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THE DAILY JOURNAL. DT JNO. C. NEW Jfc SON. ♦ For Fate* of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pace. MONDAY, MAY 28, 1883. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can I>e found nt the following pucos: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, So Boulevard lies Capucines. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels, WASHINGTON, i). C.—Brentano'a 1,15 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINN ATI—J. V. Hawley A Cos .( 154 Tine street. LOUISVILLB—C. T. Dearing, corner Fifth and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. Some talk having arisen as to the propriety of changing the names of New Y'ork and Brooklyn, now that they have become Siamese twins, the Philadelphia Press kindly suggests Sodom and Gomorrah as appropriate substitutes. The report is now current in Ireland that Itossa and Tynan are really in the employ of the British government. The likelihood of this has heretofore been broadly intimated. Certainly they could not be more valuable to England than they are and have been had they been bribed with British gold. The autocrat of all the Russias got through with bis coronation ceremonies at Moscow yesterday, keeping his head on his shoulders and both his feet on tiie ground. The Great Northern Bear has again an Emperor upon whom the holy anointing oil has been poured. But yesterday’s success in autocracy will not stop the march of the people to autonomy. The “little children” of Russia will someday outgrow their subservience to the White Czar. A Baptist Sunday-school, of New’ York, has declined to take part in a public gathering of Sunday-schools to be held in that city. The reasons given are that the place of meeting is an improper one, being associated with circuses and prize-fights; also, that the assembly is to be reviewed by the Board of Aldermen and other dignitaries, who are not worthy of the respect of good children. The head of that Sunday-school, it may be remarked, is level. A Washington correspondent says: “Col. George Butler, the Governor’s nephew, has returned from his winter campaign as wagonmaster at General Terry’s Montana headquarters. He thinks the latter is a great failure as a commander, and predicts further trouble with the Indians in that section. He expects to try his fortunes in Mexico this fall.” As Colonel Butler made his entrance into Terry’s headquarters in an advanced stageof intoxication, and spent most of his time while there in the guard-house, it is hardly necessary to inquire what the General thinks of him.

Maurice Daly, the winner of the championship in the billiard tournament at New York, loses none of liis good judgment on account of his success. He says he will play no match games until the fall. So far as the championship is concerned, lie says that if either of his competitors want it “they are welcomed to it; there are enough champions without me.” His excuse for not caring to hold the championship is that if he is to accept every challenge to play it would take too much time from his business, and he is not willing to neglect it. Hesavs. however, that he will play anybody for SI,OOO a side next fall. H arvard University has a white elephant on its hands. It lias hitherto been customary to confer the honorary title of LL. 1). on the Governors of Massachusetts. The scheme has worked very well up to this time, but it has run afoul of General Butler. The overseers of the institution are now agonizing over the question, though, of course, there can be but one conclusion —the degree will be conferred. But what is a degree worth conferred as matter of course, and for reasons wholly extraneous to the recognized purpose for which such pleasing honors were instituted? It will he a matter of surprise if Governor Butler does not decline to accept it. ■ The Journal is neither a “bull” nor a “bear,” and its columns cannot knowingly be used for the purpose of putting down prices or running them up to the benefit of speculators and grain gamblers. We have printed the news as to the condition of the crops, gathered by careful and impartial men, from which it is very evident that the wheat crop will be considerably less than an average, while the corn crop is still a matter for future development. Other crops are fairly good, so far as the present prospects indicate. The staple crops will not be so large this year as last, nor as they were in 1881. hut there is no probability of a famine, and no one but reckless speculators are interested in creating a feeling that will warrant a fictitious price for breadsttiffs. Conceding all that is necessary as to the shortness in wheat and the doubt as to corn, the fact still remains, taking all the the crops together, and the country by and large, that there is little or no occasion for uneasiness or for a belief that the solid, substantial, legitimate business of the country will seriously suffer. Oeneralßkauukoard’r assertion that the negro race of the South is decreasing in pojvulation and also multiplying largely in the way of criminals, will stand a considerable amount of contradiction and explanation. In the first place the census of IKBO tliows an increase in colored population of the South. In the second place, while the Southern prisons do contain a large percentigc of blacks, there are several cogent reasons or it. So far as they dare, the o!' 1 slave

States have discriminated against the blacks in legislation. This is done covertly in most cases, but is done all the same. And in the administration of the laws, the hardships thrown upon the blacks are both notorious and scandalous. Doctor Redfield showed by the inspection of court and prison records in several of the Southern States that negroes were imprisoned under long sentences for the most trivial offenses. In one case ten years was given for the larceny of only two dollars; in another case forty years for stealing a third-rate mule, and that hundreds were incarcerated for simple misdemanors, so that Beauregard’s statement, in the face of these facts, loses all its force. Offenses that the courts ignore in white men are rigidly prosecuted against the negro. Colonel Bowelesvisceratah can shoot his man and go acquit, but Sambo steals a ham and gets a life sentence. It comes with exceedingly bad grace from a man who has lived most of his life upon the fruits of the patient toil of the black man to make such statement*.

THE WORKINGMAN AND THE TARIFF Quite an interesting sketch from the pen of some unknown mechanic appeared in a recent issue of the Indianapolis News. The argument seemed to be that the workingmen are in favor of free trade because it will better their wages; and because, in free-trade England, a man can buy twice, or more than twice, as much for his $1 of wages as he can for his $2 of wages here. The first assumption is, we believe, like an inverted pyramid, an immense mass of assertion standing uoon an exceeding small point of fact. It would be no trouble to cite hundreds of petitions that have been sent to Congress from hundreds of thousands of workingmen asking and demanding a protective tariff. It is difficult to find a single intelligent mechanic or laboring man who favors freo trade. Charles IL Fitch, of New Ilaven, Conn., says: “American protection has given the laborer higher intelligence and self-assertive power, has varied bis comforts, and hasoften doubled, trebled, quadrupled, or more, the capability of a man to produce actual wealth.” William A. A. Carsev, builder, of New York, and representing the Laborers’ Union, made the following statement to the Tariff' Commission, in giving facts: (1.) “That to develop our own resources, make our own exchanges, and fill our own markets, would employ all the energies of our people, and would be a better and more profitable trade than that with pauper nations. (2.) “That to eat our own food and manufacture our own goods at any standard of cost or rate of exchange is a wiser and better policy than to employ others to make our goods and eat our food for us, unless we wish to build up an idle aristocracy, with an idle, pauper people. Therefore, we ask a tariff on all goods or materials that can be produced or made in this country, not as a means of revenue, but as a policy to protect and employ American labor and develop the resources cf the nation, and high enough to allow a fair profit to the American manufacturer and producer on his capital invested, after paying as high a wage as is required to keep up to a high standard the American laborer.” Mr. Frank Purcell, representing the Independent Labor party, of New York city, declared that there were 450,000 men, women and children at work in the manufacturing industries of that city, dependent for the means of life on the welfare and protection of those industries, and representing a labor and product value of $1,000,000,000 per annum, and said: “We ask you, what care we for a government or its revenues, or what benefit would it be to our class, if, by a free-trade policy, our industries were destroyed and we were idle tramps upon the streets?” There is a problem clearly put, which no free trader can solve. It is evident that if the factory goes to ruin, the factory hands must go to beggary and starvation. But we suppose able writers on free trade might say: “We will be willing to see the manufacturer broken up. his hands dismissed, their children taken from school and made to drudge, if only there is a possibility (not a certainty) of our being able to buy a few articles of British manufacture a little cheaper than we can now.” Such is the doctrine they advocate. If they do not hold this view, then they must argue thus: “First, reduce the tariff and you reduce the manufacturers’ profits; second, when the manufacturer makes less profit then lie will pay higher wages; third, therefore, a reduction in the tariff which will break up the manufacturer will cause him to pay liis employes better wages than he does now.” If this is good reasoning then the free trader has at least some show of right on his side. What are the facts as to wages? The statistics will show that skilled laborers in the manufactures get in per cents, here more than in England, as follows: Workmen in glass from 50 to 60 per cent, more. Workmen In alkalis 100 percent, more. Workmen in albums 100 per cent mote. Wokmen in earthenware from 100 to 125 per cent. more. To change to weekly wages: United England. State*. Brick layer* SB. 12 $ 1 3.00 Mason* 8.16 15.00 Carpenter* 8 25 12 00 Painter* 7.25 15.00 What is the relative cost of living? We quote again from officially prepared tables: United Eugland. State*. Beef 20 12 Mm ton 10 l‘j Veal 20 12 Pork 16 14 Flour 4 4 Blitter B 0 25 Coffee 30 35 Sugar 8 10 Taking these tables ns a basis it seems a rather hard sum for the free trader. Tell us now the English painter with his $7.25 a week, paying twenty cents for beef, sixteen cents for pork, thirty cents for coffee and eight cents for sugar, can buy ns much as the American painter with his sls per week, paying twelve cents for beef, fourteen cents for pork, thirty-five cents for coffee, and ten cents for sugar? It is a fact beyond dispute that, according to the testimony of intelligent travelers, the American

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mechanics and laborers enjoy more of the comforts and luxuries of life than those of any other country. Mr. Peelle may congratulate himself that he has a consistent record as the friend of the laboring men of his district. Jacob Meriwisky, a Polander, of course, came to this country only two mouths ago. He concluded to go into the saloon business, and selected Centralia, Pa., as the place, as there were a number of his fellow-countrymeu living there. He could not read nor write English, so with a faith wholly foreign to the climate of Pennsylvania, he had his customers enter up charges against themselves. The result was worse than a powder-mill explosion. Last week he had bills made out against his numerous creditors, and ull the promiuent business men of the place were favored with an account from Polish Jake and a polite request to call and settle. Many who were thus honored were highly Indignant, as they had never been In the saloon and not often near It. But as the secret of the trick leaked out, indignation gave way to amusement. An investigatiou of the books showed that Jake's customers had employed the names of great men with a prodigality pecularto the western hemisphere. It was found that Henry Ward Beecher owes $42; John I>. Gough, $35; Roscne Colliding, $39; Freddy Gebbard, sl7; Mrs. Langtry; S3O, and Maoe and Blade, S4O. The sheriff closed out the saloon immediately. The loss to the saloon keeper is S7OO. It would be a good idea for Mr. Meriwisky to take lessons of the heathen Chinee. He would learn tricks of him that would be serviceable not to say indispensable in the great aud growing republic of the Occident. The mystery about how eels propagate la solved, according to a reporter of the West Chester, Pa., Keoord. He claims to have found out that eels raise their young much as other fish, generally laying their eggs on an old bit of timber, and further, that having found some of these on a stick of rottou wood, he hatched them out by keeping them in moderately warm water for several days, and fed the little one* on melted tallow or oil until they wero big enough to take care of themselves. The same authority says: “This spring, John F. lugrum. one of West Chester's famous tishermeu, caught an eel in which there was a well-developed roe, the fish being apparently nearly ready to spaw’n. Ho said that it was the first time in his experience that he had ever seeu such a thing, and there are many fisherman who never have.” Scientists heretofore have been divided on this point, some maintaining that no organs of reproduction could be discovered about the eel, while others mildly maintained that some traces of roe had been fouud. According to this Pennsylvania expert, the theory that cels go into an adjoining towiisnip to rear their young is apocrj plia), and must bo abandoned. What sclcuoe needs most nowadays is a well-equipped corps of newspaper reporters. Nature will be turned inside out by them, uud made to reveal all her occult mysteries.

The New York Times says: ‘‘Millions of bushels of surplus wheat are promised this spring from tiie fields that lie east and west of the* Cascade range, and in a few years the great northern wheat belt will stretch ae.ross the continent from tiie lakes to the Pacific, broken only by the mountains and the hilly regions where cattle-raising will be the chief Industry.” The Chioago Tribune says; ‘•As the spring wheat crop is not yet much past its seeding time, little can bo done beyond guessing at the yield by reference to the acreage. There is thus room yet for a wide margin of uncertainty in regard to our total wheat crop; and yet enough is known to justify grave fears that our surplus from the next crop will be small in comparison with the wants of Europe. There is, however, a moderate surplus of the wheat of 1882 in reserve, especially in Ohio and Indiana, runners in those Btates having been cautious in selling ever since last, winter set in, and it cannot now be said that this re serve will he insufficient to tide over for another year.” And the Saturday Herald, of this city, says: “The croukerßand gamblers in grain ought not to have free access to the papers for the purpose of benefiting themselves by creating despondency in others. It is too early in the season to set the wolf howling at, the doors of the famishing homes of the land. At this time there is no sign that the hungry wolf will have any mournful bowline to do. The prospects are for afayly good crop.” Ex-Justice Leonard claims to have found in the Flushing Asylum for the Insane one Barrett H. Vanaucken whom he regards as perfectly sane, and he has, therefore, sued out a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release. The patient is a retired merchant, sixty-two years of age, and worth about $1,000,000. For fifteeu years he has been an inmate of the asylum. Mr. Leonard visited the institution in tho interest of another patieut, and in a long conversation became convinced that Vanaucken was sane, mid simply as a matter of humanity seeks to secure his release. Vanaucken was regularly commit led, and there seems to have been no advantage taken of him. It may be, therefore, that Leonard is mistaken; that he came upon the man in a lucid interval so common to lunatics, and that Vanauckcn's insanity may again develop Itself. Already an active canvass has begun for the position made vacant by the death of Bishop i’eck. The election will tin made by tiie next General Conference in Philadelphia In May, 1884. William F. Ninde, president of the Northwestern University at Evanston, 111., is regarded as the leading candidate.—Current item. This will he in the nature of new* to Methodists, who were not aware that the death of Bishop Peck left any “position” vacant. The death of three bishops since the last General Conference, and the increasing age of Bishop Sininsoii will, doubtless, compel the election of additional superintendent*, but they will not be elected to fill vacaucles. A young Jewess of Elmira, N. Y.. who mil away ami married a youth of the same town, will find the old folks unforgiving when she comes back. After they learned of the git r* act, crape was hung at the front door of the family residence and an announcement of her death sent to the newspapers. The parents objected to the young man because ho was a Roman Catholic, and renounced the! r daughter for marrying outside of her own faith. The parents are fools of the first quality. A BEAUTIFUL miss of Pittsburg has fallen in love with an Italian midget who travels with a ‘show and is going to marry him. The girl’s mother objected until she was informed that the midget was a genuine count, when the good woman's tear* suddenly changed to smiles, and shQ gave her consent. She doubtless argued that a little couut was not necessarily of no account and that the title would he uo larger if the owner was nine feet tali. A JURY In a murder trial at Philadelphia were all mytteriously poisoned last week, Though several were very sick, none died. A hung Jury is common ejiougb, but a poisoned Jury is something new. It is to be hoped that the star-route Jury will not hear of this. A wholesale poisoning there would turn back the clock of civilized progress not less than a decade. George Henry Frost, of New York, has established a bad precedent. There being another George Henry Frost In the city, they experienced some little difficulty in getting their mail matters mixed, until at last this particular George Henry got the Supreme Court to make it George Howell Frost. Suppose the John Smiths

should take a similar oourse. Our courts would be blockaded agaiust all other cause* for the period of several month*. The proper way to remedy this difficulty is to make it a penal offense for Smith to name his uumerons boys John. A little banging would have a wholesome effect. Dr. Cowie, of the Department of Agriculture, beaded a delegation and went to investigate the Washington cow, whose health bus been a matter of national concern for the past week. After a diagnosis by tbe combined intellects It was decided that the disease was only common pneumonia and not the pleura variety. It was all the same to the cow, however. She is dead. PniLADBLPniA is going to repave it* diamond street. If pure gold is thought of as a substitute it may be as weli to say that experience has shown gold not to wear well in cities where the inhabitants have no wiugs. Bowlders are really better.

ABOUT PKOPJUjJ. The photographers say that there la no longer a demand for Mrs. Laugtry’s pictures. BiR Michael Bass, the brewer of “Bass’s pale ale,” has given away to different towns for libraries, baths, churchoß, clubs, etc., sums that foot up to £173,000. The period or military service of. Prince Louis Jerome Bonaparte, second son of Prince Napoleon, will begin in about two years. He is now ut Cheltenham College. The 10th and 11th of next November will be observed in Germany, in accordance with a royal decree, as the four hundredth anuiversary of the birth of Martin Luthor. Mrs. Ottksdohfkr, the wife of the owner of the New York Stasis Zeitung, proposes to erect turee buildiugs, at a cost of $175,000, for the free use of the German Dispensary in that city. Jefferson Davis, who was dangerously ill last week is now dangerously well. He called for liis pen the other day, aud there are grave fears that he is getting ready to perpetrate another book. Alexander H. Stephens, the last Governor of Georgia, could not walk. Henry D. McDaniel, the present Governor, is a very bad stammerer and cannot talk. Bur, like Stephens, he Is u man of great ability and exalted character. There are two essays iu this week's Criticone on “The Obsolescence of Barrel-organ Poetry.” the other on the Spanish-Aiuerlcan poet uud patriot, Julio Arboleda. Miss Dora Head Goodale contributes a poem, “In May.” Miss Rebecca McLean, tho Staten Island heiress who was recently sued for SIO,OOO damages for breach of promise by Bernard Barwick, was married on Thursday evening to George Hofer, a journeyman printer, and the couple will spend the season at Saratoga. Mr. Ruskin recently paid $3,000 for a manuscript book made by Miss Alexander, a young American lady living in Florence, which treats of tho folk-lore of the Tuscan peasau is, is engrossed iu a copper-plate hand, aud illuminated with pictures that are said to be gems of art. Sir Arthur Sullivan will not let tho brandnew spurs of his knighthood rust in idleness. He is hard at work with Mr. Gilbert, preparing another opera—not ot the “Pinafore” pattern. It is to be something grand, ami a hitherto un-heard-of prima donna—from the United States preferred—is to be round to bring it out next fall. Mrs. E. A. Burke, wire or Major K. A. Burke, editor of the New Orleans Tiuies-Democrat, has accepted the superintenueucy of Lafayette Square, the moat beautiful spot in that city, whereupon the New Orleahs papers are rejoicing, us Mrs. Burke is a public-spirited lady, and will discharge the duties of the position faithfully. There are few homes in Washington so pleasant to visit us that of Senator Voorhees, of Indiana. The Senator and his charming wife and daughter-in-law kuow how to make people enjoy themsel ve*. They are so genuinely kind and amiable that it is a real pleasure to know them and feel the iufiueuce they exercise upon those who come in coutact with them. Colonel Ingeksoll, “during impassioned moments,” grows quite red iu the face and seems to gasp for breath. “I was afraid,” said one of the star-route jurors to a reporter of the Washington Star, “that he would drop down yesterday. He became so flushed and his breath came so hard that I would not have been surprised to see him fall over dead with apoplexy.” There is a great deal of surprised comment umoue Judge W. IX Kelley’s friends at the report that his trouble has developed into caticer of the mouth. Judge Keiley himself stated, when in Washington, about a mouth ago, that Dr. Hayes Agnow, of Philadelphia, and one or two other emiuent physicians, who had before operated upon the nffeotion, had declared it was not cancerous. A Philadelphia Quaker declares absurd the statement of a New York paper that Quakerism is in its decline. The society in Philadelphia, he say*, is as strong u utnencally as ever, and ir. a healthy financial condition. There are seven meeting-houses in tne city and vicinity, which are regularly and largely attended by young people, who, through want of understanding, may lack the zeal of their elders, hut a tendency among them to withdraw from membership hits not been observed. THE resignation of the Rev. Dr. Hinsdale as president or Hobart College—occasloned by infirm health—is an event which will be regretted sincerely by the alutuni and friends of the institution. Up to the time when his health became impaired, the administration of Dr. Hinsdale was eminently successful. Tho trustees, recognizing his value to the institution, have given him a year’s leave of absence, with a handsome \rift. At the end of the year he will return to the college as professor of geology, and, it is to be hoped, iu full mental and physical strength. Queen VurroKtA is said to be suffering from fits of deep depression which neither her family nor her physicians have been able to alleviate. Bhc is euid to take a gloomy view of all occurrences, and refuses all advice. She was particularly concerned about the journey of her son, tho Duke of Edinburgh and his w ife, the sister-in-law of the Czar, to Moscow, and in her contemplation or their dangers from the Nihilist* she saw all sorts of horrors. The way she clings to her daughter, the Princess Beatrice, is pathetic, and site is said to bo the only one who exercise* the slightest influence over her imperial mother. The richest young unmurried woman on the Pacific coast is Miss Jennie Flood, only daughter of tho bonanza king. The richest prospective heiress in California Is Miss Hattie Crocker, the only daughter of Charles Crocker, another of t lie railroad syndicate, Blie. also, is a charming girl, uud, like Miss Flood, is rather plain in appearance. Hho is noted for her charities and domestic virtues. She was sought in marriage by Lord Beaumont, an English nobleman, but she gave him no encouragement, and it is believed prefers to remain single. Mr. Crooker has two other children, sons, but his immense wealth will give each a princely fortune. Turoenibfv several weeks ago suffered repeatedly from attacks of mania, during which nc endeavored to ovude the vigilauco of his attendants aud break his head by dashing It against the wall. When his frieud Vlardot, husband of the famous vocalist “Garcia,” died, it was at first resolved to keep tho matter secret from him. But hi* physician determined on a hold stroke. He walked up to him, and without any preparation said: “My dear Mr. Turgenieff, your friend Viariot”—here the patieut anxiously looked up, and the Doctor finished the sentence—“your friend Viardot is dead.” Tue | patient sank down In hi* chair, inarticulate sounds came from Ills lips, aud tears filled his

eyes. He had recovered his memory, and this faot encouraged the hope that he may yet recover. THE SPIRIT OP THE PRESS, Tiie theory of protection is the greatest good of the whole—of absolutely each and every member or society. It is not satisfied, as American Democracy used to profess to be, with “the greatest good of the greatest number,” if the minority are to be subjected to the greatest of all evils—slavery.—Chicago luter Ocean. If the evil-doer had before him a term of hard labor, there would be fewer petty criminals to be punished. This is tiie aspect of the case outside of the jail. In the jail, tho inmate* not only corrupt each other and gradually sink lower and lower in the social Beale, hut they make their punishment expensive to the law-abiding citizens outside.-New York Times. The Americau people are essentially practical, aud as the idea of utilizing the .tears of youth, not only ror education, as heretofore understood, but also lor acquiring expertness in a particular industrial employment, is eminently economical and practical, it is difficult to limit the changes that may be efleoted iu public school instruction.— Bi, Louis Republican. We have abundant room in this country for all immigrants who have had energy enough to come here of their own motion; but that tbe English should undertake to dump upon our shores the unfortunates for whom they feel themselves responsible, simply as an easy means of evading this responsibility—that is something against which wo must protest.—Philadelphia Times. Tiie bishops and clergy will yield obedienoe to the Pope’s orders. Will the Irish luity follow their example? If so, then they are not yet fitted for political independence or self-government, and should cease any further agitation to obtain it, for national self-government, and pupal dictation are incompatlnie the oue with the other. There can be no self-government where the governing power does not originate in tbe people themselves.—Chicago Tribune. It causes government no conoern In the United Btates what priest or preacher may teach. All teachings find their way into the open air and are tested in the atmosphere of free thought and discussion. The power of the church to embarrass the government arises solely from the connections between tiie two. Wherever things seem to point out entire and immediate separation as best for both government aud church, it seems strange that there is uot instant agreement and separation.—Cincinnati News Journal. There are men In Pittsburg and the other great iiou centers to-day who are mill-owners mid capitalists who began their lives as pudtiler* and feeders. They gained their successes by individual skill and force of character, not by heading strikes. The toreigner, be he Irish Catholic or Protestant German, is entitled to such wages and such respect and such place among us us his work and individual merit demand. That is ail which native A inn leans grant to each other. He has a right to no more. —New York Tribune. Has the thought occurred to anybody that we had a parade through tho streets yesterday, with the President of the United State* seated in an open carriage, not a soldier near him, not a policeman witbiu reach, and shouts of hearty Welcome going up from thousands of voices? That In Moscow a similar parade is taking place, dazzling in its splendor, but with barricades of bullets and walls of steel surrounding it, and with the Czar of ail the Russia*dreading at every step an explosion beneath his feet or the whizzing of a messenger of death through the air?—New York World. Every outrage they [the striking ooal mineral commit blit serves to enlist public sentiment against them. Tne spectacle of them tiring revolvers, tramping around the country with beer Keg*, aud adding actual crime to tlicir other foolishness, need be of but short duration to bring our tho requisite force to subdue them. The perfect iusaoity of the idea that the people of this country will stand any such nonsense does uot need to be dwelt on. If tbe strikers want to fully test the strength of tlielr policy they hud better kill a few people.—St. Louis Glooe-Democrat. Many thousand millions lia we been invested within the past twenty years in the improvement and extension of means of transportaion—in railroads, canals, telegraphs, better harbors, improved rivers ahd more perfect ships. Asa result all the world gets cheaper products, but this is not an evidence of an appreciation in the purchasing power of gold. Gold buys more today of various commodities than at almost any ottier time in the world’s history, In part because the movement of those commodities to the principal markets of tbe world has been astoulshingly cheapened.—New York Tribune. It is understood that if a strike cannot be sustained on its own merits it is use less to continue it. The marker, not physical force, is the arbiter iu such matters. Tiie Lull appreciation of this kind or knowledge will put an end to the strong animosities often engendered between employe and employer, and strikes will become no more than a perfectly legitimate refusal to close u bargain. Many of them have reached this plane already. Events soon show which party Is mistaken. The errors of Judgment attending them are often costly, but there is no bloodshed or bulldozing about them.—St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat. If, as Irishmen seem practically to-maintain, their existence impose* on their social superiors the duty or supporting them, it imposes on them the reciprocal duty of obedience and service. It excludes, among other things, the idea of selfgovernment. Protection ail tho world over and ail limo through implies dependence. Political rreodom aud social villemige cannot possibly go together. And nothing cun l>e more incongruous than the spectacle or a people agitating at tiie Hume time for the acknowledgment of their independence and for relief from tiie terms of their own contracts on the ground that they cannot no trusted to make their own contracts. New York 'l imes. They who are agitating for a religious crusade for the prohibition amendment cannot be made to tell the public tbe truth 8 to the effect of the amendment, uud that if they could succeed tn their crusade it would come out at nothing. There are inuuy earnest women who are devoting zeal to this agitation. That they should not be wise in constitution*, and should not take exception when men, and especially preachers, tell them that prohibition by tbe constitution will prohibit, is no discredit to them; hut that men should delude them, and should try to get up a fanatical crusade which has no tempmance in it, and no possible advance of any temperance cause, is discreditable to them.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette

THE B RIGHTS. The Burial-Place of the Ex-Senator— Something About His Daughter. Interview with It. J. bright. •‘Mr. Bright, where iH vour uncle, Jesse D. Bright, the former United States Senator, from Indian id” “At Ifalt t more, tn Greenmount cemetery. Ills daughter married Lnurisou Kings, of Baltimore, theonlv full brother of George Biggs, the Washington banker. George Kigus’sfather w.istwloe married, and these boys were by the first wife. Mv uncle, who died more than ten years ago, was several years younger than my father, wlm had been paralyzed, though my father survived him several years, .lesse Bright always looked toward Baltimore as the place for him to retire. He liked its tranquillity, its agreeable society and Its comrortablo homes ami goo.l living. His daughter, Mrs. Riggs, has a family of eight sons tint 1 think would make the fortune or Bar nurn or any great showman who could get.them. They arc of a size, flesh and health that is astonishing.” “Was Laurlson Biggs a man of much means?” “Yes, very well-to-do, but of course not of the wealth of George Biggs. Liurison probably never had the ambition to he possessed of so much money as George lUggs. The latter died worth *6,000,000 at least. He was a very peculinr man. If he took a dislike to any Doily his opinion could not. he chatigod: but be was aiso strong in his affections, and he gave away a great deal of money that will never he heard of, to artists particularly. They could always go to him and get assistance. In the panic of 1857 George Riggs wrote to his brother to send him any ready cash he had to meet demands from that, unexpected crisis. Laiiriftou first son t, him about *60,000, and lie converted some other matters into money and raised the figure, to about *200.000, and then telegraphed to New York to break open his box in Elisha Biggs’s house, and forward what was there. The house, without any difficulty, rode out the panic, and it made them so strong that In 1878, after J. Cooke’s failure, there were actually *14,000,000 forced upon this house by depositors without interest, who, instead of taking their money out of the hank, got it together and rammed It into the hank on aoeoinit of Its previous character and success. George Biggs told me about that time that the amount or ids deposits gave him more trouble than anything that happened to him.” “Mr. Bright, I thought you were a KetitucKiant” “No-, I niu an Indlanian. According to my view, Indiana, and especially southern Indiana, Is the greatest epuntrv uuder.the sun. Its people have such courage, sincerity and aeuse.” Getting There Kll. Rate rday Herald. The Journal is reaching out fora largo State circulation, aud la said to be getting it.

WASHINGTON TELEGRAMS Official Notice of Peace Between Peru and Chili. MivJor Nickerson and His Record of Servioc •-Federal Officers In Alabama Indicted—Revenue Districts. PERU AND CHILD Official Information of the Signing of th 4 Treaty of Peace, Washington, May 27.—Senor Gt'd-y. Chilian minister, lias advices from his government vis the Mexican legation, Paris, announcing the ratification of tne treaty of peace between Chill and Peru. His advices state that Geucral Igleslas, who signed the treaty on behalf of Peru, 1 acknowledged in tho whole of northern and ceutrai Peru. The terms of the treaty iuoluds the cession to Chill for ten years, of the provinces of Tarapaca, Araca aud Taena. Provision is made that on the expiration of that term tho question to whom shall the oedoi territory thereafter belong shall be submitted to the popular vote of the people or the territory, tho couutry to whom tbe territory is voted to pa£ the other $10,000,000 before acquiring possession. Senor Godoy says northern and central Peru, which has acknowledged Iglesia’s constitution, is about five-sixths of the whole territory of Peru, and Include* the capital,Lima,and the principal seaport, Callao. lie says, also, that the treaty provides for the occupation by Chill of the ceded territory duriug the ten years covered by tne terms of the cessiou, and iu all probability the Chilian army of occupation now iu Lima will remain there until the Peruvian government is fully organized and order entirely restored. Seuor Godoy states that term* of the treaty wore dictated by the Chilian plenipotentiary and General Igle.sias’ representative at Lima, and forwarded to General fglesias in northern Peru. Having been signed by nim, the treaty was returned to Lima and from there sent to Santiago de Chill, where it was ratified by the Chilian government, which on the 24th Distant promulgated it. GENERAL AND PERSONAL. Reduciug tbe Number ot Revenue Districts on Business Principles. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May 27.—Deputy and Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue Rogers i* of opinion that the number of revenue districts cannot be reduced more than thirty, and it Is said it has beeulnformally decided to make that about the limit of shrinkage. The cousolidatiou will be made ou strictly business politics entering very slightly into the question. Why Major Nickerson Wanted an Attested Record of Service. Washington, May 26.—Some time previous to the institution of his suit for divoroe. Major Nickerson applied to the War Department for an attested record of his military services. He assigned as a reason for preferring this request that he proposed going abroad, and expected to visit Egypt to witness the military operations there incident to the war thou in progress between the English government and the Khedive, ami us bo (Nickerson) was not a graduate of West Point, lie desired to use as credentials an uttested copy of his military record. Although contrary to precedent, the department acceded to liis request. Tiie papers were duly prepared in the Adjutant-general’* office, signed by Secretary Lincoln and attested with tbe seal of tiie department. Major Nickerson did not go abroad, but ir. now trauspires that tho papers were used upon the tnalofhis divorce cause to establssh thehign standing aud record oi’ the plaintiff Iu the suit. Indictments Against Federal Officials. Washington, May 26 -The Departmeut ot Justice is informed that the grand jury at Montgomery, Ala., yesterday returned six additional lodiotments agaiust Paul Strobach, United States marshal, eighteen against Thomas Jefferson Scott, register or the United States Laudoffice, nine aguinst Samuel Oliver, Marshal Strobaoh’s chief denpty, and four against W. B. Jackson, deputy of ex-Marshal Osborn, All of the übova indictments, except oue, are for perjury. Those against Marshal Strohacli are for rendering false, fictitious and fraudulent accounts. To-duy the court?sustained the indictments against Strobaoh in every count aud particular.

Mr. March's Jumbo. Special to Boston Herald. “The papers,” said Supervising Archltoot Hill, “that Murch has asked for will make a pile us large as Jumbo, and it will take oue man at least six mouths to read them over.” “About how long will it take to examine thoroughly the mass of documents!" was asked, “Oh, somewhere in the neighbornood of two or three years.” What Braced Senator Anthony Up. Washington Special. It is said hero that as soon as Senator Anthony heard that Sauator Mahone had applied for his senatorial chair in the event of his death he began to mend at onoe. He intends to lt\e, if for nothing else than to rebuke Seuator Muliono fvi his iudecent haste. Notes and Personalities. Washinoton, May 26.—The committee ap pointed to investigate the affairs of the Supervising Architect’s office adjourned till Monday, Murch was not ready. Up to 11:30 to-night Adjutant-general Drum has received no reply to the telegrams sent by him to-day to El Paso making inquiries for information relative to General Crook. The Wai Department, officials discredit the reports that General Crook’s command has been massacred. The Columbia Boat Club decided to-night, ta hold an open regal ta on t tie Potomac immediate v following the Newark regatta, tn August, and to extend a general invitation to the boat clubs of the country to participate. The elegant clip donated last year by the evening Stur newspaper, and now held by the CouimhiHS, will he put up for ooiupetitiou iu tho four-oared shell race. Ttic following Indiana postmasters have been commissioned: Bossetter Gray, Grerntowu; John \V. Ellis, Valley Mills; Isaiah Haworth, Atherton. Dakota Indebtedness Adjusted. Chicago. May 26.—5. W. Packard, of this city, attorney for the holders of Yimkton county (Dakota) bonds, announces the adjustment es the indebtedness. The United States Supremo Coart, in 1876, gave a judgment for *300,000 principal and *IOO,OOO accrued interest against Yankton county, growing out of certain railroad aid bonds voted by tho county. The debt was repudiated by the Territorial Legislature, and the fact was urged against the entry of Dakota into the Union when a measure to that eud was pending In Congress. On Feb. 23 last ihe refunding act was passed by the Dakota Legislature, which was ratifb-d by a vote hi Yankton county on April 25, and the transaction Is now closed by tho issue, and distribution of new bonds covering the principal aud uooruod lute rest. The Estimates on tho Wheat Crop. Milwaukee, May 20—8. H. Beam ans, secretary of the Millers’National Association, whs flooded Willi telegrams, to-day, inquiring If his report, on tho wheat crop, which was made for the benefit of the Millers’ association, had been correctly fiont out by the Associated Piess. Mr. Henmans says the report was meant for members of the association only, hikl not for publication. He cal's attention to the fact that his estimate is based oil reports from twenty-one States only, and says If tho crop of the whole country was taken into consideration the total yield might ho 401),000,000 buAbels, while his estimate for twenty States is only 373,500,000. The lofortuation puhltsaed yosturduy was a recapitulation page cut from the printed report, aud was correct in every figure and word. Getting Ready for t, gal Storms. Bt. LoDih, May 27.—A dispatch fron Independence, Mo., says: “A gentleman named Sawyer arrived here from Washington City and boa taken possession of all property of 11. M. Valle, of star route nntorltv. The property consists of a handsome suhiiroan residence that cost *50,000, a large liumhci of blooded stock, and an extensive wine cellar. Whether Sawyer is noting as owner or as agent Is not knawn. but. tho general opinion is that Vailo ts preparing for tho worst.” N