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THE DAILY JOURNAL LT JNO. C. NEW Jfc SOX. For Rates of Subscription, ere., see Rixth Pace. THURSO AY, JUKE 21, 1888. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following p'ace*: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulovard dee Capucinea. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, D. o.—Brertano’s 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHlCAGO—rainier House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley A Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. FT LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. Will Doctor Harrison and hig board resign, as demanded by leading Democratic papers? And now it is reported that Governor Hendricks contemplates writing a book. Cannot this matter be compromised in some way? _ If there is a prominent politician anywhere that has not been interviewed on the outlook for 1884, he will please hold up his hand. Tub trial of Colonel Frank James, formerly president of nearly all the banks in Y ssouri, has been postponed till the August term, upon motion of the Colonel. The arrangements have all been completed for unveiling the monument at Wheatland to the memory of the late Governor Williams. Senator Voorhees will make the first address, to be followed by ex-Governor Baker, Senator Harrison, ex-Senators Hendricks and McDonald, and others. The ceremonies will be held on the 4th day of July proximo. ________ Tub announcement of the death of Bishop Colenso revives memories of the fierce controversy that was waged twenty years ago over his book assailing the authority of certain portions of the Pentateuch. The Bishop Was deposed, after a fashion, and another prelate sent out to Natal; but Colenso was popularly sustained, and the temporalities of the see were confirmed in him. He continued to officiate as bishop until his death. The markets all “went to pieces” yesterday, as the phrase goes, and there are reports of a number of gentlemen who have been caught in the squeeze. So far as the public is concerned there is no occasion for grief if all the “bulls” in the country were hugged to death. The people are in no wise interested in keeping up the markets to a fictitious point. The bulls and the bears alike are the foes of legitimate business, and the only way the honest majority come to their just rights is when the operating minority, either on the one side or the other, get crippled so badly as to cause them to let up for a season. The removal of a special agent cannot be magnified into a national issue. Indeed, the country would not take out its pocketkerchief and weep if the report should prove true that there is to be a general overhauling of the special-agent business in all the departments. The sorrows of a removed government official can scarcely be made the theme of national mourning. The question is, whether the motives for the removal were honorable, and whether the new appointees •re good and worthy men. If they are, and the interests of the government are subserved by the change, that is the main thing. The answer can only be given by time, and Commissioner Evans is entitled to a fair trial before he is condemned. This is the season for testing farming machinery, and, judging by the reports from different parts of the country, the interest manifested in the annual contests is heightened from year to year. The capital, skill and energy employed by the various leading manufacturing establishments inures to the benefit of the farmer as well as of the manufacturer. America already has the best and cheapest line of farm implements in the world, but the yearly advancement is simply wonderful. The genius of an army of intelligent mechanics and machinists, backed by strong capital, is exerted to the utmost, from harvest to harvest, in constructing new and improving the old. The competition of rival factories is so sharp and the machines generally of such excellent points that the buyer can hardly be deceived or defrauded. There is no branch of industry in the country that has made and brought into service so., many useful and valuable inventions. We note this fact with great pride, and call it to the attention of those who think the economic laws of the nation have been a makeweight to industrial advancement. People with common sense will stand by Commissioner Evans. He took hold of a large and important bureau. He was personally unknown to most, if not all, of its servants, and they were unknown to him. It is not to be supposed that all the employes were absolutely perfect and infallible, or that, good as the service had been, it might not possibly be improved. But, be that as it may, Mr. Evans is entitled to have somebody in the bureau whom he knows personally, and in whose judgment he can implicitly confide. Mr. Evans has removed possibly three men out of the hundreds in the revenue service, and appointed to their places persons for whom lie is willing to be held responsible. It is the Commissioner Who is responsible for the bureau, and if the removals he makes are not simply dictated j by caprice or worse, he is entitled to make ! what changes he considers necessary to place

the Bureau in condition satisfactory to himself and to the President, The probabilities are that the Commissioner knows quite as much of the efficiency or inefficiency of the several officers as do the able editors who imagine themselves called upon to manage all the affairs of the government. If Mr. Evans had been a professional “reformer,” those papers which now criticise him would have lauded him to the skies because he was going to be “a man of his own mind,” and all that, and would have only those men about him who would carry out his plans and purposes. Mr. Evans will be sustained by the average good sense of the country and be judged by the results of the administration of his office. HOME AND FOREIGN COLLEGES. At this season of the year, when commencement exercises have brought the many colleges into prominence before the outside world, it is an interesting problem to determine which is best. Many parents are speculating now as to which institution of advanced learning is best for son or daughter, and many a young man is pondering over the election of an alma mater. To the youth just quitting the village school, or it may be the academy, it is a question of considerable importance in his own mind, as well as in fact. To wisely select the college he will attend is of greater moment than many imagine. There are three classes of colleges and universities: those abroad, in Europe, those in the Eastern States, and those nearer home. Each class has its peculiar advantages. The universities of Europe, with their centuries of picturesque histories, and their rolls containing the names of men high on the scroll of fame as warriors, statesmen, churchmen and scientists, present very tempting attractions, aside from the indefinable pleasure of attending school in lands so rich in poetical and legendary associations. The colleges of New England are possessed of many of the European attractions, and with the prestige of years assume a superiority not always conceded nor always apparent to the world at large. But it] must be admitted that they possess much that is desirable, and, like similar institutions beyond the Atlantic, the glamour of antiquity is one element not to be despised. Besides this, most of them are supplied with the most costly apparatus procurable, and all the appliances necessary to elucidate the sciences and various branches of philosophy. These, supplemented by the best instructors to be had, render the colleges of Europe and of New England peculiarly attractive, and it is not to be wondered at that young men possessed of means should elect to attend them. There remains to be considered the colleges nearer home, and particularly those of Indiana. While not so old as those of the other classes they have an honored and honorable history behind them. The principal colleges of Indi ana havo a record extending over nearfv a half century. These fifty years have witnessed a marvelous progress in their development; have seen them emerge from obscurity and insignificance to an honorable standing among the best and oldest in the land. From humble beginnings their honored founders and conductors have so well done their work that they are now a source of just pride to the people of the State. Beginning with but three or four teachers and a score or two pupils, they are now endowed with ample means, have fine college buildings, able and adequate faculties, and students numbered by the hundreds. The alumni of these institutions have taken high station in every public place. In the councils of State and nation they are in the front rank. They are the leaders in law', in theology, in medicine, and in enterprising business. In the matter of advanced education they are as good as the best, and graduates of Indiana colleges are professors in scores of colleges from New York to California. This one fact alone is enough to guarantee the thoroughness of the educational processes of Indiana schools. It is no vain boast to say that our colleges stand shoulder to shoulder with the best in nearly every particular, and in every important feature they are in no wise inferior to those of any part of the world. The text-books irsed are the same as those employed in the oldest colleges in America, and the requirements are now as high. So that, with a half century of honorable standing, with the ablest men of the West among their alumni, and with faculties composed of men the mental equals of any. and these men supported by ample financial resources, the colleges of this State offer every substantial advantage that can be desired. In antiquity alone they fall short; but this defect will remedy itself in time, and can hardly be regarded as a fault. In one important respect our home colleges are preferable to those at a distance. The leading men of the West are, as a rule, the alumni of Western colleges. To where one Indianiau graduates at Yale or Harvard, Brown or Princeton, ten complete their college course at Asbury, at Wabash, at Bloomington, at Hanover or at Butler. The fellowship of this army of Indiana graduates is worthy of consideration. True, it is not a close corporation nor an exclusive company; but a sheepskin from someone of our own colleges is worth more as an introduction than one from abroad. The alumni of Indiana colleges are scattered all over the West. Not a town or city of importance but has them, and among them will be found the best men of their respective communities. This latter feature and the fact that the expense will be materially less, ought to send every true Indiana boy to become the alumnus of an Indiana alma muter. With a definite purpose and fixed

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determination to excel, the student who avails himself of the privileges and advantages of the schools of his native State will have solved the problem above set forth, for he will live to learn „ that they, after all is considered, are as good as the very best. “There is a broad ground between protection and free trade—much more than an inch. It is the ground occupied by all persons holding conservative views on the subject of the tariff A small number of dreamers, theorists, honest but impracticable men, striving for what they believe to be right and for the best interest of the people, cry out, ‘Down with the tariff, abolish all custom-houses; give us free trade with all the world.’ * .* * On the other side there are a set of narrow-minded and small-souled manufacturers that cry out for a high protective tariff, so high as to amount to virtual prohibition. This class is not nor very popular, but very unscrupulous and very persistent.”—New Albany Ledger. The Republican party has nothing to do with either of these classes. Believing in the levying of a reasonable protective tariff, it has no fellowship with free-traders. Neither does it encourage the very few who would have a prohibitory tariff. But the Journal does not agree with the Ledger. There is not an inch of available ground between free trade and protection. As Senator Voorhees has said, and as the Journal has long maintained, “any tariff that is laid must protect to some extent.” To the extent that any tariff is laid it is in that degree protective, and, this being the case, we insist that the protection shall be honest and intelligent and friendly. The difficulty with the Ledger is that, being a protective paper, it finds itself allied to a free-trade party, and as a means of getting out of the dilemma, seeks to prove that there is ground between free tiade and protection. It has been show'n repeatedly that there is not an inch of available space there, and the Democratic party will not find standing room between the two policies as represented by the two great political parties. It might be a wholesome check upon the fast life of young army officers if there were some regulation compelling them to exchange places with the privates occasionally. And in this connection it can be said that the legislation that shuts out the meritorious private soldier from promotion, has no match in the economy of the government. To say that the intelligent soldier, who has been upon duty in the field for years, is not entitled to recognition, but that the sprig of a second lieutenant who hangs around headquarters, and drinks whisky and gambles is, the people of this country consider an outrage, and one too that is not patiently borne. We concede, frankly, the necessity of having educated officers. But this education can be acquired in the field as well as at military academies. The experience of the late war proved this most conclusively. True, a few promotions of non-commissioned officers have taken place, but they are exceptional, and have usually been made only with a view of putting the recipient upon the retired list. If tions from the ranks were made upon merit and service as a rule, the little aristocratic brood of carpet knights would be put upon their good behavior, and would make themselves deserving of the favors of the government. Such an arrangement for promotion would lessen the distance between officer and soldier, and be beneficial generally. In monarchies the common soldier has nothing to do but shoot; in a republic he should both think and shoot. To make him a strong thinker as well as a good shooter, the line of promotion ought to be left open to him. It seems that Preacher Jenkins, who was so quick on the trigger, and killed President Borden, in Louisiana, was entirely mistaken as to the cause which he imagined demanded the exercise of his Spotless Prowess. Miss Butler says that the dead man never wronged her; and besides, Mr. Jenkins was in no wise her defender had she needed onei she having a father and two brothers to look out and care for her honor. Jenkins was simply a hot-blooded fool, who thought it incumbent upon him to shoot a man who, he imagined, had done an injury to a young lady of his acquaintance. It will be worth a great deal to society, in all respects, if Jenkins can be sent to the penitentiary for the term of his natural life. It would be too much to hope for that a jury could be found to hang him; but if a start can be made by securing a life term for this particular bloody-handed fool, the next murderer may be sent to the gallows. When one of these fellows shall be hung, human life will be worth more in those States where Spotless Prowess now seems to demand a murder eveiy now and then. Tub total beer brew of the United States for the year ending May 1, so far as reported, was 17,840,424 barrels of thirty -oue gallons each, a net increase over the preceding year of 733,#62 barrels, or an increase of 4.41 per cent. The official figures show that the sales in Indiana in 1883 were 14,773 barrels less than in 1882. These official figures also show that beer is not sold in Arkansas. Florida, Maine or Vermont, while only eight barrels were sold in Alabama and thirty-one in North Carolina. The net increase over 1875 is 8,965,704 barrels, or 106.09 per cent, in eight years, this increase varying from 6 per cent, in Massachusetts to 20.27 per cent in Connecticut. More than one-sixth of the entire product of the country is brewed in New York and vicinity, Philadelphia ranking second and Milwaukee third. It is asking a little too much of State Treasurer Cooper to consent to the loan of money from the strong vaults to any of the crippled State institutions. It was very generally reported, at the time, that the State Treasurer was vitally interested in the defeat of the appropriation bills, and jt was even

unkindly suggested that it would be money in his pocket if the game of Speaker Bynum and his gang should be successful, as it was. The State institutions may have to be run upon borrowed funds, but the State Treasurer is dead certain that no money can be taken from the treasury except in pursuance of law. The Treasurer is one of the firmest upholders of the letter of the statutes to be found anywhere just at this particular juncture. Mr. Ritrktn, who is supposed to know a vast deal about art, besides possessing more miscellaneous information than be has time to give away, has evolved some views upon courtship. Says Mr. Ruskin: “When a youth is fully in love with a girl, and feels that lie is wise in lov/nir her, he should at once tell her so plainly, and take his chance bravely with other suitors. No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at once without severe reasons. If she simply doesu’tlike him, she may send him away for seven years or so- lie vowing to live on cresses and wear sackcloth meanwhile, or the like penance. If she likes him a little, or thinks she might come to like him In time, she may let him stay near her, putting bun always on sharp trial to see what stuff he is made of. and requiring, figuratively, as many lion skins or giants’ heads as she thinks herself worth. The whole meaning and power of true courtship is probation, and ir ought nor, to no shorter than three years at least; seven is, to my mind, the orthodox time. And these relations between the young people should be openly and simply known, not to their friends only, but to everybody who the least interest in them; amt a girl worth anything ought always to have half a dozen or so suitors under love for her.” Mr. Ruskin is evidently of the opinion that all lovers are so nearly related to Jacob as to be willing to serve seven years for their Rachels. This is a mistake. The young man who hangs around for seven years in this age of the world is the one who gets left, or is only taken at last because he is a forlorn hope. The theory is a good one for the girl who fixes a good many strings to her bow, but it doesn’t give the suitor much of a chance. Unless he “hedges” by entering himself lu the train of two or more girls at the same time, he may have a sad time of it. After a man has waited fourteen years or so, only to see his sweethearts marry other fellows, he is apt to get discouraged and do something rash. Mr. Ruskin must revise his theory before it is adopted iuto general use. Tiik bridge proposed for the East river in 1811 by Mr. Thomas Pope, to oouuect New York and Brooklyn, is to be shown in the July Bt. Nicholas in connection with a fully illustrated description of the present bridge by Mr. Charles Barnard. Mr. Pope published a book (now very rare) in advocacy of ills plan, aud the Sr. Nicholas Illustration is a reprint of the engraving which formed the frontispieoe of that volume. It will bo accompanied by some reminiscences of Mr. Pope, contributed by General Thomas 8. Cummings, oue of New-York's oldest citizens, who tells among other interesting items this auecodote: It is said that Mr. Pope, in company with Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat. and a number of other distinguished NewYorkers, on a certain day made atrip around the city in one of the new steamboats. The afternoon was showery, aud just as the boat rouuded Custie Garden the rain ceased, and thero was seen a rainbow spanning the East river. “See there!” says Fulton, tapping Pope on the shoulder, “there’s your bridge, Pope. Heaven favors yom with a good omen.” Geu. Cumtulugs states Mr. Pope prepared a large model of his bridge, which wus set up “in the greeu fields just above Canal street; and he says that one account ascribes the destruction of this model to a stroke of lightning, and moreover that this disaster is said to have befallen It on the very afternoon when It was to have been pubfioly tested io the presence of Governor De Witt Ciiutou and other distinguished gentlemen. Several newspaper correspondents are exhausting themselves in the ettort to discover why Lotta, the actress, never married. A number of entertaining theories are advanced, hut no one seems to have hit upon the truth. The following paragraph undoubtedly explains the matter. Says “one who knows:” “Her mother is her adviser and companion in all things. She never was alone with a gentleman in her life, never ate in a nubile dining-room, and, although a millionaire, never bought a bonnet or spent a dollar without her mother's consent.” Mrs. Crabtree is a devoted and perhaps a model mother, but her virtues, as pictured above, do not endear her to the young man of the period. What youth with the spirit of the age about him wants a wife worth a million if she never spends a dollar without her mother’s consent? Kate Kane, the belligerent Milwaukee lawyer, has written a letter to a Minneapolis paper in whioh she says Judge Mallory put unnecessary fire into his broadsides against her, and the cup of cold water she threw on him was kindly meant to put him out. Miss Katie is not entirely pleased with the consequences of her sudden notoriety, nnd is inclined to complain of it. During her enforced leisure while in prison for contempt of court, she heard of herself as a grasswidow and a termagant, learned that she had murdered one husband, nnd had divorces from three, and had burned fifteen step-children, had kept a boarding-house and starved the boarders on shadow soup, and that she had been disappointed in love and was a soured old maid. Miss Kane is of the opinion that there are some drawbacks to the practice of law in Milwaukee. Mrs. Dion Boucicault has told an Intimate friend, a New York lady, in strictest confidence, that she believes Mr. Boucicault to be an Irish sympathizer, and that his fortune has been sacrificed to that cause. Furthermore, Mrs. Boucicault secretely believes her husband to be the long-sought and genuine Number One. The New Yorx lady mentioned her friend’s opinion also, in strict confidence, to a reporter, with the usual results. As Mrs. Boucicault is represented us hating her husband with a violent though just hatred, her displeasure towards the lady who has turned informer will perhaps not be deep. Indeed it is intimated that she will look on and smile should the British Government suatch up the dramatic sympathizer and wake an example of him. . _ Henry Irving, the English actor, having decided to come to this country, is thoughtfully giving out in advance that he has a hobby, and that hobby is suspenders. He has now iu his rooms nearly two hundred pairs. Ladies who contemplate falling in lovo with Mr. Irving, aud had thought of embroidering liat-bauds or silk handkerchiefs for him can, being thus forwarced, turn their entire atteaiion to the building of gorgeous “galluses.” •■ Is the contest in the Federal court at Kansas City to test the validity of an act of the State Legislature which prohibits the sale and inuuufacture of oleomargerine, the decision has been rendered and sustains the State law. 8o that in Missouri at least tbe butter of our fathers has proven itself strong enough to take care of itself. Professor Horatio N. White, of Cornell University, was married last night to Miss Fanny Gott, of Syracuse. All brides do not turn pale during the ceremony, but anxious friends must have noticed thut this one Gott White. The residents of Newport have served notice, informally, upon Mrs. Langtry that she need not spend the summer there, us she proposes to do. The local paper, which is supposed to echo the

sentiments of the heavy swells in that neck of the wood;*, is very free to say that should she make her appearance not one of the cottages would open its doors to her, and that the hotel at which she stops will be immediately vacated by everybody' who is worth knowing. We are not able to sav where that Missouri Judge has been, but there seems to bo no question as to his Krumin’ through the rye. Wasson't all lost at poker, but most of it in fast living. To the Editor of tlie Indianapolis Journal: Do the members of the ludiunapoiia building associations have to pay tax on their shares for county or State purposes? D. W. Mazy. Belle Union, Ind., June 18. The Indianapolis building associations are subject to the same laws which govern all other such associations in the State. Building association stock is taxed just the same as bank stook. See Revised Statutes 1881, section 6,373. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mary Anderson lias refused tbe new drama written for her by Osoar Wilde. Harper & Brothers have decided on destroying the plates of their Magazine and Weekly up to 1880. M. Jules Verne is said to be seeking election to the French Academy as the successor of the late Jules Sandeau. Rev, J. P. Dimmitt announces that Rev. Thomas Harrison will conduct a oamp-meeting at Jacksonville, 111., commencing July 20. Within ten days after the marriage of the Duke of Genoa and the Princess Isabella of Bavaria the young oouple received over 20,000 begging letters. John Russell Young, American minister to China, is now engaged in collecting material for a work on that country, whioh he hopes to publish within two years. Queen Victoria has aocepted the offer of the Countess of Crawford to place at her disposal tlie villa Palmeria, In Florence, the scene of Boccaoio’s “Decameron.” Judah P. Benjamin’s complaint Is heart disease in an advanced stage. The English bar wifi give him a complimentary dinner soon, which will probably aggravate his malady. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale is thinking of writing a history or tbe Pacific ocean and its shores. It Is reported that he has been collecting material for the work for forty years past. General Francis E. Spinner, whose queer signature used to adorn all United Btates currency, has left his Florida plantation for a time, and is visiting friends in Boston aud elsewhere in the North. Several Legitimist grandes dames In France have adopted for their correspondence blue paper, on wluoli is engraved in the corner their ooat-of-aruis, surmounted by a royal crown, veiled by a slight cloud, with this motto, in Greek below; “One gust of wind will be enough.” A Practicing female physician occasionally quotes the following lines, addressing them to the Massachusetts Medical Society: Behold a stranger at your door! She gently knocks, will knock once more. Has waited long, is waiting still; You treat no brother man so ill! Miss Livingston, who obtained a verdict of $75,000 against Henry Fleming for breach of promise and seduction, at New York, some time ago, has consented to compromise with Fleming for $15,000, nnd now her lawyers apparently want the whole of that sum. She is willing to pay them $5,000. General Sherman’s son, Mr. Thomas Sherman, who began studying to be a priest of the order of Jesuits five years ago, and who spent his novitiate in England, will soon leave Woodstock, Md.. where he has been for some time, aud after a visit to bis mother will go to the western province to which he belongs, aud will teach there. President Barnard has addressod a letter to the New York Tribune humorously defending our English spelling. In alluding to an interchange of sound representatives he says that if this were prevalent “ulgh paighg oph Ingleish wood preazent at varied anned plktewrhesk appierance, troughleigh plieziug tou ey kaurrekth thaispth,” Mrs. Mackay serves notice that her daughter is not engaged to Prince Philippe de Bourbon, and says: “I mean to give my daughter to an honest mail, not to any oue of the titled fellow's who are generally rumed, and think it a condescension to marry into an untitled family.” Moreover, “in aooordauoe with American custom, her daughter will receive not a penny of dowry on her marriage.” AMONOthe visitors of Charity Commissioner Kissam, of New York, on Monday, wus James Clarkson, a stook raiser of California. “I have coine on,” he said, handing the Commissioner a cigar, “to find out something about myself. I was picked up iu the streets of Brooklyn, and until I was twelve years old I was a count}' charge. Then I was sent to a farmer in lowa, and then made my own way. I moan to take some poor boy back with me.” The Duchess of Edinburg, it is said, “is never known to smile.” Unhappily, she is the only daughter of a murdered Czar, and the sister ot another whose head is trembling under the weight of half a dozen crowns. The English do not like this poor Princess—neither does she like them—and when history is written in later years, some strange revelations will doubtless be made regarding the life nnd fate of this sombre, haughty daughter of the Romanoff's after she married her sailor Prince of England. The Jewish nose, so-oulled because so common among Israelites, is by no means peculiar to that nation alone, fcfir G. Wilkiusou proves that the natives represented in Egyptian sculpture with hawk noses are not always Jews, but Syrians. Tne ancient Phoenicians were Syrians, and they were the greatest merchants of antiquity. It indicates worldly shrewdness, insight into character and ability to turn that insight to profitable accouut. Vespasian, Titus, Theodosius the Great, Adam Smith aud Albert Gallatin had this nose. A pleasant recollection of Lady Augusta Stanley is to be found in Dean Bradley’s “Reocolleotious of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley*’ recently published by Scribner’s Sons. Ho says the.Lady Augusta’s usual seat at the deanery was at a table where, after her death, stood her bust in murble, a few feet from where her husband stood at his desk, plying his dally task of Jewish history, or sermon, or lecture, or artioio, or letteyet rever ready to turn aside for a few moments’ conversation or rest, and then to resumo his work where he had left It. Roussei.ot’srecent work on the peoples or tho Himalayas asserts that polyandry is practiced among man}'tribes of Indians throughout Hindustan and the Himalayas. Woman Is considered the superior being, and each woman has a number of husbauds, who five contentedly together, bringing to her the results of their labor, which is her property; she provides the cnildren with dowries, and if she dies before her husbands her eldest daughter becomes tlie head of tho household. Rousselot continues that the system has a deplorably demoralizing effect upon the morals of the community. The Cassagnacs appear to be a family of fighters. The George de Cassagnao who fought the duel with the sergeant-major of chasseurs near Paris, the other day, was a aon of M. Paul de Cassaenao, the most accomplished duelist in France. The latter, according to a Paris correspondent, “has been a challenger seventeen times, and at least two of bis enemies were killed off in a summary fashion. He never declined a duel but onoe, and that was when his adversary, M. Dufauru, happened to be lefthanded and refused to uso his right hand while

Cassagnafefought with his left. Recently, when Cassagnao was insulted in the Freuob chamber,, he insolently sain to his political opponent: ‘lt I hadn’t sworn off dueling I would kill you.* ” Young Cassagnac, who was nearly killed in the recent combat, falls far short of Ills father’s skill, but with age and experience it is quite likely lie will be able to sustain the reputatiua of his family on “the field of honor.” \ SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. There is no legal lifc-prcßerver yet patented which will save a community from misgovern* incur, aa long as it chooses to select the chief source of responsibility for the evil as its particular favorite and the recipient of repeated honors.—St; Paul Pioueer-Press. The farce of annually attempting to tax this species of property [personaij should cease, and tax laws that arc not framed to be broken should be adopted. The existing laws are aln surd and antiquated, instruments that are intuited to tbe purpose it was Intended they should accomplish.—New York Herald. As respectable Southerners draw closer to and ’ become more familiar with the Republican party theii ideas with respect to its alleged corruption will become greatly modified. They will appreciate the fact that the Republicans have a habit, on the off years, of drowning their rascals and objectionable characters out.—St. Louis GloboDemoorat. Irish independence must bide its time, and meanwhile it seems to us the height of suicidal folly for the Irish party iu the imperial legislature to kick the Liberals and shako bauds with the Conservatives. If such a policy is maintained Ireland v ill soon have not a single friend in Parliament to be depended upon, outside tho Irish members.—Bt. Louis Republican. The movement of public opinion is against and away from the practice of the spoils system, not toward it. 1 üblio opinion approved the competitive-examination * measure, not because any intelligent man believed it would work a cure of tne spoils distemper, but because it pretended to be a steo toward that end, and seemed to be the only s. op that could be immediately hoped for.—Chicago ,p ln** A man who is raised to a position of responsf-A bllity and dignity is in a certain sense intrusted i with the houor of his party. It should be his duty to elevate ir, and not degrade it, aud if Hon. William Pitt Kellogg lias deviated from the strict line of duty, as is charged, lie has nothing to expect from a Republican administration but a searching and thorough prosecution and an impartial execution of the law. Cleveland Leader. If there has been a failure of Justice in the starroute cases, there has been no failure to show the attitude of the Republican party toward official misdeeds. If frauds were committed by Republicans, they were exposed and prosecuted by Republican administrations, audit maybe pertmeuriy asked what evidence there is that a Democratic administration would make as much effort to bring accused Democrats to Justioe. —New York Trlbuue. * The extremists of both sides have made the retail traffic io intoxicants in Ohio free, and the people are weary of that. The}’know that prohibition does not prohibit, aud thev want the retail liquor business regulated aud a revenue derived from it. The Republican party is squarely placed on this great question. The cx-pt-rieoce of last year was conclusive that tho Prohibitionists were fanatical and that playing for them was a fatal game.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Every saloon-keeper who shall be driven out of tbe business can find at band a far better business, both for his purse, his reputation, his personal habits, and bis family. There are very few productive industries in which men do not make more money in the long run thau iu selling liquor. A few men have become rich by manufacturing liquors, but the phenomenon of a man made rich by selling them is about an rare as that of a nmu made rich by burglary or begging,— * Chicago Inter Ocean. The passion for gambling appears to be almost universal, and it is questionable if the oldfushloncd forms of throwing dice or turning a card are any more harmful tuan tlie modern improvement which we dignify with the name of speculation. We forbid lotteries and suppress gambling houses, but tbe ticker Is in every counting bouse and tne anxious races seen scanning tho enigmatic marks upon the tape tell tho same story that is told by the crowd arouud the tables at Monaco.—Philadelphia Times. RETURN OF EDWIN BOOTH] His Receut European Trip Entirely Successful and Enjoyable. New York Tribune. Edwin Booth and his daughter arrived from Liverpool yesterday. In conversation, Mr. Booth said: “My trip has throughout not only pleasant in the extreme, but I have returned invigorated in mind and body. 1 ployed sixty nights in Germany, and was thoroughly delighted and touched with my reception. I did not find the fact of my support speaking in a foreign language detract at all from my performance; at least, I experienced no difficulty, and I think I can safely say that the audiences seemes to accept it most philosophically. I am going to stay iu New York for a week probably, having engaged rooms for that time, and then shall go on to Newport, where I hope to find my cottage ready for occupation. As to my engagements for the future, to use a Iliberniatiism, I have none. I shall probably only play long engagements, as I am getting tired of ‘one-night stands,’and may return to Eu~ rope next year, for my entire trip has been too enjoyable and successful not to lure me to a repetition of it if possible. The Germans appreciate Shakespeare so thoroughly* that I felt I never played better. “I saw Henry Irving as I passed through London, and found him full of pleasureable anticipations in regard to his coming visit to this country. They are going to give him a farewell banquet on the 4th of July. I ad* mire Irving immensely as an artist, and as a stage manager I think it would be difficult to find bis equal. 1 hope lie will please all here.” v The Revenue Removals. Louisville Commercial, The New York papers which attack Commissioner Evans because of his removal oC certain revenue agents, and his appointments to fill the vacancies, may know something about those displaced which we dd not, but certainly Mr. Horton, one of the appointees, made a reputation out this way as an excellent officer while serving some years ago in the same position to which he has been reappointed; and Mr. A, H. Clark, of this State, who has been appointed, is an able and upright man and a good lawyer, well qualified to fill a much better place than he has received. Harmonizing for Victory. Cincinnati News Journal. It has been the misfortune of the Democracy to lose Ohio and the country at every election preceding the presidential year, thus giving the enemy all tho prestige and advantage in tha important contest Th , Republicans better understand this than dcr tlie Democrats. They pool their grievance, their jealousies and their perferences, and postpone their internecine fights to a less important occasion. They harmonize for victory, even though harmony is a stranger to their household. The Youag Republicans. Madison Courier. In 1884 young Republicanism will step to the front in Indiana, as it has done in Ohio, and its strength and power will be felt in tin State convention. The young men of the. party will be better organized in 1884 than, ever before, and will be to the party its right arm, as the artillery is to the army. Tho hope of the party is in young blood. Voorhees Mint lto Suppressed. New Alliau.v Public Pres* (Dam.) Senator Voorhees, lest ho might be considered a Democrat, has had an interview'd to write him up and down as a Republican on the tariff question. Senator Vourhees'b Democracy is scarcely skin deep, and he is a mighty small fraction of tho party. Voorhees must be sat upon. A Lesson that VV ill Bo Valuable. Chicago Horitld. ( The sooner people who Engineer cornerff ahd deals learn that they cannot long run counter to the well known laws of legitimate commerce, the better will it be for them aTid or the poor fools whom they seek to allurt nto their nets.