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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pasre. MONDAY, MAY 7, 1883. Bartholdi's “Liberty” is finished, and ready to enlighten the world so soon as it can get a place to stand on. News of the prevalence of yellow fever at the port of Rio Janeiro suggests the possibility of its introduction into the United States again this year. We have not observed anyone filing a bill of particulars against Indianapolis in the matter of patronage. Possibly, hereafter we shall hear less of the twaddle about Indianapolis getting everything. The Presbyterian ministers of Philadelphia are to begin the discussion to-day of the question: “Is a revision of the Confession of Faith desirable?” the venerable Dr. Blackwood is to open the debate. Dr. Jasper is being vindicated: the sun do move. The Rev. Josiah Henson, Mrs. Stowe’s ; ‘Uncle Tom,” died on Saturday, at Dresden, Ont., aged ninety-four. Now if about sixteen original “Uncle Tom” troupes would go into mourning for thirty years, it would be in good form, and the world be all the better and happier for it. Cincinnati is much like the Kansas woman who had a tin wedding, for which she made line supper, with all the accessories. The next day, after the affair was over and she bad time to take an inventory of the tinware brought in by friends, she exclaimed: “It was a success after all.” Brooklynites are working themselves to a fever of enthusiasm over the grand celebration which they propose to have when the Bridge—invariably capitalized—is formally opened on the 24th of May. President Arthur, Governor Cleveland, and fire-works are numbered among the attractions of the occasion. n -——- Asa sop to the Nihilist cerberus, the Czar has allowed it to be given out from official sources that upon his coronation the poll-tax will he reduced an aggregate amount of 115,000,000 rubles for the entire empire, and that there will be a remission of various fines, sentences and penalties. His subjects would do well to have the will probated before the coronation. A man named Eaton, alias Bond, has been doing the “gold-brick” trick in New York city with considerable success. It is no libel on some people to say that they would Implicitly believe a man who professed to Bell genuine greenbacks at ten cents on the dollar. But it is surprising that such fools should be found in New York, and possessed of money too.

The 20,000 residents of Boston who went to see Mr. John Sullivan pound a rival pugilist into a jelly will be pleased to learn that that gentleman is to remain with them. Tne 20.000 can attend symposiums hereafter at Sullivan’s “first-class sporting house,” which he has just opened in Boston at an expense to himself and admiring friends of $15,000. “Had the Journal read our article a little more carefully it would have seen that we only referred to the complaint against Indianapolis as one generally made, but without indorsing it. Our complaint against the sapital city is not that she gets too much, but that her efforts for too much are rewarded with not enough.”—Richmond Palladium. This is amazing. We give it up. The touching and tender sympathy of our friend because Indianapolis does not receive its share of offices, is paralyzing. One of the meanest adulterations, and one most likely to deceive the purchaser, is in tens. The cheat is practiced more than ever before, and the amount of spurious tea in the market is very great. Last week the health authorities of New York city stopped the sale of 3,G00 packages of Pingsuey teas on the ground that they had been adulterated, and were therefore impure and unwholesome. The teas which were thus condemend were said to be the property of a Boston firm, and consisted of over 300,000 pounds. With no market in New York, these spurious teas will find their way westward. Consumers should be on the lookout for them. The Denver Tribune says the quarrel between Secretary Teller and Senator liill “is a private quarrel of long standing, and tlie principals ought to fight it out among themselves. It is their business. We can see nothing in it which makes it a matter of public import. Both men bate each other. All orts of charges, whether true or false, may therefore be expected. None of them, we sonceive, are of the slightest importance. The matter is personal, and the Republican party should not concern itself about it." l'he country is evidently in harmony with the Tribune’s opinion. The ‘ correspondence” has not made a ripple on the surface of events. “It must be confessed the Journal makes out a strong case for the capital, and the modestv of the politicians therein not pushing their claims more energetically is worthy of the highest admiration. But, in scanning the notes of official appointments, copied from our contemporary at the capital, one is led to inquire, how long must a ruan be a resident ot that city to be charged to its account? General Gresham has been a resident of the capital for many years, yet he is credited to New Albany.”—Evansville Journal. Judge Gresham was appointed from New Albany, lie never lived a day in Indianapolis until ho was obliged to come here by reason of his official duties. As well credit Indianapolis with Governor Williams and

all the other Stale officers who are forced to live here during their terms, as with Judge Gresham. We have not seen a single denial of the truthfulness of the list we published, which showed in the most conclusive manner how utterly without foundation is the cry against Indianapolis whenever an appointment is to be made or a candidate for office to be nominated. THE TARIFF AND LOW PRICES. “Enquirer,” of Williamsport, in Friday’s Journal seems to think that if one who favors protection once admits that upon the removal of duties there would be, or might be, a decrease in the prices of goods, then he isdriven to admit that the free traders and tariff-for-revenue people are in the right. Does this follow'? What makes the price of any manufactured article? (1.) The raw material at the factory. (2.) The work and labor bestowed. (3.) Transportation to the place of sale. (4.) From the first step to the last each man through whose hands the article passes has a right to a fair pay for his labor and a margin for profit What makes the prosperity of any nation? All or some of the profits summarized in No. 4. In a prosperous nation, the planter of cotton, the wool-grower, the farmer, are all busy. Each manufacturer is working a full quota of hands; each hand is purchasing the necessaries of life fjrom the merchant, who, in turn, buys from the farmer, and so the ceaseless hum df trade goes on. Every industry is full of life. Home production of enough for home consumption, and of a surplus to be marketed abroad, means prosperity. Almost every article of daily use is cheaper now than it was before the war. Yet there was a tariff then as well as now’. Tilings are cheaper now than in 1862,1803 and 1864. Yet the reduction in price is not due entirely either to a removal of the tariff or to an increase in its rate. The implied argument of “Enquirer” is that a decrease in prices from any cause is to be desired and means prosperity. Is that true? Let us turn to the records and see. Any era will do that gives a good example. In 1819 the price of flour had fallen (since 1817) from $lO to sls a barrel down to $5 or $6 per barrel; tobacco ‘ from $l4B in 1817 to sllO in 1819, and $75 in 1822. There was a like depreciation in other crops. Did prosperity follow? Not at all. The people could not purchase manufactures; they could not discharge their obligations. Every branch of industry was paralyzed. Ships could neither be employed nor sold except at ruinous losses. “Rents and the value of all real estate w r ere enormously depreciated. Farms w r ere mortgaged or sold at one-half and onethird of their value. Factories and workshops w’ere everywhere closed. * * * * Multitudes of hand-craft workmen entered into competition with the cultivators of the soil, and swelled the products of agricultural labor, for which there was no longer a market.” The number of persons thrown out of employment was estimated at from 40,000 to 60,000, the number deprived of support was computed at 160.000 to 240, 000. A committee in Philadelphia reported that since 1816 in 30 out of 60 branches of manufacture there had beeu a reduction i the number of persons employed from 9,425 to 2,137, in their weekly wages from $58,340 to $12,822, and in their annual earnings from $,‘>,033,799 to $G06,744; loss of wages $2,366,935 per annum. A report from Pittsburg show’ed that in the steam-engine factories the workmen were reduced from 290 to 24, and tne value of the work from $300,000 to $40,000. In the manufacture of cotton, wire, umbrellas, yellow queensware, pipes and linen, there was no longer a single hand employed. A memorial to Congress said: “Every man sees and feels that the excessive use of foreign goods has brought our country to the verge of destruction, and that nothing short of permanent and ample patronage to our own manufacturers can afford any relief. The fallacy of buying at the cheapest market no longer stands in our way, nor win Congress be again alarmed with the danger of imposing regulations upon trade.” In this year. 1819, the price of domestic cottons was 21 cents a yard, 9 cents below the price of 1816. Increased duties were asked for in 1820 upon a number of leadiugarticles, and the great disparity between the American and British tariffs upon several important articles of manufacture was shown, the United States ranging from to 30, and the British from 41to 755 ad valorem. The tariff from 1816 to 1820 was 21 per cent.; from 1820 to 1824, 36 per cent. The country became more prosperous under the increased tariff. The true object of a wise tariff is not primarily to decrease prices; not to produce a revenue, but to protect and encourage and render prosperous every kind of home industry. and by so doing to make every branch of mechanical and manual labor profitable to the laborer. There must be a mutual prosperity in all branches of industry. The tariff, by its effects, benefits the whole nation. At a recent meeting of the Medico-legal Society, of New York city, District Attorney George B. Corkhill read an interesting paper on “Insanity as a Defense for Crime.” He adverted to the difficulty, even of adepts in diseases of the mind, in defining what insanity is, though the line between sanity and insanity is as clearly marked and distinct as is the line between health and any of the diseases with which the human frame is afflicted. Speaking of the almost universal practice of putting forward a plea of insanity as a defense in the commission of nearly every atrocious crime, the Colonel suggested the following plausible remedy in law: “My candid opinion, resulting from a very large experience in the trial of these cases, is that when a prisoner proposes to defend his

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crime on the ground of insanity, a jury should be specially chosen for their fitness to try the special plea, and if the prisoner, after trial, is found insane, that then he shall be confined in an insane prison a certain time, commensurate with the character of the crime, and if the verdict of the jury i9 in favor of his sanity, that then the plea shall not be allowed upon the trial of the cause.” This plan would simplify criminal trials very much, and greater justice would be done under it. For one jury to sit as experts in sanity as well as to pronounce his guilt or innocence is more than should be expected. The one is almost certain to impinge upon the other, to the detriment of the best interests of law and order. Continuing, Mr. Corkhill said: “But there is a class, well known and recognized in every community, who by their erratic character, their vanity, their egotistical declaration, crowd themselves into every association, and by their arrogant assumption become prominent. They are not always men who wear long hair, nor women who wear short hair. I know no peculiar trademark by which they can be at once detected, but they are everywhere. You have them in your society unless the press misreports some of your discussions. They are doctors without patients, law’yers without clients, and ministers without parishes. Withoutever having done an honest day’s toil, they crowd themselves into labor and trade organizations and assume to be representative men; they are the most earnest in temperance and relgious organizations; they clamor for position in every enterprise having for its object any public reformation; they denounce vice on every public occasion; they say long prayers and affect great piety apd virtue; and yet they are the true representative traitors, murderers, thieves, ravishers and scoundrels of communities, and w hen one of them commits a crime the entire race of vagabonds join in the clamor for the exemption £rom punishment ou the ground of insanity. There has been a word coined of late years to designate these people, and they are called ‘cranks.’ They figure largely in the list of criminals accused of all grades of crime, and it is to them belongs the disgrace brought upon the plea of insanity as a defense for crime. With them judgment and execution should be sw’ift, sure and certain, for the escape of one of these men encourages the entire class to go on committing crimes for like notoriety and like exemption. They well know they commit crime and deserve punishment, and when the knife of justice falls upon one of their number it strikes them with horror; but.to every honest citizen it is a glad announcement that the law is supreme and that its execution cannot be avoided by a miserable scoundrel claiming he was a crank.” The medical men present W’ere divided in their opinions of what the speaker advanced, some approving them as a whole, while others made exceptions. This is a subject that cannot receive too much attention. It is before our courts of justice somewhere all the time. A regular way should be devised to meet, this universal and generally effective plea of insanity. The mentally irresponsible should be spared, but the criminals who make the specious plea simply to escape deserved punishment, should be exposed and tried on the merits of their misdeeds.

THE ILLS OF ILLNESS. It will go without dispute that one of the greatest trials of life is sickness. Nearly every mortal has had some experience in that direction, and know's what it is to “feel good” over convalescence. The man abnormally healthy is in one sense to be pitied; he has no appreciation of the sweet satisfaction of getting better and stronger day by day, until at last one is wholly w’ell before lie knows it. But the trial of enduring sickness—of feeling the unwelcome languor and lassitude creeping hpon you and through you, too feeble to grasp you and too indolent to let go, and by a strange paradox cannot be shaken off—the endurance of such a burden calls for a fortitude that even a well person does not possess, and the victim surrenders in sheer desperation. At this season of the year—the backbone of winter broken at last, and your own spinal column sadly out of repair—with the days beginning to be balmy and fragrant, to have your ruddy friends tell you, a thousand times a day, how fine the weather is, when at the very moment you were not conscious whether it was midwinter or midsummer—it is vexatious enough to make the sufferer turn his face to the wall and give up. It is bad enough to he sick in childhood, when the current of life runs like a torrent, and feet and hands are impatient to press the fresh grass and to paddle in the water. A thousand pities spring up in the heart for the flush-faced boy whose unnaturally big eyes seem hungry for a glimpse of the green woods, never so sweet anu enticing as when the echoes of their cool recesses are wakened by his shouts. It is a sad trial for him withal; but when it is over, and convalescence lets him get out once more, the distinction his illness gives him among his comrades half compensates for what he has suffered. Then, youth is quick to forget. It is soon an unwholesome dream of the past, the vigor and fire of irrepressible youth return, the rush for fun is resumed, and all is forgotten. It is still more trying for the aged to be ill; to have the closing days or months of life marred by pain. For three score years, it may be, the poor old frame has been pushed and punished until At last, when life should be “freeest and serenest,” it is “turbidest and meanest.” It would be pleasanter to go down to the grave under the trees that have grown old with you—to feel the genial air about you, and to enjoy it • If, when old, we could pass from life as one would pass from outside darkness into a brilliantly-lighted chamber, old age would indeed be filled with the calmest satisfaction. But to have the thin hands hot with the fever and the sunken cheeks unnaturally flushed, to have the liml>9 racked with pains, and all the time the consciousness, not to be dismissed, that possibly one is a burden on those who are younger and can’t understand* is trying to a degree, and but for the fortitude acquired in years of struggle with the world, would be unbearable. Old age is the time for peace, and rest and quiet. But of all ages at which an attack of sickness is most irksome, that of middle uge

is worst. With all the mental energies alert, ambition at its zenith, and life at its best, it is next to impossible to reconcile oneself to a “spell” of sickness. Youth does not realize its loss, and old age can philosophize on the inevitable, but to prime manhood there is none of this. Every day is so precious, for work or enjoyment of some kind, that the loss appears unsupportable. A week or month on the flat of one’s back, at that time of life, means a leaf torn out of the most enjoyable portion of human existence. Fine weather or foul, it is all the same, and the victim has no patience with the well-meaning friend who, with illjudged kindness, calls his attention to the fact that it is a beautiful day, a splendid night. Fine weather forsooth! It is that fact above all others that makes sickness detestable. Not to be able to rush about with the best of them, or to lazily enjoy the first warm nights of the new year, is enough of itself, without any vexatious suggestions, that in the very nature of things are impossible to the sick man. Faugh! Life is disgusting this spring. A Philadelphia step-mother will “swear off” on confidential friends hereafter. She had a friend in whom she trusted, and in a moment of weakness confided to him the faot that she had not been pleased with the latest will made by her husbaud, then some time deceased. The objectionable document bequeathed his property to his sons and daughters by a former wife; but not liking this she burned it and presented for probate one of an earlier date, whioh left everything to hcrseir. The treacherous friend whispered the story to a chum, who promised to say nothing about it, and now the courts have compelled the widow to turn the property over to the children. The latest way to increase the sales of obscure magazines is through ‘ ‘personal” columns of newspapers. Cards such nr the following, clipped from a Cincinnati paper, may be set down as tricks nine times eut of ten: G 1 ENTLEMAN retired from business, income r £30,000, would like to correspond with a lady wit ha view to matrimony; lady must resemble Monia, in the story of “The Californians,” in the May number of the . Address, inclosing photograph, M„ A. 16 east Seneca street, Buffalo, N. Y. It will be but a short time until you can have your picture taken free of cost. A German has invented a safe with an attachment that on being touched hares an electric light on the scene, and at the same instant uncovers a prepared plate, on whioh the burglar’s photograph is takeu, while an alarm is sounded. It will be a “safe cure” for burglars. Why is it that au easy shave, the proper performance of winch requires years of practice, costs no more than a “shine,” the artistof which can learn the trick in just forty minutest And why does a shine cost ten cents in Inpianupolis and only three cents in New York! It is thinking over problems like these that drives statesmen bald. A Vermont man plowed up half a dozen ancient silver coins, and when bis neighbors heard of it they all wanted to help him cultivate that field. The next morning when he went out to work he was compelled to discharge thirty or forty volunteer hands, who were engaged with shovels and hoes In digging up the earth. Illinois has one Christian Girl. He is wanted by officers of the law for having threatened lo kill his son because that young Girl failed to live up to the teachings of the Dunkard church. Later: The Girl cannot be found in Illinois, after ail, but is supposed to have fled to lowa. ■ ■ -♦ ■ Baraii Bernhardt is said to be working upon the eleventh volume of her memoirs. If it be true that happy women have no histories, an extra share of misery must have been dealt out to Sarah. Fred. Bean, an lowa stripling, has married the daughter of a Sioux ohief. Tbo tribe will now enjoy Bean'B-whoop, or Bean'-soup—or should it be spelled Bean-Siouxp!

ABOUT PEOPLE. Hubert Herkomkr takes to England $50,000 earned by painting portraits of distinguished and undistinguished Americans. His charge Is $2,500. James Gordon Bennett estimates the value, nf the New York Herald at $10,000,000, and says it is paying 0 per cent, interest annually on that sum. John Rusk in has a beautiful country borne at Brantwood, Coniston, in the north of England. A stream, a lake and a forest, with an apple orchard, are all close by bis two-story gamblinghouse. When the Due de Morny represented France at the coronation of Alexander 11, of Russia he smuggled over the borders a large quantity of wine, which be sold to pay the expenses of bis lavish outlay. A London paper asserts that nobody except an intimate friend knows Mr. Parnell’s London residence. When he takes a cab from the House of Coimnous he drives to Charing Cross and then walks rapidly toward the Strand. Rev. E. E. Hai.k, of Boston, was sailing down the harbor on his way to Europe to attend to his sick daughter, when a cable dispatch was received announcing that she was better. The good news could not be communicated to him. At a meeting of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, at Boston, last week, Anthony Cornstock said that during the past ten years such societies had destroyed over twenty five tons of villainous literature and over seven tons of gaming instruments. Du. Mark Hopkins, in a reoent lecture to the theological students of Prinoeton Seminary, is reported to have expressed his views in regard to evolution very forcibly, saying that the theory was not only “atheistic,” but entirely insufficient to explain in any way the orlgiu of the hu man species. IT is said that Von Bulow, who allowed his wife to get a divorce and marry Waguer, is now unxious to take her back. Ills present wife is quite willing for him to get a divorce so she can marry a less cranky man, even if not so famous. The widow Waguer has not yet been beard from on the subject. The Webster Historical Society, of Boston, are receiving liberal donations of valuable books for their future library. Many of the governors of States, both North and South, have already contributed some of their most valitablo historic ami statistical works, and it is the desire of the society to obtain complete sets from all the Stntes. The New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat prints a story to the effect that while a lady at Bronson, Fla., was leading her four-year-old boy by the hand an alligator about six feet long rushed from a fence corner and seized the child’s leg. The mother pulled the boy away, but the alligator persisted In the attack, and was finally killed by the father of the child with a club. The story Is being whispered around that some t n.e ago—months, not years— an eminent Botton philosopher felt the need of a wife, presumably to comfort his declining years. Choosing among his lai.v acquaintances a rather bright worn a;*, possessed of considerable property, and the ouc

who tells this story, he offered himself to her. The lady was presumably surprised; at any rate she refused him decidedly, and, as she thought, finally. He, however, persisted in his wooing so manfully and so vigorously that in desperation sho told him that if he would “cease to press his suit she would give him $1,000,” and he took it. In addition to his forthcoming serial in the Atlantic Monthly, Mr. F. Mariou Crawford has arranged with Messrs. Macmillan, the publishers of “Mr. Isaacs,” for the simultaneous publication in this couutry and in England of a now novel, to be called “Dr. Claudius;” the scene of which will be laid partly in Germany, where Mr. Crawford spent some years of student life, and partly iu the United States. A rich Chinaman of Rock Springs, Wy., to whom his wife lately presented a fine boy, has been entertaiuing his friends with an exuberance corresponding to his Joy. He invited GOO guests in detuohments of 150, to a feast which cost $1,300 and made everybody “dlunk;” and even then he was not satisfied, but announced his intention to hold a second celebration the following week in Evanston and a third next month in San Franolsoo. TOPICS OF THE TIME. THH time to put up lightniug-rods is when the sky is serene, and not when the clouds arc black and mutterings are heard in the heavens. At such a time as this, wlieu the finauclai outlook Is most satisfactory, It is opportune to suggest defects In our monetary system.—Chicago Inter Oceau. What Englishmen admired in Lord Beaconsfleld was his dash, his vigor, his audacity. What they have learned to despise in Mr. Gladstone is Ids pusillanimity, his casuistry and his inability to deal with the needs of the hour when line words are translated into hard facts.—New York Herald. Ireland is full of paupers, in whom the spirit of meudioaucy is too deeply ingrained to be eradicated. For the existence of this class in its present formidable proportions, British rule in Ireland is larirely responsible, and that government should not be suffered to relieve itself of them at the expense of the United States.—Philadelphia Press. During the year and a half that he has been chief magistrate, President Arthur has not removed a single official without good cause, and bus not appointed a man whose unfitness has been demonstrated. Senators of both parties whose duty it is to pass upon the important appointments all cheerfully testify to the. eminent fitness of all the men the President has selected for official position.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Tiie ideal board of arbitration for industrial disputes is one which relies for the enforcement of Its decisions upon tne good sense and honor of both parties. The compulsory plan. s > unpopular in England, would be especially obnoxious in this country. The boards must trust and depend upon the good faith of those w ho apply for arbitration. If they begin work by leaning upon the courts they will soon become unpopular and useless.—New York Times. Very slight evidence of criminality will justify in this couutry apprehension and commitment lor trial. Nothing could be more loose than the ordinary practice of our committing magistrates in this respect. But, if “the evidence must be sufficient to sustain tiie charge,” we can honorably and equitably afford asylum to these refugees until England proves beyonu a doubt that they arc not simply fugitive political offenders, but murderers at large.—Philadelphia Press. If an Irishman drops his allegiance to the crown and becomes an American citizen, wlmt business has he to be meddling with the affairs of a government lie lias renounced? Has lie other rights than a native citizen? If he prefers to remain an Irishman aud a subject, rather thuu an American and a citizen, there will be no disposition to quarrel with him, but. lie cannot be both subject and citizen, and tinder cover of the one carry ou revolt against the other.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. This country is already made too safe a harbor for the flotsam and jetsam of the world’s turbulence, political and otherwise. It is bad enough that we have to take all the pauperism and social spew of the old countries. We groan enough over that. Let us draw the liue sharply at criminals und assassins and their sympathizers. The sentiment of the people is against harboring would-be regicides or other desperate forces who expeor, by keeping up turmoil, to help themselves to money and notoriety.—Chicago Herald. Tub sentiment with which the American people regard the men who have aided, counseled and abetted the policy of murder, which brought Cavendish and Burke to their death, is oub of loathing aud contempt. But for all that, popular feeling will not justify tho surrender of these men unless their guilt is such as makes them accessories before the fact in the ordinary way. If the British government, wants to take anybody out of this country it must allege an offense not of a Semi-political character.—St. Louts Republican. Evidently the Irish are so simple-minded and pliable that anyone who is cold and hard enough can capture them and their money. The patriot who has consented to sacrifice himself by becoming the custodian of the “funds that will be raised” is an individual who is fully in sympathy with the undistinguished president.* If the servant girls and laborers and sentimentalists coiue forward half as generously as usual with their offerings for “poor Ireland” the calculations, whatever they may be, of the president with regard to the funds that will be raised will bo fully realized.—Chicago Tribune. If the extradition of one or all be demnnded, the law must be allowed to take its orderly course and speedy opportunity lie afforded for the production of tne evidence against them. If it be evidence that would warrant their conviction for murder by uti American tribunal, they must be sent to Dublin as public law and common justice require. There will be no occasion for making false aud fantastic distinctions between murder aud political offenses, if the complicity of these refugees in the Phoenix Park crime can be established. They will be sent back as murderers.—New York Tribune. In State aud municipal politics workingmen should support men, without reference to party or to specious pledges, who arc of established reputation for character and judgment and are not place-hun lets or professional politicians, for such men only can keep down the burdens of taxation. It is in this direction and not in supporting the schemes of flattering demagogues that the laboring men oau hope to use their political power for the improvement of their condition, aud if they will turn their energies this way they need not fear the arrival on our shores of a few thousand, more or less, of British or European immigrants.—New York Times.

“THE INDIANAPOLIS HOG.” Comments of the State Press on the Showing of Federal and State Patronage, Terr** Haute Kxpreag. The Indianapolis Journal devotes considerable space to showing that Indianapolis has not captured more than its share of the Federl patronage of the State, and cites the Express as one of the papers “which have caught up the echo of the sentiment” that Indianapolis had everything. The Journal must have been thinking of some other paper than the Express, for the latter has done nothing of the sort. It merely stated that there was a considerable feeling of this kind, which statement is now verified by the Jour* iial. Richmond Palladium. The trouble with the politicians at Indianapolis is that they are divided into too many warring factions, cultivate too much bitterness of feeling for each other, and thereby fail not only to exert a proper influence oh the politics of the State, but to secure to themselves their proper share of the offices. Their want of harmony and united action not only defeats their own aspirations, but lias a bad effect upon the party throughout the State. Instead of being a tower of strength, as it should he, it is rather a source of complaint and weakness. Let the Republicans of Indianapolis compromise their differences, cease their factional contentions, put by their animosities for each other, and unite heartily in a common cause, and they need not complain of too smull a share of positions, nor will the country press complain that they get too much, rvftiiavlllo Journal. The citizens of the State capital, in considering the question of the distribution of official patronage, must not forget that they have the advantages growing out of the fact that all the patronage of all the State offices is divided among them; that the vurious political con ventions of tiie State arc all held there, and they get all the benefits arising from their location as the political center of the State, compared with which the few

offices distributed to the other parts of the State are a mere bagatelle. But there is no occasion for the heart to chide the other members of the body, or the members of the body to find fault with the heart. They should work harmoniously together, in order to make a complete and healthy bodv corporate. Let it be the aim of all to realize that the entire State is honored when one of its citizens is called lo a position of influence in the general government. A Question That lias Been Asked Before. Jackson (Miss.) Clarion. Hon. Joseph McDonald, of Tndianq, is a sound man and good man, who will liake a fine run for President if nominated by tiie Democracy. But the public must prepare its mind for a large ainouut of blathergkitism from his friends and the partisans of other aspirants between now and the assembling of the convention. For example, one of McDonald’s zealous supporters screams at the top of his voice that it “he is nominated he will carry Indiana by 50.000 majority.” The question naturally arises, then, how is it that the people of Indiana refused to elect him Governor when he was the Democratic nominee, and why have they since permitted him to be beaten for the United States Senate? Not An Available Candidate. Bloomington (111.) Leader. Ex-Governor Hendricks’s attending physician says his only trouble is “necrosis of the dorsal artery of the third toe, causing exfoliation of the metatarsal bone,” which is the learned medical way of stating that His ex-Excellency has a troublesome corn. As the first duty of a Democratic President would be to kick 100,000 office-holders out of their places, iu order that Democrats might be appointed, this i3 a serious drawback to Mr. Hendricks’s ambitious designs on the White House. He is certainly not an available candidate. An Expausive Man. Brooklyn Eagle. Released from the burdens and anxieties of official life, Mr. Blaine is rapidly developing the evidences of exuberant health and good living. His figure has become quite portly, and his ample girth gives the promise of still further expansion. The fear in Washington that nobody would be found to fill David Davis’s place is gradually dying out. Mr. Blaine’s friends are disciples of Protagoras; they believe that man is tne measure of tho universe, and that Mr. Blaine is the man. The Appointment of Judge Woods. Elkhart Journal. It is with special satisfaction that the announcement is received of the appointment of William A. Woods as district judge in the Seventh district, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Waiter Q. Gresham to the position of Postmaster-gen-eral. If there is one man who may truly be called a favorite iu this county it is Judge Woods. They Should “Come In.” Philadelphia Press. c Mr. Tilden has sent S2OO to Mrs. Meikelham, the granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, as a contribution toward a fund for her relief. It will now be in order for Messrs. McDonald, Bayard, Cleveland, Butler, Pendleton and Payne to see this sum and raise it if they expect to present their names to the next convention with a prospect of success. A Case that Culls for Hanging. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Already the threat is heard in this country that nitro-glycerine is the weapon of the one against the many, of the weak against the strong. It is necessary to hang those who appeal to the infernal explosive. Tho sooner they are tackled the better. They are fighting not against the British empire, but against the constitution of human society. Makes Out Its Case. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The Indianapolis Journal goes largely into statistics to show that the State capital has not monopolized the federal offices, and it makes out its case. II matters not so much, however, what part of the State a man lives in as it does whether he has lived to some purpose, and is capable of filling well the office to which he may be chosen.

A Certificate of Ability* St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Hendricks’s “senile gangrene” is now officially declared to be a corn. The idea of securing physicians’ certificates for presidential candidates is anew one, but it seems to take well. Gentlemen intending to run for the presidency will take pains to secure a reliable family physician as a necessary part of the campaign outfit. How Brazil Republicans Won the Day. Brazil Register. The Republicans of this city honored their party by nominating sober and capable m-pi, without pandering to the bummer element in a single nomination, and the people took pleasure in honoring themselves by electing for the first time the whole ticket. Correct. The Art for Revenue Only. Cincinnati Enquirer. The festival may not have been a revelation of art, but in many ways it was a remarkable success, and brought many thousands of dollars to Cincinnati. Our city 19 now, through the dramatic festival, the best advertised city in the world. A Swindle All Around. Fairmount Nows. The Cincinnati Journal, the one-cent daily which the country newspapers were to get this year for doing sl2 worth of advertising for the old Gazette, has been purchased by the News, the new Democratic daily. The Usual Destination. Philadelphia Press. “What becomes of a journalist?” inquires our pithv and vivacious contemporary, Progress. Well, sometimes he falls from grace and becomes an officeholder, but most frequently he goes to heaven. Only an Outsider. Boston Herald. The Lowell Times ranks Governor Butler among the servants of Christ. The Times is a Democratic, not a religious paper, and can only take au outside view. Adjourning a Woman’s Club. New York Journal. Indianapolis lias a woman’s club, and when the society gets into a lively row, the janitor disperses them by coining to the door and yelling “Rats!” Sammy’s Spring Opening. New York Tribune. Mr. Tilden, having bad his usual spring opening, has retired to the background for a moment to wituesss the effects of his display of attractions. _ Chance for Free Advertising. RUiug Sun Recorder. The county press is now through with ad vertising free the Cincinnati dramatical festi* val. They can now open out on the exposl* tion. _ In It Recause He Won’t Run? New York Tribune. The impression is paining ground that Me* Donald, of Indiana, is the Keely motor of his party. Tlie One Tom'll of Nature. Loulftvilie Courier-Journal. A mob wanted to kill Casca for his verses. It is supposed Mr. C.’s poem was headed “Sjiring.