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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc... see Sixth Pace. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, ISS3. tr-""- I .'. 1 ’“'"v: The monkey and the parrot seem to have taken up permanent lodging at the hospital for the Indiana farmers will be interested to know that the first new wheat of the crop of 1883 has been received at Cincinnati. It was raised in Sumter county, Georgia, was cut on the 3d and threshed on the Bth in9t. A Brooklyn man has invented an electrical machine called a patrol indicator, which is expected to register policemen when on their beats. If the Brooklyn man will goon and contrive a machine for galvanizing policeman into life and activity “in case of burglars” his fortune is assured. Mr. Dezenporff’s long screed to the President has created about as much commotion in the country as did Senator Hill’s letter to Secretary Teller. The people of this great country have much more important business than to grow red-hot over the disappointments of statesmen in the distribution of official patronage. The latest report started by rival Democratic papers in New York is that the new owner of the World is backed by the Standard Oil Company. With anxious solicitude /or the prosperity of their neighbor these papers very virtuously and properly remark that no journal can live which is the organ of a soulless monopoly. Father Julius and the Rev. Eds'erton labored with the murderer Cornnetti night and day to get him to confess and repent. It was all in vain, but on the fatal morning they made a last desperate attempt to soften his heart. Madd.ened by their importunities, he cried out: “I’m a Democrat!” That settled it, and they gave up the case without a word. It is evident that the days of the Gladstone government are practically numbered. Mr. Gladstone will not be able to stand up much longer against the combinations forming, and it will not be many months until Great Britain is in the excitement of a parliamentary election, the result of which, whatever It may be. will be the prelude to important political movements. Paddy Ryan, the pugilist, “knocked out” at New Orleans by the Hon. John L. Sullivan, of Boston, gave a frightful stab to Boston pride on Monday. Paddy is now a saloon-keeper in Chicago, and was a witness In the Dunn-EUioU murder trial. While on the witness stand he was asked if he was not a prize-fighter. This he indignantly denied, saving: “lam not a prize-fighter; I am a gentleman.” What is Boston going to do about it? Here’s a Chicago saloon-keeper who declares be is more of a gentleman than Boston’s best-known citizen. The insult calls for a meeting, according to the Marquis of Queensburv rules. The New York Herald, conscience-stricken probably, apologizes for its personal advertisement column by assuming virtue for having kept out a,great many of a questionable character. In the same issue may be found the following: C ISOR-OVKKFLOWING WITH AFFECTION; am hoping daily. Doha -mk kt me nea r house on i.kxington av. to-duy, 11 A.M. without fail. VIOLA. GROBOK—G OOD NEWS. SEE ME AT OFFICE. LB w. G-FOII MY SAKE CO ME HOME ATO NT Y. ; A M aick in bed uud in trouble. V. MIUTWATSON- LET IK It XtT YOUR" AD DRESS at Postoffice station K. Dr. C. UEKT SORRY, BUT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO V be there. DOGCan it reasonably be supposed that the discriminating editor of the advertising columns of the Herald knows that the above are “straight.” Does anybody imagine that “Viola” is a girl and that “Lew.” is a guileless young man? If these things are plain to the editor, of course they were explained to him. Os course, and the advertisers told It just as it was, without doubt. The Herald is too ingenuous by half when it asks a credulous world to believe that there are not from half a dozen to a score of improper-per-sonals In its every issue. The “personal” column, such as managed by the Herald and a few other newspapers, is the source of infinite harm. Every intelligent reader knows it, and it is simply nonsense for the publishers to take on virtuous airs and refusing questionable personals. James Young, whose death was announced in yesterday’s cable dispatches, was the man who first “struck oil.” He was born in Glasgow in 1811, and received an elementary education. In after years he became assistant to Thomas Graham, a lecturer on chemistry. He remained in Graham’s service seven years, and left it to engage in practical chemistry as superintendent of extensive manufactories. About 1817 Dr. Playfair told him of a petroleum spring in n coal mine belonging to Mr. Oakes, in Derbyshire. Mr. Young submitted the oil to long and careful examination, and found modes of rendering it useful to society. But the product was small, and the supply of raw material soon entirely ceased. The oil had evidently come from the coal, and surely it could bo produced from it artificially. This idea led to the slow distillation process which he claimed in a patent, whilst the richness of the Bathgate coal decided that the works for carrying it out should he established there. The work for which a large portion of the world has to thank Mr Young, is this: He reduced the price of light, and where a shilling was spent on candles, he gave an equal amount of light for one penny.

The value of petroleum and of coal oil was shown by him, and led to the development of the oil wells of America, as well as the distillation of coal and shale in England, and a great part of Europe, while the oil itself has penetrated far into the East. Mr. Young’s works are well known as producing a large amouutof paraffin oil, but he was less known as the manufacturer of solid paraffin, the veritable coal gas, solidified and made into a candle. This solid gas and beautiful substance is now a great manufacture. THE WRECKERS OF BENEVOLENCEThe conspiracy against the benevolent institutions still progresses. The death of the late Dr. Walker caused a temporary cessation in the plots, but the same mean and malicious partisan influences that sought to work through him to the overthrow of Dr. Rogers and the practical wrecking of the" Insane Hospital in the interest of party workers and bummers, are again alive and active. Indeed, their malign influence is not confined to the Insane Hospital, but is felt in other institutions presided over by President Harrison, who seems to be the chief figure in all the miserable schemes. We do not know what influences secured the appointment of Dr. Davenport to be the successor of Dr. Walker, as one of the medical assistants at the Insane Hospital. But, unless we are misinformed, Davenport is a man with a record that should have kept him out of the hospital, and which did suffice to bar him under the former administration. Democratic though it was. We understand that Dr. Davenport worked long and faithfully to displace Dr. Rogers under the old regime, but failed; one of the reasons for the failure being that, while acting as director of the Northern prison, with another of the board he let a contract for the stone work of the new cellhouse, which, so soon as it was called to the attention *of Governor Hendricks, was promptly rescinded and relet, the State saving about $12,000 by the praiseworthy action of the Governor. Dr. Davenport could not be appointed superintendent by the old board, but the new one makes him an assistant, giving him an inside position from which he can carry forward his plot to supplant Dr. Rogers, for it will hardly be supposed that Davenport’s ambition is satisfied with the subordinate position. It simply affords him solid ground upon which to rest the fulcrum for his partisan lever. The appointment of I)r. Foulds as one of the assistant physicians is another of Dr. Harrison’s unwarranted and impertinent and indecent acts, and Dr. Rogers’s refusal to recognize the dictum of the trustees, and his declination to assign him to duty, will be upheld by every reputable citizen of the State. It is an open secret that one of the most accomplished assistants at the hospital felt it incumbent upon him to resign because he ■ recognized that Dr. Rogers, while nominally the head, was not really in absolute charge of the institution. There is a chronic disagreement between the superintendent and the board of trustees. The one, we believe, desires to manage and conduct the hospital in the interest of the inmates and of the people of the State who pay the taxes to support a great and constitutionally-imposed charity; the other, we know, intend to run the hospital in the interest of party bummers, who worked with the late Legislature for the passage of the Brown bill, the Pandora box out of which has escaped all the evils which now afflict the benevolent system of the State. The Blind Asylum is also feeling the effect of Dr. Harrison’s blighting presence and influence. At the last meeting of the board a strong effort was made to displace the present superintendent and putin his place a man named Baker, an ex-deputy warden of the Northern penitentiary, whose only claim or qualification for the place is understood to be that be used the cat-o’-nine-tails with brutal vigor upon the Michigan City convicts. Think of such a man being placed in authority over the helpless blind children of the State. The mere suggestion chills the blood of every honorable heart. As well put Degree in charge of an orphans' home. We want the people, the benevolent, decent, honorable people of the State, the taxpayers, those who may have friends in the benevolent institutions and all who have honest and just pride in their maintenance, to know precisely what is being done with them under the operations of the Democratic monstrosity, born of the late infamous Legislature, and under the management of a man who, if reports be at all credible, would do well to read carefully the statutes of the State. We should like Dr. Harrison to answer directly whether he, or others for him, made any promises, verbally or in writing, of places in the institutions, which promises were intended to influence the votes of members of the Legislature. We should like to ask if Dr. Davenport held any such pledge from I)r. Harrison. We should like to ask Representative Howland, of this county, what, if any, inducements or suggestions were made to him for and in behalf of Dr. Harrison, or for the passage of the Brown bill. The facts are certain to come out sooner or later, and in the meantime the great benevolent institutions of the State are being wrecked. The people will demand of the Democratic party a strict accounting when the books come to be balanced at the next election. Individually the laboring man of this country is commonly found to be a sensible and intelligent person, but collectively, or as represented by loud-voiced champions of his rights, he is guilty of many absurd thin s. One of the most sen-elcss of these is the row

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that is being raised in the name of the New York working classes against the opening of the Brooklyn bridge on May 24, which is Queen Victoria’s birthday. Delegations have visited the bridge trustees, but these gentlemen claim to have fixed the day in ignorance of the fact that it was the royal birthday, and decline to make any change in their arrangements. The delegations refuse to believe that such a lack of intelligence oan exist among aristocratic persons, as they choose to term the trustees, and boldly declare that the opening on the day named will be an insult to the sovereign people of this country. One impassioned orator hopes 100,000 laboring men will attend the opening and bring the dignitaries to a sense of their error by 100,000 hisses. If this advice is followed it will be the largest flock of geese on record. THE QUESTION OF EXTRADITIONThe movement looking to the extradition of political offenders against the British gov ernment will involve some important questions. Evidently, before any man or men can be surrendered to that power, sufficient evidence must be offered to convince the proper court that a case can be made against, them. The Ashburton treaty, under whichthey must be extradited, if surrendered at all, makes no provision for conspiracy to murder, and names only murder, assault with intent to commit murder, piracy, arson, robbery, forgery and utterance of forged paper. Later treaties between Great Britain and other countries include many more offenses, notably that with Belgium, which names murder, attempt to commit murder, rape or attempted bigamy, abortion, arson, piracy or mutiny, burglary, robbery, forgery, fabrication or circulation of counterfeit money, either coin or paper, bonds, coupons, bank notes, obligations, or any instrument ot credit, seals, dies, stamps and marks of state and public administrations, and utterance thereof, embezzlement of public or private moneys, unlawful destruction or obstruction of railroads, endangering human life, attempts to commit any of these crimes, where such attempts are punishable in both countries. It is pretty certain that England will endeavor to negotiate anew treaty with the United States at an early day, but until it does so we must operate under the old. Duty to our citizens and to all who appeal to our hospitality and protection after having reached our shores, demands that the utmost circumspection be exercised in the matter of allowing them to be taken to other countries on criminal charges. A plausible case must be made out, enough to show the probability of conviction, before any man can be taken into custody by foreign officials. The offense charged must have been committed in the country to which it is asked that they be surrendered, since all offenses must be punished where committed. So that any alleged conspiracies against England in this country cannot subject the conspirators to extradition. The British government might ask the home government to take cognizance of such matters and seek their suppression, but beyond this nothing could be done, except to appeal to the arbitrament of arms. So far as the treaties show, the policy of this government has been to exclude conspiracies to murder in Ireland, and the United States will continue to be the natural refuge of Irish fugitives. Whether this will be changed remains to be seen. If a clause including such offenses should be inserted, it is probable that the question whether persons murdered should have a trial by jury would first be carefully considered by this government. As the treaty now stands it is hardly probable that the men said to be wanted by the British government will be given up. BLOOD WILL TELLFriends of advanced culture will rejoice to know that Boston, the cradle of science and polite learning, has again come out victor. This is but natural. Boston, as the alma mater of the devotees of Emerson and Josephus Cook, is enshrined in the hearts of the cultured every where. Its triumphs are their favorite themes, the bays on her brows crown them all. Now that Emerson has gone back to dust of mother earth, and Cook has been meandering in strange lands, giving utterance to still stranger doctrines, the task of sustaining the renown of Boston has devolved upon others. This duty has been right nobly met by the Hon. John L. Sullivan. It is true that he has a rival in the person of Benjamin F. Butler, but the dwellers by Beacon Hill are disposed to center their affections on the former, and the latter draws but a poor-house. Mr. Sullivan is a man of but few words, but not many care to meet him in argument. On Monday night be was in New York city, and with one Charles Mitchell held a symposfac at the Madison Square Garden. They were greeted by a large and enthusiastic audience, among those present being ex-Senator Conk ling, Charles A. Dana, ex-Mayor Stokely, of Philadelphia; Sheridan Shook, Joseph Coburg, Lawrence Jerome, and other distinguished citizens. “At 9:15,” according to a special report, “amid such cheers as might be given fora much-loved monarch, Mr. Sullivan sprang lightly over the ropes to the platform.” The ropes were doubtless put up to restrain the accumulated talent about to manifest itself in the joint discussion. “He (Sullivan) was in superb condition,” so the report says, whatever that may mean, and “Mr. Mitchell was also grandly welcomed.” Mr. Cook not being present, Mr. William Mahoney, of Boston, wa9 chosen as referee. The contest between the culture of Boston and of England then began. “Without unnecessary preliminaries Mr. Sullivan made a terrible

plunge for Mr. Mitchell, but the hard bitter expended his strength to no purpose. The English lad sprang from him in cat-like fashion. He returned as quickly as he fled, and gave Sullivan a stinging blow on the chest. The cheering was terrific. The American champion was in a towering rage. He dashed at the English lad, pound-, ed his ribs and chest, and knocked him sprawling upon the platform.” The first knock-down was claimed and allowed for Sullivan, and the cheering might have been heard in Brooklyn. The phrase “knockdown” probably means a staggering argument. But Mr. Mitchell recovered his equanimity, however, and, in the felicitious words of the reporter—- “ The lad and the American champion then went to work like game chickens. They clinched and broke away. Then Sullivan swung liis right. Something was bound to give way if the right struck anything. It reached Mitchell’s left jaw, and he again went to the floor. The lad quickly arose, however, and gave Sullivan, a blow in the stomach. He showed signs of weakness and the lad seemed encouraged. He trifled with the American champion for a few moments. Then Sullivan forced him into a corner, and aimed a blow that meant business at the lad’s head. The latter stopped the blow inline style, and made Sullivan stagger with a blow on the nose. The lad was at last in earnest. He followed the American with blows on his face and chest. They clinched and fell with Sullivan on top.” Sullivan was furious, and started like a “frenzied steer.” “Frenzied steer” is Boston for “mad bull.” Ami so it continued, with varying results. Mr. Mitchell “struck Sullivan on the stomach, and as the latter leaned forward in pain, the lad let fly with his right, caught Sullivan under the chin, and for the first time in his life the American champion was knocked off his pins. Mr. Sullivan fell like a great tree. The applause was simply deafening, and as the referee gave the word, and the combatants sank into their seats, there were probably few present who did not favor the Englishman.” At this juncture it looked as though Mr. Cook would have to be sent for, but Mr. Sullivan soon had the satisfaction of knocking his opponent “clean over the ropes.” In the next round Sullivan attempted once more to throw him over, but the English lad got clear, and came up in the middle of the ring. He managed to get in one more body blow on Sullivan, but that was his last effort. His gigantic opponent knocked him clean across the ring, and he fell in a gasping heap against the ropes. Within the ten seconds, however, he was on his feet again, only to be confronted by Captain Williams, who held up a warning hand and declared the debate closed, with first honors to the Boston man. It is gratifying to chronicle another triumph for the center of American culture. The old world stands abashed and badly disfigured 4n the presence of our Spotless Prowess. The mantle of Emerson has descended upon Mr. Sullivan. According to pbetical justice Ben. Butler will yet become the Marquis of Tewksbury, or Queensbury, we should say. He ought to preside at these intellectual bouts, though the people of Boston evince enough confidence in him to pit him personally against the cultured Mr. Sullivan. It was a great day for Boston, and its bliss must have been supreme when, at the close of the entertainment, amid deafening applause, “a floral wreath was brought up and presented to the Boston man.” Another laurel has thus been added to Boston’s crown. With unselfish pleasure the country at large mast rejoice with the Hub. As human beans it is but natural that, being Americans, we should be proud of our American giants. This paper will give way to none in its support of the right of woman to cuter any field of labor which she may ohoose, but it must continue to Insist that she shall not at once expeot the successful results from her efforts that are achieved by the more skillful hands of man. A lady living in Oswego, N. Y., lost sight of this great principle recently, and her experience should warn others against similar errors. This woman had repeatedly usKed her husband to cut off a large limb from an apple tree which grated harshly against the house. Alter the procrastinating habit of man, be promised and promised to do s *, but failed to act. Driven to desperation the lady at last took matters, which in this case meant a saw, into her own hands, climbed into the tree by means of a step-ladder, and proceeded to remove the branch herself. The saw worked easily, and she was arranging in her miud the sarcastic remarks she meant to greet the “old man” with, when the limb was severed and fell to the ground. Unfortunately, she had done the sawing between where she was seated and the tree, consequently she fell also and was nearly killed. Until she gets rid of arnten and bandages this woman will believe that there is work to which her sex is not adapted. A prisoner named Randolph, under a life sentence in tlio Connecticut penitentiary, died the other day after a confinement of twentyseven years. His death recalls a curious story of the discovery of the crime for which he was punished. Randolph's wife disappeared suddenly and no trace of her could be found. It was known that the two were quarrelsome when together, and the husband was arrested on suspicion, but nothing could be found to implicate him, and he was discharged. Three months later the missing woman’s father had a dream in which she appeared to him as at a certain spot near the house where she had lived. After a few moments the vision faded from his sight with a cry of agony. Being superHtituous, the old man was so Impressed by tho dream that he had the garden dug up, and at the point indicated in the dream the remains of the murdered woman were found. The husband theu confessed his guilt aud reoelved a sentence ot Imprisonment for life. The credit of the prompt unraveling of the alleged robbery of Paymaster Wasson on a traiu of the Texas <k Paolflo railway Is due to the acumen of Chief Paymaster Terrell. Immediately on learning of the so-called robbery, Col. Terrell being oonvinoed that the alleged robbery was a cuunlng device to cover shortages, urged that Immediate possession be taken of the office and effects of tho Major at Galveston. Col. Terrell’s theory was that the robbery had been coucoeted In Ga Ives I on, the money taken from the bank aud seoreted In the Major's office-room, probably tied up ns u package of old vouchers; that Major Wasson's clerk had knowledge of the crime, and had kept watch over the valise while the messenger was at supper, when a substitution of contents wns made; that special efforts

had been made to impress the negro messenger with the faot that the identioal Daokagesremoved from the bank on the 27th of April to the office were put into the valise and car the next morning; that when the occupants of the Pullman car wore In deep sleep the decoy valise was thrown from the train to give oolor to the alleged robbery. Col. Terrell predicted that the valise would be found on the east side of the traok, near the roadbed, slit open, and containing odds and ends of clothing, apparel and old and unimportant letters that would render identification of the ownership of the valise easy and certain. The accuracy of this theory was fully demonstrated by search, the valise beiug found on the Gulf side of the road, and in the condition predicted. The disgraco of Major Wasson is the cause of deepest regret and sympathy among his friends and acquaintances. His career has been unusually brilliant, he having enjoyed the full confidence of the department and the respect and esteem of his fellow-officers, besides beiug a favorite in the best society. He had served in the army as a private in an lowa regiment during the war & a boy, and at the close was admitted to West Point as a cadet, had graduated with the highest honors ever conferred by that institution since its foundation, ranking second only to General Custis Lee. of the Confederate States army; had won distinction in the service of the Japanese government, and owed his present position In the military arm of the national government to the unsolicited friendly offices of General Grant, who had been Impressed with bis instrumentality in settling the troubles between Japan and Formosa, services that had won for Major Wasson decorations from the Emperor of Japan and the rank of colonel iu his service. Major Wasson’s shortage is $5,500, Tho remaining $18,500 was found in his official case at Galveston. In speaking of this money the Major said: “You will find $lB.500 in my official case at Galveston. The case contains the evidence of my highest honor and deepest disgrace.” Wasson’s latest statement concerning the stolen money is that he used it to assist his father out of financial difficulties. Hon. Bamuel F. Covington, of Cincinnati, who has been highly recommended to the President for appointment as member oi th* Mississippi River Commission, in place of Captain Eads, resigned, was formerly a resident of this Btate aud city, and is well known to many of our older citizens. Mr. Covington has long been identified with navigation interests in the Ohio valley, and it goes with the saying that his appointment would ho highly satisfactory to the people of this State, who are so largely concerned in the future of tho great river. According to the highest authority in such matters, the prevailing style of girl this season is to have black hair, with blue eyes, a colorless complexion and cherry-red lips. It may take some time for the crushed strawberry and lemon blondes to _ get the acids out of their hair, but they will join the black-tressed procession before the summer campaign is half over. A Brooklyn young man wants a divorce from his wife because sbe swears, and thereby shocks his tender sensibilities. What a rending of matrimonial ties there would he ehould profanity become a legal cause for separation. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: From whom cun I obtain information in Indianapolis about the regular arinyl . f. m. Bloomfield, Inti., May 14. Address the United States recruiting office, Boston Block, Indianapolis. ABOUT PEOPLE. Minister Lowell is rated by the London Times as the superior for an after-diuner speaker to anybody Britain can furnish. When a Boston burglar opened a door, a tin pan fell and scared him off. Everybody who has heard a tin pan on a still night will know how it was. E. C. Hancock, the managing editor of the new New York World, is a well-known Southern journalist, who has made the North his home for some years. Mr. John A. Cockf.rill, of the St. Louis PostDispatob, has arrived at Now York, and will, it is said, take an editorial position at once on Mr. Pulitzer’* new World. A private letter received in Washington states that Senator Anthouy is growing rapidly worse, and that the chances are that he will hardly live through the week. William Henry Huuliiert, ox-editor of tho New York World, first attracted utteutlon by a brilliant anti-slavery essay in the Ediuburgh Review, some forty years ago. Mr. Gladstone draws £4,929 a year from laud, Lord Hartington £6,000 a year, Mr. Dodson £3,168, Lord Spencer £42,219, Lord Kimberley £24,993, Lord Nortkbroko £II,OOO, and Lord Derby £170,320. Cardinal Manning’s Journey to Rome is, after all, postponed for a time, tbo medical advisers considering that, though he is much better, the warm season now approaching in Rome would prove detrimental to his health. Tt is, in the meautime, arranged that the Cardinal will go for a while so the south coast of England. John F. Andrew, whose father, a penniless Maine boy, grew famous as tho war Governor of Massachusetts, will be married shortly to the daughter of the late Nathauiel Thayer, banker, of Boston. Miss Thayei’s fortune is placed at $2,500,000, though her grandfather was a country clergyman, as poor a6 a church mouso. M. Dam ala, Baruh Bernhardt’s husband, quickly distinguished himself in the army in Tunis, after quitting the stage. Threo days after ho arrived in camp the outposts wore attacked by banditti. Dainala saddled his horse, rushed lieudlong into the fray, aud succeeded in bringing the bandit chief a prisoner into the French camp. Sarah is said to have telegraphed for his photograph as a souvenir. General Beauregard is the first of his family of that name. His father wns old Jacques Toutant, who lived on a sugar plantation about twenty-five miles below New Orleans, where tho Geueral wus born. Ilia proper title was Jacques Tour,ant, Count de Beauregard, If he had been a Frenchman lie would have been a count; for he was of one of the oldest noble families of Franco. The General’s full numo is Gregoire Pierre Toutunt Beauregard. Said Proctor Knott while walking in Washington one day: “I divide this city in two classes—one class I like; the other I detest. One oluss is the boot-blacks; they persist in reminding mo of my inf priority by wantlug to black my boots at every Btreet corner. I hate ’em. Why can’t they let r. fellow go on thinking he looks well! The other class is the newspaper men. They talk of one’s mental superiority and make you feel good generally, if you treat ’em right, I like newspaper men.” THE SPimr OF THS PRESS, The public believes, and witli too much reason, that abuses do exist in the secret places of these insane asylums. Let them be aoeesrtihlo to the proper agents of the public, and the superintendents will no longer be held responsible.—New York Heruld. The law prohibits tho compounding of a felony. That ought to he enough to prevent the officers of the law from sanctioning and aiding such an act. It is pernicious in its exuinple and deplorable iu the inducements it holds out to dishonesty.—New York World. The plumbing of every house erected should be inspected by an expert. Ah a matter of fact, if this Is suggested many people object and talk of Interference with private rights and “useless expense.” Nevertheless the time Is coming when no house can be built without scientific inspection, in all our large cities. The people of this city, for instance, generally object to building and pluiubiug laws. Os course they have to

take the consequences, in which sickness and death play a large pari, and such siokne9s and death as are preventable by proper saultary regulations.—Courier-Journal. The citizens of the (Bay State, as a whole, apfirove of honesty and condemn laluuity in pubic men. They will not enjoy seeiug the flngep of scorn pointed at their State, as it ought to be pointed in view of this act, which, so far as it goes, shows the “better classes’’ to be either rogues or hypocrites. But they must stand the cousequences when they honor the Butlers aud the Ameses. There seem to be no more Sumners in Massachusetts.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. All Jay Gould’s money has been earned by somebody’s labor and extracted from thousands or people who have through toilsome years ao quired the small investments which he has squeezed like a sponge into his own coffers. Tho worst of it all is that such success dazzles the minds of people until they lose their hold upon moral distinctions, and the greatest4hieves aud swindlers of the age are envied and imitated because the prevailing sentiment does not detest them according to their real deserts.—New York Times. If an irishman in America would not sympathize with the wrongs of Ireland he would not be likely to stand up for free institutions in his adopted country. A German is all the more worthy of his American citizenship because ha rejoices in the glory and achievements of his race. There is do danger that this sentlmsul will ever become exaggerated. Home interests and home duties will always predominate over it and hold it within reasonable bounds. From tbe revolution down to this hour there has been no occasion of peril in which the Irish have been wanting in the utmost loyalty and devotion to their adopted country. Hence the complainrs because they have the manhood to serve their old home and the countrymen whom they have left behind do not spring from patriotic solicitude so much as from partisan ranoor aud prejudice.—Philadelphia Record. An Absolute and Gratifying Relief, New York Graphic. It is a first rate thing to have a President who is not giving his whole attention to tlio work of securing another term. One may question the phlegmgtic quietude of this gentleman, and accuse him of being unappreciative of the position that is usually mentioned by the Fourth of July orator as tho grandest on earth; but, on the other hand, there have been so many Presidents of lute years who have given themselves totally up to that business that the course of this mail is an absolute and a most gratifying relief. He probably does not sob or go into convulsions over the necessity of occupying the first position, but he is not overwhelmed with its importance or its opportunities, as smaller men have been in numerous instances; and, at the same time, if he were to be a candidate in 1884 it might be found that, with the opportunity thereby afforded to be a real President, and not merely an animated proxy, he would be as wide-awake aud, per-, naps, as anxious as anybody. Wise Course for the Negro. Chicago Tribune. The curse of politics in the South has been a solid white party. That party is now in process of disintegration. A solid negro party will have the inevitable tendency to solidify the color-line again, and the negro, in the South will lose all the ground he has gained. The drift of political progress in the South is toward a more general recognition of the negro as an important political' factor, and a division of the solid South into two parties, each offering its strongest inducements for his membership and franchise. In such a division as this he is much more likely to secure justice, and even office, than by striking out into any “bold policy or line of action” with the expectation of coming into power. The most prudent thing the negro can do is to trust to his friends, aud not to put to sea without sail or pilot. Wliat Does Locality Signify? Crawfordaville Journal. After all, what does it matter where a man lives, so that he is of correct morals, of temperate habits and able, in all respects, to fill the position for which he is chosen. Leaving out the question altogether, the fair distribution of patronage which ought to he eliminated front politics, what sound objection could there be to filling all the offices for which Indiana men are wanted from Indianapolis, if Indianapolis men prove themselves above all others the men for tho portions? General Butler’s Good Sense. New York Herald. General Butler is a man of common sens* when he comes to the subsoil of his character, Those who know' him below the surface can hardly credit the gossip that he really aspires to the presidency. In some respects General Butler is an admirable man. many sky-rocket lengths above more pretentious, goody-good people; but he is too vulnerable, and the humors of a campaign would kill him, because the Democrats never knew how to deal with humor. The Eastern Newspaper. Tsrre Haute Express. The newspaper in the East, which is still engaged in that practice, sells any where from five to fifteen thousand copies daily, and borrows money from monopolies to keep the press going, while the modern paper with the same clientage is disposing of upward of one hundred thousand copies, and the owners roll in wealth. But still there are plenty ot men who know the successful newspaper % not being properly conducted. Precisely the Difference. Philadelphia News, A “newspaper man” is one who has been writing editorials for eighteen or twenty years. A “journalist” is one who began police reporting about a week ago.” Tho greatest of all journalists are the vealy young men who do “glory work” in remote suburbs, and industriously cultivate tbe church icecream festival field. They are incomparably superior to any other known grades of journalists. A Big Contract for Him. New York Tribune. Now that the World has ceased to be a free-trade paper Mr. Watterson has the issue all to himself. He will have to take his coat off, give up his summer vacation, and devote all his energies to the task of keeping tho thing alive, or he will have a corpse on his hands before the year is out. A Machine that Won’t Work. Philadelphia Record. Senator Edmunds is going to Oregon. He ought to stop at Salt Lake and hear what the Gentiles have to say about his polygamy squelcher. They can’t make it squelch, and the wicked Saints stand by and laugh at theit fuilure. May Account for It, Lafayette Journal. Asa presidential candidate, Mr, Joseph McDonald does not seem to grow in favor among the Eastern Democrats. Mr. Hendricks recently made a little trip East, which fact may account for the apparent want of enthusiasm for Joe. Talk the Most Contemptible. Andrews Examiner. Os nil the foolishness the Republican party of this State is guilty of. its silly talk about the “Indianapolis ring” is tho most contemptible. Justice to Mr. Vanderbilt. Norristown Herald. Although Mr. Vanderbilt retired rather precipitously, we aro inclined to believe that liis accounts arc all straight. Not If They Know It. Columbus Republican. When the people of Indiana elect another Democratic Legislature it will be after they have forgotten the last one. Mr. Watterson’h Real Platform. New Orleans Picayune. Mr. Watterson’* platform is poker foi revenue only.