Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1883 — Page 5

HON. JOSEPH E. M’DONALD. A Coudensed Biography of the Democratic Ex-Senator. llegarded as More Than a Presidential Possibility—JUis Early Life auu Hi Political L veer. Washington Letter in Bostou Advertiser. Three years ago at the Cincinnati convention the Democrats of Indiana presented the name of Mr. Hendricks. When it became apparent that he could not be nominated, several delegations tendered to the Indianians their support for Senator Joseph E. McDonald, provjdingMn Hendricks should be withclrawn. Mr. McDonald was a delegate to the convention, and he refused to allow any such arrangement, unless by Mr. Hendricks’s consent. The latter was telegraphed to, but, upon the representations of William H. English •that he would surely be nominated, refused to surrender his claim, and General Hancock was put in the field. Mr. Hendricks’s chief supporter, Mr. English, was named for Vice-president, but tins sop was not enough to keep Indiana from giving the Republicans a majority in October, and thereby practically electing General Garfield. Bince then Mr. McDonald has left the Senate, and is now confessedly one of the most prominent candidates for his party nomination next year. The Indiana delegation will be for him. Reports of trouble between himself and Mr. Hendricks are falso, if both parties cun be trusted, and Senator Voorhees and % other leading Democrats hitherto opposed to him admit bis success. The delegations from the Northwestern States, from Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee. Alabama, Mississippi and other Southern States, are Claimed for him as a cert.iinty, and with a show of justice, judging by the expressions of those who ought to know. To-day, in the latitude of Washington, Mr. ’ McDonald is thought to be something more 1 than a possible winner at the Democratic * convention. He makes no concealment of j his desires in that direction, and a visit which * lie made here during the winter, for consul,l tatiou with Democratic congressmen, showed that he possesses strength not generally con- * ceded to him. He lias men in all the States J vigorously at work for him, who are in earnest, and understand the value of organ issa- * tion. Probably no other candidate is receiv,Y. ing the benefit of so well directed erfort. Its results will appear in proper time. To most people, Mr. McDonald is known hardly at all outside of iiis nix years of sena'torial life, which come to him as one of the results of Democratic sucoess in 1874. Prior to that he bad a local celebrity and a popularity which makes him known thj-onghout Indiana, among the older men as “Jo” McDonald, and as “Uncle Jo” among the younger. 4 His six feet figure, inclining now a bit to stoutness, the big feet and bauds, his large head, covered with brown hair fast turning to gray, his reddish face, smoothly shaven except for a heavy mustache, and his gruff, hearty voice and hand-shake, make up a personality which is known in every hamlet in that State. Indiana is proverbially a land of politicians, but none of them havesuccceded in gaining the confidence of the masses more than he. The McDonald family settled in Ohio soon after |the Revolution. It is now widely spread through that and the neighboring States, clinging still to those stern Scotch Presbyterian ideas which have always been cherished by that class. Mr. McDonald was born not quite sixty-four years ago in Butler county, Ohio, and was taken to Indiana in childhood. When but a boy the death of his father left the family poor, ami he was apprenticed to a saddler at Lafayette. He served three years in that capacity, studying at all opportunities. Then lie attended two years at the Asbury University, left before graduation in order study law, and in 1843 was finally admitted to the bar. His course up to that time had awakened the interest of his neighbors, and that very year he was elected, by the Democrats, prosecuting attorney for the Crawfordsville circuit. It was an unexpected compliment, but the young attorney made the most of his opportunity, succeeding so well that he was reelected. His practice had grown so . large that he declined in*Lß47 to serve longer, but the next year was elected to Congress in an overwhelming Whig district. Two years later he was beaten, but in 1856 was taken up by bis party and elected Attorney-general of the State. In 1800 the Republicans made a clean sweep, which cost him this, place, but not until he had won a position at the bar which has never since been lost. During the war he was a consistent Union man. and did much against the various secret organizations which were formed bv Indiana Democrats in aid of the rebels. This gave him in IoG4 the nomination for Governor against Oliver P. Morton, followed by inevitable defeat. From that tune he kept aloof from politics for some years, but was active in onposing the greenback heresy, and in 1875 was the unanimous choice of his party for senator. In the Senate he served on the judiciary committee, of which lie was the second member when his term closed, and in other positions for which his legal knowledge ■was required. Some excellent speeches are credited to him, and he earned a general reputation for economy and careful legislation, which will stand him in good stead if ever brought forward for national otfice. In 1881 he gave way to Senator Harrison, and since then has held no office. Rut Mr. McDonald’s chief success in life has been as a lawyer. From early manhood ■the law has been his one hobby, lie dreamed of it when doing saddlery work; he has devoted forty years to it. Before a jury he has few equals, and in the deeper intricacies of iiis profession he i9 skilled. He is especially well informed upon the science of law. and * the library gathered by him is considered one of the best in the West. Since 1859 be has beeu head of the firm of McDonald & Butler. Judge Butler is one of the prominent Republican politicians of Indiana. Last spring Judge Gresham, since appointed Postmaster-general, made arrangements to resign his judicial position and become junior partner in their office. They guaranteed him SB,(XX) a year from the outset, and Mr. McDonald undoubtedly earns at least $20,000 annually. A liberal mode of living precludes his ever being very wealthy, but he ba* a competency saved from his legal practice. Senator McDonald’s public and private life are equally honorable. At home he lives in a large double brick house of three stories, on Pennsylvania street, in an eminently respectable, but not fashionable, section of Indianapolis. Here he entertains with oldfashioned hospitality, one of his habits being to give to each Legislature a reception, which is a feature of its session. By his first wife only did he have children, three sons and one daughter. Os these, two sons survive, one of whom is auditor of the Bloomington <Si Western railroad, and the other, unfortunately deformed, is a practicing lawyer. During the most of his congressional life he was a widower, and, therefore, could not entertain, but during Ins last winter he married a Mrs. Bernard, who is described as a very handsome and capable lady, in middle life. Religiously, he is a member or the Second Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis, where he is a constant attendant and a liberal contributor. Such a man is Mr. McDonald. Not a showy one, nor yet brilliant, but a self-contained, prudent and honorable gentleman. No trust lias ever found bint delinquent; no great deeds have given him broad notoriety. He is limply an able lawyer and an honest man, with some infirmities of temperament, but

none which have ever caused him to lose the respect and confidence of the community wherein his years have been spent. Politically, he is an old-fashioned Democrat, believing in a low tariff, a coin currency, and economical administration. None of the ideas of civil-service reform arouse his sj'nipathy. To him political victory is a title to every office, but these offices, if at his disposal, would be given only to what he believed to be honest men. Locality has much to do with his present prominence as a presidential candidate, but those who know him best insist that he possesses those qualities of honesty, vigor and upright manliness which often, when tried, make excellent executives out of men of moderate talents, and all who have watched his professional career allow that there has been nothing in it which is aught but creditable to one who, from an orphanhood of poverty, has risen by hard blows to so much of deserved success. THE SHAW JLOCQMOTIVE. How It Feels To He Drawn Through tlie Air at Sixty-Five Miles an Hour. Chicago Herald. The Shqw pulled out with 130 pounds of steam and siibaked out over the draw bridges and through the outskirts of Milwaukee with a kind of “oh-just-look-at-me” motion that suggested a schoolboy’s innocent run for a melon patch. Word had been passed to Mr. Lockwood’s engineer and to Mr. Hill, of the Northwestern, that the first test might be made on the ten-mile run between St. Francis and the county line. Professor Dudley had disconnected his track inspection apparatus, but left in play the machine for registering speed. At St. Francis the “Shaw” suddenly gathered herself up, and with a low, deep snort, shot by the little station hoase like a flash. Her every movement was watched with the keenest interest by the railway officials. There was nothing of that jerking, thumping, vibratory motion other engines have, but the machinery worked smooth and regular. But for the roar of the wheels on the rails her movement would have been as noiseless as that of the finest stationary engine. A moment or two, and Professor Dudley looked at his dynograph. “She is running pretty sharp now,” he said, in his quiet way. “How’ much?” asked Mr. Layng. •'Sixty-one miles an hour?” said the Profesl sor. Mr. Layng looked satisfied, but Mr. Dudley motioned io the engineer to let her out. A Herald man, who was of the party, sat in the front window anil watched the furious steed as it shook itself, und seemed like a living thing to reach out for rein and bit. Down at the side the cranks on the drivers were going in a perfect whirr—so fast the eye could not begin to follow them—and the great driving-wheels spun like buzz-saws. It was a thrilling sight—the flying smoke, and steam, and cinders, the men in the cab holding on as if for life, the engineer holding with steady hand the throttle, the bell rung automatically by the swaying engine —but above all, the terrific effect of dashing into curves ahead, over bridges, and frogs, and switches, with a hissing “zip” that conveyed too well the horror of a mishap at that frightful speed. “How fast?” said Mr. Lockwood. “The last mile in fifty-four seconds. We are running now at sixty-four miles an lionr,” said the Professor. The next mile was made in fifty-five seconds, and the five miles out from St. Francis was covered in four minutes and forty-five seconds. Mr. Laying finally told his division superintendent that that would do for the present; and the engine slowed down to about forty-five miles an hour, and at that speed seemed to be only sneaking along. One feature ot the high speed was the perfect smoothness of the roadbed, and the soft, gliding swing of the cars. Mr. Layng’s private car seemed to slip over the rails noiselessly, and with an absence of jar or motion that was surprising. Another very fast run was made from Lake Forest to Highland Park, and that distance was covered at the rate of sixty-five miles an hour, one mile of it being covered in exactly fifty-one seconds, or sixty-eight miles an hour. During that run the Herald man sat perched up in the cab of the engine, and the sensation of being hurled over the ground at that speed was terrific. Fences along the road seemed devoid of posts and the rails looked like a continuous blurj*. A sang ot track-repairers were cloTe to the track as the train shot by. The reporter had just time to see one knocked over by the atmospheric force created by the rushing engine, and the others bracing themselves against it. At a little station called Highwood some ladies stood on the platform—a mere glance in which not even the coior of their dresses could be distinguished—and they were gone. A few rods further on a dog came bounding out. lie gave one faint bark, barely heard, when he got caught in the atmospheric swirl and went rolling over and over heels over head. The grass along the road was laid flat by the rush, and even trees swayed as the monstrous force hurled by. At Evanston the special overtook a rugular train, and from that point on there was no unusual speed. THE BILLIARD-PLAYERS. Why the Experts Decline to Play with George F. Slosson. New York World. An old billiard-player was seen yesterday by a reporter, who told him that Slosson had challenged Vignaux or Schaefer. “Is that so?” was the reply. “Is that fellow airing himself in cold type again? Why, what a mess he does make of things! He knows as well as you or 1 that neither man will play him. They wouldn’t be allowed. You see,” lie continued, “the billiard-players, or rather the star-performers of the green cloth, are hired by the various manufacturers. Vignaux is hired until Aug. 15 by the H. W. Col lender Company, Jake Schaefer by the Brunswick Company. Slosson by the new company which the others are fighting. Maurice I)aiy and Joe Dion own their tables and are not hired by any company, ,1. Randolph Ifeiser is retained by the Brunswick. Sexton by Collender. amt so on down the list, not forgetting Wallace, who took second place in the cushion-carom tourney and who is now in tiie employ of the Brunswick A* Balke Company. As Slosson is with a company that is fighting the two older companies, and as the men he challenges are in the employ of those companies, you see how foolish he is in challenging them.” “But,” said the reporter, “he is willing to toss for choice of tables.” “Oh, indeed! Well that will make no difference. Ho wont be able to play them. He made a fool of himself at the outset and signed with the new company out of pique, and now seeks to make capital for himself and his employers out of it. I think lie wishes himself well out of : t. He took Mort Humphrey to Paris with him as his agent when he went there the first time to play Vignaux at the mil came. Vignaux defeated him, and thereu ion he accused Humphrey of having taught l he big Frenchman the rail game. Whether lumphrey did so or not is more than I can say. But lie, at least, deserved payment for what services he did render tlie would-be champion, and he says he was not paid a cent. “The whole amount of it is this, the billiard players, with one or two exceptions, are controlled by manufacturers, and it is something that should not be tolerated. Mind you, I do not say that any of those men have done anything wrong at the instigation of their employers, but the people believe that such is the case. Slosson has no right to challenge Vignaux. He beat the Frenchman the last came they played, and the challenge should be sent to him. If he wants to play Schaefer then let him challenge Jake for the balk-line championship, which the latter holds.” Shaky, scrawuy, diseased persons find a friend iu Sauiuritiui Nervine. $1.50 of druggists.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1883.

STATE EXCHANGE TABLE. Democratic Division Upon the Question of Free Trade. Mr. Voorliees Must Come Down—Changes in Educational Methods—General Crook Sustained iu His Indian Policy The Indian Oucstiou. Lafayette Journal. Tlie Indians are annually costing millions of dollars for their subsistence. If they could be made to subsist themselves and devote themselves to agriculture they would abandon the war-oath, the troops might be withdrawn, and thus two sources of expenditure to the government cut off. General Crook made the somewhat bold statement that the Indians are forced upon the warpath. We cannot bejieve that the General would make use ol language so emphatic without positive knowledge of the facts. We know that the Indians have been swindled, robbed, and that in many instances agents | have acted in bad faith toward them. Civil- ! ized white men would rebel against such ! treatment as the Indians have at times reI ceived. It is to be hoped that the govern- ! ment will adopt the policy suggested by | General Crook. Let the bayonet be put aside except in cases where it is actually required for the protection of the settlers. The Effect of the Tariff Laws. Terre Haute Express. • The view’s of Senator Voorhees on the tariff rather isolated him in his party at the time they were uttered, but it is noticed that others of the Democratic leaders are beginning to heed the warning he gave them. Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court, who is a politician while yet a judge, says: “Free trade is not possible, and will not be for some time. At present we must have some incidental protection. Whether the present laws as to this are correct or not is not the question. Under them immense manufacturing interests have grown up, and no immediate change which would destroy them should be adopted.” The McDonalds, Wuttersons and other “for-reve-uue-only” and free-trade Democrats may be expected to acquire the wisdom above expressed some time next November —after the election. Flop Again, Mr. Voorhees. New Albany Public Press. Mr. Voorhees may change. Men often do; principles never. Because Mr. Voorhees is a Democratic senator, he is not necessarily running the Democratic party. Senator Voorhees’s conversion is about as sudden as that of Paul of olden time, and will hardly be as lasting. Before another twelve month, the Public Press predicts that Voorhees will lie found standing square and flat-footed on a Democratic for revenue only platform, or else he will be in full fellowship with the Republican party. Mr. Voorhees cannot change a single Democrat, except himself, to the doctrine of a tariff for protection only. Senator Voorhees might as well come down gracefully at once as later, for he knows full well how to talk Democracy. Ireland, the Irish and Free Trade. Logan sport Journal. Ireland, too, was brought under the bane of English free trade, and the hum of her manufactories were heard no more thereafter. Too many Irishmen have forgotten this part of English impoverishment by false principles of political economy and government. And they seem to have forgotten, also, that the Democratic party in the United States advocated the same doctrine that impoverished Ireland and made dependents of their ancestors, neighbors and friends. Irishmen are too patriotic to wish sucha calamity upon the home of their adoption as has fallen to their own native land, and yet a vote for Democratic doctrines, with its Cobden proclivities, is only a precursor of what the end will be. Changes In the Educational Method. Now Albany Ledger. It is better for the community to have a good man in it than a smart one; and so we have awakened at last to the necessity of expanding our educational forces so that they shall embrace the practice of morality as well as a knowledge of grammar and arithmetic. We have also learned that a more practical course of training is needed for our boys and girls, in order to fit them for the active duties of life, and this thought lias inspired generous citizens of Chicago V> step forward and aid in supplying a public need, and providing for an obvious delect in the present common school system of the tryPolitical Economy in Colleges. Lafayette Journal. The time is not far distant when graduates will not go out of tne colleges of this country with a one-sided and imperfect idea of political economy. Other institutions of learning will follow the same example, not so much from choice as from a very decided pressure of public opinion. Both sides of this great question of political economy will have a hearing, and when a free and fair discussion is had there can be no doubt that the doctrine of protection will be in the ascendancy. There la Plenty of Law. Valparaiso Vidette. The Fowler Era is in favor of a statute to suppress the liquor traffic, as if every sale of liquor must be wrong. All hurtful trafficking in anything is now prohibited, and every person is entitled to a remedy for every injury to person, property or character. What more can we reasonably want except such reconstruction of the courts and practice as to render the administration of just remedies reliable and reasonably cheap and prompt? A New Series of Articles Expected. Torre Haute Express. Owing to the fact that the Indianapolis News has so frequently been compelled to say “I told you so,” it is understood a series of articles will soon appear in that paper on “The Perverseness of the Public Mind.” These efforts of ail all-wise mind will he chiefly devoted to the obtuseness of the public in not accepting the fresh and blooming ideas on free trade which have been expressed in the News with all the ardor of a first love. Free Trade Will Not Dp Here. Clay County Enterprise. The Democrats know that free trade will not do in this country. They know that the industries of the country could not survive the shock of such an innovation. They know that if European competition is turned loose in this country unrestrained by tariff laws, our manufactories would go down like a bubble in a whirlpool, and such demoralization and panic would prevail over the country as was never dreamed of before. The Independent Man in Politics. Greenfield Republican. In this age the man who is independent on the issues which divide the opinions of the people is either an ignoramus or a demagogue, and the paper which attempts to float into patronage on such a current must niately earn the contempt of its readers. If j dependence in its proper sense is a aafld | tiling, but when independence is other name for trickery to draw from all parties it deserves contempt. They Are After Our Daniel. Vernon Banner. Voorhees started out some time ago to be Ia protectionist. McDonald, the Democratic 1 presidential candidate, is a free-trader. The . Democrats of the State have been after Voor- * bees pretty lively to drive him back into the

free-trade fold, so there may be no division of the party in this State, and they have got him badly rattled. Ru.o on Hi* Record. Cambridge City Tribune. Colonel W. W. Dudley says he cannot make the race for Governor of Indiana. He | is too poor. His excellent record ought to j be sufficient to elect him. Verv Kobustuous Indeed. Fori Wayne Gazette. It is quite evident from the accounts that Samuel J. Tilden is the healthiest, most robust man on the continent. A Gem of rure*t Kay, but Not Sereno. Madison Courier. Madison is the bosom-bin of nature. ANCIENT RUINS IN SONORA. One of tlie Recently Discovered Lost Cities , of Mexico. Tucson Citizen. Ancient ruins have recently been discovered in Sonora, which, if reports are true, surpass anything of the kind yet found on this content. The ruins are said to be .about four leagues southeast of Magdalena, There is one pyramid which has a base of 4,350 feet apd j-jses to the height of 750 feet. There is a winding roadway from the bottom leading up on an easy grade to the top, wide enough for carriages to pass over, which is said to be twenty-three miles in length. The outer walls of the roadway are laid in solid masonry from huge blocks of granite in rubble, and the circles are as uniform and the grade as regular os they could he made at this date by our best engineers. The wall, however, is only occasionally exposed, being covered over with the debris and earth, ami in many places the sahuaro and other indigenous plants and trees have grown up, giving the pyramid the appearance of a mountain. To the east of the pyramid a short distance is a small mountain about the same size, which rises to about the same height, and, if rej>ortsare true will prove more interesting to the archaeologist than the pyramid. There seems to be a heavy layer of a species of gypsum about half way up the mountain, which is as white as snow, and may be cut into any conceivable shape, yet sufficiently hard to retain its shape after being cut. In this laj’er of stone a people of an unknown age have cut hundreds upon hundreds of rooms, from sxlo to sixteen or eighteen feet square. These rooms are cut out of the solid stone, and so even and true are the walls, floor and ceiling. so plumb and level, as to defy variation. There are no windows in the rooms and but one entrance, which is always from the top. The rooms are about eight feet high from floor to ceiling; the stone is so white that it seems almost transparent, and tlie rooms are not at all dark. On the walls of these rooms are numerous hieroglyphics and representations of human forms, with hands and feet of human beings cut in the stone in different places. But, strange to say, the hands all have five fingers and one thumb, and the feet have six toes. Charcoal is found on the floors of many of tha rooms, which would indicate that they built fires in their houses. Stone implements ot every description are to be found in great numbers in and about the rooms. The houses or rooms are one above the other, three or four stories high; but between each story there is a jog or recess the full width of the room below’, so that they present the appearance of large steps leading un the mountain. Who these people were and what age they lived in must bo answered; if Answered at all, by the “wise men of the East.” Some say they were the ancestors of the Mayos, a race of Indians who still inhabit southern Sonora, who have blue eyes, fair skin and light hair, and are said to be a moral, industrious and frugal race of people, who have a w’ritten language and know something of mathematics. THE CHARIOT OF HELL. How the Late George Cruikshank Tried to Put a Spoke in the Wheel. Frank Bellow in New York Tribune. George Cruikshank had been all through his life up to about 1848 a very intemperate man, when he suddenly became a total abstainer, and began to use his powerful pencil in the cause of temperance. The first handgrenade he flung at the tyrant rum w T as a pamphlet of twelve pages about the size of Harper’s Weekly which he called “The Bottle.” It represents the career of a happy mechanic who, beginning with one glass of gin, descends step by step through the various stages of misery and crime till he ends by slayiug his wife with the instrument of all his misery, the bottle. This was very forcibly treated, and took the tow’ll by storm, sellimr enormously, and of course turning a large sum of mone3 r into Cruikshank’s pocket. It gave Douglas Jerrold an opportunity for one of his sarcasms. Walking with a friend, lie met Cruikshank. “Hallo!” he cried, “here comes Cruikshank; hasn’t been out of a public house since ‘The Bottle’ was published.” But this was not true. Cruikshank, I believe, never relapsed, and was certainly most sincere and earnest in the cause of temperance when I visited him. “1 want to do something,” lie said, “for the benefit of my fellow-creatures before I die, and if I can put one spoke in the wheel of this chariot of hell which is carting its millions every five minutes down to the dead sea of damnation, I shall die a little more contented. Five minutes? Did I say five minutes? Every two minutes, every one minute, like the Paddington busses, this infernal vehicle makes a trip, and it’s always full, too, always full. From Rum to Ruin, by way of Care Cross, Crime Crescent and Penury Square. I fear I have to a great extent frittered away whatever gifts, physical and mental. God lias seen fit to give me, and now I want to see if I cannot take up a few of the over due bills which I owe the Almighty and his creatures.” Here he paused, and making a dash at tlie picture began to point out some of the parts which seemed to him the most effective as moral lessons. “There is no greater thief arid ruffian in the world than Gin,” he went on. “People in broadcloth and white stocks call him Port Wine and Champagne, but he’s Gin for all that, and nothing but Gin. Why, the rascally, thieving cadger, lie’ll steal the mother’s shift and the baby’s rattle. There’s nothing too little and nothing too big for him; lie’ll fake a castle and twenty thousand broad acres with oie hand, and a child's penny whistle with the other. Now, don’t you think, my dear sir, it is worth while trying to give this great cowardly brigand one good whack on the head? I don’t expect to kill him, of course. lam not insane enough to even hope for that; but Ido want to have one good fair bang at him; and if I can only break a little finger of him I shall crow cock a-doodle-doo like Sir Gallus on his hung-hill.” A Husband's Little Joke. Boriton Herald. Men who try to fool their wives generally come to grief. Not long ago, Mrs. Charles Baldwin, of St. Joseph, Mo., received a postal order for $22. and gave it to her husband to cash. By way of a joke he handed her only S2O, exclaiming that the postoffice charges were $2. Thinking that this was an exorbitant fee, she complained, witnout her hus- | band’s knowledge, to her mother, who had sent the postal order, and she in turn complained to the office at which it had been drawn. The postmaster forwarded a statement of the case to Washington, and the department forthwith sent Inspector Metcalf all.the way to St. Joseph to investigate the case. Mr. Baldwin will not do It again. Horsford’s Acid PhosphateTONIC FOU OVERWORKED MKN. Dr. J. C. Wilson, Philadelphia," Ph. # says: “[ have used it, as a general tonic, and in particular in the debility aud dyspepsia of overworked men, with satisfactory results.”

A NOBLE VAGRANT. Sir Edward Ilurcourt’s Daughter Walking Across the Continent. Port Jervis, N. Y., Letter. A romance in real life has just come to light in this town. A woman, apparently sbout forty-three years Qf age, shabbily dressed ftTld feeble, has been seen on the streets for several days. .She slept every night in the police station, where she gave the name of Elizabeth Benjamin, and said she was born m Staffordshire, England. Yesterday she disappeared and turned up in Middletown, thirty-eight miles from here. Inquiry develops the fact that she is on her way to New York and that she has walked nearly all the way from San Francisco. Mrs. Benjamin has had a most wonderful and romantic career. She was born near Merthyr Tydvil, in Wales, and was the daughter of Sir Edward Harcourt, at one time one of the most brilliant young English orators. Her mother was a variety actress, who lived in Wales to escape the perscutions of Sir Edward’s family, who opposed his mesalliance. When the babe was horn she was christened Pauline Elizabeth Harcourt. She was given all the advantages of a superior education, and early in life evinced great poetical genius, some of her poems composed when she was fourteen, having appeared in the leading magazines of Great Britain. Her mother was a direct descendant of Sir Philip Francis, who is believed to have been the author of the celebrated political essays which startled all England from 1769 to 1777, and which were signed Junius. When she was but seventeen years of age Miss Pauline met at Swansea, where she was visiting some young friends and writing poetry descriptive of the coast of Wales. Mr. Walter P. Benjamin, a nephew of Judah P. Benjamin, at one time treasurer of the Confederate States of America. The young man, who was a South Carolinian by birth, was handsome and clever, but, unfortunately, poor. Pauline felt that she loved him so deeply she could marry no one but him. Her father died while she was at Swansea, and sue was summoned by telegraph to Merthyr Tydvil. Young Benjamin, who was but twenty-two, followed her there, and contrived to see her occasionally. Finally tlie young lady’s mother learned of these stolen interviews and a terrible scene ensued. Pauline begged to be allowed to niarry her American sweetheart, but her mother remained firm, and finally sent her to St. Andrew’s, iu Scotland, to school. By means of prearranged signals the young lady, previous to leaving home, managed to inform her lover whither she was going. Young Benjamin found it convenient to visit St. Andrew’s frequently, and. in 1860, they were married on Pauline’s twentieth birthday. When Lady Harcourt heard the news of her daughter’s secret marriage, and learned that she had fled from the school at St. Andrew’s, she was stricken with paralysis, and died shortly afterward Young Benjamin came to the United States at once upon hearing of the rebellion, and enlisted in the Confederate navy, where he remained until the close of the war. He then speculated in cotton, made considerable money, and started by water for California, accompanied b} r his wife in, 1870. They had one child, who died on the vo\ r age to the isthmus. They were delayed in leaving Aspinwall, and Pauline and her husband were both stricken with a terrible fever, which resulted in the death of Mr. Benjamin and left Mrs. Benjamin very weak. Her husband was buried at sea. Mrs. Benjamin’s weak nerves gave way, and for days she raved, and when the ship reached San Francisco she was placed in the hands of the authorities there. Her reason was partly destroyed, and for six years she remained in California. She then made her escape and walked the entire distance to Virginia City, Nev., where she remained several months. She was lost sight of there in 1877, and was next heard of at C’orinne, U. TANARUS., a small place on the Uniou Pacific Railroad. In the fall of 1878 she commenced tramping through Wyoming. When near the site of the Custer massacre, along Wind river, she was captured by a band of Indians, of what tribe she does not remember, although her description of their life and habits is very accurate, and proves that her story is a true one. The Indians, finding that she was returning to the home of her pale-face friends, gave her some dried meat, and started her on her way rejoicing. From Fort Reno, Wyoming Territory, to Fort Pierre, in Dakota, she was in company with some soldiers coming East, and in 1879 she came from Fort Pierre to Yankton, and thence by rail to Omaha. From there she followed the track of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad in a bee-line across the State of lowa to Burlington, from where she made her way to Peoria, 111. She remained there a few months in the care of the poor authorities, and then, having become rested, she again began her tramp eastward, bringing up at tlie great railway center, Fort Wayne. Ind. From here she was fortunate enough to get a ride to Toledo, where the city authorities treated her so badly that she tramped on to Cleveland, where she found comfortable quarters and remained until last New Year’s day. She began the new year witli the resolution to push on to New York without stopping. Following tlie turnpike road, she found herself at length in Glean. N. Y., from where she rode in an empty freight car to Hornellsville. When she tried to steal another rifle from Hornellsvelle to Painted Post she was unfortunate; the car in which she had secreted herself was locked and run upon a side track ami she remained in it, without food or water, three days, until her nounding upon the side of the car attracted the attention of one of tlie yard men and she was released almost dead. When she reached Elmira she got a ride on the bumper of tlie express car, but one of the sparks from the engine fell upon her dress and the rapid motion ot the train fanned the spark into a blaze and she had another narrow escape from death. Her injuries necessitated her remaining some weeks at Binghamton, from where she walked to Port Jervis, arriving here via toe Delaware and Hudson c inal towpath. She had but sixty miles to tramp from Middletown, and she hoped to reach Nt w York in time to catch a steamer for England on Saturday, July 7. Shelias the key of a safe deposit vault in New York city, whore she says iffer husband had u snug sum of money stowed away, enough to take her to her home in Wales and keep Her in comfort among the friends of her youth. A Floating Cathedral. Pall Mall Gazette. There have often been missionary ships and floating churches, but it has been reserved for the Catholic Bishop of Para and Atpazonas to propose to combine the two by building a large missionary church to ply with steam upon the Amazon. The Tablet gives the following account of the Bishop’s suggestions: The floating church will be dedicated wholly and exclusively to missionary purposes. It will be built by the most skillful artificers of Europe, and superbly decorated and adorned. The rarest and most precious woods with which the Amazonian valley abounds, fine in grain and varied in color, will wainscot the sacred interior. At one end will shine forth the altar, with its gilded rcredos and glittering tabernacle, containing the most blessed sacrament and surrounded with the usual ornaments and tapers. This new floating cathedral, this “Basilica naval.” will of course possess its pulpit and confessional, its organ and baptismal font, and all the ornaments of church furniture requisite, not merely for the decent, but even for the solemn and splendid exercise of Catholic rites. In the lower portion of the ship a suitable room or cabin will

be prepared for the ordinary of tlie diocese ana a sufficient number of the priests atI inched to the missionary ship, as well as tlie | usual accommodation for nece-sary sailors and naval officers. 1 men B wi‘p •' l ’“ rtv af *"'>'!<*• men lPave Clf y on t „, morning 0 j t |, o “'-'i lnotant. for Colorado ami New Mexico, vn* ( Kansas City, Visiting Pueblo. Santa I e. Lm i Vegas, Durango, Denver, ami other points, a ; “tourists’ sleeper,” now and lim-ciusH.will carry I Pippl U*rough to Santa Fe. A lew person* may | secure tickeds by calling ii,.on or aVe.r. oslng C. j \V. Brouse, 06 Fast, Market street. I A Skin Like Monumental Alainter may be attained by using Glenn’s Sulphur Soap, vv.ncu : does away with the necessity for Sulphur i-i*ih*. ! Try It, ladies. It is a genuine beutft filer, ami j very economical. I Hint to those Prematurely Gray, use Hill's I Hair Dye. “Bijchu-Paiiu.” Quick, complete cure, aii .annoying Kidney ami urinary diseases. sl. Corticelli Spool Silk, pure, strong, smooth.

mi! jpg \ wmmi'js* ‘ySmmmmw M CORSETS Every Corset is warranted satisfactory to its wearer in every way, or the money will be refunded by the person from whom it was bought The only Corset pronounced by our leading phyeWaiis not Injurlaue to the wearer, andendorsed lw nuliM M the ‘ * most comfortable und perfect fitting Corset ever PRICES, by Mull, Toutajre Paid* Health Preferring. s!.&©• clf-AdJu*tln, E 1.50 Abdominal (extra heavy) *3.00. Nursing. $1.50 Health Preserving (fine ceutll) $3.00. Paragon Skirt-Supporting. $1.50. For ante by leading Retail Dealers everywhere* CHICAGO CORSET CO., Clilcago, 111. Agent for the above Corset. PHILADELPHIA STORE. D. J. BIfLLIVA..N, DKAI.HR INDRY GOODS AND NOTIONS. No. 50 North Illinois Street, corner Market.

zo o AND DOUBLE ELEVATED GARDEN. C. T. GILMORE Manager. Monday, July 9, 1883. Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. LOOK! A LIST oTsiARS. LOOK! The Vivian Sisters, Durell Twin Brothers, Clias. Banks, Miss Nellie Brooks, Miss Flora Weston, Ullie, John Mayon, Hines and Remmington, Melville aud La Ross. Trices: 15c, 25c, 350 and 75c night. Prices: 10c, 15e, 25c and 75c matinee. SUMMER EXCURSIONS.'

The decant passenger steamers of the i> W. and L. S. Tran-*. Go. will leave Chicago for Duluth and intermediate port* of LAKE SUPERIOR each Tuesday and Friday evenings, at 8 o’clock. Cool atmosphere. Unsurpassed climate. Magnificent scenery. Send for Tourists’Guide, giving full information. L. M. and L. S. T. CO., No. 74 Market St., Chicago.

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BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS Are fast taking tho nlaee of all other* in fao tones. Foundries, Machine Simps and Milt*. Parties having their own power ran procure an Electric Generator and oh,am milch more light at much le** cost than by anv tuner mode. Tim incandescent and storage system has neon perfected. making small light* for houses and stores tung wherever needed, and lighted at will, dav or night. Parties desiring Generators or to form companies tor lighting cities and towns, can semi to tne Brtisu Electric Cos.. Cleveland, 0.. ot to the undersigned at Indiauanoiis. J. PAVES. n ■ ■ —— fS AYER’S Ague Cure Contains an antidote for all malarial disorders which. *o far as known, is used m no oilier remed>' It contains im Qui due, nor any mineral nor deleterious substance whatever, ami consequently produces no injurious effect unon tne constitution, but leaves the system as Healthy a* it was before the attack. \vi; WARRAN TA\ ERRS ague PURK to euro every ease of b.-ver und Ague. Intermittent or Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague. Bilious Fever ana Liver Complaint caused by malaria. In ease or failure, alter due trial, dealer- are authorized by mir circular, dated July 1, 1882, to refund the iuoticv Dr. J. C. A YER &. CO., Dowell. Mass. by all Druggists. Summer Toys, Traveling Accessories, Celluloid Collars and Cuffs, Fans and Satchels, Fishing Tackle and Games. CHARLES MAYER &GO. Nos. 29 aud 31 \Y. Washington Street.

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