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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW * SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pacrc. SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 18S3. " twelve packs. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard dee Capacities. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Brentauo’s 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. V. Hawley A Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, corner Fifth and .leffersou streets. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot. DETECTIVE WORK. If it be true, as has been stated, that the panic on the East river bridge was caused by the work of the pickpockets, the country would applaud if there were some sort of law whereby they could be shot down on sight. In thi9 connection, it is a curious fact that the “detectives” and police of our large cities always claim to know these characters and can point them out upon the street at any time, know the whereabouts of their haunts and hiding-places, yet these vile birds are not molested in their career of crime until they reach house-breaking, robbery, or murder. What warrant have the custodians of the peace, property and life, to tolerate the presence of gangs of well-known criminals? For the average “detective” there is nothing strange about such procedure, but more is expected of the regular and officially employed police. There is a general distrust as to the fidelity of the men engaged in the lower stratum of the private “detective” business. The class of men who enter into it i9 not calculated to assure the business of the cordiai support and confidence of good •men. “Set a thief to catch a thief” has been the maxim. We think the doctrine is pernicious, and that in a great majority of cases the regular officers of the law could do all t:e wont necessary for the detection r.r,d apprehension of criminals. The means of communication are now so Complete and rapid that no sensible man will attempt to escape, and the fool will be caught anyhow. As to ferretiug out crimes that have been concealed, we do not see why the commissioned officers of the law and their deputies cannot do the work as well as an irresponsible gang styling themselves “detectives,” one-half of whom are professional black-mailers and a good portion of the other half unreliable. Some of the most remarkable cases of shrewd unearthing of crime and the subsequent arrest of the criminals on record, were accomplished by the plain, old-fashioned sheu.T-, ”’hen the facilities for such work were not half so favorable as now. They took pride in performing a sworn duty; but the modern so-called detective is on the make, and every man of ordinary sense knows it. A recent instance of their work occurred in Texas, when Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee, was overtaken and arrested by a detective in the employ of the State from which Polk had fled. Polk was in shape to pay more for his liberty than the State had offered for his arrest, hence was permitted to continue his flight, though subsequently pursued by regular officers and returned to the officers of the State which he had robbed. We are inclined to insist upon the policy ol encouraging our regular responsible officers to do this whole line of work, and let the crowd of third-rate “detectives” look out for themselves,

VICE AND MANUAL EDUCATION. Industrial schools, aside from their incalculable value as institutions of useful learning, are keen weapons with which to oppose crime. There is nothing truer than the old saw, that the devil finds some mischief still far idle hands to do. Statistics collected by Mr. Vaux from tlie Eastern Pennsylvania Penitentiary, at Philadelphia, show’ that of 780 youths under twenty-one received there in ten years, 755 had no trade. But they did not lack in “education,” so-called; indeed, 572 of them were from private schools. The record substantiates what has long been felt: that our schools turn too many half-educated lads loose on the yorld, especially in cities, without training for special occupations, and with a dislike never overcome for all forms of nianuul labor. The fact is that the part played by mere illiteracy in making criminals is not so great as the ignorance of special occupations, and the sehool-and-college-cultivated disinclination to enter into “plebeian mechanical pursuits.” Many of the subjects taught in our highschools and colleges have no relation to the practical business of making a living; pupils are graduated from them debarred by lack of the proper manual education, or lack of physical development, from trades, mechanical and agricultural pursuits. They naturally gravitate to light employments, which do no soil hands or clothes, and which, from the false stand-point of education at home and in the schools, are considered respectable. This condition can only be met by combining with our present system of public high-schools and colleges industrial departments. A course in wood or iron-work should credit a college or high-school student as much in his per cents, as a course In botany, chemistry, alcgbra or rhetoric. If the arts and tools which underlie the trades ire taught by professional and educated mechanics, in pleasant rooms, under the same roof and management as departments of art, icience and literature, the squeamish prejulice against trades and mechanical callings

now entertained by young lads and their parents would be largely overcome. Schools of this kind by their very presence give dignity to labor; they have been established successfully is several Eastern cities as departments of grammar and high schools, and are elevating the character and advancing the interests of the mechanical trades, and thereby doing as much to prevent vice as the ordinary literary departments. The Journal has for years been advocating a more utilitarian administration of the public school fund in cities. The board of education of this city have acted wisely in establishing, with the aid in part of liberally disposed and far-9ighted citizens, an industrial summer school of eight weeks, under Prof. Goss, of Purdue University. No educational project has been more warmly welcomed by our business men, and in less than forty-eight hours the necessary funds for establishing the school, purchasing tools, material and tuition fund, were promptly and cheerfully subscribed, in sums ranging from two dollars to one hundred dollars. This school will give tools, tuition'and material for an eight-weeks’ term; five daj’s each week, and two hours each day, during July and August. It will be open to any person of good character, strong enough to use saw and plane, without reference to scholastic attainments, and will teach the use of the common bench tools in wood work. It is under the care of the board of education, and its properties revert to the board at the close of the term. The school board will supply ample room for its accommodation, furnished witn the requisite benches, etc. A tuition fee will be charged this year of eight dollars, including use of tools and wood. Hereafter, in consideration of the public approval and support of such a school, the board will be able to meet all the expenses and make the tuition free. It is to be hoped this addition to our public school enterprises will have its part, as an educational factor, in suppressing that contempt for manual labor which, when fostered, can only lead young men to vice and dissipation.

THE ‘‘SPHERES ’ IN DANGER When Dr. Dix, in a series of lectures, defined the duties of woman and limited all her talents and energies to the sacred home circle, the good man wa3 greeted with scorn and contumely. When he hinted, somewhat vaguely to be sure, at the awful dangers certain to follow should she venture outside that domestic inclosure, the thoughtless in the community spoke jeeringly and disrespectfully of the reverend gentleman. It is even possible that remarks of a derogatory nature crept into these columns in the absence of the married and consequently judicious and responsible editor. However that may have been, we hasten now to say that Dr. Dix knew whereof he spoke, and is a long-headed man. He saw dangers ahead which others, less prophetic, apprehended but dimly, if at all. Had he indicated distinctly what precise peril threatened should woman become thoroughly enfranchised, his warnings would have received from the men of the country the attention they merited. This was an error of judgment, but indications are that his predictions are soon to be verified, and his revilers brought to shame. One of the straws showing whence the social cyclone is to come drifts out from Boston. The women of that city have long indulged in a liberty of action, which, from the Dix point of view, is nothing less than shocking. They have scaled the “higher education” heights until it lias no terrors for them, and other women have to crane their necks in looking at them. It is even hinted that professors of theology and doctors of law must get up early in the morning in order to keep in advance. These women, too, boldly leave the home circle, enter into the occupations hitherto reserved by men for themselves, and receiveand retain the emoluments thereof. To some men this course of conduct may seem excusable, even commendable, but these are short-sighted. The result, as indicated by Dr. Dix, can only be an upheaval of household relations the like of which has not been thought of save by these same advanced women. A Boston milliner has thought of it, and it is her communication to the public which is the “straw” alluded to. This milliner, though married, continues in business and realizes from her labors an annual income varying from $1,500 to $2,500. The husband in his palmy day* was not good for more than SSOO per year, and it may be admitted that the action of the wife, in pursuing her calling, was not without excuse. She says she loved him and could not bear to have him deprived of luxuries—no fault can be found with this admirable sentiment—so she kepton earning money. Finally this milliner decided that they would keep house and live in a boardinghouse no longer. She could not afford a housekeeper, nor could she give the establishment her own attention. Happy thought! Her husband should do it. He was getting lazy, anyway, and she would give him something to do. Now, says this unnatural milliner, “my husband gets up and builds the fire, gets breakfast and I leave at 7:45 for my place of business. He does the washing and ironing, the cleaning, and I do not know of any woman who can beat him. He is as neat as wax, and can cook equal to any one in town.” Here it is —the awful consequence at which Dr. Dix pointed his warning finger. We have not heard from the husband in this case, but if he is n man of spirit, he must rebel—a secret rebellion, if no more. That he does housework of his own free will is an absurd thought, and her own words forbid such a supposition. Says this terrible woman: “I think the time has now come when women who have hulbands to support should make

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them do the work; otherwise they are luxuries we must do without.” “Make them do the work" is the watchword. Think of it, young man who would like to marry, but whose income is only sufficient to buy six suits of clothes a year, and whose spare time is completely occupied with the national and other games, and in standing off the landlady. Do housework, indeedl A wife with a respectable income is a joy fore.er, if she understands her place. A woman who can earn $2,500 a year ought to be able to attend to household duties too, if she chooses. If she follows this incendiary advice she is not likely so to choose, and being the woman of ability that she is, she rut.;, force her husband into the home circle and make him stay there. The milliner wants to supply her husband with luxuries, but some wives might feel differently. A woman without the proper consideration for her spouse might limit his supply of pin-money. When he asked for Half a dollar with which to buy cigars, she might inquire where was the quarter she gave him last week. When he wanted a spring suit, she might advise him to remodel the one he had last year, and tell him times were hard and the taxes to pay. She might go out five evenings in a week to the woman’s club, and leave him to mind the baby. On the other nights she might be glum and sour because a good customer had got mad and patronized a rival in business. A woman who did not appreciate her blessings might growl because breakfast was late, kick the cat and slap the children,while papa was hurrying up matters in the kitchen. She might complain that the coffee was weak and the steak scorched, and go off carrying the morning paper, and slamming tho front door behind her. There is no limit to the horrors the example of the Boston milliner may bring upon U 9. There is yet time, however, to avert some of the impending evils. Young men who have been reared with the expectation of making a profitable marriage must take a firm stand, though at some inconvenience to themselves. It is probably too late to hinder women from earning money, but they should be taught not to marry unless they are prepared to support husbands and housekeepers besides. Women, in spite of their eccentric ways, are at times amenable to reason, and when they become convinced that they cannot obtain husbands without an income sufficient to provide them with every comfort, they will undoubtedly be spurred to renewed efforts, ami by economy and industry attain the needed competency. Should financial exigencies compel any young man to marry a determined woman of business, he should insist upon a marriage contract which should not include dishwashing and laundry work among his duties. Properly warned the young man may take care of himself, in spite of the revolutiorary Boston woman. Her example and advice are bad, but let us hope for the best.

Mr. Cook and the Press. A few small aouls eased themselves, yesterday, with the assertion that the Journal’s editorial upon Mr. Cook was because of that gentleman's supposed relations to evangelical religion and the Christian church. If Mr. Coolr, or any other equally flatulent egotist, can heal the smart of wholesome truth that way,we can have no possible objection. But sound-minded churchmen and Christians must feel humiliated that the religion they profess is held by any number of people to be at the mercy of any one mao, even a Joseph Cook; and they know, too, that while not a religious paper in any sense, the church and tho cause ol religion and good morals never had a firmer or stancher friend than tlie Journal. What wo. hud to say of Mr Cook was the truth, stated bluntly and witiiout reserve, aud was invited by the gross and outrageous statements made by htui at Chicago, and elsewhere, with respect to the newspapers of the country. Mr. Cook said, in a public Uoture, without qualification, that a large majority of the newspapers of tho country were for sale, and that a large majority of the writers for tlie press were in the market. Os course, he alluded to tlie editorial writers; for as to the writers of other matter, the question of conscience does not and cannot enter. This statement of Mr. Cook was u foul and infamous slander, shamelessly false, aud whether made deliberately or in ignorance, was a disgrace to a man of his assumed intelligence aud a dishonor to the oloth ho wears. There is no larger per cent, of tho newspapers of tne oouotry for sale than there is of pulpits, and there is no larger per cent, of editorial writers purchasable than there is of preachers. If wo should make a statement about the pulpit similar to that made liy Mr. Cook of the press wo should be, us we deserved, denounced by every honorablo person. That Mr. Cook can utter his slanders in a voice liko Bull of Bashau aud clothe tkt-rn in incomprehensible language does not change their character. Tlie toue of voice does not convert a lie into ilie truth. Mr. Cook has put himself outside tlie pale of honorable controversy by his wholesale and baseless libels, as ho long siuce read himself out of the rauks of scientists by his absurd statements of alleged scientific truth. The' Journal would not be worthy the respect of its renders, nor entitled to tho confidence of tho people it seeks to serve, did it not characterize the assertions of Mr. Cook as they merit, ami if anybody prefers to believe Mr. Cook they should, in all conscience, trample the newspapers of tho country under their sanctimonious feet. The Episcopal Bishopric. The Episcopal convention for tlie selection of a Bishop of the Indiana diocese will assemble on Tuesday next. It is understood the laity utul the elder members of the clergy are opposed to selecting a High Churchman, and there is no probability that a man holding strict ritualistic views will be chosen. At the last convention the choice of the clergy was Rev. Dr. Harrison, of Troy, N. Y., but his ritualistic tendencies ware so pronounced that Dr. Nicholson was offered as a compromise candidate. The lay members from Richmond, Fort Wayne and Indianapolis were a unit against both Dr, Harrison and Dr. Nicholson, Rev. Francis A. Dunham, of Terre Haute, being the only earnest advocate in Dr. Nicholson’s behalf. Dr. Wakefield, of Richmond, voted for him ou the last ballot. The remaining two-thirds of the standing committee— George C. Duy, chancellor of the diocese; Joseph A. Moore, treasurer of the diocese, and Rev. Edward A. Bradley aud I. H. Klersted, of this olty —ail voted against Dr. Nicholson, as did also Rev. Edward Bradley, of Madison. It is not prohuble that Dr. Nicholson’s uame will no be-

fore the convention, but It Is evident that Dr. Harrison will be again urged by the olergy, and that he will be opposed by the laity. The hrst choice of the laity now, as before, will probably be Dr. Garrett, missionary bishop of northern Texas. The names of I)r. Rullsou, of Cleveland; Dr. V. D. Knickebacker, of Minneapolis; Dr. Paret, of Washington, D. C.; Dr. Knight, of Lancaster, Pa.; Dr. Worthington, or Detroit; Dr. Van Bockelen, of Buffalo, aud Dr. Bradley, of Indiauapolis, are also mentioned. Tht> Bartholdi Statue. While a great deal of complaint has been made of the delay in raising the funds neoessary to erect a base for the great statue of Liberty, the magnificent gift of the people of France to the people of the United States, it appears that few have a correct idea of Its origin and tho character of the gift. If the necessary amount has not yet been raised, It Is the fault of every citizen from one end of the land to the other. The idea of making and presenting the colossal statue originated lo 1875, and it was suggested by the centennial of the founding of the republic, aud a desire to erect a tittiug memorial. The cost of constructing the work—about $250,000 was borne by tho people of 181 cities and towns of France, being in truth a popular subscription, aud a gift from the whole people of our sister republic. Contrary to a generally prevalent erroneous belief, the gift was made to the people of the United States, not to New York city. Had it been a gift to tuat city, the pedestal would have been provided for long ago, as leading citizens offered to guarantee tho necessary amount provided that the statue be ereoted in Central Park. This was not the purpose for which it was designed, and the French committee declined to accept the offer, and expressed the desiro to have it plaoed on one of the Islands in New York harbor, the natural gateway to the new world. In compliance with this idea. Congress passed a resolution empowering tho President to accept the gift, and to select the island upon which to erect It. This latter office has already been performed, and Bedloe’s island named as the place. The resolution further provides that the expense of inauguration shall be borne by the Federal governuieut, and the ceremony shall be of an international character, In keeping with the spirit aud magnitude of the gift. The place chosen for the pedestal, work on whloh has already begun, is in old Fort Wood. This is twenty-six feet above the level of the sea. The pedestal will be 150 feet high, 65 feet square at the base, aud 40 feet square at the top. The statue proper will be 148 feet high, so that the entire height will be 324 feet, and the purpose is to make it a grand beacon, to be maintained at government expeuse. The urtist, Richard M. Hunt, of Now York, is the architect of the pedestal, and General Charles P. Stone (Stone Pasha, late of the Khedive's army), the engineer. Such i9 tho character aud purpose of this noble gift. It is the gift of all the people of cue great nation to all the people of another; and it is desirable that all tho people of this republic have a share m the erection of a suitable foundation for this greatest of all modern statues. Os the amouut necessary—s2so,ooo-over half, has already been subscribed in money aud materials, the principal subscriptions earning from citizens of New York. Every citizen of the United States should feel a patriotic impulse to help iu this matter. Not that the amouut needed is great, or that it is hard to raise. One cent from each human being claiming a home under the llag of America would pay the bill five times over. It Is urgent that each who can should give a little—just as the people of France did to honor us. With this end In view', aud for the purpose of giving the people of ludiauaa ohanoe to contribute, it is probable that a local committee will soon be selected to receive subscriptions. The work ought to be doue promptly und cheerfully, as becomes a patriotic uud liberty-loving people.

Social Customs in the East. In Massachusetts, when*a white woman eleots to become the wife of an Amerioan citizen of pure African blood, her old friends and neighbors do not out her acquaintance. They do not gather about the home of the newly married, aud in the still hours of the night hold, with fisnhorns and tin pans, what iu known in Iloosier parlance as a shiveree. They do not provide themselves with a bucket of tar and a bug of feathers, and favor the groom with a wedding tour by rail, as has been done in less highly cultured regions. No, indeed; they know a trick many degrees meaner than any of these. Miss Flagg, of Boyleston, Mass., pretty, accomplished and twenty-six, the daughter of the leadiug citizen of the town, became, a few days ago, the bride of Mr. Hazard, a “dark mulatto,” who had formerly been her father’s “hired man,” and whom she had taught to read. It was a hazardous step, and the townspeople, who are shocked and scandalized beyond measure, say she will live to feel her riis.ruoe. They mean to see that she does, in fact, and to this end the literary society has arranged to give the young couple a reception as soon as they get settled in their “new. French-roofed house right in the center of the village." This mode of treatment, it wifi at once be seen, is far superior to tho common method of disapproval iu the iufinito possibilities it offers lor polite, but cuttiug, reproof and censure, besides the gratification afforded to the curiosity ot the guests. When that wretched bride has received the condolences or her friends expressed in tones of “profound pity and sympathy which they feel for her iu her unfortunate position,” she wifi undoubtedly wish she had never been born, to say nothing of having been married. If she survives the ordeal she wifi remain but a broken reed, a crushed strawberry monument, as it were, and will be an effectual warning to other girls who have cast longing eyes toward comely negroes. The Massachusetts mode of reproof has obvious social advantages. Mary’s Farewell. “As the Arizona steamed out of her dock, Miss Anderson stood by the railing on the main decks aud waved her handkerchief to the crowd on the pier.”—ltem. It is a simple thing that a woman should wave adieu to friends on the shore. Never a day in all the year but some woman waves good-bye to somebody ou the shore. Parting is as common us meeting; the one is the naturul sequence of tlie other. The one is no more significant thau the other. Ten thousand Mary Atidersons are saying good-bye to-day—some to cross the ocean of waters, some launching on the ocean of years. Ten thousand kerchiefs are waving to friends on tlie pier. It matters not—why mention it! Eyes are wet from w-eping and hearts are depressed from sadness. What matters it to those who do not weep and whose hearts are glad! It is w ell that, while there are so many Mary Andersens whom circumstances compel to part from friends, there is only one Mary Anderson that the telegraph takes cognizance of. It is well that the many Marys are not mentioned. The busy world has enough to do without stopping to wave adieu to all of them. Few of them hut have friends, and few but have kerchiefs, .rust why this particular Mary should be mentioned abroad because she stands by the railing and waves her handkerchief is not plain, Does she imagine that all those on the pier are tier friends and hers ouly! Or does the newspaper reporter think that the other passengers are only so many ciphers given a value merely because Mary Auderson stands before them! Most people wave the kerchief of farewell to some particular friend, and are desirous that the circumstance be not told abroad. But if Mary Anderson is waving at the pier indefinitely, all right. We Join the crowd

and kiss ar hand toward the lessening bark and its presumably precious freight. Good-bye, Mary. Bong voyage! We wish you well. And we wish all the other Marys well. But if there be auy more waving done, let It be done quietly. We can't stop to wave back to each and all, and we are not disposed to discriminate in favor of any particular one. With so many of you waving it is a trifle confusing. Better write us a letter—far better, and enclose a stamp as a guaranty of good faith. But if any one of you has so many sweethearts that the wave has to bo communicated by telegraph and the newspapers, it would be a source of melancholy pleasure to us to break the engagement and declare all beta off. This will be severe on you, we know full well, but candor compels it. Forgive and forget. Farewell. ■ The South is no longer so very far behind the times- The spirit of thrift is evidently revolutionizing affairs where erstwhile the manners and customs of the fathers were good euougb. Tradesmen there, no longer puffed up with false pride, are ready and anxious to turn an honest penny. At Macon, Ga., yesterday there was a double hanging. The day before it was evident that an immense crowd would be preseut to witness the execution. An enterprising citizen, —name uot given—seeing a chance for a speculation, erected long tiers of seats near the gallows, for which he onarged $1 each. Not to be outdone in the matter of getting money, the mayor swooped down on the speculator and demanded SIOO license, his entertainment being classed under the same head with circuses. The mao planked down tho money, and realized handsomely on his unique venture. It is rather remarkable that the gate receipts were not swelled by pools on which of the two men hanged would stop kicking first. It might be suggested, too, that the county might charge admission, and thus pay a portion at least of the expense of prosecution. There oan be no doubt, however, that these will be adopted In time, and then Georgia will be fully abreast of Connecticut. The pawnbrokers of Philadelphia are excited over a raid made on their premises on Thursday by speoial agents of the Interior Department. The oijeot of the search was to recover pension papers on which money had been advanced by the pawnbrokers, aud about 300 of those documents were secured. The law on this point is very explicit, providing that such a transaction is not only null aud void, but the person retaluing a pensioner’s certificate as oollaterial security, and refusing to surrender ibesaineon demand of the proper authorities, is guilty of misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding slo(fand the costs of prosecution. This is the first seizure of the kind ever made in the country, and pawnbrokers will take notice that pension papers are a very risky sort of security. In consequence of the death of General George P. Buell, the following officers will receive promotion: Lieutenant-colonel J. N. G. Whistler, of the Fifth lnrautry, to be colonel of tho Fifteenth; Major M. A. Cochran, of tho Twelfth, to be lieutenant-colonel of tho Fifth; Captain William H. Penrose, of the Third, to be major of tho Twelfth; First Lieutenant William Mitchell to be captain, and Secoud Lieutenant L. W. Cooke to be first lieutenant. Major Penrose was colonel of the Fifteenth New Jersey in 1863, and briga-dier-general of voluuteers in 1865. Captain Mitobell has held the rank of first lieutenant since 1864, and has seen many who were boys when he entered the army promoted over his head. A mesmerist in Pittsburg was frightened nearly out of his wits, the other night, by the siugular conduot of a young inuu whom he had, as he thought, thrown into a sleep. There was no doubt that the man was asleep, but when the professor undertook to restore consciousness by making passes over him it was a different matter. The sleep seemed unusually proround, and no manipulations had any effect. The mesmerist grew alarmed, oalted in assistance aud worked over the prostrate form until 2 o’clock iu tlie morning before it dawned upon him that the youth was dead drunk. When the professor gives another exhibition in Pittsburg he will experiment upon citizens imported from the outside.

The Cincinnati Ledger, anew afternoon paper, is expected to appear next month. It is reported that Mr. F. D. Mussey, private secretary and son-in-law of Governor Foster, will be the editor-in-chief. If the new paper is to be devoted to furthering tho purposes of an}’ one man, it is safe to predict that its life will be brief. The day of personal organism is gone forever in this country. Austin H. Brown, appointed free-trade vicepresident for Indiana, is well known as the able lieutenant of Mr. McDonald. It will not soon be forgotten how breathlessly he listened at the key-hole of the old House of Representatives during the ballot for Senator, when his chief came so near the perilous edge of defeut at the hands of William 8. Holman. It was not treating young and red-hot converts right for the Detroit convention of free-traders to muke hu old and well-seasonod Democrat like Austin H. Brow’ll vice-president for ludiaua. That is no way to obtain recruits, who, tired of inarching lu the private ranks of the Republican party, are honing for ohi vrous lu auy sort of au organization. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer telegraphed to that paper yesterday the Interview with Senator Sherman, which uppoared lu the Jouruul of the day before. The Enquirer is bound to have the nows. An exchange speaks of the backwoods of Rhode Island, without explaining that the backwoods of that State are in Connecticut. f -fr Vow that the irou strike is over let us have a strike in the steal business. BREAKFAST CHAT. William 11. McKennkv, a Clioctow Indian, is soou to graduate from Roanoke College, Virginia, the first Indiau to receive such au honor iu Virginia. Washington tailors say the right arras of nearly all men of note are from one to two inches larger than tho left, on aocount of handshaking. Mrs. South worth, the writer, having completed a ten-years’ engagement with Mr. Bonnet’s story paper, has made auother ten-years’ coutraot with the sAine publisher. Governor Butler has the distinction of being the first Governor of Massachusetts upon whom Harvard University has not conferred the honorary degree of doctor of laws, Evangelist D. L. Moody, after eighteen mouths’steady preaching, will settie down fora summer’s rest at his home In Northtield, Mass. His schools in that place are lu a flourishing condition. Hon. George Pomeroy, United States Consulgeneral to Egypt, has been presented by the Khedlvo with a magnificent pair of cafrlage horses, hut wdijcli our diplomatic and consular laws compelled him todecliue. Thk “spoils system” was an old Roman Institution. Didn’t Cassius say to Marc Antony, when he wanted to lure him into the party fold: “Your voioe shall be as strong as any man’s in tlie disposing of new dignities!'' Piiof. Soiioniiorn, of Konigsberg, recently performed au operation on a young girl, removing a hard, round ball from her stoniaoh several Inches in diameter, made of fragments of hair. Such a oase was never known before.

although such balls are sometimes found in -Lr linals’ stomachs. In this case it was due to J I patient’s habit when a child of gnawing [I ends of her braids. Lgrknz Bretano, of Chicago, who was afr-J 0 the premiership of Samoan Islands, has wrinJ a formal declination of the honor, urging lilbS vanced years as an argument against undJL tvking such an arduous and important mission Horatio Seymour received many congrauq tions on his seventy-third birthday, which „ curred on Thursday. He says his health better than it has been for oonsiderAble tin 1 He diued with family friends at the house of j\\ sister, Mrs. Rosooe Conkling. Next week |, u goes to his farm in Deerfield for the summer, m Scene at a table d’hote of the sixteenth u where diuner is served at 6 p. m. At 6:4r > guest takes his seat and asks for soup, r dregs in the tureen are given him. Arrived i tho last spoonful he strikes something hard, at discovers it to be a domino. Furious, he call the master of the establishment. “See here, cried the exasperated man, “isn’t this disgu*| ingf I have just fluished a two aud a three win my spoon.” “Well,” replied the unabashed hov “I think you must be crazy. Did you oxpeot U double six at this time of day!” Apropos of the late Jules Sundeau: When tin new academician called upon Prince Napoleon the footman who had received his card w marked, as he was showing the guest out: -• suppose you do not remember me, M. Bandeau I am the printer’s devil that used to go to yoi for proofs, aud to whom you used to give tin sugar that was sent in with your cctffee. Yoi didn’t take sugar in your coffee, I remember.’ “Ah, yes,” replied the immortal, “I reraembei you now, and I am glad to see that you havu found employment in such a household.” “Yes, said the lackey, nobly, “we have both of us got ou in the world, haven’t we!”

THE SPIRIT OP THE PRESS. It is too early to assume that either party bas had its nositiou defined on this great questiou. | The true public opinion wifi not be outlined un J til after the discussion in Congress, and whether 1 the tariff is to be the national issue awaits tho j result of the debates in the next session of Con-1 gross.—Cincinnati News-Journal. iF the next Democratic national convention ' does not succeed in bringing the discordant aud jiirring eleuicuts of the party together tne Republican party wifi have a very easy time of it. We believe it possible by searching our Democratic exchanges to find at least four, if not six, decided opinions, all disagreeing as to the tariff question.—Wilmington (N. C.) Star (Duiu.) Unless the people of our great cities are able to secure better police, the young roughs will make existence in these cities a very uncomfortable aud risky thing, and the only means of getting a better police Is to bring the system under more responsible management, so that the voters can get at it directly, without the intervention of the professional politicians.—New York Times. The Scott law. while it taxes the traffic, also legalizes it, and this is a condition or a ounces* sion that liquor-dealers should not lightly reject. The law may not be fair or equal iu all its features, but it is better than dead-letter laws, and better than free-trade, and better than mere sentiment, und if sustained and enforced, it wifi bo popular. A large proportion of the liquor-deal-ers are wise enough to see this, ana are road}’, if left alone, to accept the law and live under it. —Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The point we desire to emphasize is, that, tht dead soldiers of the Union army, receiving ther annual baptism of fresh flowers, were never more honored in memory than in the ontire a>Bence or all resentment to their adversaries. The world of meu has witnessed no act more akin to the nigliest order of manhood than thf bronzed, gray-bearded soldiers of the Stars aui Stripes scattering garlands about the graves #f the heroes of tbo Stars and Bars, as was done all over the North where these were buried.—Chicago Inter Ocean. It Is bard to see how France can escape tie snare which is laid for her. Her old strenghti* gone. Her neighbors distrust her, Even wifeout the bribes which tho Figaro suggests thJ would refuse her their support. While nursuiiif herguuboat policy in Touqutu and Madagascar the enemy would surprise her at home. Will Spain standing ready to repel her on the Pyre nees, with Germany mounting guard on the Rhine, what resistance on old she make to tin hosts who would swarm over the Alps with tin strength of united Europe at their back!—New York Herald. There are two ways of adjusting tlie reiattoni of men and employers to these shifting tides [variations in wages]. One way is by strikes war, waste of time, money aim labor, and per haps life. Another is by discussion, argument conciliation, splitting the difference, arbitration One carries the working classes back into tie region of conflict, where they are always tin greatest sufferers. Tho other carries them fop ward toward a plane nearer that of their ens ployers, gives them more capital, more knovV edge, more manhood, ana brings them nearer t the position of partners in industry,—Chioag) Tribune. If the church authorities would take tin proper view, there is a need in America la* greater than any tlie Vatioan oan be suffering, The creditors of Archbiihop Purcell remain un paid. Peter’s pence turned in their direction would probably accomplish more good for tlii church than if paid into the treasury of the suo* cesoor of Peter, but Rome does not keenly feel the disgrace, tne scandal, and the misery of iMs failure, or it would have parted long sluce with a few of the Vatican’s Cupids aim Appofin* to have discharged tho obligation contracted by a son of the church beuriug high commission from Rome.—Chicago Times.

BUTLER’S DEGREE. The Governor Inclined to Be Sarcastic W Harvard’s Expense. Interview in Boston Globe. “Have you heard that tho overseers of Harvard College have voted, 15 to 11, no; to confer upon you the degree of LL.DJ” “l have so heard.” “Os course, you believe this news to be authentic!” “The only reason I have for not believing it is that it is put upon the bulletin board of tbe Boston Journal.” “Assutniug that it is true, what do you think of ti!” “I have to thank them for doing me a very great personal and political servioe. Tbe affront inteuded l>y their action is not upon me, bun upon the people who have elocted rue, and is the verdict and execution of the judgment of Halyard College upon the acts of the people of tl>is Commonwealth for daring, by a large majority, to choose a Governor without asking the cousent of that college, and ouly emphasizes what l have sometimes said heretofore, that Harvard College claims tho right to govern the Commonwealth. Having received from more than one college a literary degree of that rank because ol appreciation by those institutions of my attainments as a lawyer, for which consideration tints bestowed upon me I feel tho deepest sensibility, the act of Harvard would have added nothing to me, and therefore I can have no feeling because of its action in this behalf. I should have felt very gruteful for it had it been given to me, the lawyer, blit to have it given to me as Governor I should have looked upon it as a ceremonious matter, a compliment to the Governor of the Commonwealth, and the people of tho Commonwealth, following out a custom without unr regard to my attainments or fitness for the degree, especially as l happen to know that lam perhaps one of the tw r o or three meu who have received it during tlie la*t twenty years who could have read it and translated it. without the aid of a die* tionary. I regret very much this political action'on the pure of the college, because I fear it may tend to tropair its usefulness, for It U quite possible that the people of the Common* wealth may hereafter remember it to the disadvantage of the college and come to tlie conclusion to divorce the college aud State, as our fathers divorced the ohuroh aud State, aud may inquire if there is any reason why tlie property of cliat institution shall be exempted from tlie taxation which is so burdensome upon us, while they use the alms of the Statoso bestowed upon them for educational purposes in an endeavor to control the polities of the State. Bill lime ai last sets all things even.” A Specimen Temperance Lecturer. Goshen Times. Luther Benson Is quite a promising torn pen mice man. In a speech delivered at Decatur, Ind., recently, he said that on the 7ih day ol June he will*have been a sober man fur a whole year, and fb.it he has not gone witiiout whisky for so long a time siuce ho was six years old. The Best Paper in tlie State. New Albany Republican. Tlie Indianapolis Journal is, without a shadow of doubt, the best paper pnbltshod in the State; and that it is cannot be wondered at when the editorial ability employed upon the paper Is taken into oonsidotuCou,