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THE DAILY JOURNAL. liT JNO. C. NEW & SON. ♦ For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Paee. THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1883. New York now has a law against the toy pistol. Some provision of the kind should be incorporated in the statutes of every State in the Union. Hon. John L. Sullivan, Boston's favorite son, realized about $3,100 for his last appearance, in which he contested in an Olympian game with Mr. Mitchell, of England. Who shall say that brawn is paid less than brain? Joseph Cook never received more for a single appearance. In order to appease those who are displeased with the idea of opening the big bridge on tbe Queen’s birthday, the New York Tribune gravely suggests that that interesting ceremony be postponed until the 12th of July, the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne. The knowledge by either party before marriage, of habits in the other which are afterward made the grounds for divorce, ought in morals and law to be a complete estoppel and bar to the suit. Future amendments of the law upon divorce and marriage ought to incorporate this idea. Some people in Baltimore have laid claim to the ground upon which the State-house and other public buildings stand in Harrisburg, Pa. As the State is having trouble in persuading its Legislature to adjourn, it may be found economical to turn the property over to the claimants and leave them to turn the present occupants out. / By a decision of Judge Ferris, Second Auditor of the Treasury, it is held that General Adam Badeau is not in the army, and his name is improperly borne on its rolls. The decision is based upon the operation of an act of Congress, by which those officers on the retired list who accepted civil office should be deemed by that act to have resigned their commissions. If the authorities grant permission a railway will soon be constructed to the summit of Pike’s Peak. The lino will start from Manitou, and it is supposed that the summit, 14,200 Feet away, can thus be reached in three hours. A stock company has been formed to carry out the project with a capital of $200,000, of which one half has been subscribed, and it is said that work will begin as soon as permission is received. The editor of a Wilkesbarre, Pa., paper is to be run out of town by the saloon-keepers because he advocated the execution of the law against the opening of saloons on Sunday. In Ohio tbe saloon-keepers have combined to defeat tbe Scott taxing law, which imposes a tax of S3OO a year on saloons. In Indianapolis, a sergeant of the metropolitan police is '‘admonished” by bis superiors because he attempted to enforce the spirit of the 11 o’clock law. The question to be determined is, which is the bigger, the law or the saloon?

Thk suicide of Representative Beeson, of Wayne county, full particulars of which are given in our special report, is one of those sadly inexplicable events that now and then come with startling suddenness to upset all human calculations. In comfortablecircimstances, surrounded with all that should make life enjoyable, esteemed and honored by his fellows, Mr. Beeson’s untimely death is a3 hard to understand as it is greatly to be regretted. While serving in the Legislature Mr. Beeson made many friends who will be rudely shocked by the news conveyed to them this morning. When Sullivan was asked, recently, whom he thought the best man he had ever met with or without gloves, he replied: “That is hard to say, but I think Jimmy Elliott was about the best. He certainly was as game a man as I ever encountered.” This is a stab at the Governor of Massachusetts, and the |>eople of that Commonwealth should hasten to adjust a compromise between its mighty men. Mr. Sullivan declares that he will never enter the ring again as a prize-fighter. If occasion requires—if the glory and culcha of Boston demands—he will give exhibitions of his attainments with gloves on. but not with his bare knuckles. Jerk. Dunn, on trial at Chicago for the murder of Elliott, declined to go on the stand as a witness in his own behalf. The reason of this failure to defend himself was the fact that cx-Sherifif Gay, of Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, was present, and ready to testify to Dunn’s complicity in the murder of a negro. Dunn was convicted and sentenced, but, by the aid of friends, escaped. The Slate’s attorney not only had the facts in this case, but also had the record of Dunn’s assassination of a man known as “Logan No. 2.” So it appears that Dunn has either committed or been implicated in three murders. The public will possibly be able to restrain Its grief even if Mr. Dunn should be hanged. The Army of the Potomac is holding its annual reunion in the city of Washington. It is no disparagement to the other grand armies of the Union to say that, probably, the army of the Potomac did more and harder fighting than any other, with less apparent result, until Grant took hold of it, and by cutting the cord which seemed to bind it to ill-luck, finally led it to victory at Appomattox. Our special and regular reports give quite full accounts of the occasion, including a portion of the graphic oration and the poem of George Alfred Townsend. The .utter very properly aud fitly takes the great*

est commander of all, Abraham Lincoln, for its theme, who, like Moses, was permitted only to look upon the country he had reclaimed, and was then taken hence —“from the theater of things To become a saint of nature In the pantheon of kings.” The soldiers of Indiana, and the patriotic people of the State, who can never forget the heroic services of the men who marched and fought and died, will read of the reunion of the heroes of the brave old army of McClellan and of Meade and of Grant with pleasure, thanking God from the bottom of their hearts that “all is quiet on the Potomac." SHAM REFORM. “Reform" does not always reform. The citizens of New York found that fact out through the actions of a “reform" Democratic Assembly, the record of which is only less infamous than that of the Indiana Legislature. Nowhere did the reform banner hang higher and float prouder than in Pennsylvania. Under Governor Pattison, the young Joshua, the promised land was to be taken by storm. The Democratic party, reinforced by the Republican independents, marched together to show the world an example of “reform" government that would put all machine politicians and machine administrations to the blush. Well, the experiment has been tried, and if the testimony of its friends is to be believed, it has proven a most disastrous failure. Colonel A. K. McClure, editor of the Philadelphia Times, one of the chief captains of the grand army of 1882, says: “There is not a Democratic editor who does not deplore the attitude and weakness of the administration from which we hoped so much;" while Mr. Charles Emory Smith, of the Philadelphia Press, confesses, in an interview, that he is entirely done up over the failure of the movement to which he contributed. From the report of Mr. Smith’s confession we quote: “In other words, the independent Republicans have bad all they care for of reform Democracy?" “Precisely so." “And after this the Republicans intend to go it alone.” “They do. They intend to ‘go it alone’— and win.” The Pennsylvania experience is in accord with the universal and uniform history of all these professional “reform" movements, in which the Democratic party is taken hold of by disappointed “bosses" to be the instrument of the reform. The independent Republicans of Pennsylvania, who could have been a mighty power for good so long as they worked with their own party, became utterly powerless when they stepped outside, and acted merely as cats to paw the chestnuts out of the fire for the Democratic monkey. We have not a word to say against reform movements honestly undertaken and carried forward with common sense. Reform is necessary, and the best men of the Republican party need to be constantly on the watch to prevent the bad and selfish from using the party organization for unworthy purposes. But the Pharisees never accomplish anything, never succeed in bringing any good about save their own discomfiture. The people are quick to see the difference between an honest effort and the pique which is born because of personal failure to “bo3s;" and they know that the worst specimens of “bossism" come from the independents, who plot to form new combinations wherein their personal influence and power may be greater than in the old organization which they could not control. The results in New York and Pennsylvania are of value. They emphasize the difference between the real and the sham, and they prove to Republicans that nothing is to be gained for any good cause by putting the Democratic party in power. The Republican party is capable of reforming itself. It always has done so. Its fermentations are the marvels of political history, as is its treatment of its rogues and rascals. There is place and work in the party ranks and counsels for all the best men of republican faith, and the indications are many and satisfactory that we shall be together in perfect accord in 1884.

Colonel E. C. Larnkd, of Chicago, in an address upon the great fire, estimated the number of lives lost in that awful disaster to be 300. On Tuesday, Oct. 10, there were 100,000 people homeless, but within a week 333 car-loads of provisions and clothing were received, and thenceforward a steady stream of relief poured in from all parts of the world. The relief society handled $5,000,000, every dollar of which was accounted for. There were 39,242 families assisted by the society. In these families were 156,968 persons, of whom all but 21,692 were foreigners. Os the goods received there were 76,000 blankets, 450,000 articles "of clothing, 32,000,000 pounds of flour, 23,000,000 pounds of meat, 80,000 bushels of vegetables, and 15,000 cooking stoves, There were 7,983 houses built for people unable to rebuild with their own means. Every one of these had repaid the society the money borrowed for that purpose. Floods of pathetic eloquence, drawn out by the inspiring subject of the “poor man’s cow," or tbe “widow’s cow,” #re the order of the day in the Pennsylvania Legislature. This wandering beast now has the freedom of the highways, to say nothing of all enclosures adjoining, and enemies have arisen who want her to be cribbed, cabined or confined within reasonable limits. According to their representations, the poor man’s cow in that State is a remarkable example of the development of species. The animal is represented as having horns so long that she can stand on one side of the street and open agate on the opposite side. However innocent may have been her early life, spent within a lento pasture, she no sooner be-

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comes the property of a poor widow than she begins to open gates; then she learns liow to climb a fence, as well as the trick of running away from the hole in the same fence when the owner essays to drive her out. It is even cautiously hinted that this cunning cow has been known to climb trees, always valuable fruit trees, when other forage failed her. Fiery champions of the cow are numerous, however, and touching pictures are drawn by them of the misery and hunger which the widow and her little ones will suffer should their bovine pet be prevented from feeding where she will, be that place even the rich neighbor s cornfield. As the fight now stands, it looks as if the cow would win and that she will continue to wander at her own sweet will. The cow bosses everything in Indianapolis, and should the Pennsylvania Legislature prove obdurate, the poor men and widows, with their cows, should remove to this blessed and beautiful rural village. RECALLING A NIGHTMARE. Dr. R. N, Todd, of this city, has an interesting souveuir of ante-bellum times, and a singular reminder of the sacred institution that once flourished in a large portion of the United States. It reads as follows: “Wnereas, Two papers issued from the clerk's office of the Fayette Circuit Court, on© in the name of John Brown and the other in the name of James Devins, against the estate of Marion Batterwhite, in the hands of his administrator, and Richard Sharpe, deputy sheriff, for Johu C, Richardson, sheriff of Fayette county, having duly received the executions and levied the same on a negro woman by the name of Judy, and her child by the name of Juliann, given up by James B. January, tbe administrator of said Satterwhite to satisfy said executions, and the said Sharpe, deputy Blieriff aforesaid, having duly advertised to |sio] said woman and chihl for sale, prooeeded on the 28th day of August, 1820, to sell according to law; wheu Henry Clay Doing the highest bidder, became tbe purchaser lor the sum of five hundred dollars, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged. Now, I, Richard Sharpe, deputy sheriff as aforesaid, do, by virtue of the levy and sale aforesaid, hereby sell, deliver and convey the aforesaid negro woman and child to the said H. Clay, his heirs and assigus forever. “Given under uiv hand 6th day of October, 1820, Ricn. Sharpe, D. 8. “For J. C. Richardson, Sh.” On the back of this document, stained with age. tbe ink faded in some places to indistinctness. and all bearing unmistakable evidence of genuineness, is the indorsement: “Sharpe Eioh’d, D. 8. 1 Bm o( 9ale H Clay $ for Judy and child.” Below this is a memorandum almost wholly effaced showing that a check was drawn on some “Branch Bank." In another corner is the most important feature of all. In his own writing appears the following indorsement: “I assign the wltbiu to Margaret Ashby for value reed. 27 Dec., 1821. H. Clay.” The document is one calculated to call up a great many reflections, and suggests a theme to be moralized upon indefinitely. The mighty changes that have taken place since the above dimly discernible lines were penned, render them well-nigh incredible to those who have grown to maturity since the war of emancipation, made imperative through rebellion. Here is a picture drawn by master hands of the days before the war. A mother and child looked upon as chattels, are levied on and sold like animals. The great commouer of Keentucky, the impassioned orator and statesman, the man who boldly declared he would rather be right than be president, bids on and buys them. For over a year they are his, body soul. His to do with as it seems best or as his wishes may dictate. His to separate and to sell, to flog and to command, in the name of the great State in which he lived. It seems like an unhealthy, distorted dream, so unreal as to be almost impossible. Not that it . need be imputed that Henry Clay would be brutal enough to beat humanity, but that humanity could be so brutalized nt the will of others. It is well that this document to-day is a curiosity that will become rarer and still rarer as the years go by. The detestable and loathsome disease that had fastened upon so much of the Union has been eradicated, and the entire nation is made better, purer and stronger. The wisdom of what once seemed impossible is now admitted by all. So tnat this bit of stained paper is but a reminder of a nightmare that took a death-struggle to shake off, but that can never come back to plague and to estrange.

llow contemptibly small it sounds, when compared with the thundering proclamations under which the system was inaugurated, to read that a sergeant of the metropolitan police force has been lectured by his superiors because he attempted to enforce the law against saloon-keepers. The people, who are to pay SIO,OOO more a year for a metropolitan police than they ever did for any other kind, are anxiouslj' watching to see whether it will pay. Thus far there seems to be absolutely no return whatever for the money, except a ridiculous amount of red tape, fuss and feathers In all kindness we say to the commissioners that they are making a much bigger mistake than did Sergeant Sauers in his “indiscreet” zeal to execute the spirit of the law. The Boston Herald has this to say about a matter of peculiar interest to people in this locality: “The ‘driven-well’ fellows, who got a patent on an old practice, and have been suing right and left, East and West, especially West, have got a big set-baclWn the shape of an adverse decision from the United States Circuit Court in lowa. It is a good deal like the ‘cut-under-hay-rack’ fraud, where some ingenious person got a patent on a device which had been in common use for years, and then scared hundreds, if not thousands, of farmers into paying him for the right to use their own hay-racks. With all respect to inventors, they must admit there are no worse people than those who make a living by buying claims ami making the public sweat under threats of lawsuits and their consequences." Carl Barnett, of Washington county, Ky., is a man of Spotless Prowess. He keeps a general store, and sold whisky on the sly without license, lie learned somehow that Tucker Kuyes, a fespectable farmer, was

about to inform on liira on account of the general disreputableness of the place. Filled with a genuine sense of Kentucky justice, he took his revolver and called on Kayes, and by assuming a friendly tone got him to come out of the house. As he advanced, Barnett said: “Tucker, I have been selling liquor without license, and understand you intend reporting me. Now, blank blank dead men tell no tales,” and bang went the pistol. The ball crashed through Kayes’s brain, entering the head over the left eye, and he fell dead instantly. It is not known yet whether Kentucky papers will indorse Barnett. Every now and then the publlo is treated to a story about the arduous labors and herolo endurance of some young woman or other who bravely goes out to Dakota or other far-western frontier region to carve out a home for herself and dear ones left behind. Marvelous tales are told of her dangers and deprivations. She is represented as barricadiug her solitary cabin to keep away the Indians; bears threaten to eat her and buffaloes swoop down and eat up the crops of wheat and garden truck which she has cultivated with infinite labor. Notwithstanding these drawbacks, the pluoky young woman always succeeds, in the end beooming immensely wealthy, either by her own efforts or by marrying a prince of the platus, who is charmed by her perseverance. An lowa paper, which has no soul for romance, regards these narratives with sooru, and cruelly resolves one which has come under its notice into cold facts. The girl in question, Miss Sallie Hamilton, who has been pictured by a Chicago paper as a wonderful example of seir-sacrifice and courage, really seems, on the contrary, to have been having a pretty jolly time. She went out to Dakota to visit a schoolmate who had married and was living there. Soon after her arrival sue took up a homestead olaim adjoining that of her friend. Upon this land and a lew rods from her friend's house she had a cabin of one room built for her own use. In this she spends the hours of daylight, sleeping and boarding at her neighbor’s. She has visitors, rides on horseback about the country, and takes her pleasure in a youthful and sensible way, and has no hard work to do. The homestead law requires that six months of every year for five years shall be spent “on the ground.” Miss Sally goes West in May, stays until Ootober, when she returns to lowa and teaches school the rest of the year. It is probably safe to say that the young woman regards the latter period as the time in which the “hardship,” “aelfsacrittoe,” not to say “manual labor” of her existence are crowded. The effort to make heroines of the girls who tako up homestead claims in Dakota is, it appears, something of a failure. New York city is about to build a ten-story tenement house. It will be 155 by 94 feet in size, 200 feet high from the tower to the ground, and will be entirely fire-proof. It will be used as an apartment-house, and will aocommodate thirty-eight families. There will be ten stories in tbe front of the building each fourteen feet high, and in the rear the space will be divided into fifteen mezzauine floors, each nine feet iu height. Four elevators will furnish an easy and rapid means of transportation. The cost will exceed $650,000, and It will take nearly two years to complete it. From the attic to the basement the height will be 171 feet, and the four families occupying the upper floor will have au extensive view of the surrounding city. This will be a huge aud high structure—tbe highest in the city. In the oity of London, however, are two still higher, being twelve stories. They are located near the Thames to the southwest of and not far from the Parliament buildings. The windows of the topmost floor present a singular appearance with their tasteful curtains and pots of flowers. Despite their great height, their apparant solidity gives an air of security and comfort, while their nearness to the center of business and easy access by means of elevators makes them very desirable to those who caunot afford to live nearer earth.

The latest style of worms have tackled the spruce trees of Maine aud the pines of Arkansas. The scientists at Vassar College are anxiously looking after the former, though nobody in particular seems to be caring for the latter. A peculiarity of the Arkansas worm is that it feeds upon the needles of the pine, and when it gets through with a tree It is left as bAre and smooth as a circus pole. Now, if some kind of a worm could be inveigled into gnawing on a Canada thistle, the eternal fitness of things would be maintained and no questions asked. It is said that no beast or fowl will eat the pine worm. Hardly. Tbe nearest anything could come to that would be the boy who chew's pitch. -■ ♦ ■ A circus was in Pittsburg on Monday. On Sunday a Sunday-school superintendent said be hoped none of the little boys and girls before him thought of going to suoh a wicked place. II there were any such young people present he wonld be pleased to have them rise that the rest of the school might see what they looked like. And then all the oldldren arose as one boy and one girl, except a little fellow who was lame, and had no big aunts and uncles willing to sacrifice themselves by taking him to the show. The little lame boy saw wliat the sinful children looked like, aud it made him feel sad, but his sadness was not like unto the sorrow of the superintendent. Two boys In Brooklyn, both under twelve years of age, started out the other morning to become robbers after the most approved dimenovel plan. One carried a knife, the other a pistol, and each had his pockets full of novels to be used us books of reference in case of emergency. Coming to a secluded spot In an alley, they met another boy and robbed him of his watch. After the policeman caught them and took them to jail, they studied their books, but found nothing to help them in just that sort of emergency, and now they wish they had Joined a band of pirates. Thomas Halsey, tbe inventor of the Halsey plow, arrived at New York on Tuesday, having traveled across the Atluntio as a steerage passenger. “Ten years ago T visited America, and came in the first cabin,” he said, “but now l am glad to get here as a steerage passenger. I am not entirely destitute, for I have a few dollars in my pocket; but it seeius strange to me to be so reduced iti oirruinstanc.es. There was a time wheu my cheok for $500,000 would have been honored by my banker.” Giovanni Bkttini, an Italian of noble birth, attempted suicido In New York because the daughter of a patent medicine king refused to marry him. When be gets well some kind friend should introduce him to Lydia Plnkham, whose heart may prove less obdurate. N. B.—The writer of ihe above paragraph is not on speaking terms with the editor of the advertising department. Let us be thankful for such small favors as come in our way. The Pennsylvania goose-egg eater possesses a modesty equal to his appotite, and coyly refuses to give ills photograph to New York Illustrated papers for publication. Calculations made from recent experiments with dynamite show that if a chunk as big as a freight cur were dropped from the moon upon the earth it would knock the latter into smithereens. This uiay be true, but our knowledge of the

former good character of the man in the moon leads us to believe he would frown upon such a plot, and that we are In no danger from that quarter. Sherman W. Plait, a young man of Newton, Conn., has slept almost continuously since last Christmas, and In the meantime he has Dot once spoken. He sits in a rocking-chair, with his eyes closed, all day long, paying no attention whatever to his mother, who ministers to him constantly. The foundations of the republio are getting shaky. Eight persons were dangerously poisoned at Cleveland by eating pie. The cyclone Is an escaped earthquake laboring under temporaty insanity. Four and a half millions would take alimony most men have. All is Fair in war and love. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Whp.t kind of revolution is going on in Hayti, and ia Hayti a negro republic! Franklin, Ind. A Reader. During the past ninety years the island of Hayti, or Santo Domingo, has been in a chronic state or insurrection, and it would require the paiienoe or a Philadelphia lawyer to figure out all the abortive rebellions that have been inaugurated there. The result of all these disturbances, however, has been to secure to the island its Independence. Tlie western half is known as tbe Republic of Hayti, while the eastern half is known as the Dominican Republic, each independent of the other. There is now an insignificant lnsuireotion iu the former, the fighting being carried on In a desultory and ineffectual manner. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Is there a law against shooting or caging squirrels lu this State? H. M. Adams. Chestnut Ridge, May 14. The game laws of Indiana make no mention of squirrels. ABOUT PEOPLE. “Gener.il” Booth, of the Salvation Army, says that his.hairis turning gray, and he is growing old prematurely, all because of the wickedness of the world. Mrs. Anakdibai Joshed, of Calcutta, a Brahmin of the highest social standing, will sacrifice her caßte by studying medicine in the Woman’s Medical College at Philadelphia. Following the Chinese plan, the British government has conferred a title upon a dead man. That is to say, it has made the late Bir George Jessel’s son a barouet for his father’s sake. Mr. Lawrence Barrett sails for Europe on the 27tli, to be present at the wedding of bis eldest daughter to tbe Baron Roder, whlou will occur at Stuttgart about tbe middle of July. There are Indian girls iu tbe ludlau Territory University who are studying German, French, Latin and Greek, geology, moral philosophy, political economy, and other branches of the college course. General D. C. Buell had the lower half of his under jaw-boue successfully removed at Nashville, a few days ago. The Boston Globe darkly hints at similar surgory as a partial mitigation of Rev. Joseph Cook. Musicians will be interested to learn from the Loudon Truth that the Queen, who is an excellent judge of music, sang Mendelssohn’s own songs to him oharmiugly in her younger days, and welcomed Wagner to England at a time when others thought him mad. Marshal MacMahon was present at the late reception of M. Perraud. He Is still erect aud retains his fresh complexion. But age is telling upon him. He was stimulated for awhile bv the salutations of old friends and then folded his arms on his chest and dropped asleep. “Father” Hawley, father of Senator Hawley, of Hartford, was taken to the Hartford Insane Retreat a few days ago. For some time he has shown unmistakable evidence of Insanity, aud it was deemed best for the safety of his family and frleuds to put him under greater restraint. Mr. Judah P. Benjamin, now seventy-two years old, stands or walks as erect as a man of half his years. He Is of loss than medium height, well proportioned, aud has a fine, Interesting, but not noticeably strong face. He dresses plainly in black, with no jewelry save a seal ring and scarf pin. Miss Jennie Corson, known as the “Montana Shepherdess,” went to Montana about a year ago and bought a band of sheep and ranch near Oka, in Meagher oounty. paying therefor $lO,000 cash. She has managed her business entirely herself, and now has as good a sheep ranch as there is in Montana. Her sheep and ranches are said to be worth $7,600 more than they cost her a year ago. The family of Mrs. Stowe hold her In great reverence. Her little grandson, at the age of five, swinging on a neighbor's gate, was reproved by bis mother, who told him Mr. Smith would not like it. “I don’t care for Mr. Smith,” said the urohln, “nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that la his.” “Willy,” asked his mother, “do you know who wrote those words you use sol” “I don’t know,” was the reply; “Grandma Stowe, I s'pose.” The good health of General von Moltke, who has gone to Switzerland on an extended furlough, is a matter of surprise to those Amerioan people who know that he is uearly eighty-three years old, and that he has sometimes been regarded as a sort of invalid closet soldier making victories mauy miles away. The truth Is that the popular portraits of the great strategist have made him appear too thin aud somewhat feebly flabby. He is really a hearty man, not lacking in the large features of face. That was a novel complaint wbioh an “elderly man” preferred in a London police court a few days ago. He declared that his son, who had a large family, had insisted upon burying his deceased children in a grave which the complainant had purchased for himself. “The consequence will be,” said the elderly rnau, “that by-and-by there wou’tbe room for me: and that's a very unoomfortable thought for a man who has takeu the trouble to provide a last restingplaoe for himself, us I have done. It’s too bad, you kuow.” It Is reported In society circles that among the ladies known lu Washington who are to be present ut the oorouation of the Czar are Lady Tbornton. wife of the British minister to Russia; Mrs. Huut, wife of the American minister, and Mrs. Wuddinglon. wife of Mr. Waddington, who is sent as the representative of the French government on this occasion, and Miss King,of New York. They will take with them their horses aud carriageu and servants, aud will take a house during their stay In Moscow. These ladies have had their dresses made iu Paris by Worth, with the exception of Lady Thornton, who bus ordereu hers from England. Not oven the Shah’s life is altogether a happy one. A short time ago that monarch sent some musio-boxes and mirrors as presents to the Khan of Bokhara. The Khan, in return, sent the Shall half a dozen particularly pretty odalisques, not one of whom was moro than sixteen years old. On the way they were ouptured by some Turcomans. The Shah first tried to recapturo them, and then offered as a ransom for them a number of decorations, including the Great Sun and Lion order. These the Turcomans scorned, saying they preferred odalisques to Jewels every time. Finally, the Shall offered 4,000 fruucs apiece for the girls, which the Turcomans aocopted. But after the money wus paid and the odalisques brought to the palace, the Persian monarch fairly howled with fury at discovering that the perfidious robbers hud kept the “sweet slJtteens” aud

sen*, him in their stead some of the veterans cf their harems who were more remarkable for age than beauty. THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS, * If by practical piety is meant the practical best conduct in life, virtue, moderation, sobriety, good morals, a sense of personal responsibility and recognition of duty, and obligation to society, we suapeot that more will be gained by finding out the true answer to this question than by trying to discover patent, new tangled ways to enforced morality wrought by legal strait jackets.—Cincinnati News-Journal. Any precedent that might be set now for surrendering Irishmen iu this country to the British government on charges growing out of the intestine commotion of Ireland, would be distorted by the British government into a virtual surrender of American rights and dignity, and would be abused by subsequent demands whioh could not be tolerated with patienoe.— Chioago Tribune. We have no doubt of the result of the trial, but the testimony has not removed all question of the criminality of the man who was sfaln and the woman who wears the scarlet mark of her husband’s bloody hand—and there will linger au impression that, provoked aud preplexed in the extreme by a female lago, Thompson may have been as rash and as wrong as Othello.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. It l* with the board of trade as if a faro bank did some real commercial banking as well as to gather in the checks of its customers when they fail to call the turn. The bucket-shops stand on the same level with the bank whlon doe® not mix things, but relies on its “splits” for its profits. To most plain understanding the difference wifi appear, like the tearing of the leg of Mr. Toots's pantaloons, of no consequence.— 3t. Louis Republican. We are gravely informed by one of tbe new school interpreters of the term “revenue tariff” that it is “a tariff which contributes to our revenue by duties chiefly on manufactured produota which enter Into competition with our own manufactures.” This is the revenue tariff idea so changed that its own mother wouldn’t recognize it. It might be labeled “protective tariff’’ with equal propriety. Tbe Democratic party appear to be endeavoring to squirm into this somewhAt amusing position, and Mr. Hendricks is just tho man for them.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. TILDEN AND HENDRICKS. The Old Ticket of 1876 and the Cavalier Treatment of It by the Party. New York Times. There is a certain dignified pathos in the attitude assumed by both of the Democratic national candidates of 1876—Tilden and Hendricks. There is in the Democratic party, we regret to observe, an inclination to regard these eminent men as obsolete,Jif not actually moribund. To be sure, 1876 is now a long way off, as we make history In this country. To discuss what happened in 1876 is something like reviewing ancient history. Since that time we have invented Bookwalter, Cleveland, and other brand-new Democratic statesmen. Ancient history is all very well in its way, but when it comes to rehabilitating the characters of ancient history and huddling them upon the stage of the living present, there is an instinctive revolt against a performance so ghastly. At least this is the way in which many Democrats talk. Mr. Tilden insists that he never felt better in his life, thatrhe is having an Indian summer of human existence, and that he is practically as young as he ever was. Mr. Hendricks has been so often reported as dead and buried that it seems almost like a resurrection to read of his being present at asocial party in Indianapolis and “standing squarely |on his feet.” Mr. Hesidricks’s vulnerable point is not like that of Achilles, in his heel. It is in his toe—presumably his big toe. It was tragically said of him, when he took to his bed with an invalid toe, that ho would probably never get up again; yet he is standing squarely on liis feet and insisting that he never felt so well in his life. There is no difficulty with iiis toe, except that the family had poulticed it with charcoal and flax-seed, which, Mr. Hendricks says, so deceived the doctors that they said the toe was mortified, and must be amputated. It was Mr. Hendricks who was mortified. This haste to shelve the worthies of 1876 is rank ingratitude. It is, or ought to be, a cardinal principle in politics that defeat endears a candidate to his party. To be sure, both Tilden and Hendricks want to be the Democratic candidate for President. As we do not elect but one President in 1884, one or the other of these rejuvenated and sprightly gentlemen must get out of the way of the other. Mr. Tilden, having the right of seniority, may cry: “My turn next!" and Mr. Hendricks may have an inning later on in the political calendar. But, in the name of humanity we must protest against the popular disposition to entomb Mr. Tilden and to magnify the invalidity of Mr. Hendricks’s big toe. There is an old proverb concerning the age of men and women, tbe latter half of which is that “a man is as young as he feels." The truth of this adage being admitted, Mr. Tilden Is in the heyday of his youth, and Mr. Hendricks may possibly be too young and giddy for the high office on which he has fixed his glittering eye. When heartless Democrats say that Mr. Tilden is dead, but has not tumbled down, and that Mr. Hendricks literally has one foot in the grave, they simply advertise their dread of these two great wen, Tilden and Hendricks are perennial.

The Old Ticket Redivivus. Washington Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. In a recent conversation with intimate personal friends, Mr. Tilden has expressed decidedly liis reluctance to be u candidate for the presidency in 1884. Notwithstanding this, there are significant indications of a strong movement in favor of nominating the old ticket of Tilden and Hendricks. It is known that Mr. Tilden and Mr. Hendricks are both fully restored to health, and the plan of bringing small men forward by pretending that these really great men are broken down in health will not work. Neither of them wants the nomination, but it is believed that both are capable of making the sacrifice of personal convenience in obedience to the demands of the party. The feeling toward Tilden in Democratic circles is very friendly, and there is a general conviction that, if nominated, his election would be certain. Hendricks’s nomination would insure Indiana, and give gopd hope for other Western States. Buying Confederate Ronds Illegal. Decision by Circuit Judge Bruce. B. bought from H. $200,000 of Confederate bonds at $4 a thousand, and when H. refused to deliver them to him lie brought suit for damages, claiming $1,506 for his loss by the breach of the contract. H. set up as his defense the invalidity of the contract, on the ground that the sale was an illegal transaction, and the court sustained it. In this case (Branch vs. Haas, in the United Hi ates Circuit Court, district of Alabama) Judge Bruce said: “If the defendant had delivered these void and illegal obligations and taken a note for the price at winch he sold them, can it be maintained that this note would he good ns a separate and independent contract, though the entire consideration for which it was given was illegal and void? Then it must follow that no damage which the law will give can result from failure or refusal to deliver these bonds.” The Fight In the Insane Asylum. Correspondence Cincinnati News Journal. Fishback was displaced from the head ol the board of trustees because he would not prostitute the institutions to the greed ol party roustabouts. Tiien came ttie light, resulting in his removal and the ascension ol! Harrison, who, according to programme, was to boost Walker into a better place. Roger* came oft victorious in that fight, and he now confronts the same ugly combination in resisting Fouids, who is unfit for a place o( trust and honor. These trustees need a “busting,” and it is to be hoped Rogers can give it to them. If they are not headed ofil in their headlong course they will hurt till Democratic party in this Slate,