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A few endeavor to conceal their sores, but after the October election the ticket itself wiil realize that it was “thoroughly ‘wounded in every respect.” Europe seems to be monopolizing the great tragedies during June. In England, 202 children crushed to death; in Silesia, seventy persons drowned, and in a theater on Lake Como, forty-seven burned to death. The year has thus far been an eventful one in the number of frightful accidents and attendant loss of life. The receiver of the estate of McGeocli, Everingham & Cos., of Chicago, report liabilities in -excess of $0,000,000, with assets of about $50,000. In other words, on each dollar of capital they were trying to do $l2O worth of business. Still there are a few who maintain that such speculation is not gambling but legitimate business. The hand of Samuel J. Tilden was to be 6een in the nomination of Judge Hoadlv by the Ohio Democrats, and new it is understood lie is working to further the interests of Hon. Henry B. Payne, of Cleveland, as the next United States senator. This is the man whom your Uncle Samuel has selected to still further nip the aspirations of Durbin Ward. Secretary Lincoln has ordered General Crook to Washington to consult as to the best plan of dealing with the Chiricahua captives. General Crook’s advice is entitled to the most respectful consideration and greatest weight, but it seems to us to be worse than a farce to take the trouble to arrest a lot of scoundrelly, devilish murderers and then reward them by turning them upon a reservation and feeding them until the time comes for them to go upon the war patlf. The Minneapolis Tribune favors the nomination of General Phil. Sheridan as the Republican candidate for President. If the next nominee is to be a military chieftain, it will much more likely be the-’man who voluntarily lays aside the sword, as did Washington, than the one who, by the operation of law, becomes the commander-in-chief of the army. Besides, General Sheridan will, doubtless. prefer to remain at the head of the army than to take a short term in civil life, if that were an absolute certainty. The Rev. James 11. Lightbourn, a Methodist preacher of Xew York city, strikes home in the matter of corrupted verdicts as responsible for .subsequent violations of law. In a sermon, on last Sunday, taking for his text the sixth commandment, “Thou shait not kill,” lie declared: ‘“lt was a terrible thing for Dukes to be shot down by a palefaced youth, but it was a more terrible thing for that scamp to walk the streets with the blood of the boy's father on his hands. It was a disgrace that he should be going about unmolested. I tell you, if judges and juries can be found to liberate such scamps, the people will have to rise up and take things in their own hands.” Professor Robert Ellis Thompson, of the University of Pennsylvania, has written for the North American, and Mr. Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia, has published in pamphlet form, a series of papers designed to show that the futuis surplus of national revenue should be distributed among the States in proportion to population in order to relieve the latter from iocal taxation. Thompson supports his proposition by a citation of the assumption of the debt of the various States by the general government at the close of the revolution, and in the extensive system of internal improvements in which the government engaged a half century ago. The best tiling to do with the surplus revenue is to reduce, taxation and thus do away with the surplus. The question of the surplus is to be one of Die most important with which Congress will have to deal in the future. Tiie comparison of death-rates for the year 2882 developes some interesting conclusions. In the great city of London there were 82,905 deaths, being at the rate of 21.29 per 1,000, while in the marvelously clean and sunshiny city of Paris there were 68,702 deaths, or 20.27 per 1,000. But Vienna made the worst record, with 21,595 deaths, or 29.10 per 1,000. New’ York was still worse, there being 37,924 deaths there, or 29.04 per 1,000, and that was the highest death-rate reported from twelve leading cities on either side of the Atlantic,

1 London’s death-rate was lower than that of I any other of the large capitals of Europe, 1 while San Francisco takes the lead in the United States. In London, during the year, there were 36,259 deaths among children under five years of age. In New York there were 17,520 deaths among the same class. In i London, strange as it may appear, there were ! but 8.405 deaths from pulmonary complaints, | while in Paris, so free from fogs and 1 murky weather, popularly supposed to he conducive of such diseases, there were 11,011 deaths from those complaints. The percent, in New York was about the same as that of Paris, both being nearly 150 per cent, greater than the London death-rate. From smallpox there were 431 deaths in London, 661 in j Paris. 259 in New York, and the startI ling total of 1,249 in Cincinnati. ; Had the same per cent. obtained I in London as in Cincinnati, there would | have been 8,158 deaths from that cause alone. The number of deaths from diphtheria was nearly three times as great in Paris as in London, though the latter city is twice as po £ u’.ous as is the French capital. It is but fair to say of Cincinnati that the year 1882 was a very disastrous one on account of a siual 1-pox plague that was very hard to stay. The prohibition of the landing of foreign paupers upon American shores is a question of greater delicacy tiian appears at first thought. That paupers have found their way to this country from all parts ot Europe heretofore is not questioned, but so long as they were transported at private expense no disturbance has been made. But if any foreign state undertakes a wholesale business of dumping its paupers upon us, the effort ought to be resented in such an emphatic way as to stop it. The laws of tbis country prohibit the landing of these helpless classes, and the President, in his recent interview, gave assurance that the law’s would be rigidly enforced in every case of violation, and that correspondence w’as being bad with our diplomatic agents abroad to ascertain the facts in the premises. But the right Os an American citizen to bring a helpless kinsman or friend into this country is not questioned, so long as the persons so brought are not thrown upon the public for support. The violent opposition to pauper emigration suddenly aroused in certain quarters is tinged somewhat with policy. Castle Garden has held thousands in the past who were unable to nay their way out of New York city, but so soon as they could be mustered into the Democratic party money has been furnished them to go to the places where they could do the party the most good, and they went. Good results often come from works actuated from motives of mere policy, and this is likely to turn out to be so in the present case. It does seem that the kindred of a starving and down-trodden people would rather sec them escape to a land of freedom and plenty than to be kept in a state of want and suffering in their native land for political effect. But the lower stratum of humanity always lias been % a football for the higher, and there is no immediate change of this rule insight now; so that the ship load of paupers tossed in our direction for political reasons, must be tossed back upon the care of the government that has made them paupers. The Scott law, taxing the liquor traffic, has been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court of Ohio. This simple statement gives the heaviest blow’ the Democratic canvass could possibly receive. The Democratic campaign has been projected upon opposition to the taxation of the liquor interest, and the strength of the position lias been in the belief that under the peculiar constitutional provision any attempt to lay a tax upon the traffic must be inoperative. The iilfirmance Os the Scott law, and of the principle that the traffic can be made to pay a tax upon its existence, will greatly strengthen the Republican position. Had the law’ been overthrown, the party would have still adhered to the principle, but it would have been placed at the disadvantage of fighting merely for an abstraction. But now’ it is contending not only fora principle that will certainly command the support of a majority of the voters of so intelligent a State as Ohio, but also for a practical fact that the taxpayers can see in actual results. Tiie second section of the law makes the tax a lien on the real estate if the tenant saloonkeeper neglects to pay it, and upon the ground that the law violated existing contracts it was attacked. This seemed to be its weakest point, but the Supreme Court declares that the law does not apply to leases or contracts entered into before its passage, and therefore is not obnoxious to the objection. How large a number of leases may be affected by tbis exception cannot be known, but the number must be insignificant compared with the total number of saloons in the State. After thirty years of free whisky, under a mistaken notion that it was in the direction of prohibition for the Stats to have nothing to do with the traffic, liquor is finally to be made to contribute something to the general treasury, and pay a share at least of the extraordinary expenses it entails upon the taxpayer. The people and the Republican party of Ohio are to be congratulated. Even the number five head of a dude may he able to grasp the difference between the question of free trade* and protection and the law of gravitation. We are not aware that tlie world is divided upon the theory of gravitation and that three-fourths of Christendom are in opposition to it, as they are upon free trade. We do not hear discussions everywhere upon the law of gravitation, nor are the newspapers engaged in upholding or attacking it, as they are with respect to protection and free trade. The

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opinions of leading men are not sought for uppn the law of gravitation, and political parties are not framing platforms on either side of Newton’s great principle. These adolescent philosophers, who are so ready to settle fundamental questions by the stroke of their mighty pens, will be ready to consider when they grow older and have sense enough to apprehend the limitations of their genius, that there is a division of opinion upon the question of free trade, and that there arc, to say tiie least, not a few men of respectable ability and unquestioned honesty who favor the doctrine of protection. The Louisville Courier-Journal goes into speculative philosophy over the parade of colored Masons on Monday last. It says: “There will be bands of music and dancing, banners and regalias, and all the pomp and glitter that delight the black man’s imagination.” These delights are not peculiar to the colored man, but from time immemorial men of all nations and of ail shades of complexion have reveled in the self-same glories. But the moralist goes further, and wonders—“As they pass by, proud of their uniforms and proud of their music, with the childish pride of the black man, whether freedom has done them so very much good, what the result of the emancipation has been, and what the future of this race will be.” The young philosopher probably imagines that he is very profound, and talks glibly of “the childish pride of the black man,” as though a bit of green ribbon and a breath of “St. Patrick’s day in the morning” didn’t set every patriotic Irishman wild with enthusiasm; and as though a red sash and a cockade were not enough to make an average alderman imagine himself as big as a major-general. In the same profound manner the writer goes on in his speculations: “It is an absorbingly interesting question; no man can look into the future and even conceive of the ultimate end of this once helpless race, groping, blindly groping, toward the light. Will they mingle with the whites and lose their identity? Will they fade away like the Indians before the inevitable destructiveness of the Anglo-Saxon? Or will they preserve their individuality, and remain a distinct and an intellectual people? And he will wondpr, too, will this thoughtful man, as the black procession sweeps what effect liberty lias had on them; whether it has helped or hurt, whether it has mended or marred.” Forgetting for the moment the imbecility that inspired such rot, it may be well to remark for tbis tyro’s benefit that the black man whom he “wonders” over has been a freeman barely a score of years, after a remorseless, cruel and unrequited servitude of two centuries. Give the black man a little opportunity before this “wondering” assumes such proportions, and if he fail to excel cm* sciolist who wrote these speculations it certainly will prove that his case is hopeless. It is hardly probable that the colored race, like the Indian, will fade away. Nor wiil they lose their identity through amalgamation. The days of criminal amalgamation passed away when slavery was killed. Tiie “thoughtful man” who conjures up such a mes3 of maundering idiocy w’ould do well to apply himself to the accumulation of common sense. The colored man will see to it that the benefits of freedom are not lost to him. Everything is in perfect harmony among the Democrats of Ohio. A striking proof of this is the leading editorial in the Cincinnati Enquirer yesterday, headed “Stop It,” and which opens up with the appended conciliatory paragraphs: “Four days have passed since the adjournment of the State Democratic touvention at Columbus, but the cheering by the friends of the successful candidate for the gubernatorial nomination continues. Tnc adherents of Judge Hoadlv, with harsh voices find illadvised exultation, continue to assail and denounce the men who dared stand by General Ward and advocate the claims of that honest, incorruptible Democrat. Those who will incur the least damage from tactics of this description are those upon whom the denunciation falls, and it is hardly possible that this kind of campaigning is with the consent of the head of the ticket. Surely, Judge Hoadlv is a man of too much experience and too deep an appreciation of the coming struggle to assent to the threats, sneers and vulgar personalities that have been hurled at such’men as Allen G. Thurman, John A. McMahon, William D. Hill, George L. Converse, James B. Steedman, anti other old and prominent Democrats. “Judge Hoadlv is a man of talents and shrewdness. He well knows that his victory is not yet won; that his case must depend on the events and discussion of the next three months, after which a great jury of 700,000 voters will hand in the verdict. As tiie exciting events of the convention wear away, and the elation of those who are rejoicing over n victory within the party subsides, the work before the Democracy will be viewed with calmness and with a comprehension of the obstacles to be overcome. The sober second thought must take the place of rivalry and jubilation, and the magnitude of the campaign before us must be realized. The evenness of the battle must be understood.” This language from the Enquirer will be apt to cool the fever in the blood of those ardent gentlemen who have imagined the Democratic party had a walk-away in Ohio. Senator McDonald is wise enough to see that the outcome in Ohio is, to say the least, questionable, and now, added to tiie party troubles, comes the decision on the Scott law to blacken Democratic prospects. Mr. Thurman, of Ohio, appears determined to write himself down an ass of no mean degree. In a recent interview he was asked if Hoadly was the strongest candidate that could have been nominated. “Frankly, no,” he replied; “but he is not weak, because the Democratic party is strong.” Pacing over the inevitable question as to what particular the Democratic party is strong in, it is amusing to hear him eloquently exclaim: “By heavens, sir, when you look at the high-handed robbers among the Republican leaders, and seti them vindicated and serenaded by the residuary legatees of their criminal conspiracies, and reflect that nothing stands between the people and the absolute spoliation of the government but the Democratic party, it is easy to understand why that party has become practically irresistible.” If there

were any doubt that Mr. Thurman means by this the result of the recent star-route trial, it is dispelled a moment later when he declares that the “acquittal of the star-route conspirators has driven thousands of honest Republicans into the Democratic ranks, and the accessions will continue.” One thing is plainly manifest: either Mr. Thurman is an as3 or he imagines the public is one. The veriest simpleton posted on current history knows that the prosecution of the star-route defendants came from a Republican administration, backed up by Republican opinion from one end of the country to the other. He knows, too, that the administration incurred the hostility of the defense on account of the prosecution, being unstintedly denounced by the defendants and their principal counsel. Laying aside the question of the guilt or innocence of the defendants, if justice failed, it w’as not because of Republican connivance nor Republican sympathy. Senator Thurman will find no capital in such paluable misrepresentations. Presidential Candidates. In obedience to a promise to briefly consider the more f 38 probable candidates for presidential or vice-presidential nominations in 1884. tiie Continent of this week gives its views of the Republican list. Ifrspeabn very kindly and appreciatively of President Arthur, but does not think him in a position to become a strong candidate unless the work of the next Congress should develop contingencies that would place him prominently before the country as tiie opponent of dangerous tendencies in the Democratic party. Mr. Blaine, while able, possibly, to name the candidate, cannot himself become the nominee, as “the campaign is not likely to bo one especially suited to his peculiar style of work/’ Mr. Conkling cannot be considered. Mr. Edmunds is highly regarded, but the candidate must be one who wTI appeal to the younger men of the party, and must, therefore, have a future as well as a past. There is no reasonable prospect that General Grant will be mentioned as a candidate. General Hawlej is tho most popular of the Eastern Republicans, but his chances for the first place are not good; but he stands well for the second place, should Sherman, Foster or Lincoln be at the head of the ticker. Mr. Cornell must be taken Into account, but because of tiie sharp factional quarrel in New York his nomination is not at all probable, except for second place. John Sherman would not be acceptable either to the general rank and file of the party or to the civil-service reformers, because of the belief that in 1880 he used the patronage of the Treasury Department to further his personal prospects. General Sherman is “one of tiie most available possibilities of his party.” Governor Foster, of Ohio, whom Judge Tourgee considers one of the moat remarkable men of the day, must not be left out of the list. lie will be the choice of his owu State, but the “Ohio idee” will be in his way. Benator Logan has no special strength in any doubtful State to counteract the peril of almost certain defeat with him in New York, Robert T. Lincoln would liavo peculiar strength as a candidate. “He is young, the eon of one who commands, more than any other, the grateful memory of the whole people; is honorably linked with the great national struggle, has an unimpeachable record and theooufidence and good will or all factions of his party.” ExSenator Windom is the dark horse, strong In the East because of his admirable administration of the Treasury, while he would stand well toward the civil service reformers. He has not great personal popularity, or magnetism, “but his extreme Norths ?stern locus with his Eastern affiliation,” renders his nomination “not seriously improbable.” Os Indians, and its relations to the struggle and candidates, the Continent speaks as follows: “Senator Ben. Harrison has for some years been a possible candidate for one of the places on the national ticket. One would hardly have been surprised if he had obtained the ttrst place either in 1876 or 1880, while ir was almost a matterof surprise that the second place did not fall to him on both these occasions. In either case the prompt action of his triends might have secured him the presidency before tbis tune. This was wanting, however, and it uiav be questioned, if the opportunity has uot now passed away. Had Mr. Blaine succeeded at Chicago, Mr. Harrison would no doubt have received the second place. That alliance is not likely to tie of equal value at this time. Indeed, it is probable that Mr. Harrison’s ambition—if be has any—lias now grown beyond the vice-presidential chair. He is now a senator, with a long term before him and a fair prospect for being named his own successor. Should he be an aspiranr. as he can liardly help being considered, it will be for the presidential nomination. For tbis he has many elements of strength. He is of the younger race of politicians. Unlike Mr. Lincoln, his name would be of very little advantage to bis candidacy. The hero of the ‘log-cabin’ campaign is very dead to the present generation of voters. The issues and events which gave prominence to the Harrison of 1840 have become indistinct and trivial to-day. But the man himself is by no means weak. An orator of note, a thoroughly equipped statesman, a man of genial nature and wide personal popularity, lie has very many of the elements befitting the position and favoring a successful candidacy. He Is not, however, a man of strong will, and it is doubtful if he can bring his State to stand solidly behind him in the convention. Should another name bo presented from Indiana the chances are that neither would be successful, especially as the fact would probably indicate something more thau mere preference for another by part of the Republicans of the State, being grounded somewhat in an animosity which it w.,ild be bad policy to reawaken. Indiana will hi oueof the most important States in tide contest. There Is little doubt that one of The Democratic candidates will come from that State, and this prohability makes imperative the necessity that iests upon the Republicans to select a ticket that shall at least bn acceptable to all the Republicans of Indiana. It is likely to be one of the most sharply-contested points along the whole line. This fact has given peculiar piquancy io the report that the present Postmaster-general is not unlikely to be an aspirant. “Mr. Gresham has as yet only a local repute as a man or strong wili, vigorous intellect ami a devoted following In Indiana. His relinquishment of a life position in the federal judiciary is held to bo an indication of bis intention to take an active part in Indiana politics. The fact that he was succeeded in his judgeship by so popular and politic a man as Judge Woods, is also thought to indicate that heris forming alliances to extend and consolidate his strength. It has been the claim of many Indiana Republicans that the party in that State has had no head since the death of Morton. Despite her many men of marked ability it is said that the leaderslfcp still remains vaoant. There are not wanting men among them who declare that Walter Gresham aspires to till that place, and iu other States—notably among a section of Pennsylvania Republicans—there are to he found those who regard him as the coming leader. His record as a soldier and us a judge are Dotli oreditable. Asa political leader, he lias hitherto been more distinguished for tho antagonisms he has evoked than for the successes he has accomplished.” These views are given for what they are worth as part of the current political discussion. We may say, however, to the Continent and to all others, that there is no necessity to sit up o’ nights to avert a quarrel In the Republican party in Indiana. There are neither the materials nor the disposition for any trouble. Indiana Republicans always have been and always will be found working with might and mala for the SUCCegsof the party. The Republicans of some other Slates, who afe by fad faieaiis modest in the advocacy of their claims, could well emulate the example set for them by tho Republicans of Indiana ever since there has been a Republican party. When Mr. Abr..in., of LaGrange, Ga., deoided to elope with u boarding-school girl lie displayed a forethought unusual with young persons iu a Like state of mind. Iu order to avoid pursuit he

took the precaution to hire every team in the village, giving strict orders that uo one should have them without leave from himself. Then he took the fastest horses and, with his girl by his side, rode twenty miles into the next county and was married. On the way back the happy couple picked up the superintendent of the sohool, who had broken down in the useless pursuit, and kindly brought him into town. Elizabeth, Pa., is trying to live up to its feminine name by establishing the fact that men of that town have uo rights which the women are bound to respect. Several young ladie9 of the place had selected a quiet nook by the riverside where they were accustomed to assemble and spend a part of the summer eveniugs in discussing important affairs of their own and their neighbors. Tne spot was quiet only when the girls were not there. In its vicinity was a boarding-house, and a horrid, cross-grained man had a room overlooking the river bank. He said the gabbling and giggling—they called it conversation and laughter—of those young women was enough to drive a mau to crime, and he would not submit to it. Thn this foolish man, who thought himself capable of circumventing ten women, weut out and painted the stones where the girls sat with tar. When they came that night they covered the etones with oil-cloth, found conveniently near, and made merry as before. The frantic boarder could endure uo more, and next morning warrauts were served on the girls to appear the burgess and answer to a charge of nuisanco. Attorneys were employed ou both 6ides, and the entire population turned out to the trial, the crowd being so lal'ge that the magistrate adjourned to a larger hall. The prosecution utterly failed to prove that the girls were a nuisance, and when the plaintiff was requested to pay the sum of $11.65 costs, the joy and enthusiasam of the crowd was overwhelming. The horrid man is now hunting anew boarding-honse, while the triumphant maidens gather at their favorite hauuts and stng: “We’ll sit on the bank of the river and sing forever more.” The report of tho rescission of the recent order for the discontinuation of Sunday trains on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railway is evidently without foundation. The Lafayette Courier says: “There is no doubt that President Young’s order discontinuing Trains on Sunday is to hold good, notwithstanding the minors to til* contrary. Shortly after the order was issued a number of prominent Chicagoans took up the matter, and a number of petitions were made up, one beaded by the mayor, containing 2.800 names. This applied principally to Cedar Lake; and the president of the road was asked to make an exception in regard to that point for the benefit of the hundreds who would visit that place for recreation on Sunday. Mr. Young, however, refused, and to further satisfy the public of his determination, wrote a letter of considerable length to a railway journal a few days ago, in which he takes occasion to recount his reasons for the abanuonment of Sunday trains, and in conclusion says: ‘That, so far as tried, the resuits are more than satisfactory; no injury or loss ffhs been sustained; the employes have iu many cases expressed their gratitude and thanks for tbis privilege which lias been extended to them in the way of a cessation of work on Sunday, and that so long as I remain iu the management of the road uo chauge will be made.’ ” Dr. Theophilus Parvin, in his address to the. graduates of the Louisville Medical University,in February last, spoke as follows of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher; “This brilliant but erratic man entered upon his ministerial career wearing a CaWinlstic coat of the old Geneva pattern, but soon cast It aside for the ample folds and flowing robes of Arluimus. Subsequent changes iu his theological vestments have been many if nor great, and he now stands in life’s evening unable to find any formulated creed in Protestantism, Catholicism or paganism expressive of his religious belief, and so has been compelled to start an indeMfaient line running from Brooklyn to the Ceiwt'fcil City. Mr. Beecher, though uiikuowii among the class of scientific investigators, without reputntiou or the least authority in the scientific world, asserts from the platform the truth of Darwinism, a theory which can never bo proved, and which the twentieth century may class among the delusions of the nineteenth.” A lady has been appointed “assistantbusiness manager” of the St. Paul opera-house, and the people of that city wonder over the novelty of the thing, but think it possible that she may be a success in that position. As the assistant business manager of a theater has little to do but sell tickets from the box-oflice it is possible that tbs lady, who is said to be highly gifted, will till the place acceptably. Miss Kate Kane, of Milwaukee, in reply to a critic who suggests that she should marry and throw goblets at her husband instead of a judge, says plaintively that her city contains 637 more women than men, and how cau she marry! The scarcity of unappropriated men need nor, hinder. A woman lawyer who cauuot secure a divorce for a favored client and marry him, is not accomplished in ner profession. When a California woman wants to marry, she makes her wishes kuown without foolish preliminaries and beating around the bush. The following advertisement in the San Francisoo Chronicle will serve as a sample of her plain language: “A lady thrown on the world desires a liusbaud; trifle rs need not. answer. Address,” etc. “Mu. Gresham is doubtless familiar with the official history of the easy-going, unsuspicious Mr. Kny, his predecessor.’’—New York Times. It has been tho impression out here that Mr. Maynard, Mr. James and Mr. Howe had all been Postmasters-general slnoeMr. Key. ABOUT PEOPLE. Senator Pendleton has bought a $65,000 summer residence near Cincinnati Theodore Thomas whs paid SIB,OOO for his San Francisco concerts, the gross receipts at which were $51,322. Thomas McElrath, who founded the New York Tribune with Horace Greeley, lives in an humble way at Harlem. Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, says that not a drop of liquor of any kind has passed his lips since he has been Governor. One of the childreu of Charles sisters, the musical Mrs. Buruett, was the original ol Paul l>ombey, who is perhaua the quaintest child in fictiou, Hoadly was first a Whig, then a Democrat, then a Know-nothing, then a Republican, then a Greeley Independent, and now a Democrat. He. is a sort of polifical agnostio* Lord Kensington, M. P., the junior Liberal Whip, is a parliamentary anomally. He is an Irish peer with an English title and a Scotch wife, and he represents a Welsh constituency. The biography of George Eliot, compiled by her husband, from a diary kept by Herself for many years, will be an interesting bit of posthumous history, but she should have had some other editor. Ex-Governor R. M. Bishop, of Ohio, will sail for Europe on Thursday. He will be accompanied by ids daughter, Miss Anna Bishop, and Miss Florence Clement, and will be absent three months or longer. The biggest of the big trees of California must doff Its plumes to a monarch of the Australian woods, if the report is true that a symmetrical speoi in eh of the Eucalyptus am.vgdnltua 430 feet high was lately discovered iu Viotorla. The celliu La Roquette, Paris, in which Arolibishop Darboy was confined previous to his murder by the Comiuuuista in 1871, has never entered by any prisoner, and reniainff just as It was when the august prelute was left forth to die. The iren cross over tho spy-hole still bfiftr* in pencil the words, “Vita? robur, mentis stilus,” (raced by Mgr. Darboy,

who occupied his weary time by sketching tho instruments of the Passion upon the walls of the cell, together with various mottoes aud texts. Miss Stone, the daughter of Stone Pasha, who was formerly an American general and recently in the service of the Khedive, is said to be one the most accomplished linguists in the world* and the best Arabic soholarof her sex. The King of Portugal is plain, short anti thick-set, with a passion for Shakespeare and the classics and a contempt for politicians. IV hen asked to become Kiug of Spain, he said: “No; I cannot affoid to pay double premiums iu insuring my life.” A deed of property lately made over to the United States, near Fort Davis, Tex., reads: “To the Uuitcd States or its successor.” The officer who passed upon the deed erased the word “successor,’’ saying tho United States has not aud will pot have any successor. A Cleveland correspondent says: “It is understood that no member of her family will go to VV ashlngton during the present administration, aud Mrs. Garfield doubts if she can ever bring herself to visit again the scenes of the saddest moments of her life.” Du. Thomas C. Dijrant has been lying dangerously ill at his county seat at North Creek, the t< rminus ot the Adirondack railroad. Dr. Duran’s about stx’y-two years or age, and a few yi ars ago was prominently engaged iu the construction of the Union Pacific railroad. It is rumored that Mr. Ernest Brulatour, our first secretary of legation at Paris, is about to marry Miss Mackey, daughter of John S. Mackey, of California. Mr. Brulatour, who is the sou of . a rich old New Orleans wine merchant, lias ably seconded Minister Morton’s efforts to make our legation in Paris fatuous for elegant hospitality* Benjamin P. Cheney is thought by some to bu the wealthiest Bostonian. His money was partly made in the express business. It is said that he waited many years for a beautirul widow to marry him, which she agreed to do when she had raised her daughter, and the waiting becoming too deliberate he married the daughter, who loved him without conditions, and she nas made him a noble wife. Judge Hoadly, Democratic candidate for Governor Iu Ohio, was counsel for Cronin before the electoral commission. In the course of his speech Mr. Hoadly said: “Now, testing by principle, I say Cronin was elected;” and a little further on he said, addressing the judges: “You have been likened to judges in Israel.” Tho “judges in Israel,” however, voted fifteen to nothing that Cronin was uot elected. „ Princess Duicokoijki, the favorite of tho late Czar of Russia, who has lieeu firing about during the last two years like the Wauderiug .lew, has taken up her abode for a few weeks at the Pavilion Henry IV, Sr. Germain. The Princess some time ago contemplated purchasing the estate of Muskau, iu northern Germany, but she uow inclines to a settlement in Italy, and is said to have received “particulars” of reßideuces near Naples, in Sicily, and ou the lake of Como. An American physician was recently forbidden to practice in Tripoli because be was uot provided with a Turkish diploma. General Wallace, on learning this ract, bad the physician come to Constantinople, puss an examination tiiere, take a diploma and return to Tripoli. General Wallace has addressed a note to tha Porte insisting upon an apology for too treatment to which the physician was subjecte.il, be-cause-hundreds of native doctors in Tripoli are permitted to practice without a diploma. Mr. Calvin Vaux, of New York, the wellknown architect, gives an interesting and pleasaud account of the physical condition of his son, Mr. Downing Vuux, the fiancee of Miss Edwina Booth, and who was very nearly asphyxiated In his room a few months ago. The elder Vaux says that for some time grave doubts were entertained for bis son’s reason, but with the aid of a rigid treatment by bis physician and frequent visits to the country he has become thoroughly well. It is understood that Mr. aud Miss Booth will take possession of their cottage iu a few days, aud that the latter’s marriage to Mr. Downing Vaux will be celebrated iu the early autumn. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. If the British government is engaged in ship ping paupers to this country, then that will be something which will demand the attention of the government at Washington. New York Herald. So far as the Republican party in general is concerned, every one will rejoice in retrenchment in every branch of the public service where retrenchment can be made, with justice to the interests involved. If a single public officer call be dispensed with without detriment to tho service, his office should be abolished or consolidated with another and himself discharged from tha service.—Cleveland Herald. * The day that sees this law [the civil-service act] go iuto effect to a fortuuare date for the country. It is the practical beginning of a reform that will go on and bo extended to other offices and other public service until it will I** thought as wicked a perversion of power to appoint a clerk ask reward for political services as it now is iu most places to appoint a teacher in the publio schools for such reasons.—Boston Advertiser. The people regard the officers of their army ai men of high honor, and they will continue to do so, notwithstanding tlie occasional fall of a Wasson or a Nickerson, hut those who rule the army should jealously guard its reputation, and, by keeping alive in the, minds of officers the established rules of conduct by example, by precept, and iu ever}' legitimate way, labor to preserve the honor of those, who are exposed to temptation.—New York Times. It is inevitable that a man who sets no Ilmira- , lions to bis greed for mone-v, who is not content to accumulate bis wealth through the slow but steady processes of legitimate transactions, but strives to grasp it at once by cornering otlieis and then stripping tLem of all*they have, must sooner or later find himself cornered, stripped, and collapsed. It is only a question of time how soon every speculator ou the Board of Trade wiil find himself flat.—Chicago Tribune. As England has sowed In that island [lreland | let. her reap. She gathers u tax crop of no mean proportions, and a pauper crop so large that, while she offers nothing of the tax proceeds to the republic, she proposes that it shall solve the problem of Carina for the Irish pauper, properly a charge upon herself. It is uot venturesome to predict that as soon as the question is understood widely, America will put a stop to this insolence and dishonesty of the English.—Chicago Times. The views and intentions of the British government have been clearly developed through the published parliamentary debates, aud the ttrst installment of paupers as reached us. Tho time to veto these proceedings has arrived. JJ Ireland is not large enough for the Irish under British rule let England transport them, if it* choose, to Its own waste places in Australia and South Africa. There is no room in American alms houses for Irish paupers shipped hereby the British government, because it is tired of sup porting them.—Philadelphia Press. The meeting of Congress always tends more or less to the perturbation of trade, slnoo there is no telling what tariff or other tolly the Congress may not perpetrate; and the signs arc, though few people have yet seen lit to say so, that the determination of Congress to give rho world its usual entertainment once in two years, instead of every winter, would bo Received with a good deal of fortitude. There is no earthly prospect or Congress ever forming or announcing this determination, but if it should, tho country would bear lip under it very well.— at. Louis Globe-Democrat. Who is this Samuel J. Tildeii who bosses the Democratic party, and whose leaders sucezo whenever he takes snuff! His strength lies in the fact that he Ims money. Strip Imu of tills, aud he would not bo mentioned; he would speedily pass from memory. And where did ins money come from! From the sweat ol other people’s brows. Ho tolled not, neither did bo spin; but lie wrecked railroads, and he is now the recognized ~ mocratic party that seems, here*-** 25 ”" oclteve that tho country will cld7 >o,y' will be d** Drived of their lib* , p . ;. Iqnor dealers are required t® Jy tax ot one bundle cl to two hundred dollars. * And what more appropriate leader could tnl groat boss select In a crisis like this than the eminent lawyer wlm succeeded in making the electoral commission unanimous on the Oregon question! ButTildmj is boss, and his barrel is king.—Cincinnati Cuur uieiciul Qazette.