoD do not have secrets long enough to get proper possession. It is said that there Is a boy eight years of age in Arkansas that has never been known to address his father either directly or indirectly. The parents are highly respected, and are people of some refinement. The strategy of the boy, to avoid speaking to his father, is more than equal to that of both his parents and the other members of the family, who have laid all manner of plans to force him into a single utterance of Ills father’s name. Upon one occasion they planned not to get him any boots until he asked for them like the others, but this was a failure also, for be went on through the snow with his bare feet just as though he were iu calfskin to his knees. He has a profound respect for his father, ana will follow him about the farm for a whole day at a time.

THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. One would think that tho members of the Catholic church, after a few more experiences like that of Archbishop Pnrcol' uud the .Avgt-i----tinlans, might learn to distrust this peculiar kind of repository for their money which tlieir priestly guardians offer them.—Chicago Tribune. Let it once be known that money subscribed for agitation in Irelaud means that it can be employed to foster crime and outrage, and the subscriptions will dry up with the sympathy, which luis been so generously bestowed upon the sad condition of the beautiful isle.—Chicago Herald. It is the nature of our political arrangements that government, can do nothing, at least will do nothing, that is not dominated by a political and partisan motive. 8o long as this is tile, oase, no guarantee can be giveu that auy public officer will serve efficiently any purpose outside of politics.—Chicago Times. IT is regarded by many as a matter of encouragement that the heavy failures in Iron have not led to others, and the only commercial reverses reported during the past week have been of minor importance. The prevailing hone that better business will follow congressional adjournment has a sustaining influence.—Now York Tribune. Socialism is raising its ugly bead iu Europe in a way to alarm the thoughtful who reoogulze the evils iu the existing political and social system, and stand aghast at a remedial agency wbicu has nothing better to propose than destruction and chaos, and no other meaiis to employ Id ite surgery than the destructive agents developed by modern science.—Cincinnati News. If a casual bystander had volunteered tho same testimony as Carey, there is every reason to believe that he would have been regarded bj' a large proportion of the Irish people as a traitor to Ireland for giving it, and saying that is us much as sayiug that a very large proportion of the Irish people symna’hize with the murderers of the Phoenix Park.—New York World. Sheridan is a confessed inciter to murder, as his writings in the Irish World prove, and no man accused of such a heinous crime as that ascribed to him is ever a credible witness when swearing to keep ids neck from the rope. In fact, before any application was made for aheridan’s extradition, he had forfeited all claim upon American sympathy.—Chicago Herald. It would be a manifest injustice to require a railroad company to carry freight a few miles at a rate whioh would not pay for loading aud unloading when the same rate on a haul of a thousand miles would be remunerative. Equitable adjustment of these matters is what just men want, and no other control of railroad companies is likely ever to be made effective in aujT part of the countrj .—St. Louis Republican. The old reckless spirit has broken out again, and in circumstances which impose upon the decent friends of Ireland the duty of scrutinizing Mr. Parnell’s record duriug the first three years of bis public life. He can blame noons but himself if the dark suspicions directed against him are deepenod by the reoollection of his innumerable violent speeches and lawless bearing in 1879, 1880 and 1881.—New York Times. He who drinks knows thuthe alone is resnonsible, and that the sentiment which excuses him and accuses the seller is false. Vi' hen he becomes degraded with sottishness he makes this false sentiment an excuse for his abandonment. The logical tendeucy of the placing of tlie stress of the teinperatice mission on prohibition, is tc debilitate the consciences of men us to tueir own habits and moral responsibilities. Thus its influence is immoral.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The poverty of the South is very largely due to the credit system. Cotton is a cash crop, uud farmers who cannot get rich producing cash crops can never get rich at all. The remedy, of course, lies in the adoption of better business habits, under which the farmers can save enough to have cash to pay for what they buy. Not a few are making heroic efforts to escape from the slough, but it will be a long, wearisome task. For the improvident blacks the outlook is peculiarly discouraging.—Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat* THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. THE METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL. Martin County Tribune. The Indianapolis Journal has turned Its guns on the infamous metropolitan-police bill, now before the Legislature, and if it can do as good work in this as in its bombardment of Lieutenant-general Heffren’s works it will be entitled to fresh encomiums of praise. We are with the Journal in its fight against this piece of partisan legislation. NEVER SO WELL CONDUCTED. South Bend Tribune. The Indianapolis Journal was never.so well edited and so much of a metropolitan nuv.s paper as it is to-day.