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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc,, see Sixth Pace. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1883. Social Meeting: of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association. A special meeting of the ladiaua Republican Editorial Association will be held at the Federal court-room at Indianapolis, beginning at 7:30 o’clock, on the evening of Thursday, March 29, 1883. Matters of importance await consideration, and ail members of the association are urgently invited to attend. Republican editors who are not now members of the association should communicate with the president or secretary without delay. W. 8. Lingle, President. CIIAB. E. Wilson, Secretary. The condition of Queen Victoria is not such as to cause anxiety. L. L. Sadler, the Republican nominee for mayor of Cincinnati, is a rOnter, having Aearned his trade in the office of the Richmond Broadax. He is a stock dealer now. A rehearing of the lowa amendment case has been granted by the Supreme Court, and will be had at the next term, which will sit at Davenport, the city from which the case came up. The Boston Advertiser regards with admiration General Brady’s confident manner of giving testimony in the star-route case, and thinks he shows a coolness which is remarkable. The remains of John Howard Payne arrived in New York yesterday. They will lie in state there during to-day, and to-morrow will be forwarded to Washington for final interment. The sea, in keeping with the spirit of the year, has been very turbulent, and from the Ist of Januaty to the middle of February wrecked 359 vessels, an increase of 148 as compared with the same time in 1882. The Inter Ocean remarks that “Dr. Hatfield was right when he said to those clerical prohibitionists that every disreputable sa-loon-keeper would take Brother Judkin and Johnson and other opponents of high license by the hand, and bid them go on with their good work.” If the good Doctor were in this State be would find people liable to the same criticism. The gentlemen appointed as members of the Metropolitan board of commissioners will vouchsafe a reply to-day to the question whether or not they will accept. It is probable they will; but the board will not execute the police power, as Mr. Murphy is reported to have said the important thing is to know tfie character of the man and men appointed to do the police work. The superintendent and the captains are vastly more important than the members of the board. It i$ stated that the two official vultures of Grundy and Will counties, 111., are about to get into difficulty over the bodies buried in the Diamond mine at Braid wood. Somewhere under the earth t-lie mine covers the county line, and the coroner from each county, hungry for fees, maintains that the dead men arc his subjects. If these coroners do come in collision, both of them should be driven into one of the abandoned rooms of the mine, walled in and left there until decency gets the better of greed. The wrangle is nauseating. Complaint is made that the business of the General Land Office is badly in arrears, and that as a result much harm is done the landed interests of the West. It is said that in the private claims division there are at least 10,000 claims belonging to Louisiana alone, some of which were adjudicated as long ago as 1807. There are in the Land Office, not actually delivered, 291.572 patents that are in all respects complete and ready for delivery. This is a matter that should early receive the attention of Congress, especially since it is charged that private interests are sacrificed indiscriminately to favor railroads. Rhodf Island voters, or rather those male •itizens of Rhode Island who would be voters in any other State, are now in a frame of mind. Under the present constitution no man can exercise the right of suffrage unless he holds real estate to the value of $134, over all incumbrances. Rhode Island has not so many inhabitants as some States, but it has more than it can supply with land. There is not enough to go around, and a good many worthy citizens who never cared much about the great American privilege of casting the ballot are enraged at their disfranchisement. But one man in seventeen, it is said, can now vote in the little State. The other sixteen should join with the women and form an equal suffrage society. The iron hand of despotism was never more strongly felt in Russia than it is at the present time. Numerous papers have been obliged to suspend publication, and others are under strict supervision, so that nearly every issue is delayed on account of some certain articles having been condemned. Foreign newspapers, before they are delivered, have whole paragraphs and leaders blotched with printer’s ink; entire pages are ruthlessly torn out of the Forthnightly Review, the Nineteenth Centurv, and other monthlies and quarterlies, and the last volume of his “history” which Solovieff lived to complete has been suppressed because, forsooth, it relates what every child knows concerning the personal character of Catherine 11. Professors are to submit their courses of lectures to the approval of the censor, and students, under pain of being excelled, are not to take lithographed

copies of the lectures. In one word, the whole of Russia is to be transformed into a huge police barrack. The old church decree has been revived, by which every kind of public performance, provided it be in the Russian language, is forbidden on the eve of all great saints’ days as well as on Saturday nights. The public finances are in the most deplorable condition, the paper ruble is not worth half its nominal value, and, in spite of the official notice printed or each, cannot be changed at bank for silver or gold. Asa result of all this, business is paralyzed, and no assurance of the future of affairs can be had.

The Hon. Isaac Jenkinson, editor of the Richmond Palladium, and for many years United States consul at Glasgow, has an editorial notice of tlie letters of Mr. Robert P. i I’orter describing the condition of Scotch ! workingmen. The New York Tribune pubj lished a letter from Dundee denying the statements of Mr. Porter, unless as applied to •‘some of the meanest places in our town, inhabited by the lower class of drunken Irish.” The letter closed with the statement: “I think our sober and industrious workers, all things considered, are as comfortable as their brethren in the States.” Upon this Mr. Jenkinson says: “This is the common Scotch belief, and we have heard the same expressions hundreds of times from Scotchmen, who, like the writer above, claim to have been in this country and acquainted with our workingmen’s condition. But it is not the fact. We have visited scores of the homes of workmen in Scotland, not those of ‘drunken Irish,’ but of the best-paid skilled laborers. We have rarely found such a home consisting of more than one room in some great tenement house, poorly furnished and ill-ventilated, and to our eyes entirely without comfort. These people were apparently contented, and probably believed themselves comfortable, but it is simply absurd to say they possessed anything comparable with the average home of the American mechanic of the same grade. Wc will also add that after five years’ residence in Scotland, all the time giving pretty close attention to the condition of the workingmen, and part of the time in personal investigation of that condition, we are prepared to indorse Mr. Porter’s statements as generally correct and trustworthy.” Mr. Jenkinson’s indorsement of Mr. Porter’s statement should be an end to the stuff and nonsense printed in some Indiana newspapers devoted to free-trade ideas, that the condition of European workingmen is as good as that of American laborers and mechanics. Such a statement is slanderously and ridiculously false. According to his own statement, George Ilolgate, of Philadelphia, is entitled to about twenty years in the penitentiary. He admits that he is the manufacturer of explosive or infernal machines, and that he has sold quite a number of them, as well as several burning machines, so arranged as to create a destructive flame at any hour desired, and long after the manipulator has gone away. The explosive machines are constructed so compactly that they can be placed in a cigar box and possess an explosive force equal to 900 pounds of gunpowder. Holgate defends bis business in an ingenious way: “ ‘I know' nothing,’ said he, ‘of the uses to which my machines are put. Ino more ask a man when he buys one whether he proposes to blow up a Czar or set fire to a palace, any more than a gunsmith asks his customers whether they are about to commit murder, or a match merchant asks if his purchaser is about to become an incendiary. I make the machines for those who want them. I don’t believe in killing kings with bombs, nor do I think that it is propel to assassinate statesmen with knives, but I would not have the cutlery business stopped because bad men make improper use of the dagger.’ ” This defense would be plausible were it not based on a false premise. Explosive machines are built and employed solely for the commission of crime. Nd other use is contemplated by seller or buyer; while guns, matches and knives, though often used for unlawful purposes, have a legitimate use. It is needless to inquire of a man who buys one of Holgate’s machines what he intends doing with it. The simple fact that he buys it is enough to prove that he means to assassinate somebody or to secretly destroy property. The machines are the same in character as burglars’ tools—no honest man has any business with them, and no dealer of reputation would handle them, even though the law permitted traffic in them. Holgate’s works should be closed, his appliances confiscated ami himself sent to prison. His business is a lawless one and his patrons all criminals. Three weeks ago $70,000 worth of railroad bonds were stolen from the office of a Philadelphia safe deposit company. On Monday, while the president of the company was sitting in his office, a stranger entered, laid the bonds upon his desk, and was allowed to depart without formalities. The president explained that he had expected the man; that he was an “innocent party” from Canada, to which place detective sleuth-hounds had traced them. So closely were the thieves pressed that they were glad to give up the property, hence the visit of the innocent party. The president did not wish to say more, because the detectives were still hot upon the trail of the robbers and expected to catch them. Curious people wonder how innocent parties come to be go-betweens, but it is none of their business since the bonds are returned. For sublimity of cheek Edward Cowley, formerly known as “Reverend” and recently returned from Sing Sing, cannot be excelled. Cowley will be better remembered by the title of “Shepherd,” iu which capacity he had charge of a Fold in New York, and was sent to the penitentiary for having starved and mistreated the children under his care. He was also required to pay a fine of $250.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1883.

This injured man now petitions the Legislature to set aside the decision of the court showing that a child in the Fold died from starvation. He cannot recover the year spent in prison, but asks that the $250 be refunded and that the city of New York be compelled to pay the bills lie incurred as manager of the Children’s Fold. The total amount of the bills is $6,570. and with ffiis sum the exshepherd could again be able to follow the yearnings of his nature and gather other lambs into his arms in pastures new. Mr. Josiah Gwin, of the New Albany Public Press, submits a platform for the Democratic party, to be adopted by a convention which is ready to accept the record of the late Legislature as the work of Democracy. The first plank “points with pride” to the killing of the constitutional amendments. The second one indorses the Brown rape of the benevolent institutions. The third plank has a somewhat personal flavor, as follows: “While we do not encourage drunkenness and pugilistic encounters in legislative bodies, still it will be policy not to censure Senators Brown and Bell on account of their being ‘wheel bosses’ in the party,” The fourth plank is one we copy in full for the benefit of the Indianapolis Sentinel, which is in an awful boggle over the general appropriation bill: “The defeat of the appropriation bill by the Democrats in the Legislature meets our most hearty approval, and every Democrat in Indiana should rise up and bless their masters who did the work. The money of the State was placed in the hands of a Democratic treasurer who put it where it did the most good for himself and the party,” The fifth plank denounces the advertising law, which was properly repealed, and the sixth indorses the metropolitan police bill as “a Democratic measure,” and puts the canvass of 1884 upon that issue, requesting any Democrat who disapproves of that bill “to get out of the party as suddenly as possible.” Gwin’s platform is respectfully submitted to the consideration of such Democratic newspapers as the Terre Haute Gazette, Wabash Courier, Shelbyville Volunteer, Vincennes News, and others. The editor of the Public Press is likely to find himself cast out into utter darkness. Freedom of opinion is not permitted in the Democratic party of Indiana. Even Senator Rufus Magee, after repeated statements to the contrary, quietly and with humility knuckled to the caucus and voted for the metropolitan police bill.

Speaking of the public schools of the city of New York, the Times says: “It is evident that improvement lias been made of late in the sanitary and other arrangements of school-houses and in the methods of instruction, but it is equally apparent that perfection is yet a long way off. The old method of bestowing the largest expense and the best skill at the top of the system is still pursued. The inexperienced and most poorly-paid teachers are in the primary schools, where, on the average, they have fifty-one pupils each. This is at oneq the most difficult and the most important grade of instruction, and if more care were given to it the higher grades would to an increasing extent take care of themselves. We still pursue the top-heavy method in our system of public education, bestowing public money upon grades of instruction which belong rather to the domain of private effort, and providing inadequately for that which is essential for public reasons.” The same facts exist in Indianapolis, and in all cities. These are the faults of the “system,” which it seems almost hopeless to attack. The very ones who should be first and foremost in correcting these glaring errors, and who should intelligently direct the honest criticism made in private life and through the public press, are the very ones who stand like a wall against every improvement, and regard as an enemy any one with temerity sufficient to call attention to the facts. ______ Sir George Jess el. Master of the Rolls of England, whose death is just announced, was of Jewish extraction, being the youngest son of the late Zachariah Nathaniel Jessel, a merchant of Putney, by Mary, daughter of the late Mr. Henry Harris. He was born in London in 182-1, and educated at University College, London. He was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in May, 1847, and was made a Queen’s Counsel and a Bencher of his Inn in 18G5. At the general election of 18G8 he was returned in the Liberal interest as one of the representatives of the borough of Dover. He was appointed Solicitor-general in Mr. Gladstone’s administration in November, 1871, and received the honor of knighthood Feb. 21, 1872. When Lord Romilly resigned the position of Master of the Rolls in August, 1873, Mr. Gladstone appointed Sir George Jessel as his successor, and he was then sworn in a3 a member of the Privy Counsel. He was the first Hebrew who ever occupied a seat on the English judicial bench. The Peoria (111.) Transcript, says: “The Democrats of the Indiana Legislature proved themselves to he rebels in the widest meaning of that term. While they did not attempt open war against the State government, they undertook by means of covert resistance to the execution of the laws to overthrow or obstruct the exercise of ail constitutional authority. They withheld action upon the needed appropriation bills, the same as their fellow partisans did in Congress a few' years ago under the Hayes administration, and so far as was in their power put a final estoppel upon the proper administration of affairs. With this record before the voters of that State, there can bo little doubt about the result in 1884. The party that has been guilty of this kind of treason to the public interest will appeal in vain for a renewal of confidence at the polls.” A curious revelation is made with regard to late gubernatorial conventions in Massachusetts. It is stated on what seems good authority that in 1876, when General Butler tried in open convention to secure the Republican nomination for the governorship, ex-Governor John D. Long wrote a letter to the Hingbam paper strongly indorsing the claimant. The young men of the party nominated Long in the convention of 1879, and

after the adjournment asked him (he was then Lieutenant-governor) to accept. He replied that he could not, as he was on record in the manner stated. The State central committee is said to have thereupon bought up every existing copy of the little paper published three years before, and Mr. Long then accepted the nomination. General Butler, it is said, found out the little game, but magnanimously kept it secret, and Long defeated him badly. It has only leaked out now, since Long allowed the use of his name against Hoar in the late senatorial contest. The resignation of President Yvmte, of Purdue, having been accepted definitely, the question before the trustees is to select his successor. It is well that that duty is not immediately necessary, yet it should not be delayed longer than is requisite to secure the best available man for the place. No personal considerations, no petty arguments, or other influences than those legitimately exerted for the good of the institution—the field of which is to a certain degree peculiar, and whose future may be easily clouded by an unfortunate selection—should be permitted to weigh with the trustees in reaching a conclusion, and we have no reason to think will be. Purdue wants as president a man who will be able to command the respect of the people of the State, and who, while administering its affairs with a firm hand, will be able, also, to add wisdom and prudence to his other mental endowments. “The class statistics of Yale for eleven recent years show 945 freetraders and 341 protectionists.”—Ex. It probably did not occur to the writer that Yale graduates as a rule do not become mechanics nor manufacturers. Mount Etna. The new eruption of MouutEtna, accompanied by an earthquake arid other indications of a more than usual display, causes renewed interest in this oelebrated volcano. Mount Etna is remarkable not only from its isolated position, but likewise on account of the beauty of Us contour, the lurid sheen of its incandescent lavas, and the column of smoke arising from its summit. From whatever side Sicily be approached, the snowy head of Etna is seen rislug high above all the surrounding mountains. It occupies an area of no less than 460 square miles. During the last 2,000 years, Mount Etna has had more than a hundred eruptions, some of them continuing for a number of years. Hitherto it has not been possible to trace any regularity in these outbursts. They appear to occur at irregular intervals, and the quantity of lava poured forth from the principal or any subsidiary cone varies exceedingly. The most considerable stream of lava of which we have any record was that which overwhelmed the city of Catania in 16G9. A few days later streams of lava broke forth from chasms which opeued in different parts of the mountain, and fourteen villages were destroyed. To protect the city of Catania its walls next to the mountains had been raised to the height of sixty feet, but the lava rose steadily lintil it overtopped the rampart,nud poured a cascade of liquid fire into the midst of the bouses, this lava was so hot at Catauia eight years after it entered the town that it was impossible to hold the hand in some of the crevices. It swept away a part of the town, filled up its port, and formed a promontory instead. The quantity of lava poured forth at that time has been estimated at 3,532,900,000 of cubio feet, and nearly forty square miles of fertile land, supporting a population of 20,000 souls, was converted into a stony waste. The eruptlou of 1755 was remarkable for a great inundation caused by the flow of two streams of lava upon a vast collection of snow. For eight miles down the flanks of the mountain the torrent poured, sweeping on the loose Rcoria and blocks of lava, which were deposited in the plaius below. Iu 1828, when the whole country was parched with excessive heat, a quarry of perennial ice was opened under a stratum of lava, so situated that this must have flowed in a melted state at some distant period over the suow, which, as suggested by Bir Charles Lyell, was no doubt protected from the action of the heat by a previous covering of flue dust and scoria. The earliest recorded eruption of Etna is one mentioned by Diodoms Siculus, which caused the Sicani to desert its vicinity and move further to the south. No date is given, but it appears to have happened before the Trojan war. The next three eruptions ate referred to by Thucydides, of which, according to nis narrative, one was in 475 B. C., one in 425, and one at an earlier time not clearly specified, lhe most important of those happening later occurred in 1169, IGG9, 1755, 1787, 1792, 1852 and 1868. Despite its many subterraneau disturbances and overflows, Mount Erna is very fertile, and its sides are thickly covered with vineyards and villages. It is much less dangerous to life than is Mount Vesuvius, there being no discharge of stones as from the latter. The extreme height of Mount Etna is 10,866 feet, and while not reaching the lino of perennial Hnow, its sumnrtt is nearly always covered with frost, andiu winter with considerable snow, though no glaciers are ever found. More than 300,000 people dwell on the slopes of the mountain, and town succeeds town along us base, aud from the rim of the crater the mountain-climber looks down on groves of olive, orange, lemon, and other fruit trees, in the midst of which rise clumps of palaces, and villas, churches, and monasteries. During last month tax amounting to $843,247 accrued ou 936.941 gallons of spirits held in bond. Much of ibis is now being withdrawn for exportation, as thirty days after tax accrues are given iu which to pay the tax before the spirits are proceeded against, and at any time prior to the expiration of the thirty days the spirits may be withdrawn for exportation. The quantity of spirits held iu bond upou which tux will accrue during the four months ending June 30 next is as follows: Tax due. Taxable g il**. Ain’t of tax March 1,270,587 $1,148,928 A prll 1,768,393 1,591,554 May 2,098,308 1,876.431 June 1.971,078 1,773,970 Total 7,114.426 $0,385,883 The quantity of spirits now in bond which will be liable to tax from July 1 to Dec. 31 is nearly 9,000,000 gallons, and the amount of tax $7,850,830. During the next calendar year the quantity which must lie withdrawn is over 43.000,000 gallons, and the tax thereon nearly $38,000,000. “The town of Mason has elected the following officers: Moderator, I. A. Be*n; clerk, J. C. Bean; selectmen, J. N. Bean and F. 1. Bean; treasurer, F. I. Bean; supervisor of schools, J. H. Bean, and agent, J. C. Bean,” You are mistaken if you think Mason is a suburb of BustOD. It is In Oxford count}', Me. On the 28th of this month, in the oity of Rome, will be celebrated the 400th anniversary of the birth of Raphael. Great preparations are being made, and the day will be one of general gayety,

to bo participated in by a number of the leading societies of scientific men and artists. A discourse will be delivered, a cantata composed for the occasion will be sung, and grand tableaux vivant will be enacted, representing the greatest of Raphael’s paintings. A portion of the city will be illuminated, and th:* receipts at the Costanzl Theater, where the tableaux are to be presented, will be devoted to erecting a monument in the city in memory of the great artist. Judge Hamilton, of Baltimore, who is evidently an aesthetic soul, believlug that the court rooms should not look dieary, has caused the room in which he presides to be so decorated, at his own expense, that it now shines In rosewood and gold, with marble busts and engravings. This is true philanthropy. The Judge’s successor inay be a commonplace man whom the handsome stirroundlugs will elevate. Pleasant Hollow, n. J., is such a pleasant place that an impecunious native, who owns three acres of land on which oil has been discovered, refuses to part with the ground, though offered a large price. He says he does not want any noise around his house. A force of 150 painters is now employed on the Brooklyn bridge. Ten could do the work, but it is so far to the ground that they lose much time in going back and forth to borrow tobacco from the man who is getting the bridge painted, The temperance movement is at high tide in England and the revenue from intoxicating liquors is falling off. Since October, 1880, 1,000,000 people have put on the blue ribbon, and one half a million have signed the pledge. In setting up the aocount of the attempt to blow up the deanery at Canterbury, England, a Boston typo substituted a b for the din deanery, and nearly caused a panic in the city. ,♦, It lias been said of Julian Hawthorne’s new novel, “Dust,” that it must needs be dry. Probably, but it undoubtedly enjoys a wide circulation. It has been shown by statisticians that Indiana is the best wheat-producing State in the Union. O, we are mighty uear as wheat as wheat cau be. Chicago has an LL. D. for city librarian. Doctor of libraries. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: 1. Would It bo illegal or an Infringement to make for one’s private use a facsimile of any parent? 2. Tell us the meaning of the new metropolitan police. How does it differ from the police system thut it will succeed? March 19. A Sucscriber. 1. It would. 2. The metropolitan police is a police appointed by the State, instead of by the city. The present system is that three councilmeu are elected by the Council as a police board and they elect the entire police force and have charge of it. By the new system the Governor, the Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer of State choose three men, not connected with the city government, and these men select aud control the police force. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Has the new law rendered the so-called “graveyard” insurance com panics void? Were they ever reliable? Reader. It has. It is a misdemeanor now to insure or apply for insurance on the life of any aged or Infirm person, or to take insurance on anybody’s life without the person’s knowledge or consent. “Graveyard” insurance companies were always a fraud. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please inform me through the columns of your paper who Saint Patrick was, whether a real or fictitious character. He was n real character, born cither in France or Scotland, and died in County Ulster, March 17, 493 or 495. His original name was Suocatb, and Pope Ceiestine gave him the name of Patriot ua. His see as Bishop of Ireland was at Armagh. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please give me the indebtedness of the United Stales, France, Germany and Euglaud, to settle a dispute. Elizabeth, Ind. The United States, $1,586,276,114.43; France, $4,683,840,000; Germany, $120,197,528; England, $3,814,500,000. The figures are for the year 1882, except in the United States, which was the amount on the Ist of March, instant. Ho the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: 1. Did the recent two-cent postal law go into effect immediately? If not, when may we look for two-ceut postage? 2. Is the coinage of the new nickel piece still going ou? If still iu process. when does it cease? Delphi, Tnd. The two-cent postal law takes effect Oct. 1. 2. The coinage of the new nickel is still going on, aud will cousc when the demand is supplied. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Can you help me with a quotation and its author. It is one that I attempted to use, but boggled and stuck, while talking of one of the parties in a great suit now pending in court. It is somehow thus: “Lost a world and made a hero fly for Cleopatra’s eye.” J. M. c. We have not been able to trace the lines. Can any of our readers lieip “J. M. C.” out? To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Upon what occasion did Congress ballot 133 times? M. H. STARK. Vermillion, Edgar County, 111. In 1857, on the contest for Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Thirty-fourth Congress. Nathaniel P. Banks was elected on the 133d ballot. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal! To what denomination does the Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, belong? Frank M. Benson, Congregational. ABOUT PEOPLE. It was the sagacious Hosea Biglow who said: “Don’t never prophesy unless y’ know.” Judge Frederick Speed, of Vicksburg, is the only thirty-third degree Mason in the State of Mississippi. Ex-Secretary Columbus Delano is spending his old age in luxury ou his large in Knox county, O. Rev. Morgan Dix continues to l>e placarded as au ass. One writer in the Tribune calls him “the Protestant pope of New York.” The coach in which Lafayette rode through the streets of New York, In 1824, has until lately been owned by John D. Yates, of Chlttenango. In Baltimore, on St. Paul’s street, is displayed the sign: “Charles J. Bonaparte, attorney-at-law.” This grand-nephew of the great Emperor is a busy member of his profession. The curfew is still rung in many towns in England, and at Ripon a horn is blown at 9* p. M. in memory of the presentation to the city of a horn, still extant, by King Alfred. Mrs. Bernard-Bebre, the well known Euglisli actress, is a goddaughter to William Makepeace Tnackeiay, who used to call her, when she was a very small child, “the little aotress.” An American drank twenty-eight glasses of lager in Washington, on a wager, Monday evening, iu thirty minutes, beating a German, who gave out after pouring down twenty-tv/o glasses. Mentioning the arrival of Senator Edmunds at Aiken, 8. C., the recorder of that town says: “His family havo been spending the winter here and are comfortably quartered at one of the hotels. The Senator keeps a stylish carriage aud pair of his own, driven by a white - naohman ar-

r ayed In blue coat and brass buttons. Miss Edmunds is frequently seen out riding on a fine animal of her own, which is said to have coal $1,000.” Standing before a clergyman who was about > to marry him, a rustic was asked: “Wilt thou have this woman,” eto. The man stared in surprise, aud replied: “Ay, surely! Whoy, I kuiumed a-puppus!” Among those present at the reunion of homeopathists in Boston last Friday evening was Mias Elizabeth Peabody, who, despite her eighty-four years, was one of the most interested and interesting persous there. Mr. Irving, the English actor, has fully arranged for a visit to the United States this year, to last six months, and tells his friends that he expects to return to England the richer by no less a sum than £40,000. The Rochester Democrat says that ex-Lieu-tenant-governor George H. Hoskins is now a sworn deputy in the Attica postoffice, and assists the clerks in distributing the mails with, the same ease that lie distributed parliamentary law to the Senate Solons at Albany. Ev r on J. Conger, associate justice of the Territory of Montana, against whom charges of drunkenness and gambling have been preferred, is a brother of Senator Conger, of Michigan, and the latter had just got him appointed. He is much cut down over the downfall of his brother. The late P. V. Dibble, a leading merchant of Charleston, S, C., who died recently, once declined to accept a Federal office for the reason that his sons had been in the Confederate se’*vice, and therefore he could not conscientiously take the oath that he had never sympathized with the Confederacy. Benjamin Franklin’s old “bull’s eye” watch is owned by a man in Lancaster, Pa. Large offers have been refused for this watch, including one of SI,OOO per annum for ten years, from a New York watch company, simply for the loan of the watch during that period to display iu the window of their office ou Broadway. Gath: Florence Dixie, who says she was assaulted by men in women’s dress, may have been a morphine-taker. The late J. B. Stillson, newspaper correspondent, reported that he had been shot at in Salt Lake City. His friends knew he told the truth, yet they saw the story was incoherent. It came out that he had been taking morphine for some days, and so saw things of the mind’s eye. / Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, can be seen almost any flue afternoon on the fashionable Pasco of Baville, sometimes unattended, sometimes with sixteen mounted guards. The crowd pay little attention to her, as she has nothing but her notoriety to make her draw attention. In figure she would be a good match for David Davis, as she pulls the scales at about 250 pounds, and as to beauty, the least said will please her the most. When seventy years of age William Cullen Bryant wrote to James T. Fields: “I send you a the Atlantic Monthly. Ask me for no more verses. A septuagenarian has passed the time when it is becoming for him to occupy him-* self with the rhymes and rattles of the man and boy. * * * Nobody, in the years after seventy, can produce anything in poetry save the thick aud muddy last runnings of the cask from which all the clear and sprightly liquor has already been drawn.” Senator Beck says that his son George is doing finely in Wyoming Territory, where he has a ranch of 1,400 acres and 1,200 sheep. He now lives iu a house built ol pine lumber, though when the Senator and Mrs. Beck visited him Inst year lie had only a log cabin plastered with mud, and with a clay floor. But it was so healthy there that Mrs. Beck, who was so ill before starting that the trip was delayed from day to day, got well aud felt such a redundancy of spirits that she took hold of the household matters and taught an Irish boy how to bake bread aud do all sorts of cooking for the men ou the ranch. A few days ago, says the London Telegraph, a woman upward of ninety years of age, died at a place called Eglinton, near Londonderry. The usual arrangements for the funeral were made, and the coffin was closed aud taken in a hearse to the place of interment, where the service was duly gone through, the cofliu lowered, and the grave tilled in. On reaching home, however, the relatives of the deceased were amazed to flud the corpse of the old woman lying on tho bed upon which she liad expired, It not having been placed in the coffin. The body was subsequently taken m a cart to the grave, the coffin raised, and the corpse was placed in it and interred. THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Let a compulsory law be passed and the parents who have never before sent their children to school will be obliged to take an in crest in the matter; their care for their children will cause them to aid in the building of better school-houses and tne greater need for good teachers will cause au increase in the supply.— Louisville Commercial. There is due to the Southern States for educational purposes the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, of which the Northern school funds hare been almost the sole beneficiaries heretofore. Several times an effort has been made to get a bill providing for such a disposition of that money passed by Congress, hilt the excellent plan has failed.—Courier-Journal. Small politicians are naturally opposed to reform, because the moment, this reform lets all people in to an equal chance at the offices, tho day of the small politician is gone. He oan no longer come with his voting strength us his only qualification, and succeed because the politicians above him dare not reject him. But that will ho the duv of the people’s government, and no class lias a greater interest in ttiis thau the workingmen.—Cincinnati News. It is useless to conjecture as to the shape events would tuke weie the Queen to die uow. While the succession is duly provided for, and the Prince ot Wales would ascend the throne without delay or dispute, still there is not that trust in the repose of his character that is everywhere felt in the Queen’s, and it would give to affairs an element of uncertainty which would, at the least, he disquieting, if not seriously dis-turbing.—-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. THERE is no telling where this agitation of milk and cream will stop. It has extended to Boston. The farmers in that vicinity have also struck. Tho popular sympathy will be with them. Three cents and a half is not a large price to lie paid for u quart of milk by u man who sells it at ten cents. The milk supply of New York is at present wholly insufficient. Tho farmers thereabouts are giving the milk away—even emptying it Into the gutters—rather thau yield their point.—Cincinnati Journal. Now that the Canadians have broken away from ihe English system of free trade aud adopted the American plan of promoting lioineiudustrie" they should be encouraged to persevere in their new policy. They should not be enabled to enjoy the privilege of an unrestricted exchange of products with the United States so lone as they remain a dependency of a forefga power. Let them build up their industries as Americans have built up theirs, and let reciprocity come when they are prepared to enter upon their obvious destiny.—New York Tribune, If the convicts produce anything useful their product must necessarily compete with the product of free labor, This competition does not necessarily constitute a grievance. It becomes a grievance only when it is shown of any trade that tho wages paid in it are lowered by tho competition of convict labor. If tho labor of tho prisoners is not to compere with free labor, then the labor of the prisoners must be unproductive, and the talk of allowing the prisoner, for his family or for his future, some portion of his earnings is sheer nonsense, since the prisoner will earn nothing.—New York World. Sprague’s nomination is an apotheosiß of the ephemeral popularity which he enjoyed more than t wenty years ago. Young, rich, gifted with a charming’ personal presence, and fired by a romantic patriotism, he raised and equipped a regiment when the civil war broke out. He took the field, made a few bright and crisp speeches, wrote many brave letters and messages, anil posed for a brief period as war Governor. As senator he failed disastrously and Ignobly. Hla social habits brought him todissruce, and domestic misfortunes, for which he .as largely responsible, involved his name in a cloud of scandal. The Rhode Islaud Democrats are in such desperate case that they hope t win in 1883 with the ht> toied wreck of the gallaut ohevulier of 1861. New York Times. \