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THE DAILY JOURNAL. IST JNO. C. NEW & SOX. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pace. FRIDAY, MARCH 9, ISB3. Judob Wiley decided, yesterday, to admit certain evidences in order to save time and bring the Star-route trial within the compass of an ordinary lifetime. The case still maintains its “drawing” features. Bartholdi’s “Liberty Enlightening the World” has as yet nowhere to stand. Os the $250, JOO requir 'd to erect the pedestal, but 000 if* been raid'd. The subscription •id be more popular were the colossal Stccue to he erected in Central Park instead of down the bays The present condition and past expenditure of the Irish Land League fund will sooner or later be subjected to close scrutiny and the truth known. A specific charge of failure to account for £152,000, made upon reputable authority, is one which Mr. Parnell and Mr. Bigger cannot afford to ignore. The late Independent party of the United .States Senate attains the age of sixty-eight years to-day. The day after, on Saturday, It wiil move on Fayetteville, N. G., in n special car, the purpose being to add a recruit to its ranks in the person of Miss Burr. The old party', or some of its friends, has lied a good deal about this matter: but as all is fair in love and war, we presume everything will be forgiven. It Is a trifle discouraging to young men Striving for greatness to read as much about Elliott, the dead pugilist, as about Stephens, the Southern statesman. The progress of Elliott’s body to New York and its reception there have been attended to with scrupulous fidelity', and all the incidents noted and telegraphed over the land. The question for young men to solve is: Shall Ibe a pugilist and bully, or a statesman and gentleman? The Sentinel refers to the law passed by "the late Legislature regulating the life insurance business of the State, and claims that it was the work of and drafted by Mr. Williams, of Knox, chairman of the committee on Insurance. The law is the one noticed by the Journal, and has for its Object the squelching of the numerous horde 3f “graveyard” and “assessment” companies, which have no visible means of support and no possible method of securing any, except the dollars given them by the fools and gudgeons who bite the hook baited with the prospectuses of these smooth-tongued swindlers. The bill was not the work of Mr. Williams, who, however, aided in its passage when its provisions were explained *o him. Mr. Shively, the representative from Wabash county, drew the bill, after an Examination of the insurance laws of the various States and conferences with leading insurance men, and worked earnestly for its passage both in the House and in the Senate. The measure is a good one. intended to do a great public benefit, and its provisions phould be closely and rigidly enforced by the Auditor of State. Major Piiirps, the “gentlemanly” superintendent of the Philadelphia Almshouse. Who stole everything that was loose about the establishment, as well as some that were apt, including the roof, has been extradited by' Canadian authorities and must return home. He has been an object of much sympathy. is is said, among citizens of Hamilton, where he has been cruelly incarcerated in jail. Ilis wife, who has been in constant attendance upon him, has found her society courted by the wives and daughters of some of the first citizens, but, while Expressing her gratitude, she declined several invitations, preferring the society of her husband. The gallant Major was not compelled to eat prison fare, his wife bringing him dainties from outside. Once, however, it is painful to learn, the lady failed to arrive, and the Major was obliged to breakfast on prison fare, though not the ordinary food 3erved to common prisoners. Sad to say, his attendant was a man of coarse perceptions, and without the tender sympathies of 3rst citizens and their wives. The gentleman in confinement found fault with the meal, and fell to scolding the attendant, who, losing his temper, said that the food was a blanked sight better than the sawdust with which the Major stuffed the paupers in Philadelphia. The Major was so overcome by the insult that he could not finish the meal. It is gratifying, however, to learn that when the governor of the jail hoard of the outrage the attendant was sternly reprimanded. The new postal-note arrangement will be put into effect so sooti as the necessary notes can be prepared, the system to be copied as nearly as possible from that now in vogue in England. The purpose is to afford the greatest practical safety for making small remittances at the least possible expense. 'Die postal notes are to be engraved on steel in a style of art equal to the greenback or the national bank notes, and as compared with the printed money order will be very expensive. This care is necessary to protect the purchaser. Owing to the great expense that would be involved in supplying £.ll the postoffices in the United States with these notes, it has been ordered that the system be limited to the money-order offices. The issue of these postal-notes at so small a fee is considered at best an experiment. The estimate of the framers of the bill is that the net revenue to the government will not exceed $33,000 on $120,000,000 of business annually, and this makes no allowance for cost of transportation of letters of advice. For the transmission of sums under $5 one

ifo these postal orders shall be issued, ! and a fee of three cents shall be charged for I the issue thereof. It is made payable to the j bearer, and the government is not to be liable I after the order is once paid. A change is also made in the money-order system, whereby , the amount is increased to SIOO. and the fees paid to be at the following rates: For orders not exceedingslo, eight cents; for orders exceeding $lO and not exceeding sls. ten cents; for orders exceeding sls and not exceeding S3O, fifteen cents; for orders exceeding S3O and not-exceeding $lO, twenty cents; for orders exceeding S4O and not exceeding SSO, twenty-five cents; for orders exceeding SSO ! and not exceeding S6O, thirty cents; for orders exceeding S6O and not exceeding S7O, thirty-five cents; for orders exceeding S7O and not exceeding SBO, forty cents; for orders exceeding SBO and not exceeding SIOO, forty-five cents. THE FLOOD AND IT3 EFFECTSA personal visit to Lawrenceburg, by all | accounts and from all observation the most I sorely distressed place in the State of Indiana, I gives an idea of the extent of disaster and suffering entailed upon the people along the Ohio river by the recent floods. It also serves to emphasize how inadequate are and must be all the means of relief and assistance, noble as they have been, and successful in meeting present and temporary cases of actual need. No words, however strong and apparently exaggerated, can paint the scene as it is, or give a fair conception of the experiences already gone through, or the extent of the effort at recuperation and rehabilitation yet to be exerted. So far as the appearance of things at Lawrenceburg i3 concerned, the half hundred houses absolutely swent away count but little; but their inconspicuous absence in the general scene of desolation means much to those who, before the floodc&me, found in them a hospitable home with ail that word implies. What is now to be seen, and what is to be encountered in the work of refitting and refurnishing, are streets blockaded with stables, outbuildings. and in some instances dwellings, piles of lumber, drift of all kinds, deposits of filth and rubbish, and what seems to be worse than all, so far as actual interference with business and future probabilities of sickness go, immense quantities of shocked corn fodder, brought into the town from the bottom lands. This forms a sort of corduroy nmttrass, more or less deep, extending over a large part of the city, mixed with ooze and slime and filth, over which all traffic must pass.' It looks as though the labor of five hundred men with teams would be required for weeks to simply clean the streets from this and from other obstructions, the continuance of which adds to the peril already there of serious sanitary disturbance. There was but one dry floor in the town during the flood—that of the Methodist Church. Every business and dwelling-house was under water for ten or eleven days. The water mark, plainly to be seen on the sides of all the houses yet, shows the water to have been nine or ten feet deep at the principal business corner. This means almost total ruin to all stocks of goods, while homes and houses are water-soaked, and cellars and basements and yards choke full of slime and debris. Some few residences are in fair order, but they belong to those best able and prepared to recover quickly. The houses of the poorer and middle classes are absolutely untenantable; yet they are “home,” and the families cling to them, making the best of the distressful circumstances. Fires and the weather are at work drying out the buildings, but it is slow work; and as neither door nor window can be well closed during tiie process, it is next to impossible to find a comfortable room in the whole city during such weather as we are now having. Mud, filth, dampness, water in pools, in cellars, in low yards, furniture gone or practically ruined, hundreds of houses overturned, wrecked, lifted from their foundations and tumbled into the streets, not an outbuilding intact anywhere, one large brick building absolutely ruined and caved in, streets and pavements lying under mud and debris—these features go to make up the present condition of Lawrenceburg. Fully 200 houses are to be “righted up.” put back upon their foundations and repaired so as to be at ail habitable, while very many of them must be broken up into kindling wood just where the subsidence of the waters has stranded them. Many of the former occupants of these houses are not now in Lawrenceburg. Some have gone to relatives and friends in other localities, others are living with families whose houses stood up under the wash of the waters, while there are still a number yet “bunking” in the upper floor of the court-house, a building the atmosphere and condition of which are more those of an underground vault than anything else. It is a or a providence, how any one can remain in the j court-house for six hours without contracting a fatal illness. But, withal, the people are plucky, and that counts for much. The floods have gone, and work can be prosecuted in store and dwelling. Nothing has been even projected vet toward replacing or rebuilding the houses tumbled about in such seemingly hopeless confusion, because the committee do not know how much money for such purpose i can be had, and it is thfe desire to treat every | one alike, to give a pro rata snare to each person needing help. But in the houses still standing the scrubbing brush and the drying mop are busy, and the work of readjustment goes rapidly forward. Merchants are opening up their stores and bringing down the halfruined stocks from the upper stories. Perishable goods, of course, are gone beyond recall; but the drying and polishing rag are used in furbishing up, so far as possible, what is susceptible of salvage. The ieilioiisnes*

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and the seeming hopelessness of this kind of work would stagger anyone less plucky than those who talk of the flood with a cheeriness, actually not unmixed with a sort of pride, as they point out how the waters of 1883 laid over those of 1832. There has been much public and not a little of private assistance given to Lawrenceburg, but all that has been given is as nothing when compared with the actual extent of the disaster. The estimate is that the loss ! will reach $433,000, and no one can look at | the city and believe for an instant that the j figures are an overestimate. We incline to think that half a million of dollars would not restore the city to the condition of one month ago. This is simply the money loss. | Os course this loss cannot all be made good, : but there are hundreds of people who must have a little help to put them on their feet and enable them to grapple the problem before them of rebuilding their homes and begin anew the struggle of life. The State of Indiana should have appropriated at least $250,000, as the Journal suggested, establishing a fund, out of which, under proper restrictions, the worthy and honest people of the stricken cities could have obtained a start—for Lawrenceburg, while the worst, is not alone in its trouble and appeal. The praise of Indianapolis and of the Board of Trade is on everybody’s lips. The food and supplies sent so promptly and with such willing liberality did more than feed hungry mouths and minister to physical distress. They succored the hearts of the people, stimulated with the medicine of hope, and cheered with the knowledge that the world is not all selfishness. The commissary yet gives out his daily supplies, between the hours of 2 and G r. m., to scores and hundreds of people who are dependent upon his stores for food, while the “Indianapolis Board of Trade Free Dispensary,” upon a conspicuous corner, affords medicines and tonics to the numberless sick, the majority of whom are threatened with, if not actually the victims of, pneumonic troubles. We have felt warranted in writing this, from late observation, in order to emphasize upon our readers and upon tiie public generally the fact that there is still need for generosity both public and private; that the necessity is not likely to be entirely gone for some time, and after public and organized methods shall cease there will still remain the occasion to send help through private sources—the pastors of churches, municipafcofficers or individual friends. And what we have said as to Lawrenceburg applies to other localities. Lawrenceburg serves simply as a text fora sermon general in its application. Tiie following little paragraphs are taken from the Vincennes News, a Democratic paper. They will serve as companion pieces to those taken from the Shelbyville Volunteer, the Wabash Courier, the Michigan City Dispatch, the New Albany Public Pres*, and other Democratic papers. Taken as a whole, they form a touching and tender tribute to the late Democratic Legislature: “Indiana was never disgraced by a more vilely partisan Legislature than the one just winked out. It. has written shame on every page of its record.” “About ong more Legislature like the one recently deceased would finish the Democratic party in Indiana. One cannot review its proceedings without mingled feelings of anger and disgust.” “If the liquor league tail hasn’t wagged the Democratic dog in the present Legislature we are mightily mistaken, and if the voters of Indiana do not make it exceedingly warm for somebody at the next general election, we shall give it up that we are neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet.” “It will not be easy for the Democrats of Indiana to explain to the people why the party platform promises with respect ro the amendments were not lived up to religiously. We are afraid that in its zeal to please the liquor league the majority has dug for itself a grave botli wide and deep.” If there is a Democrat in this part of the State who feels proud of the Legislature, whose session ended in disgrace Tuesday, we have not the honor of his acquaintance. Its infamous record has been read with pain and disgust, and its memory will survive only to be damned by every honest and conscientious voter in the State. * * * In looking over the whole ground it is difficult to pick out a redeeming act, and it is not reasonable to believe that the people will again indorse a party whose selfishness and incompetency have received such signal illustration.” No inconsiderable amount of cackling is heard from Democratic newspapers over the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Louisiana cases, to the effect that the State could not be sued by the citizens of another State, the claim being that it is a wonderful vindication of the doctrine of “State rights” by a court every member of which was appointed by a Republican President. What in the world there is to be surprised about in this matter we cannot see. The eleventh amendment to tpe constitution expressly provides against such suits, and in these cases the only question involved was whether the transfer of claims by citizens to the States of New York and New Hampshire gave those States the right to sue Lou him. Tne court Held that tiie transfer did not avoid the constitutional prohibition, that the claims were still the claims of the individuals, and they could not reacli indirectly what they were prohibited from directly. Wc are not aware that the United States Supreme Court has ever palpably violated the provisions of the constitution, nor are we aware that the Republican party, inany of its representative departments, has ever asserted or maintained the doctrine that the States had no “rights.” Tiie Republican party has been as zealous as any other party to maintain the clear constitutional rights of the State, at the same time maintaining that the sovereignty of the Federal government was supreme in its sphere, and that State sovereignty—not State rights—could not be set up against Federal sovereignty to the destruction of the latter. The constitutional rights of Massachusetts and of Ohio ore as and ar to them as the constitutional

rights of Louisiana and South Carolina, and the lights of both will be sacredly maintained by the Republican party. But this does not mean that State sovereignty is supreme, and that within the legitimate sphere of its action the Federal sovereignty must ask the permission of a State to exercise its authority within the border of the State, or that the State may set up its sovereignty and forbid the exercise of Federal authority under the Federal constitution. This is the claim of the old “State rights” party, the party of Calhoun and the party of Jefferson Davis, and that party and that political faith receive no encouragement from the recent decisions of the Supreme Court that a dishonest State may take advantage of its honest debtors. Indiana ;id that by the late Demoocratic Legislature, and refused to pay the John Martin warrant. The following extracts are taken from the Shelbyville Volunteer, the old Democratic organ of Shelby county. They give a fair idea of the opinion entertained of the late Legislature by a number of the Democratic newspapers of the State: “The record of the late Legislature will be meat for the Republicans in 1884.” “The late defunct Legislature has made all previous bodies of the kind respectable by comparison.” “What more could have been expected of a body which mortgaged itself to the whisky league before election and obeyed its behests throughout.” “Three movings are said to be equal to one fire. Three Legislatures sucli as that just adjourned are worse than a hanging natent.” “Fool Legislatures are common in Indiana, and they seem to be cumulative in their imbecility. The late unlamented is ‘the worst we ever saw.’ ” “We need a good deal of saving grace, some strong counter-irritants, to neutralize the late defunct body whose odor permeates the whole State. Fumigate! Fumigate! Won’t somebody burn a rag?” “We would like to know how the Democratic party at Indianapolis is to be benefited | by a metropolitan police law, which will be ; executed by Jim Cropsey, Sim Coy, and other ! ward bummers of that ilk, who have no higher notion of politics than that it is a ! game in which the greatest rascals and most j unconscionable tricksters always win and always deserve to win.” “Tne hot-head3, led by Speaker Bynum and backed by the red-nosed, blear-eyed bummers from the city wards, would listen neither to reason nor arguments as to party policy. They had steam up and were determined to rush on. Such is the fate of any party which lets the riffraff get control of its organization. These purblind creatures at Indianapolis will realize too late the fate of the dog in the fable, which lost its meat by grabbing at the shadow. They will find that a metropolitan police bill was dearly gained at the price of losing the State.” Mr. Barry, an ingenious Philadelphian, has invented a class coffin, which, he thinks, is destined to lie immensely popular. The body of a deceased person is placed in the glass box, the cover screwed on, and after the air is pumped out through a small opening, this is hermetically sealed, and the “remains” will remain as natural us life for an indefinite period. Corpses so canned, tiie inventor claims, will be so attractive that it is quite probable friends will often prefer keeping them in their own houses rather than to have them placed in vaults. When this is not desired, however, other arrangements can bo made. Mr. Barry unfolds his scheme as follows: “We should have a vast system of vaults in which coffins would bo placed. Spaces could he reserved for families. Here, in a stall, would be a father; by his side his wife; on the upper shelf tiie grandmother and grandfather, and above that the other ancestors. Each coffin would have a number at its foot, and catalogues would he issued Riving the names of the occupants, for instance, ‘Henry Jones, 241/ Above the vaults would he a suite of elegant reception rooms into which visitors wTiuld be invited. They could sit down and call for, say “No. 241/ An attendant would go down stairs, slide the casket indicated up onto a little barrow, come back again and leave it with them as long as they liked. They could look at it, have it taken to its shelf when they were through, and return home. A certain amount of rent would, of course, have to he exacted.” Mr. Barry's is evideutly one of the greatest minds of the age.

A ghrat sensation has been caused in a convent situated at Georgetown, near Washington, by the disappearance of one of the nuns known ns Sister I.orenzo. At the age of nineteen, and nineteen years ago, 9te fancied herself slighted and ill-treated at home, and leaving there, entered a convent where she lias ever since remained. During all that time she lias borne the reputation of being one of the best scholars and quietest inmates of the institution, and has been a great favorite amopg the young lady students. A few days ago she received notice that her parents were dead, and that their estate, valued at $20,000, was at her disposal. The tempralion to enter tlio world once more and to be free was stronger than her love for convent life. Nineteen years of seclusion and enforced religions life had not destroyed her natural love for pleasure, and the sister could not resist her longing to leave the cloister and seek a hearth and home of her own. She dared not make known her decision, but watched her opportunity ami escaped from the convent. She lias resumed her family name, covered her cropped hair with a blonde wig, and is already popular among|th neighbors. Strong efforts have been made to induce her to return to her convent duties, but Rho refuses, saying she is oat in the world again, and intends to stay. A son of Dr, William A. Hammond, of New York, himself a young M. I)., lias been experimenting with his neck in the interests of humanity and the criminal classes, and claims to have discovered that dislocation or tho neck is not essential to a painless death on the gallows, lie says death may be caused by strangulation with less agony. He advocates the use of a soft, silken cord Instead of the ordinary rope, and would have it drawn gently at first. By a gradual tightening of a pliable cord, this soft-heurted young physician thinks the victim would become unconscious at once and die without- pain. He flunks, ill short, that a rope of this kind would draw bettor. Whether the use of a silk rope instead of the common hemp will make banging any more popular among murderers is u matter that can only be decided by trial, ■ ■ ■ It is told of “General” Booth, commander of the English Salvation Army, that lie has, in connection with his wife, so eulisted a daughter of tho Rev. Oharlesworth that she refuses to go home, and declines to listen to his pleadings and commands. It is said, also, that "General” Booth declines to interfere in the unhappy father’s behalf. If the father gwould soundly thrash tho “General” it might he Highly beneficial all round, and set a pious example. Mrs. Frkd Thobpk, of Flushing, D. TANARUS., is determined that no one shall charge her with being gud about.” At least there is no other imaginable reason for her refusal to leave her own premises. Although In good health mentally ami physically, for twenty yours the lady has

j not set foot upon the street or sidewalk, and ! says she never will. Recently her husband ! found it necessary to move to another house, i having leased for business purposes the one where they had so long resided. Mrs. Thorpe I obstinately refused to leave the house, and the i best her husband could do was to put up a bouse i upon the rear of the same lot, to which he finally obtained his wife’s consent to go. She refused to walk, but permitted herself to be oarried to the new building. F. G. Stkbbins, for twenty years editor of the Cuba, N. Y., Patriot, died reoeutly. Admiring the unique manner in wliioh Actor Thorne was laid away, he left orders that his funeral should be conducted wholly by the Knights of Honor, and that when the interment was taking place, his late comrades should sing ‘‘Marching Through Georgia.” That was well enough; hut all the other corpses in that city of the dead must have turned uneasily io their graves as the gallant Knights (by special request) closed the eccentric proceedings by singing “Good By, My Lover.” It is supposed that Mr. Stebbins had the latter song chanted in order to make him thoroughly resigned to leaving this world. The colony of ostriches lately planted in California has taken kindly to the glorious climate. Ono female bird lias demonstrated this fact, and distinguished herself by laying an egg, two of them, in fact, aurt promising more. This commendable act on her part has so encouraged the ostrich farmers that a corporation with a capital stock of $30,000 has been formed for the purpose or raising the birds. A tract of G4O acres has also been secured near Anaheim, in Los Angeles county, which will be under the superintendence of Dr. C. J. Sketch ley, formerly of Cape Town and an experienced ostrich-farmer. The New Jersey granger wants somebody to bear the blame when his corn does not come up iu good style or his wheat fails to germinate properly, and has fixed upon the seedsman as a good soapegoat. A bill has just been passed by the House of Representatives requiring seedsmen to give written guarantees to purchasers that seeds sold by them are sound, and making the seller liable for damages in case the seed falls to grow reason of bad quality. Should this bill become a law, seed dealers will probably decline to supply the New Jersey market, rather than become responsible for the crops. Professor Wiggins pronounces the storm now prevailing in Newfoundland “an arm” of his grand blow-out to take place next Sunday. Let’s see: His big storm will circle the globe in about twenty-four hours, or will travel a distance of 24,000 miles in twenty-four hours. According tc that the storm at this writing is not less than 90,000 miles away. An arm 96,000 miles long is drawing severely on tho credulity of the people. Odds are offered here that next Sunday along the Atlantic will be very pleasant. A whole acre of space is to be given up to the women’s department in the coining mechanics’ fail* at Boston. Some of woman's industries whioh are to be represented are floriculture, bee culture, raisin culture, tho making of dresses and children's clothes, carpets, wall-paper designs, art needle-work and botunical collections. An acre of space will hold a great muny bedquilts and tidies, and give room for an endless procession of painted and embroidered storks. There is no nonsense about Rev. Father Farley, of Long Island. lie warned his congregation not to attend a certain ball. Many ot them went, and the father promptly suspended them j until they were absolved by the. bishop. On j Sunday fifteen or tho suspended members, two of them being the pastor's own sisters, were refused admittance to the church. A North Carolina genius liasinvented a contrivance for the use of grocers and other dealers in liquids by attaching which to barrels the tin vessels used in measuring may be kept drained and clean. The innocent inventor expects to make a fortune, but is doomed to disappointment. Bless the man, grocers don't want their molasses measures kept drained and clean. The difference between the merchant who advertises and one who does not: The former’s stock is sold before it’s old, and the latter’s is old before it’s sold. Or, may be, the former’s sold before it’s sold, and the latter is old before it’s | old. You pay for eight squares at tho head of the column next to readiug matter, and take your choice. “A young child in Oregon died from the effects of swallowing tbe leaves of an almanac.” —Ex. Dates in unusual quantities are very unwholesome. “Mr. Dkixkwatkr happens to he. tho name of a great Massachuseets ale brewer ’’-CourierJournal. Might have known he didn’t live in Kentucky. “A pot or beans exploded in Lewiston, Me., and badly disfigured a person ten feet away.”—Ex. The people of Boston are thoroughly alarmed. ABOUT PEOPLE. Richard Grant White plays the violinccllo ravishingly, Mias Alice Stone Blackwell, of Boston, is an addition to the list of lecturers on woman suffrage. The house in which Louisa Montague, the slo,ooo beauty, lives in Philadelphia was pulled the other night and found to l>e a gambling den. The demand for the pictures of Mrs. Langtry bus almost entirely ceased, and Lillian Russell’s photographs are now the ones inquired for. Lucy H. Hooper confesses that she has succumbed to the “frank bonhomie” of tho Prince of Wales, despite his peccadilloes. The Prince has not yet been heard from. The dinner table talker of London World saj'a that the whole secret of good melted b utter is to beat up the raw yolk of an egg with it until the two are thoroughly amalgamated. London Spectator—“ Dickens, we believe, died of apoplexy, and it is not uncommon for those who die of apoplexy to have eveu some accession of good spirits toward the close.” Miss Margaret Mather, tho actress, is making good progress toward restored health, ami hopes to be able to leave her home in Boston this week to fulfil her engagements. A Mohammedan paper states that an inhabitant of India, who is eighty years old, hns just paid 30,000 rupees for the hand of a girl of eleven years, and that the marriage will soon take place. Miss Dr. Harris, a young American lady who opened an office in Hong Kong, was called to attend the wife of one of tho chief officials of China. The native doctors were furious, but tho princess got well. Mr. Jay Cooke has completed arrangements for the transformation of his beautiful former home, Ogoutz, near Chelten Hills, Pa., into a young ladles’ boarding-school. Tbe property is valued at about $1,000,000. A Georgia paper says Hint a reconciliation has been effected between Bob Toombs and ids granddaughter, whom he is suid to have disinherited because she married ugnlnst his wishes. Toombs’ son-in-law is in luck after all. Mr. Lawrence Barrett has bought a lot of ground on Connecticut avenue, Washington, near the British minister’s, and having a frontage of ninety feet, and* it is said will build a house for his own use on a part of it. The life of the ex-Empress Eugenie at Farnborough is most quiet and unostentatious. She only leaves her apartments to atte.id mass in her private chapel and joiu in the meals with the

members or her household. She Intends to build anew private chapel, to which she will have removed the remains of the late Emperor aud Prince Imperial. Thirteen bus been Wagner’s particular number. He was born in ’l3; on March 13, 1860, his “Tanhauser” was whistled off the stage In Paris; for thirteen years Wagner has been happy with his second wife, and he died on Feb. 13, 1883. Representative Russell, of Massachusetts, is not as anxious to go homo as most of the congressmen. Ho was hanged in effigy at Ayer Junction by persons who objected to the appointment of an unpopular man as postmaster there. j Senator J. D. Cameron has been growing better in health since tho important surgical operation performed upon him on Saturday, and has gone to Fortress Monroe for rest and recuperation. Later in the season he w’ill make a trip to Europe. Ben Hill, jr., of Atlanta, Ga., son of the late Senator Hill, is confined with paralysis of the vocal chords, and cannot speak. He uses a writ-ing-pad, as his father did last summer. Dr. Calhoun, attending, is quoted ns sayiug ho will not recover. Mary Anderson is said to wear garters that cost $2,500 a pair. They must he very thickly studded with precious stones, then, for the material cannot cost much. It is darkly hinted, says the Rochester Post, that even Barah Bernhard’s garter diameter is almost equal to Mary’s circumference. Philadelphia Press—“No ono idea so thoroughly and strongly permeates every grade of tho respectable society of Philadelphia as tho one that a young lady should not he seen with ! many different men or receive their society, aud . that she should settle exclusively upon one as ! soon as possible. ” • j The late Governor Stephens was not named I from Alexander Hamilton. The Alexander came | from his grandfather Stephens, and he adopted j the Hamilton when fifteen years old as a mark , or esteem for Rev. Alexander Hamilton Webster, { of Washington, Ga., who had befriended the j struggling lad. Mr. Stephens’ friendships were 1 always warm. I Rev. James Freeman Clarke paid a just j tribute to the national courtesy'of this country j when he said, in connection with his reference . to women going to the polls, “The American { never misbehaves in the presence of women. 1 So if they went to the polls they could not hurt j her, and she would elevate tLe atmosphere . around them.” ( Avery careful distinction is made in all the royal palaces in England between crown pro- | perty (whioh goes from one sovereign to another) I and private property. At present, almost j everything at Balmoral and at Osborne belongs : to the Queou herself; but, except a few pictures and statues, she has nothing of her own at | Windsor or at Buckingham Palace, j Moncure J>. Conway is at considerable pains i to explain that Emerson, in 1835, fouud in a book by John Hunter—a dry old anatomist who wrote 130 years ago—a foot note which anticipated Darwin. The scientific men ro whom Mr. Conway showed this evidence of Emerson’s industry, as well as of his genius in announcing bis belief Ir. tho transmutation of species, were greatly surprised. THE SPIBIT OF THE PIIES3. The tariff lull went through. It is tho great act of the session, a great event in our fiscal bis- | tory, and a great and auspicious one, we trust, in our industrial history.—Springfield Repub- : licati. ! A government without power to fulfill the ! ends of justice for whioh it was instituted, or to uphold i lie law of its own being, is no less contemptible, no less unworthy to live, than the government wliioh, having power to fulfill its constitutional ends, refuses to fulfill them.—Chicago Times. The Egyptian problem of the future is whether Egypt will become both in fact and name an English dependency. England’s real intentions are not known, hut it is to be presumed that she is not withot ambitious designs. She certainly holds the situation. lint Europe may possibly have a word to say.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. We have faith that the general benefits of the | tariff] act will be so great that they will far outweigh the evil effects to special Rinds of work. And finally, the. avoidance of agitation in the fu lure, and of probable overthrow of vital parts of th<- protective system next year, is a benefit the value or which cannot be measured.—New York Tribune. Kkifkr was hearable until some indiscreet person put it abroad that Gladstone had referred to one of his rulings and made it a basis of action at a time when lie was lacking a plunk and looking for a straw to cling to. Since ttiat time Keiferbas not been the same man. He has “swelled wisibly” to meet the burden of two continents he was carrying.- Cincinnati News. The new tariff will not have the effect of depressing prices now, which will he regulated by the demand and the extent of competition among the domestic producers; but when prices turn for tbe better ir, will protect the American manufacturers and the public from the disaster winch tin* greed of the former would be apt to bring about in tbe absence of tbe restraints which it imposes. —Chicago Tribune. So far as the passage of laws is concerned it is the primary dut v of a Legislature and a Governor to decide constitutional objections to In* chonte bills, aud it is the duty of courts only to settle constitutional objections discovered through circumstances or through doubts arising after a presumedly constitutional bill has become a statute. To this doctrine every writer on constitutional law has emphatically assented, —New' York World. The Czar knows absolutely nothing of the true condition of liis empire save wliat ho learns from the officials about him and from occasional proclamations and threats whioh reach him. Tne press is strangled, no public, meetings are allowed, and discussion among individuals muse be carried on iu secret. There is no escapevalve for popular discontent. More enlightened governments recognize the gravest danger in such a condition of tilings. Tiie danger is no doubt imminent iu Russia, and those who best know its extent would be least surprised if these pent-up forces should suddenly break out again in some act of violence at tbe ceremony of coronation,—New York Times. The Pension Law Amendment. Washington Special. Much inquiry is being made about the provisions of the bill amending the pension laws by increasing the pension of soldiers and sailors who have lost an arm or leg in the service. Tho bill as passsed provides that all persons on the pension rolls and all persons heretofore granted pensions, who, while in the military or naval service of tho United States ami in the line of duty, shall have lost one hand or foot, or been totally or permanently disabled in same, or otherwise so disabled as to render them incapacitated to perform manual labor equivalent to tho loss of a hand or foot, shall receive a pension of $24 per month: that all persons hereafter granted pensions who in like manner shall have lost either an arm at or above the elbow, or a leg at or above the knee, or shall have been otherwise so disabled as to be incapacited to perform manual labor, but not so much as to require regular personal aid and attendance, shall receive a pension of S3O per month. The Status of the New-111 depend ell t Party. Washington Special. If there was any doubt about how Senatorelect Riddleberger, of Virginia, will act politically it was settle to-duv. At his request iiu lias been assigned a seat on tiie Republican side of the Senate, which Kellogg vacates to go into the House. Malione has been assigned the seat occupied by President pro tern Edmunds. Still Sails Serenely. Mtnlison Courier. Horace Heffron availed himself of a par- ’ liamentary trick to get an opportunity to abuse the IndiunapolU Journal during tho last hours of the General Assembly. The Journal still sails serenely—the largest and best newspaper ever published in the Stale of Indiana.