Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1883 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW Jfc SOX. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pace. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1883. "In order to bring the Governor to a proper sense of his position, the Democratic majority determined to withhold the appropriation bills.”— Daily Sentinel, March 5. Sleeping Rabbit, the recently-captured Indian, tried to make a hare-breadth escape, bat a bullet laid him low. Tup, Democrats are making frantic efforts lo crawl out of responsibility for the defeat of the appropriation bill; but the infamy will stick. Among the numerous freaks of the Mississippi during the present high waters was the washing away of Island Sixty-four, consisting of *>oo acres. Nt.ssus did not find his shirt a comfortable garment, but nevertheless he had to wear it. 80 will the Democratic party be compelled to wear the disgrace of defeating the appropriation bill. If the Democrats had it to do over they wouldn’t do it. But they did it, and that is the end of it. They defeated the general appropriation bill for nothing, and are now howling because of the castigation the people of tho State are giving them. It was an able evening paper which declared all last summer that “there was no question in subnnssson,” but all the same the House of the late General Assembly “agreed” to the amendments and voted against a bill to “submit” them. The body of an unknown woman, found In Harlem river on Saturday, was anchored to a post, where it remained for forty hours before the official, whose duty it was to attend to such cases, be run down and unwound from his red tape. The metropolitan police system of New York seems to be complicated. The heathen in his blindness is becoming very like Melican man. The Chinese merchants recently expelled from Waynesboro, Ga.. have brought suit for damages aggregating $115,000. The defendants are eighteen in number. The prosecutions arc being pushed under direction of the Chinese minister at Washington. Thf. President will be heartily thanked for letting it bn known that any man who applies for the place of United States District Judge while the late Justice White remains unburied will thereby end his chances. There has been altogether too much of this jackal-hunt for office, and President Arthur is the first President to set his face against it. Mr. Egan, the ex-treasurer of the Land League, who is charged with misappropriation of funds, suddenly discovered that his flouring interests demanded a clandestine trip to the United States. The news now offnes from England that the government is in possession of sufficient evidence to warrant his arrest. Mr. Egan’s prudence and business seem to work on parallel lines. The Earl of Dunraven is leading a movement looking to the opening of all public picture galleries and museums in Great Britain on Sundays. The excuse is that the laboring classes have no other day on which to enjoy a visit to these places, and being supported by public funds, it is maintained that all the public should have an opportunity to visit them. The movement is one that should succeed, and at once. Bloody-run Greek— the Pogue’s Run of Detroit—has been found to have a substratum of human bones, not wholly denuded of the flesh that once gave them grace of outline. Investigation showed that they came from the dissecting room of some medical college, whence, having served their purpose, they found their way into a convenient sewer and thence into tho run. The case will be thoroughly sifted, and then dropped. The war is on. I)r. Rogers has peremptorily dismissed Dr. Walker. Dr. Walker, in an interview, says that President Harrison ‘iidorsed him in his attack upon the superintendent, saying, with respect to his published card denouncing him as a liar and guilty of dishonorable conduct, that “something like that would not be inappropriate for publication.” Dr. Harrison has proved himself to be fully as contemptible a conspirator as I)r. Walker. If Harrison’s words are to betaken as any index of the feelings of the hoard, Dr. Rogers will be forced out and Dr. Walker put at the head of tho institution. That is the programme. A bill has been prepared to reform the lunacy system of Pennsylvania. It proposes ] io create new safeguards against the commit- j inent of sane persons and to put ail end to ! the brutal treatment of innmte3 by permit- j ting them to communicate at will with the ; outside world. It is said that the measure is strongly opposed by the asylum superin- i tendents. The leaven Is working everywhere, and it will not be long until the in- ; am lei of American asylums ureas safe from

abuse as are those in similar institutions in Belgium and England, where the patients are insured against unnecessary restraint and permitted to have proper access with outside friends. It is painful to note that the same paper which makes awful strictures on the reports of the Davis-Burr marriage, which in all newspapers, has, in the next column but one to the virtuous editorial, a glowing description of Senator Sprague’s bride, in which her charms of person, even to her height and “fine figure,” are quite fully set forth. The marvel is that Harper’s Bazaar, and other publications which dwell on lingerie and feminine paraphernalia in general, are not suppressed in the interest of good morals. Ladies who delight to read such pernicious literature will have to reform—the great Pecksniff is abroad in the land. CRIME BY LAW With verdicts like that in the case of the assassin Dukes, at Uniontown, Pa., the mystery of mob violence is effectually dispelled. A more deliberately diabolical aud heinous offense than Dukes committed can scarcely be conceived, yet a jury of twelve men has pronounced him guiltless and set him free, thereby indorsing his action and encouraging its commission by others. According to the evidence furnished by Dukes himself the story of his crime is as follows: He was a friend of his victim, and as such enjoyed his confidence to such a degree that he was admitted as a suitor for his daughter’s hand. An engagement followed, but whether from affection on the part of Dukes or simply a9 a men nil of accomplishing his lustful designs cannot be determined. Be that as it may, Dukes succeeded in ruining the young girl, and in time detection became inevitable. At this point the true character of the man manifested itself, and it is altogether safe to say that a more brutal course was never pursued. Captain Nutt, the father of the unfortunate girl, was away from home, and Dukes, hoping to anticipate and to shift the responsibility, with diabolical deliberation wrote him a letter calculated to drive Captain Nutt to the verge of irresponsible madness, and with malicious cunning opened a way by wdiicb he could murder the friend he had wronged and make it appear that the second crime was committed in self defense. This letter has already been published in the Journal. It shows that Dukes began by recounting the whole story of his part in the betrayal of Captain Nutt’s daughter, going into all tho dreadful details, in a manner that betrays the most malicious spirit, making no attempt to mitigate the shock and apparently gloating over the revolting incidents, liis only attempt at anything like a defense of his infamy is in the statement that he “was but human,” and that others than himself enjoyed like favors, which latter declaration is wholly unsupported by any evidence adduced, and is probably false. At the conclusion of the letter he suggests a further crime. That this letter was deliberately planned is proved by the fact that it was written Dec. 4. and was not mailed until Dec. 11, a week later. Anticipating the father's return, the dastardly Dukes made it convenient to be absent from the town. The reply of Captain Nutt shows him at once a stricken but brave and honorable man. There is not a line or word in it that would not instinctively spring from the heart of a determined man, abused beyond the limit of endurance, lie said: “You say I would have done ns you did. You are a— liar. if I had invaded the sanctity of a home as you have confessed to doing. I would hold myself fit only to be shot. When I cross the threshold of a man’s door and become the guest of his family, or any member of it, his wife and daughters are as sacred to me socially as my own. The suggestion that I should resort to the hellish acts of the abortionist could only have emanated from a creature like you. No. I have the moral courage to face the community in which I live, and if disgrace should come I have no fear but, under the circumstances, the sympathy and support of the community will be mine. 1 have also the physioal courage to seek you out and give you the alternative of repairing the ruin which you have wrought or suffering death. It remains with you to say whether there shall be a legal farce or a tragedy. You cannot skulk from me nor evade me. Leaving Uniontown when I go there will not avail you. I will be home again on the 23d.” Instead of making reparation or attempting to avoid the man crazed by his infamy, Dukes, a lawyer, laid a trap, so that he might assassinate him and yet escape the penalty. Declining to marry Miss Nutt, he invited her father to meet him at his (Dukes’) office or room. There the unhappy man went, and there he was shot to death by Dukes with a revolver he had evidently purchased for the purpose, having bought it the day before, after asking the dealer for “one that would kill.” Such is the story as told by Dukes. There was not a scintilla of evidence that any other person than himself had any part in the downfall of the girl. But even supposing there had been, his conduct following the liaison was such as should iiave sent him to the gullows with unerring certuinty. Yet, in the face of all this, the jury, with little or no deliberation, returns a verdict of not guilty, aud the libertine and assassin is again turned loose on society. The whole conduct of the trial, and the evident confidence of the accused that he would be acquitted, all go to prove that the result must have been known to him in advance. No honest, unbiased jury could have rendered such an infamous verdict. The presiding Judge was prompt to express his indignation, and the populace, who had followed the trial and were conversant with all the facts, were enraged almost to the point of taking the miscreant’s miserable life. It is such outrages upon justice as this that inspires mob violence. The Jury in tb.a case has done

THE INDIANAPOLIS uchjuNAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1883.

more to overturn law and order than all the criminals of the county could accomplish in a lifetime, The jury’s verdict is as infamous as the double crime itself, and by their acquittal each and every member has aligned himself with the accused and become particeps criminis. It is useless to plead that they were honest in their convictions. The monstrosity of the crime and the audacity with which the prisoner proclaimed his part in it, are such as to render it impossible to acquit. Dukes should have been hanged, and popular indignation must continue so strong against sucli a jury that not one of them shall be allowed longer to live among the people whose most sacred interests they have betrayed. Mob law is no law. But how much better is law that operates to release as dastardly a villain as ever stained the pages of criminal history? The men who acquitted, and thus upheld him in his villainy, deserve social ostracism. No honorable man should fail to express the heartiest contempt and condemnation for them. Their infamy should never be forgiven nor forgotten. Something of this kind is imperative to teach jurors that they cannot betray their sacred trusts without inviting the lasting scorn of their fellow men. “During Saturday night there was no assurance given to the Democrats of any fair treatment on the metropolitan police bill in case they passed the general appropriation bill. Such assurance was sought in vain.”— Daily Sfcntinel. Waiving for the moment the truth of the above, will the Sentinel say what the necessity for any “assurance” was, or what was the necessity for the passage of the appropriation bill on Saturday uight at all if its present positiou, that the bill was legally and properly passed on Monday, is correct? Why did the Democrats “seek assurance” on Saturday night, if the appropriation bill could just as well become a law on Monday? Tho Sentinel in this sentence kicks over the unmitigated folly it is now emitting from day to day, to the effect that the appropriation bill was properly passed on Monday. But, as a matter of fact, the Sentinel’s statement is utterly false. There is not the shadow of truth in it. On Saturday afternoon and night every possible assurance was given the Democrats that there should be no further opposition to the poiice bill; that if on Monday they could control the necessary number of votes, it should become a law. The best proof of the good faith of these assurances is the fact that on Monday the police bill did become a law, although the Democrats had unnecessarily and with j malignant purpose, and in pursuance to caucus action, killed the appropriation bill on the preceding Saturday night. Senator Magee was assured by Senator Spann, and so were Senators Brown and Bell, and Representative Jewett and others, and Speaker Bynum os well, that no factious opposition would be made. The Democrats had every assurance, and some of them made honorable exertion to force Speaker Bynum, and Mr. Moody and his crowd of bullies and bummers from their obstruction in order to permit the bill to pass. The “Voyles rule” was allowed to pass in the Senate, as an additional assurance that the police bill should not be obstructed on Monday; but it was all of no use. The bummers once in control, and State Treasurer Cooper’s influence was too strong; for the defeat of the appropriation bill meant many thousands of dollars of illegal interest to him, and he would come down handsomely for campaign expenses. Let Senators Bell, Brown and Magee and Mr. Jewett be called upon to state what they said of the action of Speaker Bynum and his crowd on that Saturday night. The Terre Haute Gazette, one of the ablest Democratic papers of the State, has this to say of the passage of the metropolitan police bill by the Democrats of the Legislature: “The passage of the metropolitan police bill was the crowning infamy. It affects only Evansville and Indianapolis, That bill takes from the citizens of those places the power to appoint and control their police force, and places it in the hands of three commissioners, two of one party and one of another, to be appointed by the Governor, Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer of State. All the citizens have to do is to pay their k>i 1 Is. This bill is an outrage—it is an especial outrage being passed by Democrats, who have for the past twenty years been protesting against the steps taken by the Republicans toward centralization of power and against local selfgovernment. If the State is to usurp the power to appoint police, it can do the same with the fire department and all the officers of the city government. It can go outof the cities into the country and appoint township and county officers. In a word, the principle of the metropolitan police bill, carried to its logical conclusion, means the centralization of all political power in the State and the complete deprivation of the people of ull right to local self-government.” It is pleasant to note, from incidents which crop up here and there, that clergymen are rapidly losing the old habit of humbly accepting what they can get from their charges in the way of salary and being thankful that the little is not less. A Connecticut pastor, who was engaged by a Baptist society at a salary of SI,BOO per year considered himself worthy of his hire, and protested against a subsequent reduction of his income to S6OO. lie has resigned, but brings suit upon his original contract for $4,000 back pay, and will probably get It. The society is now looking for a man heavenly-minded enough to live upon S3OO per year. Judge Kkllky declares that the reported attack upon the constitutionality of the tarifV bill is sensational bosh. He discussed the point now raised with Senators Morrill, Sherman, Dawes, Edmunds and Hale, and with Representative Randolph Tucker, not one of whom has the slightest dcubt of the constitutionality of tho law. As the Journal said at

the time, there is nothing in the point made against the measure. The power of the Senate to amend a House bill extends, unquestionably, to the point of striking out every word after the enacting clause, and inserting entirely new provisions, from beginning to end. The New Albany Public Press, edited by Mr. Josiah Gwin, a member of the last Democratic State central committee, tells the Michigan City Dispatch that it is folly to talk of nominating Col. Isaac P. Gray for Governor in 1884, and adds: “The best timber in the Democratic party must be selected for Governor in 1884; the party must be unified: small, pot-house politicians must go to the rear; honest, true Democrats must buckle on the armor, and a ‘durned’ sight of other things must be done before any Democrat can again be elected to any State office in Indiana. This is plain talk, it is humiliating and hard to bear up under, but you know it’s so, and Democrats must realize the disagreeable fact and wake up, or Indiana will continue to have a Republican Governor until Democrats are taught some common sense, and until they learn to be half decent and worthy of the confidence of the people.” The Madison Courier says: “Dr. Rogers was only a surgeon for the Union hospitals in this city during the war. Dr. Walker was a lieutenant-general in the provisional Confederate army in Indiana. Hence, it is natural for some of the Democracy to prefer Walker to Rogers.” The Courier is mistaken as to the rank. Dr. Walker was only commissioned a Major-general. Horace Heffren was the only Lieutenant-general, C. S. A., in Indiana. Among all the conflicting reports which have come to the public ear during the past season in regard to the marriage of Hon. David Davis, one statement has been firmly maintained by all. Whether Uncle David was fortunate enough to marry lier or nor, the lady in question was a treasure. While not strictly beautiful, perhaps, she was charming through her simplicity; she was shy, modest and not fond of society, having spent the most of her life iu country seclusion, not from necessity, but because she was home-loving. Any one of a thousand descriptions of her would stand for a picthre of the altogether lovely woman whom the Rev. Morgun Dix mourns as an uluiosc extinct species. Simple in her manner, plaiu hut attractive in appearance, not strong-minded, but just intelligent enouirb, bur, above all, home-ulinging and domestic in her tastes was this paragon among women. It is not often that the world has a chance to view one so universally admitted to be free from faults, and though Rev. Dix declares that printing a woman’s name in full brushes the bloom of modesty from her cheek, it is ouly right that other women les3 highly favored with virtues should h%vo a glimpse at the simplicity which all men admire. It is with respectful awe then that they ooutemplute the array of dresaes from Worth’s—fifteen of them. With their crude and mistaken ides of suitable attire for a "domestic woman,’' most of the sisters nad pictured a few print and wool costumes, with a silk dress or so for extra occasions. None of these appear iu the trousseau. Rose-colored silk, old-gold satiu, green velvet and ostrich tips, plum color, terra-cotta, pink, white, teacolor aud black in velvet, silk and satin are the robes iu which Mrs. Davis is to move übout aud order the ways of her household. Which of these are to be worn when occupied with her various domestic duties the reporters fail to specify. Whether she will dust the parlors in her Spanish-lace gown or put the finishing touches to the dinner-table in her blue brocade does not appeur. Which one of the costumes she will find most comfortable to wear iu the sewing-room, or when she sits by David’s side with her mending basket, we are left to surmise. Any one of them would be good enough. The husband’s socks will have good attention, no doubt, because with a supply of twelve dozen hand embroidered pairs of stockings of her own her time will not he divided. The touching picture of retired home life whioh these costumes convey to the mind must bring tears to the eyes of those frivolous women who care for nothing but society and dress, or those strong-minded ones who go into public and get their names in the papers iu a way subversive or all domestic comfort. The women of the couutry cannot fail to be impressed by this lesson, showing what simplicity and a retired life really mean, and will be, one and all, eager to follow Mrs. Davis’s example. Professor E. H. Holden, of Madison, Wis.; Dr. C. S. Hastings, of Baltimore; Mr. C. W. Rockwell, of Tarrytowu; Winslow Upton and E. D. Preston, of the United Btates C'oast Survey, and Lieutenant Biown, of the Nuval Observatory at Washington, have sailed from New York eu route to Caroline island, to view the coming solar eclipse. After crossing the Isthmus of Panama the party will proceed to Callao, expecting to arrive there about March 22. A government vessel will be in readiuess to convey thciiL-itf Caroline Islam), which belongs to a group k)sr>wn as the Marquesas, which lie (near the middle of the Pacific, aud are inhabited only by u few natives. The party will orobubly reach Caroline island about April 20, winch will leave over a fortnight in which to get the instruments in readiness for use. The party is well supplied with instruments. At the Isthmus the members hope to meet some English scientific gentlemen who have been sent out by the Royal Sootcty of England. A French party will probably observe the eclipse in the same neighborhood. Professor Holden aud his associates hope to observe some indications of the planets which are said to exist between Mercury and the sun. One or two new theories in regard to the protuberances of tho corona which surrounds the dark body of the moon during a total eclipse of the sun will be tested. They* expect also to flnu reasons for making corrections in the lunar tables; to discover something more about the rule which governs the motion of the moon, and to obtain other valuable information. The American party will return by way of Honolulu, and will reach home sometime next June. Tiik parish priest of Oshkosh publishes a card in which he declares the Tabor marriage at Washington to be null and void under the laws of the church, which do not recognize divorce. Hu states that. Mi-s MoCourt was married by himself, in 1877, to Mr Doe, who is yet living, and, the bond of matrimony being indissoluble, the second marriage could only boa farce in the Cutholicchurch. All members of the bride’s family, it is understood, are praotloally excommunicated for their complicity in deceiving the priest who performed the ceremony, and, having hitherto been loyal Catholics, uow feel themselves in a predicament. Mr. Tabor himself, who is not und rstood to be a devout man, will probably nut oe much disturbed at this little incident in his career, but tho bride risks her chances of heaven, unless, ike the priest who married them, she returns her "fees,” and leaves the millionaire to make his wedding journey alone. Mu. Parent, of Philadelphia, who is not, however, a parent but a philanthropist, is in hard luck. lie has just been sent, at his own request, to the. house of correction for habitual drunkenueos, and oxplaius that his sad slate was brought

about by his unsuccessful attempt to form a temperance society some time since. So disappointed was he at the failure that ho turned to a relief he had never sought before, and driwued his sorrow iu the flowing bowl. A California girl who had worn herself out thumping the piano while her mother was growing fat over the wash-tub, has regained her health by hunting squirrels. Last week she killed eighty-five of them, her mother paying her a bounty of teu cents per scalp. — ■ • Were it not reprehensible, the Journal would like to say that the express companies in this city are burdened with wedding preseuts from admiring triends of ex-Senator David Davis. It is to be hoped that no socks will be seut. It’s awful to speak of socks. Miss Nancy: No, dear; it is no longer considered in good form to describe wedding parties. It is "a vulgar and ruthless iuvasion of private rights.” To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journals Please inform me which is the better corn—the flint or the dent—and give distinction between them aud your reasons. Old Subscriber and Reader. Bloomington, March io. The dent corn is the best for general purposes, and its growth is more natural, the flint corn being the result of a deterioration in the crop. The dent is distinguished by a long, soft grain, with a hollow surface, while the flint oorn is of a plump, round grain, and is very hard. The dent is the best for feeding stock und general purposes, while the flint is raised chiefly for tho manufacture of hominy. ABOUT PEOPLE. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught are traveling through France as Mr. aud Mrs. Sussex. An Arkansas editor says that the stingiest man in his town talks through his nose to save the wear and tear on his false teeth. If Lotta has any friends they ehould go to her resoue. A Kansas City poet has been breaking loose on her with “choriainbio catalectio tetrameter verses.’* Mr. Francis Parkman's pamphlet, "Some or the Reasons against Woman Suffrage,” has been reprinted “at tho request of an association of women” in and about Boston. Mmk. Bismarck has received from the Shah of Persia tho highest decoration of that empire, an honor never before bestowed on a woman. The Star of the Sun is largo enough to cover half of a modern ball-dress bodice. The time during which the solemnization of marriage In England is legal being between 8 iu the morning and noon, a bill has been introduced in Parliament by Mr. Caine, M. P., that proposes to lengthen tho time by extending it up to 6 in the evening. SACRED To The Memory of E. Stone Wiggins. Ho float eu out on his own Tide, March 11, 1883, And was Wafted from Men's Memories on the Wings of ins own Zephyrs. AT a recent fancy-dress ball at Sydney, Australia, the wifo of an editor appeared as tho "Press.” Her dress was made of several copies or her husband’s paper, printed in colored inks on white satin. Tho fortunate editor’s subscrip-tion-list has perceptibly increased since this shrewd bit of advertising. The first instance in America where a lady officiated as a clergyman at a wedding ceremony was ut Columbus, 0., a few days ago, when Mrs. Lydia G. Romick, the evangelist, performed the marriage service for Charles Pim, of Damascus, 0.. and Miss Emma Bryant. Both bride und groom are members of the Society of Friends. Wagner, while composing ins operas, always dressed in tho costumes of tho period of which he wrote. His attire was as fantastical and flashy as that of a dashing beau at times. Tiie poems to which lie set music were mostly written when he was young. He says he caught tunes floating through tho air as he walked along the lanes accompanied by Ills two Newfoundland dogs. The last descendant of the famous Portuguese navigator Magellan appeared the other day in a Paris police court: but nothing could have been more distinguished than the way In which,when asked by the magistrate to give his name in full,he apologized for having to detain the court, explaining that ho was "Jeronimo Collao de Maghalaens da Gama Mouez Vellasco Sarmento Alarcao Bulboes do San de Maria Saleuia.” IT is the popular impression that Senator Edmunds has only u moderate Income. This is said not to he the case. Besides his salary as Senator, he receives a liberal salary us counsel for the Vermont Central railroad, and is consulted for an opinion in all important cases that comes before the Supreme Court. He is ulso frequently retained in private cases. From all sources, it is said, his annual iucome is uot far from SIOO,000. The following is told of one of the Rothschilds —he of Frankfort: Caine the Baron Von G. into the office of the great banker. "Take a ohair. sir,” said he, not even raising his heart from his writing. "Sir,” said G., "why, sir, I am, like yourself, a baron of the empire, anil I think should be addressed as such.” “A thousand parduns,” replied Rothschild, "a baron of the emplref Then take two chairs until I can attend to you.” The publishers of a German novel scored a hit recently in the line of advertising. They had inserted In most of the papers a notice stating that a certaiu nobleman of means, uuxious to obtain a wife, wanted one who resembled tho description of the heroiuo In the novel named. Os course every marriageable woman who saw this announcement bought the novel to see how much she resembled the imaginary beauty referred to. The Queen is probably still in blissful ignorance of the fact that on her visit to Netley last month she personally wounded ono of her own gallant defenders, as in piuning u metal to the night-shirt of an invalid hero, she pinned In a portion of the hero with it. The brave soldier, who had faced Egyptian bayonets, did not flinch under a piu-prlok, however, but bore it with Spartan firmness, for, as he afterward remarked, "Bless her! liar words were so gracious that I couldn’t mind it.” Queen Corola, of Saxony, has a beautiful face And engaging manners. She is fond of English literature, and reads American stories to her children. Many readers will remember that when she was herself a princess she won the love of Napoleon HI, who sought her hand. But the Crown Prince Albert, of Baxony, won the bride, and the Princess Corola was married to him m June, 1863. Two years after Napoli-on and Eugenie were driven front France, the Princess Corola, who might havo shared Napoleon’s fate, became Queen of Saxony. "She is to-day,” says tho Loudon Queen, "one of the three perfect sovereigns in Europe.”

THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Tiie land league will never he vindicated until an examination of Its accounts lias shown just where the money did go. Mr. Emm can not clear himself or the league of damagimr suspicions by abuse of the castle officials or reckless talk about jury-packing in Dublin.—New York Times. The cars on the elevated railways in this city are perfectly warmed by steam-pipes, and why cannot trains on tiie ordinary roads be warmed in the same way? If thero be any difficulty iu this, there are chemical contrivances now in uoe on the French railways which American ingenuity ought to be able to apply to our sleeping-cars at least.—New York World. It would seem to be easy and entirely practicable to construct passenger oars of metal or orher uninflammable materials so as to make them absolutely fireproof, aud tho traveling

public has a right to demand of the wealthy railroad corporations of the country this safeguard against danger and loss of life. In the building of ocean steamers iron and other metals have largely taken the place of wood. It is high time that anew departure of this kind be taken in the construction of ears for the carriage of passengers by laud.—New York Herald. It is said that this labor [clgnr niaklngl makes the tenement-hotiHes un wholesome, that children are kept at it when they ought to be in school, and that the cigars thus mado are not good. That all may he true; but certainly those evils could be corrected without entirely prohibiting work at home. As the law stands it seems to mean poverty or emigration for many honest families.—New York Tribune. In South Carolina there is now a great demand for cats to grow fat on cotton-seedj feu rats. Iu various Northern regions—in and about Cincinnati, for instance—tuere is sit present sin overplus In the supply of cats, and if some enterprising individual were to gather up a few car-loads of these gaunt night prowlers, and shin them to South Carolina, ho would probably realize a smart little fortune in profits.—Cincinnati Journal. The silver coinage Is likely to go on until one of the parties becomes convinced that it is strong enough to win without the help of tho • Adullamites. And there is reason to fear that it will go on until our entire paper currency is broken down to the silver level, and gold is banished ns completely as it was iu the days when greenbacks were below par. When tuat time conies our boasted national credit will be pretty badly shaken.—Chicago Times. There arc a large number of honest and reputable agents who do what they can to assist in Abe honest procuring and collection of pensions, but thero are a much greater number of characterless adventurers who live upon the. ignorance or the fraud of claimants. It is, therefore, gratifying to see that the present commissioner is not inclined to favor these harpies, and it is creditable to him that he has secured their opposition early in his administration.—Philadelphia Times. There Is no likelihood that any amendment will be ratified. Postponement will not stop the agitation. Impracticable restrictive laws will only disgrace the parry and contribute to its defeat. On the other hand, would not the enactment and suocessfnl working of even a very mild tax on this trade |the liquor traffic], which for thirty years has paid nothing to the public revenue, be an achievement worthy of high statesmanship? —Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The pretense that the fight in 1880 was made on the tariff issue Is equally false. The same plank was in the platform of 1876, when Tilden swept the country. In 1880 it was sprung by the Republicans late in the canvass,* und the Democratic managers had not the skill, wit or courage to meet it They ran away from it and got the defeat they earned. This is the whole story, and as often as it. is repeated it will have the same end aud moral.—Louisville CourierJournal. The English news about France Is most of 1c artificial news. Anything that goes to the discredit of the French republic Is gleaned, and magnified, and reported to the world. Tna American republic was treated precisely in tho same way in its years of tribulation during the civil war. Our remembrance of that experience should help us now to interpret the gloomy advices about the decadence of our sister republic that comes to us from London.—Chicago Tribune. The Brown-Bell Quarrel in the Senate. Senator Bell In Fort Wayne Sentinel. It occurred in this way: Senator Null presented, by instructions of his committee, a bill reconstructing congressional districts n this State, whereupon Brown, who sat directly in front of me, arose and viciously attacked the bill. I, of course, enme tony colleague’s relief, whereupon Brown turn il about and vilely abused me. He was-dis-gracefully drunk, and though mv first impulse was to break a chair over his head I restrained nty temper and sat down without a word of reply. Afterward, Brown set A men to me to apologize, but I returned him word that he was a “political and pee oral prostitute,” and 1 wanted nothing what r to do with one of his ruffianly calibre. An Objection Answered. Philadelphia Press. An able cotemporary complains that hinging don’t prevent murders. Probably lit, when only one murderer in twenty or thlr y is hung. They count the chances. Put suppose for the next dozen years or so * guilty man was to escape, how would tlufc work? When we have tried it thoroughly it will be time enough to complain of the inefficiency of hanging laws. A Little Fresh, Boston Herald. Mr. Bel ford is a trifie excited, or very “fresh,” when he talks of having “the whole star-route business investigated by a Democratic House.” A Democratic House was invited to do this shortly after the stealing was suspected, but its committee either smothered or whitewashed every discovery. The Deceased Wife's Sister's Bill. Washington Post. The English prejudice against such marriages is inexplicable, but its existence and potency are among the most palpable facts of English social life. And the public opinion of the rest of mankind lias no more influence of British prejudice than the waves have on Gibralter. Not Much Difference. Pittsburg Dispatch. It does not make much difference whether Dukes is hung or not. If he is to live, he will learn through all his life the scorn and contempt which mankind can ci ertain for a cold-blooded scoundrel, such us happily rarely equaled in the criminal history of recent generations. The Vanity of tho Interviewed. Brooklyn Eagle. Human nature is a compound of many elements, and every newspaper interviewer knows that vanity is not the least of them. In a majority of cases men who complain because the utterances are printed in tho columns of a public journal are simply guilty of affectation. A Defective Law. Michigan City Enterprise. It is with genuine pain that wo observe that the new tariff law does not discriminate against lightning-rods and lightning-rod peddlers. This convinces us that the tariff question should be the paramount issue of the next campaign. Under Training. Atlanta Constitution. It is rumored that Bob Ingersoll has placed himself under a well-known emotional actress in order to learn how to weep. He knows when and where to abuse the Bible, but the shedding of tears at the proper moment seems to be a more intricate matter. No Rest for the Wicked. Martinsvillo Republican. Indianapolis was just beginning to congratulate herself on the departure of the Legislature when a base-ball club tiled articles of association up there. There is no rest for the wicked. Devoted and u Hard slitter. Cincinnati Enquirer. Logan is devoted in his friendships and i a very hard hitter for his enemies. In Washington he has the reputation of being one ol the most consistent inen in Congress. Benjamin's Predicament. Philadelphia Record. If Ben Butler is obliged to keep one eye fixed on the White House and the other on Beacon Hill it will aggravate his strabismus and possibly sour bis sweet temper. The Best Daily in tho West. Bluffton Chronicle. The Indianapolis Journal is the best daily paper published in the West, and for an Im diana reader the best published anywhere. Try it and see for yourself. Only Two Left. Cincinnati Tiines-Star. Os the five historical G’s—Gladstone, Gam. betta, Grant, Garibaldi and Gortchakoff— all alive a year aga only two remain.