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THE DAILY JOURNAL. 15Y JNO. C. NEW & SON. for Rates of Subscription, etc.. ee Sixth Paxe. FRIDAY, MAY IN 1888; The Hon. John F. Finerty lias promulgated a bull against Pope Leo XIII. This interesting and unique document will be found in our telegraphic colUms, and will repay perusal. If all the facts were out, the scandals brought upon the benevolent institutions of Indiana by Democratic vepality and mismanagement, would rival those of Tewksbury in degree if not in kind. The rigor of the criminal law of Great Britain, while yet severe, has been greatly modified since the days of Blackstone. Then the penalty was death to imagine fatal harm to the crown; now one can threaten murder and escape with a sentence in the penitentiary. Kansas City had a cyclone and Joseph Cook both the same evening. The papers next day reported the storm and the lecture “Does Death End All?” and the presses were kept busy till night grinding out new editions. When the people got through reading the accounts of the two great events, they knew less about death than they did before, but were firmly convinced that a tornado could permanently end the usefulness of the goods of this world. General Grant was defeated for the presidency of the Society of the Array of the Potomac by General Newton, the vote standing 156 to 117. The election of General Newton is no reflection upon General Grant, nor indication ot his unpopularity with the society, but the fact of his never being either a commander or member of the Army of the Potomac, in the sense under which the society is organized, explains the turn taken in the election. When Grant was with the Army of the Potomac, he was commander of all the forces in the field and not simply of that department. The Spotless Prowess of Kentucky didn’t keep its papers from ridiculing Mrs. Davis, the widow of the murdered man, whenever she appeared in the court-room. They were ungallant enough to say that it was only for •fleet. It will be a sorry day for justice when the friends of a murdered man dare not attend the trial of his self-constituted •xecutioner. True, the presence of Mrs. Davis could do no good toward restoring her husband to life. It was but natural. how rsver, that she should be anxious that his character be not assassinated while he w r as powerless to respond. The treatment of Mrs. Duvis was indescribably shameful. Both the expected and the unexpected happen in Kentucky. The Democratic State convention yesterday elected J. Troctor Knott to be Governor of that State, when kbe term of Governor Blackburn shall expire. The race was so close between Colonel Thomas L. Jones and Mr. Knott that it was believed General Buckner would be able to make himself the second choice of the majority of the delegates; but the turn did not come, and Mr. Knott won the prize. The nomination is a creditable one, and assures a Governor of dignified mediocrity at least, which may be better and safer than brilliancy without balance. Mr. Watterson was indorsed, the convention resolving with great vigor for a tariff for revenue only, reiterating the Democratic national platforms of 1876 and 1880. This is ihe start of Mr. Watterson’s Vice-presidential boom. Some years ago a test case was made in the courts of St. Louis to decide ttpon the rights of the school board to spend public money for ornamental branches of study. The suit Was instigated by those who were opposed to tlie prominence given to the German language in the city schools. The decision, which lias just been rendered by the Supreme Court, is to the effect that the board can only expend school funds for the purpose of educating children between the ages of six and twenty. The result of this ruling will be the closing of the kindergartens, which are for younger children and have'been sustained by public money. Tiie board is left at liberty to use its discretion in the matter of German and other special studies, and in the present state of opinion it is safe to say that, German will not be abolished. The kindergartens have been found very successful and useful, and as a means of permanent benefit can discount any foreign language. The jury in the Thompson-Davis murder case promptly rendered a verdict of acquittal. “Little l*hil.’s” Honor and Prowess are thus thoroughly vindicated, and he can load at his leisure for the next victim. Justice is mighty uncertain everywhere, and the ways of a jury are inscrutable. It is useless to discuss this case. The facts are known, the victim is in his grave and the accused is acquit. But it is not certain that the very same jury o? twelve men would not have acquitted Davis had he shot and killed Thompson. In that instance, as in this, the personal influence of the prisoner would have bad a powerful effect. His previous good character would have given the lie to the scandal, and the fact that he had “killed bis man” would have glorified him in the eyes of his fellow citizens. This much is certain: the Kentuckian who values his life and honor should be very quick on the trigger if he wishes to keep them. If he hears a rumor that he has l*en wronged, he need not appeal to the courts, nor rush to be revenged. Any time within six months will do to take humau life in rcpnra-

tion. It ought to be done neatly and genteelly, and with dispatch. These preliminaries observed, he is ready to be embraced and admitted to fellowship with the saints in the Kentucky pantheon. RESPONSIBILITY FOR MURDER. According to the Dublin Gazette the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has decided on a number of applications for compensation for murder and for injuries sustained through agrarian outrages. Relatives of murdered men received compensation in sums ranging from £2OO to £3,000. The awards were doubtless made on the principle that the government is responsible for the lives of its subjects, and especially so in cases where they suffer on account of political reasons. It is strange that a test case is not made in this country. A man slips or stumbles on a defective sidewalk. He institutes suit for damages, aud wins his case. He falls through a bridge or coal-hole. Again, the city is held responsible. It is presumed that the corporation having these things in charge will keep them in order, and any neglect to do so lays the city liable for damages sustained through such neglect. It is the same principle when a man loses his life, through no fault of his own, at the hands of others. He pays hi 9 taxes to be protected in the enjoyment of life and property. If the city fails to afford such protection, why should it not be held for damages? This plea would be particularly plausible in cases where the murderers were intoxicated. The corporation issues a license to the traffic and accepts a stated sum of money therefor, thus assuming a portion of the burden of responsibility for the results arising from the traffic. Or, let a case of this kind come up: It can be proved that certain men are intoxicated on Sunday, and that they became so through some licensed saloon selling them liquor in defiance of law, and that while so intoxicated they murder a man. In all probability they would not have done so liad they been sober. They would have been sober had the city police officers prevented the violation of the municipal ordinances. Here then is a murder committed through the culpable neglect of the city autliprities, and a life is lost because sufficient protection was not afforded. Shall those who suffer thereby be without recourse in law? Manifestly, if cities were held strictly accountable for all murders committed within their limits, and compelled to nay damages, it would not be long until many of the sources Os murderous broils would be cut off. In equity the reasonableness of a plea for damages on account of the murder of a father or a brother could hardly be denied. SCIENTISTS AT ODDS. Professor David Jordan, of the State University, in the May number of the Chicago Dial, has a caustic review of George J. Romanes’s “Studies of Animal Intelligence,” the last number of Appleton & Co.’s International Scientific Series. This work is preliminary to a second volume on “Mental Evolution,” which is to make the present volume appear something more than a mere collection of anecdotes. The design of the book is to show thedegreg of development of the mental powers in each group from the protozoa upward, showing that in each higher group we find higher evidences of that faculty which becomes mind in man. Os these anecdotes and tlieir authorities, Professor Jordan says: “We have no disposition to dispute Mr. Romanes's conclusions* but his work does not impress us as a valuable contribution to psyphological science. His choice of anecdotes. and illustrations is certainly open to serious criticism. In default of good eviscience cannot afford to take that which is untrustworthy. Upwards of four hundred different persons are cited by Mr. Romanes, and of those, fully three-fourths should ba excluded as incompetent witnesses. Side by side with the results of the careful experiments and observations of sucli masters as Darwin and Lubbock, appear crude notes of hasty observations, clipped from the English newspapers. Still worse, we have many accounts, evidently colored by preconceived notions of their narrators — stories wholly worthless after the deduotion of the ‘personal equation.’ The pre-scien-tific writings of Buffon and his ‘continuators,’ with whom truth was subordinate to ‘style,’ are often drawn upon, as also various semi-literary scientific writings of later times. Thus, the Bishop of Carlisle is quoted as follows: “I hare seen, also, a .jackdaw in the midst of a congregation of rooks, apparently being tried for some misdemeanor. First, Jack made a speech, which waa answered by a general cawing of the rooks; this subsiding, Jack agalu took up his parable, and the rooks in their turn replied. After a tune, the business, whatever it was, appeared to le settled satisfactorily. If Jack was on his trial, as he seemed to be, he was honorably aequited by acclamation, for he weut to his home iu the towers of Ely Cathedral, and the rooks also went their way." Os this Prof. Jordan says: “A more extended knowledge of American literature would show to Mr. Romanes a wonderful mine of similar observations on the sagacity of animals, in tlie writings of Mr. Joel Chandler Harris.” In regard to the habits of the salmon Professor Jordan’s observations of the various species have become classics among icthyologists, as in the “Story of the Salmon, Told by Himself,” published in the Popular Sci ence Monthly, and also his notes on their breeding habits, in the American Naturalist. Mr. Romanes quotes from Kirby —a totally unreliable authority—as follows: “The distance tip rivers to which sal/non will swim in the spawning season is iiq levs surprising than the energy with which they perform the feat and the determination with which they overcome all obstacles. They reach Bohemia by the Elbe, Switzerland by the Rhine, and which is more wonderful, the Cordilleras of America by the Maranon. They employ only three months in ascending to the source of the Maranon (a journey of 3.000 miles), the current of which is romarkably rapid, which is at the rate of nearly forty miles a day. In a smooth stieani or lake their progress would increase in a fourfold ratio. Their tail Is a very powerful or{ran, and its muscles have wonderful energy; >y placing it in their mouths they make of it u very cdastic-spring, for, letting it go with violence, they raise themselves in tin Tir to the height of from twelve to fiftccu feet,

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and so clear the cataract that impedes their course; if they fail in their first attempt, they continue their effoits till they have accomplished it.” To which Prof. Jordan replies: “This almost takes one’s breath, for of course, no salmon ever puts his tail into his mouth, and, as the ‘Zoological Secretary of the Linnseau Society’ surely ought to know, no fish of the salmon family has ever been found in the Maranon (Amazon), nor in any other waters of South America.” Prof. Jordan say3 Mr. Romanes takes no care as to the accuracy of scientific names or names of persons. Our common cowbird appears as melothrus piecius, instead of molothrus pecoris. Dr. Elliot Couea appears as “Capt. Elliot Cones” (?) and Professor Claypole, of Antioch College, Ohio, as “Mr. Claypole, of Antioch Cottage,” etc. If this is a sample of scientific books, the less of them the better. Wiiat has become of Dr. Dio Lewis, not so very long ago the Boston apostle of pluiu living, no corsets, bie shoes, and several other disagreeable hobbies? His disciples, once so numerous, seem to be unknown even in bis own home. After havinir demonstrated with mathematical exactness that an able-bodied man might maintain health, strength and general prosperity upon an outlay for food of ten cents per day, it would seem that the lesson should not have been lost. Yet, in a Boston paper is au appeal to the charitable for aid to a crippled young woman, who has only fifty cents a week with which to buy food. According to the Lewis theory that is a pampered young woman who must be waxing fat. Tlie charitable will doubtless hesitate before giving. Miss Emily Faithful is away behind Mrs. Labouciiere in her career as a chaperon. Mies Faithful has allowed her attention to be so distracted by the rights and wrongs of women iu general that she lias aotually permitted Kate Pattison, of the Langtry troupe, who was her charge, to go back to England without even a breath of scandal floating about her. Miss Pattison Is a good actress, but ir the chaperon had hluted to a reporter at even a mild flirtatina in the past, the young woman would have been besieged by managers of theaters to make eneueements for next season, and might even number a Freddie umong her belongings. Mrs. Langtry will never engage Miss Faithful in her servioe. A New York man has a wife worth having. During the past six inontho he lias brought four damage suits for the alienation of her affections, each time Introducing a now mau and claiming from $5,000, to $30,000. This is a case like the drowned fisherman, whose olothes, when t'ue body was found, were full of eels. Kind friends broke the news to the distressed widow, and asked what should he done. Clearing her eyes of tears, she murmured: “Bring the eels to the house and set him again." The New York man will doubtless sethis wire again. •‘One-cunt stores," “48-cent stores," aud “t'9oent stores" are bringing financial ruin to the natives of 6iuall towns everywhere. People tiny the goods because they are so cheap, just as the more wary shoppers of the metropolis are beguiled into making purohases of goods “marked down" to 79, 89, or 99 oeuts respectively, which they could not possibly afford at 80, 90 or 100 cents. This scheme Is founded on a profound mercantile knowledge of the human mind. Parisians have proven so conclusively that horseflesh is wholesome food that Its use is becoming introduced in London, the meat being disposed of on its merits. Some regard this as a crood movi on aooount of the economy, Bnt that's according, as the sayjng is. Now If'you oat steaks cut from Maud S, it will cost you at the rate of SIOO per ppund, exolusive of seasoning aud a tip for the waiter. She weighs 995 pounds, and is valued at SIOO,OOO. Avery interesting story is told of a Maine horse that had such wonderful sagacity that when it saw a runaway horse approaching it drew the vehicle to which it was attached out of the way by getting up on the sidewalk. Under similar circumstances an Indiana horse would drag an omnibus into a peanut stand. But it would be pronounced fear, not sagacity. “Wolf-Eaton" was the threatening heading of an Item in tlie Cincinnati papers yesterday. The idea of being eaten by a wolf was horrifying, so it was but natural that the paragraph was read in haste. It appears that it was nothing more sanguinary than a wedding, a Mr. Wolf uaving married a Miss Euton. In the interest of humanity in the double sense It is but fair to state that It Is anew meaicul secret that the oil of fat dogs is more curative in cases of consumption than Is cod liver oil. It is more palatable, too. A rough estimate shows sixty-nine extra dogs to the square acre iu ludianapolls. An exchange, referring to some excruciatingly funny advertisements, says “there is a good deal of quiet humor about piano men." Thero Is, and if they would only instil a little of the quiet into their pianos a multitude would rise and call them blessed. Bettini thinks he won't try that Ayer trick again. ABOUT PEOPLE. Father Ryan has been “reconstructed" by his visit north, and is no longer a “rebel." Dr. Graham, of Kentucky, father-in-law of Congressman Blackburn, will lie one hundred years old iu October, when it is proposed to tender him a graud dinner in Louisville. General Gram’s mother always called her boy “Hiram," Hiram Ulysses having been his name until, by some blunder, it was entered at West Point as Ulysses 8., when the 8. was taken for Bimpson, her maiden name. Michael Masson, a versatile French genius, who died in Pails lately at the age of eightythree, had been successively a dramatic author, a dancer, a journalist, a waiter, a shopman, a journeyman lapidary and a novelist. He left a voluminous F rauoo-C'huiese dictionary in manuscript. Mrs. W. H. Vanderbilt was a Miss Klsssm, daughter of a clergyman; Mrs. W. K. was a Miss Builth, of New' York; Mrs. Cornelius a Miss Gyune, and Mrs. Frederick was Mrs. Alfred Torrence, formerly Miss Anthony, who was divorced from Mr. Torrence, who is W. 11. Vanderbilt’s sister's cousin. President Arthur, on Friday, sent a dispatch to Senator Anthony by his own hand, reading: “I am sincerely gratified to hear through Mr. Hazard of your Improvement, aud I am encouraged to hope that you will soon be quite well agalu. You have been constantly iu my mind, and I send you ray best wishes." Lord Portsmouth, who Is a sensible man, and cares nothing for the gabble of “society" simpletons, was solemnly reproved some years ago by the then master of the Buokbounds because he made his appearance on the Jockey Club stand In hls favorite broad-brimmed round hat; so, iu delorence to the oharaoterlstins or the place, he has since gone there in a white “ohliiiiiey pot." Fair will not greatly miss the four or five millions which he has been obliged to turn over to hls former wife. Resides hie mining interests, he owns seventy acres of land In 8n Francisco, aud the Menlo Park residence, which lias been awarded to Mrs. Fair, U said to have oust $1,000,000. A year or two ago he keuded the

personal assessment roil in Ban Francisco, on which !:s was credited with $42,000,000, Mr. J. (l. Flood being assessed at only $36,500,000, aud J. W. Mackay at the trifling sum of $20,500,000. Fair stands five feet eight inches in his stockings and weighs 227 pounds, which, taken in connection with his financial standing, makes him in every respect a solid mau. Mr. John Pearson, a trembling old man, who has been a resident of Fort Smith, Ark., for forty-three years, claims to have been the actual inventor of the revolver patented by Colonel Colt. He says that In 1834, while he was working in Baltimore with a gunsmith named Baxter, Colonel Colt hired him to make experiments, which resulted in the perfected revolver, with six charges In the cylinder and one barrel. Pear, son never received any reward for his invention. Tiie rebel Confederacy had some very young generals. Wheeler, “Point,” as he was oailed at the Military Academy', because he had neither length, breadth nor thickness, was a lieutenant general at twenty-eight. Pieroe M. B. Young, of Georgia, and Fitz Lee, Rosser and Butler, of South Carolina, were all major generals before they were twenty-five. Van Dorn, who was incomparably the ablest cavalry oftioer of the Confederacy, was a major general at about thirty-two. If he could have refrained from breaking the seventh commandment he might be living now, but that which has wrecked many a greater aud wiser mau than he ruined him, and he died by the pistol ot an injured husband. Ir is probably an error to say that one of bis female friends so fascinated William M. Tweed that she kept him in the country when he might have fled in safety as Connolly and Cook and Field and the Sweenys did. On the contrary, both the rival school teachers on whom Tweed lavished fortunes urged him to leave the country. One of them finally departed with “Tom" Field, and she still shares his exile and extreme poverty in Canada. The other tried to induce Tweed to go to Ban Francisco and take steamer for South Atuerion, like Harry Meigs, hut Ills sea sickness was so terrifying to him that he returned with the woniau by the pilot-boat which took off the harbor pilot. He bad an intense horror of the sea, and suffered agonies in hls trip to Cuba at a later date. THE SPIRIT OP THE PRESS. In the relation which alone he chooses to sustain to American civilization, the Chinaman is not a desirable addition to our population. But when we have got him here he is entitled to the rights of any other humau being.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. If the Irish clergy had from the first presented a united front against assassins and dealers In outrages, Joe Brady would not. have been hanged and bis comrades would not he awaiting their doom. It is honorable in the highest degree to the Pope that he lias determined to reduce to a sense of decency these clerical abettors and instigators bf crime.—New York Herald. Before Ireland can hope to throw off the •chains England has forged about her she will have to reform herself, learning the truth that a people that hopes for freedom must have integrity' for its rule and guide. Through all the years that Ireland has struggled for independence defeat has come to her hopes through the miserable wretches known aft informers, a vile breed wherever found.—Chicago Inter Ocean. It would help the Demoeratio party a great deal more to put a colored mau on their Kentuky State ticket than it would to put a plank in tlieir Kentucky State platform in favor of it tariff for revenue only. The one will gain them a large vote, and the other will at once lose them a Speaker of the House of Representatives, and, if carried into their national platform, lose them a large vote, if it does not split their party.—Louisville Commercial. The belief that this man or that man can carry a State is a superstition. The people are the force, and they know what to do. They have no confidence in the ohromos of expediency who assume to run the parry. The attempt is at best only a gilt-edged fraud. Men believe certain things aud they vote in uccordauoe with their beliefs. The tattered flags iuay be raised lor the sentimental part, and the whips may be cracked for the practical part, but neither will be of an.y use.—Denver Tribune. There is a liquor license law in every State in the Union, and in ever.v civilized nation In the world—and this implies the undisputed power in the State to regulate the retailing of intoxicating drinks, ut its pleasure; to make it free or to tvstriotit; to exact a high license or no license; to hedge It with whatever reasonable conditions the public interests may require. This doctrine is too well settled to be shaken, and it Is more, than foolish for any class of persons to attempt to overthrow it at this time.—St. Louis Republican. Tiie truth is, that the Legislature not only lias the right, but is bound in duty to tlie public welfare to provide adequate restraints on the liquor traffic. The indiscriminate sale of intoxicating liquor would be as dangerous to the oommuuity lie the indiscriminate sale of poisons or explosives. Whisky is a social dynamite. It works destruction wherever tt <s used carelessly or in excess. The Btate should interfere to regulate its sale on the same principle that it would luterfere with n traffic In toys containing a dangerous amount of uitro-gly’cerine.—Chicago Tribune- ______________________ Mr. Gould aud His Oranges. New York Times, lfith. “Some people insist on making mountains out of mole bills,” said Mr. Washington E. Connor yesterday, when asked if the report was true that Jay Gould and himself had bought a large tract of land in Florida and intended to engage in the business of cultivating oranges. “The Story is perfectly ridiculous. lam very fond of the fishing down in Florida, and recently' I bought a tract of land along the coast so that I might have a place to go fishing. The tract is nothing more than a sandy' beach. 1 do not believe that an orange tree would grow there.” Tlie story which comes from Florida, bearing the indorsement of reputable people, is that Messrs. Gould and Connor have purchased a large tract of sandy land near New Smyrna, in Volusia county', on the eastern coast of the State. Emphatic statements are made that a contract has been made with Captain Fred. Sams, a well-known person in that locality, to plant the trees. A gentleman in Wall street, who has spent two or three seasons in Florida fishing and hunting, was asked whether orange trees would grow* in tiie sand in the vicinity of New Smyrna, and lie said: “Os course they will. They grow there now. I have picked ripe fruit off from trees near New Smyrna many and many a time.” A Proper and Natural Step. Richmond Independent. The act of tlie Indianapolis common council, in deciding to contest the legality of tlie metropolitan police bill, although long deferred, is a most proper and natural step. Whatever the construction put upon the letter. in this case, it is undoubtedly a violation of the spirit of constitutional law. and affords just grounds for a contest. * * * It was an outrage, and though our Supreme Court has stooped to some very low political business, we believe they will pronounce the act contrary to law, right and freedom, no matter by what party perpetrated. A Vain Hope. Philadelphia Record. Senator Don Cameron said yesterday that lie was glad that he would have an ocean between him and the politicians in a week. He was tired of office-seeker3. He hoped that by the time he got back civil-service reform would have advanced so far that he would be entirely relieved of them. The ImlianApolls Ring. Bockvilln Republican. The Indianapolis Journal, by a simple statement ol facts, bns completely silenced such Republican papers as were disposed to howl about tlie “Indianapolis ring." A Boom for Little Phil. Cincinnati Enquirer. How does Hon. Phil. Thompson strike you as a candidate for Speaker of the next Congress? ffenitible Art Criticism. Nw Orleans Picayune. Art is going backward when it collects the antique and monkeys after old masters.

STATE EXCHANGE TABLE. Morsels Picked Up in the Columns of the County Press. Vigorous Views on the Kentucky Homicide —Remarkable Progress of IndianaPeculiar Legal Question Settled. Indiana’s Physical and Mental Progress. Lawrencebnrg Press. A man in middle age can remember when a Hoosier merchant did not care to write his residence on a New York hotel register, Indiana stood, in tlie popular estimation, as tlie concentration of ignorance. A Iloosier was supposed to be long and gawkish, green and aguish. And while he might have been expected to improve his material prospects slightly in the intervals between his hunting and fishing days and his shaking days, it was impossible that he could improve much mentally'. He might extend his clearings somewhat and get more hogs about him, hut the sun of scholarship would never rise in the Hoosier’s east. Now| look at Indiana. She is a central and pivotal State. AVhat names stand more in the public eye than those of her sons? Her consequence in the political, industrial, intellectual and literary world is recognized everywhere. Who omits Indiana in presidential forecasts? In the field of literature Indiana names are numerous. Indeed, we doubt if any State outside of New York and Massachusetts can furnish more and better original literary work. In scientific and philosophical directions she is not unknown. Some of her professors have a European reputation, and their share in current discussion is depended upon and reccognized by r the foremost publications. In tlie lecture field she sends both ladies and gentlemen all over the country', and she has lawyers whose practice runs into the great and famous cases of other States. In material growth the statistics tell an equally favorable story'. Everywhere the primitive buildings and appurtenances are gone, and the modern results of wealth, cultivation and good taste have replaced them. Heaven is no longer somewhere else, but here. The heart that y'earned for the higher and finer things in the more polished society' of older communities, finds them not superior to that which it finds at home. Many an inland city' of Indiana, whose site was a forest half a century ago, is at this moment mistress and possessor of all that can please a cultivated family abreast with the best thought of the times. Many a farm-house is an ideal home. Fixing It So Judge Hovvk Could See It. Vincennes News. A suit was brought before Judge Wei born, of Princeton, on a promissory- note. There was no defense possible, and there was little attempted. Judge Weiborn instructed the jury* and started them out to deliberate upon a verdict, when Attorney' Land jumped up and begged the court to be a little more explicit in his instruction on a particular point. Judge Weiborn protested that his instructions had been plain, so plain that any' man with common sense could not mistake them, and he declined to repeat. “But,” cried Mr. Land, “Your Honor can be more”—“Mr. Sheriff,” shouted the court, interrupting the lawyer; “fetch the jury' back for further instruction. I have made it clear enough for any man of common sense; but there may be an appeal, and I want to fix it so Judge Howk will be able to see it.” The Insane Asylum Difficulty. Richmond Palladium. This imbroglio is only' a ty'pe of those which occur at intervals at the benevolent institutions. They are hot-beds of intrigue and political and personal proscription. The Legislature acted wisely in providing for the erection of tlie additional asylums at other points than the capital. The Insane Hospital there is an overgrown and unwieldly concern, large enough for two and so constructed as to be divisible. Dr. Walker wished to “run” one, while Dr. Rogers was determined to control both. The result, in case the former had lived, would have been as it always is when “an irresistible force comes in contact with an immovable body”— a smash-up. It is almost certain that this will yet be the result. Republican control is the only remedy for the existing and chronic troubles. What to Do with the Mormon Apostles. Clay County Enterprise. When a Mormon preacher comes into Indiana and proceeds to preach the doctrine of polygamy,* instead of being greeted with audiences in open day he should be arrested and sent to the penitentiary with the same alacrity of judicial power as would be brought to bear upon an avowed horse-thief who should come into the State and hold meetings for the purpose of giving the people instructions ill the science of horse-stealing. It looks paradoxical that at the same time the government is seriously' engaged in devising plans for the extirpation of Mormonisrn tlie apostles of that very doctrine should be allowed to travel over the whole country and hold public meetings for the propagation of that same faith. Sense aud Nonsense. Logansport Journal. The prohibitionists in the strong Democratic States pursue a different course from their brethren in the strong Republican •States. In the latter the chief aim of the temperance people appears to be to punish the Republican party if it does not do exactly as they want it. Butin the Democratic States they take a more practical and sensible method. In Missouri, for instance, they desire the privilege of voting on a prohibitory amendment, but instead of spending their energies in punishing either party' they will organize all over tlie State and support those candidates who favor the submission of such a measure to the people. It is a pity that the same wisdom doesn’t characterize the methods of prohibitionists iu many'other States. Journalistic Pretensions. Rthusvlllo Journal, The people, as a rule, place correct estimates upon newspapers as upon everything else. They may oe deceived for a time by impudent pretensions and reckless assertions and assumptions, but in the long run their observations and comparisons enable them to strike a pretty fair balance between competitors and place the credit of prosperity where it properly belongs. This fact is especially commended to the little chups who delude themselves with the idea that hard lying will not only build up their own circulation hut at the same time tear down that of their haled superior. Dynamite No Good lor Ireland. North Manchester Journal. Whatever may be the truth of the wrongs the Irish people complain of, it is evident their burdens have not been lessened by anything the conspirators have done. Tho killing of Cavendish and Burke was a coldblooded and unprovoked murder, uncalled for by any net ol theirs, and could be of no benefit to* the suffering people of that unhappy island. The dynamite schemes and boycotting murders that have taken place in the past year proves to the world that the Irish agitators are a cowardly, murderous set, entirely unfit for life outside of a prison. An Example Not to Emulate. Madison Courier. Thompson had killed men before he slew Davis, certainly one, and the number is run up as high as seven. He deliberately killed Davis for an offense tire Jaw does not punish with death. He assumed to override the law and usurped the functions of grand jury, prosecutor, judge, Jury and executioner. lie wrecked one happy home at least, and for all

these things he should not be justified and set free—an example for other Kentuckian* to admire and emulate. No; far from it. He should be punished, and punished to the reatsonable limit of the law. A Ridiculous Proposition. Lafayette Journal. The talk among some Illinois Republican.* of David Davis for President is simply' ridiculous. Davis is a very able and doubtless patriotic man, but he is not the right sort of timber Republicans want for President. Tho Republican party' must nominate a man who has been a consistent supporter of the party, yet with independence enough to point out and endeavor to rectify' its mistakes. We do not want a machine man, neither do wo want one who believes that the party must be punished for its errors by' deserting it. Growth of th© Tariff Idea. New Albany Ledger. Eighteen months ago the Ledger, the Michigan City Dispatch and perhaps one or two others were the only Democratic papers in this State advocating a judicious tariff. Then it was almost considered treason to do so, by the free-trade shriekers. But public opinion had not been aroused—the people had not been heard from. Now the doctrine is popular, and conservative ideas on the tariff will most certainly be embodied in tho next national Democratic platform. Good Advice for Husbands. Richmond Independent. The late tragedy in Kentucky illustrates the danger arising from giving a too ready ear to the stories of irresponsible persons against our friends. Too many husbands are apt to listen to the breath of slander against .their own wives. If Phil Thompson had believed his own wife as quick as tie did this notorious Buckner woman, he would have spared a crime and much sorrow and trouble. Important Legal Question. Kokomo Dispatch. This legal question is just at present engaging the study of our lawyers: Can a man, under the laws of Indiana, marry his widow’s sister? B. F. Harness, after a* half day’s search of the authorities, decided that he could, and his fellows are now making life a dreary waste for him.'lf a man have a widow, he must be dead, and, therefore, not in conditio:: for Hy'men’s knot. See? Tlie Decline of Greenbackery. Bluffton Chronicle. The silly greenback doctrine has been before the people of this country for six years, | and the more the people think over it the less they want to have to do with it. A few scheming politicians still make a living oft* of their deluded followers, and that is all there is in it. Prohibition Will Not Prohibit. Lawrenceburg Register. A constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquor in Pennsylvania was defeated in the Legislature by' 131 to 17. The judgment of old and experienced communities, likethntof experienced statesmen, is that prohibition is impracticable. It does not prohibit. The Newspaper Market Overstocked. Richmond Palladium. There are more newspapers than there is an adequate and respectable support for. The evil lias a tendency to correct itself bv a “weeding out” process, just as the world is relieved periodically of its superabundant population by war, pestilence nd famine. Trial by Newspaper. Elkhart Journal. In cases of a nature that must necessarily come under judicial cognizance the province of the newspaper should be confined to presenting facts. This is perfectly right, so long as the conclusions are left for the reader and general public to draw for themselves. Something to Be Thought Os. Kokomo Gazette. One man or any set of men do not constitute the Republican party*. It is composed of the thinking, intelligent masses in the United States. The people make the party. The officers are servants; the people the masters. Decidedly. Jay County Enterprise. Politically the State of Indiana looks much better than it did a year ago. In 1884 it will again take its place as a Republican State. A Maryland Man Kills a Friend In a Fit of Frenzy. Baltimore, May 17.—A murder which has some of the features of the Pocasset tragedy was committed on the Hanson estate, neat Uchester, Howard county, Md. Edward Hanson, a young man thirty-three y'ears of age, killed Mr. Charles R. White, a man of sixty'y’ears. White drove over to the Hanson farm this morning and asked for Edward, who was not in the house at the time. He waited until he heard him coming from the barn, and stepped out on the porch to meet him. Hanson rushed upon him from behind the house, and, brandishing a knife in one hand, with the rage and fury of a maniac began firing at Mr. White with a revolver which he carried in the other. He fired six shots, three of which hit his victim, one of them passing through his brain and killing him instantly'. Then with the knife lie cut his victim’s throat, nearly severing the head from the body'. When this was done, he turned to the lady members of his household, who were wild with alarm, and said threateningly: “Be quiet; it was the will of God, it was the will of God!” Subsequently he said: “He killed tuy sister Mary. My mother called me to her death-bed, and made me sw’ear that I would kil him.” He also gave a variety' of other reasons for the act. One was that Mr. White was King of the Northern Amazons and he (Hanson) was Prince of the Southern Amazons, and that MrrWlnte imitated tho flash of his ey'es, and made people think he was Hanson. Hanson was taken to jail at Ellicott City. Alpha Delta Phi. Cleveland, May 17.—-At the convention of the Alpha Delta Phi. to-day, the following officers w’erc elected: President, Phillips Brooks, of Boston, Harvurd chapter; general secretary, Prof. J. A. Deremer, of Schenectady, N. Y., Union chanter; treasurer, Hon. H. L. Sprague, of New York, Cornell chapter; recorder, Theodore L. Mead, of Cornell chapter. Members at large of the executive council—class of 1886—William Talcott, of New York city; J. Williams, of Philadelphia; Prof. L. Dolph Werner, of New York city. Members of the executive council for defunct chapters, B. W. Franklin, of Geneva; A. 8. Sullivan, of Miami; 11. A. Riley, of Yale; C. E. Sprague, of Alabama; J. A, Rosevelt, of Cumberland; Georee.W. Wessiler, of Urbana. The chapters named their New York members of the executive council as follows: Hamilton, R, S. RuddefF; Columbia, A. L. Maniere; Amherst, Gt M, Pratt; Harvard, J. J. Townsend, jr.; llrunonian, B. Barker, jr.; Bowdoin, A. J. Libby; Hudson, H. M. Day; Peninsular, O. M. Uood9ell; Dartmouth, H. H. Twomblyj Rochester, J. M. Hudnuk; Manhattan, J. V. V. Olcott, Williams, F. L. Stetson; Middle* town, W. D. Leonard; Phi Kanpa, Georgo Kneeland; Kenyon, George J. Feet; Union, William R. Rankin; Cornell, Henry L, Sprague. Riot on the Northern Pacific, liosF.MAN, M. TANARUS„ May 17.—The sheriff o{ tliis county received a telegram on Tuesday night from Gallatin City, stating that a riot had occurred among the laborers on the Northern Pacific railroad, and that the town" was in the tiands of tlie mob. Sheriff Blakely and posse armed at once, and arriving at Gallatin, surrounded it, compelling all to throw up their hands. Tlie leaders were arrested and thrown in Boscman jail.